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💪🏼🫎🛶🦫🌲💨🪨🌊 @grannycanuck.bsky.social · 3h

#CanadianHistory
COWBOYS & COWGIRLS
in #🇨🇦 CANADA 🔚 #cowboys #cowgirls #Canada #abPoli #abLeg #Strong&Free #cdnHistory www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/c...

Cowboys and Cowgirls in Canada

Cowboys and cowgirls are people employed to tend cattle or horses. The first cowboys to work on the Canadian prairies arrived in the 1870s. The traditional cowb...

www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca

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💪🏼🫎🛶🦫🌲💨🪨🌊 @grannycanuck.bsky.social · 10h

reminder
STRONG & FREE Network
Born as the MANNING Centre
Still as Right-Wing as ever 🔚 #Canada #cdnPoli #canPoli #Strong&Free #abPoli #DanielleSmith #PrestonManning
#🇨🇦 #ReformParty #ManningCentre
#CanadaStrong&FreeNetwork #CanadaStrongAndFreeNetwork canadastrongandfree.network

Home - Canada Strong & Free Network

Prairie Leaders ReceptionRegister NowCanada Strong and Free Network Conference 2024watch nowCSFN 2023 Recorded Sessionswatch nowCanadian Optimists – Poilievre’s Positive MessageWatch Here Upcoming Eve...

canadastrongandfree.network

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💪🏼🫎🛶🦫🌲💨🪨🌊 @grannycanuck.bsky.social · 10h

i am reposting this because KEYWORDS like “Gummy” did not show up even in “Search (my own) posts” let alone tested TAGS of RonaldReagan +Reagan +usPoli +usPol

💪🏼🫎🛶🦫🌲💨🪨🌊 @grannycanuck.bsky.social · 10h

ONTARIO ADs
i think my friend gave me the THC! gummy bears because i find myself agreeing with… Ronald Reagan 🔚 #tariffs #boycottUSA #Ontario #ad #ads #onPoli #cdnPoli #canPoli #uspoli #usPol #Reagan #RonaldReagan www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN_C...

Ontario launches $75 million ad campaign using the words of Ronald Reagan to argue against tariffs.

YouTube video by Toronto Sun

www.youtube.com

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💪🏼🫎🛶🦫🌲💨🪨🌊 @grannycanuck.bsky.social · 1d

😆🩷

Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @lukaszukab.bsky.social · 1d

Our #ForeverCanadian volunteers are amazing. Just received a care pack from one of the volunteers in Vermilion.

thank you!

💪🏼🫎🛶🦫🌲💨🪨🌊 @grannycanuck.bsky.social · 1d

COMMENTS! News Forum via #NationalPost ca-news-forum.com/2025/10/08/d...

Danielle Smith says she’s giving Carney until Grey Cup to fix nine ‘bad laws’ – CA News Forum

ca-news-forum.com

💪🏼🫎🛶🦫🌲💨🪨🌊 @grannycanuck.bsky.social · 1d

CLIMATE CRISIS vs
“NINE BAD LAWS”
(i imagine ‘Get out of the way #poiLIEvre’ agrees with #DanielleSmith) 🔚 #pipeline #pipelineS… #Canada #cdnPoli #canPoli #abPoli #abLeg #bcPoli #UPC #CPC #ClimateCrisis #9BadLaws #NineBadLaws www.youtube.com/shorts/gikXO...

Danielle Smith renews calls for Carney to revise 'nine bad laws'

YouTube video by CTV News

www.youtube.com

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💪🏼🫎🛶🦫🌲💨🪨🌊 @grannycanuck.bsky.social · 1d

let’s get this straight
The Nazis were NOT socialists
“The FIRST N*zi camps were created to hold those deemed as “enemies” or “subversives” Initially the population of these concentration camps were not usually Jews but Communists, SOCIALISTS…”(emphasis mine)🔚 #history #nazis #socialists #socialism

The Nazi Concentration Camp System

The Nazis created at least 44,000 camps, including ghettos and other sites of incarceration, between 1933 and 1945. The camps served various functions, from imprisoning "enemies of the state" to servi...

www.nationalww2museum.org

💪🏼🫎🛶🦫🌲💨🪨🌊 @grannycanuck.bsky.social · 1d

@euroalternative.co

💪🏼🫎🛶🦫🌲💨🪨🌊 @grannycanuck.bsky.social · 1d

#DearDougie
All else aside
WE shop @ Home HARDWARE‼️ 🔚 #onPoli #Ontario #DougFord #boycottUSA #BuyCanadian www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC_J...

