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Mélanie Joly: "We received late last night a reply from Cleveland-Cliffs and Stelco. My message to the CEO of Cleveland-Cliffs is clear: what I want is a plan to bring back the jobs, and I want a timeline."

A reminder, because it is almost that time of year: More children are killed by cars on Halloween than any other day of the year, by far. www.vox.com/future-perfe... If you're a parent, I hope you'll do what you can to keep kids safe. If you're driving on Saturday, PLEASE exercise extra caution.

Canadian stock market outperforming U.S. for second consecutive year

BlueSky not scrolling on my phone. Anyone else?

New polling from Environics on Canadian attitudes toward the United States. environicsinstitute.org/wp-content/u...

Permanent Daylight Saving Time would make winter mornings too dark. Health and safety need the morning light of permanent Standard Time.

The Greens didn't "steal" votes from the NDP (which don't belong to them anyway). People saw Eby's cynicism and weak offering and voted by not voting. Per @jmcelroy.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I imagine the BC NDP might tell themselves they were very likely to lose whenever the election came and the polls six weeks ago were as good as they were ever going to be for them. But when you're in government you can do stuff. And the BC NDP just lost two years when they could have done stuff.

Ahem

The Conservatives projected enough normalcy to the public. NDP voter enthusiasm collapsed. And David Eby made a decision that will be derided for decades. Here's my post-election column. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Michal de Adder

Our rugby women are the real deal. They're best in the world on the pitch. Off the pitch, they're not. It's time to pay them. theprovince.com/sports/rugby...

I voted! 🗳️ (absentee, online) Before I moved to Canada, I lived in Raleigh, NC. So as an overseas citizen voter, I'm a Wake County North Carolina voter forever (unless I move back to the States). If you're eligible to vote in the US midterms, I hope you voted too!

BC, LOCK IN AND VOTE! POLLS OPEN UNTIL 8PM TODAY!!!!

Kudos to TSN and Canadian Tire for their investment in womens rugby in Canada

October is Women's History Month. During this month, we celebrate women from Canada's history who have helped shape the country. Today, it is Bobbie Rosenfeld.

It would be grand, then, if the Government of Canada would terminate any use of X/Twitter. And don't say, "Oh, we need it to get our messages out," because then you are "caught in a situation where we are reliant on one provider."

Upset? Hardly. A brilliant win built on years and years of work of people who put aside politics and just got on with it theprovince.com/sports/rugby...

And many Americans think we’ll go back to pre-Trump days as if nothing happened. Sad to say - not a chance.

An amazing line from @sphillipsab.bsky.social on the latest @thestrategists.ca pod: “a snap election call is like a fancy hat: you have to have the personality to pull it off.”

Mark Carney on Elon Musk throttling Starlink: "I search for the right adjective to describe whoever took this decision or group of people took this decision against a country that is literally fighting for the lives of the citizens against naked aggression."

Science remains amazing, and vaccines particularly so. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

For the sake of discussion: There are 26 countries that the Economist Democracy Index classifies as a "full democracy," 16 of which are in Western Europe (and one of which is us). Turkey is classified as a "hybrid regime," a category that includes Mexico and Ukraine.

"What the Carney government appears to be making as a choice is not to restrict diversification efforts only to democracies" said Juneau... "if Canada were to choose to diversify only with democracies the ceiling for success would be low." www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Hey @bcndpcaucus.bsky.social, I’m one of these 8,500 people! Why don’t we deserve healthcare? Your cut to MSP funding for the BC-CLMF clinic will have *massive* repercussions for all of us #MECFS #LongCovid patients in the province. Your decision will keep more of us trapped in bed.

Beware! This is happening in several "Red" states, including Texas and Florida. Some people are claiming that the machines are just "miscalibrated." Maybe so, but certainly NOT by accident. If it were an accident, some would do the opposite. This is a DELIBERATE GOP attempt to steal votes.

Canadian Ambassador to the UN David Lametti casually delivering his speech in Italian at the first Italophony Day at the United Nations. That’s multilateralism in action. 🇨🇦🇮🇹🇺🇳

October is Women's History Month. During this month, we celebrate women from Canada's history who have helped shape the country. Today, it is Elsie MacGill

In the coming century, there will be very few people who have seen a coral reef or a glacier.

Mark Carney: "Next month, our negotiators will sit down here in Ankara for the first round of free trade talks."

peak bluesky activated (cathy is a retired principal and grandmother so treat her nicely!)

As the count continues, we are getting a clearer picture of the results from Monday's AB referendum: 1. Separation was trounced 2. No real mandate on the heavily pushed Q1-9 Big picture: the Urban-Rural divide Cgy+Edm voted No on all questions Rest of Alberta (combined) voted Yes

Great new T-shit by Henry Wessells and his Endless Bookshelf. temporary-culture.com/product/endl...

🗳️ Stella Parton (Dolly’s Sister) is among the Tennesseans reporting voting machines tried to flip her @jerrigreen4tn.bsky.social vote to Marsha Blackburn🤔😕 www.instagram.com/p/DewwVI9ERq...

To the people who are still talking about how Canada is "not taking Alberta seriously" -- what on earth are you talking about? The PM is an Albertan. The leader of the opposition is an Albertan. Our national politics revolve around Alberta's interests and concerns. What else do you want?

Prediction: Canada rejects Starlink because Musk is unreliable. Builds its own system. Other countries follow, developing their own or joining Canada's. Musk and this clown car of a regime will have destroyed our economy, alliances, and a national trust we may never regain. tinyurl.com/4w23a52d