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Vanelle 🦋🇨🇦 🎹🎤 passionate about freedom & democracy

@vanellemusic.bsky.social

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GenX musician — early electronic/eclectic styles. Out here adding all 🇨🇦's I can find #elbowsup! My opinions are my own. I 🚫 no posts, bots, rudeness. Find a biz, add a biz #BuyCanadian: https://canshoponline.ca/ https://ersarecords.ca/link-tree

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Vanelle 🦋🇨🇦 🎹🎤 passionate about freedom & democracy @vanellemusic.bsky.social · 21d

Sigh.
Save. Repost. Share.
Don’t let them grind you down.
Let’s shut down misinformation and bot barf now.

Migrant Drug and Gun stats 3024, between the US, Mexico and Canada.

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Canadian Hammer 🍁🔨 @canadianhammer.bsky.social · 4h

Marlena “Danielle” Smith Reveals Meeting with the US Heritage Foundation (the group behind Project 2025) After Trump Win

via @thetyee.ca

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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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Vanelle 🦋🇨🇦 🎹🎤 passionate about freedom & democracy @vanellemusic.bsky.social · 5h

Scamming the Stock Market is just normal now, huh?
Nice work, folks.
youtu.be/HHcp2mXSK-8?...

Trump Insider Trading Scam or TACO?

YouTube video by Claus Kellerman POV

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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 14h

This. And this again.

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Vanelle 🦋🇨🇦 🎹🎤 passionate about freedom & democracy @vanellemusic.bsky.social · 6h

Nice red tie….👀

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The Pearson Project @projectpearson.bsky.social · 18d

Your reminder that this is who Pierre Poilievre is

Unfiltered

While we believe politicians can grow, adapt, and change their views, we do not see any evidence of change in Pierre

This is who we believe he still is

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The Pearson Project @projectpearson.bsky.social · Aug 3

The Honourable Arnold Viersen, Member of Parliament for Peace River - Westlock, here presenting a petition proposing legislation to "protect the pre born".

This is a tactic by the anti abortion lobby to make abortion illegal by declaring the fetus alive at heartbeat detection

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Sylvia Greier @sylviagreier.bsky.social · 14h

@mark-carney.bsky.social

What happened to ELBOWS UP, + Canadian interests 1st while were diversifying AWAY from the us?

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

Why the U.S. government is investing in B.C. mining companies | CBC News

The White House is taking stakes in B.C. mining companies as it looks to reduce America's reliance on China for critical minerals used to produce the high tech batteries for cell phones, electric vehi...

www.cbc.ca

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 1d

Bruce “Spanky” McAllister shut down a students mic during the “Alberta Next” panel so that young man couldn’t get his message across…

Well…

Evan’s back.

AND he brought friends for a panel discussion on Alberta Education!

#abpoli #cdnpoli #abed

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Episode 7.35 -Alberta's Students Speak Out!

Podcast Episode · The Breakdown With Nate Pike · 2025-10-13 · 1h 39m

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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 18h

Peter Howitt, Canadian Nobel Prize winner, on building the economy through ‘creative destruction’

Canadian economist says he’s ‘thrilled’ about being honoured with the Nobel Prize for Economics

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Vanelle 🦋🇨🇦 🎹🎤 passionate about freedom & democracy @vanellemusic.bsky.social · 11h

Bottoms up!

Forrest Pass @forrestpass.bsky.social · 18h

Thinking this story might pair very nicely with a dram of the Shelter Point Distillery (Campbell River, BC) Single Malt I picked up yesterday. #Never51 #BuyCanadian #cdnpoli

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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.

www.cnn.com

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Jennie Milligan @jenniemilligan.bsky.social · 16h

This gas terminal would be built in Korea and owned by American billionaires. Tell PM Carney: no taxpayer subsidies for Ksi Lisims LNG. #cdnpoli www.dogwoodbc.ca/petitions/ca...

PM Carney: no taxpayer subsidies for American billionaires!

Donald Trump’s billionaire donors are pushing a new gas terminal on the coast of British Columbia. It would be 100% American owned – and built in Korea. BUT THEY WANT US TO PAY FOR IT.

www.dogwoodbc.ca

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Charlie Richmond (Gyro Gearloose) 311.3ppm @charlierichmond.bsky.social · 11h

Are We the Nazis Now?
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Are We the Nazis Now?

How do we meet this moment?

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 12h

"How to Stand Up to a Dictator" author Maria Ressa
explains how social media companies used the Philippines as a testing ground for mass manipulation before employing their tactics in the U.S. #cdnpoli

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Vanelle 🦋🇨🇦 🎹🎤 passionate about freedom & democracy @vanellemusic.bsky.social · 11h

One sharp knee is all I’m saying.

Vanelle 🦋🇨🇦 🎹🎤 passionate about freedom & democracy @vanellemusic.bsky.social · 11h

I’ll take What An Exceptional Asshole Says for $1000, Ken.

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StacesCases2 🇨🇦 📎 @stacescases2.bsky.social · 13h

Guess which decision which will have JUST OCCURRED to... #DanielleSmith!

Who was speaking at the recent conference in #Calgary when she described meeting with the group that spearheaded #PROJECT2025, the plan to rapidly overhaul the US government under #DonaldTrump.
thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

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Vanelle 🦋🇨🇦 🎹🎤 passionate about freedom & democracy @vanellemusic.bsky.social · 12h

Not curling. There’d be a cig and a rye and coke.

Vanelle 🦋🇨🇦 🎹🎤 passionate about freedom & democracy @vanellemusic.bsky.social · 17h

DONT DO IT! 🤣

Vanelle 🦋🇨🇦 🎹🎤 passionate about freedom & democracy @vanellemusic.bsky.social · 17h

Thankful for our rule of law, freedom, our kind and gentler ways and our ferocious strength, on call as needed.
Thankful to have won the nationality lottery, and will fight for my fellow Canadians rights and honour those who have gone before us all to do the same. O Canada!

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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Vanelle 🦋🇨🇦 🎹🎤 passionate about freedom & democracy @vanellemusic.bsky.social · 17h

We don’t need to trade one authoritarian for another. We need to diversify with like minded RELIABLE partners and tread with caution vis a vis China. I think that’s an actual quote from Carney. 🤣

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19h

We’re in the second Gilded Age just like the first — when America’s wealth was in the hands of a few, money corrupted politics, and working people were abused and exploited.

It can be easy to feel discouraged, but the first Gilded Age teaches us lessons on how we can fight back.

From Robber Barons to Bezos: Is History Repeating Itself? | Robert Reich

Robert Reich

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LorriefromCanada @lorriefmp.bsky.social · 17h

Maybe Trump was a partner with Epstein.
At this point nothing would surprise me
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Vanelle 🦋🇨🇦 🎹🎤 passionate about freedom & democracy @vanellemusic.bsky.social · 17h

Continued good news for our tourism industry.
The world wants to come to Canada!
youtu.be/V_PNwEB88hk?...

Whole World Choosing Canada & Rejecting the USA

YouTube video by Claus Kellerman POV

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Vanelle 🦋🇨🇦 🎹🎤 passionate about freedom & democracy @vanellemusic.bsky.social · 18h

Diversification. Period.
Enough.

Vanelle 🦋🇨🇦 🎹🎤 passionate about freedom & democracy @vanellemusic.bsky.social · 18h

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