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@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2026-04-27 18:57:59
Can I just say I hate that "Canada Strong" has gone from political pitch to clumsy two-worded adjective?
Quoteth the Prime Minister:
""If you have a bit of extra money, we'll make it easy for you to invest in the fund to help build Canada strong for all,".
Aaauuuggghhh
Just use regular words.
Also, naming your Sovereign Wealth Fund after your own partisan nomenclature is a great way to ensure it doesn't live past the current political party in power.
Not everything has to be a slogan!
#CanPoli #CdnPoli
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@cheryanne@aus.social2026-06-11 12:40:43
Went to a ferociously funny Club Sandwich comedy night at the Tuggeranong Arts Centre tonight. Can highly recommend. Best one ever!
#Comedy #Tuggeranong #Canberra
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-05-19 19:53:50
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Can:
🎵 Vitamin C
#Can
https://open.spotify.com/track/2Td5FqApG1uDhhoBvrOxOH
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-04-23 07:41:10
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Franz Schubert & Can Çakmur:
🎵 Piano Sonata in D Major, D. 850: IV. Rondo. Allegro moderato
#FranzSchubert #CanÇakmur
https://open.spotify.com/track/64qtRERMRaRP9CWe9xEj9X
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-06-12 09:01:02
@sean@scoat.es2026-05-06 15:21:08
I recognize that this is not a *new* idea, but it occurred to me that if Google wanted to start pushing “51st State" propaganda (or any other disgusting ideas) to a whole generation of children in #Canada , we don't really have a viable alternative to Google Classroom and Chromebooks.
This is why I think data/technology sovereignty is so important, but from what I can tell it's not e…
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@emd@cosocial.ca2026-05-01 18:26:18
If I ever ran for office, I'd run on a single issue, government transparency.
Unless it was super duper top secret, every single gov't decision must be automatically and immediately posted to public page/site that had a RSS/Fediverse feed.
Governments are FOR the people BY the people, give us the info!
Let us deal w/ the firehose of information, we can take it!
#CanPoli
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2026-05-27 14:49:21
“Having flown more than 2,500 hours on the CT-114 Tutor, I can say it has been an outstanding aircraft for the RCAF and for the Snowbirds.
The Tutor has served Canada for 66 years, and the team has flown it for more than five decades.
I recently had the opportunity to fly the Pilatus PC-21 in Switzerland, and I came away extremely impressed. This is not a downgrade from a jet to a turboprop; frankly, that argument misses the point entirely.”
#canpoli #rcaf #snowbirds #pc21 #cdnpoli
https://skiesmag.com/opinions/a-pilots-take-why-the-snowbirds-new-turboprop-is-the-right-choice/
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-06-10 23:28:58
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Cannonball Adderley:
🎵 I Can't Get Started
#CannonballAdderley
https://open.spotify.com/track/5OJw2p5rD4DwtGOCC438De
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@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2026-06-29 04:16:58
This is how far behind and how much of a disadvantage Canadians are at right now domestically.
Walk into Canadian Tire and you can by a 500W "kit” of 4 125W solar panels from $1199. That works out to $2.40 per Watt.
Or, you can go on Alibaba as I just did... search for 400W solar, chat with a (AI Bot probably?) and be offered 36 620 watt "JinkoSolar" panels for $US 2500 plus $3000 shipping which works out to $8,510.88 CAD or $0.38 per Watt.
Our governments and business communities are completely failing us. We are getting fleeced.
Granted I don't know if there would be import duties, but FGS the price difference is totally ridiculous.
#Solar #Canada #CanPoli #CdnPoli #SolarPV #Affordability
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-05-21 04:12:22
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Can:
🎵 I Want More
#Can
https://open.spotify.com/track/5NEnHpKc8FXVodV2ed5DCp
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2026-05-25 16:45:38
Hey Canadian Bluesky users!
Getting uncomfortable with Bluesky’s inevitable decline into USA corporate, private-equity, control?
Now is the time to come over to the Canadian Social Web.
