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James McLeod

@jamespmcleod.ca

As the saying goes: "Life is hard. But it's harder if you're stupid."

Upstate NY farmer shocked by Trump tariffs, mistakenly thought Canada would pay www.syracuse.com/state/2025/0...

Upstate NY farmer shocked by Trump tariffs, mistakenly thought Canada would pay

Small businesses along the Canadian border are especially being hit hard.

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April 20, 2025 at 6:35 PM

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Pete Quily

@pqpolitics.bsky.social

Rick Mercer on Career Rage Farmer to Make Canada like Republican America Pierre Poilievre's only bill passed

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From the onguardforthee community on Reddit: Rick Mercer on Pierre Poilievre's only bill passed in his entire 20 years in the HoC

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April 20, 2025 at 11:33 PM

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Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada*

@honestcanadian.bsky.social

That is correct.
It was the CFF of Saskatchewan, founded in 1932 as the Farmer-Labour Group, led by Tommy Douglas that brought in the first medicare in Canada.

April 23, 2025 at 8:41 PM

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@sorry-iamcanadian.bsky.social

Come on #Canada - please buy Canadian apples. Food security is more important now than ever. 🍎

A note from a Canadian apple farmer. 👇

Good morning fellow Canadians! I am a small apple farmer in a region of Ontario know as the Blue Mountains near Collingwood.
From the bottom of my heart and on behalf of my fellow apple growing friends and colleagues I would like to thank all Canadians that are choosing Canadian apples first...it is and will continue to make a positive impact in what is an extremely difficult industry for all Canadian apple growers.
For the past 4 or 5 years many farms including mine have been struggling with sustainability as our industry was seriously threatened by imported apples and apple products from other countries including the USA and countries such as China, Turkey, etc... In my situation, do to the huge increase in the cost of production coupled with greedy corporate procurement structures, I have had to quickly shrink my operation from a high of 140 acres to my now 96 acres of apple production and every year, including the 2025 crop underway, makes me wonder if I will be able to cover my cost of production and above that make a living wage...the apple farmer is always the one that absorbs the highest risk/liabilities, works the hardest and gets paid last with whatever dollars are leftover, if much at all!
PLEASE, PLEASE continue to support Canadian Farmers your choices more than anything else means our survival and OUR food supply sustainability!

April 23, 2025 at 1:16 PM

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Nordic but Nice

@maire19.bsky.social

And every cent of which comes from US consumers. Like the poor Vermont dairy farmer who has to buy his feed from Canada

April 29, 2025 at 2:02 PM

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Audric Moses 🇨🇦

@audricmoses.bsky.social

Hey #NDP voters of #Carleton: you have an incredible opportunity to do more for Canada than most people will ever get: a chance to oust the lying rage-farmer who's driven Canadian politics into the gutter.

This election, lend your vote to @brucefanjoy.bsky.social!

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