Adrienne Tanner
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Freelance writer and columnist at Canada's National Observer, dog person, art lover, book fan
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jamelle
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My column this week speaks to this point that Trump is plainly incapable in acting in a way that isn’t self-destructive. (gift link)
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Opinion | The Alternate Universe of Donald J. Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/opinion/trump-iran-wartime-presidents.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SlA.U0RW.ob0TCMmr2cpM&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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We NEED free, accessible, public events and Car Free Days connect many neighbourhoods, community groups, charities, artists, makers, vendors. This would have been such a loss: Thanks to
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Cloe Logan
5 days ago
CivicSearchlight is now available for free for everyone, built by the amazing
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for
@nationalobserver.com
. It allows you to search municipal meetings across the country with keywords, and is really helpful for understanding how a topic has moved through time and jurisdictions. ❗☺️❗
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Civic Searchlight is now free to use
You can sign up right now to access our ever-growing database covering hundreds of Canadian municipalities, no subscription required. Search 59,000 hours and counting of transcribed public meetings, a...
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/03/09/news/civic-searchlight-now-free-use
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It's amazing anyone runs for office. The biggest sacrifice aspiring politicians make in this social media age is the incessant nasty trolling from people with differing political views.
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/03/11/o...
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We're lucky good people still choose brutal politics
The biggest sacrifice aspiring politicians make in this age of social media is the loss of privacy — or even worse, the incessant nasty trolling from people with differing political views.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/03/11/opinion/frances-bula-vancouver-city-council-politics-harassment
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Tim Board
11 days ago
Wait. They are releasing Epstein files to distract Americans from the war in Iran now?
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Andrea Woo
11 days ago
Within this story from
@kehyslop.bsky.social
and
@jenstden.bsky.social
: Former Green councillor Adrianne Carr says she resigned in 2025 in part because of remarks Sim made to her during an in-camera meeting
thetyee.ca/News/2026/03...
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COPE Councillor Considering Next Steps After Mayor’s False Drug Accusations | The Tyee
Ken Sim wrongly accused Sean Orr of dealing illegal drugs and initially let another councillor take the blame.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/03/05/COPE-Councillor-Mayor-False-Drug-Accusations/
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Canada's National Observer
12 days ago
Politicians like Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim and Coun. Lenny Zhou who spread lies about a colleague for political gain undermine trust in our political system. They don't deserve our respect or votes,
@adriennetanner.bsky.social
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Vancouver deserves better than Sim’s lies
The readiness of Mayor Ken Sim and Coun. Lenny Zhou to slander a colleague is far worse than any harebrained policy they might propose or past controversial decisions they have made.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/03/05/opinion/politicians-lie-disinformation-sim-drugs
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The Tennessee Holler
13 days ago
Seems like the media should at least express some curiosity about this.
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦
13 days ago
I've been told that Ken Sim told his team that a stranger waived a physical photo at him during a Chinatown event and falsely claimed that it was Orr dealing drugs on Christmas Day. The mayor doesn't remember the specific contents or style of the photo, and can't remember who showed it to him.
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shauna
14 days ago
yes and thank you for the excuse to share one of my all-time favorite tweets (from
@longwall26.bsky.social
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Jen St. Denis
18 days ago
Just wild, my goodness
#vanpoli
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Carney’s aid package to Cuba is a nod to close ties between our two countries and another signal that Canada is not prepared to do the bidding of the US. But we could do more — helping power their grid would be longer lasting.
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/25/o...
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Canada's care package to Cuba feels thin
Carney’s aid package to Cuba is a nod to close ties between our two countries and another signal that Canada is not prepared to do the bidding of the US. But we could and should do more.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/25/opinion/canada-cuba-humanitarian-aid-oil-blockade
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Kitchen stakeout. Always hopeful. Often successful
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The Alberta premier's anti-immigrant campaign is an assault on Canada's benevolent national identity. If Alberta wants to benefit from Canada — they are asking for a new pipeline after all — they must act like Canadians.
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/21/o...
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Carney must stand up for decency against Smith
The Alberta premier's anti-immigrant campaign is an assault on Canada's benevolent national identity. But if Alberta wants to benefit from Canada — they are asking for a new pipeline after all — they ...
