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Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · 5h

Someone has probably already posted about these cool Canadian made straws.
100% natural, PFAS-Free, biodegradable, ...
Below says "professional" but they make them for everyone.
Special straws for kids, crafts, garden/bee houses and luxury straws.
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OG Straws | Carbon-Negative Rye Straws for Professional Hospitality |

Premium natural rye straws for bars, restaurants, hotels, and cafes. PFAS-free, carbon-negative, and superior to paper alternatives. Trusted by hospitality professionals since 1807. OG Rye Straws for ...

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Holodeck Four @holodeckfour.bsky.social · 22h

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Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · 7h

Canada 🥇🥈
❤️🇨🇦
The Canada Pavilion at Expo 2025 in Osaka Japan has been recognized with a gold medal for best integration of technology in a pavilion among more than 150 international entries.
Also silver medal for Best Large Pavilion in the Expolympic competition.
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Augmented reality technology nets gold medal for Canada's Expo pavilion - Capital Current

OSAKA, Japan — The innovative use of augmented reality technology in the Canada Pavilion at Expo 2025 has been recognized with a gold medal for best integration of technology in a pavilion among more ...

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Chesh 🇨🇦 @chesh.bsky.social · 18h

My brother in Christ.. PLEASE

Cease and desist.

Fking adult blaming a child for their failing at adult relationships.

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Chesh 🇨🇦 @chesh.bsky.social · 19h

GDP is a dumb way to measure a country

Using only GDP is straight up brain dead

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Chesh 🇨🇦 @chesh.bsky.social · 19h

Only a matter of time before this dude gets schawinagained

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Chesh 🇨🇦 @chesh.bsky.social · 19h

>:]

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Chesh 🇨🇦 @chesh.bsky.social · 23h

The people these losers have cultivated as their audience are basically rabid toddlers with perverse imaginations and dirty mouths.

Kaylyn Saucedo - MarzGhoul @marzgurl.com · 1d

I cannot tell you how many times I've given just normal criticism about dudes doing weird stuff, and people have responded with, "YOU JUST WANT THEM TO BE HOMELESS OR TO GET THEM KILLED."

kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 1d

I need more of this genre of image (YouTubers crying that people want them dead)

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Chesh 🇨🇦 @chesh.bsky.social · 23h

I like good people.

I have no intention of being one.

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Chesh 🇨🇦 @chesh.bsky.social · 23h

The most snowflake, losers ever.

Gives a bad name to weirdos

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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 23h

“The best that can be said is that art made by and for Canadians has not been wiped off the map.”

Our national arts funding has enabled more artists to piece together a living, but has it built a distinctly Canadian culture? @pleasuremotors.bsky.social explores: thewalrus.ca/how-i-managed-to...

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athens619 @athens619.bsky.social · 1d

@chesh.bsky.social asked for it

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Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · 2d

This is an interesting project.
Thanks to a system developed University of Waterloo hikers can upload their pictures of specific locations so that regrowth can be accurately tracked.
One interesting point the article makes is that Aspen suckers/trees are the first
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Hikers can be citizen scientists in photo project documenting forest regrowth in Jasper | CBC News

Hikers in Jasper National Park are being urged to help with a research project on the Old Fort Point trail. Three posts were installed along the hike so visitors can log photos to track tree regenerat...

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Chesh 🇨🇦 @chesh.bsky.social · 1d

Electric boogaloo

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 2d

Automatic tax filing for low income, permanent school food program coming in budget: PM Mark Carney #Canada

PM Carney said the federal govt is renewing the “Canada Strong Pass” which lowers the cost for families to visit museums, historic sites, parks & travel.

www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

Automatic tax filing, permanent school food program coming in budget: Carney

Prime Minister Mark Carney is announcing a series of affordability measures Friday, making good on some spring campaign commitments ahead of the fall budget.

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LowEnergyVideos @lowenergyvideos.bsky.social · 2d

Chiitan should have at least 3 cliffs carved in her likeness.

Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 3d

Chiitan has a dream.
I hope that one day the term LGBT will become a thing of the past.
I will continue to spread my message until we live in a world where everyone can love freely and is free from persecution and discrimination.
Until then, let's all support each other🤍

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Jessica Stanley 🇨🇦 @jessicastanley.bsky.social · 2d

Pure Canadian gold

#Never51

youtu.be/9k7OUowPPMQ?...

I Am the Very Model of a Modern-Day Canadian

YouTube video by Tod Maffin

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Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · 3d

The latest news from the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States shows our boycotts are working.
Year over year Canadian sales are down 85%!
No other market is even close.
Way to go Canadians!❤️🇨🇦🫂
EU down 12%
UK down 29%
Japan down 23%
Join us friends.
www.distilledspirits.org/news/america...

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athens619 @athens619.bsky.social · 3d

Watch out for @chesh.bsky.social or she'll get you

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 4d

Moose are the #1 deadliest animal in Canada! Polar Bears are #2.

For tourists that come to #Canada, they are NOT friendly, leave them be!

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Chesh 🇨🇦 @chesh.bsky.social · 4d

Let's goooooo

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Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · 4d

The Canadian government is investing $40 million in Hitachi Energy Canada's HVDC transformer manufacturing & testing etc.
Because of this Hitachi Energy Canada’s projects will rise from $164.2 million to $410 million & 67 full-time equivalent jobs to 300 FTEs.
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Government of Canada expands investment in critical clean technology manufacturing and clean energy - Canada.ca

Total $40 million investment will support expansion of Hitachi Energy Canada, the country’s sole producer of HVDC transformers

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Chesh 🇨🇦 @chesh.bsky.social · 4d

Oooooooo

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Jib-jabberwock @bewareofjabberwock.bsky.social · 4d

Day 8 of @tfiddlerart.bsky.social 's #weretober , Skeletal Slime!

#weretober2025 #weretober2025day8 #skeletalslime

A skeleton of a nondescript monster encased in green slime on a white background

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🇨🇦🇨🇦 Proud Canadian 🇨🇦🇨🇦 @beppil007.bsky.social · 4d

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Any Canadians thinking about travelling to the US or buying US products, please read this article. Do not support this inhuman regime. Whatever discretionary spending you have, #BuyCanadian or elsewhere. We have tremendous power with #BoycottUSA

Use it. 🇨🇦✊

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) — Across Myanmar and in the refugee camps along its borders, the suffering unleashed by the United States’ gutting of its foreign aid program has been severe and deadly, particu...

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