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Pinhole Poetry @pinholepoetry.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Today, we’re featuring Catherine Owen’s poem “Guilt is not the point but accuracy, 1975,” along with some of her answers to our questions about poetry and inspirations. Thanks, Catherine! www.facebook.com/share/1FdBk4...
...fondue was eaten out of bowls on our laps: a spear of cheap meat and veg then
for consolation, the chocolate of your father's continued job, the fruit of your compliance.CATHERINE OWEN
Guilt is not the point but accuracy, 1975
So you figure out where it began, how it rolled out like pegged clothes on the line over the empty garden beds.
Should an older man be putting his large mouth on a girl's small lips, a bank blotter over a tiny, crayoned heart?
Must the parents say this is the price of admission or this is what we give in return
and though she claims not to like it
to shrink, this is not of particular importance, a child's bodily knowledge is never law and this of course was the 70s.
There was a sheepskin to sit on instead of chairs and fondue was eaten out of bowls on our laps: a spear of cheap meat and veg then
for consolation, the chocolate of your father's continued job, the fruit of your compliance.
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bedforv1.bsky.social @bedforv1.bsky.social · 23h
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bedforv1.bsky.social @bedforv1.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Take action today to stop Bill C-39! Send an email today and tell members of the Legislative Committee to scrap this dangerous legislation. share.nwmd.social/s/XGkkNnhW
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Call on the federal government to STOP C-39
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bedforv1.bsky.social @bedforv1.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Electrify the economy now. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/elec...
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Electrify the economy now
Seniors across Canada have a loud climate message for Members of Parliament: later is too late. The Carney government is falling short on meeting the needs of this moment, including electrification a...
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bedforv1.bsky.social @bedforv1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Stop the West Coast Money Pit. This $43B pipeline destroys nature, violates Indigenous rights, and stalls renewables for a dying industry. I signed the petition to end this massive mistake. Join me. 🌊🌳 app.sosha.ai/s/z4gFX5U3
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Reject the 35 billion dollar pipeline
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bedforv1.bsky.social @bedforv1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Nature is our home—not an economic zone. The federal government is proposing to steamroll ahead with major projects by weakening environmental protections. Tell them to protect nature, not treat it as red tape. 🌿 @greenpeaceca.bsky.social act.gp/3UGBqcn
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Stop Federal Environmental Rollbacks in Canada
Nature is our home—not an economic zone. The federal government wants to streamroll ahead with major projects by weakening environmental protections. Tell them to protect the nature that sustains us, ...
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bedforv1.bsky.social @bedforv1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Nature is our home—not an economic zone. The federal government is proposing to steamroll ahead with major projects by weakening environmental protections. Tell them to protect nature, not treat it as red tape. 🌿 @greenpeaceca.bsky.social act.gp/3UGBqcn
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Stop Federal Environmental Rollbacks in Canada
Nature is our home—not an economic zone. The federal government wants to streamroll ahead with major projects by weakening environmental protections. Tell them to protect the nature that sustains us, ...
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bedforv1.bsky.social @bedforv1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Stop the sacrifice of orcas for a pipeline - Ecojustice | Ecojustice ecojustice.ca/take-action/...
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Stop the sacrifice of orcas for a pipeline
No pipeline is worth extinction. The Southern Resident Killer Whales are already struggling to survive. There are only 74 of these endangered whales left, and they face a combination of threats…
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bedforv1.bsky.social @bedforv1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I just sent an email to Doug Ford to tell him: Defend our airports! Join me by sending your email now. share.nwmd.social/s/6NV8wWdd
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Hands Off Our Airports
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bedforv1.bsky.social @bedforv1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Mark Carney’s investment summit will fail without addressing this fundamental issue 🌎💰 davidsuzuki.org/expert-artic...
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Mark Carney’s investment summit is bound to fail unless it faces this fundamental issue
David Suzuki critiques Prime Minister Mark Carney's Investment Summit for prioritizing economic growth over ecological survival.
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bedforv1.bsky.social @bedforv1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Help butterflies flutter, not fade 🦋🌸 davidsuzuki.org/story/help-b...
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Help butterflies flutter, not fade
Many of Canada’s butterflies don’t make long migrations. They need a complete life cycle’s worth of habitat close to home.
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bedforv1.bsky.social @bedforv1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Help us support the cause. share.nwmd.social/s/BzvYWlZP
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Tell your Federal Representatives: Protect federal funding for Public Transit in Canada's Budget unlisted
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freegrassy.bsky.social @freegrassy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
#GrassyNarrows mother and grandmother Chrissy Isaacs is asking us to join her at #RiverRun2026 — will you be there? Show up and make sure Grassy Narrows cannot be ignored Sept. 23 • 12 PM • Grange Park RSVP - actionnetwork.org/events/river...
