Andy Schan

Andy Schan

@schan.ca

Proud Canadian, father, husband, foster of dog, ex-Microsoft dude, in no particular order. All posts contain words, or your money back.

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Andy Schan
@schan.ca

A new party game - Carney or Ford? Try to guess whose policy decision it is with no names or pictures. Fun for the whole family!

The Walrus@thewalrus.ca

They might have stark political differences, but Mark Carney and Doug Ford have formed an unlikely alliance against US tariffs. Is their anti-Trump bromance enough to deliver results to Canadians? Drew Nelles is on the case: thewalrus.ca/doug-ford-mark-c...

Andy Schan
@schan.ca

Received 2 F-35s, and still "deliberating" about the rest of the order. I suspect "deliberating" is code for delaying until the public and press lose interest, then proceeding with the rest of the F-35s globalnews.ca/news/1212072...

globalnews.caCanada receives first F-35 jets from U.S. as full order still under review - National | Globalnews.caPrime Minister Mark Carney has paused plans to proceed with a planned order for 88 of these stealth fighter jets, and it may instead have a mixed fleet.

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SEGA-16
@sega-16.bsky.social

An amazing image from Twin Peaks, Dune, and Fallout star Kyle MacLachlan's memoir "Fictional Selves" that just shows how awesome Patrick Stuart is.

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George The Station Cat
@george-station-cat.bsky.social

It is with considerable regret that I must inform my loyal followers that the Treato Cabinet has been temporarily CLOSED due to persistent misuse. Apparently, visiting it 47 times before teatime, helping myself to the contents and then reporting it empty constitutes “misuse”.

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Mary Gillis
@marygillis.bsky.social

Huh. Gutting labour rights and environmental regulations happened so quickly. It's almost like this government moves as fast as possible when they're helping industry, and as slow as possible when they're regulating it.

Unofficial CTV News Mirror@ctvnews-mirror.bsky.social

Miller says government moving quickly but no timeline for new digital regulator

ctvnews.caMiller says government moving quickly but no timeline for new digital regulatorCulture Minister Marc Miller says while he shares concerns about how long the government’s new digital regulator will take to set up, he’s unable to say exactly when that will happen.

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Global News
@globalnews.ca

The U.S. Embassy in Ottawa issued a list of nine “facts” Wednesday that it claims demonstrate that Canadian politicians — mostly Industry Minister Melanie Joly and Ontario Premier Doug Ford — have been attempting to “influence” American politics. globalnews.ca/news/1211384...

globalnews.caDiplomacy or ‘interference’? U.S. warns Canadian officials as midterms near - National | Globalnews.caU.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra’s list of perceived Canadian “foreign interference” looks more like pointed public diplomacy to experts.
Andy Schan
@schan.ca

It's always striking how much of this AI BS has so little to do with, well, AI, and so much to do with playing a shell game with billions of dollars. it's like a game of musical chairs, but when the music stops we ALL lose: www.wheresyoured.at/ai-had-bette...

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Carl Meyer
@meyer.bsky.social

A document meant for a behind-closed-doors group of fossil fuel advocates earlier this year got right to the point: Canada’s policies to fight the climate crisis, protect nature and defend Indigenous Rights are a “problem” and environmental organizations are “opponents” thenarwhal.ca/fossil-fuel-...

thenarwhal.ca‘Knowing our opponents’: how a pro-oil-and-gas group tracks journalists, First Nations and environmentalistsNew research by Greenpeace Canada lays out a web of pro-oil and gas groups working together to influence public opinion on climate change

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Max Fawcett
@maxfawcett.bsky.social

Housing affordability is still a huge problem in Canada. We're never going to address it until we acknowledge our own role in creating and sustaining it -- and start building more in the places where people already live. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/10/19/o...

nationalobserver.comThe real battle for housing affordability has yet to be foughtWe've spent years acknowledging the affordability crisis in Canada, but we're still talking around the biggest issue of all: our own selfishness. Until we confront and defeat that, nothing else matter...
Andy Schan
@schan.ca

From the App Store on my iPhone; this is like asking me “what brand of cigarettes is right for you?”

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Jimmy Thomson
@jameswsthomson.com

Defence Minister David McGuinty is giving a press conference in Edmonton following the Wainwright disaster. Hopefully we'll get some clarity on how the military believes the fire started and spread.

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ashley fairbanks
@ziibiing.com

a norwegian on Threads posted this and i just don’t know how much more clearly we can emphasize how much Americans are being ripped off by our system which is built to concentrate wealth at the top

Andy Schan
@schan.ca

Doug Ford as “Captain Canada” indeed; he folded like a wet tissue. Gives him more free time to carve up out health care system 🤨

Charlie Angus@charlieangus104.bsky.social

In Chrysta Freeland's new book she states that Howard Lutnick threatened to invade Canada "by sundown" over Doug Ford's electricity surcharge. The fact that US trade negotiators put military threat on the table must be taken with the upmost seriousness. charlieangus.substack.com/p/they-threa...

charlieangus.substack.comThey Threatened to Invade by SundownLutnick and his crowd cannot abide a proud democratic nation on the border.