@christyceeck.bsky.social
Gardener. From flack to florist. From PR to peonies. Still fluent in spin. I media scan, therefore I am. Mister Rogers/Mary Oliver stan. Born at 326 ppm. Old married broad. Mom. Dogs' person. Canadian. she/her #BlackLivesMatter #LFC #ElbowsUp
I keep thinking about this paragraph from the Franklin Foer story in The Atlantic. There's a reason so many presidents avoided attacking Iran.
My spouse and I were just discussing this story.
They're beyond incompetent. Has a historical moment ever been led by people this stupid?
It's evil. They're evil.
The all encompassing night
#wales
#eck
#urbangaze
#humansofbluesky
The iconic golden clock of the Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Thank you, Dr. Vinh, for everything you did in that terrifying time before the vaccines.
March 11 came & went. We were worried about an ice storm and WW3. In the process, we forgot about the National Day of Remembrance for COVID-19, both the patients we lost, but I would also say, the unsung heroes. We think about MDs, but nurses, lab/radiology techs, PT/OT, Pharm kept the system afloat
Councillor Moise with the solid burn: Cool your Jets, Doug Ford! 😂 🔥 Thank you all for reaching out to your elected representatives and inspiring them to stand up for our waterfront! Email your reps now with our petition: win.newmode.net/nojetsto/sav... #topoli #onpoli
800 000 is all of the the old city of Toronto driven from their homes.
(Blue on map)
It sounds like an interesting book. I do some of this and it does make day-to-day life more meaningful.
“The meaning of life is a big, philosophical question, and we’re not philosophers,” says Burnett. “But getting more meaning out of life, or living more fully – that, we can help you with.”
That first paragraph describes how I ended up in PR. Yes, clearly I can do it. I have an analytical, cynical brain. But it didn't feel right for very long. And it felt like there was a big piece of me -- a creative piece -- unexplored.
Now I work, creating, with my hands in a medium that I love.
“I was struck by how insular Mr. Poilievre and the Conservative Party was,” former U.S. Ambassador to Canada David Cohen...who had advised Poilievre to engage with Trump, told POLITICO. “They have very little, to no relationships in the United States, or in any other country for that matter.”
Such an important piece of this announcement is there is no new money in the budget for this! It’s just reshuffled underfunding with probably more costs associated with administering the program #onted #onpoli
The Not-the-Mayor-of-Toronto Doug Ford is doing more to change the city's waterfront (for the worse) than any actual mayor in recent history has. He is insulting Torontonians and trampling all sorts of norms and boundaries in the process.
#GiftLink 🎁 #ToPoli #OnPoli
www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...
To openly admit the ‘benefit’ is to disenfranchise disadvantage women and you still get govt contracts globally.
“The conflict risks engulfing the wider region in catastrophic armed violence and threatens to set yet another precedent of total impunity for some of the world’s strongest military powers."
Yes.... Both of them.
I posted video of former private equity (surprise!) turned DOGE guy Justin Fox the other day. Both of these young men are hard to watch. I think it's a specific personality trait that they have in common.
It's how they did what they did so easily.
Ran out of room to link the excerpt above. It's from this Star story from September.
This piece of the whole thing is interesting. Where does his complaint w/the Canadian Human Rights Commission stand? I get what his testimony at the HoC ctte might have been trying to achieve. He's got a right-wing grift going but his CHRC complaint is anathema to most of the people he's courting.
Ha! Not in my reading corner right now. Flowers coming either later today or tomorrow. Heading out shortly to pick up a whole bunch of assorted stems...
Dog days.
@drmarkbourrie.bsky.social nailed in Ripper I thought.
The Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin that just came out is really good. I suggest you take a peek, share it around. Especially the stuff about how the police board chair, Shelly Carroll, worked to avoid public input on the budget. Ford is not the only one steamrolling local democracy.
Who has contacted their local Liberal MP? There are two Liberal candidates running in upcoming by elections too.
100%.
Poilievre's got negative affective presence. (In the Big Five personality traits, bet he scores very, very low on agreeableness.) There's something off about his energy. It's flinty. Twitchy. His presence is unsettling to many people, especially women.
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Here’s my (frighteningly vulnerable!!) follow up on my reporting that exposed a white nationalist active club.
On the professional and personal costs of this work:
