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Anna 🇨🇦 @annabelluz.bsky.social · 4h

Here’s the link to the just released ‘Housing Design Catalogue’ plans. Province-specific. There will be need for revisions depending on your site, local restrictions and build code requirements. That lack of roof overhang? Yikes. 😳 #CanadaSky
www.housingcatalogue.cmhc-schl.gc.ca

Housing Design Catalogue

The Housing Design Catalogue provides standardized designs to make homebuilding easier. It features accessory dwelling units, townhomes and multiplexes.

www.housingcatalogue.cmhc-schl.gc.ca

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 6h

PM Mark Carney 🇨🇦
Canada’s new government just released the Housing Design Catalogue.
It has 50 standardised housing designs that builders will use to streamline approvals, cut through red tape, and get millions more homes built, faster. #cdnpoli

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Water’s Edge 🇨🇦 @westcoastcdn.bsky.social · 2h

#photography

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Haunting hyena photo wins Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025 | CBC News

A hyena prowling an abandoned town and a beetle witnessing the destruction of its habitat are the winners of the year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. A Canadian was among the category...

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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 5h

Might be a good time to share the wisdom of my father-in-law, who for decades was a machinist at a US-owned BC lumber mill:
If a US company faces a choice between keeping a US mill or a more-efficient Canadian mill open, they’ll choose the US mill every time. Home-country politics matters a lot.

‘Shock after shock:’ Ontario’s automaking heartland devastated after Stellantis’ Brampton bombshell

Industry watchers fear 'more shoes to drop' after company says it's moving assembly of Jeep Compass in Brampton to Illinois in $13B U.S. expansion.

www.thestar.com

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 5h

Canadian Industry Minister Melanie Joly 🇨🇦 threatens to SUE
Stellantis for pulling out of Brampton to move to the USA
She says they are "defaulting" after they were given subsidies.
#cdnpoli

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Chantal in QC 🇨🇦 @ninjazz636.bsky.social · 2h

🤬🤬🤬 Canadians have financially supported #Stellantis to the tune of billions over the years, only to now have them lick a child rapists’ balls and move to the US. #Boycott #Chrysler, #Dodge and #Jeep!

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Wally Kibler🇨🇦 @wallykibler.bsky.social · 1d

The Convoy in action

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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 1d

How the Ostrich Farm Cull Has Unleashed Threats of Violence via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

How the Ostrich Farm Cull Has Unleashed Threats of Violence | The Tyee

The CFIA union head says members and their families are being threatened.

thetyee.ca

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

Debbie Brockman of WGN in Chicago has hired an attorney and plans to fight back against her unlawful arrest and detention by ICE.

Freedom of the press is under attack.

Tackling and arresting journalists is another step towards state run media.

Bring on the lawsuits.

WGN-TV producer hires attorney to ‘pursue all legal avenues’ after ICE detention

Debbie Brockman and her legal team “adamantly deny” allegations that she assaulted federal officers during an immigration enforcement action.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Freethinkers United @freethinkersunited.bsky.social · 15h

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Alberta beef entering Mexico’s Costco market where U.S. cuts once reigned | CBC News

Alberta beef is now stocked in the meat section of Costco Mexico's 41 locations, joining a host of other Canadian products on the shelves of the retail giant in the country. Agriculture Minister Heath...

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 16h

Ok this is a spooky Halloween moment:

The Toronto Star’s Susan Delacourt (who I admire!) published a SUPER similar piece literally within MINUTES of mine today.

We literally used the same examples!And had no way of knowing about each other’s work!!

