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Mike Fraser

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Winnipeg Jets fan, New Westminster Royals fan, liberal, curmudgeon in training. Canadian ambassador to Mastodon. Admin of https://thecanadian.social and https://journa.host

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Mike Fraser
@mike@thecanadian.social

Winnipeg Jets fan, New Westminster Royals fan, liberal, curmudgeon in training. Canadian ambassador to Mastodon. Admin of https:// thecanadian.social and https:// journa.host NOTICE: All content posted from this account is copyright Michael L Fraser. Any commercial reproduction or redistribution, including but not limited to AI learning models is strictly prohibited.

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Winnipeg Jets fan, New Westminster Royals fan, liberal, curmudgeon in training. Canadian ambassador to Mastodon. Admin of https:// thecanadian.social and https:// journa.host NOTICE: All content posted from this account is copyright Michael L Fraser. Any commercial reproduction or redistribution, including but not limited to AI learning models is strictly prohibited.

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@mike@thecanadian.social · Mar 09, 2026

#SilentSunday

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Winnipeg Jets fan, New Westminster Royals fan, liberal, curmudgeon in training. Canadian ambassador to Mastodon. Admin of https:// thecanadian.social and https:// journa.host NOTICE: All content posted from this account is copyright Michael L Fraser. Any commercial reproduction or redistribution, including but not limited to AI learning models is strictly prohibited.

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Mike Fraser
@mike@thecanadian.social

Winnipeg Jets fan, New Westminster Royals fan, liberal, curmudgeon in training. Canadian ambassador to Mastodon. Admin of https:// thecanadian.social and https:// journa.host NOTICE: All content posted from this account is copyright Michael L Fraser. Any commercial reproduction or redistribution, including but not limited to AI learning models is strictly prohibited.

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@mike@thecanadian.social · Mar 07, 2026
I took me 55 years to learn this. The right stimulants for me: Tea for cerebral work, coffee for physical work.
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Winnipeg Jets fan, New Westminster Royals fan, liberal, curmudgeon in training. Canadian ambassador to Mastodon. Admin of https:// thecanadian.social and https:// journa.host NOTICE: All content posted from this account is copyright Michael L Fraser. Any commercial reproduction or redistribution, including but not limited to AI learning models is strictly prohibited.

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Mike Fraser
@mike@thecanadian.social

Winnipeg Jets fan, New Westminster Royals fan, liberal, curmudgeon in training. Canadian ambassador to Mastodon. Admin of https:// thecanadian.social and https:// journa.host NOTICE: All content posted from this account is copyright Michael L Fraser. Any commercial reproduction or redistribution, including but not limited to AI learning models is strictly prohibited.

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@mike@thecanadian.social · Feb 28, 2026

1/ Announcement: So today being a news day I might as well announce that the team at TheCanadian.Social has officially taken ownership of https://journa.host and https://newsie.social. We have also moved these instances to our facilities in Canada. These are two important instances hosting a large portion of the fediverse's journalism accounts. We felt it important to keep them going as the previous stewards were considering shutting them down. #fediverse #fediadmin #journalists

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@mike@thecanadian.social

Winnipeg Jets fan, New Westminster Royals fan, liberal, curmudgeon in training. Canadian ambassador to Mastodon. Admin of https:// thecanadian.social and https:// journa.host NOTICE: All content posted from this account is copyright Michael L Fraser. Any commercial reproduction or redistribution, including but not limited to AI learning models is strictly prohibited.

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@mike@thecanadian.social · Feb 22, 2026

:hockeycanada2: I'm at the pub at 5:00 am and it's packed. #HNOM #GoCanadaGo

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Winnipeg Jets fan, New Westminster Royals fan, liberal, curmudgeon in training. Canadian ambassador to Mastodon. Admin of https:// thecanadian.social and https:// journa.host NOTICE: All content posted from this account is copyright Michael L Fraser. Any commercial reproduction or redistribution, including but not limited to AI learning models is strictly prohibited.

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Mike Fraser
@mike@thecanadian.social

Winnipeg Jets fan, New Westminster Royals fan, liberal, curmudgeon in training. Canadian ambassador to Mastodon. Admin of https:// thecanadian.social and https:// journa.host NOTICE: All content posted from this account is copyright Michael L Fraser. Any commercial reproduction or redistribution, including but not limited to AI learning models is strictly prohibited.