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/21/opinion/carney-smith-immigrants
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Where is Canada on this? Despicable treatment of lovely people.... We're happy to go lie on the beach, we should help now.
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Most of the premiers in Canada have banded together to face down the threat posed by Donald Trump. Except, that is, for Danielle Smith, who has decided to turn her province's attention to the threat posed by....Ottawa and its immigration policies?
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/20/o...
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Danielle Smith keeps feeding the beast
If there’s a Pandora’s Box that Alberta's premier hasn’t opened yet, it’s not for a lack of trying.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/20/opinion/danielle-smith-referendum-immigrants
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As climate change melts the glaciers and makes droughts more frequent and prolonged, Canadians must become better stewards of water. Unfortunately, in many provinces, the opposite is happening.
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/12/o...
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Canada drains its future while droughts deepen
As climate change melts the glaciers and makes droughts more frequent and prolonged, it’s time to become better stewards of water. Unfortunately, in many provinces, the opposite is happening.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/12/opinion/canada-water-management-droughts-climate-change
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The Supreme Court of Canada has overturned a one-vote win for the Liberals in Quebec's Terrebonne riding
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/13/n...
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Canada's top court overturns squeaker win by federal Liberals in Quebec riding
Liberal Tatiana Auguste was initially declared the winner by one vote over Bloc Québécois candidate Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné in the 2025 election.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/13/news/supreme-court-federal-liberals-quebec-terrebonne
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Mary Gillis
about 1 month ago
I'm not a climate doomer, because that's what the powerful want. They want people to give up and say "it's too late." Even if it is too late, I'd still rather the world decarbonize if only to fuck up the fossil fuel companies. If you refuse to believe in a better future, at least believe in spite.
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Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦
about 1 month ago
Holy cow, folks. Archive link to a paywall read, but it’s an astounding op-ed with an outside perspective on American Olympians & the crisis of confidence in representing the “American brand” on the world stage. This does NOT mince words. Wow. From the searing Jake Paul lede to the end: Oof.
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Wild thing chewing something other than me. Which is good.
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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is zeroing in on one horrific court case to demand Canada give her a say in the way Canada appoints higher court judges. This is cheap politicking that risks undermining trust in Canadian courts.
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/05/o...
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Hands off the judiciary, Premier Smith
Zeroing in on one horrific court case to demand Canada make a wholesale change in the way it appoints higher court judges is cheap politicking that ignores reforms to the bail system already in the wo...
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/05/opinion/smith-alberta-judiciary-premier-appointments-judges
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WeRateDogs
about 1 month ago
This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10
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Bill Grueskin
about 1 month ago
A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
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A must listen lecture about where the US is at and where it’s going. Not super optimistic, but no without a slover of hope
youtu.be/6Z0zcG920n0
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Adam Shatz: Another Country
YouTube video by London Review of Books (LRB)
https://youtu.be/6Z0zcG920n0
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Rachel Maddow
about 1 month ago
I know you've heard that a federal judge ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Conejo Arias and his father, and that they're now home. But did you look at the judge's order? It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept." Link to pdf:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Another day, another example of Alberta's premier fighting hard to defend separatists than defeat them. Why it's time for the rest of Canada to pick up the gauntlet — and start treating her like the separatist she is.
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Yes, Danielle Smith is a separatist
Alberta's premier says she supports "a sovereign Alberta within a united Canada." Her actions tell a much different story — one that makes her position on the issue impossible to ignore.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/02/opinion/alberta-danielle-smith-separatism
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Sherry Affogato
about 1 month ago
Thinking about whoever said that by accepting a meal from people and then arresting them ICE agents broke a cultural taboo that was invented by, like, the first humans to set up a tent
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Canada's National Observer
about 2 months ago
The National Post, The Rebel and Juno News attacked Coastal First Nations earlier this month after Mark Carney met with them over his pipeline deal. Now, after a BC Conservative leadership hopeful echoed those talking points, they've hit back.