WHAT DOES THIS MEANNNNNN!!!!! 👻🎃

Tweet from Susan Delacourt sharing her op-ed on Pierre Poilievre’s similar policies to Trump’s executive orders, which she posted today at 4:57pmET

My Substack post, « Canada's conservatives are importing Trump's attacks on DEl and birthright citizenship » which was published at 4:56pmET

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think Putin can afford to admit that the war hasn't been a mistake&stop the war he cannot win.This’ll mean the end of his power.He needs a war that lasts- lasts until the end of his life

Is Putin ready to stop the war?That is the wrong question
The right question is:Can Putin stop the war?⤵️

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16h

Magnifying the minuscule: Nikon Small World photomicrography 2025 – in pictures

Weevils, spores, slime mold and cells in extreme closeup for the 51st anniversary of the Nikon Small World competition

www.theguardian.com

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Dominique Roger part owner of Canada @ddum316.bsky.social · 16h

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Ottawa menace de poursuivre Stellantis

Ottawa menace de poursuivre Stellantis après avoir annoncé vouloir déplacer la production du Jeep Compass de l’Ontario vers l’Illinois.

ici.radio-canada.ca

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

We are living in one of the stupidest times in history.

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Carmen Celestini @philofwrite.bsky.social · 19h

Not based on anything but im sensing most fifa games will be played in Canada and Mexico.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Trump: "Somebody said, 'would we think about taking the World Cup away from Boston if they don't straighten it out?' The answer is yes. We have the right to do that with FIFA. So if we think that LA is gonna be bad, or that applies a little bit to the Olympics too."

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Carmen Celestini @philofwrite.bsky.social · 19h

When fascism becomes a passion project.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Trump: I never thought we'd go into every city and make them safe. Now it's like a passion for me and it's a passion for the people behind me.

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Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 17h

Brick by brick

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18h

“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

Oct. 15, 2025
PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION
STATEMENT
Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did this because reporters would not sign onto a new media policy over its implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting and exposing those who sign it to potential prosecution.
The Pentagon Press Association's members are still committed to reporting on the U.S. military. But make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening U.S. commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all.
PPA

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Lyzah Klei 🍁 🏳️‍🌈 @lyzahklei.bsky.social · 17h

DEI makes merit hiring fair for everyone. Poilievre only wants things to be fair for white men.

"“Restore merit, end DEI” says man who could only get elected in Canada’s safest Conservative stronghold"
#canadianpolitics #canada #cdnpoli #NeverPoilievre

From the canada community on Reddit: “Restore merit, end DEI” says man who could only get elected in Canada’s safest Conservative stronghold

Explore this post and more from the canada community

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Melissa Chan @melissakchan.bsky.social · 17h

🇨🇦🇺🇸 “America is a bus going off a cliff,” says Canadian writer Stephen Marche. Does Canada want to stay on the bus? Spicy beginning to @migsinstitute.bsky.social’s Montreal International Security Summit. Marche also says we’re in an era of regional power warlordism (US, Russia, China).

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ChrisSpalanca(🇨🇦) @chrisspalanca.bsky.social · 17h

⚠️Under 🇨🇦 #CSIF and the 🇨🇦 #NEA, #Stellantis accepted over $15 billion in public funding💰 to create and secure jobs🇨🇦 through 2027 & beyond.

🚨Those contracts📜 are legally enforceable⚖️, with clear terms requiring #Canadian operations workforce protection.
#cndpoli #cdnpoli
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What to know as Stellantis moves some auto jobs to the U.S. from Canada | Globalnews.ca

Thousands of Canadian automotive jobs could be impacted as Stellantis plans to move some production from Ontario to the United States.

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ChrisSpalanca(🇨🇦) @chrisspalanca.bsky.social · 17h

🗣Canada🇨🇦 invested over $15 billion💰 in #Stellantis to secure Canadian🇨🇦 jobs & #EV production in #Ontario⚙️.

⚠️Shifting Jeep #manufacturing to the U.S🇺🇸 after taking that funding isnt a “business decision”, its a breach👎 of contract & violation of federal law⚖️. #cndpoli #cdnpoli #onpoli #PublicityStunt

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Carla Winston @carlawinston.bsky.social · 1d

The Ghostbusters theme is actually really boring to play (bassist here), so props to the band for sucking it up and annoying the hell out of some fascists.

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NatureRulesUs 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @naturerulesus.bsky.social · 1d

"Oriana Korol, 38, was playing “Ghostbusters” with her group — the Unpresidented Brass Band — ... when federal agents arrested her"
"Korol ... is being held on suspicion of assaulting a federal officer, the Clark County Sheriff’s Office told KGW."
Even their ears are delicate, it seems....

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