Brian Ball
@bballcanada.bsky.social
Nothing to do with Basketball Canada. 🤷♂️
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Read our February Newsletter for info on our Family Day Weekend SALE, blind date with a book, upcoming events, Heated Rivalry recommendations and lots more!
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Russell Books February Newsletter
Family Day Weekend Sale, Blind dates with a book, author visits, and lots more!
open.substack.com
February 8, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Read our February Newsletter for info on our Family Day Weekend SALE, blind date with a book, upcoming events, Heated Rivalry recommendations and lots more!
open.substack.com/pub/russellb...
open.substack.com/pub/russellb...
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Are you concerned that Pierre Poilievre refuses to get national security clearance?
We are facing unprecedented level of threat from external forces and internal traitor groups.
Please sign this petition calling on all national leaders to put their nation first.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
We are facing unprecedented level of threat from external forces and internal traitor groups.
Please sign this petition calling on all national leaders to put their nation first.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Petition e-7148 - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
February 8, 2026 at 12:55 AM
Are you concerned that Pierre Poilievre refuses to get national security clearance?
We are facing unprecedented level of threat from external forces and internal traitor groups.
Please sign this petition calling on all national leaders to put their nation first.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
We are facing unprecedented level of threat from external forces and internal traitor groups.
Please sign this petition calling on all national leaders to put their nation first.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
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Cory Doctorow is coming to Victoria! For tickets and more info www.eventbrite.ca/e/cory-docto...
#yyj
#yyj
February 1, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Cory Doctorow is coming to Victoria! For tickets and more info www.eventbrite.ca/e/cory-docto...
#yyj
#yyj
Quoi?!
CANADIENNE!!
CANADIENNE!!
Mort de l’actrice Catherine O’Hara, figure marquante de la comédie américaine
Mort de l’actrice Catherine O’Hara, figure marquante de la comédie américaine
Connue pour ses rôles dans « Beetlejuice » et « Maman, j’ai raté l’avion ! » au cinéma ou plus récemment dans la série « Schitt’s Creek », la comédienne canado-américaine est morte, vendredi 30 janvier, à Los Angeles des suites d’une maladie.
www.lemonde.fr
January 31, 2026 at 6:45 AM
Quoi?!
CANADIENNE!!
CANADIENNE!!
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It's not debatable that a mentally disturbed person has the nuclear codes. The Republicans know they're endangering us all by leaving him in office. This is a betrayal of every person on Earth. It is a crime against humanity.
January 20, 2026 at 9:13 PM
It's not debatable that a mentally disturbed person has the nuclear codes. The Republicans know they're endangering us all by leaving him in office. This is a betrayal of every person on Earth. It is a crime against humanity.
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Canada Strong 🇨🇦
January 20, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Canada Strong 🇨🇦
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Big week in Victoria: Federal Health Minister Marjorie Michel and BC Health Minister Josie Osborne, a major housing announcement, China trade news — and something extra.
Here’s this week’s Weekly Wrap. #yyj
youtu.be/43ipKSFEG3U?...
Here’s this week’s Weekly Wrap. #yyj
youtu.be/43ipKSFEG3U?...
The Weekly Wrap #17: A Very Busy Week
YouTube video by Will Greaves, M.P. for Victoria
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January 18, 2026 at 4:44 AM
Big week in Victoria: Federal Health Minister Marjorie Michel and BC Health Minister Josie Osborne, a major housing announcement, China trade news — and something extra.
Here’s this week’s Weekly Wrap. #yyj
youtu.be/43ipKSFEG3U?...
Here’s this week’s Weekly Wrap. #yyj
youtu.be/43ipKSFEG3U?...
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checking in on the president of the United States
January 13, 2026 at 7:26 PM
checking in on the president of the United States
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I really am as baffled as the rest of you why people keep going to the Nazi bar
theprovince.com/sports/hocke...
theprovince.com/sports/hocke...
Why are Vancouver sports teams still Tweeting?
Social media was a mistake. Now it's a disaster.
theprovince.com
January 10, 2026 at 11:13 PM
I really am as baffled as the rest of you why people keep going to the Nazi bar
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theprovince.com/sports/hocke...
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Since I’m new here, I thought I’d repost myTwitter thread from 2018 on #HannahArendt and #Trumphasia: a topic that is unfortunately still relevant today. 1/
November 14, 2024 at 11:42 PM
Since I’m new here, I thought I’d repost myTwitter thread from 2018 on #HannahArendt and #Trumphasia: a topic that is unfortunately still relevant today. 1/
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On top of the legal responsibilities of the govt, there is a moral imperative. Having historically removed rights to land and ignored claims to rectify this, massive harms were done to indigenous peoples. Frum and others believe that is too bad. Are we conquerors or cohabiters? Justice matters.