'Screw this, I'm going after this guy' | Ont. Premier Ford says he confronted a shoplifter

YouTube video by CTV News

www.youtube.com

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💪🏼🫎🛶🦫🌲💨🪨🌊 @grannycanuck.bsky.social · 1d

SATELLITES in CANADA
2025-09-02
#NordSpace came close to launching the first-ever commercial rocket from CDN soil last week About That producer Anand Ram explains how close #Canada is to breaking into the satellite economy dominated by #Musk #Starlink #CBC #CBCnews #Satellites #Canada #space

💪🏼🫎🛶🦫🌲💨🪨🌊 @grannycanuck.bsky.social · 1d

USA FARM SUBSIDIES
are nothing new
CANADA could never match this, so stop whining about our ‘socialist’ #SupplyManagement policies 🔚 #USA #farmers #agriculture #tariffs #cdnPoli #canPoli #abPoli #mbPoli #skPoli #canola #soybeans usafacts.org/articles/fed...

US Federal Agricultural Farm Subsidies: How Much Farmers Get By Year | USAFacts

Federal farm subsidies make up an average of 13.5% of net farm income.

usafacts.org

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💪🏼🫎🛶🦫🌲💨🪨🌊 @grannycanuck.bsky.social · 1d

maybe someone can create a sticker to affix underneath
(Strong & Free)
“BEFORE! the UPC”
(“Without the UPC” …) 🔚 #UPC #abpoli #abLeg #cdnPoli #canPoli

Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @lukaszukab.bsky.social · 1d

Today, Danielle Smith will unveil Alberta’s new vehicle license plate that features a slogan: “Strong & Free”.

Smith will surely argue that it is featured on Alberta’s coat of arms however, we all know that’s it’s a dogwhistle for separatists and, is new plate a priority?
#ableg

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💪🏼🫎🛶🦫🌲💨🪨🌊 @grannycanuck.bsky.social · 1d

ONTARIO ADs
i think my friend gave me the THC! gummy bears because i find myself agreeing with… Ronald Reagan 🔚 #tariffs #boycottUSA #Ontario #ad #ads #onPoli #cdnPoli #canPoli #uspoli #usPol #Reagan #RonaldReagan www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN_C...

Ontario launches $75 million ad campaign using the words of Ronald Reagan to argue against tariffs.

YouTube video by Toronto Sun

www.youtube.com

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💪🏼🫎🛶🦫🌲💨🪨🌊 @grannycanuck.bsky.social · 2d

Foreign Policy magazine might be more credible than Hollywood
Carter reiterated that “90%‼️ of the contributions to the ideas & the consummation of the plan was CDN... Ken Taylor…the CDN ambassador… orchestrated the entire process”
www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2013/09/16/n...

New Documentary Reclaims ‘The Canadian Caper’ from Affleck’s ‘Argo’

Ben Affleck’s movie “Argo” is still leaving a bitter taste in the mouths of Canadians – politicians and the public alike – over its depiction of the escape of American diplomats from post-revolutionar...

www.foreignpolicyjournal.com

💪🏼🫎🛶🦫🌲💨🪨🌊 @grannycanuck.bsky.social · 2d

(Agreed - obviously & TY)
A movie-buff friend told me #BenAffleck threw out a brief “Thanks to Canada” in his acceptance speech, but
to think he made his ‘comeback’ on this lie …😡

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💪🏼🫎🛶🦫🌲💨🪨🌊 @grannycanuck.bsky.social · 2d

EDWARD R. MURROW AWARDS 2025
Network Radio
News Documentary www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...
#CBC #CBC📻Ideas #Canada #Syria #poetry #FarajBayrakdar

After surviving 14 years in brutal prisons, Syrian poet says 'it's time to write about life' | CBC Radio

For 14 years, Syrian poet Faraj Bayrakdar was imprisoned and tortured in a series of prisons. He found refuge in writing poetry. Now, the poems he wrote imagining the fall of the regime are coming tru...

