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LL Janse 🇨🇦

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#NAFO 🐺den mother🇺🇦 Mural Painter and former NeuroScienceRehab RN West coast 🇨🇦 via Montreal, Toronto, Calgary to Victoria BC (Gardening Zone 8b🌱) #TeamCarney #ElbowsUp 🇨🇦

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LL Janse 🇨🇦 @lljanse.bsky.social · 15d

Missing Bruce Heyman, the former US Ambassador to Canada.

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Amb Bruce Heyman @bruceaheyman.bsky.social · Apr 29

Long live Canada

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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 1h

Canada’s new government is starting Automatic Federal Benefits. We’re going to pre-file taxes for up to 5.5 million low-income Canadians, so they get the benefits they are entitled to — money that would otherwise be left unclaimed.

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Bruce D. Cowherd @brucedc77.bsky.social · 18h

Inuit-led solutions aims to avoid the euthanizing of Marineland's 30 beluga whales.
Jason Etok, who grew up in Kangiqsualujjuaq, Nunavik, suggests the whales can be reintegrated into the wild areas such as Hudsons Bay, Ungava Bay or the St. Lawrence River.

#cdnpoli #Canada 🇨🇦 #onpoli #Ontario

Inuit-led solution aims to avoid killing of Marineland’s 30 belugas

A Nunavik man says Inuit leaders should step in to provide habitat to 30 beluga whales at Marineland that are at risk of being euthanized because the amusement park in Niagara Falls, Ont. can’t afford...

nunatsiaq.com

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 4h

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

trib.al

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LL Janse 🇨🇦 @lljanse.bsky.social · 1h

Especially so to women!

Laura Frost @laurafrost.bsky.social · 1h

JHC do they have to be so dehumanizing to women.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 3h

A restraining order was issued YESTERDAY by a federal judge barring detention of journalists in this district unless they refuse to reposition themselves and are given adequate time to do so, or there’s probable cause they’ve committed a crime.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 4h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 1h

wait wat

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 4h

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 4h

🚫 The Kremlin was forced to postpone its summit with Arab leaders at the last minute because almost no one agreed to attend, — Bloomberg

❗️Russia had been preparing for the summit since spring. Kremlin invited 22 Arab heads of state to the forum.

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LL Janse 🇨🇦 @lljanse.bsky.social · 4h

Article…
“Timothy Snyder…posted a video on his Substack, comparing Miller to Stalin. One thing he said is that Stalin gained power as Lenin’s health failed. Lenin’s leadership ran from 1917 to 1924, but he was incapacitated by strokes beginning in 1922. Stalin’s murderous reign lasted until 1953”.

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Uncle_Wolf @demiurg.bsky.social · 15h

It is only October and Russia just had their harvest.
Russia is already running out of buckwheat and cabbage, two Russian staples in their diet.
Next will be potatoes and beets.
And there's almost no diesel to distribute what little exists.
Russia will starve this winter.

Prune60 @prune602.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile in Russia…

“Russians have been warned of an impending rise in the price of buckwheat and cabbage.”

🥬

www.mk.ru/economics/20...

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David Hamer @davidhamer1951.bsky.social · 12h

The most dangerous.
And the most evil.
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Stephen Miller is the most dangerous man in the Trump administration | Judith Levine

In the White House deputy chief of staff, we see that Maga will not simply end with Trump. We must keep our eyes on Miller

www.theguardian.com

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ruthko @ruthmkb.bsky.social · 5h

I am all for automatic tax filing for the low income Cdns. Some of them don't know how, or just don't bother to file their taxes. This really is a good move!

And of course, the National School Food Program is a great initiative!

👍 @mark-carney.bsky.social !

#cdnpoli www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news...

Prime Minister Carney announces new measures to lower costs for Canadians and help you get ahead

To deliver that change, we will take bold action and make responsible choices.

www.pm.gc.ca

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LL Janse 🇨🇦 @lljanse.bsky.social · 5h

Nice 😉

LL Janse 🇨🇦 @lljanse.bsky.social · 5h

A deliciously satisfying read.