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@mike@thecanadian.social · Feb 22, 2026

:hockeycanada2: I am up at this unholy hour 4:35 am PST. #GoJetsGo #HNOM

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Mike Fraser
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Winnipeg Jets fan, New Westminster Royals fan, liberal, curmudgeon in training. Canadian ambassador to Mastodon. Admin of https:// thecanadian.social and https:// journa.host NOTICE: All content posted from this account is copyright Michael L Fraser. Any commercial reproduction or redistribution, including but not limited to AI learning models is strictly prohibited.

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Mike Fraser
@mike@thecanadian.social

Winnipeg Jets fan, New Westminster Royals fan, liberal, curmudgeon in training. Canadian ambassador to Mastodon. Admin of https:// thecanadian.social and https:// journa.host NOTICE: All content posted from this account is copyright Michael L Fraser. Any commercial reproduction or redistribution, including but not limited to AI learning models is strictly prohibited.

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@mike@thecanadian.social · Feb 22, 2026

You know you're a hockey nation when provincial legislatures amend liquor laws within 24hrs to accodate a gold medal hockey game #HNOM
I've never seen anything happen so quickly in Canadian politics in my life.

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@mike@thecanadian.social

Winnipeg Jets fan, New Westminster Royals fan, liberal, curmudgeon in training. Canadian ambassador to Mastodon. Admin of https:// thecanadian.social and https:// journa.host NOTICE: All content posted from this account is copyright Michael L Fraser. Any commercial reproduction or redistribution, including but not limited to AI learning models is strictly prohibited.

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Mike Fraser
@mike@thecanadian.social

Winnipeg Jets fan, New Westminster Royals fan, liberal, curmudgeon in training. Canadian ambassador to Mastodon. Admin of https:// thecanadian.social and https:// journa.host NOTICE: All content posted from this account is copyright Michael L Fraser. Any commercial reproduction or redistribution, including but not limited to AI learning models is strictly prohibited.

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@mike@thecanadian.social · Feb 20, 2026

Ok apparently I have to go back to work to earn money to keep this fedi machine running..

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I'm a software developer with 40 years' professional experience, lucky enough to be considering early retirement. I love writing code and don't want to stop. I'm keen to give something back and contri
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Mike Fraser
@mike@thecanadian.social

Winnipeg Jets fan, New Westminster Royals fan, liberal, curmudgeon in training. Canadian ambassador to Mastodon. Admin of https:// thecanadian.social and https:// journa.host NOTICE: All content posted from this account is copyright Michael L Fraser. Any commercial reproduction or redistribution, including but not limited to AI learning models is strictly prohibited.

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Mike Fraser
@mike@thecanadian.social

Winnipeg Jets fan, New Westminster Royals fan, liberal, curmudgeon in training. Canadian ambassador to Mastodon. Admin of https:// thecanadian.social and https:// journa.host NOTICE: All content posted from this account is copyright Michael L Fraser. Any commercial reproduction or redistribution, including but not limited to AI learning models is strictly prohibited.

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@mike@thecanadian.social · Feb 02, 2026
@dave Help the guy maintaining sudo.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/115737483111161917 I have to admit, the performance of a Chromium-based browser compared to Firefox is abysmal. I don't have that many tabs but it lags a lot and t
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Mike Fraser
@mike@thecanadian.social

Winnipeg Jets fan, New Westminster Royals fan, liberal, curmudgeon in training. Canadian ambassador to Mastodon. Admin of https:// thecanadian.social and https:// journa.host NOTICE: All content posted from this account is copyright Michael L Fraser. Any commercial reproduction or redistribution, including but not limited to AI learning models is strictly prohibited.

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Mike Fraser
@mike@thecanadian.social

Winnipeg Jets fan, New Westminster Royals fan, liberal, curmudgeon in training. Canadian ambassador to Mastodon. Admin of https:// thecanadian.social and https:// journa.host NOTICE: All content posted from this account is copyright Michael L Fraser. Any commercial reproduction or redistribution, including but not limited to AI learning models is strictly prohibited.