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Dave Stanley @davidwstanley.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
He definitely has a point
"How sad it must be, believing that scientists, historians, scholars, and journalists, would devote their entire lives to deceiving you. But a con man proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth and honesty."
Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson pictured
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ℝ𝕖𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕓𝕝𝕦𝕖 @rebelb1ue.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Climate change will affect you whether you believe in it or not. That’s why smart people call it science.
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MGB💙 @wtpmary.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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rain-singer.bsky.social @rain-singer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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bedforv1.bsky.social @bedforv1.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
How do we ensure that common animals remain common? 🐾 davidsuzuki.org/story/how-do...
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How do we ensure that common animals remain common?
Many classic cases illustrate that some animals that were once abundant and widespread are now either extinct or have seen their ranges substantially shrink.
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bedforv1.bsky.social @bedforv1.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"Deceleration Trauma: It wouldn't be so bad, except for the sudden stop at the end" by Erin Bedford pinehillsreview.com/2026/09/02/e...
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“Deceleration Trauma: It wouldn’t be so bad, except for the sudden stop at the end” by Erin Bedford
_You hear the faint sound of machinery in operation. / _An escape pod rests in the middle of the room.
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bedforv1.bsky.social @bedforv1.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Portage students protested unfair work permit denials. Then immigration enforcement came to their protest and issued 10 removal orders! Migrants have the right to protest without fear. I sent a letter demanding action. Send yours: migrantrights.ca/RightToProte... #DefendRightToProtest
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Migrant Have The Right To Protest - Migrant Rights Network
250+ organizations across Canada are standing with Portage students and defending migrants’ right to speak out, organize and protest. Migrants are part of our movements. We will not allow immigration ...
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freegrassy.bsky.social @freegrassy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
🚨 New @TorontoStar reporting says federal scientists found Kinross Gold’s conclusion that its proposed mine wouldn’t worsen water quality upstream from Grassy Narrows was “not scientifically sound.” Read and share full article - www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?... #FreeGrassy #GrassyNarrows
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bedforv1.bsky.social @bedforv1.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Help us support the cause. share.nwmd.social/s/uiJO8Puy
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Budget 2026: Call for renewables and affordability
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bedforv1.bsky.social @bedforv1.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Today is the Day of Action for Public Health Care. I took action to defend our public health care system against Alberta's two-tier law. You can too: dayofaction.healthcoalition.ca share.nwmd.social/s/Xw8Ooao0
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NO U.S.-STYLE HEALTH CARE IN CANADA!
Day of Action for Public Health Care happening on September 1, 2026
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bedforv1.bsky.social @bedforv1.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Indigenous rights mean justice for all 🌎 davidsuzuki.org/story/indige...
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Indigenous rights mean justice for all
If you care about climate, conservation or justice, support Indigenous voices, learn the history and challenge the systems that created this harm.
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bedforv1.bsky.social @bedforv1.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Is rapid AI development a smart move? 🤖 davidsuzuki.org/story/is-rap...
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Is rapid AI development a smart move?
There may be no stopping the AI juggernaut, but we must at least demand regulations and oversight to reduce its environmental and social impacts.
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Pinhole Poetry @pinholepoetry.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
With many thanks to Lumin Manea for all of the great work she did in this role, we’re now looking for a new first reader / general assistant for the digital journal, to begin in November 2026. details: www.facebook.com/share/p/1Ea8...
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bedforv1.bsky.social @bedforv1.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Nature is our home—not an economic zone. The federal government is proposing to steamroll ahead with major projects by weakening environmental protections. Tell them to protect nature, not treat it as red tape. 🌿 @greenpeaceca.bsky.social act.gp/3UGBqcn
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Stop Federal Environmental Rollbacks in Canada
Nature is our home—not an economic zone. The federal government wants to streamroll ahead with major projects by weakening environmental protections. Tell them to protect the nature that sustains us, ...
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bedforv1.bsky.social @bedforv1.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Letter to My Fellow Americans About Canada americanpulse.substack.com/p/letter-to-...
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Letter to My Fellow Americans About Canada
We Lost Our Oldest Friend On Purpose. How We Start Deserving Them Back
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bedforv1.bsky.social @bedforv1.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Canada has an obligation under global law to stop unilateral deep sea mining by Canadian companies. Yet Canada-based The Metals Company is working with Trump to bypass global processes and mine the seabed. Tell Canada to #StopDeepSeaMining ✍️ 🔗 act.gp/4i95CGL @greenpeaceca.bsky.social
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Petition: Tell Canada to oppose the Mining Code and protect the deep sea from mining.
