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Jeffrey49 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇺🇦 @jeffrey49.bsky.social · 19h

Excellent article in @thetyee.ca
Show of hands, please:
Who knew Black News was a US-owned publication? This is disgraceful.
Saanich News, Victoria News, Oak Bay News are NOT locally owned. Not even Canadian-owned.
Seems the US owners didn't like it when Charlie was portrayed as who he was in life

LilacsFire @lilacfire.bsky.social · 21h

#cdnpoli #CanadianPolitics #Liberal mark-carney.bsky.social @liberalca.bsky.social Overdue to get U.S. foreign influence in #Canada No subsidies for partisan propaganda thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

Owner of BC Papers Sparks Mass Alaska Resignation Over Charlie Kirk Story Intervention | The Tyee

Alaskan journalists quit after Carpenter Media execs unilaterally changed an article about a vigil for the far-right activist.

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Ivan Sirko @ivan-sirko.bsky.social · 2d

I have a Canadian dream. It involves burning away the American influence on our politics, media, etc.

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David Hamer @davidhamer1951.bsky.social · 2d

Petulant piffleswipe Pierre Poilievre proves what a patriot he is [not], stabbing 🇨🇦Canada’s elected Prime Minister in the back on the eve of exquisitely delicate negotiations with the neofascist dictator to the south.
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www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

'No more losing,' Poilievre tells Carney in scathing letter ahead of PM's face-to-face with Trump | CBC News

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has penned a scathing letter to the prime minister ahead of his meeting with the U.S. president on Tuesday, saying Mark Carney has been a disappointment on the tra...

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Vanelle 🦋🇨🇦 🎹🎤 passionate about freedom & democracy @vanellemusic.bsky.social · 3d

Yup.

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LilacsFire @lilacfire.bsky.social · 21h

#cdnpoli #CanadianPolitics #Liberal mark-carney.bsky.social @liberalca.bsky.social Overdue to get U.S. foreign influence in #Canada No subsidies for partisan propaganda thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

Owner of BC Papers Sparks Mass Alaska Resignation Over Charlie Kirk Story Intervention | The Tyee

Alaskan journalists quit after Carpenter Media execs unilaterally changed an article about a vigil for the far-right activist.

thetyee.ca

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Liberal Party • Parti libéral @liberalca.bsky.social · 1d

We’ll keep standing up for our workers and industries — and all Canadians.

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Liberal Party • Parti libéral @liberalca.bsky.social · 1d

WATCH: Mark Carney in Washington today 👇

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Geoffrey P Johnston😎🇨🇦🇺🇦 @geoffypjohnston.bsky.social · 27d

My latest: Putin escalates terror, tests NATO’s defences | The Kingston Whig Standard
www.thewhig.com/opinion/puti...

Putin escalates terror, tests NATO’s defences

Not only is imperial Russia escalating its terror attacks on Ukraine, the Vladimir Putin regime is also brazenly testing NATO’s defences.

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LilacsFire @lilacfire.bsky.social · 27d

Koch Bros/Tea Party war on education fruition. PragerU is proud. w/long versatile read worth it re manipulating youth ideology. Apparently Mercedes Stephenson was influence.
& www.ibtimes.com/political-ca...
And: www.apnews.com/7010023e5bb7...
Words come back to bite in-sights.ca/2025/09/11/w...

Words come back to bite

Cole Bennett correctly wrote that Kirk’s murder will not advance any of the causes he opposed. Violence against leaders is most often a consequence of damaged trust in political and social sy…

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · Sep 6

Maybe we should build that wall 🤣 #Canada

youtu.be/gS-4y7YAulM?...

South Park The Great Wall of Canada Clip

YouTube video by Too Busy Gaming

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David Hamer @davidhamer1951.bsky.social · Sep 1

As Trump destroys 🇺🇸America’s forward-looking clean energy industry (to the benefit of China), 🍁Canadians should remember that Albertabama’s Queen of Stupid Danielle Smith is doing the same.
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open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

August 30, 2025

Just days before Labor Day, a holiday designed to celebrate the importance and power of American workers in the United States, the Transportation Department cancelled $679 million in funding for offsh...

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Mona⁷ ⟭⟬ ⟬⟭ @monawys.bsky.social · Aug 22

we need to represent ourselves, next time you see a pushy woman, consider it.

