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Matt Goerzen ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ

@mattgoerzen.bsky.social

Proud Canadian journalist, Prairie dweller, editorial writer, sometimes photographer, & managing editor of The Brandon Sun.

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A government-sanctioned "truth arbiter" will soon arrive at CBS. Their role will be to ensure that journalists do not criticize this Administration or express views that conflict with its agenda.

This is a betrayalโ€”not just of journalistic independence, but of the public trust. ๐Ÿงต

07.08.2025 14:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7797    ๐Ÿ” 3879    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 525    ๐Ÿ“Œ 971
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The Brandon Sun (@brandonsunnews) โ€ข Threads, Say more 1.3K Followers โ€ข 0 Threads โ€ข The daily newspaper of record in Brandon, Manitoba. Since 1882. See the latest conversations with @brandonsunnews.

The Brandon Sun is also on Threads as @brandonsunnews. Install the app to follow our threads and replies. www.threads.com/@brandonsunn...

09.08.2025 15:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Whisky, neat.

07.08.2025 16:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The White House looks like a cheap whore house.
A crazy person is in the Oval Office.
Criminals are running everything.
Racism is running more rampant than ever before.
Science is being replaced with idiocy.
And we are the laughing stock of the world.
What a time to be alive.
I need a beer.

07.08.2025 15:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 916    ๐Ÿ” 220    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 84    ๐Ÿ“Œ 18

Itโ€™s got some great food, good people and some awesome scenery. #canada

04.08.2025 03:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My column in todayโ€™s Brandon Sun on the humanitarian disaster taking place in Palestine, and the need for more Israeli citizens to push for a lasting peace. #bdnmb #cdnpoli

29.07.2025 14:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

this is the fool running around Canada claiming we have no freedom and that Christianity is under attack.

I read that he was terrorizing a baby moose in his truck this wknd, and found that hilarious.

Get TF out of Canada, fool.

27.07.2025 17:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 30    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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EXCLUSIVE: ICE may have secretly done more third-country removals than previously known Flight data from private jets contracted by ICE show a spike in activity to 13 countries targeted for third-country removals.

EXCLUSIVE: ICE may have secretly done more third-country removals than previously known

Flight data from private jets contracted by ICE show a spike in activity to 13 countries targeted for third-country removals.

๐Ÿ‘€I've been working on this for two months.

hardghistory.ghost.io/exclusive-ic...

21.07.2025 19:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 861    ๐Ÿ” 516    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19    ๐Ÿ“Œ 37

This is how trust in journalism dies.

21.07.2025 23:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The Brandon Sun editorial today on the asinine comments made by US lawmakers on the wildfire situation in Canada. #Canada #cdnpolitics #mbpoli #USA

12.07.2025 15:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Netanyahu nominates Trump for Nobel Peace Prize Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu surprised President Trump at the White House by personally handing him a letter nominating him for the Nobel Peace Prize, calling it โ€œwell deserved.โ€

Thus is our world: an indicted war criminal who is overseeing genocide nominates a racist hatemonger who would hopes to turn the ruins of genocide into a resort, for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Thus cannot be our world.

Thus, the real voices of peace need to be all the louder friends.

08.07.2025 00:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Elon Musk is starting a political party that he can own from day one, designed to further his conspiratorial views and personal financial priorities.

This isnโ€™t about freedom.
Itโ€™s about Elon.

05.07.2025 21:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 484    ๐Ÿ” 132    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 97    ๐Ÿ“Œ 27
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A dynamic sky is reflected in a puddle off of Princess Avenue on Friday after an early morning rainfall. #bdnmb #Manitoba #Photography

04.07.2025 14:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™m taking a slightly different viewpoint of Canadaโ€™s recent decision to rescind the DST in my editorial today. #bdnmb #mbpoli #cdnpolitics

02.07.2025 18:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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#CanadaDay fireworks in Brandon #Manitoba on Tuesday evening at the Riverbank Discovery Centre. #bdnmb (Matt Goerzen/The Brandon Sun)

02.07.2025 05:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A little tattered around the edges, but still flying. #CanadaDay #bdnmb #mbpoli #cdnpolitics

