I've got a copypasta for recommending Mastodon to Canadians looking to get more reliable news. I include some suggested starting follows for Canadian news sources and information. I'd love to add some official government Mastodon accounts to that list.

In fact, any other suggestions, I can try and improve it. I want to keep it pretty streamlined, Federated services are already kind of complicated and impose a bit of a learning curve. I focused on just Canadian hosted general interest Mastodon instances, with a good list of Canadian news sources. I leave the discover of Lemmy.ca and Pixelfed.ca for later exploration.

Here it is:

Consider making an account on a Canadian Mastodon instance, Mstdn.ca, TheCanadian.Social, CoSocial.ca or SocialBC.ca.

There's not so much of an algorithm to entertain you, so you'll need to do some work following, but check out Fedi.Directory, Interesting Accounts to Follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse and Fedi.Tips- An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse. It's not all-or-nothing though. I would suggest setting up an account on a Canadian instance, supporting that Canadian instance, and then installing one of the many mobile apps for the Fediverse.

For some Canadian themed news sources, I recommend the following Mastodon follows:

• CBC News
• Global News
• The Tyee
• PressProgress
• Meanwhile In Canada
• Winnipeg Free Press
• The Narwhal
• Cory Doctorow
• Michael Geist
• Senator Paula Simmons
• Canadian History Ehx

Following #Hashtags is also a good way to stay in the loop on a topic. For now, I'd suggest #Canada and #CdnPoli .

There are also Canadian instances for other Federated services, but Mastodon is probably a good gateway.

I dunno, I'd say the fact that they wanna invade our country is a pretty big chit sandwich.

Public communication? I’m sure they issue public statements at times.

How else can they show off in their sexy, sexy robes?

"Feeling Santa-y. Might delete later."

Because we live in the bad timeline where people make social media accounts for something that could be an RSS feed.

The only thing I could see useful would be if it conveyed things like : "due to water main break all sessions are cancelled." But "hey, made 30 felons go to prison this week!" Is not helpful

I've never looked at theirs, but I know it's not uncommon for large entities to have handles on big sites just to reserve the real estate so imposters/scammers/bad actors don't move in and take those names.