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Cathy Barr retweeted
Texas is refusing to release its maternal death report until after voters cast their midterm ballots.
This comes as reporting finds that ectopic pregnancy deaths rose faster in states with abortion bans.
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This story is wild.
If you’re tempted to vote for separation to “send a message,” please read it.
The only “message” your vote will send will be one of credibility and encouragement for the absolute loons profiled here.
As the story shows, they can’t even get along with each other. Imagine these keystone cops trying to negotiate secession while running a $400 billion economy.
These bootlickers went to Washington with no mandate from anyone. They offered to give away our water, rights to our oil, and ultimately our sovereignty to a foreign power.
As the story reveals, a bunch of them want to turn Alberta into some weird extension of the Christian nationalist wing of MAGA.
We *do* need to vote to send a message: that their campaign to collude with a foreign power, turn us against one another, and destroy our country ends decisively on October 19.
A Michigan delegation travelled to Calgary to sell separatists on software developed for Republicans to get out the vote – and how it could be used to wrench Alberta from Confederation.
For David Parker, an organizer for Alberta separation, the software was the path to victory – one that ultimately resulted in a massive privacy breach involving the sensitive personal data of nearly three million Albertans.
But Parker’s embrace of the Michigan delegation is evidence of a pattern: separatist factions in Alberta eager to engage the U.S. in their plans for secession, and American actors willing to assist, either privately or openly.
Through interviews with The Globe on both sides of the border, people involved in politics, the corporate sector and Alberta’s pursuit of separatism have described persistent efforts by figures in the U.S. administration and conservative political establishment to support groups seeking American expansionism and independence for Alberta.
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So the news today is that both the Alberta separatists and the Quebec separatists have been holding (or seeking) meetings with the Trump administration — colluding with a foreign power in the service of its ambition to break up the country and absorb it piece by piece. For how long are we going to continue to treat this as a legitimate political “option”?
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Why the hell would anyone in Canada be buying Driscoll’s anyway? 🤢
Now they’re facing a class-action lawsuit over allegations of chemical residues in their berries.
Buy Canadian. 🇨🇦
Leave Driscoll’s on the shelf. Boycott them. share.google/09oigWMoSIBHhWO…
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RT @AndrewTumilty: Imagine being the only person on the planet that Canadians will never say sorry to.
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Gallup: Record-high 89% of Americans think their government is corrupt
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Regimes that have restricted press freedom:
• Nazi Germany (1933–1945)
• Soviet Union under Stalin (1924–1953)
• North Korea (1948–present)
• Franco’s Spain (1939–1975)
• Mussolini’s Fascist Italy (1922–1943)
• Pinochet’s Chile (1973–1990)
• Communist Cuba (1959–present)
• Putin’s Russia (2000–present)
• The Trump Reich (2017–2021; 2025–present)
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I'm struck by how the MAGA echo chamber has suddenly embraced international law, declaring with certainty that the new agreement on Greenland obligates signatories to abide by it "forever."
I wonder what signatories of NAFTA, JCPOA, USMCA, the Paris Climate Agreement, etc. would say about the US credibly committing to treaties for years, let alone forever?
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"In Europe, free speech is in retreat"
- JD Vance
Meanwhile, back at the White House...
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JUST IN: Trump blames “Sleepy Joe Biden” for price increases across America, insisting they have nothing to do with him.
Trump: “Even Oil was higher under Biden than it is right now”
Fact check: When Biden left office, gas was $3.11 a gallon. Today, it’s $4.32.
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Cathy Barr retweeted
This is bigger than a boycott now. 🇨🇦
TIME reports:
69% are choosing Canadian products even when they cost more.
55% have stopped buying specific American brands.
$10 BILLION could be redirected back into Canada’s economy every year.
Trump wanted to pressure Canada.
Instead, he reminded Canadians that our wallets have power.
Keep buying Canadian. 🇨🇦
time.com/article/2026/09/09/…
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And yet there are people who actually believe this clown is going to send them a check for $5,000.
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This is the face of a man who has spent his entire life intimidating, degrading, and abusing women.
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Today, the Ambassador told Canada to "tone down the rhetoric...."
This week, Trump posted a cartoon of him assaulting Careny, a Map of Canada as a State, a Map of New Mexico as New America, and told businesses they can't run in the US if he doesn't want them to.
But right, Carney needs to tone it down.
This gaslighting is just ridiculous.
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Canadian airports which hosted stranded flyers on 9/11:
Halifax: 47 aircraft
Gander: 38 aircraft
Vancouver: 34 aircraft
St. John's: 21 aircraft
Winnipeg: 15 aircraft
Pearson: 14 aircraft
Whitehorse: 13 aircraft
Calgary: 13 aircraft
Mirabel (QC): 10 aircraft
Ottawa MacDonald-Cartier: 9 aircraft
Stephenville (NL): 8 aircraft
CFB Goose Bay (NL): 7 aircraft
Dorval (QC): 7 aircraft
Edmonton: 6 aircraft
Regina: 1 aircraft
Yellowknife: 1 aircraft
Deer Lake (NL): 1 aircraft
Airplanes diverted to Halifax Airport on September 11, 2001 in an effort to protect the United States.
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Trump: “I think the war will end immediately after the election. Because they can’t hold out any longer. They’re desperate to try to affect the election.”
Imagine still believing a word this guy says.
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Why do people only supposedly get the $5,000 if Republicans win in November? Republicans control everything and have for 2 years. Why didn’t they do it before? Why don’t they come back into session tomorrow and pass it right now? Because it’s all a lie, like everything else.
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Trump on 9/11: I was building a big building in New York, and I took the whole crew down there right after this happened., Wasn't too much we could do. We had other buildings, the United States steel building was creaking. I'll never forget two firemen. We thought it was coming down on top of us, and two firemen. Big, strong guys. And I'm not the smallest guy in the world. They grabbed me under the arms. They got to get out of here. And they literally lifted me up. This is not easy to do. I'm big. They lifted me up and they started running with me. I said, fellas, I can run myself.
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