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Free2explore
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World traveller 🌎 and proud Canadian who cares about this beautiful vast country of ours 🇨🇦
A lover of nature, food, and photography - not necessarily in that order 😉
#elbowsup 🇨🇦
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mikemontreal.bsky.social Montreal Mike🇨🇦 @mikemontreal.bsky.social · 8h
Canada #2 only behind Switzerland.

The US dropped 18 places.
#cdnpoli #uspoli
December 11, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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cnn.com
Denmark has labeled the United States as a potential security concern for the first time in an annual report released by one of its intelligence agencies, offering more evidence of the increasingly fraught transatlantic alliance between Europe and the US.
Denmark sees US as potential security concern | CNN
Denmark has labeled the United States as a potential security concern for the first time in an annual report released by one of its intelligence agencies, offering more evidence of the increasingly fraught transatlantic alliance between Europe and the US.
cnn.it
December 10, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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bcreality.bsky.social
Andrew Scheer saying the Liberals are playing procedural games with bill C-9 and blames Liberals for the reoffenders on the street, it was the SCC overturning unconstitutional Harper era legislation. Stop lying American Andy!
December 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
free2explore.bsky.social
💪🇨🇦 we can do this!
December 10, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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just-jorj.bsky.social
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Liberal government tables bill to protect children, victims of gender-based violence | CBC News
The Liberal government has tabled sweeping new legislation that it says will protect victims and survivors of sexual and intimate partner violence and protect children from predators.
www.cbc.ca
December 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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yarwanaw.bsky.social
Cause they can't read. 🤷
December 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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june29.bsky.social
Now you're talking. Cash in all US bonds too.
December 9, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Yep, they're also proposing to make it so that you cannot get ESTA without a smartphone. They'll get rid of the functionality on the current website and require you to use ESTA Mobile.

Don't have a smartphone? Well, the answer will apparently be "tough luck, you can't come to the US through ESTA."
CBP intends to require applicants to submit ESTA applications solely via the ESTA Mobile application; consequently, travelers would no longer be permitted to submit ESTA applications using the existing ESTA website. CBP believes that moving to a mobile-only approach for ESTA submissions will both enhance security and improve efficiency. The ESTA website would remain available as a resource for information about the ESTA program, as well as allow applicants to check the status of their ESTA applications but will not be used to collect information from applicants. Currently, applicants can apply for an ESTA via the ESTA website or the ESTA Mobile application. However, poor quality image uploads to the ESTA website have resulted in applicants bypassing the facial comparison screening. A case study from the National Targeting Center (NTC) Traveler Application Security Unit (TASU) of a poorquality passport photo submission demonstrates the increased accuracy of live mobile image capture over web-based uploads. NTC TASU identified over 2,400 poor quality passport biographical page uploads and over 8,000 invalid passport photos that led to negative or failed photo comparison screenings. CBP believes that travelers are aware of this vulnerability and have begun to exploit it by purposely uploading poor quality images to avoid detection.
December 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
"Want to come the World Cup? We're going to need you to tell us every one of your social media accounts, every family member's names, addresses, and phone number, and every email address you've used in the last decade. Welcome to the land of the free!"
December 10, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
The proposal is here and you CAN comment on it. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-22461.pdf
public-inspection.federalregister.gov
December 10, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Under this new proposal, if you're a European who wants to visit New York City for a vacation, you now have to turn over a TON of information to the United States government, which they will keep forever.

The days of just showing a passport will be long gone.
3. Mandatory Social Media: In order to comply with the January 2025 Executive Order 14161 (Protecting the United States From Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats), CBP is adding social media as a mandatory data element for an ESTA application. The data element will require ESTA applicants to provide their social media from the last 5 years. 4. High Value Data Elements To comply with the January 2025 E.O. (14161), and the April 4, 2025, Memorandum Updating All Forms to Collect Baseline Biographic Data, CBP will add several “high value data fields” to the ESTA application, when feasible. This is in addition to the information already collected in the ESTA application. The high value data fields include: a. Telephone numbers used in the last five years; b. Email addresses used in the last ten years; c. IP addresses and metadata from electronically submitted photos; d. Family member names (parents, spouse, siblings, children); e. Family number telephone numbers used in the last five years; f. Family member dates of birth; g. Family member places of birth; h. Family member residencies; i. Biometrics – face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris; j. Business telephone numbers used in the last five years; k. Business email addresses used in the last ten years.
December 10, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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minibubbly.bsky.social
I keep seeing idiotic posts from Pierre’s rabid base stating he will be PM next year 🤣🤣🤣🤣😆😆😆 nope
Preferred Prime Minister of Canada PM Mark Carney 53.3% by over 28% from Poilievre at 25.2%
December 9, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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mikemontreal.bsky.social
Well @christijo.bsky.social will be live on TikTok 5pm PST tomorrow night to discuss this…. OneBC Party… especially if you’re a BC follower consider joining and watching. 👍
#cdnpoli #bcpoli
December 9, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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bcreality.bsky.social
Folks that are talking about Alaska tankers heading to Puget Sound, just a reminder there is an agreement between Canada/USA on tanker safety, whereas they stay well offshore just in case they become disabled, to allow heavy tugs respond. The TEZ/TAPS line has been in place since 1985.
December 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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mikemontreal.bsky.social
With the potash thing - this cartoon after the election is more and more prescient.
#cdnpoli
December 10, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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electricbluesfan.bsky.social
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🇨🇦 🚨 FAR-RIGHT EXTREMISM IS GAINING GROUND IN CANADA 🚨 🇨🇦

