Luke Edwards
@edwardsluke.bsky.social
Community journalist. Editor for Niagara Farms newspaper, contributor to Simcoe Advocate and Fort Erie Radio. Fan of baseball, history, and learning new things.
Uh, wut
November 26, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Uh, wut
Someone show this to Hoekstra the next time he gets pissy about Ontario referencing a Reagan speech
November 26, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Someone show this to Hoekstra the next time he gets pissy about Ontario referencing a Reagan speech
A-fucking-men. They could drop all the tariffs and trade war crap tomorrow and I'm still not resuming my annual Jays road trips any time soon.
They refuse to acknowledge that a huge reason Canadians aren't coming there is because they're led by a man who gets off on throwing innocent people in Venezuela torture prisons and checking our phones at the border for subversive memes. It's almost fascinating.
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U.S. senators say tariffs causing ‘cultural break’ in relations with Canada - National | Globalnews.ca
Maine Senator King said the lingering rift between Canadians and Americans is particularly troubling in a state that borders on New Brunswick and Quebec.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
A-fucking-men. They could drop all the tariffs and trade war crap tomorrow and I'm still not resuming my annual Jays road trips any time soon.
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
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November 23, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Earlier this month, the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair was held in Toronto.
This fair started 103 years ago and is now the largest indoor agricultural fair in the world.
Each year, over 300,000 people come out to see the exhibits.
This is the story of its history.
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This fair started 103 years ago and is now the largest indoor agricultural fair in the world.
Each year, over 300,000 people come out to see the exhibits.
This is the story of its history.
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November 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Earlier this month, the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair was held in Toronto.
This fair started 103 years ago and is now the largest indoor agricultural fair in the world.
Each year, over 300,000 people come out to see the exhibits.
This is the story of its history.
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This fair started 103 years ago and is now the largest indoor agricultural fair in the world.
Each year, over 300,000 people come out to see the exhibits.
This is the story of its history.
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Fighter jet purchases depend on confidence in future reliability. They need parts, maintenance, ongoing communication, trust that no measure will ever be electronically disabled, etc.
Telling Canada buy US jets or we’ll hurt your economy more is effectively communicating it’d be dumb to buy US jets.
Telling Canada buy US jets or we’ll hurt your economy more is effectively communicating it’d be dumb to buy US jets.
Hoekstra continues to be utterly terrible at his job as *checks notes* an ambassador of the United States.
Or, flipside: continues to be the living embodiment of why there is nation-wide contempt towards the US.
www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
Or, flipside: continues to be the living embodiment of why there is nation-wide contempt towards the US.
www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
Future of trade talks depends on Canada’s purchase of American fighter jets, U.S. ambassador says
Pete Hoekstra said it will not be easy to restart the now-stalled trade talks, and urged Canada to "harmonize" as much as possible with the U.S. on a range of
www.thestar.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Fighter jet purchases depend on confidence in future reliability. They need parts, maintenance, ongoing communication, trust that no measure will ever be electronically disabled, etc.
Telling Canada buy US jets or we’ll hurt your economy more is effectively communicating it’d be dumb to buy US jets.
Telling Canada buy US jets or we’ll hurt your economy more is effectively communicating it’d be dumb to buy US jets.
Counterpoint: Having Vegemite in prisons amounts to cruel and inhuman treatment under the Geneva Conventions.
Australian prisoner sues for his ‘human right’ to eat Vegemite
Australian sues for 'human right' to eat Vegemite
A prisoner is challenging an Australian state’s ban on inmates eating Vegemite, claiming in a court suit that withholding the yeast-based spread breaches his human right to “enjoy his culture as an Australian.”
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November 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Counterpoint: Having Vegemite in prisons amounts to cruel and inhuman treatment under the Geneva Conventions.
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This bird flu investigation is well worth your time. I got a little peek behind the curtain into the data analysis and it's truly impressive work from @natlash.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/bird...
What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic
Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vacci...
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November 18, 2025 at 1:57 PM
This bird flu investigation is well worth your time. I got a little peek behind the curtain into the data analysis and it's truly impressive work from @natlash.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/bird...
"The web spans approximately 1,140 square feet" - Bigger than my house.
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Why the world's largest-known spider web surprised this scientist | CBC Radio
Serban Sarbu, a cave scientist, thought he’d seen everything — until he entered a pitch-black cave along the Albania–Greece border. Inside, he found the world’s largest known spider web, and he explai...
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November 18, 2025 at 1:42 PM
"The web spans approximately 1,140 square feet" - Bigger than my house.
www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...
www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...
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This past week there was a photo from Trump's gala of a barely clad woman frolicking in a giant champagne glass.
She looked like a teen.
It made me think of Jane Doe-another young woman who attempted to shine a light on the darkness in Trumpland.
My latest.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/trumps-hea...
She looked like a teen.
It made me think of Jane Doe-another young woman who attempted to shine a light on the darkness in Trumpland.
My latest.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/trumps-hea...
