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CaptnCanada 🇨🇦

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🇨🇦🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦⚧️🇨🇦 Leaps tall tariffs in a single bound. Oozes maple syrup. 🚫MAGA. I vet followers and I follow back. No info/no posts=block (pics don’t count as a post).

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SABUCH @sabuch.bsky.social · 6h

“Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because someone down the track of history some bastard will get up and say this never happened.“-Dwight D. Eisenhower, Germany, 1945.

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CaptnCanada 🇨🇦 @captncanada.bsky.social · 8h

This is not great news.

Shannon Peel 🇨🇦 @shannonpeel.bsky.social · 11h

The US investors are buying stakes in Canadian critical minerals

Things are beginning to change

#canpoli #tradewar

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US makes major move on Canadian critical minerals

YouTube video by Global News

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Shannon Peel 🇨🇦 @shannonpeel.bsky.social · 11h

The US investors are buying stakes in Canadian critical minerals

Things are beginning to change

#canpoli #tradewar

youtu.be/811H-W9gKHU?...

US makes major move on Canadian critical minerals

YouTube video by Global News

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Canuk22_Elbows_up! @canuk22.bsky.social · 1d

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💙 MaryH 💙 @maryh58.bsky.social · 1d

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Ron Sexsmith @ronsexsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Just heard the great news that Warren Zevon will finally
be inducted into the Rock N Roll Hall OF Fame by David Letterman! RS
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RON SINGS "SOMETHING BAD HAPPENED TO A CLOWN" WRITTEN BY WARREN ZEVON

YouTube video by Rawnboy

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Douglas Ogg @dougogg.bsky.social · 1d

“Each week there were new emergency decrees,” Isherwood suddenly offers on page 90 of the paperback of Mr. Norris Changes Trains.
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Opinion: What Isherwood’s novels about 1930s Berlin tell us about America today

On social media, there are often posts that ask how you would act if you lived in Germany in the Weimar Republic era. Isherwood tells us exactly how people did act at that time

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Kraig Peck @kraigpeck.bsky.social · 2d

I found thousands of Antifa members at Arlington Cemetery.

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Mt Pleasant 🇨🇦 🇩🇪 @jekllnnhide.bsky.social · 1d

golden words...

agulbuf.bsky.social @agulbuf.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t elect people who despise our government to run our government. This shouldn’t be that complicated.

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CaptnCanada 🇨🇦 @captncanada.bsky.social · 1d

Wonderful!

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Norah 🦋 Mami’s Small But She is Mighty 🔥 @thenoraheffect.bsky.social · 1d

This song has lived rent free in my head for the better part of 40 yrs 🥰

Good morning 👋🏽

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mariewalsh18.bsky.social @mariewalsh18.bsky.social · 2d

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CaptnCanada 🇨🇦 @captncanada.bsky.social · 1d

It does work, but over time it starts smelling more and more desperate.

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David Hamer @davidhamer1951.bsky.social · 2d

In no uncertain terms, Ms Proudfoot in today’s @theglobeandmail.com justly calls out petulant piffleswipe Pierre Poilievre for the lies he tells about who’s at fault for the challenges 🇨🇦Canada faces.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 2d

American spirit exports to #Canada 'plummeted' 85%, says U.S. trade group

Distilled Spirits Council of the United States CEO urges 'lasting return to tariff-free trade'

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American spirit exports to Canada 'plummeted' 85%, says U.S. trade group | CBC News

American spirit exports to Canada "plummeted" 85 per cent in the second quarter of 2025, with the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States calling the situation "very troubling" as consumers in ...

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 2d

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CaptnCanada 🇨🇦 @captncanada.bsky.social · 1d

We like to have dinner before dessert.

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CaptnCanada 🇨🇦 @captncanada.bsky.social · 1d

Description of Canadian versus American Thanksgiving

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CaptnCanada 🇨🇦 @captncanada.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Thanksgiving weekend! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
Time to break out the fall sweaters and stretchy pants!

a sign that says happy thanksgiving with maple leaves in the background

Alt: a sign that says happy thanksgiving with maple leaves in the background

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111publishing.bsky.social @111publishing.bsky.social · 2d

Canada Travel
One of the thousands of amazing things to see in Canada
This is the biggest tide on Earth — and it's in Nova Scotia, Canada
In the Bay of Fundy, water can rise a whopping 18 meters between low tide and high tide
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Exploring the Phenomenal Bay of Fundy

Natural features combine perfectly with the ocean tides to give this area a distinction found nowhere else on Earth.

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The Chronicle Herald @thechronicleherald.bsky.social · 2d

Deny Sullivan: Halifax bridge toll blunder: Houston’s election gimmick worsens gridlock

The promise to save drivers time is backfiring. The reason? Simple economics.

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CaptnCanada 🇨🇦 @captncanada.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks for sharing - I never miss a John Prine video. A one-of-a-kind talent for sure.

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Ron Sexsmith @ronsexsmith.bsky.social · 2d

In honour of the late great John Prine's birthday here's John and I performing "Please Don't Bury Me' some year ago
at Massey Hall RS
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John Prine & Ron Sexsmith - (Massey Hall 2016)

YouTube video by ShakyShorty

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2d

Cartoon by @guyvenables.bsky.social.

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timethiefmedia - Canadian forever🍁conservative never @timethiefmedia.bsky.social · 2d

Canadian coffee chain Good Earth sets sights on acquiring recently closed Starbucks locations. #GoodEarth shared that the focus will be on sites in Toronto, southwestern Ontario, the B.C. Lower Mainland, and Halifax. dailyhive.com/vancouver/go...

Canadian coffee chain sets sights on acquiring recently closed Starbucks locations | Food & Drink

A Canadian coffee chain has recently announced that it has set its sights on acquiring some recently closed Starbucks locations.

dailyhive.com

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