It is free, open, community driven, and growing fast.
There is a handy directory of Canadian spaces at TheSocialWeb.ca.
And don’t worry, you can even bridge over to Bluesky from your Canadian account so you're not out of the loop.
#deshitification
#socialweb #Canada #CanPoli #CdnPoli #Bluesky #OpenSocialWeb #EndCorporateControl
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@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-05-10 19:27:16
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #StuartMaconiesFreakZone
Can:
🎵 Future Days
#Can
https://open.spotify.com/track/0KHP9P5QZGcUJDzMYj3j6W
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-06-01 04:18:17
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Clara Schumann, Can Çakmur, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra & Laurence Equilbey:
🎵 Konzertsatz in F minor for piano and orchestra
#ClaraSchumann #CanÇakmur #PolishNationalRadioSymphonyOrchestra #LaurenceEquilbey
#Spotify
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-04-18 10:10:47
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheBethDittoShow
Holger Czukay, Michael Karoli, Jaki Liebezeit, Irmin Schmidt & Can:
🎵 Vitamin C
#HolgerCzukay #MichaelKaroli #JakiLiebezeit #IrminSchmidt #Can
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2026-06-12 17:37:01
We're nearing 400 signatures on the House Petition to restore Environment Canada! You can sign here!
The issue is also starting to get press! I sent an email to the reporter behind this story yesterday telling him about the petition.
"‘It’s a little troubling’: Environment Canada cuts to radar research team puts public at risk, experts say”
News story: #Canada #CanPoli #CdnPoli #CarneyRestoreECCC #e7465
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-05-05 20:51:56
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Can:
🎵 Father Cannot Yell
#Can
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2026-05-06 21:21:45
Oh great... so we're going to privatize or sell 'equity' in our airports to private interests so that we can spend the 'proceeds’ on... let me guess... fossil fuel projects.
The more this government digs in, the more it looks like the worst Brian Mulroney Stephen Harper mashup.
@avilewis and the NDP need to be relentlessly loud in their opposition to this and presenting of socially progressive alternatives.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Canada #Airports #Transportation #EndFossilFuels
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2026-04-07 19:16:06
Dear Canadians.
Send a message to our Prime Minister!
pm@pm.gc.ca
This is what I just sent.
Dear Prime Minister,
I am shocked and deeply disturbed by your inaction and inability to call out the President of the United States who is using the rhetoric of a madman.
Canada should call in the USA Ambassador, close our airspace to USA forces on Iran-related flights, and denounce in public this clearly criminal and suicidal rhetoric.
Sincerely
Chris
You can also fill in this contact form: #IranUSAIsraelWar #Iran #USA #TheAmericanFascist #CanPoli #CdnPoli
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-04-08 23:06:26
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #DriveTime
Candi Staton:
🎵 Young Hearts Run Free
#CandiStaton
https://deceivr.bandcamp.com/album/candi-staton-young-hearts-run-free-deceivr-club-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/3MFa9idQuY4iJLWsZl3tIQ
🎶 show playlist 👇
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🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
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@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2026-03-31 16:21:13
Is this allowed? This feels really really gross if it is. You shouldn’t just be able to appoint your own staff people to Senate positions.
G&M:
“Two other senior Liberals say there are also active discussions to appoint the Prime Minister’s principal secretary, Tom Pitfield, to the Senate with a mandate to get legislation passed quickly. The Globe is not naming them because they are not authorized to speak publicly about internal party matters”
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Senate #Liberals
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2026-06-26 20:14:14
We in BC and in Canada have this on our conscience as the world burns. Carney and Eby plan on doubling this facility and adding others.
Our governments, and by extension we, are not only complicit, but directly responsible for allowing this.
We the people are the only ones who can make it stop.
