Mike Fitzmaurice
@mikefitz.bsky.social
I used to spend a lot of time demonstrating how business processes were more than just automated repetitive tasks and how low-code ≠ magic, but now I'm retired. I also spent decades in the USA (legally) but returned to Canada a few years ago (happily).
Fascists' accusations are actually confessions. When U.S. Treasury Sec Scott Bessent called Doug Ford's "Reagan Hated Tariffs" as a "psy-op" he ignored U.S. psy-ops going on in Canada. To say nothing of the Trump-tied U.S. hedge fund that owns the majority of Canadian newspapers.
Alberta Separatism is a US-backed PSYOP for Oil | The Goose 🇨🇦
YouTube video by The Goose
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November 3, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Fascists' accusations are actually confessions. When U.S. Treasury Sec Scott Bessent called Doug Ford's "Reagan Hated Tariffs" as a "psy-op" he ignored U.S. psy-ops going on in Canada. To say nothing of the Trump-tied U.S. hedge fund that owns the majority of Canadian newspapers.
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💯 ⬇️ Canadians will not fall for gaslighting and will hold the line - this grassroots movement can get stronger just keep pushing!
September 20, 2025 at 11:42 PM
💯 ⬇️ Canadians will not fall for gaslighting and will hold the line - this grassroots movement can get stronger just keep pushing!
“The deportation of dissent”
How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation
As an Australian who wrote about the demonstrations while on campus, I gave my phone a superficial clean before flying to the U.S. I underestimated what I was up against.
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September 20, 2025 at 10:25 AM
“The deportation of dissent”
20 minutes into the future…
September 19, 2025 at 12:37 AM
20 minutes into the future…
If 33 people sit down at a table with 2 Neo-Nazis without protest, there are now 35 Neo-Nazis at the table.
September 18, 2025 at 12:43 PM
If 33 people sit down at a table with 2 Neo-Nazis without protest, there are now 35 Neo-Nazis at the table.
Charlie Kirk is just like Jesus...
Conservatives hate it when you quote him to them.
Conservatives hate it when you quote him to them.
September 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Charlie Kirk is just like Jesus...
Conservatives hate it when you quote him to them.
Conservatives hate it when you quote him to them.
The best way to honor Charlie Kirk is to release the Epstein files like he asked.
September 14, 2025 at 10:29 AM
The best way to honor Charlie Kirk is to release the Epstein files like he asked.
Tourist-starved U.S. cities: instead of gaslighting Canadians, try a campaign with the slogan “We Hate Him, Too.”
This Canadian Reacts To Rochester’s Cringe Love Letter To Canada
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July 26, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Tourist-starved U.S. cities: instead of gaslighting Canadians, try a campaign with the slogan “We Hate Him, Too.”
Stephen Colbert wins his time slot, grows his audience. Yet CBS is ending the Late Show. Note CBS’ settling a lawsuit with Trump for 16m. Paramount, CBS’ parent, needs approval from Trump’s FCC to merge with Skydance, which is owned by the son of Larry Ellison — a big Trump supporter. Do the math.
July 18, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Stephen Colbert wins his time slot, grows his audience. Yet CBS is ending the Late Show. Note CBS’ settling a lawsuit with Trump for 16m. Paramount, CBS’ parent, needs approval from Trump’s FCC to merge with Skydance, which is owned by the son of Larry Ellison — a big Trump supporter. Do the math.
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I finally figured out why it upsets me so much when US governors and mayors try to appeal to Canadians to get us to come back and be tourists in their cities and states. /1
Maine governor comes face to face with Canadian travel fears | CBC News
Maine Gov. Janet Mills spoke to New Brunswickers Tuesday alongside Premier Susan Holt. The event gave Mills the opportunity to hear the concerns surrounding border crossings and visits to the U.S. Mil...
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June 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I finally figured out why it upsets me so much when US governors and mayors try to appeal to Canadians to get us to come back and be tourists in their cities and states. /1
“…if the goal is to redistribute the cost of government from the richest to the poorest, while enormously augmenting the president’s personal power to the detriment of Congress, then the Trump plans make a lot more sense.”