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Coastal First Nations hit back after pundits and politicians challenge its legitimacy in pipeline debate
Coastal First Nations push back against claims questioning their legitimacy, accusing political critics of spreading disinformation as disagreements escalate over the proposed BC coast pipeline.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/28/news/coastal-first-nations-hit-back-after-pundits-politicians-challenge-its-legitimacy
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Rebecca Bollwitt
about 2 months ago
The Lunar New Year lanterns are up in the West End
#vancouver
#canada
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That wee noggin. ❤️
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Christopher Webb
about 2 months ago
This is testimony… 📌 Stella Carlson, “Pink coat lady”, speaks on the murder of Alex Pretti. “After the shooting, they (ICE) decided to just scatter and save themselves.”
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Aaron Rupar
about 2 months ago
Here's what ICE is up to in Northeast Minneapolis today. Absolutely heartbreaking. Warning: video is hard to watch
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The world is in a bad place right now. A puppy can’t fix it, but it sure helps you forget. Welcome Comet♥️
about 2 months ago
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Mark Ruffalo
about 2 months ago
www.politico.eu/article/germ...
This is what we need to do!
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German football executive urges World Cup boycott to protest Trump
Calls grow to weaponize football as the U.S. president escalates tensions with Europe.
https://www.politico.eu/article/german-football-executive-urges-world-cup-boycott-to-protest-trump/
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max nesterak
about 2 months ago
It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
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about 2 months ago
Minnesota is the best of us.
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Governor Tim Walz
about 2 months ago
I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
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When Conservatives gather in Calgary at their convention next weekend, right-wing “content creators” will be welcomed as journalists. Some journalists, such as
@nationalobserver.com
, not so much
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/24/a...
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Federal Conservatives trade journalists for partisan cheerleaders
When Conservatives gather in Calgary at their convention next weekend, right-wing “content creators” will be welcomed as journalists. This publication, not so much.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/24/analysis/poilievre-leadership-convention-influencers-media-access
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If the next federal election is about affordability or the appetite for change, Pierre Poilievre still has a chance. But if it's about Donald Trump and who's best equipped to meet his threat, it'll be over before it even starts.
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Pierre Poilievre just can't meet the moment
After two days of uncharacteristic silence, the Conservative leader finally found his voice. What he had to say was the same thing he's been saying for years.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/23/opinion/pierre-poilievre-carney-carbon-tax
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Hundreds of workers responsible for pollution prevention, weather forecasting, conservation and environmental disaster response are set to be cut from ECCC as Prime Minister Mark Carney's government takes a chainsaw to the public service.
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/23/n...
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Feds target hundreds of Environment and Climate Change Canada workers putting 'public safety and the environment at risk'
Hundreds of workers responsible for pollution prevention, weather forecasting, conservation and environmental disaster response are being at Environment and Climate Change Canada received workforce ad...
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/23/news/feds-target-hundreds-environment-climate-change-canada-workers-putting-public
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Ana Marie Cox
about 2 months ago
I will just keep repeating. I have never never never seen anything like this. 30 years of reporting.
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RossBelot
about 2 months ago
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's stand on a proposed new oil pipeline from Alberta to the West Coast is flawed on so many levels.
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Reality trumps a Poilievre oil fantasy
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's stand on a proposed new oil pipeline from Alberta to the West Coast flawed on so many levels. It confuses where most of the refining of our crude oil occurs, wro...
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/23/opinion/poilievre-oil-pipeline-oilsands-venezuela
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Another place where we should stop our reliance on the U.S.
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Monsanto’s shadow still poisons Canadian policy
It's time Canada stopped following the lead of pesticide approvals in the US, whose current government is in thrall to corporations like never before.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/22/opinion/monsanto-pesticides-glyphosate-roundup-canadian-policy
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about 2 months ago
Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"
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Carney telling it like it is. "There is a strong tendency for countries to go along to get along... to avoid trouble. To hope that compliance will buy safety. Well it won't."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE98...
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Davos LIVE: Canadian PM Mark Carney speaks at World Economic Forum
YouTube video by Associated Press
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE981Z_TaVo
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Can be easy to forget. But there are still a lot of wonderful people in the world. Volunteers in Minnesota Deliver Groceries So Immigrants Can Hide at Home
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u...
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Volunteers in Minnesota Deliver Groceries So Immigrants Can Hide at Home
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/us/minnesota-groceries-church-volunteer-ice-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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