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Kai, a very old GenX 🇨🇦

@kaicable.bsky.social

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The civic commons has devolved due to capture by a powerful few leading to over heated rhetoric (don't push my buttons). Trying to learn from and share informative posts. Renovating my very old house in Hampton, NB. Books. Music. Art.

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Kai, a very old GenX 🇨🇦 @kaicable.bsky.social · Jan 22

I curate two Flipboards with content about both provinces as well as focusing on creativity, current social issues and livability.

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Beautiful British Columbia | @KaiCable | Flipboard

Content about Greater #Vancouver and #BritishColumbia focusing on creativity, current social issues and livability.

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Charlie Richmond (Gyro Gearloose) 311.3ppm @charlierichmond.bsky.social · 4h

Solar is the world’s cheapest source of electricity, research shows - PV Tech www.pv-tech.org/solar-is-the...

Solar is the world’s cheapest source of electricity, research shows

Solar PV is the world’s cheapest technology to generate electricity, according to a study from the University of Surrey, in the UK.

www.pv-tech.org

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 1d

Did you know the first thanksgiving celebrated by Europeans in North America happened in Canada?
Or that the Indigenous celebrated autumn harvests long before Europeans arrived?
Why do we celebrate Thanksgiving a month earlier than the United States?
This is the story.

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A festive Thanksgiving dinner table featuring a roasted turkey as the centerpiece, surrounded by an array of dishes including green beans, stuffing, sliced ham, and a pumpkin pie. The table is decorated with pumpkins, sunflowers, candles, and autumnal flowers, with wine glasses and plates set for a meal.

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 20h

Canada has a long history of being surprisingly provincial. However, relinquishing digital sovereignty without a fight represents a strategic misstep in the broader project of nation-building, as technological autonomy increasingly shapes economic security, cultural identity, & political legitimacy.

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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 8h

To continue allowing economic ties with Israeli settlements is to be complicit in an illegal occupation. It sends a message that international law is optional, and that Canada is willing to look the other way.

Canada’s legal duty to end trade with Israeli settlements

Canada must act. This means enacting an immediate ban on the import of goods from illegal settlements, in line with Ireland’s example, and working toward a broader policy that rejects economic support...

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David Hamer @davidhamer1951.bsky.social · 12h

Remember when economics genius and petulant piffleswipe Pierre Poilievre was telling his gullible followers to buy crypto as a hedge against inflation?
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Crypto’s record selloff sparks intrigue over who got wiped out

A record $19 billion in bets evaporated and crypto prices tumbled, due in large part to newly severe China tariffs announced by U.S. President Donald Trump.

www.thestar.com

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Gord Jorkins @nothinkyjustvibey.bsky.social · 8h

Did Loblaws write this?

The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 11h

Public grocery stores won’t satisfy the hunger for lower food prices

Mamdani’s fix is a distraction that won’t solve the serious issue of grocery affordability

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Kai, a very old GenX 🇨🇦 @kaicable.bsky.social · 8h

Americans think they are innocent.

Sue Gowans @sueinnovates.bsky.social · 9h

Boycotts by every day Canadians continue to make an economic difference for US Distilleries, US golf courses, US ferries.

Good (and it's unlikely to resolve any time soon).
www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/b...

Canada’s boycott America movement is hurting innocent bystanders | CNN Business

Virginia Distillery CEO Gareth Moore was bullish on his company’s American single malt whisky sales north of the border when 2025 kicked off.

www.cnn.com

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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 17h

"Alberta, and Canada, should be well ahead in the geothermal race," she said. "We have the technology and the talent. We just need to get drilling."
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/09/a...

Can new tech finally wake Canada’s sleeping geothermal giant?

Canada’s geothermal resources could meet the nation’s power demand “one million times over”, but not a single commercial well has been drilled. That’s about to change as new technologies bolster the b...

www.nationalobserver.com

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Pope to journalists: “…it is worth remembering Hannah Arendt’s warning that ‘the ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.’”

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Pete Quily @pqpolitics.bsky.social · 16h

“The first tipping of widespread dieback of warm water coral reefs is already under way.”

Already impacting hundreds of millions of people who depend on reefs

Report points to reefs in the Caribbean, where marine heatwaves, low diversity and disease outbreaks have pushed reefs “towards collapse”.

Pete Quily @pqpolitics.bsky.social · 16h

The world’s coral reefs are home to about a quarter of all marine species but are considered one of the most vulnerable systems to global heating.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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BradinBC🇨🇦 @bradinbc.bsky.social · 16h

As a former journalist, I couldn’t agree more. As a Canadian, as polite as we are, there comes a time when diplomacy isn’t an option. The truth is, the U.S. is no longer our ally, let alone our friend. We have to acknowledge and be thankful for what we have and defend that. Elbows way up! 🇨🇦💪

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow embodied what a journalist should be: someone who holds power to account instead of capitulating to it.

Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 7d

Two of the most common climate misconceptions I see, even among knowledgeable folks, are that (1) most people aren't worried about climate change, and (2) if they were, they'd act.

Not true! Data show (1) most people are worried, but (2) they won’t act if they don’t know what to do-and most don’t.

A map of the world showing how levels of worry in most countries are greater than 70%. Source: Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, International Public Opinion on Climate Change, 2023.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

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Pete Quily @pqpolitics.bsky.social · 15h

Purge - eliminating those deemed not to be aligned with Trump.

