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Shannon Peel 🇨🇦 @shannonpeel.bsky.social · 1d

What does a civil war look like in a modern highly developed society like the United States?

This discussion video inspires discussion about the state of affairs in the US and whether or not Canada can avoid going down the same path.

#uspoli #fakenews

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Is the US already in the midst of a Civil War?

YouTube video by Shannon Peel

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Shannon Peel 🇨🇦 @shannonpeel.bsky.social · 2h

Here’s another one

www.interiorhealth.ca/careers/info...

Information for International Applicants | Interior Health

Determine your eligibility to work in Canada, learn the steps to apply, and understand the assessments needed to practice your profession.

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Shannon Peel 🇨🇦 @shannonpeel.bsky.social · 2h

This site has info on international healthcare

www.phsa.ca/careers

Careers at PHSA

www.phsa.ca

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Shannon Peel 🇨🇦 @shannonpeel.bsky.social · 2h

I think you’ll need to contact each health authority separately

Google health authority to find their websites

I know we need healthcare professionals

Check the Canada immigration site for info on the process

Immigration lawyers may be of help too

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PBE 🇨🇦 @lookupkipp.bsky.social · 12h

🇨🇦 ELBOWS UP 🇨🇦

Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 15h

85% drop of American liquor sales to Canada.
We were their biggest market.
Now we're done.
Bye bye mon cowboy.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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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Shannon Peel 🇨🇦 @shannonpeel.bsky.social · 2h

In Canada our kids have lockdown drills too but parents aren’t scared of their kids getting shot at school

I don’t know how parents in the US make it through the school year

Derik the Selfish Man @deriktheselfishman.bsky.social · 1d

My daughter was talking to my wife and I about lockdown drills at her school, and at one point she said

"It's like a game of hide and seek, but you can only play once if you die."

This broke my heart. We live in a sick society, and I dont know if their is a cure.

Shannon Peel 🇨🇦 @shannonpeel.bsky.social · 2h

Happy Thanksgiving

Shannon Peel 🇨🇦 @shannonpeel.bsky.social · 2h

According to this Canada’s Universal Health costs less than US Private Health with better results

June Astford @june29.bsky.social · 10h

America spends too much on health care with too little return.

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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 9h

The air smells fresher this morning 🇨🇦😏

Happy Thanksgiving everyone 🇨🇦🦃🍗

❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️
❤️🍁🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA 🇨🇦🍁❤️

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Shannon Peel 🇨🇦 @shannonpeel.bsky.social · 2h

More market manipulation

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Patricia Campbell @patriciacampbell.bsky.social · 7h

Absolutely sickening👇

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 8h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Shannon Peel 🇨🇦 @shannonpeel.bsky.social · 3h

I don’t want any US investor or conglomerate to purchase a controlling share of any Canadian project or resource

Canadian businesses, investors, and pension funds need to dig deep to finance the building of Canada’s National Interest Projects

Or else we will be owned by global interests

Shannon Peel 🇨🇦 @shannonpeel.bsky.social · 3h

It’s a 5% stake - what I want to know is it capital or retail? One will result in growth the other -nothing

Canada needs investment to build things and we don’t have enough wealth to invest in everything that needs cash

The EU, UK, Asia are investing money in National Interest projects

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Shannon Peel 🇨🇦 @shannonpeel.bsky.social · 3h

Investors come from around the world

Canada doesn’t have the wealth to build - it needs foreign investment

They bought like a 5% stake but I’m not sure if it’s capital investment or retail investment- that will determine if the mines have capital to expand or not

Shannon Peel 🇨🇦 @shannonpeel.bsky.social · 3h

The world is upping their military capabilities

Reuters @reuters.com · 3h

Taiwan says 'T-Dome' to better integrate air defence system for higher kill rate reut.rs/4nGkfRY

Taiwan says 'T-Dome' to better integrate air defence system for higher kill rate

Taiwan's "T-Dome" air defence system will establish a more efficient and integrated "sensor-to-shooter" mechanism for a higher kill rate, with a year-end special budget to propose specific spending on the system, the defence minister said on Monday.

