Provinces
(chiefly, US, informal, with definite article) Canada.
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Holland Or The Seven United Provinces, And The Netherlands. S. Lewis, delin. Published in 1814. https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~363566~90131061 #map #maps #HistoricalMaps
So foreign interference is bad, but from other provinces and federal is just fine?
Hear me out. Provinces are created through an act of parliament. So the dissolution and redrawing of borders could be enacted the same way. Get rid of Alberta entirely.
These are great! Good to see Ontario leading on this. Good model for other provinces to adopt.
How much influence is there from the UK’s far right movements via Northern Ireland etc? Over here it seems like (until very recently) US rightward swings had a knock-on effect on Canada, and also specific provinces li…
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(chiefly, US, informal, with definite article) Canada.
“Holland Or The Seven United Provinces, And The Netherlands. S. Lewis, delin. Published in 1814. https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~363566~90131061 #map #maps #HistoricalMaps”
— Bluesky· May 2026“So foreign interference is bad, but from other provinces and federal is just fine?”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Hear me out. Provinces are created through an act of parliament. So the dissolution and redrawing of borders could be enacted the same way. Get rid of Alberta entirely.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“These are great! Good to see Ontario leading on this. Good model for other provinces to adopt.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“How much influence is there from the UK’s far right movements via Northern Ireland etc? Over here it seems like (until very recently) US rightward swings had a knock-on effect on Canada, and also specific provinces like Alberta”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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