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Carrie Tait

@carrietait.bsky.social

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Reporter in The Globe and Mail's Calgary bureau. Loves: The Riders, the Oilers, the farm, mountains, snow. Dislikes: Daylight Saving(s) Time, raccoons, gophers, the search for New Twitter

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Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · Mar 20

Hi. My DMs are open. My email follows The Globe's pattern. I'm on Signal and WhatsApp, via my cell. Reach out for the number. Come say hi. We protect our sources.

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Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 1h

Oh oh oh wow. Well done.

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Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦 @blakeshaffer.bsky.social · 1h

Woke up damn early for this. But so worth it.

#HaLing #canmore

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Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 1h

I also approve of this hardline.

Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 11h

Your shoulders are tired from keeping those elbows up. You deserve a break. It doesn't count against you if you cross the border to cheer for the Jays.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 21h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 1d

the portland chicken guy 🥰

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 1d

there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif

Wide shot of many people in inflatable costumes

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 1d

A+ headline, no notes.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance Minds International. Continue reading...

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Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 1d

They look naked without the snow.

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Gary the Cat @greatgramsofgary.bsky.social · 1d

Mountains look best with a fresh dusting of snow

A grey and white cat sits in front of a river with snow covered mountains and a forest in the background

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Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 1d

Ok. That's a good one. Congrats to whoever wrote it.

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Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 1d

Wild story: vancouversun.com/news/rustad-...

B.C. Conservatives search MLAs' phones after media leak, while leader John Rustad says he is not paranoid

Both private and legislature-issued phones were searched. The source of the media leak was not found.

vancouversun.com

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Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 1d

Blacklisting reporters is not an effective way to prevent reporters from reporting.