Black-clad men chant "MASS DEPORTATIONS NOW" in Toronto.

These aren't just online trolls; they are paramilitary "fitness clubs" training for conflict.

Richard R. Goode reports...
#CdnPoli #Extremism #WhiteNationalism
December 10, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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daveb1970.bsky.social
On a related note www.readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurne...
Matt Gurney: 'We will never fucking trust you again'
Some blunt talk for our American neighbours at the Halifax International Security Forum.
www.readtheline.ca
December 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
free2explore.bsky.social
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clarajeffery.bsky.social Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d
This is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...

and these are our closest allies!
Travelers visiting the United States from countries like Britain, France, Germany and South Korea could soon have to undergo a review of up to five years of their social media history, according to a proposal filed on Tuesday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The change would affect visitors eligible for the visa waiver program, which allows people from 42 countries to travel to the United States for up to 90 days without a visa as long as they first obtain electronic travel authorization. In a document filed on Tuesday in the Federal Register, C.B.P. said it plans to ask applicants for a long list of personal data including social media, email addresses from the last decade, and the names, birth dates, places of residence and birthplaces of parents, spouses, siblings and children. Under the current system, applicants from visa waiver countries must enroll in the Electronic System for Travel Authorization program. They pay $40 and submit an email address, home address, phone number and emergency contact information. The authorization is good for two years.
December 10, 2025 at 2:33 AM
free2explore.bsky.social
The conservatives just don’t have the smarts 😂 #nevervoteconservative
hollyhoye.bsky.social Holly Jolly Hoye 🎄 🇨🇦 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 1d
lol, “I can’t believe the liberals didn’t fall for our stupid little trap”

**runs away mad
December 10, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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daddo21.bsky.social
Of course Alberta is the only Province to continue to sell American alcohol. The rest are sell off inventory (some donating the proceeds), and not order any more.

www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
Here’s how Canada is treating U.S. alcohol amid ongoing trade tensions
Canada’s provinces and territories are handling American alcohol differently amid ongoing trade disputes across the 49th parallel.
www.ctvnews.ca
December 9, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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cdnresistance.bsky.social
Thanks to the Orange Fucktrumpet in the White House, the United States is the second-most hated country in 2025.

worldpopulationreview.com/country-rank...
Most Hated Country 2025
Details on the most hated country in the world, including the world's most hated country and answering the question: Which country is the most hated in the world?
worldpopulationreview.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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nerissathecat.bsky.social
Giving Putin even one inch of Ukrainian soil will only teach Putin that he can take what he wants. He might not get all he wants all at once, but he'll eat away at sovereign nations, bit by bit, bite by bite. Putin must leave Ukraine with NOTHING. It's the only acceptable solution.
December 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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minibubbly.bsky.social
Zelenskyy refuses to cede land to Russia as he rallies European support

Nor should he cede any land, it was an illegal invasion

www.cp24.com/news/world/2...
Zelenskyy refuses to cede land to Russia as he rallies European support
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has reaffimed his firm refusal to cede any territory, resisting U.S. pressure for a painful compromise with Russia as he continued to rally European support for...
www.cp24.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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adamparkhomenko.bsky.social
It is absolutely wild that the guy who won’t stop yelling about law and order is now personally stepping in to keep January 6 documents hidden from the police officers who were attacked that day. He knows exactly what’s in those files and he is terrified the country will see it.
December 9, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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claylady24.bsky.social
and then there is this ...
"We're having a kind of a politics whereby petrostates are resisting change and new emerging electrostates like China are pushing it forward,” said Sam Butler-Sloss, research manager at the global energy think-tank Ember"

www.cbc.ca/news/science...
ANALYSIS | The rise of the electrostate: By dominating clean energy, China is leading on climate action | CBC News
China’s massive lead in clean technologies has shifted the climate fight from one of big pledges and international diplomacy toward a technological revolution in cheaper energy, analysts say.
www.cbc.ca
December 9, 2025 at 8:48 PM