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Canadian, weather, Canucks, RA, Long Covid, ME/CFS, Political junkie. ❤️ Democracy. Grandma. Live on the traditional and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw & səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ Nation. She/her No DMs

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Canadian Mom 🇨🇦 @cdoherty13.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Those ofnus with chronic illness need to hear this from our friends. open.substack.com/pub/haidewal...
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What I Want You To Know
A Note to My Friends With Chronic Illness
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 03/01/2026
BREAKING: The United States appears to have begun bombing Venezuela. Massive airstrikes are underway. War is here.
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Canadian Mom 🇨🇦 @cdoherty13.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Blatant discrimination in BC Medical Care. www.instagram.com/reel/DSVvg5Q...
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Denise Elysa|Energy Healing|Meditation|Somatics|PLR|Intuitive on Instagram: "This isn’t just a policy issue, its blatant discrimination. These fee code changes that are going to remove thousands of pa...
The introduction of new policy changes threatens to strip thousands of patients of their access to safe, effective, and informed healthcare. Learn how you can help advocate for healthcare equity and s...
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Canadian Mom 🇨🇦 @cdoherty13.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
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Patient anxiety grows as B.C. health minister plans changes to virtual group treatment
As ministries across the provincial government scrutinize spending in an effort to curb the anticipated deficit, a move to shrink virtual group health care is prompting providers and patients alike to...
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Canadian Mom 🇨🇦 @cdoherty13.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
gofund.me/ddc04539e?sf...
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Donate to Help Aubrey Fight Brain Cancer, organized by Kathryn Penton
On November 10th, 2025, the Holmstead family’s world changed in an instant. After the su… Kathryn Penton needs your support for Help Aubrey Fight Brain Cancer
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Canadian Mom 🇨🇦 @cdoherty13.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Daniel will be missed! But his Canuck writings will still be available on substance. open.substack.com/pub/passitto...
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Pass it to Bulis has been fired
Yesterday morning, I was informed that Vancouver Is Awesome no longer wishes to have Canucks coverage on its website and that I, effectively immediately, was out of a job.
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Canadian Mom 🇨🇦 @cdoherty13.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Funding Changes Might Leave BC's Long-COVID Patients in the Lurch via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/08...
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Funding Changes Might Leave BC’s Long-COVID Patients in the Lurch | The Tyee
The province has one main clinic offering care to more than 5,200 online patients.
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Craig Wiesner @craigwiesner.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Today, the products my employee unpacked and shelved for my store cost 10-20% more than they had in January. That money "collected" is from ME, a shopkeeper in a family-owned small business. Me, a veteran, Me, a senior citizen. Me, someone who can't afford to "eat" the tariffs.
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Chrystal Tagmann 🇨🇦 @tagmann.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Chasing perfection shouldn’t come at the cost of access. 1:1 care may be ideal, but for thousands with #LongCOVID, good care now is what’s urgently needed. Dr. Arseneau’s clinic works. Dismantling it helps no one. #LifeLineBC @brendavancouver.bsky.social @josieosborne.bsky.social
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Chrystal Tagmann 🇨🇦 @tagmann.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
This clinic model got me back to work after Long COVID. Now the government is cutting access. That threatens care for rural, remote and homebound patients. Please take a minute to speak up and fill out the survey: chng.it/CSZVF6zBtt #lifelinebc #LongCOVID #MECFS #bcpoli
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Have you seen this petition yet?
Josie Osborne: Protect Access to Care for Long COVID, ME/CFS, and Fibromyalgia Patients
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Canadian Mom 🇨🇦 @cdoherty13.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Timeline cleanse
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Canadian Mom 🇨🇦 @cdoherty13.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Government of BC is now on BlueSky. Give them a follow.
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Canadian Mom 🇨🇦 @cdoherty13.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
BC residents with ME/CFS, #LongCOVID & #Fibromyalgia risks losing access to virtual care on Sept 1. MSP wants to cap group visits at 20 patients/hour—driving costs up & care down. 📢 Tell your MLA: Pause these cuts now! www.lifelinebc.ca/campaign #SaveBC_CLMF #LifeLineBC #ProtectVirtualCareBC
Group Virtual Care Works! Don't take it away :( Capping Group Medical Visits to 20 patients will increase wait-lists and existing backlog to care. Help us fight the MSP billing change by contacting your MLA. 
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Canadian Mom 🇨🇦 @cdoherty13.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
vancouversun.com/news/local-n...
