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Pádraig Kerr 🇨🇦 @morningside.bsky.social · 10h

Mexico to discuss tariff hikes with China and others before making law buff.ly/YXL0AN7

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Pádraig Kerr 🇨🇦 @morningside.bsky.social · 10h

Canada posts surprise jump in job gains in September, unemployment rate unchanged buff.ly/SSYWcwW

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Winnipeg Free Press @winnipegfreepress.com · 23h

A 10-year-old boy made an unusual appearance at a legislative committee on Wednesday night because, as he put it, “all teachers need know how to teach dyslexia kids.”

‘Teachers didn’t teach me right’: boy with dyslexia among dozens who back Manitoba literacy screening bill

A 10-year-old boy made an unusual appearance at a legislative committee on Wednesday night because, as he put it, “all teachers need know how to teach dyslexia kids.”

www.winnipegfreepress.com

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Pádraig Kerr 🇨🇦 @morningside.bsky.social · 1d

"Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree has said he has not abandoned controversial powers in the original strong borders bill giving law enforcement the right to obtain information without a warrant, but wants to refine them to avoid accusations of overreach." buff.ly/p35wBCw

Public Safety minister says he wants to push through refined warrantless access powers to help police

Gary Anandasangaree says the provisions in Bill C-2, the original strong borders bill, were ‘overreach’

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d

This can't be real, right? Must've been created by A.I.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Pádraig Kerr 🇨🇦 @morningside.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai who won the Nobel Prize for Literature buff.ly/0Gwy2iM

Serious questions: why has Canadian author Margaret Atwood (@margaretatwood.bsky.social) not won the Nobel Prize in Literature yet?

#Canada #Nobel

Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai wins Nobel Prize for Literature

He was recognised “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”.

www.bbc.com

Pádraig Kerr 🇨🇦 @morningside.bsky.social · 1d

National Guard poised to enter Chicago as Trump calls for jailing Democratic leaders buff.ly/vjmbGXm

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Pádraig Kerr 🇨🇦 @morningside.bsky.social · 1d

'We will get an even better deal,' Carney says after Oval Office meeting with Trump | CBC News

Prime Minister Mark Carney said Wednesday Canadian and American officials are currently "negotiating terms" of a deal on tariffs a day after he met with the U.S. president to try and bring the trade war...

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Pádraig Kerr 🇨🇦 @morningside.bsky.social · 2d

'We will get an even better deal,' Carney says after Oval Office meeting with Trump | CBC News

Prime Minister Mark Carney said Wednesday Canadian and American officials are currently "negotiating terms" of a deal on tariffs a day after he met with the U.S. president to try and bring the trade war...

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Pádraig Kerr 🇨🇦 @morningside.bsky.social · 2d

Respectfully, I think your take on this is wrong.

Our PM has used this line with Trump before. Trump sees it as flattery. It’s actually a subtle rebuke of what he’s transformed the US into both domestically and internationally. Carney's a smart guy, and he's right to say Trump is transformative.

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Pádraig Kerr 🇨🇦 @morningside.bsky.social · 3d

Trump Predicts That ‘Canada Will Love Us Again’ in Meeting with Carney buff.ly/WQypPck

#Canada #cdnpoli

Trump Predicts That ‘Canada Will Love Us Again’ in Meeting with Carney

President Trump on Tuesday is hosting Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada, who is seeking relief from U.S. tariffs.

www.nytimes.com

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Pádraig Kerr 🇨🇦 @morningside.bsky.social · 3d

I truly hope you're right. I think both Trump and Carney are under pressure to deliver something so there's common ground. Problem is Trump doesn't operate in the real world and his propagandists will spin anything into a win (for him). Will be watching this closely today.

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 3d

#Canada
Coffee prices are jolting consumers. Could this change our drinking habits?
Tim Hortons announced Sunday it was increasing its coffee prices for 1st time in years

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Coffee prices are jolting consumers. Could this change our drinking habits? | CBC News

Tim Hortons is just the latest example of coffee price increases plaguing global markets. And some food economics experts say the overall price hikes from coffee shops to grocery stores have the poten...

www.cbc.ca

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Pádraig Kerr 🇨🇦 @morningside.bsky.social · 3d

I was thinking exactly the same thing after reading the article. Seems like a great opportunity for Canada to cut out the US (and the tariffs).