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@mike@thecanadian.social · Jan 14, 2026
@Gargron@mastodon.social I've had the exact opposite experience. I evaluated Firefox for several weeks and had to abondoned it due to slow performance. Goes to show how much individual setups can impact the experience. I'm running Vivaldi on a Dell workstation running Ubuntu. I have 64gb of ram and an older Xeon processor.
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@virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca Well said. I'm a 1970 baby so not far off from you. The biggest awakening was realizing how much of our liberal democracies were dependent on people simply adhering to a tr
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@mike@thecanadian.social Yes! I realized just this year that norms trump laws! (pun originally not intended but turn out to be appropriate) I would look at strong US constitution defenders (like 1A ad
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@mike@thecanadian.social Of course norms are absolutely influenced by laws. In fact, the growing understanding of the corruption of the law in the US over the last 40 years is why MAGA (or any right-w
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Mike Fraser
@mike@thecanadian.social

Winnipeg Jets fan, New Westminster Royals fan, liberal, curmudgeon in training. Canadian ambassador to Mastodon. Admin of https:// thecanadian.social and https:// journa.host NOTICE: All content posted from this account is copyright Michael L Fraser. Any commercial reproduction or redistribution, including but not limited to AI learning models is strictly prohibited.

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Mike Fraser
@mike@thecanadian.social

Winnipeg Jets fan, New Westminster Royals fan, liberal, curmudgeon in training. Canadian ambassador to Mastodon. Admin of https:// thecanadian.social and https:// journa.host NOTICE: All content posted from this account is copyright Michael L Fraser. Any commercial reproduction or redistribution, including but not limited to AI learning models is strictly prohibited.

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@mike@thecanadian.social · Jan 09, 2026
@virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca When I do business with a Canadian, it's always who do you know? Do you know so and so? When I do business with Americans it's always how much, how fast? Both have their advantages and disadvantages.
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@mike@thecanadian.social The return to gunboat diplomacy and the rule of might-makes-right shows the rule of law of our lifetime as somewhat the aberration in history, not the inevitable social evolut
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@virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca Well said. I'm a 1970 baby so not far off from you. The biggest awakening was realizing how much of our liberal democracies were dependent on people simply adhering to a tr
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@mike@thecanadian.social Yes! I realized just this year that norms trump laws! (pun originally not intended but turn out to be appropriate) I would look at strong US constitution defenders (like 1A ad
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Mike Fraser
@mike@thecanadian.social

Winnipeg Jets fan, New Westminster Royals fan, liberal, curmudgeon in training. Canadian ambassador to Mastodon. Admin of https:// thecanadian.social and https:// journa.host NOTICE: All content posted from this account is copyright Michael L Fraser. Any commercial reproduction or redistribution, including but not limited to AI learning models is strictly prohibited.

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Mike Fraser
@mike@thecanadian.social

Winnipeg Jets fan, New Westminster Royals fan, liberal, curmudgeon in training. Canadian ambassador to Mastodon. Admin of https:// thecanadian.social and https:// journa.host NOTICE: All content posted from this account is copyright Michael L Fraser. Any commercial reproduction or redistribution, including but not limited to AI learning models is strictly prohibited.

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@mike@thecanadian.social · Jan 09, 2026
@virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca to digress I'm not especially fond of hate speech laws myself. I feel once you ban something it creates a curiosity that inadvertently promotes exploration of the subject being banned. However I also used to think that extremists usually hang themselves with their own words so I don't mind giving them rope. I'm not so sure about that anymore..
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@mike@thecanadian.social I'm perhaps only /marginally/ better than average at tempering my emotions and being aware of my own cognitive biases so like you I find myself questioning the reality of my f
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@mike@thecanadian.social The return to gunboat diplomacy and the rule of might-makes-right shows the rule of law of our lifetime as somewhat the aberration in history, not the inevitable social evolut
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@mike@thecanadian.social

Winnipeg Jets fan, New Westminster Royals fan, liberal, curmudgeon in training. Canadian ambassador to Mastodon. Admin of https:// thecanadian.social and https:// journa.host NOTICE: All content posted from this account is copyright Michael L Fraser. Any commercial reproduction or redistribution, including but not limited to AI learning models is strictly prohibited.

