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  Issued this day in 2021. Sc 3305 pane of 5. Valour Road. Design: Soapbox Design. Canada Post: “Three Canadian First World War recipients of the seldom-awarded Victoria Cross each lived on Winnipeg’s Pine Street at some point in their lives. In recognition of the three heroes, the street was officially renamed Valour Road in 1925. A commemorative plaza erected in 2005 features a stone monument in the shape of the Victoria Cross and three steel silhouettes honouring the three soldiers: Corporal...

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  ▶️ Vote breakdown. ▶️ Budget date. ▶️ Musk’s order. The 🇨🇦 #cdnpoli 📰 Roundup for WED OCT 21 https://davidakin.substack.com/p/vote-breakdown-budget-date-musks?r=7qdox&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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  🆕 report from CHPC: "The Effects of Influencers and Social Media Content on Children and Adolescents" https://www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentViewer/en/45-1/CHPC/report-8/ #media

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  Ottawa gives Stelco 15 days to reverse Hamilton layoffs or face lawsuit  https://globalnews.ca/news/12113124/stelco-layoff-lawsuit-melanie-joly/

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  ▶️ Ontario package. ▶️ Uniting UCP. ▶️ Russian ‘humanitarians’. The 🇨🇦 #cdnpoli 📰 Roundup for THU OCT 22 https://davidakin.substack.com/p/ontario-package-uniting-ucp-russian?r=7qdox&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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  Issued this dayin Sc 678. Christmas: Gift Box. Design: Debbie Lovely In 1975, Canada Post asked the country’s children to design some Christmas stamps and 80,000 kids responded. Six designs were chosen and this was one of them: “Gift”, made with coloured markers by then 12-year-old Debbie Lovely of Perth, New Brunswick. #MyStamps #canadaStamps

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  WaPo: The Pollwatcher: Another fraudulent pollster is out of business, and a third group just disappeared https://wapo.st/4i7v2Da (🎁 link)

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  ▶️ Stelco letter. ▶️ Liberal candidates. ▶️ Site scramble. The 🇨🇦 #cdnpoli 📰 Roundup for FRI OCT 23 https://davidakin.substack.com/p/stelco-letter-liberal-candidates?r=7qdox&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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  Issued this day in 2017. Sc 3042.souvenir sheet. Toronto Maple Leafs. Design: Context Creative. Issue to mark the 100th anniversary of the Leafs. This is the souvenir sheet and if you have one, you know that the Maple Leafs crest on the stamp is an actual fuzzy cotton crest pasted on to the paper of the stamp!

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  ▶️ Tariff tweak. ▶️ BC votes. ▶️ Texas fight. The 🇨🇦 #cdnpoli 📰 Roundup for SAT OCT 24 https://davidakin.substack.com/p/tariff-tweak-bc-votes-texas-fight?r=7qdox&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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  ▶️ Doerksen triumph. ▶️ Missing premiers. ▶️ Political billions. The 🇨🇦 #cdnpoli 📰 Roundup forSUN OCT https://davidakin.substack.com/p/doerksen-triumph-missing-premiers?r=7qdox&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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  ▶️ Trade signals. ▶️ Indian Act. ▶️ Ontario mayors. The 🇨🇦 #cdnpoli 📰 Roundup for TUE OCT 27 https://davidakin.substack.com/p/trade-signals-indian-act-ontario?r=7qdox&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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  Issued this day in 1988. Sc 1222 Christmas (Icons): Madonna and Child. Design: Ernst Roch and Tom Yakobina. #MyStamps #canadaStamps

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  Egypt orders closure of leading independent news site Mada Masr https://aje.news/3kv7zu via Al Jazeera #press #media

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  ▶️ MAID rules. ▶️ Certain Saskatchewan. ▶️ Seven races. The 🇨🇦 #cdnpoli 📰 Roundup for WED OCT 28 https://davidakin.substack.com/p/maid-rules-certain-saskatchewan-seven?r=7qdox&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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  Highly recommend this op-ed on the current state of political polling in the U.S. (and likely elsewhere) from the president of a polling organization that is among my list of most-trusted pollsters, the Pew Research Center. https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/6145938-polling-challenges-election-turnout/

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  ▶️ Euro trade. ▶️ Missing bullets. ▶️ Ontario deficit. The 🇨🇦 #cdnpoli 📰 Roundup for FRI OCT 30 https://davidakin.substack.com/p/euro-trade-missing-bullets-ontario?r=7qdox&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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  🆕 #cdnpoli poll: ABACUS Decided+leaning QUEBEC ONLY: #LPC 48% | #BQ 30% | #CPC 14% | #NDP 3% | GPC 3% | Sep 4-9 n=292

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  ▶️ Spending notes. ▶️ Eby behind. ▶️ Media ban. The 🇨🇦 #cdnpoli 📰 Roundup for FRI SEP 25 https://davidakin.substack.com/p/spending-notes-eby-behind-media-ban

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  Financial Times via Ars Technica: "Researchers used Claude to hack OpenAI" https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/researchers-used-claude-to-hack-openai/

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  Issued this day in 1924. Sc 130 pa King George V “Admiral” Coil Stamps. #MyStamps #canadaStamps

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  Liberals crush it on Monday: Easy sweep of all three byelections, including a steal of a CPC riding in Chicoutimi-Le Fjord. #cdnpoli #elxn45

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  Issued this day in 1967. Sc 473 Canadian Press. Design: William McLauchlan. Issued to mark the 50th anniversary of CP, which first started out as a co-op and collective in which its members would share copy for use by others in addition to providing copy written by its own employees. It is now a news agency a la Reuters or Bloomberg where subscribing news organizations pay to use CP text, photos and video. #MyStamps #canadaStamps

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  RE: https://flipboard.com/@globalnews/global-news-cu8h0oq4z/-/a-pRWLFSyRQ4K6yzz3es4_DQ%3Aa%3A749442239-%2F0 Premier Eby has declared a province-wide state of emergency. Thinking of all my BC friends and colleagues tonight.

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  Issued this day in 1989. Sc 1248a se-tenant block of 4. Mushrooms. Design: Ernst Roch. #MyStamps #canadaStamps

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  ▶️ Election strategy. ▶️ B.C. burning. ▶️ China's spies.
The 🇨🇦 #cdnpol 📰 Roundup for MON AUG https://davidakin.substack.com/p/david-akins-roundup-election-strategy

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  🆕 from me: With four vacant ridings, why did Carney call just three byelections? #cdnpoli https://globalnews.ca/news/12006327/analysis-four-vacant-ridings-why-only-three-byelections/

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  Gabe Fleisher: "If Trump was running his own operation intent on destroying the Republican Party, what would he be doing differently right now?" https://www.wakeuptopolitics.com/p/trumps-two-wars-could-be-fatal-for

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  Alberta premier says Carney ‘wise’ not to retaliate over U.S. tariff threat https://globalnews.ca/news/11986634/carney-trump-tariff-strategy-danielle-smith/

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  ▶️ Trump options. ▶️ PC divide. ▶️ Math guy. The 🇨🇦 #cdnpoli 📰 Roundup for FRI JUL 24. https://davidakin.substack.com/p/david-akins-roundup-trump-options