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Pádraig Kerr 🇨🇦 @morningside.bsky.social · 6h

A New Book Asks, What Is #Canada?

“Elbows Up!” is a collection of essays by prominent Canadians like Margaret Atwood that seeks to make something positive out of Canada’s identity angst.

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Pádraig Kerr 🇨🇦 @morningside.bsky.social · 6h

Canada-India Joint Statement: Renewing momentum towards a stronger partnership

Today, Honourable Anita Anand, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and India’s Minister of External Affairs, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, issued this joint statement.

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Pádraig Kerr 🇨🇦 @morningside.bsky.social · 7h

US, China roll out tit-for-tat port fees, threatening more turmoil at sea buff.ly/J5RPZ3G

Pádraig Kerr 🇨🇦 @morningside.bsky.social · 8h

Liam Johnston died on the job at 27. His loved ones want to see change and accountability buff.ly/MEG5ihx

#canlab #onlab #OHSA

Liam Johnston died on the job at 27. His loved ones want to see change and accountability | CBC News

The family of a 27-year-old who died on a plumbing job in Calgary say they want to see the company he worked for charged criminally. Advocates have been asking for more prosecutions in workplace deaths...

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Pádraig Kerr 🇨🇦 @morningside.bsky.social · 8h

Here's a Gift Link to a truly inspirational article about Dr. Sue Goldie that I strongly encourage you to read.

Sue Goldie Has Parkinson’s Disease www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Sue Goldie Has Parkinson’s Disease (Gift Article)

An acclaimed researcher is an expert at explaining complicated problems. Now she has to confront the most vexing question: What is happening to her?

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Pádraig Kerr 🇨🇦 @morningside.bsky.social · 8h

Trump's talk of 'natural conflict' in Canada trade queried

A claim by United States President Donald Trump that the US and Canada have a "natural conflict" in trade may overstate competition and overlook the economic integration between the two countries,…

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Pádraig Kerr 🇨🇦 @morningside.bsky.social · 10h

Cancer in Canada: Nearly all Canadians support federal government increasing access to clinical trials - Angus Reid Institute

Most see it as a way to access novel cancer treatments, offer last hope for patients who are out of options Pour la version française, cliquez ici. October 14, 2025 – New data from the non-profit…

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Pádraig Kerr 🇨🇦 @morningside.bsky.social · 21h

New York Times, AP, Newsmax among news outlets who say they won't sign new Pentagon rules

The New York Times, The Associated Press and the conservative television network Newsmax are among five outlets on Monday who say they won't sign a new Defense Department document about its new press…

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Pádraig Kerr 🇨🇦 @morningside.bsky.social · 21h

U.S. approaching 340 mass shootings this year after deadly weekend

At least eight were killed in Mississippi and four in South Carolina.

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Pádraig Kerr 🇨🇦 @morningside.bsky.social · 21h

Mark Carney jokes with Trump mistakenly calls him 'president' buff.ly/dW9EJfk

Mark Carney jokes with Trump mistakenly calls him 'president'

The Canadian prime minister had a light-hearted exchange with the US president after he misspoke at the 'Summit for Peace'.

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Pádraig Kerr 🇨🇦 @morningside.bsky.social · 23h

#Canada and #India agree to 'ambitious' road map to strengthen ties buff.ly/0jDfmF7

#cdnpoli

Canada and India agree to 'ambitious' road map to strengthen ties | CBC News

Canada and India have agreed to a series of steps to strengthen bilateral ties, two years after their diplomatic rupture over the killing of a Canadian Sikh leader.

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

By Wang Di, China’s ambassador to #Canada

China-Canada relations: setting sail toward a brighter future buff.ly/EVfWAGX

#cdnpoli

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davidakin @davidakin.bsky.social · 1d

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

With two options on the table to replace Canada’s aging fleet of Victoria-class submarines, Germany’s top diplomat in Canada says that a decision could be made by the end of the year as there is a new “sense of urgency” for the procurement.

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

#Canada has not spoken to South Koreans about building new submarines at home, says embassy buff.ly/VXID2xk

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

Please somebody tell me he didn't say this.

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

Doesn't matter if you voted for him, didn't vote for him or didn't vote at all, he's your democratically elected president and every time he opens his mouth it reflects on every American and on the USA.

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

How the United States is eating Trump's tariffs buff.ly/mjvhJAj

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

Anand heads to #China as Carney attempts a rapprochement with Beijing buff.ly/f6u5VBH

#cdnpoli #Canada

Anand heads to China as Carney attempts a rapprochement with Beijing

Ottawa is seeking to expand export markets outside of Donald Trump’s increasingly protectionist U.S.

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

Completely unsurprishing but nonetheless shocking

Trump urges pardon for Netanyahu during Gaza address to Knesset buff.ly/hxpaYkF

Trump urges pardon for Netanyahu during Gaza address to Knesset

"Cigars and champagne, who the hell cares about this?"

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

Interesting article about ESA prosecutions - Charges For Workers’ Rights Violations Drop 90% In Ontario

Charges For Workers’ Rights Violations Drop 90% In Ontario

Doug Ford’s government laid just 150 charges against employers for serious ESA violations from 2024-2025 compared to 1,500+ in 2015.

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

#India and #Canada agree on new roadmap for relations buff.ly/Ze1Ou12

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

In @realgdt.bsky.social Frankenstein what makes us monstrous is refusing to care buff.ly/eI2bEPt

The creature "reveals that what makes us monstrous is not our difference but our refusal to accept others as fully human. We are asked to fear the consequences of our own failure to care"

In Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein, what makes us monstrous is refusing to care

Guillermo Del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ reconsiders the cultural imagining of ‘the monster’ and how stories reflect attitudes about difference — especially difference in embodiment.

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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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