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Mike Fraser
@mike@thecanadian.social

Winnipeg Jets fan, New Westminster Royals fan, liberal, curmudgeon in training. Canadian ambassador to Mastodon. Admin of https:// thecanadian.social and https:// journa.host NOTICE: All content posted from this account is copyright Michael L Fraser. Any commercial reproduction or redistribution, including but not limited to AI learning models is strictly prohibited.

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@mike@thecanadian.social · Jan 09, 2026
@virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca Well said. I'm a 1970 baby so not far off from you. The biggest awakening was realizing how much of our liberal democracies were dependent on people simply adhering to a tradition of doing the right thing and how much things break apart when people stop adhering to that tradition.
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Mike Fraser
@mike@thecanadian.social

Winnipeg Jets fan, New Westminster Royals fan, liberal, curmudgeon in training. Canadian ambassador to Mastodon. Admin of https:// thecanadian.social and https:// journa.host NOTICE: All content posted from this account is copyright Michael L Fraser. Any commercial reproduction or redistribution, including but not limited to AI learning models is strictly prohibited.

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Mike Fraser
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Winnipeg Jets fan, New Westminster Royals fan, liberal, curmudgeon in training. Canadian ambassador to Mastodon. Admin of https:// thecanadian.social and https:// journa.host NOTICE: All content posted from this account is copyright Michael L Fraser. Any commercial reproduction or redistribution, including but not limited to AI learning models is strictly prohibited.

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@mike@thecanadian.social · Jan 02, 2026
#WorldIntrovertDay
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Mike Fraser
@mike@thecanadian.social

Winnipeg Jets fan, New Westminster Royals fan, liberal, curmudgeon in training. Canadian ambassador to Mastodon. Admin of https:// thecanadian.social and https:// journa.host NOTICE: All content posted from this account is copyright Michael L Fraser. Any commercial reproduction or redistribution, including but not limited to AI learning models is strictly prohibited.

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@mike@thecanadian.social · Dec 23, 2025

🍁 Apparently the disinformation war now has Canada in its crosshairs. This web site is built to counter erroneous claims about Canada. It is fully sourced and verifiable. https://canadaisnotbroken.org

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Ooooooh shit: the AI boom sits on top of a $610Bn stock fraud (detected by trading algorithms on Thursday evening) https://substack.com/inbox/post/179453867
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Winnipeg Jets fan, New Westminster Royals fan, liberal, curmudgeon in training. Canadian ambassador to Mastodon. Admin of https:// thecanadian.social and https:// journa.host NOTICE: All content posted from this account is copyright Michael L Fraser. Any commercial reproduction or redistribution, including but not limited to AI learning models is strictly prohibited.

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@mike@thecanadian.social

Winnipeg Jets fan, New Westminster Royals fan, liberal, curmudgeon in training. Canadian ambassador to Mastodon. Admin of https:// thecanadian.social and https:// journa.host NOTICE: All content posted from this account is copyright Michael L Fraser. Any commercial reproduction or redistribution, including but not limited to AI learning models is strictly prohibited.

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@mike@thecanadian.social · Nov 23, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop This is because Nvidia is not only too big to fail but too big to falter. Their current market cap is almost the GDP of Germany. If they have one bad earnings call billions get wiped out. It creates a lot of incentive to cook the books.
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@mike@thecanadian.social

Winnipeg Jets fan, New Westminster Royals fan, liberal, curmudgeon in training. Canadian ambassador to Mastodon. Admin of https:// thecanadian.social and https:// journa.host NOTICE: All content posted from this account is copyright Michael L Fraser. Any commercial reproduction or redistribution, including but not limited to AI learning models is strictly prohibited.

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Mike Fraser
@mike@thecanadian.social

Winnipeg Jets fan, New Westminster Royals fan, liberal, curmudgeon in training. Canadian ambassador to Mastodon. Admin of https:// thecanadian.social and https:// journa.host NOTICE: All content posted from this account is copyright Michael L Fraser. Any commercial reproduction or redistribution, including but not limited to AI learning models is strictly prohibited.

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@mike@thecanadian.social · Mar 11, 2025

A reminder we've created a search platform with no ads, no tracking and no AI. Just relevant search results hosted in Canada.

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#ElbowsUp

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