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Norah Bowman

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Feminist & writer & democratic socialist bi cis poet on unceded & traditional Syilx Okanagan territory. I ❤️Rutland, co-operative housing, experimental poetry, dogs, kooky art & nooks. PhD in English & Film studies, community college prof. #transrights

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‘Power and Politics’ on CBC confirms, “if you look at the seat projections, Kelowna is in play again”
Let’s go Kelowna! Every single vote counts. Every one. 🗳️ Let’s flip this seat back to the people! 🇨🇦 ❤️

12.04.2025 21:15 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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BREAKING: 36k people showed up in LA for Bernie and AOC’s rally. In the off year.

Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.

12.04.2025 22:11 — 👍 64444    🔁 14503    💬 1325    📌 967
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Conservative candidate Aaron Gunn to stay in the race in B.C. Pierre Poilievre to stick with candidate Aaron Gunn despite a growing number of First Nations leaders demanding he take Gunn off the ballot.

Despite a growing number of Indigenous and other community leaders calling for the removal of Aaron Gunn as a candidate in North Island-Powell River, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre says he'll stay on.
www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...

08.04.2025 20:16 — 👍 38    🔁 37    💬 5    📌 7

They should consider the implications of Tsilhqot’in v. Rex 2014 - no more Terra nullius, no more colonial title. They show Incredibly poor epistemological positioning. Ugh.

10.04.2025 03:10 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

love how everybody's like "why would a Russian asset crash the US economy?"

02.04.2025 23:25 — 👍 9846    🔁 1713    💬 208    📌 68
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CTV Cancelled a Fact-Checking Segment in Response to Political Pressure From Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives Audio recording shows CTV cancelled an ‘election misinformation’ segment with journalist Rachel Gilmore after online backlash from conservatives

NEW: CTV cancelled a fact-checking segment in response to political pressure from Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives

An audio recording obtained by PressProgress shows CTV cancelled an ‘election misinformation’ segment with journalist Rachel Gilmore after online backlash from conservatives

01.04.2025 21:31 — 👍 2450    🔁 1271    💬 321    📌 664

Classic anti-democratic move: ridicule, censor, stop journalists. Especially women : fascism demands rigid gender roles & submission to authority. I ❤️ Rachel Gilmore. CTV, you should be ashamed.

03.04.2025 16:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You’re amazing Justin!

03.04.2025 04:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The hidden history of a predatory principal at a Manitoba residential school | CBC News The Truth and Reconciliation Commission heard very little about Agnes Benn, a teen girl who died near a Manitoba residential school in 1930, and the multiple sex abuse charges faced by the school's pr...

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Canada is built on the violent oppression and harm of Indigenous Peoples. No reconciliation without truth. Residential “schools” were internment camps.

02.04.2025 19:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I value and I will protect our trans community members, today and every day. #transdayofvisibility #TDOV

01.04.2025 00:24 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You’re so back and we are so glad!!

30.03.2025 18:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead.
No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience.
Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.

There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead. No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience. Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

29.03.2025 20:31 — 👍 11545    🔁 4369    💬 129    📌 166

And Putin before Ukraine.

29.03.2025 17:39 — 👍 37    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0
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Kelowna's Trans Day of Visibility counters hate with love, education The Transgender Day of Visibility event will be held on March 31, at the Laurel Packinghouse

“It is important for those who do not understand biology — specifically differences in sexual development — to recognize that a lack of comprehension does not mean that people who are gender diverse do not exist or are not natural.”

www.kelownacapnews.com/local-news/t...

28.03.2025 03:40 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Congratulations Anna!

27.03.2025 06:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What Is an Oligarchy, and Why Are People Worried the US Is Becoming One? We break it down.

If the meaning of “oligarchy” feels like a blur from history class, don’t worry — its definition is actually pretty simple. We break it down ⤵️

26.03.2025 12:49 — 👍 855    🔁 238    💬 36    📌 26
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Has Danielle Smith participated in election interference with an enemy of Canada? She asked the US administration to pause the tariffs to help get Poilievre elected.

23.03.2025 04:23 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 1
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My maternal grandmother died in the 1918 flu pandemic.

RFK Jr can go fuck himself.

22.03.2025 18:32 — 👍 38437    🔁 11288    💬 2608    📌 831
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Fuck Stephen Miller and Tom Homan to hell. Goddamn bastards, both of them.

22.03.2025 22:04 — 👍 30779    🔁 9059    💬 2180    📌 743
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AOC: I want to live in an America that guarantees healthcare to every person.

I want to live in an America that has a living wage for every person

I want to live in an America where you have free speech to express yourself and not be afraid of being put on a list or deported.

21.03.2025 03:34 — 👍 71335    🔁 14600    💬 1196    📌 963

Every time you see someone powerful acting like a craven coward in the face of this authoritarian menace, let it stiffen your own spine. We are all we've got.

20.03.2025 22:57 — 👍 60229    🔁 10615    💬 1023    📌 387
Idaho teacher fights back after order to remove ‘Everyone is Welcome Here’ poster
YouTube video by MSNBC Idaho teacher fights back after order to remove ‘Everyone is Welcome Here’ poster

The good news is that there *are* people meeting the moment.

youtu.be/EJxRtjma7lc

20.03.2025 01:42 — 👍 42764    🔁 8757    💬 1170    📌 710
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never forget

18.03.2025 03:19 — 👍 200    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 1

Canadians need this too I guess

18.03.2025 19:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It was so good, this season has been very meh until this episode.
This episode also had 3 very interesting kisses.

18.03.2025 19:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Same. Or waking up at 3 am feeling very Czechoslovakia 1938.

18.03.2025 19:17 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I like the two beavers. Top hat & monocle monopoly guy Beaver is a little trop Le Dauphin.

18.03.2025 19:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

they’re arresting people for performing abortions, they’re deporting people for liking pro-palestine posts on social media, they’re sending immigrants to forced labor camps in south america, we are living under fascism right now

18.03.2025 01:40 — 👍 25582    🔁 6525    💬 317    📌 161

To Poilievre's friends.

Lay off Carney's kid. Stop being a bunch of bullies and jerks.

It's not okay.

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