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Sabine
@blackburn.ca
Vancouver Island small-scale farmer, growing good food with intention — no passports required. Local flavours, big purpose. Sometimes tangled in politics, always grounded in the soil.🌱🌾🐓🐑🐝
I’m not sure what is worse: that weird Andy doesn’t know or that he sure does and lies about it or that none of the Liberals know enough about this to immediately respond to the bullshit. 😳
Thank you Elizabeth May

#cdnpoli
Fact check: No, U.S. oil tankers do not pass through the Hecate Strait. Elizabeth May shows exactly why the tanker ban exists, and why protecting it matters.
November 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Some countries yell their way through the world. This year, the world leaned toward the one that did not.

November 22, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Here's why JD Vance is wrong about Canadian living standards "stagnating" because of immigration.
www.youtube.com/shorts/yjVzQ...
JD Vance is an idiot, and I have the data to prove it. 
YouTube video by Tod Maffin
www.youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Grateful to the team at @newpublic.org for this thoughtful convo on how (and why) we're building Gander Social:

rethinking digital infrastructure, public spaces, and how shared values can shape better online experiences.

And, you know, building an app people actually feel good about using.
What would a 100% Canadian social media platform look like?

The team at @gandersocial.bsky.social is about to find out. By giving Canadians control over their data, their feeds, and more, they’re hoping to offer a viable alternative for American social media.
🇨🇦 How Canadians are fighting for digital independence
Gander's CEO on decentralization, crowdsourcing, and annexation fears
newpublic.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Thank you to all Canadians that made the change to not support travel to the US
#cdnpoli

youtu.be/4mVmS-8xWnI?...
Is the U.S. starving for Canadian travellers? | About That
YouTube video by CBC News
youtu.be
November 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
No more from Chucklehead - stop giving that sad excuse for a diplomat any microphone

#cdnpoli

youtu.be/smsgjMsT0q4?...
Meddling.
YouTube video by Tod Maffin
youtu.be
November 20, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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The loudest voices yelling "Canada is Broken!" never seem to bring receipts. So I brought my own, and posted them online at CanadaIsNotBroken.org
#canada #cdnpoli
November 18, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Keeping my eyes and ears open on this 🤓
Our public institutions need to get off Xitter asap.

#cdnpoli
What would a 100% Canadian social media platform look like?

The team at @gandersocial.bsky.social is about to find out. By giving Canadians control over their data, their feeds, and more, they’re hoping to offer a viable alternative for American social media.
🇨🇦 How Canadians are fighting for digital independence
Gander's CEO on decentralization, crowdsourcing, and annexation fears
newpublic.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:00 AM
@todmaffin.com You are amusing folks across the pond 😂

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPzR...
Reaction To 11 Things Americans Must Know Before Moving To Canada
YouTube video by Mert Can
www.youtube.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
November 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
As I’m reading all the articles that PP is in trouble, I surely hope that nobody is letting their guard down until he is truly 6 feet under (politically, not literally)
At this point there doesn’t seem to be a better option in the CPC.
#cdnpoli.
November 11, 2025 at 7:15 PM
#cdnpoli

some pro's, some con's
How Will Canada Budget 2025 Affect Our Everyday Life?
YouTube video by Make That Change
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Gifts that say “I care.” And also “ya absolute tool.”

November 8, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Island and coastal communities have struggled to get representation on the Union of B.C. Municipalities executive, but Regional District of Nanaimo (RDN) board member, Jessica Stanley hopes an upcoming governance review could be an opportunity for change.  
More Island and coastal communities representation on UCBM executive wanted from governance review next year
Island and coastal communities have struggled to get representation on the Union of B.C. Municipalities executive, but Regional District of Nanaimo (RDN) board member, Jessica Stanley hopes an upcoming governance review could be an opportunity for change.  
cheknews.ca
November 2, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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"It is that time again. Time to wonder: Why do we turn the clocks forward and backward twice a year" #cdnpoli #nbpoli
An Indigenous approach shows how changing the clocks for daylight saving time runs counter to human nature – and nature itself
While the rest of nature rises and slumbers to lunar and solar cycles, humans work and sleep to the resetting of their artificial clocks.
sologi.co
October 29, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Just watch this. Sound up.
We are in a NATIONAL crisis.
A decency crisis.
A crisis where politicians we’re paying top dollar to are nothing but memes and crisis actors for a minority in echo chambers.
We need a NATIONAL movement to return DECENCY and DUTY to politics.
#cdnpoli #mbpoli
October 29, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Hey @gandersocial.bsky.social the suspense is killing me 😉
October 28, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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The Cedar Farmers Market officially wraps up a record-setting 2025 season this weekend.

nanaimonewsnow.com/2025/10/26/a...
‘Absolutely the best market of the year:’ Halloween theme wraps Cedar market season
NANAIMO - The final market of the year for Cedar Farmers Market vendors and organizers is always bittersweet.I...
nanaimonewsnow.com
October 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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What do a #Saskatchewan high school choir, a broken roller coaster, and Trump‘s #tariffs have in common?
More than you think.
#cdnpoli #canada

youtu.be/bYgfahXjVUY
When the Ride Breaks: Tariffs, Theatre, and Trust
YouTube video by Tod Maffin
youtu.be
October 26, 2025 at 1:01 AM
I’m calling @davidebybc.bsky.social and the @bcndpcaucus.bsky.social to finally make good on the choice of the BC people to #STOPTHETIMECHANGE.

BC people: if you hate this as much as I do, make your voice heard, write, repost, call your gov rep.

#cdnpoli

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
B.C. decided to move to permanent daylight time in 2019. And yet, we're still springing forward on Sunday | CBC News
If you haven't been losing enough sleep lately, what with the general unsettled nature of global politics these days, not to worry: you'll lose at least an hour this weekend when the clocks spring for...
www.cbc.ca
October 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I’m surprised only 6000 people signed a petition.
If you eat, this will affect you.

Unless you’re looking forward to having a handful of large foreign companies, be the only supplier of the seeds needed to grow food, you need to pay attention to this.
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Farmers’ right to save and reuse seed is at risk. I’m urging the government to halt proposed seed regulation changes that hand more control to big corporations. We must protect seed sovereignty, food security, and farmers’ livelihoods. #SeedsMatter #FarmersFirst
MPs Call on Government to Cancel Proposed Changes to Seed Regulations
Speaking with reporters on Parliament Hill, agriculture critics Gord Johns (NDP) and Yves Perron (Bloc Québécois) call on the federal government to cancel the proposed changes to the Plant Breeders’ R...
www.cpac.ca
October 22, 2025 at 11:58 AM
"I voted conservative, PP is great, but I don't really watch any news or follow politics at all"
I hear a version of this a lot when talking to good people who are on the conservative side, its a bit frightening that they are so uninformed
How do you connect with people who think like this?
#cdnpoli
October 17, 2025 at 5:08 PM
If we want to get people to buy EV's we need to have affordable EV's for sale. The current offerings are for the wealthy only. Who drives the worst for the environment, old beaters? Folks who could not afford the current options but would possibly consider an affordably priced EV.

#cdnpoli
BYD EV's Coming To Canada?
YouTube video by Claus Kellerman POV
www.youtube.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I’m afraid this is right

#cdnpoli
Every country gets one voice. And we’re listening.
October 12, 2025 at 11:14 PM