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Sharon 🇨🇦🦋 @gingerwhinges.bsky.social · 4m

"It's me (🇨🇦), hi
I'm the problem, it's me."

That's their angle tho' - always pointing to 🇨🇦 as being the problem. Until they acknowledge the issue is in their own backyard, I've no sympathy at all. Meantime, it's "business" as usual as I go on supporting local and/or anything other than the USA.

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 2h

TORONTO — Canadian Tire Corp. Ltd. says it has identified a data breach involving personal information belonging to customers, which was stored in an e-commerce database. #Canada

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Canadian Tire says recent breach of e-commerce database involved customer info

Canadian Tire Corp. Ltd. says it has identified a data breach involving personal information belonging to customers, which was stored in an e-commerce database.

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 3h

Librarian fired after refusing to censor 2SLGBTQ+ books wins $700K US settlement #USA

‘I'm relieved to have this outcome,’ says Wyoming’s Terri Lesley

www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...

Librarian fired after refusing to censor 2SLGBTQ+ books wins $700K US settlement | CBC Radio

A former Wyoming library director who was fired amid an uproar over books with sexual content and 2SLGBTQ+ themes that some people complained were inappropriate for young readers will be paid $700,000...

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 2h

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

Smith Reveals Meeting with the US Heritage Foundation After Trump Win | The Tyee

The Alberta premier said she met with the right-wing think tank because of its influence on the president.

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Sharon 🇨🇦🦋 @gingerwhinges.bsky.social · 2h

Gosh, who's surprised that the supporters that UOF's Katie Pasitney always describes as "standing together peacefully because they care about “truth, justice and the well-being of living creatures" resort to threats and violence when anyone's views differ from theirs?

The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 2h

Violent threats against government workers and businesses and a shocking physical attack on an elderly neighbour of the farm have highlighted how tensions around a CFIA-ordered cull of hundreds of ostriches have taken a very dark turn.

@jenstden.bsky.social reports. #canpoli

How the Ostrich Farm Cull Has Unleashed Threats of Violence | The Tyee

The CFIA union head says members and their families are being threatened.

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Sharon 🇨🇦🦋 @gingerwhinges.bsky.social · 2h

More pistachio recalls (British Columbia)

#FoodRecalls
#PistachioNuts

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Certain Raw Pistachios recalled due to Salmonella - Canada.ca

The affected products are being recalled from the marketplace due to possible Salmonella contamination.

recalls-rappels.canada.ca

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@cohencidents.bsky.social @cohencidents.bsky.social · 21h

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22h

ICE has been deployed to *provoke* civilians, not to protect them. They want to throw tear gas canisters and get people on the streets riled up, all to create footage for Fox News and Newsmax, et al., that will be used as a pretext for imposing martial law to lower voting rates in Democratic cities.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 16h

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said people who attend this weekend’s No Kings protests are “antifa.” trib.al/dar37Om

Trump Cabinet Secretary Thinks Peaceful Protesters Are Terrorists

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said people who attend this weekend’s No Kings protests are “antifa.”

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Heather e^-1/x^2 @heathermoandco.bsky.social · 1d

The political right is soaked to the bone in black ops, grift & Ponzi schemes of stupidity & corruption.

It’s not bad enough violent MAGA rubes engaged in an insurrection, savagely beat officers & engaged in a conspiracy against 🇺🇸, THEN OUTRAGEOUSLY GOT PARDONED, but the #J6 lies & grift continue…

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Sharon 🇨🇦🦋 @gingerwhinges.bsky.social · 15h

Makes me think of "all the usual suspects" right here in 🇨🇦 who could give them a run for their money when it comes to excelling in this particular way of life as well.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 16h

"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things"
- Peter Drucker

You’re Fired. Just Kidding!

How much more whiplash can the CDC withstand?

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Sharon 🇨🇦🦋 @gingerwhinges.bsky.social · 15h

Nothing to see here: Just Tamara Lich's pal, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, a.k.a. Tommy Robinson, getting his legal costs paid by Elon Musk.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins

Robinson allegedly failed to comply with officers who ‘became concerned’ by his behaviour at Channel Tunnel Tommy Robinson has claimed Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as he went on trial for refusing to comply with a request made by counter terrorism police as he tried to leave Britain last year. The far-right activist, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley Lennon, refused to give police the pin for his phone because it had “journalistic material on it” after they stopped him at the Channel Tunnel on 28 July 2024, a court heard. Continue reading...

