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Kishone Roy ✍🏾
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🇨🇦 Pacific Canadian Author & Executive
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Aaand there you go: Trump’s sudden about-face on the most important Canada-US border crossing came after meeting with the billionaire family that owns the rival bridge. Nice scoop, confirming suspicions of everyone who has followed this file and is familiar with Trump www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/w...
Bridge Owner Lobbied Administration Before Trump Blasted Competing Span to Canada
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:36 PM
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Downtown Calgary office towers to be converted into affordable housing with new grant
globalnews.ca/news/1166011...
Downtown Calgary office towers to be converted into affordable housing with new grant - Calgary | Globalnews.ca
The grant is funded through the Housing Accelerator Fund (HAF), in which future installments may be at risk depending on whether Calgary city council repeals citywide rezoning.
globalnews.ca
February 10, 2026 at 8:06 PM
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We’re getting the housing supply up so your costs come down.

A key part of that mission is converting federal lands into housing more quickly.
February 10, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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Canada agreed to pay for the full cost of construction, land acquisition on the US side, and connecting Interstate highway links, AND also isn't charging tolls on the US side of the bridge. This amounts to saying America should be allowed to steal Canadian money.
Trade Representative Jamieson Greer on Trump's bonkers US-Canada bridge tantrum: "There's a valid concern on the part of the president that this bridge was allowed to be built, they didn't necessarily use American content. There's a question as to the proceeds of tolls."
February 10, 2026 at 5:43 PM
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PM Carney calmly explains to the tyrant the facts surrounding the bridge.

Personally, I won't be crossing the old or new bridge as I'm not entering the US.
#cdnpoli #trump #ElbowsUp

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Carney speaks to Trump after president erupts over Gordie Howe Bridge | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney said he spoke to his U.S. counterpart early Tuesday morning about the Gordie Howe Bridge, which Donald Trump has threatened to block. Carney reportedly explained to him that...
www.cbc.ca
February 10, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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Crypto boosters tout its decentralization.

And yet here we have 87% of a US president's stablecoin being held at a single exchange.

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Wow Thats Weird GIF
ALT: Wow Thats Weird GIF
media.tenor.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:58 PM
All of this talk about the Gordie Howe Bridge reminds me of this fascinating episode about the Ambassador Bridge on 99% invisible. Why is it privately owned? Who are the owners? What is the local history? It’s all in here.

🇨🇦 #Detroit #Windsor

99percentinvisible.org/episode/640-...

@99pi.org
Ambassador Bridge - 99% Invisible
Detroit, Michigan is home to the Ambassador Bridge, which links Detroit to the Canadian border city of Windsor. The Ambassador is essential. CNN once called it “the most economically important one-and...
99percentinvisible.org
February 10, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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A staggering report from @amandafollett.bsky.social on Rustad's town hall on Indigenous rights and DRIPA in Smithers (Wet’suwet’en territory) last weekend:
‘First Nations Would Not Exist Without Canada,’ Rustad Tells Crowd | The Tyee
Conservative MLAs held a town hall to criticize DRIPA. Community members and Indigenous leaders pushed back.
thetyee.ca
February 10, 2026 at 3:38 PM
peanut fish egg baby food coming to store soon
February 10, 2026 at 3:53 AM
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Toxic exes usually come back when you experience a glow up.
February 9, 2026 at 11:04 PM
16 straight months of average asking rents decline in Canada.

That doesnt mean your rent is coming down, but it does mean renters have more options, less increases, more leverage, and ultimately lower rents overall - which is a key measure of affordability.
February 9, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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The limp support for Alberta separatism in the Angus Reid poll is heartening, but what's eye-opening is how Mark Carney tops the approval list. Danielle Smith ranks below Poilievre and Nenshi.
February 9, 2026 at 5:20 PM
“I have no patience for separatist blackmail”

youtu.be/jibshnSHTAA?...
Stéphane Dion blasts Alberta ‘separatist blackmail’
YouTube video by CBC News: The National
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February 9, 2026 at 3:32 PM
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"I have no patience for separatist blackmail," on Alberta.
"people full of skills and talents, instead of working to improve the situation of Quebec and Canada ... they are trying to split the country..." on Quebec.