Sign the Greenpeace petition to tell Canada to oppose the Mining Code and protect the deep sea from mining.
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bedforv1.bsky.social @bedforv1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Climate change is evidence of intergenerational crime 🌎 davidsuzuki.org/story/climat...
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Climate change is evidence of intergenerational crime
We must hold fossil fuel executives and their enablers accountable!
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bedforv1.bsky.social @bedforv1.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
While everyday people struggle with rising energy costs and wildfires rage due to fossil-fueled climate change, Big Oil is raking in record profits. Tell your MP to tax the excess profits of fossil fuel companies in Budget 2026. share.nwmd.social/s/iM5q1fPG
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Tell Your MP: Tax Big Oil in Budget 2026
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bedforv1.bsky.social @bedforv1.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Ottawa just released its national electricity strategy. But instead of going all in on renewables, it throws the door open for gas on the grid. We’re flooding the consultation with calls to ditch fossil fuels for clean power. Will you join us? share.nwmd.social/s/mQ5nE0xd
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Have your say in Canada’s energy future
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Pinhole Poetry @pinholepoetry.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Today, Alessandro Merendino shares his poem ‘growth hormone by puncture’ and tells us a bit about his writing process and routine. www.facebook.com/share/19Hy1R...
the needle asked my blood how much of me was still refusing.
childhood was a height chart, a waiting room, cotton wool pressed where I had opened.growth hormone by puncture
my legs, my arms, my belly,
a blue grammar
no one taught me to read.
for ten years
growth entered through a pen under the kitchen light.
the liquid clicked in with its fluorescent instruction:
grow.
but my body translated grow as burn.
every three months the green cup returned. i drank glucose syrup, sweet as a lie,
thick as punishment.
then the needle asked my blood how much of me was still refusing.
childhood was a height chart, a waiting room, cotton wool pressed where I had opened.
I was not a boy.
I was bark, root, white leaf,
a tree taught upward from fallow soil.
they called it treatment. years later,
I am not the tree they meant.
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bedforv1.bsky.social @bedforv1.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Cognitive dissonance underlies the oil and gas push 🧠⛽ davidsuzuki.org/story/cognit...
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Cognitive dissonance underlies oil and gas push
It’s not too late to turn things around. But if we lock in fossil fuel development for decades to come with expanded oil and gas development and infrastructure such as pipelines and carbon capture fac...
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bedforv1.bsky.social @bedforv1.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
As wildfires burn across Canada, the Carney government is plowing ahead with plans to list a West Coast tar sands pipeline as a "project of national interest." Use 350 Canada's online tool to flood the public consultation before September 18! share.nwmd.social/s/6fwKMjZ0
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No Pipelines on a Burning Planet
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Pinhole Poetry @pinholepoetry.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
A review for @jessicaleemcmillan.com amazing chapbook!
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bedforv1.bsky.social @bedforv1.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
On love and legacy: shifting baseline syndrome strikes home 🌿 davidsuzuki.org/story/on-lov...
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On love and legacy: Shifting baseline syndrome strikes home
Shifting baseline syndrome lays bare all the ways past generations failed future ones. It also reminds us that we can shift baselines in another direction.
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bedforv1.bsky.social @bedforv1.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Clean power pathways beat carbon capture ⚡ davidsuzuki.org/story/clean-...
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Clean power pathways beat carbon capture
Taking into account production and consumption, it’s clear that the Pathways Project will contribute to increased emissions, fuelling even more overheating and consequences.
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Pinhole Poetry @pinholepoetry.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Poets, get ready! Our chapbook search starts on August 1 and will continue until August 31. Check out the details here: pinholepoetry.ca/chapbook-con...
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bedforv1.bsky.social @bedforv1.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Every oil and gas pipeline moves in the wrong direction ⛽ davidsuzuki.org/story/every-...
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Every oil and gas pipeline moves in the wrong direction
Investing in cleaner energy would create good jobs and increase energy security and stability.
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Solar power provided a quarter of the European Union’s electricity for the first time in June 2026 Solar generated a record 52TWh of electricity during the month, accounting for 25% of EU power generation. www.energylivenews.com/2026/07/14/s...
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Solar becomes EU’s largest power source for first time in June - Energy Live News
Record solar generation supplied 25% of EU electricity in June, overtaking nuclear, gas and wind
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David Suzuki Foundation @davidsuzukifdn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Our friends at the Regina Youth Climate Justice Coalition were recently featured on CBC’s What on Earth. Learn how this group is helping young people understand their emotions about climate change and channel them into community action:🔊 www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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CUPW @cupwsttp.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
If Canada Post Says it’s “On the Brink”, why Are Executives rewarding themselves with $30.8 Million in Bonuses? bit.ly/4wIsW2i
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If Canada Post Says it’s “On the Brink”, why Are Executives rewarding themselves with $30.8 Million in Bonuses?