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💪🏼🫎🛶🦫🌲💨🪨🌊 @grannycanuck.bsky.social · 2d

EDWARD R. MURROW AWARDS 2025
Network Radio
News Series
America Votes - Stories from the Arizona border, its politics and its people www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
#CBC #CBC📻 #TheCurrent #Canada

www.cbc.ca

💪🏼🫎🛶🦫🌲💨🪨🌊 @grannycanuck.bsky.social · 2d

EDWARD R. MURROW AWARDS 2025
Network Radio
Newscast
World Report in Georgia: US Election 2024 drive.google.com/file/d/1nTfX... #CBC #Canada

World Report in Georgia.mp3

drive.google.com

💪🏼🫎🛶🦫🌲💨🪨🌊 @grannycanuck.bsky.social · 2d

ARGO #Documentary 🎬🍿
the movie was fake
In reality, it was 🇨🇦 Ambassador Ken Taylor (NOT a 🇺🇸 CIA agent) who orchestrated the rescue mission with officials in Ottawa - fabricating all kinds of 🇨🇦 documentation++ for the escapees🔚 #History #Iran #Argo #Canada #CanadianSix #CanadianCaper #Documentaries

Escape From Iran: The Inside Story

YouTube video by One America News Network

www.youtube.com

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💪🏼🫎🛶🦫🌲💨🪨🌊 @grannycanuck.bsky.social · 2d

HOSTAGES
1979-1981 Carter (D) vs Iran
2023-2025 Biden (D) vs Hamas
Iran? Other?
Some speculate that there was no immediate release THIS time so that LOT$ of U$A war machine$ could be sold 🔚 #History #HostageCrisis #Hostages #Carter #Biden #Iran #Hamas 🇨🇦 #Argo www.historynet.com/iran-hostage...

The Iran Hostage Crisis: 444 Days in Hell

Radical Islamic students in Tehran took 52 Americans hostage and kicked off a 14-month crisis that would humiliate a U.S. president and humble a superpower.

www.historynet.com

💪🏼🫎🛶🦫🌲💨🪨🌊 @grannycanuck.bsky.social · 3d

ARCTIC 🇨🇦 SOVEREIGNTY I
i wrote #BobRae months ago about opening a case @ the 🇺🇳 #UN to protect our #Inuit - #Defence Spending 🔚 #USA #Russia #China #Finland #IceBreakers #Indigenous #Canada #cdnPoli #canPoli
#🇨🇦Indigenous

US turns to Finland to close Arctic ‘icebreaker gap’ as Russia, China expand polar presence

Finland will provide four new icebreakers to America under a $6.1 billion agreement as the U.S. seeks to strengthen Arctic defense against Russia and China.

www.foxnews.com

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💪🏼🫎🛶🦫🌲💨🪨🌊 @grannycanuck.bsky.social · 3d

#AFRICA ➕
“Urgent call to action from #StephenLewis The #usAID freeze is creating a crisis for the HIV response around the world” 🔚 #HIV #AIDS stephenlewisfoundation.org |Among charities affected by #CUPW #CanadaPost AGAIN

stephenlewisfoundation.org

💪🏼🫎🛶🦫🌲💨🪨🌊 @grannycanuck.bsky.social · 3d

#Nigeria
20 million (!) kids out of school …

International Education News (IEN) @intlednews.bsky.social · 3d

In #Nigeria: Education Emergency: 20M Out of School buff.ly/kvnzleG “Today, Nigeria has about 20 million out of school children and youth, more than the entire population of at least 22 African countries.” @THISDAYLIVE

EDUCATION FIRST, POLITICS ASIDE – THISDAYLIVE

Nigeria’s education sector remains vulnerable to the short term calculations of politics rather than the long term needs of learners, contends JOAN OSA OVIAWEWhen I first reviewed exam enrollment…

www.thisdaylive.com

💪🏼🫎🛶🦫🌲💨🪨🌊 @grannycanuck.bsky.social · 3d

#NIGERIA (just the most recent article) 🔚 #war #wars www.premiumtimesng.com/opinion/8275...

Nigeria’s undeclared war, By Wole Olaoye

The United States of America recently declared that there was a religious war, specifically the persecution of Christians, going on in Nigeria. The Nigerian government promptly denied the claim. But t...

www.premiumtimesng.com

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