I agree 100% with Stéphane Dion.
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www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Man behind the Clarity Act has choice words for Alberta separatists and Danielle Smith | CBC News
Former Liberal cabinet minister Stéphane Dion is lambasting the brewing separatist movement in Alberta and demanding Premier Danielle Smith clarify her position and lay out the next steps depending on...
www.cbc.ca
February 8, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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Together, we raised over $600,000 for @translifeline.org this year. From the bottom of my heart, I'm so grateful. We have come together to say to our trans friends and family that they are loved and that they are not alone.

Trans rights are human rights.

When we gather together, we can make Magic.
February 7, 2026 at 5:56 PM
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Looks even worse in this framing.
February 6, 2026 at 7:50 PM
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Vancouver staff told council that if it rezoned land so a developer could build a big tower, the developer would spend $6 million on making the surrounding area nice.

The city’s auditor general found that didn’t happen, and that staff basically shrugged their shoulders about it.
Vancouver's auditor general criticizes city over lack of paper trail for lost developer amenities | CBC News
Vancouver’s auditor general said the city engaged in “serious wrongdoing” when they failed to track whether $6 million in promised community amenities for a much-publicized downtown tower ever happene...
www.cbc.ca
February 6, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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I'm diving back into the world of unproven and risky autism treatments. Thanks to undercover mom Melissa Eaton, @theijf.org is exposing an unapproved cream being sold to parents on Facebook.

Read my collaboration with @bigiftruetvo.bsky.social: theijf.org/article/fake...
‘Alarming’ and unproven autism treatments abound on Facebook. Is it time for Canada to tighten regulations?
Public service journalism
theijf.org
February 6, 2026 at 5:10 PM
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New Brunswick, an east coast Canadian province of about 900,000 people, will no longer use billionaire Elon Musk’s social media platform X for routine government communications, its leader announced
Canadian Province New Brunswick to Quit Using Elon Musk’s X
New Brunswick, an east coast Canadian province of about 900,000 people, will no longer use billionaire Elon Musk’s social media platform X for routine government communications, its leader announced Thursday.
bloom.bg
February 5, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt's Liberal government will no longer use X for "routine" government communications:
February 5, 2026 at 7:09 PM
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PM Carney's new auto strategy dropped Feb. 5.

Out: the EV availability standard (which would have required 100% EV sales by 2035)

In: a $2.3B EV rebate program and more stringent tailpipe emissions regs (aiming for 75 percent EV adoption rate by 2035)
Carney replaces EV sales mandate with rebates
Prime Minister Mark Carney is doing away with the EV availability standard, promising to replace it with more stringent tailpipe regulations and rebates to encourage Canadians to buy EVs.
www.nationalobserver.com
February 5, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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Town of Oliver to remove 'X' from social media plan #OliverBC
Town of Oliver to remove 'X' from social media plan - Oliver/Osoyoos News
The Town of Oliver will be getting rid of its X social media account as part of its new plan.
www.castanet.net
February 4, 2026 at 12:54 AM
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The two largest buildings in the history of the Women's Transition Housing Fund are now open, providing more than 150 new homes for women and their children leaving violence in Vancouver and Langley. https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2026HMA0008-000098
Historic investment in housing for women, children
More than 150 new homes now open for women, children leaving violence in Vancouver, Langley
news.gov.bc.ca
February 3, 2026 at 9:11 PM
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LPC 51, CPC 36

And 67-28 in favour of the deal with China.

www.mainstreetresearch.ca/post/carney-...
Carney Liberals dominate in new Mainstreet Research poll
The latest federal voter intentions from Mainstreet Research show a surge for the Mark Carney Liberals.
www.mainstreetresearch.ca
February 3, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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‘Criminalizing homelessness’: The flip-side of Victoria’s encampment cleanups

saanichnews.com/2026/02/03/c...
‘Criminalizing homelessness’: The flip-side of Victoria’s encampment cleanups - Saanich News
Advocates say Victoria’s new well-being plan is worsening conditions for the city’s homeless people
saanichnews.com
February 3, 2026 at 4:18 PM