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Mickey Djuric @mickeydjuric.bsky.social · 41m

Statement from the president of the Parliamentary Press Gallery, on Prime Minister Mark Carney’s trip to Egypt:

“It is unprecedented that Canadian media be entirely excluded from a Canadian prime minister’s foreign trip.”

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 2h

This is going to be what pops the AI bubble and sends the stock market into a tailspin, isn’t it?

404 Media @404media.co · 3h

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced in a post on X Tuesday that ChatGPT is officially getting into the fuckable chatbots game, with “erotica for verified adults” rolling out in December.

🔗 www.404media.co/chatgpt-erot...

ChatGPT’s Hail Mary: Chatbots You Can Fuck

As recent reports show OpenAI bleeding cash, and on the heels of accusations that ChatGPT caused teens and adults alike to harm themselves and others, CEO Sam Altman announced that you can soon fuck t...

www.404media.co

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💀 🎃 ThemBOO! 🎃 💀 @thembo.bsky.social · 1d

Conservatives love to pine away for picturesque "real America," and then without fail show pictures of some sleepy New England university town that's voted D+60 for 75 years

Twitter screenshot
"American conservati...
@acc_national

America isn't an idea. It's home."

Attached are four daytime photos of picturesque rural scenes in the fall.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 1d

Right, which is why the business is at fault rather than the mother, since she asked where to change the diaper given they have no changing tables and the server told her to use a table in an empty dining room

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 1d

The server told her to use the table and the restaurant was empty because it was the summer and everyone was on the patio

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 1d

In retrospect, the dumbest thing about that story is how local business owner dude got into an argument with a customer when it was his own staff who told her to do it

It’s ultimately his fault for not having any policy or instructing staff on what to tell customers who need to change diapers

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 1d

Historical footnote not mentioned in this story:

This is the same place whose owner once kicked a mother out for changing a baby’s diaper inside the empty restaurant (with permission from a server) and suggested she should have changed the diaper outside on the grass or in an adjacent park

Pouliotte said she asked if she could use a dining table instead and that the waitress said yes.

Pouliotte said she used one of the tables inside because all the restaurant's customers were eating on an outside deck and no one was inside.

'We grabbed our things and walked out'

"I would never have changed her in front of anyone's view," she told CBC News this week.

When she was finished the owner walked up and asked her how she dared to change her baby inside a restaurant, she said.

Owner says he was shocked

The owner of Kelly's Landing, Dan Dunbar, did not agree to a taped interview with CBC News but said he was shocked to see Pouliotte changing her baby on a dining table.

She could have done it on the grass or a park bench beside his restaurant, he said.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 1d

Cool how Meta bans news publishers on Facebook, yet allows this gibberish to remain:

News Now: Florida just became rhetorical first state to ban weather modification and geoengineering flights at all state airports”

“News Now by the Epoch Times is your real-time source for breaking news. Delivered with honesty and integrity, in respect for the values and wisdom that sustain a free society”

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 2d

Happy October statutory holiday to those who celebrate

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 3d

Meanwhile on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter dot com...

@Tardwrangler007:

"fuck commies at press progressing. Remove commies from society. Put communists at press progress in forced labour camps. Sterilize everyone at press progress."

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Eric Wickham @ericwickham.ca · 3d

A Pickering councillor has been suspended without pay seven times. I went through the integrity commissioner reports each time she was suspended.

Here's what I found:

PressProgress @pressprogress.ca · 3d

This city councillor in Pickering, Ontario has now been suspended seven times. Here are the reasons why:

Lisa Robinson has a history of disruptive behaviour and associating with far-right media personalities

This City Councillor in Pickering, Ontario Has Now Been Suspended Seven Times. Here Are the Reasons Why.

