Greg Bester 🇨🇦

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Q: Why shouldn't Alaskans find it insulting that the administration is suggesting they can't read the word 'incumbent' on their ballot and know to vote for Sen. Sullivan? JD VANCE: People are busy. People have lives. People have jobs.

Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦@emmettmacfarlane.com

Turnout in Waterloo was a meagre 30.71%. Sad to see the incumbent mayor - who seemed quite good - lose to a candidate who presented no vision during the campaign other than empty pablum about taxes and cost of living.

Ed Tubb@edtubb.bsky.social

And Olivia Chow takes her first lead of the night with the counting still early. www.thestar.com/news/gta/cit...

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

Mike Elk@mikeelk.bsky.social

Flávio Bolsonaro had his passport confiscated by the Brazilian fed police as his brother Eduardo told him to flee to the US. He is tied to paramilitary gangs, is being investigated & lost his legislative immunity when he left the Senate to run for president. paydayreport.com/brazilian-fe...

paydayreport.comBrazilian Federal Police Confiscate Flavio Bolsonaro’s PassportHe faces investigation for his ties to paramilitary gangs

Cult MTL@cultmtl.com

“A large majority of NDP voters (71%) say they approve of Mark Carney.”

cultmtl.comMark Carney is more popular among NDP voters than Avi LewisAccording to a study by the Angus Reid Institute, Prime Minister Mark Carney is more popular among NDP voters than NDP leader Avi Lewis.

Reuters@reuters.com

EXCLUSIVE: US, Canada working on deal to ease steel, auto tariffs, sources say reut.rs/4szXqCL

reut.rsEXCLUSIVE: US, Canada working on deal to ease steel, auto tariffs, sources sayThe United States ​and Canada are working on a deal to ease US tariffs on Canadian steel and autos, two US and ‌four Canadian sources said, as the two governments try to repair relations that soured after trade talks broke down in August.

Chris Sommerfeldt@c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social

New: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a group of his friends have been secretly using the NYPD Police Academy’s gymnasium in Queens to play pickup basketball — scrambling some operations at the facility. w/ @grahamrayman.bsky.social & Joe Anuta www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

politico.comMamdani is using NYPD gym to host pickup basketball games with friendsThe choice of location has scrambled NYPD training operations, angering a police union and a Republican lawmaker.

The Rundown@therundowntvo.bsky.social

How long can Waymo avoid Doug Ford’s ire? @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social and @spaikin.bsky.social consider what could happen when self-driving taxis meet Toronto traffic and provincial politics, on the #onpli podcast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0zk...

Scott Robertson@sarobertson.bsky.social

Reporter: You said about the U.S., "We recognize that sometimes its signature was written in pencil." I'm wondering how you know that this time the president will sign in pen? Mark Carney: I don't know that. Do you have a follow-up?

Daniel Munro@dkmunro.bsky.social

From the outside, I have all the markings and credentials of a person who should “fit” in academia (for better or worse). But there’s a little Bourdieu who sits on my shoulder and whispers “habitus” and “your Dad was a high school drop-out truck-driver” at all the wrong times.

Philippe J. Fournier@338canada.bsky.social

📊Federal 🇨🇦 voting intentions from Abacus Data: 🔴LPC 48% 🔵CPC 32% 🟠NDP 9% ⚜️BQ 6% (26% in QC) 🟢GPC 3% 🟣PPC 1% → 338canada.com/20261019-aba... [Abacus Data, October 17-21, 2026, n=1,500] #canpoli

338canada.com338Canada | Abacus Data federal poll, October 2026

Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Rally speaker: "Mike Rogers is an American. Abdul has a birth certificate. The birth certificate says he's a citizen of America. You know what? a birth certificate doesn't make you an American."

Adam Schwarz@adamjschwarz.bsky.social

Mark Carney on Elon Musk crippling Ukraine’s Starlink: “I search for the right adjective to describe whoever took this decision… against a country that is literally fighting for the lives of its citizens against naked aggression."

Club Saanich@thesaanichdaily.bsky.social

Record low NDP voter turnout caused this. 275,000 fewer NDP votes. Congratulations to the #BCGreens the only party to actually gain votes. I never want to hear about "strategic voting" again. The NDP couldn't even be bothered to vote "strategically" for their own party. #bcpoli #cdnpoli

Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉@alonghurst.bsky.social

Under the CPBC, I expect BC will follow AB, QC, ON by aggressively privatizing surgeries, diagnostics, long-term care CPBC platform calls for publicly funded vouchers for surgeries and long-term care. This will expand the private for-profit health care industry #bcpoli

The Beaverton@thebeaverton.com

BC nobly sacrifices good governance to teach one man about hubris

thebeaverton.comBC nobly sacrifices good governance to teach one man about hubrisVICTORIA - The electorate of British Columbia – a province with a population of roughly 5.7 million – has officially and heroically voted against its own self-interest with the sole intention of teach...

Scott Forbes🇨🇦@theecologyprof.bsky.social

My take? Eby's snap election moved up what was going to happen anyway. They were going to lose the next election under Eby. A long-in-the-tooth centre-right NDP govt with a charisma-free leader was ripe for the picking. Now they have a chance to reinvent themselves as a genuine progressive party.

Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social

This is Canada’s path.

Aaron Wherry@aaronwherry.bsky.social

Congratulations to David Peterson, who will no longer be the first David people think of when discussing the potential peril of triggering an early election.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Somalia -- 98% of the people here now from Somalia don't work. They don't have to work because they steal so much. They all have a Mercedes Benz. Low IQ and they live better than you do."

Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social

This seems like a big deal

showbiz411.comControversial "Musk" Documentary Pulled From Almost Every One of 472 Theaters After One Week by Newly Sold Bleecker Street Films - Showbiz411Alex Gibney's "Musk" movie is pretty much gone. Released October 9th to four theaters, it expanded to 472 last Friday. And now, one week later it's gone