01.07.2025 15:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Air Force flyby planned for Canada Day The Royal Canadian Air Force is conducting a flyby over the City of Brandon on Canada Day. The Tuesday flyover will happen between 1 and 2 p.m., overtop where Canada Day festivities are planned atโ€ฆ

The Royal Canadian Air Force is conducting a flyby over the City of Brandon on Canada Day. The Tuesday flyover will happen between 1 and 2 p.m., overtop where Canada Day festivities are planned at the Riverbank Discovery Centre. www.brandonsun.com/local/2025/0... #bdnmb

30.06.2025 19:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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COVID-19 Vaccines Not Linked to Miscarriage A new study adds to existing evidence that COVID-19 vaccines are safe during pregnancy.

Um,

I'm going to side with thee Yale School of Medicine, instead of a guy that openly swam in a stream full of sewage.

medicine.yale.edu/news-article...

24.06.2025 22:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 74    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Mine too. I can still recite it now thanks to all those years in elementary school saying it. Of course I grew up in Manitobaโ€™s Bible Belt region as Mennonites had settled large parts of the Red River Valley โ€” my fatherโ€™s parents included.

21.06.2025 18:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Manitoba is somewhat unique in this situation. Until 25 years ago school kids were expected to sing it as it was legislated - though many divisions were already phasing it out. Blame the province for not being quicker to deal with it.

21.06.2025 17:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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United Conservative Party releases CPP survey results 21 months late | Globalnews.ca The survey showed 63 per cent of respondents were opposed to an APP, while only 10 per cent were in support.

After nearly two years, the Alberta government has finally released the results of a survey asking Albertans if they wanted to quit the Canada Pension Plan.

Just 10 per cent said yes.

globalnews.ca/news/1125078...

20.06.2025 01:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 43    ๐Ÿ” 28    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Trump Sent Them To Hell. Now He's Erasing Them Altogether. Dozens of U.S. CECOT detaineesโ€™ immigration cases have been dismissed โ€“ denying Trumpโ€™s victims their day in court.

Trump has sent hundreds of people to El Salvador's CECOT for indefinite detention, without charge, trial or sentence. DHS has dismissed dozens of their immigration cases in absentia: "essentially rid itself of its opposing party," an immigration judge wrote recently:
www.huffpost.com/entry/cecot-...

16.06.2025 15:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 224    ๐Ÿ” 141    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8

This family is the biggest bunch of grifters and frauds ๐Ÿค‘
And gawdy as hell. A gold phone?

16.06.2025 15:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 38    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Trump Has Completely Wrecked America's Brand In Canada, crossing over to America is not just taboo now โ€” itโ€™s a kind of betrayal, even borderline treasonous.

"Donald Trump has wrecked Americaโ€™s brand. Heโ€™s made crossing over from Canada a betrayal, bordering on treason, while turning the U.S. into a laughingstock around the globe." @rollingstone.com
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

15.06.2025 07:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8550    ๐Ÿ” 2145    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 403    ๐Ÿ“Œ 148
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Canadian Department of National Defence spending projection chart from 2024 budget

09.06.2025 16:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Heโ€™s had weeks to address it, and only mentions itโ€™s a priority now. Whole crop season affected. Iโ€™ll believe it when I see it.

03.06.2025 18:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Beautiful photo by @thebrandonsun.bsky.social photographer Tim Smith.

03.06.2025 12:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Loretta Swit, aka Margaret Houlihan from #MASH, dies at 86, www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...

31.05.2025 14:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Wow. Avelo airlines has covered up their logo to hide the fact that they're helping with mass deportation. Avelo's customer service number is (346) 616-9500. Feel free to give them a call and tell them how you feel about them.

29.05.2025 21:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17501    ๐Ÿ” 8895    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 847    ๐Ÿ“Œ 460
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A perfect storm: Britain's trade malaise, weak growth and a new geopolitical moment The UK is facing its most severe trade challenge in decades โ€“ and at the worst possible time.

2/2 And hereโ€™s the economic report this opinion is based upon. www.cer.org.uk/insights/per...

29.05.2025 12:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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