Always Seeking 🇨🇦

@alwaysseeking.bsky.social

Intensely curious. Multiple interests. Allergic to bullshit and overwrought drama.

Do NOT fall for scam callers! If someone calls posing as your bank or credit card company tell them you’ll call direct. Then hang up and go online to check your account and call the authorized number your financial institution has provided if you’re still concerned. Never, NEVER do as a caller asks.

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This interview confirms for me that my decision to get on board early with @gandersocial.ca as an investor and a user was a good one. Maybe it'll convince my fellow Canucks 🍁 to check them out! #CanadianMade #socialmedia

The Walrus@thewalrus.ca · 4w ago

Ben Waldman had a bold idea: build a Canadian social network from scratch. The result: Gander. After its Canada Day launch, Waldman joined The Walrus’s Carmine Starnino to talk about digital sovereignty and what it takes to build healthier online spaces: https://ow.ly/XwKZ50Zlle5

On the left: an image of a blond person looking at their phone with the Gander social media app on the screen. On the right: text that reads “A Canadian social network? Don’t roll your eyes yet. Gander is betting there’s an appetite for a homegrown platform built on trust instead of outrage”

Cons in Alberta (Smith, Kenney, Poilievre, Manning et al), used rage-farming tactics to create a generation of grievance junkies, who are absolutely addicted to their own idea of victimhood at the hands of a corrupt federal government. Social media, has made it even easier to spread this poison.

Catherine McKenna@cathmckenna.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“Conservative politicians in Alberta, from Danielle Smith and Jason Kenney on down to Pierre Poilievre and Preston Manning, have used the rage of Albertans as the fissile material powering their own political ambition.” Great piece by @maxfawcett.bsky.social about Alberta grievance politics.

"The moment you begin to censor the writer- and history bears this out in the ugliest of fashions -so begins a process of decay in the body politic that ultimately leads to disaster." ~Rod Serling Speech, Library of Congress (1968)

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When it comes to CUSMA, the question facing Canada is no longer what free trade is worth. “It is what value remains in a significantly reduced and chronically uncertain level of access to a much weaker US economy,” writes Peter Jones. https://ow.ly/NGna50YUPGf

On the left: an image of a roll of Canadian $100 bills next to a smaller-sized roll of American bills on a blue background. On the right: text that reads “Canada should call Trump’s bluff on CUSMA trade talks. With the US economy weakening, Ottawa has more leverage than it thinks”