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Dr. Bast 🇨🇦 @bastsbest.bsky.social · 13h

Was she also on a Signal chat? An OpSec doubleheader, if so.

Dr. Bast 🇨🇦 @bastsbest.bsky.social · 14h

Everybody! NFLD and Labrador are having an election and the results are happening on CBC News. It's a great peek into the culture of the area...interviews are great as are the locales...

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Dr. Bast 🇨🇦 @bastsbest.bsky.social · 16h

Watching this tonight. Buying more kleenex.

Loved this grand man.

ivory1.bsky.social @ivory1.bsky.social · 16h

Opening montage of the documentary, I Like Me, set to Dan Aykroyd's eulogy at John Candy's funeral.

Credit: TheStingisBack

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Dr. Bast 🇨🇦 @bastsbest.bsky.social · 17h

Kind of like Canada's Prime Minster, you mean?

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 17h

Thou sayest the King grows mad, I’ll tell thee, friend,
I am almost mad myself.

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Dr. Bast 🇨🇦 @bastsbest.bsky.social · 17h

Americans, this is who we are now...

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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Dr. Bast 🇨🇦 @bastsbest.bsky.social · 17h

Get out there and DO IT, Alberta! I have.

Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @lukaszukab.bsky.social · 21h

TODAY, there are 110 #ForeverCanadian signature collection locations across Alberta. Certainly, there is one not too far from you.

Please, take a moment to sign this important petition. We need your signature to reach our goal to keep Alberta in Canada.🇨🇦
www.forever-canadian.ca/sign-the-pet...

Forever Canadian Official Campaign Website

Forever Canadian campaign is a grassroots coalition of Canadians aimed at reinforcing Canadian unity. It is a proactive vehicle to secure Alberta's continued place in Canada.

www.forever-canadian.ca

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Dr. Bast 🇨🇦 @bastsbest.bsky.social · 17h

Yup - their interim leader was Scheer. Tells you all you need to know. Their bench is weak.

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Dr. Bast 🇨🇦 @bastsbest.bsky.social · 18h

Correct.

Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 21h

Prime Minister Mark Carney seen as calm and rational; Pierre Poilievre as arrogant and hot-tempered #Canada

cultmtl.com/2025/10/mark...

Mark Carney seen as calm and rational; Pierre Poilievre as arrogant and hot-tempered

A new study by Spark Insights has found that Mark Carney is seen as the more calm and rational leader, while Pierre Poilievre is seen as more arrogant and hot-tempered.

cultmtl.com

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Dr. Bast 🇨🇦 @bastsbest.bsky.social · 18h

The British are so stupifyingly bad at insulation, it's crazy.

Jules Birch @julesbirch.bsky.social · 1d

Hard to be surprised by anything that involves builders and cladding but what a fiasco: 98% of homes fitted with external wall insulation under govt schemes have major issues requiring remediation

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Almost all external insulation fitted under Tory scheme needs repair or replacing, report finds

Homeowners who took advantage of government programmes left with cladding likely to cause damp

www.theguardian.com

Dr. Bast 🇨🇦 @bastsbest.bsky.social · 18h

Finally found a Bridge Too Far, eh Petey?

DJ "Jo" NoneYa 🟧 @djnoneya.bsky.social · 1d

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US news outlets refuse to sign new Pentagon rules to report only official information

Defense department policy requires outlets to vow not to obtain unauthorized files and restricts access to some areas

www.theguardian.com

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Dr. Bast 🇨🇦 @bastsbest.bsky.social · 18h

Hey USA...

Meanwhile, up here in Canada...

THIS is our news.

Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 1d

Q&A: Meet the Komoka man who grows giant vegetables for fun
Patrick Watson is the president of the Giant Vegetable Growers of #Ontario

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

Q&A: Meet the Komoka man who grows giant vegetables for fun | CBC News

It's harvest time, and for some growers, those fall-favourite vegetables are coming off the vine extra large.

www.cbc.ca

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Dr. Bast 🇨🇦 @bastsbest.bsky.social · 18h

Of course we are - our parents hid them so that we had something to do between when we came home from school and they came home from work.

The Latchkey Treasure Hunt.

Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 1d

I will thank you to leave me and my goddamn snacks alone

PR email with subject line: “New Research: Gen X Women More Addicted to Snacks”

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Dr. Bast 🇨🇦 @bastsbest.bsky.social · 19h

She was booking them for a Project 2027...

Bethankit Hums @tangibullah.bsky.social · 19h

Nothing to see here folks! Just a Canadian premier meeting with America's MAGA underbelly.

The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 23h

The think tank is widely known for creating Project 2025.

And this isn’t the first meeting Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has had with allies of the U.S. president.

David Falk writes. A @desmog.com Canada reprint. #canpoli

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Dr. Bast 🇨🇦 @bastsbest.bsky.social · 19h

Confession time:

I have already had my first carton of eggnog.

Don't at me. I love that stuff...

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Dr. Bast 🇨🇦 @bastsbest.bsky.social · 19h

Took it down. But man...AI is REALLY good now.

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 21h

From the DM’s…

Looks like multiple complaints have been launched regarding Dani’s “Manufacturing Consent on the Taxpayers Dime Tour”

Sorry…

That’s the “Alberta Next” panel.

Potato, poh-tah-toe

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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Dr. Bast 🇨🇦 @bastsbest.bsky.social · 20h

I have so many questions...bear + cat; bear + raccoon....

But sooo funny!

Blue Wave @votebiue.bsky.social · 1d

Even the animals aren’t safe….

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Dr. Bast 🇨🇦 @bastsbest.bsky.social · 20h

My size. It's just....gone.

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Dr. Bast 🇨🇦 @bastsbest.bsky.social · 20h

Why do we do this as humans?

Shoe size chart showing different shoe sizes from the US, UK and Europe - all different.

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🧟‍♂️ doc shartmanstein 🧟‍♂️ @docshartman.bsky.social · 1d

someone told me the only thing flat earthers fear is sphere itself and I’m bursting at the seams waiting for the perfect moment to deploy this while out amongst polite company