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Comox Tips @comoxtips.bsky.social · 8h

When your regime posts AI videos of your dictator bombing peaceful protesters with literal shit, you have a very serious problem that is probably not going to be resolved through the normal democratic process.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America

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Comox Tips @comoxtips.bsky.social · 15h

We visit Sayward every summer. It’s a ghost town and declines more every year.
It should be booming. It’s only 45 minutes up from Campbell River, which is hopping. Great farmland. Great tourism opportunities. Cheap properties.
Shitty governance matters.

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Comox Tips @comoxtips.bsky.social · 15h

Seeing some Americans on here bitching about Kings in general cuz it’s #NoKings Day.
Please don’t confuse your dictator and the many successful and very democratic constitutional monarchies worldwide: Canada, Australia, NZ, UK, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, NL, Belgium, etc.
Notice a trend there?

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Comox Tips @comoxtips.bsky.social · 19h

That’s the great thing about we constitutional monarchies: our kings (and queens) are ceremonial figureheads with no real power.
So you can blame the banquet for your dictator on Prime Minister Starmer, who as Head of Government directs the Head of State to host shitty visitors.

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Comox Tips @comoxtips.bsky.social · 19h

I want solutions, not grievances. Poilievre and the CPC need to finally recognize that Canada is one of the best nations on the planet - a far better place to live than their dreamland, the USA. So offer ideas and not pointless anger or go away.

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Comox Tips @comoxtips.bsky.social · 1d

You fascist criminals need to be overthrown.

Comox Tips @comoxtips.bsky.social · 2d

But WHICH dysfunctional municipality?!

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Comox Tips @comoxtips.bsky.social · 2d

I’m no fan of RCMP leadership, but being defamed by a politician who explicitly supported the traitors who tried to overthrow our democracy is pretty rich.

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

Poilievre blasts ‘despicable’ RCMP leadership, accuses Mounties of covering up for Trudeau | CBC News

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre took aim at the RCMP’s independence in a recent interview, calling the national police force’s "despicable" leadership and accusing it of covering up for the Liber...

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Comox Tips @comoxtips.bsky.social · 2d

I was a military Public Affairs Officer here in Canada. The stories that really mattered and affected positive change always came from leaks, information requests and unofficial sources talking to journalists, never the pap we put out officially.
This step is very bad for your (former) democracy.

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Comox Tips @comoxtips.bsky.social · 2d

Let’s be clear.

If you think chemtrails are a thing, you are a complete and utter moron.

Any organization anywhere with any senior member espousing chemtrails is unfit to exist.

Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 2d

Now RFK Jr is gonna tackle chemtrails?

Of course he is.

How on brand.

How ridiculous.

It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a Chemtrail? New Conspiracy Theory Takes Wing at Kennedy’s HHS kffhealthnews.org/news/article... via @kff.org

A good example of how the absurd can morph into policy. Sigh.

It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a Chemtrail? New Conspiracy Theory Takes Wing at Kennedy's HHS - KFF Health News

The idea that airplane vapors are toxic to people or that there are ongoing efforts to intentionally change the climate made the social media rounds. Now, it has found advocates at the Department of H...

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Comox Tips @comoxtips.bsky.social · 3d

As a former military Public Affairs Officer who worked with a lot of journalists, I support this pushback.
The US DOD is now the tool of a dictatorship.

www.cbc.ca/news/world/p...

Pentagon reporters turn in their access badges rather than bend to new government rules | CBC News

Dozens of reporters turned in access badges and exited the Pentagon on Wednesday rather than agree to government-imposed restrictions on their work, pushing journalists who cover the American military...

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Comox Tips @comoxtips.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe we’re reading too much into this, but moderate centre-right BC Conservative MLA (and friend of Elenore Sturko) Brennan Day just changed his profile pic from him and John Rustad walking together to this.
🧐🤷‍♂️
@jenstden.bsky.social
@cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social
@rayneenovak.bsky.social

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Comox Tips @comoxtips.bsky.social · 4d

Every day and in every way, the National Post gets sleazier and sleazier.

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Comox Tips @comoxtips.bsky.social · 4d

It’s probably not a surprise to anyone that young Republicans in the USA are as physically, mentally, and emotionally ugly as they turned out to be in this article.
America is fucked.

🇨🇦Terry Bolger 🇨🇦 @terry-bolger.bsky.social · 4d

This is the MAGA playbook. The next generation is ready to take over. Is America great yet?

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Comox Tips @comoxtips.bsky.social · 4d

Even now, the City has laughably weak water restrictions in effect, and they’ve only recently initiated volumetric water metering.

They created this.

www.dawsoncreek.ca/news/posts/s...

Stage 3 Water Conservation Measures in Effect September 11

www.dawsoncreek.ca

Comox Tips @comoxtips.bsky.social · 4d

Lots of talk right now about the UCP government in Alberta funding private schools.

But here in BC our NDP government gives $$$ to private schools.

Wanna send your kids to private school? PAY YOUR OWN WAY.
No matter what province you live in.

www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/...

Grants to Independent Schools

Provides information on grants to independent schools

www2.gov.bc.ca

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Comox Tips @comoxtips.bsky.social · 4d

National Post opinion pieces are generally warmed-over bullshit.

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Comox Tips @comoxtips.bsky.social · 5d

Is there any Trump nonsense that PP won’t parrot?
What a fucking stooge.

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Comox Tips @comoxtips.bsky.social · 5d

I might not agree with a lot of Melloni’s politics, but I love her No Bullshit approach to bullshit. She always makes it extremely obvious what she’s thinking.

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Comox Tips @comoxtips.bsky.social · 5d

Like the article hints at, nobody should be elected mayor of anywhere until they’ve been a councillor.
I’ve seen a definite correlation between terrible mayors and mayors with no councillor experience.

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Comox Tips @comoxtips.bsky.social · 5d

Solar is the future.
This AB city’s choice is between a strategic investment with strong profit potential, or using their $78M energy profits nest egg to *subsidize future property tax bills* 😳
I have low expectations of today’s voters, everywhere, so suspect they will choose the latter.

🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 6d

Medicine Hat electorate to decide whether it wants to be a part of the future, or the past.
#ABsolar.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Medicine Hat election candidates split on major solar energy project | CBC News

The city-owned power company in Medicine Hat, Alta., is evaluating an initial $100-million phase of the Saamis Solar Park. Staff say it will lower costs and extend the economic life of the city's gas-...

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Comox Tips @comoxtips.bsky.social · 5d

I was really holding out for him dating the former leader of either Finland or Estonia.

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Comox Tips @comoxtips.bsky.social · 6d

Even better, apply to move to Canada.
We’re fast tracking medical staff.
My province would love to have you.

bchealthcareers.ca

Home - BCHealthCareers

Descriptive video transcript Video title: BC Health Careers, Work in British Columbia, Canada.[Describer] A series of nurses come onto the screen one after the other to say where they are from. [Nurse...

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Comox Tips @comoxtips.bsky.social · 6d

Nothing makes your organization sound legit faster than lots of nonsense hyperbole, UPPER CASE, and EXCLAMATION MARKS!

What a pack of nutters.

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Comox Tips @comoxtips.bsky.social · 6d

How long before some states try to leave the Union that is now a dictatorship?
Are we approaching Civil War 2.0, except this time the seceding states are the good guys?

CajunBlue 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 6d

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2

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