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Margaret G 🍁

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Pls no starter pack. Canadian living on unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinabe nation. Miigwech. Ontario Gardening #zone5 🇨🇦 #nativeplants #birds Bsky since 11/2024 #slavaukraïni 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 ally #BuyCanadian 🇨🇦 #Never51 #NastyCanadian

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Margaret G 🍁 @margaretorleans.bsky.social · Jul 6

In Finland, they have a saying, "The forest replies with the voice you call out to it."

The world is a mirror, reflect carefully.

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🇨🇦🍁True Canadian 🍁🇨🇦 @canadian-capt.bsky.social · 11h

When anger online feels too perfect, too fast, or too familiar… that’s your clue.
Not every voice you hear is a neighbour.
Some are built to divide, not to discuss.

Slow down.
Check the source.
Keep Canada whole.

We are whole

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Margaret G 🍁 @margaretorleans.bsky.social · 4h

So funny! Like they don't hear themselves.

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Robert S Mortensen CA @robsm1951.bsky.social · 10h

Well Monday anyway, but damn straight, I think it may be a recycled post from Michael but it's applicable.

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M31🍁 @m31author.bsky.social · 10h

As a Canadian I have to say that landing in a US airport looks really Nazi. This Fascist Barbie is spewing propaganda from multiple big screens at full volume. I just noped on out of there. Pro Tip: Do not even make a stopover in the US. There is some 1984 shit happening and it is scary AF

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16h

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Robert S Mortensen CA @robsm1951.bsky.social · 10h

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Margaret G 🍁 @margaretorleans.bsky.social · 4h

Waking up, fed the kitty, made coffee. There's an autumn fair later.

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M C Wilson 🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 8h

If anyone has a plan for balancing the budget while playing sixty years of catch-up on defence spending, please, do share, because we’re all just dying to hear that genius plan. In the meantime, eliminate the PBO as a saving measure.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

ANALYSIS | What’s missing from the deficit debate? Any plan to eliminate it | CBC News

The debate about the federal deficit — or, more specifically, the health and wisdom of federal fiscal policy — remains something of a phoney war, with little substantive engagement. But perhaps, with ...

www.cbc.ca

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Margaret G 🍁 @margaretorleans.bsky.social · 14h

The moon is up. It's almost a week after the full moon. Photo Samsung S24.

Waning gibbous moon this evening, showing darker areas on the left, and full shadow on the right.

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That's Nonsense @thatsnonsense.bsky.social · 22h

Be aware, there's been a surge of "fake invoice" email scams that come attached to a fake invoice trying to lure you into calling a scam phone number.
<StaySafeOnline>

Margaret G 🍁 @margaretorleans.bsky.social · 23h

Christia Freeland is the original "nasty Canadian" whom 47 hates so much. We would do well to emulate her. IIRC she has moved to another portfolio, concerned with Ukraine.

Margaret G 🍁 @margaretorleans.bsky.social · 23h

Very good satire. You can tell is not real because the guy who posted it says it's not. LOL

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Margaret G 🍁 @margaretorleans.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Thanksgiving! Thanks to our awesome farmers for this bounty.

A feast is laid out on a table with sliced turkey, mashed potatoes, green beans, other vegetables, and stuffing.
To Canada's farmers who work in acres, not hours. We thank you!

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THX•1138 @ithx1138.bsky.social · 1d

May your Canadian Thanksgiving be full of peace, love, and joy

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Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · 1d

Great news!
Automatic tax filing will allow 5 1/2 million Canadians easy/free tax filing, and the benefits that provides, by 2028.
The permanent school food program will ensure all our young minds have the nutrition they need to succeed.
The Canada Strong Pass returns!
www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

Automatic tax filing, permanent school food program coming in budget: Carney

Prime Minister Mark Carney is announcing a series of affordability measures Friday, making good on some spring campaign commitments ahead of the fall budget.

www.ctvnews.ca

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🇨🇦🍁weaseman 🍁🇨🇦 @weaseman.bsky.social · 1d

Harper was the worst Prime Minister in Canadian history.

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 1d

Jason Pugh
Harper inherited a $13.7 Billion surplus, which he quickly blew through. Then ran a decade of deficits. He then had a fake "balanced" budget ahead of the 2015 elxn by selling off GM stock at a $3.5B loss, taking $2B from the contingency fund, and underfunding Veterans Affairs. #cdnpoli 👇

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Aatos Lehtila @aatosl.bsky.social · 1d

Machado won the peace prize, despite being in hiding. Why do I think that this is sounding like the US now?

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 1d

The Trillium is hammering this story.

"Months before he was put in charge of Ontario’s Ministry of Labour, cabinet minister David Piccini was at a Toronto Maple Leafs game in front-row seats with a director of a company his office would later give $7.5 million in taxpayer-funded grants to. #OnPoli

Labour minister was in Leafs glass seats with director of company he granted funding to

The ‘lower-scoring’ company got $7.5M of tax dollars through David Piccini’s office and is a client of the lobbyist whose Parisian wedding the minister recently attended

www.thetrillium.ca

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Margaret G 🍁 @margaretorleans.bsky.social · 1d

Lovely. I miss the lake.

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willwrite4coffee.bsky.social @willwrite4coffee.bsky.social · 1d

This really is the perfect antithesis for a whining, threatening wannabe dictator insisting he deserves an award while destroying his own country.

Bravo NNI and Maria Corina Machado.

"When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist"

Venezuelan politician Maria Corina Machado awarded Nobel Peace Prize | CBC News

The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Maria Corina Machado, a Venezuelan opposition leader, it was announced Friday at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo.

www.cbc.ca

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Aatos Lehtila @aatosl.bsky.social · 1d

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Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · 1d

So by 2030+/- they hope to have solid state batteries produced and used at scale.
So after 20+/- years of hype batteries will be almost as good and safe as hydrogen FCEVs.
Yay! Right?
It will require at least as much mining if not more.
And all the existing
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Will your next EV have a solid-state battery — and improved performance?

Superionic materials have spawned hope for a new generation of power packs for electric cars, with a promise of greater range, faster charges and more safety. But scaling up won’t be easy.

knowablemagazine.org

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Margaret G 🍁 @margaretorleans.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, I hope so too. It could be stress.

Margaret G 🍁 @margaretorleans.bsky.social · 1d

I'm getting exercise points for tachycardia. Needless to say, I'm resting until I see the cardiologist. Hubby is carrying the household, a real champ.

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Margaret G 🍁 @margaretorleans.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, thanks. It seems fewer Venezuelans are willing to take their boats out.