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Canuck Traveler🇨🇦 @nancyeaton.bsky.social · 1h

August 2025
Inflation Tracker

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Canuck Traveler🇨🇦 @nancyeaton.bsky.social · 1h

Minimum Wage Rates across World & USA

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Sustainable Trade Index

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Sustainable Trade Index

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Canuck Traveler🇨🇦 @nancyeaton.bsky.social · 1h

Countries with Most Millionaires

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Canuck Traveler🇨🇦 @nancyeaton.bsky.social · 16h

Explains alot

Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 16h

Protein Powders & Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

"...tests of 23 products found that more than two-thirds of them contain more lead in a single serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day"

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Canuck Traveler🇨🇦 @nancyeaton.bsky.social · 16h

Ford is a bully
Plain and simple

Melanie Nicole 🇨🇦 @melanienicole76.bsky.social · 17h

Zero days since Dougie ws an embarrassment. Ugh 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

National Newswatch @nationalnewswatch.com · 17h

Premier Doug Ford says he threatened to beat up Home Depot shoplifter nationalnewswatch.com/2025/10/14/p...

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Prairiesunshine @scottishox2.bsky.social · 17h

The United States continues to lose manufacturing jobs to countries that have embraced the reality of the #ClimateCrisis & fair trading

Europeans can't afford big gas-guzzlers when gasoline is $6.52/gal USD. Also distances are shorter so eV range isn't an issue.

Source: Reuters
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Exclusive: Spain the frontrunner for Chinese carmaker BYD's third European plant, sources say

China's No. 1 automaker BYD considers Spain to be its top candidate for a third car factory to serve the European market, two people briefed on the matter told Reuters, as the company seeks to grow sales on the continent.

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Cathy Crowe, C.M. 🍁 @cathycrowe.bsky.social · 17h

Who knew? #canada #baseball

Newspaper article with photo of a sign advertising Beachville, home of first baseball game in 1838.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 17h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 17h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Dr Tom Harris @drtomharris.bsky.social · 1d

Coral reefs have passed their tipping point and new evidence suggests the Amazon will not be far behind. 2024 saw more forest destroyed through wildfires than even deforestation, accelerating the degradation of this vital habitat.

doi.org/10.5194/bg-2...  
#climatechange #tippingpoint #amazon

Extensive fire-driven degradation in 2024 marks worst Amazon forest disturbance in over 2 decades

Abstract. The Amazon rainforest, historically fire-resistant, is experiencing an alarming increase in wildfires due to climate extremes and human activity. The 2023–2024 drought, surpassing previous r...

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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 19h

RCMP training is six months. CBSA officer training is 14 weeks. It will take time and budget allocations to scale both up to hire a thousand officers each.
But tell me again that it's a failure and a broken promise that it didn't happen over the summer.
Can everybody just grow the fuck up already?

@PierrePoilievre
Prime Minister Carney’s Public Safety minister is responsible for the Canadian Border.

He promised to hire 1,000 new border guards, but hasn’t gotten it done, so illegal weapons and drugs keep flooding into our country.

Fire Gary Anandasangaree and bring in strong laws that stop crime and secure our border:

Quoting @hollyanndoan
.@Safety_Canada Minister @gary_srp confirms cabinet has yet to fulfill April election promise to hire more police and border guards. “I’m not responsible for the hiring,” Gary Anandasangaree told Commons committee.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18h

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 22h

Yes, we indeed have a serious problem.

A tweet by Robert Reich reads:
“The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.”

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Jake @my2bits4u.bsky.social · 18h

Just spoke to a lifelong friend in Canada, who is selling their winter home in America and refuses to spend another dollar here as it would be supporting terrorism. She views our government as a terrorist organization and refuses to buy any American products of any sort.

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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 17h

No, I’m sorry. I can’t do another round of “No, the Nazis weren’t socialists.” You’re just going to have to read a book or Wikipedia article or ask your AI butler to explain it to you or wait for the sun to burn out.

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Other Jane @other-jane.bsky.social · 16h

I can relate. Neil leaves Spotify, goes back, now leaving Amazon. I’ve done this kind of thing so many times. Boycotted subscriptions or services, gone back. It’s nearly impossible to live up to your own values in this corrupt world. But it’s important to keep trying. Thanks for the inspiration.

Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 22h

‘Buy local’: Neil Young says he will remove his music from Amazon’s streaming service

www.ctvnews.ca/winnipeg/art...

‘Buy local’: Neil Young says he will remove his music from Amazon’s streaming service

Neil Young says he plans to pull his music off Amazon’s streaming service as he urges fans to stop supporting the corporate giant.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Canuck Traveler🇨🇦 @nancyeaton.bsky.social · 16h

Buy Canadian

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17h

First there was the Opium Wars. Now we have the Cooking Oil War.

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Canuck Traveler🇨🇦 @nancyeaton.bsky.social · 16h

Rare Earth Reserves

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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 5d

Or, hear me out, the provinces need to step up and do their fucking jobs and fund their own services properly. They are not helpless. They can raise their own revenues.

The Hill Times @hilltimes.com · 5d

Canadians could be facing a “perfect storm” in mental health challenges due to insufficient supports and a trend of growing economic stressors—which will need to be addressed through greater federal funding.

www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

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Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · Mar 13

www.mediaite.com/opinion/trum...

Trump’s Bizarre 51st State Obsession is Starting to Look Like Evidence of Cognitive Decline

Trump's bizarre obsession with insisting that Canada become the "51st State" has pivoted from trollish trash talk to something in which he seems to believe.

www.mediaite.com

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

"More Than 200 Bodies Dug Out of the Gaza Rubble Since Ceasefire Went Into Effect"

More Than 200 Bodies Dug Out of the Gaza Rubble Since Ceasefire Went Into Effect - News From Antiwar.com

Rescue workers in Gaza have recovered more than 200 bodies of Palestinians killed by the IDF from the rubble and from areas they were previously unable to access since the ceasefire went into effect o...

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Canuck Traveler🇨🇦 @nancyeaton.bsky.social · 1d

World's Biggest Exporters

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Eugenia E @sisupower.bsky.social · 4d

@mark-carney.bsky.social So great to hear the news that Canadians with low income will be able to have their taxes filed automatically. This will help some who struggle to follow through on this commitment due to medical and mental health challenges.

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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 4d

For the Friday crowd, my @xtramagazine.com column: The premiers violating your Charter rights don't want the courts to weigh in #canqueer #cdnpoli

The premiers violating your Charter rights don’t want the courts to weigh in | Xtra Magazine

When it comes to the Notwithstanding Clause, premiers opposed to the federal government’s factum are showing their true colours

xtramagazine.com

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