Hobbes
@manitobbes.bsky.social
Manitoba, the backwater hinterland. • Dog lover • Plant lover • Twitter exodus • Social democrat (of unspecified flavour) • Panthiest • 2% Neanderthal DNA 🦬 🏳️🌈 🇺🇦 🧏♂️ 🇨🇦
This is unbelievable 🤯 The US was asking for complete domination over Canada
@avilewis.ca @mark-carney.bsky.social This transaction must be legislatively nulled if not too late! #cdnpoli
Hobbes@manitobbes.bsky.social · 2w agoMark Carney must use all available legislative means to block the sale of Moneris to foreign buyers. From a privacy and sovereign perspective, this is a no brainer. #cdnpoli #ndp #cpc #lpc www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
CSIS director Dan Rogers said during an interview that a referendum like the one in Alberta is rife for amplification, or for the sort of disinformation or foreign interference that we’ve seen from players like Russia in the past. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... @theglobeandmail.com #cdnpoli
Russian, U.S. actors are targeting Albertans with pro-separatist content, research shows
MAGA influencers are promoting the narrative that the province has no choice but to leave
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Mark Carney must use all available legislative means to block the sale of Moneris to foreign buyers. From a privacy and sovereign perspective, this is a no brainer. #cdnpoli #ndp #cpc #lpc www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
A Canadian payment giant is being sold to U.S. private equity. Is your digital privacy at risk? | CBC News
Royal Bank of Canada and Bank of Montreal are selling payment processor Moneris Solutions Corp. to San Francisco-based investment firm Francisco Partners. Some analysts are raising concerns around wha...
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Those with a positive view of Democratic Socialism: 🔴 All: 36% 🔴 18-29: 43% 🔴 30-44: 38% 🔴 45-59: 32% 🔴 60+: 33% 🔴 Men: 39% 🔴 Women: 33% 🟠 NDP: 57% 🔴 LPC: 43% ⚜️ BQ: 43% 🔵 CPC: 24% Abacus Data / July 15, 2026
Those with a positive view of Communism: 🔴 All: 12% 🔴 18-29: 26% 🔴 30-44: 20% 🔴 45-59: 7% 🔴 60+: 2% 🔴 Men: 13% 🔴 Women: 11% 🟠 NDP: 23% 🔴 LPC: 12% 🔵 CPC: 12% ⚜️ BQ: 9% Abacus Data / July 15, 2026
Those with a positive view of Capitalism: 🟡 All: 33% 🟡 18-29: 30% 🟡 30-44: 31% 🟡 45-59: 33% 🟡 60+: 37% 🟡 Men: 44% 🟡 Women: 23% 🔵 CPC: 43% 🔴 LPC: 35% ⚜️ BQ: 27% 🟠 NDP: 18% Abacus Data / July 15, 2026
The new branding for the federal #NDP looks to be a nod to the past, although I still think there’s merit in dropping ‘P’ from the shortened name. Hopefully, it won’t be too expensive to have a two colour party logo.
Hobbes@manitobbes.bsky.social · last yr.Symbolically, perhaps the federal #NDP should formally drop the ‘P’ for branding purposes. New 🍁 Democrats Nouveaux 🍁 Démocrates Slightly more coherent than the constant switching of letters between English and French. #cdnpoli
The Waffle helped shape the discussion around left-wing politics in the 1960s and 1970s, what does the legacy of that movement have to say about the current state of NDP politics and the party's new leader? rabble.ca/books/avi-le...
Avi Lewis and a renewed interest in the Waffle
The Waffle helped shape the discussion around left-wing politics in the 1960s and 1970s, what does the legacy of that movement have to say about the current state of NDP politics and the party's new…
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Putin called an emergency meeting as a fuel crisis spreads across Russia. Russia is on the brink of a catastrophic economic collapse because there's no more gasoline or diesel. Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦 ❤
😲😲😲The Ukrainian 40 days of offense are well underway as Russia’s capital burns.🔥🔥🔥
Ukraine launches 40-day operation to push Russia to end the war www.yacnews.com/ukraine-laun...
