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Andrew Kurjata
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Canadian news reporter/producer based in Prince George, British Columbia — Dakelh territory. I live north of most of you.

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"We only have these ducks just saying"
An interpretive nature sign showing several species of ducks. Someone has circled mallards and godswalls and written "we only have these ducks. Just saying"
November 9, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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What a privilege to spend the evening with Jeremy Dutcher on his birthday
A man playing a piano in a converted wooden church on a stage full of candles
November 9, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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I've never clicked "watch now" so quickly
The Nature of Things: A beaver baby boom is transforming the surface of the planet
November 8, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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"The Tŝilhqot’in Nation, with a court declaration of Aboriginal title, has never targeted private property and has no intention of doing so. The Haida Nation consented to the continuation of private land interests as part of its title recognition agreement. The Cowichan Nation has also taken care"
The Tŝilhqot’in Nation, with a court declaration of Aboriginal title, has never targeted private property and has no intention of doing so. Private lands were excluded from the declaration of title that the Nation sought — and received — from the Supreme Court of Canada. Recently, the Haida Nation consented to the continuation of private land interests as part of its title recognition agreement with BC and Canada. The Cowichan Nation has also taken care to ensure that the declaration of Aboriginal title it secured in its recent judgment does not interfere with the rights of private owners.
November 8, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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This is the top comment in a Facebook post from the city urging people to call RCMP or bylaw to report crimes, bylaw infractions or fires
I feel like this whole “see something say something” movement is essentially a guise or a “bait and switch” to artificially bump up the number of service calls, just so the City would be able to justify adding more RCMP officers to our city (or at least to justify the amount of overtime being paid). 🤔
November 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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No results for a key term
A tab with Canada Strong Budget 2025 open. A search bar reveals 0 results for the phrase Down With Webster
November 5, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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This is an interesting one, too. There's been talk of having the military take a larger role on responding to climate disaster; instead this calls for essentially a civil corps (led by youth) to serve that role
Advancing the Youth Climate Corps Investing in paid green skills training and job placements positions Canada to be competitive by equipping the workforce needed to build a climate competitive economy. Budget 2025 proposes to provide $40 million over two years, starting in 2026-27, to Employment and Social Development Canada, to create a Youth Climate Corps to provide paid skills training for young Canadians. They will be trained to quickly respond to climate emergencies, support recovery, and strengthen resilience in communities across the country. The skills training and work experience opportunities created through a Youth Climate Corps support reducing youth unemployment, increasing innovation, and strengthening adaptation and mitigation projects.
November 5, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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Was not expecting a funding boost for CBC/Radio-Canada in an austerity budget, and was really not expecting Eurovision to be a key part of that

(the $150M is a one-time thing according to the tables, not ongoing)
Protecting Our National Broadcaster: CBC/Radio-Canada CBC/Radio-Canada is part of our Canadian identity. Canada's new government is protecting our national broadcaster by ensuring it has the resources needed to modernise and better deliver for Canadians, and to continue providing vital programming in both French and English. Budget 2025 proposes to provide $150 million in 2025-26 for CBC/Radio-Canada to strengthen its mandate to serve the public and to better reflect the needs of Canadians. The government will explore modernising CBC/Radio-Canada's mandate to strengthen independence, and is working with CBC/Radio Canada to explore participation in Eurovision.
November 5, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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idk we might be ok with this greatcanadianspeeches.ca/2025/02/18/w...
Why Sir John A. Macdonald refused free trade with the U.S. When in 1878 we were called upon to administer the affairs of the Dominion, Canada occupied a position in the eyes of the world very different from that which she enjoys today. At that time, a profound depression hung like a pall over the whole country, from the Atlantic Ocean to the western limits of the province of Ontario, beyond which to the Rocky Mountains stretched a vast and almost unknown wilderness. Trade was depressed, manufactures languished and, exposed to ruinous competition, Canadians were fast sinking into the position of being mere hewers of wood and drawers of water for the great nation dwelling to the south of us. We determined to change this unhappy state of things. We felt that Canada, with its agricultural resources, rich in its fisheries, timber, and mineral wealth, was worthy of a nobler position than that of being a slaughter market for the United States. We said to the Americans, “We are perfectly willing to trade with you on equal terms. We are desirous of having a fair reciprocity treaty; but we will not consent to open our markets to you while yours remain closed to us.”
November 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Ok this was a great call
A tv set up outside with the Jays game on and candy on a table surrounded by decorations
November 1, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Huge opportunity!
Mass text message: Hello, I’m Margaret, the Recruitment Manager at Disney….
October 31, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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Nobody Wants This season 3 is taking a shaaaarp turn
October 31, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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You do, in fact, have to hand it to Terry Glavin and Andrew Coyne for not giving into the hype that seems to have gripped every other columnist on this topic