Merge - combine different components into a single omniforce.

Surge - impose Trump’s control over Democratic cities; instigate enough unrest to justify escalation; find examples to brutalize and tamp down any dissent.
#ICE

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Kumiko @kumiko-ide.bsky.social · 15h

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Louis-Eddy 🇨🇦 @jledrc53.bsky.social · 12h

Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew is asking PM Carney to scrap Canada's 100% tariff on Chinese electric vehicles in return for China lifting its tariffs on Canadian canola and pork. 🇨🇦

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Chinese EV tariffs created '2-front trade war' hurting Prairie canola, pork producers: Kinew | CBC News

Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew is asking the prime minister to scrap Canada's 100 per cent tariff on Chinese electric vehicles in return for China lifting its tariffs on Canadian canola and pork.

www.cbc.ca

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UK Defence Journal @ukdefencejournal.org.uk · 12h

Denmark will acquire 16 additional F-35 Lightning II fighter jets, bringing its total fleet to 43 aircraft, according to the Danish Ministry of Defence.
ukdefencejournal.org.uk/denmark-to-b...

Denmark to buy 16 more F-35 stealth jets

Denmark will acquire 16 additional F-35 Lightning II fighter jets, bringing its total fleet to 43 aircraft, according to the Danish Ministry of Defence.

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Marc 🍁 @marc55.bsky.social · 12h

Greed.

Doesn't he realize his grandkids will inherit this mess?
His greed is far more important than his grandkids future though.

This is a sickness. Human sickness.
We really need to address.
Or we all die together.

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 12h

Exxon Mobil CEO Darren Woods renewed criticism of key European Union climate and human rights legislation.

Exxon Says EU Business Retreating, Trump Approach ‘Balanced’

Exxon Mobil Corp. Chief Executive Officer Darren Woods renewed criticism of key European Union climate and human rights legislation and contrasted the continent’s energy strategy with the “balanced” conversation being led by US President Donald Trump’s administration.

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Kai, a very old GenX 🇨🇦 @kaicable.bsky.social · 12h

China has mistakenly thought the European Union could play a greater and more independent role in world affairs, not necessarily to tilt towards Beijing but to stop being a lapdog to Washington

Canada is also still the lapdog of Trump - no thanks to Carney.

#cdnpoli #canada
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My Take | The times of giants are gone and a new ‘century of humiliation’ awaits Europe

China has mistakenly thought the European Union could play a greater and more independent role in world affairs, not necessarily to tilt towards Beijing but to stop being a lapdog to Washington.

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Kai, a very old GenX 🇨🇦 @kaicable.bsky.social · 1d

Private schools are welfare bums.

As businesses they should sink or swim in the marketplace.

No tax dollars for kids of the elite.

#cdnpoli #canada #education

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Kai, a very old GenX 🇨🇦 @kaicable.bsky.social · 1d

Private schools are welfare bums.

As businesses they should sink or swim in the marketplace.

No tax dollars for kids of the elite.

#cdnpoli #canada #education

Deirdre Mitchell-MacLean @mitchellab.bsky.social · 1d

"I think it's wrong to have the highest rate of funding for private schools in a province where we have the lowest rate of funding for public schools," the Calgary teacher said in an interview on Tuesday.
I agree.
#ableg #abpoli

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Alberta teacher prompts petition on province's private school funding | CBC News

If high school chemistry teacher Alicia Taylor gets her wish, Albertans will vote in a referendum on whether to end public funding for independent schools.

www.cbc.ca

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Jorj, Interim DEITY🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦💪🏽 @just-jorj.bsky.social · 1d

Ronnie and the whole Trickle Down Triad set the foundation for today’s mess decades ago.
One thought for Project 2028 might be to restore 1970s taxation philosophy.

The Trickle Down Triad that destroyed the world.
Reagan
Thatcher
Mulroney

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Kai, a very old GenX 🇨🇦 @kaicable.bsky.social · 1d

“Good leaders combine personal humility, self-knowledge and the ability to learn,” Carney wrote in Values. “That means admitting mistakes, seeking and accepting feedback and sharing the lessons. When leaders become overconfident they stop learning.”

Canada will judge.

#cdnpoli
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Mark Carney Is a Very Demanding Boss - Macleans.ca

His elbows-up enthusiasm won him the election. Now he’s governing like a Bay Street exec.

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Kai, a very old GenX 🇨🇦 @kaicable.bsky.social · 1d

Canada should be preparing Canadians for civil defence - the same as Nordic countries next to Russia do.

#cdnpoli #canada
#boycottusa #fascistusa #racistusa
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Shifting global picture disrupted Canada's national security strategy update: memo

Efforts to revise Canada's national security strategy hit a snag when it became clear that many of the assumptions underlying the work were "no longer valid."

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Kai, a very old GenX 🇨🇦 @kaicable.bsky.social · 1d

I think we can do better than that - how about EV manufacturing in Canada...

...come on Carney, think progressive and not regressive.

#cdnpoli #canada #green #energy #climate
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China will remove canola tariffs if Canada scraps EV levies: ambassador

China will remove its tariffs on Canadian agriculture — including on canola products — if Canada scraps its levies on Chinese electric vehicles, that country’s ambassador says.

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