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Caroline

@northernck.bsky.social

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🇨🇦 curious. savvy. spiritied. witty. PoliSci, Business grad. Former business executive with a conscience. Mentored youth at risk, young staff, entrepreneurs. Deeply concerned about our humanity in the face of growing extremism. Photography enthusiast. 🇨🇦

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Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · Dec 21

What Mr Poilievre won’t tell you:

2/3 of the federal budget is spent on pensions, health care, provincial transfers, welfare, defence and debt servicing.

If you are promising to lower taxes, where will you cut spending?

Which one of the above areas will Pierre Poilievre AXE Services?

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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 11h

Fuck that
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U.S. bill calls for more integration between Canadian, American border agents | CBC News

The U.S. Congress is being asked to adopt legislation that could lead to Canada and the United States further integrating their enforcement of the border — including allowing U.S. officers to more fre...

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1d

This administration is flooding the zone so furiously that people have largely lost track of the lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, the gov’t shutdown, the economy, failed release of the Epstein files & so much else. It’s a tactic of would-be strongmen.

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Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 1h

all our eggs in this basket, nurturing several industries which have just begun to enter the early stages of growth. The type of industries which deliver considerable long term sustainability in revenues.

I genuinely hope I’m wrong.

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Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 1h

I continue to be concerned over the direction PM Carney is navigating our economy.
With billions of public monies to be used in pursuit of not only supporting, but expanding oil/gas in Canada.

A losing proposition in the short, medium and long term.
PM Trudeau finally had us focusing on not putting

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Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 1d

suppliers for market sales in the early-2030s.
“This is what Canada — which is only now coming to market with LNG Canada — is going to have to navigate: the biggest market upheaval we have ever seen”

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Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 1d

with another 56 million tonnes.
Some LNG supply forecasts do not include dozens of LNG projects worldwide that have not yet received a final investment decision — the formal “green light” for a project to begin construction, he said. But if approved, these projects will also compete with Canadian

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Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 1d

potential gap of $4/million BTU:
“After a “lean period” of new supply from 2021 through 2024, the trajectory for the next five years “looks like being on track for massive oversupply,” he said. The US is expected to add 97 million tonnes a year of new capacity, followed by Qatar

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Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 1d

projects - especially as it will likely make use of public monies to fund tax credits or costs attributed to capital expenditure/project costs.
Then you have the issue of a market facing MASSIVE oversupply as of next yr, impacting the price these LNG exports will be able to demand in the mkt. A

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Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 1d

What PM Carney & Min Hodgson cannot sweet talk past - China’s pursuit of energy sources is based on the lowest-cost of renewables.
Their LNG imports declines by 22% alone, in 2024.
The math just doesn’t make any sense on adding several other newer LNG
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/20/a...

Is Canada betting big on LNG at just the wrong time?

Canada’s $100 billion gamble on liquefied natural gas is counting on Asian nations buying huge volumes as the region transitions from higher-polluting coal power to clean energy. But Canada may have a...

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Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 10h

Especially those run by Canada’s Succession mafia don, lol

Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 10h

PM @mark-carney.bsky.social not to outsource laws to Trump.

Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 10h

And why we can’t afford to have any majority govts any longer.
That @liberalca.bsky.social sought to overwrite several rights protected under our charter was an embarrassing effort by LPC Govt.
That Poilievre fought for those rights sends a message to

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Minister guts strong-borders bill, removes clauses giving law enforcement warrantless powers

Gary Anandasangaree said putting forward second bill without contentious elements of Bill C-2 will enable swifter passages

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Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 10h

When you have a high school grad as a Premier who is unwilling to enforce vaccination rates in elementary schools by eliminating exemptions for religion, etc, we get a province which is backsliding towards Alberta.

These days of exemptions should end.

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Canada is close to losing its measles elimination status. What happens then?

Experts blame waning vaccination rates and disinformation for outbreaks that have continued for nearly a full year

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 11h

We’ll see if that continues w/ Rogers as a sole owner after next season.

But he did some creative things for the Jays playoffs - gave away 500 tickets for each of the home games in a specific section of the outfield.

Plans on continuing it throughout their playoff run.

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Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 11h

Raps have a lot of cheap seats in the top bowl. Corp tickets are far fewer, to be honest.

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Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 21h

Raps/Jays also a very different demographic - much younger.

Same arena for Raps - dance/rap, loud music, contests throughout. Bizarre

Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 21h

Is this the day where folks put words into others’ mouthes?

Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 23h

Ha! Jays and Raptors do a much better job.

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Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 23h

Agreed.

Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 1d

For those interested - I’m a born and bred Habs fan. Can’t take the Montreal out of gal, despite living in GTA for decades.

Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 1d

affordability as an impetus?

Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 1d

Bingo.
I don’t know how an LPC fed govt led by a banker doesn’t grasp the math of it all - China, African continent, EU, AP are ALL looking at this through the lens of cheapest form of energy & hydro.
LNG & oil sands are two of the costliest, w/ nuclear being the costliest.
Why aren’t we talking

Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 1d

From day one, Ms Wood. I cherish your team’s work and see it as consequential to Canada’s future

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Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 1d

It is very much so - have fun with it. I won’t be contributing any further to this thread

Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 1d

By hyper focusing on an in existent pipeline, much as the conversation around carbon taxes was manipulated, we are losing an opportunity to educate and investigate ALL the other projects.

That Mr Cochrane is falling prey to this manipulation by Pr Smith, is troubling