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Ancient Mariner 🇨🇦
@pmeekison.bsky.social
Lead Producer at video game studio and officially certified geek

Not Indigenous but I support #landback
Voted!

Go vote! Today is the last day for the advance polls!

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April 22, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Today (Apr 21) is the last day to vote in the advance polls.

Tomorrow (Apr 22) is the last day to vote at an Elections Canada office or to apply to vote by mail.

Election day (Apr 28) is one week away.

Make a plan.
Bring a friend.
Your vote matters.

#ElbowsUp
#CanadaVotes

www.elections.ca
April 21, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Powerful video. Take a few minutes from doom scrolling and watch
From @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social. "If you’re always consumed by the next outrage, you can’t look closely at the last one. The impression of Trump’s power remains; the fact that he keeps stepping on rakes is missed. The projection of strength obscures the reality of weakness. Don’t believe him."
Don't Believe Him | The Ezra Klein Show
YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show
www.youtube.com
February 7, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Canada.
True. North. Strong. Free.
#strongasfuck
February 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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On this day in 2005, the Civil Marriage Act was introduced to Parliament by the Liberal government.
When the Act received Royal Assent months later, it made Canada the fourth country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage.
Let's learn more!

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February 1, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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And someone tell the Liberal comms team that Crawford Kilian just came up with the perfect tagline for ads about Poilievre refusing to get security clearance ☺️

'Poilievre insists on 𝘯𝘰𝘵 knowing what he's talking about'
bsky.app/profile/crof...
February 1, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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I'm sharing an image a day to celebrate the vibrant and unique culture and history of Canada.
Today, it is the Table Hockey Championship in February 1974 at the Guadagni Lounge at Concordia University.
#ProudlyCanadian

📸Paul Hrasko
February 1, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Dark but accurate
February 1, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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If I were Canadian PM I would immediately:

1. Create a new $15B science fund

2. Offer any credentialed US scientist funding for lab startup and replacement of NIH grants if they move to Canada

3. Immediate permanent residency

4. Citizenship after 2 years

Overnight a science superpower
January 31, 2025 at 10:04 PM
It bothers me that Americans didn't take to the streets when Citizens United happened.

And now... here we all are.
February 1, 2025 at 1:33 AM
These times we really need to embrace the line in our 🇨🇦 national anthem and “stand on guard” for Canada.

We are not America-lite.
January 30, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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🇨🇦 Buy Canadian! 🇨🇦
Here's a list of US products and their Canadian equivalents you can keep for your next trip to the grocery store.

**Dairy Products

*Kraft (cheese, dairy) → Try Saputo, Black Diamond, Armstrong
*Philadelphia (cream cheese) → Try Lactantia, Tre Stelle, Agropur

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January 25, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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We collectively didn't agree to buy Canadian. We only agreed to NOT buy American. Because we are realists

(I just checked my frozen spinach. It comes to us from Belgium)

#cdnpoli #onpoli #bcpoli #abpoli #skpoli #mbpoli #polqc #nbpoli #nspoli #nlpoli #peipoli

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Why 'buying Canadian' isn't as easy as it sounds | CBC News
Political leaders are urging Canadians to buy domestic products in a bid to offset the potential impact of U.S. tariffs, but observers say that's easier said than done. There's no such thing as a Cana...
www.cbc.ca
January 25, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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January 25, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Mark Carney fought Stephen Harper against Bank deregulation and won. Never forget that.
#cdnpoli
January 14, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Galen Weston & Loblaws use underweight meat scheme to rake in millions.

Reminder:
🚨Poilievre has repeatedly blamed Trudeau for food-flation.
🚨Loblaw’s uses a lobbyist firm which is owned by Poilievre’s key strategist, Jenni Byrne.
🚨PP is no friend to the working class.
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
CBC investigation uncovers grocers overcharging customers by selling underweighted meat | CBC News
The problem of grocers selling underweighted meat and overcharging customers is prevalent and ongoing, a CBC News investigation has found.
www.cbc.ca
January 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Recreating my huge thread below here, will pin to my profile.

Thread of threads - Poilievre is lying to you:

Poilievre and his party have voted NO against the following legislation and bills in Parliament

Voted No on Bill C-21 - amendments to firearms bill
Voted No on Bill C-245 - amendments /1
December 19, 2024 at 4:29 PM
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This is everything you need to know about Poilievre.
He is their guy on the inside.
I will never ever vote on anything brought forward by this man.
He is fundamentally unfit for public office.
January 9, 2025 at 9:33 PM
“God has cleared a path for us”

And then… I guess God retracted the offer

youtu.be/6gRSy9Z0ZPI?...
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YouTube video by Tiedrich
youtu.be
January 12, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Interesting contrast 🌱

Young environmentalists get arrested for throwing paint at protected art in galleries to protest oil industry 🛢️

And $B of art is destroyed in LA wildfires due to drought conditions caused by the climate crisis
Arrests: 🚫

Sense of scale? 🤔

www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...
How the Los Angeles Fires Have Affected the Art World
At least dozens, if not hundreds, of artists have lost their homes, studios, and artwork in the Los Angeles fires. Galleries have been destroyed, and those still standing are closed for the moment. Bu...
www.vanityfair.com
January 11, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']:

Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
January 10, 2025 at 7:56 AM