Not coincidentally they are the ones who actually noticed the court ruling, not just the Richmond mayor's viral letter on X 2 months later
Andrew Coyne: To recognize Aboriginal title is not to abolish property rights, but to uphold them Terry Glavin: A better response to B.C.'s Cowichan land ruling — calm down!
October 31, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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PS here is one of the beers, the Basal Brown - with cool bat art on it and $ going to support their research and conservation. Also won the prize for Best Beer in Canada 2024
A brown tall can with gothic (?) art depicting a bat flying over a mushroom as bones become a forest showing the cycle of life
October 30, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Nak’azdli Whut’en Chief Colleen Erickson, whose riding is represented by John Rustad, writes that given he represents a region that is 1/5 Indigenous and used to the be the Minister of Indigenous relations, he should know better www.timescolonist.com/opinion/comm... #bcpoli
It is worth noting that Rustad held the portfolio of Minister of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation for four years, a significant length of time for any cabinet role. Accepting such a position is more than a political appointment; it is a commitment to uphold the Crown’s constitutional obligations and advance reconciliation. When someone who once accepted that responsibility chooses to misrepresent the law and undermine the principles they were entrusted to advance, it calls into question their credibility as a leader. Having grown up in the North, and with a family that has benefited from the opportunities this region provides, he should recognize that the region’s future depends on lawful, respectful relationships, not rhetoric that divides and misleads. As the elected representative for a riding where nearly one in five residents is Indigenous, Rustad’s repeated mischaracterization of the law and calls to halt negotiations are deeply concerning.
October 30, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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“Their rhetoric — and the conventional wisdom that flows — suggests we cannot talk about economic solutions without abandoning our commitment to the Black, Latino, gay, transgender and female poor … Democrats have to accept a little racism to win the working class.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
These senators are demonstrating a wilful blindness that has become endemic in the Democratic Party. Their rhetoric — and the conventional wisdom that flows from it — suggests that we cannot talk about economic solutions without abandoning our commitment to the Black, Latino, gay, transgender and female poor that are the lifeblood of the Democratic Party’s base. The conceit at the heart of that belief is that poor white people are too racist, and too uniquely ignorant of their racism, to vote in their best interests. Therefore, Democrats have to accept a little racism to win the working class.
October 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Fascinating episode of Ideas tonight - How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
CBC Radio: Ideas Starting in 1493, tens of thousands of Indigenous people began arriving in Europe. Historian Caroline Dodds Pennock pieces together the evidence and experiences there in her book, On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
October 29, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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Time to bring this back
A comic from 1993 called Jr Jays Magazine featuring sci fi adventures with kids and members of the Blue Jays
October 25, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Toronto Star vs Los Angeles Times
Toronto Star: Blue Jays grand slam makes Rogers Centre explode Los Angeles Times: Dodgers give up nine runs in disastrous sixth inning
October 25, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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B.C. Premier David Eby on X (but not Bluesky) says "we're making our own ads to defend British Columbia and Canada's forestry workers. Our wood faces higher U.S. tariffs than Russia. Absurd."
Americans need to hear how tariffs raise prices. We’re making ads to defend British Columbia and Canada’s forestry workers. Our wood faces higher US tariffs than Russia. Absurd. Truth will win!
October 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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“I’ll talk to you when you calm down”
Carney says Canada-U.S. will pick up talks when the Americans are ready John Paul Tasker Prime Minister Mark Carney just spoke to reporters before stepping on his plane for a trip to Asia. Carney says Canadian officials have been having "constructive" negotiations with their American counterparts and Canada "stands ready to pick up on that progress and build on that progress when the Americans are ready to have those discussions." He did not take questions from journalists.
October 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Good day to look up the Streisand Effect.

“Canada” is a trending topic in search terms on Google among U.S users, in relation to the Reagan ad and his position on tariffs - other terms include “Reagan on tariffs” and “Canada Reagan ad”
A graph showing a spike in searches for Canada on Google Related terms are Trump Canada Ronald Reagan ad Ronald Reagan tariffs Reagan on tariffs etc
October 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Whoa, a straightforward headline from the Times that actually just tells you water is wet.
Trump Called a Canadian Ad Fake. It Faithfully Reproduces Reagan’s Words. The anti-tariff ad, which Trump pointed to in cutting off trade talks with Canada, uses several sound bites from an April 1987 speech, though not in the order President Ronald Reagan said them.
October 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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“When asked what he would do differently from Carney and his negotiation team to try and secure an agreement with Trump, Poilievre has offered solutions that are similar to what the government is already doing: boosting military spending to curry favour with the president” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Pierre Poilievre
October 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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He may be too emotional for such an important position www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Trump's decision is genuinely a reaction to Ontario's ad, the sources said. It's not simply a pretext or some deeper negotiating tactic. The ad angered Trump, full stop. One thing I’ve been consistently told by senior Canadian government sources is that when Trump is angry like this, whatever is expressed privately to Canadian officials is usually worse than what’s being said in public. For example, when former prime minister Justin Trudeau was still in office, Trump used multiple profanities during a heated call about protections for Canada’s dairy industry. Trump also called off trade talks — briefly — in June, during another outburst. Angry that Canada had planned to go ahead with its proposed digital services tax, he abruptly announced talks were being halted.
October 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM