I dare say they'll all be on the picket line tomorrow.
06.10.2025 03:24 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@ms-sally.bsky.social
Early Childhood Educator in rural Canada. Always questioning, always learning. Grateful sojourner on Secwepemc land
I dare say they'll all be on the picket line tomorrow.
06.10.2025 03:24 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A paperback copy of HOPE IN THE DARK by Rebecca Solnit, with sunlight beaming across the black and white cover.
#Readers, what's the best sentence you read this week? Share at #SundaySentence!
Mine was an easy pick--but also hard since there were so many to choose from in HOPE IN THE DARK by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social:
We write history with our feet and with our presence and our collective voice and vision.
Thousands of people with signs and placards in front of the Alberta Legislature in Edmonton
On the eve of one of the largest demonstrations of labour power in Alberta's history, sights like 20,000 supporters rallying in front of the Legislature for teachers and their students is inspiring. Solidarity! #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli
05.10.2025 21:12 β π 294 π 87 π¬ 6 π 3Read *Flamer*. Buy it and read it, or get it out of your library and read it. Just read it. It's a fantastic book
05.10.2025 17:05 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0If they were in your jurisdiction you would be breaking their strike. But nice work with the photo op - note who's front and centre here.
05.10.2025 16:39 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0It's not smart to invest in infrastructure that takes years to build for a resource that the world wants less & less. So what's going on?
Is Carney planning to ship crude to refineries in the O&G-dependent USA, tying our economies together more, not less?
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/03/o...
And to repost it...
05.10.2025 04:54 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Print with symmetrical circular design in colours of red, blue, black and white, including repeated eye motifs as well as other symbolic forms
'Remembrance' screenprint by Susan Point, contemporary First Nations, Musqueam Coast Salish artist, who works in the Coast Salish tradition #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
05.10.2025 04:51 β π 270 π 40 π¬ 0 π 1#ICE...
#NeverForget? #WeForgot
Clippy is the Office energy vampire. I never trusted Clippy, and I dread any possibility of an interaction. I don't care if Clippy has a soul.
05.10.2025 02:39 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0So PLEASE, could we just move on! And invest in the infrastructure we actually need to hasten our transition off fossil fuels, leave this deadly industry behind, and create hundreds of thousands of new green jobs that are insulated from Trump and the U.S.
02.10.2025 19:55 β π 36 π 7 π¬ 0 π 0Love that he just says Twitter.
03.10.2025 04:55 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Why do Conservatives/Liberals work hard to crush unions? Because the thing they fear most is solidarity among those who generate the billions for the privileged. Ours is an economy of predators and prey. Sounds like Rob wants to tip the scales in favour of the exploited. Here's to his successπ
02.10.2025 16:02 β π 5 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0Don't let this slip beneath the relentless waves of breaking news.
It was only a matter of time before someone in Alberta died from measles, because measles is a deadly disease.
Just think how good it would be for us out here in BC, if the federal government also subsidized our coastal ferries.
02.10.2025 21:46 β π 18 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"She needs to be taught a lesson?" Wow, so more of the same.
02.10.2025 19:29 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Postal workers deliver vital services Canadians rely on β from seniorsβ meds to small business shipping. The Liberalsβ sweeping changes threaten jobs & our postal system. Iβm proud to stand with @cupw, @unifor.org taxi drivers & allies to say: not on our watch! β
#FightForWorkers
Greta Thinberg and Jane Goodall
Women who lift each other up, and the world π.
02.10.2025 00:01 β π 737 π 148 π¬ 19 π 9Hello October π³οΈββ§οΈπ³οΈβππ§‘
01.10.2025 14:14 β π 271 π 200 π¬ 6 π 11Whatever you do, don't stop walking through the storm.
30.09.2025 23:49 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Now that you mention it, that's all I see. It's kinda just this side of the opening credits to True Blood.
30.09.2025 17:02 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Don't give up. This beautiful plate reminds me of a turtle. Crochet can't do that.
29.09.2025 23:17 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Carney lost me with Bills C-5 and C-2. His disregard for WAGE, indigenous rights and the climate is unconscionable. Now, it seems he can't deliver on anything.
29.09.2025 23:13 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0If I could convince carney to take on one national mega project, it would be to blanket the rooftops of Canada with solar panels.
Weβd automatically become an energy superpower.
"They're choosing silencing over the messy, complicated and absolutely essential noise of freedom" This is happening in Canada, folks. π
29.09.2025 18:45 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0It looks like she's wearing a necklace made of her own hair.
29.09.2025 17:07 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Hopefully Watson responds with zero sympathy for what this horrid rich woman has become. Watson would have been great without Rowling. She also made Rowling a ton of money. JKR should be grateful but instead wants to infantilize another woman. (Because Rowling is such a feminist. /s)
29.09.2025 17:05 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0To Theland Kicknosway, then a twelve-year-old drummer from Walpole Island First Nation, he said, βSing loud, and do that forever, my young friendβso that people will come to realize what could have always been, because of you.β
29.09.2025 15:38 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Ten years ago, Sinclair said, βThe story of the truth of residential schools in this country is the story of the resilience of the children.β
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