V Pencil
rachelmargaret.bsky.social
V Pencil
@rachelmargaret.bsky.social
Stay Calm. Be Brave. 🇨🇦
Disagree with him on any topic. Sure. At least he strings together coherent, kind, optimistic, and educated sentences.
PM Mark Carney 🇨🇦 - #cdnpoli
Canadian storytelling is one of a kind.
Had a conversation with a great Canadian voice,
@strombo about how our mosaic of stories unites us every day.
September 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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man they really didn't give a shit about that guy. as soon as it was clear they couldn't use his death to launch a purge they started to treat it like a nothingburger
Q: My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. How are you holding up?

TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get for about 150 years.
September 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Got that right.
August 17, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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📌When Canada’s savvy new leader, Mark Carney, seated Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Trump’s empty chair after he pathetically surrendered at the G7 last month, it didn't get the first-class shade and 1,000-watt signaling it deserved.
So let’s do something about that:
July 14, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Aren't you proud!
July 8, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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I see that today’s areas of expertise are the digital services tax and high-level negotiations with a madman.
June 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
In my high school activist years (mid-late 80s) we were really into monitoring this clock. I think it got as close as 4 minutes then. Here's 2025-01.
June 13, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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“I never thought leopards would eat MY face,” sobs man who spent $250M getting the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party elected.

My reaction:
June 5, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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I think we’re making some progress now on this therapy session. Yes, this is real.
June 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM
We all saw this coming, right?
June 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Anyone who witnessed the debacle that is Pierre Poilievre refusing to get a national security clearance should sign this petition. ALL public servants are required to go through a security clearance, our MP's should be doing the same. #cdnpoli www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Sign this Petition - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
May 29, 2025 at 2:41 AM
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/u...

“President Trump’s recent actions and statements suggest he might want an arrangement where the United States, China and Russia each dominate their sphere of influence.”
Trump’s Vision: One World, Three Powers?
www.nytimes.com
May 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Bono doesn't very much care for Pierre.
Bono says ‘the whole world is in awe’ of Canada, takes shots at Pierre Poilievre and Donald Trump.

The U2 frontman thanked Canadians for “not electing a populist” during a TV appearance.
Bono says ‘the whole world is in awe’ of Canada, takes shots at Pierre Poilievre and Donald Trump
The U2 frontman thanked Canadians for "not electing a populist" during a TV appearance on Global News on Monday.
www.thestar.com
May 28, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Trump has gone into full on offensive idiot mode now.
Carney and his Canadian colleagues and journalists are the only professionals in the room.
May 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Watching CBC coverage of our PM Carney’s visit to the White House. The hour+ pre visit coverage dominated by guessing how badly/erratically Trump will behave, how the handshake drama will play out.
Waste of goddamned time. Can we just cut the USA off completely. Please. Tired of this.
May 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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With the new Canadian government in place, Europe and Canada should wholeheartedly continue to deepen and broad their trade, political and military cooperation. 🇪🇺🇨🇦
May 1, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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As Canada has done before. Which is why we in Europe are more than open to do any business with Canada.
May 1, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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All kidding aside, the biggest reason to keep Poilievre out of Parliament is to change the tone. We can't operate as a civil nation when one party leader exists only to attack the other. Civil debates and factual discussions, not personal attacks and three-word slogans, please.
May 1, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Please stop blaming Green & NDP voters for not handing the Liberals a majority. This is not a failure. Far from it.
The centre/left parties have nothing to gain right now by rocking the boat and it's not like Carney needs to persuade very many of them anyway.
April 30, 2025 at 11:05 AM
"The message from Canada couldn't be clearer; if America wants to act like a belligerent, fading empire, it will be treated like one."
www.irishstar.com/news/us-news...
Canada just humiliated Trump and exposed arrogant America's embarrassing decline
Canada delivered a roaring rebuke not only to the US leader but to the hideous version of America he represents - arrogant, unstable, and dangerously delusional.
www.irishstar.com
April 30, 2025 at 12:30 AM
www.nfb.ca/film/defender/

This 1980s NFB documentary is timely. Also funny & heartwarming.

Bob Diemert of Manitoba designed and built a prototype of a fighter plane ,“the Defender”, his proposed alternative to the F18.

Free streaming on NFB. Another Canadian gem.
The Defender
This documentary is about Bob Diemert of Carman, Manitoba, and his dream of building the world's next great fighter plane. His worldwide reputation as a genius at restoring …
www.nfb.ca
April 19, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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April 18, 2025 at 6:47 PM