#BCLNG #BCPoli #CanPoli #CdnPoli #ClimateEmergency #EndFossilFuels
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2026-04-05 14:48:02
“Wang Chuanfu, BYD’s CEO, barely slept for weeks. Three passengers, all in their twenties. His chemistry. His cell. His company’s name on the casing. He had not built it to kill anyone, but it had. He pulled his engineers together with one question: What is the mechanism by which this cell fails, and how do we make that physically impossible”
Someone needs to get this article in front of Mark Carney and Doug Ford and then the stupid limits on Chinese cars need to be eliminated so Canada can start building these things immediately.
This is the future.
China is leading that future and we need to come to terms with it and use our influence to make it, and them, better.
#climateEmergency #climatechange #byd #china #canada #canpoli
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2026-05-04 21:54:28
The three most interesting paragraphs from this story, IMO:
"The Stay Free Alberta petitioners say they have collected 301,620 signatures, well over the 178,000 threshold that can prompt the province to consider a referendum question. "
"Gordon McClure, chief electoral officer, has said that [the verification] process will now also include a search for fake names seeded in copies of voter lists — designed as a mechanism to prove if improper use of the electoral list has been used.”
"A pro-unity ‘Forever Canadian’ petition had 404,293 signatures verified in December. That citizen initiative wants the government to consider making it official policy for Alberta to remain a part of Canada.”
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #ABPoli #Separatism #Republicanism #Fascism #USA #Expansionism
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-separatists-say-more-than-300k-have-signed-petition-9.7187218
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2026-04-02 20:47:34
I hate this timeline.
As a long time #climate campaigner... I almost feel like I should be hoping that the Iran/US war continues as long as possible so the price of oil and gasoline can go as high as possible and force economies to electrify and shift at emergency-speed to renewables.
We could have started on this the easy way 30 years ago... but a few of the same people objected and obstructed.
#IranUSIsraelWar #ClimateCatastrophe #ClimateWar #Oil #EndFossilFuels #ClimateCollapse #USA #CanPoli #CdnPoli
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2026-06-19 04:34:54
I am glad that the Qatar player, Assim Madibo, who broke Koné’s leg, sought out Kone immediately in the dressing room to apologize before Kone was taken to hospital.
He seemed genuinely distraught and upset after the tackle.
Some of the people on the Qatar bench need a good slap for their reactions... but on the whole, Madibo reacted in the right way, and that goes a long way to making what happened truly a tragic accident that can happen at any time in professional sports.
I wish Madibo well, and I hope Koné's recovery can be as quick, and complete as possible over the next few months.
And of course, I hope this gives Canada at least some added motivation and drive to get to the knockout stage and really make some noise in this thing!
#Canada #Qatar #Soccer #FIFAWorldCup2026 #Vancouver #Kone #Madibo
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/soccer/worldcup/2026/06/18/qatar-apologizes-ismael-kone-injury-broken-leg-world-cup/90616232007/
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2026-06-22 15:38:59
The summer is heating up! #Edmonton and #Montreal are flooded by historic rains, Lytton BC is under threat again by wildfire, and Vancouver Island is in a historic drought.
Does Environment Canada have the ability to warn us and track the changes in our climate? The government is cutting ECCC services and capabilities at a time that we need it more than ever.
Here's our petition to tell them to restore Environment Canada!
#e7465! We're hoping for many more before the summer ends so Government can't ignore this issue.
Here’s what we, citizens and residents of Canada, are asking from the #Carney Government:
1. Reverse cuts to Environment and Climate Change Canada that impact weather forecasting, meteorological research and climate science;
2. Restore and maintain Weatheradio and other accessible public alert systems;
3. Protect and expand weather observation and climate monitoring stations across Canada;
4. Ensure adequate staffing and long-term funding for ECCC programs, scientists, meteorologists and technical experts; and
5. Recognize weather forecasting and climate monitoring as essential public safety infrastructure.
The petition ends August 26th in time for the new session in the fall. We have the summer to get it done!
Sources:
Edmonton “Deluge or rain” June 22 2026: #canPoli #CdnPoli #ECCC #RestoreCarneyCuts #RestoreECCC #Weather #ClimateChange #ClimateScience