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Shannon Peel 🇨🇦 @shannonpeel.bsky.social · 6h

This just in US investors buy stakes in 2 Canadian Critical Mineral Mines

Which reminds me of another mining deal for a Canadian mining company to mine in Greenland

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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 · 6h

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 · 6h

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85% of what we trade w US is free trade

Port of Van recorded record highs in exports

15 billion for LNG plant in NL

3 new contracts for mines to deliver minerals to Germany

Exports to EU & Asia up

4K non market homes being built

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

Canada's economy added 60K jobs in September while unemployment stayed flat #Canada #cdnpoli

Economists were expecting only a modest gain in jobs

www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

Canada's economy added 60K jobs last month | CBC News

Canada's economy added 60,000 jobs in September, while the unemployment rate remained unchanged, Statistics Canada said on Friday.

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Shannon Peel 🇨🇦 @shannonpeel.bsky.social · 6h

Depends on who you talk to. Alberta wasn’t happy with him.

He did get us a new constitution and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms so in that he was a success for Canada

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Shannon Peel 🇨🇦 @shannonpeel.bsky.social · 7h

The FLQ didn’t mess around and Trudeau Sr wasn’t giving in

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Shannon Peel 🇨🇦 @shannonpeel.bsky.social · 7h

We got rid of the guy who caused the problems and didn’t know how to fix them

He’s out dating Katy Perry now so I think he’s happy with life

We then hired the guy with the most experience to fix it

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Shannon Peel 🇨🇦 @shannonpeel.bsky.social · 7h

Read the News Release to get the full context of the story

Greg Johansen 🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🎾 @johangreg.bsky.social · 10h

This evening Prime Minister Mark Carney will depart for Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, to attend the signing of a Middle East peace plan #cdnpoli www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/medi...

Sunday, October 12, 2025

Note: All times localNational Capital Region, Canada6:30 p.m. The Prime Minister will depart for Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, to attend the signing of a Middle East peace plan.Closed to media

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Shannon Peel 🇨🇦 @shannonpeel.bsky.social · 1d

Here is another meme to use to combat fake news and conspiracy stories about antifa

If you can find a credible article or video to go with it to reply to fake news posts to help others understand the lies - it will help

Even if it helps one person - it’s worth the effort to combat misinformation

Herd Leader 💙🦋🌊🐕🐎🐈🦅🌻 @herdleader1.bsky.social · 2d

For #PamBondi and the rest of the people in the back-

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Shannon Peel 🇨🇦 @shannonpeel.bsky.social · 1d

US Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, announced that Qatar is sending soldiers and planes to a US military base in Idaho and the narrative took on a life of it's own

What happens when misinformation gets into mainstream media and creates controversy?

#fakenews

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Hegseth's announcement on Qatar soldiers on US soil develops its own narrative.

YouTube video by Shannon Peel

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Shannon Peel 🇨🇦 @shannonpeel.bsky.social · 1d

Here is a good meme to post on highly controversial posts where emotional reactions build a misinformation narrative

Remind people of the dangers of fake news and give them questions to ask about the post to spark thoughtful discussion that leads to critical thinking

#fakenews #uspoli # cannoli

kristinekenyon.bsky.social @kristinekenyon.bsky.social · 2d

Bondi is lying but it’s worse than that: she’s blurring the line between fact and fiction for the GOP base. If nothing is true, no one can be held accountable. Keep speaking the truth.

The Nine Principles of Propaganda
1. LIE BIG Big lies work better than small because the masses won't believe that anyone would lie "about that."
2. FOCUS Don't make it complicated, ignore history, keep it simple for simple minds.
3. REPEAT People cannot tell the difference between facts and
familiarity. If they hear the same words repeated enough, they become true in their minds.
4. BLAME Never credit the other side, always blame, debase, defame, and dehumanize.
nere by dennis prestosk
5. PROVOKE Outrage, fear, and resentment are more powertul than reason, logic, or facts.
6. CRISIS Issues must be lite or death, good vs evil, love vs hate, us vs them.
Urgency defeats objection.
7. EMOTION A person might question facts, but they will never question their own feelings. Go emotional.
8. PANDER Ignore reasonable arguments, demonize all who disagree as having bad intentions.
9. NO LIMITS Morality is for losers. The victor's morality will not be questioned. No limits.

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Shannon Peel 🇨🇦 @shannonpeel.bsky.social · 1d

I am very thankful to be Canadian

Thank you to my Rand Great Grandparents for leaving NY for BC

Thank you to my Lapadat Great Grandparents for not staying in the US after sailing to NY from Transylvania

Thank you to all my ancestors for choosing Canada and not the US

🇨🇦 #Thanksgiving

🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Thanksgiving weekend 🇨🇦

❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️
❤️🍁🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA 🇨🇦🍁❤️

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