Pickering city councillor Lisa Robinson has a history of disruptive behaviour and associating with far-right media personalities

pressprogress.ca

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PressProgress @pressprogress.ca · 3d

This city councillor in Pickering, Ontario has now been suspended seven times. Here are the reasons why:

Lisa Robinson has a history of disruptive behaviour and associating with far-right media personalities

This City Councillor in Pickering, Ontario Has Now Been Suspended Seven Times. Here Are the Reasons Why.

Pickering city councillor Lisa Robinson has a history of disruptive behaviour and associating with far-right media personalities

pressprogress.ca

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 3d

People are surely upset about the war against thanksgiving

Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 4d

Walked into a Canadian Tire and no longer know what holiday season we’re celebrating anymore

Grim Reaper plays heavy metal guitar next to a display of Christmas trees

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Super Nintendo Chalmers @snchalmers.bsky.social · 4d

Obviously Canadian thanksgiving

Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 4d

Walked into a Canadian Tire and no longer know what holiday season we’re celebrating anymore

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Eric Wickham @ericwickham.ca · 4d

This is what the woke left wants to turn Christmas into

Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 4d

Walked into a Canadian Tire and no longer know what holiday season we’re celebrating anymore

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 4d

Walked into a Canadian Tire and no longer know what holiday season we’re celebrating anymore

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 4d

Oh

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Melania Trump: "President Putin and I have had an open channel of communication."

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 5d

The fight about the BC ostrich farm is not really about the ostriches. It’s about far more important things than that. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

Bruce Arthur: The B.C. ostrich affair is not about the birds

This isn’t really about the ostriches, but rather it's about basic biosecurity in the age of viruses, and whether a government can make and enforce laws and policy.

www.thestar.com

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 4d

Ben Mulroney, on ”privilege“

Ben Mulroney: "If you have time in your day to complain about a Harry Potter themed event in a public park, you are the definition of 'privileged' in 2025"

Ben Mulroney: "Didn't you hear: I'm a member of the 'super elite' privileged class. I fail upwards in spectacular fashion"

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 4d

So, BC Conservative MLAs submitted to a random fishing expedition:

“Rustad said on Thursday the phones were searched by other members to ‘make sure that there was nothing that had gone out that was inappropriate’.

The search didn't reveal anything that concerned Rustad…"

National Newswatch @nationalnewswatch.com · 5d

B.C. Conservative Leader Rustad confirms search of MLA phones to find leak nationalnewswatch.com/2025/10/09/b...

B.C. Conservative Leader Rustad confirms search of MLA phones to find…

National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.

nationalnewswatch.com

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 5d

Comedy is now legal on Bluesky

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 5d

Pleased to announce I’ve completed the comeback and survived an attempted ratioing last night

Luke LeBrun: "Here’s how to file a complaint with the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council about profane language during a TV broadcast:

https://www.cbsc.ca/make-a-complaint/"

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 5d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 6d

This is disgusting behaviour from Carney towards Karina Gould.

And frankly, coupled with the “boys club” stuff sources have previously told me and the way he tended to lose patience more quickly with female journalists during the campaign…he may need to “look inside himself.”

MACLEAN'S excerpt:

The attacks were genteel compared to most political mud-slinging, and Liberals warmed to her during the campaign. They embraced her as both a cherished member of the
Liberal family and, increasingly, the standard bearer for its left flank. But her needling got under Carney's skin, even though he was the front-runner (she ultimately received only three per cent of the vote). He and his staff made their irritation plain; one member of Gould's team told me that many of them were aggressive in their vitriol toward her.

MACLEAN'S excerpt continued:

“When someone from Gould's team texted to ask if she could stop by and congratulate the winner, Carney said no. In fact, according to one source I spoke with, he said he didn't ever want to see her again. Carney's staff sent Gould a non-committal answer, trying not to offend her, but she showed up anyway. That led to a brief, awkward meeting with Carney.
The incident rattled some of the people around the newly elected leader. Many had worked under Justin Trudeau, who, after a lifetime in politics, had skin like a crocodile.
Carney, after years of being celebrated, venerated and treated with the deference accorded to a titan of the financial world, seems to have a skin like a peach.”

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