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Mike Gardiner

@gardinerforhope.bsky.social

I care about people, and I care about the planet. I'm a social worker, father of 2, Green Party candidate for Moose Jaw-Lake Centre-Lanigan, former tech business owner, former conservative, and a former Evangelical pastor.

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Common chemicals in plastic linked to over 350,000 deaths from heart disease Researchers estimate that exposure to phthalates contributes to 13 percent of all heart disease deaths in people between 55 and 64 years old each year.

Common chemicals in plastic linked to over 350,000 deaths from heart disease

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Close a few tax loopholes for some billionaires, and we can be amazing at all of these things.

10.04.2025 05:03 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Like so many Canadians and people around the world, my heart is broken by the ongoing genocide in Palestine.

Canada must stop all arms sales to Israel.

Canada must sanction Netanyahu and his government.

Canada must end its complicity in this genocide.

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Gas is back, baby!

01.04.2025 19:09 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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AOC: What they like to call as radical, I believe is common sense.

I believe that when a person gets sick, they shouldn’t go bankrupt in the wealthiest country in the history of the world. Common sense

I believe that a minimum wage should cover the minimum cost to live. Common sense...

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Conservatives won't let media travel with them during the election -- despite DECADES of tradition
YouTube video by Rachel Gilmore Conservatives won't let media travel with them during the election -- despite DECADES of tradition

What are Pierre Poilievre's conservatives so scared of?

Because they just announced they're breaking from decades of tradition and won't let media travel with them on the election campaign.

This is a huge blow to YOUR right to know what they get up to on the campaign trail.

Let's talk about it:

19.03.2025 19:29 β€” πŸ‘ 447    πŸ” 139    πŸ’¬ 48    πŸ“Œ 11
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Paging Canada: Your future doctors are fleeing the U.S. Before the US election, my wife and I talked about moving to Canada. 2 days after, we put the wheels in motion.

Paging Canada: Your future doctors are fleeing the U.S.

by @codeblackamerica.bsky.social

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Whoa, Canada! Don’t Make Our Mistake in New Zealand | The Tyee Out of frustration we tried electing right-wing populists. Now things are worse.

Whoa, Canada! Don’t make the same mistake New Zealand made!

β€œOut of frustration we tried electing right-wing populists. Now things are worse.” Via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

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America 2025:
"Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

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I answered a reporter's question: "The long-term well-being of our climate system is incompatible with the short-term gains of shareholders." I stand by that statement.

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Moose Jaw archaeological site could re-write history of pre-contact Saskatchewan City Council received a presentation on Thursday evening, discussing the lengthy history of human occupation in the Moose Jaw area and the potentially significant archaeological finds that could be lo...

This further illustrates that most of us Moose Javians are part of a culture that has occupied Indigenous lands that were consistently used for millennia before we arrived. Indigenous peoples did not believe in land ownership like European capitalist culture does, but shared the land with all beings

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β€œThose who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.” - George Santayana

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How many jobs were full-time? How many pay a living wage?

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Pierre Poilievre is openly begging for US Oligarch Elon Musk’s help and promising to open up Canada and its resources to the US.

Poilievre plans to sellout Canada to Trump and his corporate oligarch cabal.

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Populist politicians generally won't engage with ideas and/or policy debates, and will usually attempt to undermine the credibility of the person expressing them.

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