Trump's Heart of Darkness
Warning: This story involves allegations of child rape and abuse
charlieangus.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:23 PM
This past week there was a photo from Trump's gala of a barely clad woman frolicking in a giant champagne glass.
She looked like a teen.
It made me think of Jane Doe-another young woman who attempted to shine a light on the darkness in Trumpland.
My latest.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/trumps-hea...
She looked like a teen.
It made me think of Jane Doe-another young woman who attempted to shine a light on the darkness in Trumpland.
My latest.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/trumps-hea...
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This is the best clip I've ever seen that has Kevin O'Leary and Piers Morgan in it.
Also, thank you @profgalloway.com 🇨🇦
Also, thank you @profgalloway.com 🇨🇦
November 15, 2025 at 4:06 AM
This is the best clip I've ever seen that has Kevin O'Leary and Piers Morgan in it.
Also, thank you @profgalloway.com 🇨🇦
Also, thank you @profgalloway.com 🇨🇦
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A convicted felon who had also been found liable for sexual assault and committed additional crimes in plain sight was close with a notorious child sex trafficker and likely participated in some of those crimes too got elected with much of that known and spent his presidency railing against “crime.”
November 13, 2025 at 12:50 PM
A convicted felon who had also been found liable for sexual assault and committed additional crimes in plain sight was close with a notorious child sex trafficker and likely participated in some of those crimes too got elected with much of that known and spent his presidency railing against “crime.”
If and when it ever happens, the rats fleeing the sinking ship moment is going to be hilarious.
November 13, 2025 at 1:36 PM
If and when it ever happens, the rats fleeing the sinking ship moment is going to be hilarious.
Quite the choice on the angle to take here: www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...
Trump is named 1,500 times in the Epstein document dump. Here's why that number doesn't matter | CBC News
Donald Trump's name appears at least 1,500 times in documents from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein made public Wednesday by Republicans in the U.S. Congress, according to an AI-assisted search of the ma...
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November 13, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Quite the choice on the angle to take here: www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...
I don't get to do a ton of Remembrance Day type stories anymore, but here's one from earlier this year I got to do on a documentary highlighting the Farmerette program
www.granthaven.com/post/farmere...
www.granthaven.com/post/farmere...
Farmerettes forgotten no more: Documentary shines light on long forgotten program
Some arrived out of a sense of duty, and some out of a sense of adventure.
www.granthaven.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I don't get to do a ton of Remembrance Day type stories anymore, but here's one from earlier this year I got to do on a documentary highlighting the Farmerette program
www.granthaven.com/post/farmere...
www.granthaven.com/post/farmere...
Glad to see Canada is also distancing itself from this. I'd prefer a clean break from all the shady shit the American administration is doing, but accept there are other factors at play. #CDNpoli
NEW via CNN: “The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal”
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Glad to see Canada is also distancing itself from this. I'd prefer a clean break from all the shady shit the American administration is doing, but accept there are other factors at play. #CDNpoli
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I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
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50 years ago today, Nov. 10, 1975, the Edmund Fitzgerald sank beneath the waves of Lake Superior during a massive storm.
The sinking took the lives of all 29 men on the ship, and became immortalized in Gordon Lightfoot's song.
This is the story of this terrible tragedy.
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The sinking took the lives of all 29 men on the ship, and became immortalized in Gordon Lightfoot's song.
This is the story of this terrible tragedy.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
50 years ago today, Nov. 10, 1975, the Edmund Fitzgerald sank beneath the waves of Lake Superior during a massive storm.
The sinking took the lives of all 29 men on the ship, and became immortalized in Gordon Lightfoot's song.
This is the story of this terrible tragedy.
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The sinking took the lives of all 29 men on the ship, and became immortalized in Gordon Lightfoot's song.
This is the story of this terrible tragedy.
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With a “WOW!,” President Trump posts a claim about DOGE and “royalties linked to Obamacare” that originated on a satirical website. That site’s own About section reads: “Everything on this website is fiction… If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined.”
November 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
With a “WOW!,” President Trump posts a claim about DOGE and “royalties linked to Obamacare” that originated on a satirical website. That site’s own About section reads: “Everything on this website is fiction… If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined.”
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His dismal approval numbers a mere 10 months into a presidency in which he’s doing exactly what he said he was going to do is a pretty sad indictment of the American political system.
November 6, 2025 at 1:45 PM
His dismal approval numbers a mere 10 months into a presidency in which he’s doing exactly what he said he was going to do is a pretty sad indictment of the American political system.
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NEW: Footage of a US citizen in Chicago being rammed then dragged from her car on her way to work.
Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours.
She was later released with NO CHARGE.
A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”.
You decide…
Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours.
She was later released with NO CHARGE.
A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”.
You decide…
November 3, 2025 at 7:14 PM
NEW: Footage of a US citizen in Chicago being rammed then dragged from her car on her way to work.
Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours.
She was later released with NO CHARGE.
A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”.
You decide…
Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours.
She was later released with NO CHARGE.
A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”.
You decide…