Sarah [Flanntasticly]

Thank you Blue Jays for a phenomenal season! 💙

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I think what's bothering me about all these statements I'm seeing from politicians that are variations of "Israeli hostages and Palestinians are returning to their homes, yay" is that Israelis are returning to their homes and Palestinians are returning to uninhabitable post apocalyptic rubble.

If you live in Canada and believe you're immune from an Orwelian future, please be aware that the Edmonton School District just banned 200 books, including six of mine, from its school libraries.

Neil Young quits Facebook and Instagram over Meta's use of chatbots with children | CBC Music 'Meta's use of chatbots with children is unconscionable,' Young's team shared in a statement.

Neil Young quits Facebook and Instagram over Meta's use of chatbots with children
'Meta's use of chatbots with children is unconscionable,' Young's team shared in a statement.

www.cbc.ca/music/neil-y...

Tell the Canadian Government: Stop Funding Companies Supporting Trump’s Human Rights Abuses GardaWorld — a Canadian-based “private security company” — has million-dollar contracts to execute Trump's racist and inhumane immigration regime, which kidnaps people, tears families apart, and denie...

Canadians cannot be complicit in ICE human rights abuses! This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.leadnow.ca/petitions/te...

If I can’t pick The Matrix then Point Break

Odd, how South Park is covering Kristi Noem and her ICE hooligans more accurately than The New York Times.

It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.

More strongly worded letters and deep concerns from all the nations arming a genocide that a genocide is taking place.

Mass media acting astonished that a genocide is horrific after years of manufacturing consent for it.

Montreal-based ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ security contractor posts jobs for armed guards Listing advertises US$25 an hour for up to 60 hours per week, with flights, meals and accommodation included.

Umm the Quebec government needs to sell the shares that they own in this company IMMEDIATELY. GardaWorld is supplying guards to Alligator Alcatraz. Canadians DO NOT support organizations that participate in HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS. Wtf?😐

www.montrealgazette.com/news/article...

Eastern Canada is going great work & refusing to platform a Christian nationalist on tour.

Sean Feucht has two upcoming events in BC:

Aug 23 at Memorial Park in West Kelowna, a @cityofwestkelowna.bsky.social property

Aug 24 at Mill Lake Park in Abbotsford, a @cityofabbotsford.bsky.social property

This powerful message: “I did the research and found out I was wrong.”

I’m not going to say much more except please take the time to watch. Then send it around to family and friends, no matter their political persuasion.

Part I

The bulk of tech bros and people with inherited wealth do not fundamentally understand skilled labor at all because they have always been in a position to fail up, and they assume that they are actually the high performers and that everybody else is more incompetent than they are.

Your grandmother stood in line for the polio vaccine. Your parents watched smallpox disappear from the world. That wasn’t luck. That was public health in action—community, science, and courage working together. When we celebrate progress, we’re not looking back-we’re fueling the belief that change is possible. Because it is. And we’ve done it before.

@drtomfrieden.bsky.social

So Garda World is now becoming the SS guards at the concentration camps. Well I will not recommend this company to anyone. Boycott them at all costs.

Montreal-based ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ security contractor posts jobs for armed guards Listing advertises US$25 an hour for up to 60 hours per week, with flights, meals and accommodation included.

I am horrified to learn a Montreal-based company is complicit in the US concentration camps. The Quebec Government has previously (2022) invested in Garda World. As Canadians, how do we intervene to stop this human cruelty? www.montrealgazette.com/news/article...

Immediately.

“I absolutely disagree with Carney that the economy and market forces need to be used because the economy itself is driving us into the ditch. It’s based on the creed of cancer — steady growth — and you can’t have endless growth in a finite world.”

1) it was always fascism and fascism was the right word to use
2) they are building concentration camps and concentration camps are the right words to use
3) they are banning books and book bans is a fine way to describe the myriad ways they are banning them

Uniformity is neither desirable nor possible in a country the size of Canada. We should not even be able to agree upon the kind of Canadian to choose as a model, let alone persuade most people to emulate it. There are few policies potentially more disastrous for Canada than to tell all Canadians that they must be alike. There is no such thing as a model or ideal Canadian. What could be more absurd than the concept of an "all-Canadian" boy or girl? A society which emphasizes uniformity is one which creates intolerance and hate. A society which eulogizes the average citizen is one which breeds mediocrity. What the world should be seeking, and what in Canada we must continue to cherish, are not concepts of uniformity but human values: compassion, love, and understanding. - Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Remarks at the Ukrainian-Canadian Congress, October 9, 1971, as cited in The Essential Trudeau, ed. Ron Graham. Photograph: < http://www.primeministers.ca/trudeau/quickfacts.php>

“Canada was never built on sameness”

Seriously?! Billionaires need to pay taxes too ffs!!

Canada's DST (digital service tax) effects companies like Amazon, Google, Meta, Uber, and Airbnb.
Yes, that's right; in Canada, we think the stinking rich should pay tax on the business they do in 🇨🇦.
But, predictably, that doesn't sit well with Trump and the Axis of Oligarchy.

Analysis highlights very low level of HPV vaccine uptake globally

People: "If only there was a vaccine against cancer!"
Scientists: "Here's one!"
P: "Is it effective?"
S: "OMG it's SO effective. >97% efficacy!"
P: "Is it safe?"
S: "So safe. Only 3-4 serious AEs for every 100 thousand doses!"

People: "Nah. I'm good."

www.cidrap.umn.edu/human-papill...

🙌 Shai, you’ve made your country proud and inspired the next generation of Canadian basketball players! My son included 🏀 Congrats to OKC 🎉

Hell yes!

Remember who was opposed to:
-the metric system?
-seatbelt laws?
-smoking bans?

If you're as old as me, then you remember which political ideology was opposed to all these important progressive moments in recent Canadian history. And they're still at it.

The President's disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization is a grave violation of the Constitution and Congressional War Powers. He has impulsively risked launching a war that may ensnare us for generations. It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.

AOC: “It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”

Yes, cancelled a trip to Palm Springs. My kid’s basketball team also cancelled playing in a tournament in Seattle.