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πŸ‘¨πŸ»β€πŸ’» Principal Engineer @ Shopify 🌐 https://ourpolitics.ca / https://jahfer.com πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ Ottawa, ON

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Immergut: What I'll do is not modify my original TRO but issue a new TRO that prohibits the relocation or deployment of any federalized national guard to the state of Oregon....

06.10.2025 03:17 πŸ‘ 1753 πŸ” 370 πŸ’¬ 37 πŸ“Œ 50

Asked of those who say Canada should counter tariff:

"What if the US increases their tariffs further?"
Use counter-tariffs: 95%
Don't use them: 5%

"What if it causes financial suffering to Canadians?"
Use counter-tariffs: 76%
Don't use them: 24%

Angus Reid / Aug 1, 2025 / n=887 / Online

01.08.2025 21:43 πŸ‘ 70 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 11

"Would you prefer to see Canada take a (X) approach to trade negotiations with the US?"

Hard - Refuse concessions even if it makes the relationship worse: 69% (+6)

Soft - Make concessions to keep a good relationship: 31% (-6)

Angus Reid / Aug 1, 2025 / n=1333 / Online

(% Change w Jul 13, 2025)

01.08.2025 21:42 πŸ‘ 195 πŸ” 33 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 15
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U.S. launches strikes on 3 Iranian nuclear facilities, Trump says The U.S. reached out to Iran diplomatically to say the strikes are all the U.S. plans and that regime change efforts are not planned, sources said.

there are all sorts of serious potential consequences, but iran having been told about this in advance and having already evacuated all three facilities should probably temper some of your expectations for WWIII.

22.06.2025 01:13 πŸ‘ 445 πŸ” 76 πŸ’¬ 24 πŸ“Œ 5
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The Economist says that the Gaza health ministry's death toll, criticized by some as inflated and as Hamas propaganda, might actually undercount the death toll (it could be as much as double).

10.05.2025 23:33 πŸ‘ 387 πŸ” 240 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 25
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Polishing your typography with line height units Learn how to use line-height units when setting paragraph margins β€” creating vertical rhythm in your text.

The lh unit looks quite useful.
webkit.org/blog/16831/l...

01.05.2025 22:57 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Liberals did substantially worse in majority-minority ridings

29.04.2025 13:37 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 4

"Our parent company, Paramount, is trying to complete a merger. The Trump administration must approve it. Paramount began to supervise our content in new ways"

28.04.2025 01:38 πŸ‘ 5384 πŸ” 1479 πŸ’¬ 101 πŸ“Œ 61
Our Politics β€” Notre politique Elections matter, but understanding headlines and press releases takes a lot of time. Our Politics aims to offer easy-to-read summaries of party platforms.

Last chance to review what the party platforms are offering πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ—³οΈ Check out ourpolitics.ca before you head to the polls tomorrow!

If you already voted, take note of what promises you want to hold politicians to post-election πŸ‘€ #cdnpoli #elxn2025

28.04.2025 00:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Building an AI pipeline to track Canadian election platforms | Our Politics | Jahfer's Blog Musings on software development that you didn't ask for.

Did a little write up on integrating AI into ourpolitics.ca for the πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ election this year. Being able to shift my focus from data gathering to data validation has been a huge unlock.

21.04.2025 13:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Our Politics β€” Notre politique Elections matter, but understanding headlines and press releases takes a lot of time. Our Politics aims to offer easy-to-read summaries of party platforms.

πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ Want to know what the different parties are promising in this election? I’ve updated ourpolitics.ca with comprehensive details about all of their proposed plans.

Have a look and share if you find it useful!

18.04.2025 16:14 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Linda McQuaig: American hedge funds should be banned from owning Canadian newspapers. Democracy is at stake Prime Minister Mark Carney should protect Canadian democracy by enforcing Canadian laws to ensure our newspapers are Canadian owned.

Impossible to disagree with a single word in here:
β€œWe now urgently need those newspapers to be owned by loyal Canadians committed to Canada’s independence β€” not by a hedge fund aligned with a manipulative and deceitful power-monger who has designs on us.”

www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

21.03.2025 10:53 πŸ‘ 106 πŸ” 38 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 1

β€œThe Greens agreed to Merz’s plan after securing commitments to protect climate-related spending”

The value of having many parties.

