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  Aye. #canada

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  A comma! A comma! My kingdom for a comma. #oxfordcomma #comma

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  Call and response. #science

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  Now that the dust has settled on the Canada US trade breakdown, it turns to us, Canadians everywhere, to take the next steps. If Prime Minister Carney characterizes this as a war, then we become the soldiers. Our weapons are not rifles and drones but wallets and credit cards. Our strategic objective: as complete a boycott of US products and services as possible. Fortunately, we’ve been in training now for months. And we’re getting damn good at this. We know the drill. We’ve been meticulously c...

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  Meanwhile, this, from another social media . . . “A Russian embassy worker in Canada is forced to spend his days popping Ukrainian flag balloons that mysteriously keep appearing outside. Investigative journalist Christo Grozev says it's 34-year-old diplomat Ivan Danilenkov, who methodically destroys them with a needle.”

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  Cartoon from Michael de Adder

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  Crank your cute meter to maximum. (I’d credit this but the video was anonymous. )

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  There’s no hint that the cyclosporiasis outbreak in the US traced to Taylor Farms produce has reached Canada (there have been a few Canadian cases but they’ve been traced to travellers who recently visited Mexico). However, it may be useful to know that Taylor Farms does distribute in Canada to retail grocers and restaurants. Among their brand names: Earthbound Farm Marketside (Walmart) Simple Truth / Private Selection Kirkland Signature (Costco) Good & Gather / Market Pantry Great...

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  No CUSMA No boozema! - Wab Kinew

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  Here in Ontario most of us call next Monday the ‘August Civic Holiday’—how boring is that?—but its official name is actually ‘Simcoe Day’. Much much better. Especially when we realize that John Graves Simcoe was the first leader in the entire British Empire to condemn and limit slavery. He was the first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada (now Ontario). The story goes that Simcoe received word of a slave owner violently abusing his slave, a girl by the name of Chloe Clooey, as he was transp...

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  Whew! Dodged a bullet there. #ottawa https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/former-mpp-lisa-macleod-says-she-won-t-run-for-ottawa-mayor-9.7291875

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  Meech Lake, Twilight, MacDonald Bay Artist: Bob Donnelly #art #canada

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  Give us this day our daily dough conditioners, sugars, preservative architectures, unpronounceable chemicals, and misleading labelling. The trouble with most Canadian grocery breads, and those that are worth a space on your counter. #food https://youtu.be/9-9A-M3l-JE?si=_ttNoRfZiWrpUkEE

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  We need a label for guys like this. Climate criminal will do. “Then came Doug Ford. On its arrival in June 2018, the Ford government moved immediately to dismantle the previous government’s climate plan, including participation in the Québec-California emissions cap-and-trade system. All of the programs, including public transit expansion, building energy efficiency retrofits, and support for the adoption of electric vehicles that would have been funded through the $1 billion per year generate...

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  “There’s an old-fashioned word for that. And that word is treason.” - David Eby, BC Premier #alberta #cdnpoli

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  So the latest ‘excuse’ for raising tariffs against Canada is that Canada isn’t doing enough to crack down on goods produced by forced labour. I would direct the reader’s attention to the following: “Prison labor in the U.S. generates significant economic output. Incarcerated workers provide services valued at $9 billion annually and produce over $2 billion in goods.” #trade #tariffs #canada #cdnpoli https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_States

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  This will surely make it to the next edition of Great Canadian Quotes.

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  AQI has just ticked up again. It was 2 earlier today. #ottawa #wildfires

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  Waking up this morning to a heady bouquet of ozone, methane, sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, volatile organic compounds, fine particulate matter, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. #canada #wildfires #ClimateCrisis #climate

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  Just for fun, what if we juxtaposed a map of current wildfires with the route of Canada’s proposed eastern pipeline from Alberta to Sarnia? #wildfires #canada #pipelines #fossilfuels

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  First world problem

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  Can’t decide whether this sign in the US near Ogdensburg, NY is ironic, sardonic, satire, or just plain mockery.

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  Be honest. Absurdism is your favourite. #philosophy

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  Why are Canadians so bad at public transport? Here’s why. #urban #transit https://rabble.ca/columnists/public-transit-in-canada-urgently-needs-an-upgrade/

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  Don’t waste your time with that phoney behind the curtain. For a real wizard, stick with Tolkien. #DisclaimersForBooksOrMovies #HashTagGames

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  Umm. Something’s amiss with this strategy. Can’t quite put my finger on it. #food #food https://zpravobot.news/@Rainmaker1973/116561234076074072

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  Hand-crafting blunders then walking them back has become a recognizable Doug Ford trait. (Greenbelt, wind farms, jet planes . . . ) #onpoli #ontario #dougford https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/doug-ford-jet-sell-9.7169704

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  #ottawa Waiting for the bus? Corner of Bronson Avenue and Colonel By (Echo) Drive. Circa 1922 (NCC Archives)

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  The Canada Pension Plan is investing in companies linked to ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement) “That means our pension funds are being used to profit off the violence ICE is unleashing in the US — kidnapping people off the street, separating families and ripping children out of their parents, arms, and violations of due process. These are our retirement savings, and they should not support systemic human rights violations anywhere.” 🟥 Here’s a petition to try to stop it. https://l...

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  Yipee!! One down. A few more to go. “Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán conceded defeat in Sunday's Hungarian election, ending his 16 years in power.” https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/hungary-election-viktor-orban-9.7160781