Veronica Chips
@veronicachips.bsky.social
Vive le Canada. Anti-annexationist, arbitrator to small children, self-employed wordsmith, nerd
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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Creative writing will not bring you money, fame, happiness, or validation. Generally it brings you nothing! Be prepared to bring everything of yourself and receive absolutely nothing!
May 23, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Creative writing will not bring you money, fame, happiness, or validation. Generally it brings you nothing! Be prepared to bring everything of yourself and receive absolutely nothing!
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Poilievre losing his seat is almost Shakespearean: Pretender to the throne riles countrymen with anger, gets defeated by guy with Joy in his name. It’s basically Macbeth.
April 29, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Poilievre losing his seat is almost Shakespearean: Pretender to the throne riles countrymen with anger, gets defeated by guy with Joy in his name. It’s basically Macbeth.
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congrats to canada but also it seems a little unfair that you guys won’t ever elect an evil fascist demagogue to shock US into voting for a liberal
April 29, 2025 at 2:23 AM
congrats to canada but also it seems a little unfair that you guys won’t ever elect an evil fascist demagogue to shock US into voting for a liberal
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The last time the Liberals and Conservatives both got over 40% of the popular vote in an election was 1930.
April 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The last time the Liberals and Conservatives both got over 40% of the popular vote in an election was 1930.
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Good luck to all the candidates running in the Canadian federal election today, except for some of you who are annoying. You know who you are.
April 28, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Good luck to all the candidates running in the Canadian federal election today, except for some of you who are annoying. You know who you are.
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Seems appropriate for today. Thank you, Wendy Cope.
April 25, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Seems appropriate for today. Thank you, Wendy Cope.
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So here’s the thing. I have known Ezra since he was in high school. I have watched the entire trajectory of his career, from his days as @naheednenshi.bsky.social’s literal debate partner, his time at law school, his shift to journalism. And yes, there was a time when he was a journalist. Of sorts.
April 18, 2025 at 5:07 PM
So here’s the thing. I have known Ezra since he was in high school. I have watched the entire trajectory of his career, from his days as @naheednenshi.bsky.social’s literal debate partner, his time at law school, his shift to journalism. And yes, there was a time when he was a journalist. Of sorts.
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1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.
April 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.
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How do you even do the paperwork on tariffs that change so drastically, so often? Has anyone written about this?
Would definitely read a feature story on the folks who have to administer these import taxes.
Would definitely read a feature story on the folks who have to administer these import taxes.
April 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
How do you even do the paperwork on tariffs that change so drastically, so often? Has anyone written about this?
Would definitely read a feature story on the folks who have to administer these import taxes.
Would definitely read a feature story on the folks who have to administer these import taxes.
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There's been lots of talk lately about the "lost decade" in Canada under the Liberal government. It revolves around this chart:
Let's dig into it with a quick thread. 🧵
Let's dig into it with a quick thread. 🧵
April 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
There's been lots of talk lately about the "lost decade" in Canada under the Liberal government. It revolves around this chart:
Let's dig into it with a quick thread. 🧵
Let's dig into it with a quick thread. 🧵
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Hey look at me I've been here for years and I still have zero books out. You can just be a writer! No qualifications! No clue what you're doing! Just making things and telling other people about it all day who barely care! That's all I do!
April 8, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Hey look at me I've been here for years and I still have zero books out. You can just be a writer! No qualifications! No clue what you're doing! Just making things and telling other people about it all day who barely care! That's all I do!
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From the great David Brooks of The New York Times, in the May volume of The Atlantic. Everyone should read every word of this historic piece. It's worth the price of a subscription to The Atlantic, without question the most courageous magazine in America today.
April 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
From the great David Brooks of The New York Times, in the May volume of The Atlantic. Everyone should read every word of this historic piece. It's worth the price of a subscription to The Atlantic, without question the most courageous magazine in America today.
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Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me
April 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me
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I really hope the American dream is to work all your life and then have your investments wiped out over the course of a week in order to tariff some penguins
Because if it's not
Because if it's not
April 7, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I really hope the American dream is to work all your life and then have your investments wiped out over the course of a week in order to tariff some penguins
Because if it's not
Because if it's not
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New from me. On an emerging divergence between the way Carney and Poilievre talk about Canada's relationship with the United States.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
ANALYSIS | A new ballot question: How should Canada define its relationship with the U.S.? | CBC News
There is some general agreement that Canada must act urgently in response to what is happening in the United States. But Mark Carney’s recent statements point to what might be a split in the way the L...