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The Ultimate Bait and Switch of Trump’s Tariffs
How to understand the phony trade deals with Britain and China
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May 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
“…if the goal is to redistribute the cost of government from the richest to the poorest, while enormously augmenting the president’s personal power to the detriment of Congress, then the Trump plans make a lot more sense.”
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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States suffering from reduced tourism: stop persuading Canadians to return. Persuade your president to stop annexation threats, tariffs, and the very real risk of being sent to an El Salvadoran gulag. Hollow gestures and appeals to "years of friendship" that ask us to ignore that are insulting.
In a small Alaska town, Canada-U.S. tensions are upending a longstanding relationship | CBC Radio
Skagway, Alaska, a town of about 1,100, has long roots with Yukon. But as tensions between the Canada and U.S. governments rise over tariff and sovreignty threats, some Skagway residents fear a breakd...
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May 4, 2025 at 12:47 PM
States suffering from reduced tourism: stop persuading Canadians to return. Persuade your president to stop annexation threats, tariffs, and the very real risk of being sent to an El Salvadoran gulag. Hollow gestures and appeals to "years of friendship" that ask us to ignore that are insulting.
With Canada's election finished, I'm hoping the RCMP can now arrest Danielle Smith on the charge of election interference (if not outright treason) for recruiting a foreign country to influence the election. @mark-carney.bsky.social -- what say you?
April 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
With Canada's election finished, I'm hoping the RCMP can now arrest Danielle Smith on the charge of election interference (if not outright treason) for recruiting a foreign country to influence the election. @mark-carney.bsky.social -- what say you?
Beware Tory dirty tricks. If they have to lie to win, that should tell you they don't deserve to win.
April 23, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Beware Tory dirty tricks. If they have to lie to win, that should tell you they don't deserve to win.
Let's see... attack ads, robocalls, social media disinformation, rage farming, scapegoating, and now poling place interference. The Conservative Party of Canada has gone full American.
April 22, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Let's see... attack ads, robocalls, social media disinformation, rage farming, scapegoating, and now poling place interference. The Conservative Party of Canada has gone full American.
Pierre Poipaganda is a pathetic lying weasel*.
(*apologies to acutal weasels.)
(*apologies to acutal weasels.)
April 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Pierre Poipaganda is a pathetic lying weasel*.
(*apologies to acutal weasels.)
(*apologies to acutal weasels.)
Anything but Tory.
April 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Anything but Tory.
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Most of the damage caused by Trump's tariff plan will not be undone by its pause, Rogé Karma writes. “The world has seen things it cannot unsee”:
The Tariff Damage That Can’t Be Undone
Nothing here has ended well. In fact, it hasn’t even ended.
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April 13, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Most of the damage caused by Trump's tariff plan will not be undone by its pause, Rogé Karma writes. “The world has seen things it cannot unsee”:
"Pierre Poilievre has spent his entire career serving the very
elites he vilifies. It's called fake populism; ride ordinary people's outrage against the establishment into office, then hand the keys to the one percent." --from "The Poilievre Project: A Radical Blueprint for Corporate Rule"
elites he vilifies. It's called fake populism; ride ordinary people's outrage against the establishment into office, then hand the keys to the one percent." --from "The Poilievre Project: A Radical Blueprint for Corporate Rule"
April 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
"Pierre Poilievre has spent his entire career serving the very
elites he vilifies. It's called fake populism; ride ordinary people's outrage against the establishment into office, then hand the keys to the one percent." --from "The Poilievre Project: A Radical Blueprint for Corporate Rule"
elites he vilifies. It's called fake populism; ride ordinary people's outrage against the establishment into office, then hand the keys to the one percent." --from "The Poilievre Project: A Radical Blueprint for Corporate Rule"
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Pierre Poilievre is an awful person, rude, crude, misogynistic, smug and boring. He is the absolute worst choice the conservative party could make. #CarneyForPM
April 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Pierre Poilievre is an awful person, rude, crude, misogynistic, smug and boring. He is the absolute worst choice the conservative party could make. #CarneyForPM
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When you factor in services, we're all running a trade deficit with the U.S. So tariff that.
April 4, 2025 at 11:37 AM
When you factor in services, we're all running a trade deficit with the U.S. So tariff that.
Little P.P's newest slogan: "Canada (fifty) First"
March 26, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Little P.P's newest slogan: "Canada (fifty) First"