Thanks for posting.

🇨🇦🇨🇦 Proud Canadian 🇨🇦🇨🇦 @beppil007.bsky.social · 7h

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Let’s go over to the sore loser contingent to see how they are taking the loss.
Don’t forget, Americans have perfected being a sore loser.

#BoycottUSA

White House slams Trump’s perceived Nobel peace prize snub as ‘politics over peace’

President has ‘heart of humanitarian’, spokesperson says after unsuccessful bid for prize amid Gaza ceasefire deal

www.theguardian.com

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LL Janse 🇨🇦 @lljanse.bsky.social · 5h

Yes. So relieved he is not our premier.

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LL Janse 🇨🇦 @lljanse.bsky.social · 5h

Again, I say yikes, not just because the air base is being built in the US but because Idaho borders BC!

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ProtestArt Afficianado @ahouseunited.bsky.social · 2d

Love this sign. A few others do too!

It is fun to text people in Portland and ask them if they’re ok and if the warzone has affected them and see how they respond 🤣

P.s. Obviously this refers to Powells books, the largest independent bookstore.

#protestart
#nokings nationwide oct 18

Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 2d

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LL Janse 🇨🇦 @lljanse.bsky.social · 6h

In Idaho…😬

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Reformed Reformer and Part Owner of Canada 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🏳️‍🌈 @reformedreformer.bsky.social · 6h

What the ever loving fuck…..?

Seriously?

I wonder how much it cost them to line Republican pockets to get this.

A foreign military on your own soil.

Just can’t believe it.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h

Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho

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Peter Benn @thatproviso.bsky.social · 6h

#Peresvet

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 6h

Russian Telegram channels post a video about a cloud of smoke at Russia's Scientific and Testing Center of the Rocket and Space Industry in Peresvet, Moscow.

This is a Roscosmos facility to test rocket engines and spacecraft before launches.

No details at this point.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 12h

Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela

Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.

www.theatlantic.com

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National Newswatch @nationalnewswatch.com · 9h

Canada adds surprise 60,000 jobs in September, unemployment rate steady at 7.1% nationalnewswatch.com/2025/10/10/c...

Canada adds surprise 60,000 jobs in September, unemployment rate…

National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.

nationalnewswatch.com

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 10h

I like how they gave the Nobel Prize to someone fighting for democracy in Venezuela, instead of someone sinking fishing boats off their coast.

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LL Janse 🇨🇦 @lljanse.bsky.social · 9h

The Beginning of the Fall of Russia
open.substack.com/pub/viktorkr...

The Beginning of the Fall of Russia

The empire that came to bury us has begun to bury itself

open.substack.com

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Winnipeg Free Press @winnipegfreepress.com · 19h

OTTAWA – Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says Canadians detained by Israel for attempting to reach the Gaza Strip should accept Ottawa’s consular help to get home.

Anand says consular officers can help as Israel detains more Canadians from flotilla

OTTAWA – Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says Canadians detained by Israel for attempting to reach the Gaza Strip should accept Ottawa’s consular help to get home.

www.winnipegfreepress.com

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LL Janse 🇨🇦 @lljanse.bsky.social · 16h

What a petty little man.

🇨🇦🇨🇦 Proud Canadian 🇨🇦🇨🇦 @beppil007.bsky.social · 20h

www.vancouverislandfreedaily.com/news/rustad-...
Searching phones, then this exchange:
A reporter from the Canadian Press asked Rustad if he was paranoid.
“That’s bullshit, shut up, you’re cut off,” Rustad’s chief of staff, told the reporter. “You’re not getting another question, ever” 👀🤡 #MapleMAGA

Rustad admits ordering a search of B.C. Conservative MLA phones

Caucus leadership searched their colleague's phones during a meeting to find someone leaking information

www.vancouverislandfreedaily.com

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