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Bill Amend (author of the cartoon, ‘Foxtrot’), apparently:
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@TrueNorthSpice@mastodon.world
It feels like another pretext: “Canada isn’t safe, therefore we need to liberate it”.
Remember Putin’s claims that his ‘special military operation’ was intended to ‘de-Nazify’ Ukraine?
RE: https://mastodon.social/@top_news/116994931149536749
This just in: Elon Musk is completely full of shit.
RE: https://bclocal.news/@bcnews/117000513546283700
As I feared, these ER closures are becoming the new normal. It used to be that closing an emergency department would have been unthinkable. Now it’s a just another routine occurrence.
Heads should be rolling over this.
#BCPoli #BCHealthcare
RE: https://flipboard.com/@euronews/business-m1eitu69z/-/a-HpPrrISeSTW8bgjRNLowtw%3Aa%3A89340020-%2F0
bUT fiGhTinG cLIMAtE ChAnGE Would bE TOo EXpenSiVE!!
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Spain's wildfire bill: up to €3.275 billion for firefighting alone
https://www.euronews.com/business/2026/07/27/spains-wildfire-bill-up-to-3275-billion-for-firefighting-alone?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Business @business-euronews
Open quoted postRE: https://flipboard.com/@globalnews/politics-m2nf619cz/-/a-kdbFcDiGQ7aN4vOPb_a1RA%3Aa%3A749442239-%2F0
More tax cuts for the big US digital streamers, more picking of the public’s pockets to pay for it.
Remind me again, what have we gained for all these concessions?
#CDNPoli
RE: https://flipboard.com/@sciencealert/sciencealert-3mvdqjtaz/-/a-GSN2RSOgRA-cbDvnYH9oMw%3Aa%3A565656366-%2F0
It’d be something if, under that crushing CO2 atmosphere, there was the remains of a civilization that couldn’t quit burning fossil fuels…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@top_news/117017599154918558
Nice fuckin country you’ve got there, America.
#USPoli #USFascism
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A Hopkins researcher tried to board a plane at BWI. She ended up in ICE custody.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has transferred Fatima Ameaka, a public health researcher at Johns Hopkins, to a detention facility in Louisiana, according to a government website that tracks those detained by ICE.
https://www.thebanner.com/community/local-news/fatima-ameaka-ice-bwi-NQ2FP57W4ZEBRLMFSTYD7MZGUI/
#TopNews #News #Ameaka #Osorio #BWI
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@TrueNorthSpice@mastodon.world
We should get some parliamentarians to write a strongly-worded letter telling the Americans to keep their diarrhea-causing parasite on their side of the border. 😏
Republicans insist Mitch McConnell resting comfortably following routine taxidermy procedure
#USPol #WhereInTheWorldIsMitchMcConell
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2026/07/republicans-insist-mitch-mcconnell-resting-comfortably-following-routine-taxidermy-procedure/
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@TrueNorthSpice@mastodon.world
YES!!!
How liars create the ‘illusion of truth
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20161026-how-liars-create-the-illusion-of-truth
RE: https://humanwords.party/@pinhman/117004721010842028
Your must-read for today, #Canada.
#CDNPoli #CDNEcon
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The Staple Trap
"Canada has become a rich country and a middle power, but one with consistent underlying vulnerability and lack of sovereignty..
Canada’s political economy is characterized by a longstanding struggle to develop systems of complementary technology and industries against the pull of resource extraction lock-in, referred to as the “staple trap.”1 The trap is set by resource extraction developments that require large, fixed cost infrastructures and the installation of other “rigidities” such as monopolies and political interests with influence over regional economies and political decision making. The dependent situation of regional economies on globally traded resources leaves them particularly vulnerable to shifts in international commodity prices or the political decisions made by empires in the world. External events create periods of crisis, and these crises appear particularly unexpected and severe..
This reaction further strengthens the conditions for the staple trap – more large, fixed-cost infrastructure that must be paid off, the creation of monopoly interests, and dependencies on global empires to buy raw material exports..
both governments and capitalists sought protection in megaprojects rather than a more evolutionary development pattern that uses innovative technologies to develop diverse economies."
https://perspectivesjournal.ca/megaprojects-staple-trap/
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@RantingCanuck@mstdn.ca
Further: distributed solar makes the whole power system more resilient; less susceptible to natural and human-caused disasters, reduces demand on existing infrastructure, and costs less!
There’s really no good reason not to pursue this as a strategy unless the priority is to protect the profits of a handful of wealthy, politically-connected companies.
Oh.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@br00t4c/117054639238733182
Because it’s all bullshit.
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@TrueNorthSpice@mastodon.world
It smells like propaganda.
RE: https://mstdn.ca/@KeithMcNeill/117038873747667529
Seems like maybe the wrong time to be cutting jobs in disaster-response…
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@zazzoo@mstdn.ca
They’ve also been a leader in reducing waste in the fast-food market. 💚
@VE2UWY@mastodon.radio
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@stacey_campbell@aus.social
You’ve been selected to kiss my ass! 🤣
@Viss@mastodon.social
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@oldladyplays@wargamers.social
I now identify as ‘klorb’.