www.cbc.ca
April 4, 2025 at 6:52 PM
New from me. On an emerging divergence between the way Carney and Poilievre talk about Canada's relationship with the United States.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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I can't decide what is more absurd about Trump's tariffs. Is it him fighting the entire world? Or using AI to develop the formula? Or is it tariffing an island of Penguins? It would be absolute satire if it was not so serious. VEEP was not supposed to be a documentary
April 3, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I can't decide what is more absurd about Trump's tariffs. Is it him fighting the entire world? Or using AI to develop the formula? Or is it tariffing an island of Penguins? It would be absolute satire if it was not so serious. VEEP was not supposed to be a documentary
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The latest 🇨🇦 federal polls in ALBERTA: 338canada.com/polls-ab.htm
🔵CPC +15, Ipsos
🔵CPC +19, EKOS
🔵CPC +19, Liaison
🔵CPC +25, Angus Reid
🔵CPC +25, Léger
🔵CPC +26, Pollara
🔵CPC +36, Abacus Data
🔵CPC +45, Pallas Data
🔵CPC +47, Innovative
🔵CPC +15, Ipsos
🔵CPC +19, EKOS
🔵CPC +19, Liaison
🔵CPC +25, Angus Reid
🔵CPC +25, Léger
🔵CPC +26, Pollara
🔵CPC +36, Abacus Data
🔵CPC +45, Pallas Data
🔵CPC +47, Innovative
April 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
The latest 🇨🇦 federal polls in ALBERTA: 338canada.com/polls-ab.htm
🔵CPC +15, Ipsos
🔵CPC +19, EKOS
🔵CPC +19, Liaison
🔵CPC +25, Angus Reid
🔵CPC +25, Léger
🔵CPC +26, Pollara
🔵CPC +36, Abacus Data
🔵CPC +45, Pallas Data
🔵CPC +47, Innovative
🔵CPC +15, Ipsos
🔵CPC +19, EKOS
🔵CPC +19, Liaison
🔵CPC +25, Angus Reid
🔵CPC +25, Léger
🔵CPC +26, Pollara
🔵CPC +36, Abacus Data
🔵CPC +45, Pallas Data
🔵CPC +47, Innovative
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🚨BREAKING: Prime Minister Larry to give a speech tomorrow morning on whether the Heard and McDonald island penguins will begin formally preparing for war with the United States after Trump’s unprovoked ‘economic attacks’ against the peaceful penguin nations 😂😅
#canada #europe #usa #tariffs #tradewar
#canada #europe #usa #tariffs #tradewar
April 3, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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the worker’s president who understands the concerns of the common man
Trump: "An old fashioned term that we use -- groceries. I used it on the campaign. It's such an old fashioned term, but a beautiful term. Groceries. It says a bag with different things in it."
April 2, 2025 at 10:02 PM
the worker’s president who understands the concerns of the common man
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This was….five months ago
April 2, 2025 at 11:49 PM
This was….five months ago
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Except steel, aluminum, the auto sector and who on earth knows what is lurking one whim away.
CNN: 10% baseline tariffs on all goods from all countries
EXCEPT "those compliant with the USMCA free trade agreement"
So Canada may have dodged a very large bullet on many of its exports
EXCEPT "those compliant with the USMCA free trade agreement"
So Canada may have dodged a very large bullet on many of its exports
April 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Except steel, aluminum, the auto sector and who on earth knows what is lurking one whim away.
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Not content to hand federal Liberals a victory, Alberta's Reform Party alumni seem determined to hand one to the Alberta NDP as well.
This is a gift for Nenshi.
This is a gift for Nenshi.
Preston Manning says Western Canadian political leaders should pursue secession if the Liberals form government after this election.
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: Mark Carney poses a threat to national unity
If he remains prime minister after this election, there is a very real possibility that Western Canada will move to secede
www.theglobeandmail.com
April 2, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Not content to hand federal Liberals a victory, Alberta's Reform Party alumni seem determined to hand one to the Alberta NDP as well.
This is a gift for Nenshi.
This is a gift for Nenshi.
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The worst people in the world are like "They must be getting paid to hate me" when in reality everyone is happy to hate them for free
March 31, 2025 at 12:21 AM
The worst people in the world are like "They must be getting paid to hate me" when in reality everyone is happy to hate them for free
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Stacy Schiff is a best-selling, award-winning American historian & biographer. In Edmonton, we also know her as the wife of property developer & philanthropist Marc de La Bruyère of Maclab Developments. Here’s her cross border take on the history of American aggression against Canada.
March 30, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Stacy Schiff is a best-selling, award-winning American historian & biographer. In Edmonton, we also know her as the wife of property developer & philanthropist Marc de La Bruyère of Maclab Developments. Here’s her cross border take on the history of American aggression against Canada.