A year of Canadian citizenship! Time flies.

Adjusting back into Australian society very well, thank you very much, why do you ask?

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Wildfires have been burning in the region surrounding Kenora due to heat and strong winds. Today, it's snowing.

This is one of the best NZ nature stories I’ve ever read

Spotted between Manitoulin Island and Sault Ste. Marie today (I was not ready with the camera, hence the very zoomed in shot through the back window)

Newly elected Canadian PM Carney spoke with re-elected Australian PM Albanese. Canada's readout says they discussed 'trade, defence, and maintaining a free and open Indo-Pacific.' Albanese said in a presser overnight that Carney invited him to the G7 meeting in Alberta next month, which he accepted.

Ottawa serving up an absolute passport-shredder of a day on my last weekend here.

Another Australia-Canada comparison Election timing in the timezone where most people live. Most polls close: Canada 9:30 p.m./Australia 6 p.m. National broadcaster projects winning party Canada 10:10 p.m./Australia 8:25 p.m Winning party leader speaks: Canada 1:20 a.m./Australia 9:59 p.m.

For any Canadians tuning into the Australian election, this is a wee thread if you're wondering why you've never heard of places with names like Ryan, Grayndler, Dickson, etc. Lots of seat names are for people, not geographical locations.

This Guardian photo gallery shows some great examples of the sausage sizzles and bake sales at Australian polling centres

Quite possible that Australia's Dickson has pulled the same thing Canada's Carleton did earlier this week: defeating an opposition leader in their own seat. #auspol #cdnpoli

With CBC now having called all ridings it's time for the land-vs-people-vote animation.

With the dust settled on the Canadian federal election, time for some personal and professional news. Monday’s federal election was the second I’ve covered in Canada. It’s also—for now, at least—the last I’ll cover. 🧵

Both major Australian parties are taking solace Canada's election results, reports the AFR: Labor took heart from the anti-Trump sentiment that propelled the Liberals to victory, and the [Australian, conservative] Liberals drew comfort from the Conservative gains

Last night's dispatch by @nrmoss.bsky.social, @iremreports.bsky.social and Eleanor Wand from the Liberal election night party, as party faithful celebrated a fourth consecutive victory.

By pure coincidence, my two countries are holding federal elections in the same week. I wrote about the differences between the two systems, with a sprinkling of polling booth sausage sizzle evangelism.

Hell, I wrote about it. My hometown chicken shop went under just before the pandemic.

ABC News: Donald Trump's shadow looms large over Australian and Canadian elections

Finally, we have peace. Salty, yeasty peace

Lined up for approx 1hr 20 mins to vote (for the first time in a Canadian federal election) this morning. Long line for the first day of advance voting.

How I expect this news will go down in the motherland: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

2025 federal election candidates CANADA 1,959 candidates running across 343 House of Commons ridings AUSTRALIA 1,126 candidates running across 150 House of Representatives seats 330 candidates running for 40 Senate seats

r/mapswithoutnewzealand: I wish for once Americans would stop erasing our country on maps! *Finger on lemur's paw curls*

Before CN Tower stair climb/after CN Tower climb. Observation deck was surrounded by cloud when I arrived, but it didn't matter. Big proponent of escalators and lifts now.

So Kate Lyons and @nickevershed.bsky.social seem to have cracked the mystery of the exporting penguins and the non-existent Norfolk Island exports www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Man catches Hertfordshire hawk that attacked villagers for weeks

Vanuatu, which is still recovering from a devastating December earthquake, has been hit with 23% U.S. tariffs. But there's barely any trade between the two; America doesn't crack the top five import-export countries.

The administrator of Norfolk Island, an Australian territory of 2,000 people, says locals are 'confused' by the U.S. slapping a 29% tariff on them, given they don't export anything to the Americans.

Highest new tariffs outlined by the White House today go Lesotho and to St. Pierre and Miquelon, a tiny self-governing French island off the coast of Newfoundland

norfolk island, an external territory of Australia with a population of 2,188 people, has been hit with a 29% tariff by the Trump administration. as far as I can tell their biggest export to the US in 2023 was $413k of leather footwear out of a total $655k

I'm doing the stair climb up CN Tower this Saturday–has anyone here done it before and, if so, any tips? So far my plans are: - Wearing comfortable clothing and supportive sneakers. - 'Training' by climbing a bunch of office building/park stairs. - Clutching my inhaler for dear life.

For my English followers, this story is wild. How a website that publishes AI-generated articles and read by basically no one managed to infect Google search results *and other AI chatbots* with disinfo about Canadian party leaders' personal wealth.

Luv 2 get crypto scams pretending to be CBC posted as ads on my Facebook feed, months after the CBC told Meta this was an issue www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Since Canada and Australia are about to have federal election campaigns happening at the same time, it’s time for something nobody asked for: a thread about federal seat names in both countries!

#ausvotes and #cdnpoli about to have simultaneous election campaigns (at least until April 28)

Anything exciting happening in Ottawa this weekend?

My interest in this game just rose substantially.

Welp, looks like I'll be voting twice in a month come late April/May. Canada's federal election could be called for April 28 or May 5. Australia's federal election has to be called on or before May 17.

'I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family and even politicians advocating for me. Yet, I was still detained for nearly two weeks. 'Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there.'

American pharma companies are attacking Australia's Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, which makes about 930 prescription medicines cheaper for Australians. They want Trump to target it when he slaps supposed "reciprocal tariffs" on other countries.

Canada's partnering with Australia on an early warning detection system in the Arctic. PM Carney spoke with PM Albanese this morning Canada time

You know it's going well when ads for hotels in Florida targeting Canadians in late winter have mostly laugh or angry reactions, and the advertiser has turned the comments off.

A gang has been convicted over the theft of a £4.8-million gold toilet––titled "America"–from an art exhibition at Blenheim Palace.

Cross-border trips to the U.S. from Canada reach COVID lows with nearly 500,000 fewer travellers in February

EPIC, the Irish Emigration Museum, may need to update this graphic after last week (pic taken last year)

We have a prime minister again

Updating this to note Carney's party leader-to-PM gap was only five days.

An American influencer took a wild baby wombat from its mother for content. The video shows the clearly distressed mother behind her while the joey struggles and screeches in the woman's arms.

"Dog act" is about as bad a statement as you can get from an Australian politician, except maybe with a stern "mate" or "champ" added to the end.