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Toronto | Hamilton | Saint-Pierre | Paris French 🇫🇷 & Canadian 🇨🇦, not French-Canadian. History of St-Pierre-et-Miquelon 🇵🇲: https://grandcolombier.com Politics and education : https://marccormier.org

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Pharrell Williams is now a KNIGHT ! Congrats on being nominated to France’s Legion of Honor. @pharellwilliams.bsky.social

13.07.2025 15:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

No that's from Saint-Pierre itself.

02.05.2025 19:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Of course the term "ghost island" refers to the fact is is a ghost town on a small island, and not the ghost islands of antiques maps.

02.05.2025 15:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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A few pictures of Ile aux Marins, a ghost island near the harbour of Saint-Pierre, Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon. The island was formally known as Ile aux Chiens in the 18th and 19th centurues, and Isle aux Grouesilles in the 17th century.

02.05.2025 15:02 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

It's been over 1 110 days since ELMO bought the other place, ruined the platform, destroyed the ecosystem, removed legitimate verification badges, skewed the algorithm to shut down dissent, and muzzled any criticism of his actions.

28.04.2025 18:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Originaire de Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, de retour dans mon territoire, je découvre avec effroi cette médisance jacobine et colonialiste de Laurent Wauquiez à notre égard. #saintpierre #saintpierremiquelon #ispm 🇵🇲 📷🇫🇷

08.04.2025 17:08 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Originaire de Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, de retour dans mon territoire, je découvre avec effroi cette médisance jacobine et colonialiste de Laurent Wauquiez à notre égard. #saintpierre #saintpierremiquelon #ispm 🇵🇲 📷🇫🇷

08.04.2025 17:07 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Bonjour @gallicabnf.bsky.social - Depuis quelques jours, grosses difficultés pour utiliser votre site. Erreurs lors des recherches ou erreurs lors du visionnage d'un document, avec et sans VPN. Est-ce un problème avec le site ou est-ce ma connexion ?

07.04.2025 23:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Today, I could clearly see a mountain in Canada, peak altitude 226 m, from over 62 km away, in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon (France).

06.04.2025 23:20 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It's been a crazy 48 hrs in Saint-Pierre, lots of joking around about payback for Prohibition. Seems the White House has finally dropped all of France's Overseas territories from the final list. Someone finally clued in that ISO-3166 is not just countries, but associated territories.

05.04.2025 00:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

No it isn't part of the EU, it's an associated territory, it has its own autonomous fiscal regime.

04.04.2025 12:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The treaty of 1763 forbids any fortification of the islands.

04.04.2025 12:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Exact.

04.04.2025 12:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Tarifs à 50%. Le 99% c'est leur calcul bidon de la balance commerciale car on leur a vendu du poisson sans rien leur acheter ... Pourquoi, car on est à 12km du Canada, ça n'a aucun sens.

03.04.2025 22:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Les pays et territoires d’outre-mer (PTOM) - Touteleurope.eu Le statut de "pays et territoire d'outre-mer" concerne 13 pays et territoires relevant de trois des Etats membres de l'Union européenne : le Danemark, la France et les Pays-Bas. Si leurs ressortissant...

Nous sommes un PTOM : pays territoire outre-mer. Nous avons notre propre fiscalité. www.touteleurope.eu/l-europe-en-...

03.04.2025 22:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

We're not actually EU, we're an associated territory of France.

03.04.2025 22:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

How much do you want ?

03.04.2025 20:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Seven Islands. Saint-Pierre, Ile aux Marins, Ile aux Vainqueurs, Ile aux Pigeons, Grand Colombier, Langlade, Miquelon (last two linked by sand dunes).

03.04.2025 20:24 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Hello from Saint-Pierre ... we're baffled.

03.04.2025 20:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sigh. Probably. Stupid, in charge, and out of control. Apparently St. Pierre and Miquelon is on the sh*t list because they don’t import anything from the US and export shellfish. Because when you are an idiot and don’t understand that “trade imbalances” by themselves don’t mean anything…

03.04.2025 18:37 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Yeah and we had the nerve to sell them some halibut last year and didn't buy anything from the USA and whammo, 50 % tariff for St Pierre and Miquelon, territory of France, 12 miles from Canada.

Is that the thanks we get for being your warehouse during Prohibition ?!

03.04.2025 17:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
SPM Ferries Votre compagnie maritime

SPM Ferries www.spm-ferries.fr/en/home/

03.04.2025 16:07 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
"Hopedale" (Ferry) sinking Newfoundland coastal boat/ferry/passenger/general cargo vessel

I believe that was the Hopedale Ferry mha.mun.ca/mha/pviewpho... - We only have a ferry to Fortune Newfoundland today.

03.04.2025 16:05 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Newfoundland is 12 miles from our island. I can see Canada from France.

03.04.2025 15:52 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0
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Basques been coming since the 1500s. First mention of Miquelon is in a Basque Rutter of 1579.

03.04.2025 15:50 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Island of 5,800 inhabitants now has highest tariff rates in the world An island of less than 6,000 people has been hit with the highest tariff rates in the world by the USA.

www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/island-...

03.04.2025 15:04 — 👍 14    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 2
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The island has been slapped with 99% tariffs by Trump 🤦‍♂️

03.04.2025 15:04 — 👍 37    🔁 13    💬 3    📌 2

The two highest tariff rates under the gibberish formula are Lesotho and St. Pierre et Miquelon, both at 50%.

Population of the tiny French islands off the coast of Newfoundland: 5,819.

03.04.2025 15:28 — 👍 118    🔁 25    💬 9    📌 1

We'll probably toss it into the ocean at high tide.

03.04.2025 13:51 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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This Tiny French Archipelago Became America’s Alcohol Warehouse During Prohibition Before the 21st amendment was ratified, remote islands off Canada’s Newfoundland province floated on a sea of whiskey and wine

Trump Tariffs against Saint Pierre and Miquelon? Yes, we think we figured out why ...

It's payback for selling booze at premium prices during Prohibition! 😂🤣

www.smithsonianmag.com/history/tiny...

03.04.2025 00:51 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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