Did Canada kill Trump?
More financial shennigans propping up the #AIBubble
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@TrueNorthSpice@mastodon.world
Wow, this is the first I’ve heard of #Trumporrhea cases in Canada. 🤔
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@carrieberry@mstdn.social
This is the danger:
“But when we’re looking at months of 75/25 polls, it’s really easy for people who support staying in Canada to sort of shrug this off, or to look at a long line at a polling station and just not show up.”
@wiebepaul@mstdn.ca
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@Fragarach@social.vivaldi.net
It’s fine though: let’s keep approving those oil & gas projects and building those data centres; we can just ask ‘AI’ to grow us some food. 👍
@climatechange@newsmast.community
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@zazzoo@mstdn.ca
“It’s important to point out that this isn’t content posted by third parties on Facebook or Instagram, these are ads that were reviewed, approved, and allowed to run by Meta, never encountering interference while the company collected the ad dollars.”
Therefore the company should be culpable.
RE: https://assortedflotsam.com/@NewsBot/117034227137790662
Meanwhile, the US is sitting on billions of dollars made from selling Venezuelan oil that it refuses to release to the people of Venezuela…
This would actually be a brilliant PR campaign.
Edmonton plans separation referendum to separate from Alberta separation referendum
#TheBeaverton #Satire #ABPoli
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2026/07/edmonton-plans-separation-referendum-to-separate-from-alberta-separation-referendum/
Looks like #CavemanCarney wasn’t entirely straight with us on the #GordieHoweBridge deal. 🤔
It’s kind of concerning when Orange Shitler’s account is more truthful than our own ‘#ElbowsUp’ PM.
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RE: https://bclocal.news/@kamloops/116991024903671963
Every #BCWildfire season seems to bring out a bunch of folks who place their own needs above those of the greater community; folks who believe public resources can be appropriated to serve their own selfish interests.
In #BostonBar some numpty damaged the community water system by immproperly turning on a valve to reactivate the public water system after authorities had shut it off reserve the dwindling supply for firefighting efforts.
In the #Shuswap last year people were stealing firefighting equipment put in place to protect vital infrastructure (wooden bridges) presumably to repurpose it to protect their own properties.
I can’t help but believe that these are the same people that railed against the public health measures put in place during the early COVID pandemic… 🤨
Meanwhile the news this morning was featuring some stay-behinds in 70 Mile (owners of the Sugar Shack), painting them as brave folks staying behind to ‘protect their community’. Stop it! If you’re told to evacuate, evacuate.
Staying behind just hinders firefighting efforts and adds extra workloads on folks that are already overwhelmed trying to protect your community.
You’re not heroes, you’re selfish assholes.
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@JonChevreau@mstdn.ca
Yeah, hard pass.
@servelan@newsie.social
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@EdwinG@mstdn.moimeme.ca
Do they deliver to BC? 😉
Don’t threaten us with a good time. 🤣
Canadians overwhelmingly demand wealth tax after Kevin O’Leary says it will make him move away
#TheBeaverton #Satire
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2026/08/canadians-overwhelmingly-demand-wealth-tax-after-kevin-oleary-says-it-will-make-him-move-away/
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@kinetix@humanwords.party
Same old ‘me’ vs. ‘we’ folks.
Bet they were the same folks against COVID protective health measures.
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@TrueNorthSpice@mastodon.world
Throw the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre on that pile, too.
RE: https://flipboard.com/@newyorktimes/health-lkpsa1qsz/-/a-CA2sdj8KRMiQGJqXKYB6SQ%3Aa%3A3195393-%2F0
They had ‘underlying health conditions’ tho, so it’s fine.
A kindness, really. 🤷♂️
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@EdwinG@mstdn.moimeme.ca
Meanwhile:
RBC and BMO sell Moneris to U.S. private equity for $2 billion
https://londonincmagazine.ca/2026/08/05/moneris-transaction/
Had a little bumpy on the personal server this AM; it was throwing out 500 errors all over the place. Suspected cause: memory overflow. I’ve upped the memory allocation from 4 to 8GB. Let’s see how that goes…
#SelfHost #SelfHosted
#Peertube question:
If I recall, there was a way to co-host (or co-locate?) a video from another Peertube instance on your own instance in order to assist with bandwidth/reliability of a popular video.
Anyone remember what that feature was called and how to do it?
#AskFedi #AskMastodon
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@EdwinG@mstdn.moimeme.ca
This sale should be blocked for reasons of national security.
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@numbercrow@techhub.social
Trump’s Truth Social account has been in slideshow screensaver mode for like, 24 hours. 🤔
RE: https://bclocal.news/@national/117001496414011615
the Carney government won't say if it let him do it
🤨
#Netanyahu #CDNPoli #CDNMedia
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@TrueNorthSpice@mastodon.world
It really seems like our government is just not that interested in addressing the issue. Which leads us to the obvious question of ‘why not?’.
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@hewer_of_code@mstdn.ca
Throw it on the fire along with ‘uncertainty’ and ‘MOU’.