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Melanie Wildman 🇨🇦

@melaniewildman.bsky.social

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Entrepreneur, Bestselling Author, Speaker, Fmr Mrs. Canada, unapologetically Progressive. We’ve lost what our Grandmothers knew. She/her.

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Melanie Wildman 🇨🇦 @melaniewildman.bsky.social · Mar 12

The F35s are a threat to our sovereignty!

Please sign the petition to cancel the $70 billion we are spending on US jets they can’t remotely ground, leaving our skies unprotected:

🇨🇦 Liam Clicks 🇨🇦 @liamclicks.bsky.social · Mar 12

there is now a e-petition for parliament on this.

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Sign this Petition - Petitions

www.ourcommons.ca

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EV Curve Futurist @evcurvefuturist.com · 16h

China’s no longer just exporting goods — it’s exporting energy independence. From panels, EVs & batteries to full cleantech ecosystems, it’s overtaking the U.S. fossil model built on extraction—ashes to dust. The Petro Age is ending; the Electron Age has begun.⚡ #EnergyTransition #EV #Lithium #Solar

China's Cleantech Exports Overtake US Fossil Fuel Energy Dominance with Lasting Implications - CleanTechnica

Recent reports out of thinktank Ember on China’s record-breaking $20 Billion in August clean technology exports and the underlying data have stimulated discussion online. Electrek focused on the EV ex...

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Melanie Wildman 🇨🇦 @melaniewildman.bsky.social · 3d

Brilliant!

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 3d

I understand this. Please tell me you do, too.

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

Women have run this tiny Newfoundland town since 2013. They were just re-elected—with a near-perfect voter turnout. #Newfoundland #Labrador

www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nov...

Women have run this tiny Newfoundland town since 2013. They were just re-elected.

Residents of a small but busy community in eastern Newfoundland reelected its all-women council this week with a 99 per cent voter turnout.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Will Jones @willpjones.bsky.social · 3d

I guess I was naive to believe that right wing libertarians would actually object when jack-booted thugs showed up in American cities.

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Edge O. Erin @edgeoerin.com · 4d

🍁Gander Beta Release Preview!
Something very exciting:
News links are run through a bias and factuality checker for the news item & tells you where the publisher stands on the political spectrum & what type of fact-checking that they do.
Plus they will have boards!
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Gander Social: Highlights from Our First Release

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Melanie Wildman 🇨🇦 @melaniewildman.bsky.social · 4d

Calling for a consequence the US isnt even a signatory to… is a choice.

You might as well demand the Canadian Mounties launch an investigation while you are at it.

Melanie Wildman 🇨🇦 @melaniewildman.bsky.social · 4d

They are so lazy and arrogant they cannot even be arsed to provide the flimsiest of a cover-up.

Melanie Wildman 🇨🇦 @melaniewildman.bsky.social · 4d

“A bit misleading”

And this is a lonely example of any fact-checking at all.

American media bent the knee.

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Mike @mikeofthewest.bsky.social · 5d

Wow. @dougsaunders.bsky.social bluntly saying what needs to be said here. Gift link www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/5a1c29c...

United States may split into warring federal entities. Let’s side with the better one

Recent developments contain the seeds of a United States divided into two competing federalisms – and even a potential civil war

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Melanie Wildman 🇨🇦 @melaniewildman.bsky.social · 8d

Bloody awful. What a tragedy.

Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 9d

EA says it agreed a deal to be acquired by Saudi Arabia's PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners for $210/share at a ~$55B valuation, set to close in Q1 FY2027.

ir.ea.com/press-releas...

EA Announces Agreement to be Acquired by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners for $55 Billion

Accelerates EA’s Strategic Vision to Advance the Future of Entertainment Stockholders to Receive $210 Per Share in Cash Representing 25% Premium to Unaffected Share Price Transaction Represents Larges...

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Geoffrey P Johnston😎🇨🇦🇺🇦 @geoffypjohnston.bsky.social · 8d

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“Each year, September 30 marks the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

“The day honours the children who never returned home and Survivors of residential schools, as well as their families and communities.”🪶

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation - Canada.ca

The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation is observed September 30. The day honours First Nations, Inuit and Métis Survivors and their families and communities and ensures that public commemoratio...

www.canada.ca

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Melanie Wildman 🇨🇦 @melaniewildman.bsky.social · 8d

It's disgusting

Melanie Wildman 🇨🇦 @melaniewildman.bsky.social · 8d

Dear god…

Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 8d

Erasing history.

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 9d

🇵🇱🇪🇺 Europe must realize that it is already at war, — Tusk

The biggest and most important task of our leaders today is to make other people, the entire Western, transatlantic community, realize: this is a war. We did not want this, it is sometimes strange — a new type of war, but still a war.

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Melanie Wildman 🇨🇦 @melaniewildman.bsky.social · 9d

Excellent article:
“…recent provincial uses amount to little more than vicious attacks on minority rights”

Does invoking the clause somehow judicial review? It doesn’t.

And it shouldn’t.

Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 10d

From yesterday, my Toronto Star op-ed on the notwithstanding clause. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

When governments trample on our rights, the courts must be free to weigh in. Full stop

Invoking the so-called notwithstanding clause doesn't prevent judicial review, despite what some provincial leaders might say.

www.thestar.com

Melanie Wildman 🇨🇦 @melaniewildman.bsky.social · 9d

Maybe check browser preferences? It’s normal for me

Melanie Wildman 🇨🇦 @melaniewildman.bsky.social · 9d

Don’t worry! CBS will settle her case by writing a cheque to Trump for her trouble.

Melanie Wildman 🇨🇦 @melaniewildman.bsky.social · 9d

The push back from Welker is just pathetic.

No follow up questions, in the rare case she does - she simply accepts whatever nonsense is spewed at her and continues on to the next thing.

There is zero accountability.

Melanie Wildman 🇨🇦 @melaniewildman.bsky.social · 11d

Solidarité from Canada 🇨🇦 💪

You are not alone.

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Melanie Wildman 🇨🇦 @melaniewildman.bsky.social · 11d

Fair.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 11d

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 11d

Mornin, @thehill.com

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Melanie Wildman 🇨🇦 @melaniewildman.bsky.social · 11d

America, the land of the free.

Melanie Wildman 🇨🇦 @melaniewildman.bsky.social · 11d

Come visit! Canadians still love our sane Americans friends and neighbours.

Your mad king is hurting you far worse than us. And we stand in solidarity with you.

MAGA we don’t want. But decent Americans who hate what is happening? We are allies.

You are not alone.