December 31, 2025 at 5:41 AM
On top of the legal responsibilities of the govt, there is a moral imperative. Having historically removed rights to land and ignored claims to rectify this, massive harms were done to indigenous peoples. Frum and others believe that is too bad. Are we conquerors or cohabiters? Justice matters.
Thanks for the critique in your thread. It’s the depth these issues deserve. I would add that these claims are based on treaties signed by the Cdn Govt or the British Crown and have always been binding. That’s why they’re being upheld in court. We either believe in the rule of law or we don’t.
December 31, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Thanks for the critique in your thread. It’s the depth these issues deserve. I would add that these claims are based on treaties signed by the Cdn Govt or the British Crown and have always been binding. That’s why they’re being upheld in court. We either believe in the rule of law or we don’t.
60 minutes video courtesy of @jasonparis.bsky.social and posted on Mueller Sh Wrote substack.
America has lost its way.
www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
America has lost its way.
www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
www.muellershewrote.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:24 AM
60 minutes video courtesy of @jasonparis.bsky.social and posted on Mueller Sh Wrote substack.
America has lost its way.
www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
America has lost its way.
www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
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A Canadian publisher has called out the United States for using the image of a children's book character to brag about murdering unarmed people in international waters.
This is a decrepit gangster state.
This is the world of Donald Trump.
This is demonic.
This is a decrepit gangster state.
This is the world of Donald Trump.
This is demonic.
December 3, 2025 at 12:49 AM
A Canadian publisher has called out the United States for using the image of a children's book character to brag about murdering unarmed people in international waters.
This is a decrepit gangster state.
This is the world of Donald Trump.
This is demonic.
This is a decrepit gangster state.
This is the world of Donald Trump.
This is demonic.
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Mark Carney managed to trade a pipeline that will never get built for meaningful progress on industrial carbon pricing and electricity interties — both of which will get more wind and solar built.
Remember when people thought he wasn't good at politics? www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/o...
Remember when people thought he wasn't good at politics? www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/o...
The method to Mark Carney’s madness
The memorandum of understanding with Alberta might look like surrender. Look closer
www.nationalobserver.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Mark Carney managed to trade a pipeline that will never get built for meaningful progress on industrial carbon pricing and electricity interties — both of which will get more wind and solar built.
Remember when people thought he wasn't good at politics? www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/o...
Remember when people thought he wasn't good at politics? www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/o...
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Too good not to share! From Davis Schneider‘s father after the first pitch last night.
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October 30, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Too good not to share! From Davis Schneider‘s father after the first pitch last night.
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Going just fine here on the West Coast???
October 29, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Going just fine here on the West Coast???
Jeez, that’s a shame…🍁
The Dodgers are 9-1 this postseason because their starters have been great 9 out of ten times. They also got shelled by the Phillies in that one game they lost when Yamamoto didn’t have it.
They mostly win, but their losses are fucking ugly due to their lack of bullpen. #analysis
They mostly win, but their losses are fucking ugly due to their lack of bullpen. #analysis
October 25, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Jeez, that’s a shame…🍁
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This is always the risk of putting too many eggs in one basket. But it worked very well for us so long as a reasonable, rational, and fair government existed south of the border. Trump is the opposite of these things. But we will emerge stronger, better, and more robust than we ever were before.
Carney: But this decades-long process of an ever-closer economic relationship with the United States is now over. And as a consequence, many of our former strengths as a country—more particularly, our economic strengths based on close ties to America—have now become our vulnerabilities… #cdnpoli
October 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
This is always the risk of putting too many eggs in one basket. But it worked very well for us so long as a reasonable, rational, and fair government existed south of the border. Trump is the opposite of these things. But we will emerge stronger, better, and more robust than we ever were before.
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No mention at all of the fact that Trump doesn't have the legal authority to do this, that plans haven't even been reviewed (because the office is closed for the government shutdown), that the size and cost estimates keep changing, etc., etc.
Part of White House Is Reduced to Rubble. Trump’s Ballroom Will Rise in Its Place.
www.nytimes.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:58 AM
No mention at all of the fact that Trump doesn't have the legal authority to do this, that plans haven't even been reviewed (because the office is closed for the government shutdown), that the size and cost estimates keep changing, etc., etc.
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(🧵) I’m going to say some things that may cost me followers. That’s only appropriate, given that what I say in this thread is about exactly that: how utterly meaningless everything is right now besides saving America—because without rule of law and democracy, nothing we dream of will ever come true.
October 20, 2025 at 1:36 AM
(🧵) I’m going to say some things that may cost me followers. That’s only appropriate, given that what I say in this thread is about exactly that: how utterly meaningless everything is right now besides saving America—because without rule of law and democracy, nothing we dream of will ever come true.