Ukraine launches 40-day operation to push Russia to end the war
Ukraine has approved a 40-day strike campaign on Russia's refining and export chain, timed to a stalled peace negotiation and a 15 July review of the Western oil price cap.
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Elon Musk is the first person in modern times to lose their trillionaire status.
My hot take is that Burnham will offer Starmer the Foreign Office... because really Starmer is a Foreign Secretary in the wrong job and it might appeal.
Support for Lewis-led federal NDP moves ahead of Tories in some Winnipeg suburbs, poll reveals www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
Support for Lewis-led federal NDP moves ahead of Tories in some Winnipeg suburbs, poll reveals
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The community has spoken, so we're building. Here’s a peek at what's just been released, what we're working on, and what we're noodling on at Gander. A bit of healthier social, a bit of fun, some growth, and a dash of self-sufficiency. Anything here you’ve been hoping to see? Something else?
If you are Canadian and want to join Gander Social here is an invite link #Canada Hopefully this works, come take a gander 😏🤭 gander.social/profile/mini...
Gander: The Social Media You Want, Built in Canada
Fun, private, and ethical. We're changing the way social media is done around here, all without your personal data taking an unexpected trip down south.
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Looks like the Canadian-made social media #Gander has dropped their invite-only and opened their doors. #Canada #cdnpoli #madeinCanada
Looks like Xonaly is trying to position itself as a made-in-Canada search engine independent of Google and Bing. It remains unclear why they don’t use the .ca domain. As a young company, they’ve only indexed 1.6 million pages compared to 400 billion indexed by Google. xonaly.com/help/
Xonaly Help – Private Search Engine
Xonaly is an independent search engine with no tracking and no ads. Learn how it works.
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I’ll add to that, #Romania should hit #Russian targets in the southern region of #Kherson in #Ukraine
Carl Harris@carlftharris.bsky.social · 3mo agoGalati is about 10 miles from the Ukrainian border so I'll chalk it up to ruzzian incompetence. That said, Romania should hit back. If ruzzia retaliates, then call NATO.
I don’t recall the last time I’ve seen a federal #NDP leader hitting the road as hard and as visible as @avilewis.ca right after winning the leadership race. #cdnpoli
#Ukraine has a legal, moral, ethical and global responsibility to target military infrastructures and oil refineries under Kremlin’s control. Ukraine is fighting to save herself and to prevent the inferno from engulfing the rest of Europe. Slava Ukraini Dzala ertobashia
NBC News@nbcnews.com · 4mo agoA popular seaside town in Russia has seen oil wash onto its beaches, dark drops of rain and oil soot land on homes, and plumes of thick acrid smoke billow above its red rooftops.
⚡ The Pentagon has begun using Ukrainian Sky Map software at a key base in Saudi Arabia to detect and intercept drones, highlighting Ukraine's global lead in counter-UAV technology. united24media.com/latest-news/...
Pentagon Adopts Ukrainian Technology to Shield Middle East Bases From Drone Strikes
The United States military recently integrated Ukrainian drone defense technology at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia.
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A final look by Kyle Hutton at the NDP leadership race and how the donations shaped up at the end of it all bluntobjects.substack.com/p/ndp-2025-l...
NDP 2025 Leadership Donation Breakdowns
While we know who won - who’s to say there’s nothing left to learn?
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NDP parliamentary funding reinstated a year after losing party status
NDP parliamentary funding restored after lost party status
The federal NDP caucus has had its parliamentary funding reinstated, a year after losing official party status in the April 2025 general election.
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No infantry went in. The machines took the position. ㅤ For the first time in the war, Ukrainian ground robots and drones captured a Russian position on their own, forced the occupiers to surrender, and did it without infantry involvement or Ukrainian losses. Over 22,000 missions in three months.
