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Greg Bester 🇨🇦 @gregbester.bsky.social · 26m

As long as Trump threatens Canada, Ford can rest easy. He has positioned himself as Canada's defender. As far as I can tell, he could walk naked down Yonge Street and still keep his job.

FF-Suze @suze-bsky.bsky.social · 9h

How do we get Ontarians to realize how badly FordNation is destroying our province financially and the very structures of education and healthcare? He’s got them all blaming the Fed Libs for everything and either high on pot or stopping at the corner for a cold one. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

David Doel @daviddoel.bsky.social · 17h

Absolutely Insane Doug Ford Scandals Pile Up While No One Is Paying Attention youtu.be/6JO1SDqgLrc?...

Greg Bester 🇨🇦 @gregbester.bsky.social · 30m

Proving once again that the conservative movement has turned into a death cult.

André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 53m

Canada is close to losing its measles elimination status. What happens then? Canada eliminated measles decades ago, but it will lose that status on Oct. 27 – barring a ‘miracle,’ by @alannasmith.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com

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

Greg Bester 🇨🇦 @gregbester.bsky.social · 35m

They will blame antifa no matter who attacks.

Greg Bester 🇨🇦 @gregbester.bsky.social · 12h

She lives in Canada.

Greg Bester 🇨🇦 @gregbester.bsky.social · 12h

Reminder that the EU has a deal with Trump.
finance.yahoo.com/news/eu-sees...

EU Sees New US Trade Demands Hollowing Out Deal Struck by Trump

Earlier this month, US President Donald Trump’s administration sent the EU a fresh proposal for implementing “reciprocal, fair and balanced” trade, according to people familiar with the matter, who sp...

finance.yahoo.com

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Greg Bester 🇨🇦 @gregbester.bsky.social · 12h

Of course he did.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Carney raised Keystone XL pipeline revival in meeting with Trump | CBC News

Relief for Canada from U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum may come thanks to renewed interest in a pipeline project first proposed more than 15 years ago.

www.cbc.ca

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Greg Bester 🇨🇦 @gregbester.bsky.social · 13h

I'd be nervous if I was a Dutch communist.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Q: There's compelling proof that antifa did infiltrate on January 6 dressed up like Trump supporters and incited violence. Is that something you'd like the new J6 committee to look at?

TRUMP: Well I've heard that. Yeah. We will be acting on some of that.

Greg Bester 🇨🇦 @gregbester.bsky.social · 14h

How convenient.

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Greg Bester 🇨🇦 @gregbester.bsky.social · 15h

Of all of the characters in this farce, Johnson may be tied with Stephen Miller for most loathsome.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

NN: Dems say you won't swear in Grijalva bc you don't want her vote on Epstein

JOHNSON: No. It's scheduling

NN: But there have been Rs sworn in during pro forma sessions

MJ: Only reason was bc they flew in their family

NN: So if she flies in her family you'd do it?

MJ: Again, it's a distraction

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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 1d

"Maybe Dhanraj didn’t do his research and thought Poilievre’s answer was reasonable. Or maybe his version of being uncensored is to actually just Lick Boot. Regardless, it’s quite the start for what is supposed to be The New CBC."

noraloreto.substack.com/p/free-from-...

Free from the shackles of censorship only to lick boot

An assessment of the new podcast Can't Be Censored and how it, and the CBC, have differently fatal problems.

noraloreto.substack.com

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Greg Bester 🇨🇦 @gregbester.bsky.social · 22h

If Democrats run against Miller they will sweep America. They won't, of course. Chuck and Hakeem would think that is too rude.

newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

newrepublic.com

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Greg Bester 🇨🇦 @gregbester.bsky.social · 23h

I would love to be proved wrong.

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Greg Bester 🇨🇦 @gregbester.bsky.social · 23h

NYT: Pastor Practices Christianity the Wrong Way.

Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Greg Bester 🇨🇦 @gregbester.bsky.social · 23h

She is perfect for Trump's America. If that doesn't scare you, nothing will.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Bari Weiss is a weird and worrisome choice as top editor for CBS News | Margaret Sullivan

When Weiss was named editor-in-chief, it was the latest turn in the network’s confounding departure from its roots

www.theguardian.com

Greg Bester 🇨🇦 @gregbester.bsky.social · 23h

True, but we might have more oil shipments to the US and an expensive, useless, ABM system. Plus, we can look forward to the end of trilateral trade and the beginning of hub and spoke bilateral trade, wit us as a spoke for fasc America.

www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

Carney returns to Ottawa without a deal to end the U.S. tariffs

Prime Minister Mark Carney returns to Ottawa today without any deals to remove U.S. tariffs from Canadian goods, but he is leaving two of his key ministers behind to keep pressing Canada’s case.

www.ctvnews.ca

Greg Bester 🇨🇦 @gregbester.bsky.social · 23h

Who voted for more integration with the US? Bueller? Bueller?

Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 1d

“Dominic LeBlanc seemed to suggest Tuesday … that Ottawa is prepared to trade away tariff relief for “a partnership in terms of energy” with the United States.”
Call it what it is: Deeper integration. Closer ties. Less independence. With an unreliable partner that no longer respects the rule of law.

Althia Raj: Mark Carney, Donald Trump put on a show of affection in Oval Office trade talks, but no real progress announced

The Liberals won the last election on one premise — Canada strong, a country less dependent on the United States, in terms of its security and its economy. But early signs from Tuesday’s White House v...

www.thestar.com

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Greg Bester 🇨🇦 @gregbester.bsky.social · 23h

Good work, but Ford is untouchable. His cult is as unshakable as Trump's. With our laughable electoral system he will rule forever.

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Greg Bester 🇨🇦 @gregbester.bsky.social · 23h

Why I will never go to Australia.

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Greg Bester 🇨🇦 @gregbester.bsky.social · 1d

Letting fascists off lightly always works out well.

davidakin @davidakin.bsky.social · 1d

Freedom Convoy leaders Chris Barber and Tamara Lich each get an 18-month conditional sentence; first 12 months to be served as house arrest. Judge cites principal of "deterrence and denunciation" of their activities.