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Deanna 🇨🇦

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🇨🇦 Canadian, dog lover, pro-democracy - formerly ran PilotsNPaws Canada

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 1d

Along with economic pressure, Canadians should be mindful of the potential for the US to play up the Alberta separatist card next year and beyond. Alberta could end up becoming Canada's economic Donbass, with little green men running around wearing oil and gas gear.

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 19h

Ugh. The Rogan-ification of politics.👇

Influencers shaped political conversation more than media, parties: www.barrietoday.com/local-news/i...

Political content in Canada:
- 47% influencers
- 28% media
- 18% actual politicians

Note: > engagement with misinformation & polarizing narratives

Influencers shaped political conversation more than media, parties: study

Shift 'consistent with the news-sharing ban on Meta and reduced visibility of news on X, which elevated non-news voices and ‘infotainment’ publishers'

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 19h

Thank you #MIT!

Josh Moody @byjoshmoody.bsky.social · 20h

MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
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Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 19h

You know how local media is getting decimated as disinformation floods in?

Well, my friends at @nationalobserver.com have created an incredibly cool new tool for keeping an eye on local politics.

Check it out:

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 19h

NEW VIDEO: The Supreme Court’s 2025 term will decide critical voting rights cases that could reshape American democracy, the Voting Rights Act, and election law nationwide. I am fighting to protect free and fair elections and defend election integrity. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iKo...

Supreme Court's Shocking New Agenda Revealed

YouTube video by Democracy Docket

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Deanna 🇨🇦 @dbliuvas.bsky.social · 19h

Can new tech finally wake Canada’s sleeping geothermal giant?

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Can new tech finally wake Canada’s sleeping geothermal giant?

Canada’s geothermal resources could meet the nation’s power demand “one million times over”, but not a single commercial well has been drilled. That’s about to change as new technologies bolster the b...

Deanna 🇨🇦 @dbliuvas.bsky.social · 19h

TSB releases findings on Alberta pipeline rupture that caused explosion, wildfire

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TSB releases findings on Alberta pipeline rupture that caused explosion, wildfire | CBC News

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada published its findings on the causes of the rupture of a natural gas pipeline near Edson, Alta.

Deanna 🇨🇦 @dbliuvas.bsky.social · 19h

North America’s biggest CO2 removal plant set for start-up next year in Manitoba

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North America’s biggest CO2 removal plant set for start-up next year in Manitoba

Montreal-based Deep Sky, which operates a pioneering testing platform in Alberta for direct air capture technologies, expects the $1-billion, three-phase project near Brandon, Manitoba, to be running ...

Deanna 🇨🇦 @dbliuvas.bsky.social · 19h

Fresh Russian incursions raise temperature for NATO in the Baltic Sea

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Fresh Russian incursions raise temperature for NATO in the Baltic Sea

Vaindloo island, a tiny rocky outcrop in the Gulf of Finland, is serving as an unlikely barometer for rising tensions between NATO and Russia.

Deanna 🇨🇦 @dbliuvas.bsky.social · 19h

Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Accused of Nearly 800 Environmental Violations on Las Vegas Project

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Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Accused of Nearly 800 Environmental Violations on Las Vegas Project

Nevada could’ve fined the company more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”

Deanna 🇨🇦 @dbliuvas.bsky.social · 19h

Automatic tax-filing for low-income Canadians coming in 2025 budget: Carney

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Automatic tax-filing for low-income Canadians coming in 2025 budget: Carney - National | Globalnews.ca

The measures will be rolled out in the upcoming federal budget, scheduled to be tabled on November 4, Prime Minister Mark Carney said.

Deanna 🇨🇦 @dbliuvas.bsky.social · 19h

'Not up for discussion': Brussels rejects Washington's pressure on climate rules

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'Not up for discussion': Brussels rejects US pressure on climate rules

In response to US demands to roll back the EU's environmental legislation, the European Commission defended its autonomous power to adopt laws.

Deanna 🇨🇦 @dbliuvas.bsky.social · 19h

Chicago Marathon looks to defy Trump's "hellhole" narrative

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Chicago Marathon looks to defy Trump's "hellhole" narrative

The marathon, plus the Cubs playoff crowds, counter claims that Chicago is unsafe and unstable.

Deanna 🇨🇦 @dbliuvas.bsky.social · 19h

Canada's economy added 60,000 jobs in September, with gains led by manufacturing

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Canada's economy added 60K jobs last month | CBC News

Canada's economy added 60,000 jobs in September, while the unemployment rate remained unchanged, Statistics Canada said on Friday.

Deanna 🇨🇦 @dbliuvas.bsky.social · 19h

Who Gained From U.S. Aid to Argentina?

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Deanna 🇨🇦 @dbliuvas.bsky.social · 19h

The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

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The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in th...

Deanna 🇨🇦 @dbliuvas.bsky.social · 19h

Canada adds surprise 60,000 jobs in September, unemployment rate steady at 7.1%

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Canada adds surprise 60,000 jobs in September, unemployment rate steady at 7.1%

Statistics Canada says the economy added an unexpected 60,000 jobs in September

Deanna 🇨🇦 @dbliuvas.bsky.social · 19h

Her Kids Are U.S. Citizens. Trump's Admin Disappeared Them Anyway

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Her Kids Are U.S. Citizens. Trump's Admin Disappeared Them Anyway

Donald Trump's Customs and Border Protection (CBP) disappeared an immigrant mom living in Portland and her four U.S. citizen children.

Deanna 🇨🇦 @dbliuvas.bsky.social · 19h

MAGA media wages asymmetric warfare on antifa

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MAGA media wages asymmetric warfare on antifa

MAGA-aligned journalists frame their coverage as exposing the "truth" mainstream outlets ignore.

Deanna 🇨🇦 @dbliuvas.bsky.social · 19h

Javier Milei Is Losing His Grip on Argentina

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Deanna 🇨🇦 @dbliuvas.bsky.social · 19h

Navy fires commander of sub USS Wyoming after 'loss of confidence'

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Navy fires commander of sub USS Wyoming after 'loss of confidence' - UPI.com

The U.S. Navy has fired the commanding officer of the USS Wyoming Blue Crew, the service has announced.

Deanna 🇨🇦 @dbliuvas.bsky.social · 19h

Why it’s so hard to find a new home for Marineland’s 30 belugas

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Why finding a new home for Marineland’s 30 belugas is proving difficult and complicated | CBC News

Marineland’s 30 belugas remain at the defunct Niagara Falls, Ont., amusement park after Ottawa turned down its export request. But as the company says it’s running out of money to care for the whales ...

Deanna 🇨🇦 @dbliuvas.bsky.social · 19h

How Canada got immigration right for so long – and then got it very, very wrong

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How Canada got immigration right for so long – and then got it very, very wrong

Canadian immigration was stable, popular and uncontroversial. But a series of changes after 2015 broke the national consensus, and the system

Deanna 🇨🇦 @dbliuvas.bsky.social · 19h

22 states are in recession or close to it, new analysis finds

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22 states are in a recession or close to it, new analysis finds

Twenty-two states are either in a recession or on the precipice of a downturn, according to a new analysis from Moody's Analytics.

Deanna 🇨🇦 @dbliuvas.bsky.social · 19h

US Senate unanimously endorses repeal of 2002 Iraq war resolution

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US Senate unanimously endorses repeal of 2002 Iraq war resolution

The Senate has voted to repeal the resolution that authorized the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, following a House vote last month that would return the basic war power to Congress more than two decades ...