14.03.2025 11:47 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Canadian woman has been imprisoned by ICE for the last 9 days over paperwork issues with a work visa while trying to enter the United States

According to KGTV San Diego, she was transported to a detention facility in Arizona where she was "wrapped in chains" and kept in a cell with 30 other people

13.03.2025 01:06 πŸ‘ 1657 πŸ” 913 πŸ’¬ 59 πŸ“Œ 147
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🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨

The European Federation of Journalists representing 300,000+ journalists have announced they are leaving Elon Musk's X and will no longer be posting.

09.03.2025 01:52 πŸ‘ 16188 πŸ” 3721 πŸ’¬ 518 πŸ“Œ 462
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Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...

NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent.

β€œIt’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.

β€œA president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”

@kyivindependent.com

28.02.2025 22:45 πŸ‘ 67659 πŸ” 19223 πŸ’¬ 1255 πŸ“Œ 1039
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In an extraordinary display of public support, heads of state, heads of government, and foreign ministers from all over Europe and Canada are posting in support of Ukraine in response to the Oval Office meeting with Trump, Zelenskyy, and Vance.

28.02.2025 22:26 πŸ‘ 16222 πŸ” 4980 πŸ’¬ 367 πŸ“Œ 493

Turns out Zelenskyy is good at standing up against dictators.

28.02.2025 18:56 πŸ‘ 22131 πŸ” 3397 πŸ’¬ 265 πŸ“Œ 108
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The piece is based on this chart, showing the global economic policy uncertainty index has surpassed the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.

27.02.2025 22:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

You can watch the #Ontario #Elections results starting at 20:00 hrs / 8 pm EST.

Voting Booths are open till 21:00 / 9pm - Show Up and Vote! It does make a difference!!

27.02.2025 18:47 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I know things shouldn’t surprise me at this point, but wow…

25.02.2025 17:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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That’ll leave a mark. πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

@wsj.com $AA
www.wsj.com/business/alc...

25.02.2025 16:55 πŸ‘ 759 πŸ” 270 πŸ’¬ 67 πŸ“Œ 23
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This is a misleading way to present Canadian federal revenue and expenditure data.

21.02.2025 20:57 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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Finnish EPPGroup MEP, european parliament Foreign Affairs committee member and EPP EUDS coordinator Mika Aaltola:

"The United States has given us three weeks to agree on terms for Ukraine's surrender. If we don't, the United States will withdraw from Europe."

(original in Finnish) 1/2

19.02.2025 20:35 πŸ‘ 453 πŸ” 213 πŸ’¬ 41 πŸ“Œ 96
Video obtained by CNN shows the rear landing gear of the jet buckling and the right wing shearing away in a fireball after the plane landed hard on the runway.

Video obtained by CNN shows the rear landing gear of the jet buckling and the right wing shearing away in a fireball after the plane landed hard on the runway.

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

18.02.2025 15:49 πŸ‘ 62379 πŸ” 15101 πŸ’¬ 1029 πŸ“Œ 1170

Worried that Elon is ushering a new era of serfdom? This one pot whitedish will make you feel like you're in Medieval England.

18.02.2025 03:10 πŸ‘ 1302 πŸ” 107 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 1

The hell is this article @nytimes.com? This is like writing an article arguing that Ukraine becoming part of Russia would be good because it’d make Russia more democratic. Ridiculous.

18.02.2025 03:14 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A line graph that is flat through November, December and January before abruptly spiking to near the top and staying consistently high at the beginning of February

A line graph that is flat through November, December and January before abruptly spiking to near the top and staying consistently high at the beginning of February

Interest in the Google search term "join the military" in Canada over the past 90 days

18.02.2025 03:00 πŸ‘ 474 πŸ” 130 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 19

it helps if you STOP USING THE FUCKING RIGHT WING PROPAGANDA WEBSITE HE OWNS

17.02.2025 17:31 πŸ‘ 1875 πŸ” 431 πŸ’¬ 28 πŸ“Œ 12
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Federal πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ voting intentions from LΓ©ger -- With Mark Carney as LPC leader:

πŸ”΄LPC 37%
πŸ”΅CPC 37%
🟠NDP 12%
⚜️BQ 6%
🟒GPC 5%
🟣PPC 2%

β†’ 338canada.com/polls.htm

[LΓ©ger, February 7-10, 2025, n=1,595]

#canpoli

11.02.2025 22:53 πŸ‘ 554 πŸ” 102 πŸ’¬ 41 πŸ“Œ 82