Canada Post says it is facing an unprecedented financial crisis. It is demanding concessions from postal workers, warning of service cuts, seeking more than $2 billion in public loans, and telling Can...
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bedforv1.bsky.social @bedforv1.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Heatwaves claim hundreds of lives each year, disproportionately affecting seniors, renters, and those with chronic illnesses. Join me in asking for maximum indoor temperature regulations from our provincial and municipal governments by sending them a letter: cape.ca/action/extre...
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Extreme heat is already hitting people in Canada. Cities must act now. - CAPE
Just as landlords are legally required to maintain safe minimum temperatures in winter, Canada must establish enforceable maximum indoor temperature protections for all rental housing during the summe...
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bedforv1.bsky.social @bedforv1.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
As the world burns, the powerful deny and delay 🔥🌎 davidsuzuki.org/story/as-the...
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As the world burns, the powerful deny and delay
Meanwhile, the costs of renewable energy and storage technologies are dropping as efficiency improves, making them more cost-effective than fossil fuels.
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Pinhole Poetry @pinholepoetry.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Our first feature from issue 5.2 is for Shannon Lintott’s poem, ‘open the mouth for light’ Shannon shares what inspired their poem and tells us what they’ve been reading and wondering about lately. Thanks, Shannon!
...each and every passing thing reaches out with tendrils and hollows
such creatures, such creatures we become
and then suddenly a cave and then finally rest
as the wings of the earth fold over us
and we say thank you, thank you for letting us returnSHANNON LINTOTT
open the mouth for light
after Carol Krause
close for darkness
close it tightly to keep yourself in safely snapped shut, we begin
and down we go
into the roots and the foundations of sticks and petals and liquid jaws
scooping up the morsels of mold and decay and the eyes close over and the hands grow claws the clay becomes our flesh and the muscles learn to push
there will be slime but also silence and release
as our ears bend and seal and our bones become loose, liquid and we shiver and reverberate in delight
each and every passing thing reaches out with tendrils and hollows such creatures, such creatures we become
and then suddenly a cave and then finally rest
as the wings of the earth fold over us
and we say thank you, thank you for letting us return
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bedforv1.bsky.social @bedforv1.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Plastic pollution is harming ecosystems, contaminating our bodies, and threatening the health of communities across Canada. Tell your MP to support strong measures that reduce plastic pollution: cape.ca/action/plast...
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Tell your MP: Now is the time to act on plastic pollution - CAPE
Urge your MP to support strong federal measures that: reduce plastic pollution at its source, ban toxic chemicals in plastics, and protect communities disproportionately exposed to plastic pollution.
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bedforv1.bsky.social @bedforv1.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
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bedforv1.bsky.social @bedforv1.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
July 3, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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July 3, 2026
And on July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, declaring: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed...
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Pinhole Poetry @pinholepoetry.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
We're pleased to present our 18th issue, a collection of poems around themes of subways, subtext, undercurrents & all that lives underneath. It features the work of 23 poets and one pinhole photographer, & a chapbook love letter. Many thx to contributors! pinholepoetry.ca/current-issu...
Alligatoring: A Love Song
Daniel Bourne
Lunar Reflection
Catherine Graham
Is it true our civilization is on the brink of collapse?
Carol Alexander
Gives Way
Raoul Fernandes
Inherited Current
Attri Dey
Two Pinhole Photographs
Alex Skorochid
Eight Weeks
DJ Bennett
The Fort
Marc Perez
Your Sonar
Laurie Koensgen
Jonah Doubts the Plan
Mairin Catriona Landis
The River Buried Beneath Everything
David Lee
Colour Theory
Jody Baltessen
Retro Gaming
Gavin Fosteryou, you, you: an erasure
Y S Lee
growth hormone by puncture
Alessandro Merendino
open the mouth for light
Shannon Lintott
Elegy for I Know Not What...
Susan Robertson
Relative Distance
Jessica Lee McMillan
Icarus Makes a Stop...
Cristalle Smith
Residue
Elowen Dovren
I Know You Are Somewhere: an erasure
Afternoon on the Back Deck
Lynn Tait
Teratology Underground
Paul Moorehead
Mobile
Frances Boyle
Central Air
Binoy Zuzarte
Notes from the Chapbook Love Letter Club From Kim Fahner to Hollay Ghadery's the blades of grass are dreaming
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