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🍁 Christine 🍁 @204queenb0574.bsky.social · 20h

This is why culling the ostriches in BC was imperative and why it should have been done as soon as they were diagnosed but the owners hid it for so long, it surely passed to migratory birds. Fucking assholes.

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 1d

The newsletter from agricultural producer news site WATT Poultry is now a primary source of my anxiety. H5N1 is exploding in North American poultry. Every day, a headline like this.

But no human cases. Either there aren't any or there's no testing. Given CDC's dismantling, I can guess.

Headline: "Avian flu invades flock of nearly 2 million Washington hens"

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Sharon 🇨🇦🦋 @gingerwhinges.bsky.social · 18h

Cheers and happy birthday to Gus from Montréal! 🇨🇦

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Jesse Duquette @jesseduquette.bsky.social · 2d

Antifa, like any good bogeyman, takes many forms

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 20h

“in Alberta, where Premier Danielle Smith is expected to invoke the notwithstanding clause to ban gender-affirming care for children like him, he’ll be forced to go through female puberty.

“We’ll be moving if she enacts that. For the safety of our child”

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‘We’ll be moving’: Alberta transgender children, families brace for legal changes

Football decals plaster the walls of his bedroom. A San Francisco 49ers bedspread and a binder full of trading cards make it clear the seven-year-old loves sports.

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Dan Baldassarre @evornithology.bsky.social · 1d

When you hear that Rice Creek Bird Observatory caught eight owls last night

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Sharon 🇨🇦🦋 @gingerwhinges.bsky.social · 22h

"bruised feelings"

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CyKoore 🇨🇦 🍉 @cykoore.bsky.social · 1d

They'll blame anyone but their authoritarian regime.

Sorry, I don't buy goods from a country that threatens mine.

🇨🇦FerFer 🇨🇦 @jennarndt.bsky.social · 1d

Correction.
The us administration is hurting innocent bystanders. Canada is a consequential factor only.

Canada’s boycott America movement is hurting innocent bystanders | CNN Business

Virginia Distillery CEO Gareth Moore was bullish on his company’s American single malt whisky sales north of the border when 2025 kicked off.

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Sharon 🇨🇦🦋 @gingerwhinges.bsky.social · 22h

www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...

Family pleads for help finding missing Pointe-Claire man

The family of a Pointe-Claire man missing for 13 days is extremely concerned for his safety and desperate to find him.

www.ctvnews.ca

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 23h

Multiple airports around the country said they won’t display a video in which DHS Sec. Kristi Noem blames Democrats for the government shutdown and related travel delays.

Airports say they won’t play Kristi Noem shutdown video at TSA checkpoints

Travelers in Seattle, Phoenix and other cities will not see the video, which blames congressional Democrats for shutdown-related flight disruptions.

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StacesCases2 🇨🇦 📎 @stacescases2.bsky.social · 1d

A discussion with @meiselasb.bsky.social about Trump's plan to put a #Qatari airbase near the #Canadian border: this interview was previously posted on @meidastouch.com

@meidascanada.ca also looks at the larger issue of collusion between Trump and foreign powers 🇨🇦 #Cdnpoli
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TRUMPS MILITARY MADNESS ON OUR BORDER

YouTube video by Charlie Angus

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Canadian In Alberta @canadianinalberta.bsky.social · 1d

This is important

When the separatists talk about an independent Alberta, what they really mean is we're going to make Alberta American

Traitors the lot of them

#ForeverCanadian #ableg

John Vaillant @johnvaillant.bsky.social · 2d

Re-upping because it's ongoing:
www.desmog.com/2025/07/22/t... #Alberta #canpoli #ForeverCanadian

Trump Officials Discussed $500M Alberta Independence Loan, Separatist Claims

Private details from a Washington D.C., meeting about Alberta becoming the 51st state were revealed at a separatism event attended by DeSmog.

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Pádraig Kerr 🇨🇦 @morningside.bsky.social · 1d

How is this even a discussion? Ottawa must conduct a national security review of these investments by the White House.

The Trump administration is investing in Canadian critical mineral companies. But Ottawa can stop it

ANALYSIS | The Trump administration is investing in Canadian critical mineral companies. But Ottawa can stop it | CBC News

The Trump administration has purchased a stake in two Canadian critical mineral companies, a move experts say is unusual, and which raises questions about whether Ottawa should block the deals in the...

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