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PressProgress @pressprogress.ca · Aug 21

The government's "eyebrow-raising" penchant for breaking up strikes finally met its match in the woman-dominated workforce of CUPE's Air Canada unit.

Why the flight attendants' strike was "a perfect storm" for labour:

pressprogress.ca/air-canada-f...

Why the Flight Attendants’ Strike Was ‘A Perfect Storm’ for Labour

The government's 'eyebrow-raising' penchant for breaking up strikes met its match in the woman-dominated workforce

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · Aug 23

@dorothywoodend.bsky.social: While it’s probably not fair to blame Vice for the state of cultural chaos we’re enjoying, they’re not innocent, either.

From Bad Boys to Proud Boys: Vice Media’s Rise and Fall | The Tyee

Eddie Huang’s doc film tracks the outrageous trajectory of a media empire that made a name for itself by courting controversy.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · Aug 22

CORRECTION: this hasn’t gone to court yet, what Amy lost was an initial dispute of the initial complaint and allegation.

She still wasn’t fined, though — she lost that initial dispute and was ordered to pay costs.

Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · Aug 21

Pierre Poilievre is back -- and so is his virulent transphobia.

He took to social media to defend a suspended nurse who he said was facing “authoritarian censorship.”

What was she being so cruelly censored for saying?

Oh boy, you'll never guess:

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · Aug 22

20000mAh Built-in Cable Solar Power Bank with Lamp and Digital Display - PrimeCables® #Canada #MadeInCanade #BuyLocal #BuyCanadian

Built-in 4 cables and 4 ports for charging multiple devices simultaneously (picking up a couple of these for my sons)

Link: www.primecables.ca/p-407472-pc-...

solar powered power bank for charging phones and computer - Canadian made

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LilacsFire @lilacfire.bsky.social · Aug 22

Time & time again proven a mistake to put business person in a seat of power. Countries aren't businesses. Businesses are sociopaths, caring only for profit, callously tossing workers aside. Countries look after citizen welfare & prosperity as a whole. Altruism vs greed. #cdnpoli #bcpoli #Vancouver

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Ole Vet USAF @olevetusaf.bsky.social · Aug 21

www.rawstory.com/ceo-compensa...
More reasons to elect a CEO as President is that they can run the country like a business is the dumbest statement ever!
They will make us all employees, rather than citizens.

'Greed at its ugliest': These 100 companies pay CEOs over 600 times what workers get

Detailing the widening gap between outrageously high CEO compensation and the median wages of employees at some of the world's largest and most profitable companies, a progressive think tank on Thursd...

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LilacsFire @lilacfire.bsky.social · Aug 21

Right off the bat, r/w owned #cdnmedia like Global & CTV smearing govt for 'not stepping in asap, 'for destroying Canada's reputation'' by allowing strike to continue, that it 'had' to mandate strike end.... Then slammed govt for doing so. Hypocrisy abounds.. "damned if do...".

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I Post Animal Vids... 😊 @realjfairclough.bsky.social · Aug 20

Who says that #animals have no feelings?? #bluesky

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · Aug 19

The Air Canada flight attendants just won a MASSIVE victory -- one that is good for all workers.

In fact, today, we’re talking about TWO (very different) victories.

One is a story of perseverance and a desire to make the world a better place.

The other is about Poilievre 🥴

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LilacsFire @lilacfire.bsky.social · Aug 20

Reads like Harper's mini-me PP's smack talk & Trumpy ways:
#cdnpoli #NeverVoteConservative @liberal.ca.web.brid.gy Recall Harper's incremental destruction of #Canada goodmenproject.com/featured-con...

How the U.S. Became Fascism’s Greatest Success Story

Our ‘land of the free’ is collapsing into an autocratic nightmare.

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · Aug 18

As a former Texas State Rep, let me be clear: LOCKING Rep. Nicole Collier inside the chamber is beyond outrageous.

Forcing elected officials to sign “permission slips” & take police escorts to leave? That’s not procedure. That’s some old Jim Crow playbook.

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David Pepper @davidpepperoh.bsky.social · Aug 18

The decision of European leaders to all join Zelensky in his White House visit was one of the savviest diplomatic moves I’ve seen in a long time.

Historic.

THAT is how you unify for democracy.

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