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Pádraig Kerr 🇨🇦 @morningside.bsky.social · 3d

What, if anything, do you think PM Carney and the Canadian delegation heading to Washington to meet with Trump and his team will come away with?

#Canada #cdnpoli

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Toula Drimonis @mtltoula.bsky.social · 3d

Sad to hear of his passing. For many of us he was the face of evening news for so long. RIP.
I never had the pleasure of meeting him but he seemed immensely likeable.
montrealgazette.com/news/local-n...

Obituary: Former CBC Montreal newscaster Dennis Trudeau was 'a wonderful storyteller'

“He was someone who always strove for accuracy and fairness ... a wonderful storyteller who continued to tell stories after he retired from the CBC."

montrealgazette.com

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Pádraig Kerr 🇨🇦 @morningside.bsky.social · 3d

Not surprising at all. Bill C-2 overreached by including sweeping powers that went far beyond border security. The government’s decision to split the bill and refocus on legitimate border concerns is a necessary course correction. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

#Canada #C2 #cdnpoli

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Mr. Spock 🖖 @spockresists.bsky.social · 4d

White House official inadvertently reveals plans to send elite army unit to Portland.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

White House official inadvertently reveals plans to send elite army unit to Portland

Anthony Salisbury displayed chat about deployment of 82nd airborne division on cell phone while in Minnesota

www.theguardian.com

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Pádraig Kerr 🇨🇦 @morningside.bsky.social · 4d

Wow what a legend. Truly, if there's one thing you watch/listen to today, make it this.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 5d

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

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Pádraig Kerr 🇨🇦 @morningside.bsky.social · 4d

We Asked 50 Legal Experts About the Trump Presidency. They’re Very, Very Worried.

Before the election, we surveyed the legal establishment about what a second Trump term could mean for the rule of law. A year later, they’re very, very worried.

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Pádraig Kerr 🇨🇦 @morningside.bsky.social · 4d

Canada’s last hockey stick factory survives in face of tariff threats, globalization buff.ly/55hyk88

#cdnpoli #Canada

Canada’s last hockey stick factory survives in face of tariff threats, globalization

Roustan Hockey has survived decades of trade globalization as the last North American commercial manufacturer of traditional wooden hockey sticks.

www.bnnbloomberg.ca

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Pádraig Kerr 🇨🇦 @morningside.bsky.social · 4d

Donald Trump’s Osama Bin Laden Comments Raise Eyebrows

The president said he predicted the threat bin Laden posed to the United States in a book published before the 9/11 attacks.

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Pádraig Kerr 🇨🇦 @morningside.bsky.social · 4d

This should terrify every Canadian given Trump's false narrative that drugs are flowing into the the US from the Northern border and his disregard for territorial sovereignty.

Trump boasts US strikes have wiped out drug boats off Venezuela buff.ly/w8ggSgm

#cdnpoli #Canada

Trump boasts US strikes have wiped out drug boats off Venezuela

President Donald Trump said on Sunday that US military strikes on small boats near Venezuela have been so effective that “there are no boats” left in the area, as Washington faces growing criticism…

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Pádraig Kerr 🇨🇦 @morningside.bsky.social · 4d

Canada not angling to get out of F-35 contract with U.S., says head of defence procurement buff.ly/UrPsb74

#Canada #cdnpoli

Canada not angling to get out of F-35 contract with U.S., says head of defence procurement | CBC News

During an interview on CBC's Rosemary Barton Live, Secretary of State for Defence Procurement Stephen Fuhr said he doesn’t think the federal government plans to get out of its contract to buy American-made...

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Pádraig Kerr 🇨🇦 @morningside.bsky.social · 5d

Trump re-assigning California National Guard troops to Oregon after losing court ruling |

Trump re-assigning California National Guard troops to Oregon after losing court ruling | CBC News

The U.S. military said on Sunday it is re-assigning about 200 federalized members of the California National Guard from the Los Angeles area to Portland, Ore., in a new tactic to fulfill plans announced...

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