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Out-of-control wildfire closes Kelowna airport, nearby homes evacuated
Airport closed as Kelowna RCMP officers conduct tactical evacuations of homes in the Ellison area, asking residents to prepare for a possible evacuation
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IvoxPierre @ivoxpierre.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Just off topic, @thetyee.ca has been publishing honest and excellent journalism for years, and they deserve the support of Canadians. There are other independent outlets as well, and it's worth your time to find them and support them too. It's also critically important right now, more than ever.
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Canadian Mom 🇨🇦 @cdoherty13.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Fascinating. How Gratitude Changes You and Your Brain greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...
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How Gratitude Changes You and Your Brain
New research is starting to explore how gratitude works to improve our mental health.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
At this point, Karoline Leavitt’s press briefings should come with a Surgeon General’s warning: “May cause dizziness, gaslighting, and a complete detachment from reality.”
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 02/07/2025
Maternal flu vaccine protects newborns, vaccination in kids also effective, studies show www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-vaccin… 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
someone getting a vaccine, closeup of their arm
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#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
I want to respect everyone’s mental health, but when exactly will it be okay to talk about the ongoing & future harms that #COVID infections cause?
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Canadian Mom 🇨🇦 @cdoherty13.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
When will Health Authorities learn to listen to medical professionals?
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St. Clare's internal medicine doctors give mass resignation notice, warn of 'impending crisis' | CBC News
Five doctors at a St. John's hospital have tendered a joint resignation notice, saying they'll be gone by Oct. 1.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
(🚨) WAIT... WHAT?? Agents of Red Sea co-conspirators and Trump business partners MBS, MBZ, and el-Sisi were secretly in the White House as Trump agreed to go to war with their enemy Iran? How is this not the big news right now? How is this not bigger than every other story major media is covering?
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Canadian Mom 🇨🇦 @cdoherty13.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Shocker! (Not)
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Jay Black @jayblack.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
After seeing what Elon did to Twitter, my confidence in a Tesla-run taxi service is about the same as my confidence in an drive-thru orthopedic surgery start-up run by Arby’s.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Budzinski: Families making over $700,000 a year will see a boost of $12,000 almost entirely from tax cuts. Shockingly, households making $23,000 a year or less are set to lose about $1600 a year, mostly due to deep cuts to Medicaid and food assistance
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Aaron Black @aaronblack.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid
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Canadian Mom 🇨🇦 @cdoherty13.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Canadians, please consider signing.
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Times Colonist @timescolonist.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
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B.C. Centre for Disease Control warns of measles exposure in Victoria and on ferry
The potential exposures were June 20 at the Hot and Cold on Cook Street and on four sailings of the Coastal Celebration ferry the same day.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
This is not only untrue, it is the exact opposite. COVID infection in pregnancy is associated with double the rate of stillbirths. COVID infection before or during early pregnancy is associated with three times higher rate of miscarriage.
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Coronavirus can destroy the placenta and lead to stillbirths
New research suggests the coronavirus can invade and destroy the placenta and lead to stillbirths in infected women.
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Growing anti-immigration sentiment in Canada is almost entirely driven by political leaders. It is not a grassroots-up issue that leaders are begrudgingly responding to. Leaders are whipping up resentment against immigrants, out of nowhere
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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Interesting that a single female breast is censored, but not a guillotine. Violence OK, Human body evil. @bsky.app sort out the censorship of art, it’s embarrassing that the work of Leonardo, Michelangelo & now Delacroix are smeared by you.
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Winnipeg Free Press @winnipegfreepress.com · 25/06/2025
OTTAWA – Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says a Canadian chartered flight will leave Jordan this evening with more than 100 people on board.
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More than 100 people on Canadian chartered flight leaving Middle East tonight: Anand
OTTAWA – Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says a Canadian chartered flight will leave Jordan this evening with more than 100 people on board.
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Canadian Mom 🇨🇦 @cdoherty13.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
The Orange man and his merry men can't grasp that it is unlikely Iran was trying to do any damage. Wrong missiles for that. Iran needed to satisfy it's people that it would take action. Anyone any mildly versed in foreign policy would grasp what is going on.
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Iran fires missiles at US Qatar base in attack Trump calls 'very weak' - live updates
No casualties are reported after Qatar
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Anonymous @youranonjd.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Trump shredded the Iran nuclear deal, bombed a sovereign country without congressional approval, and dragged the world toward war to project dominance. He destabilized an entire region for power. That’s terrorism. Impeach & remove won’t be enough. He belongs in a prison cell. #3E
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CHEK News @cheknews.ca · 23/06/2025
A British Columbia professor who is trapped in Iran says he's been told by officials there's "almost nothing" the Canadian government can do to help him and his family.
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B.C. professor trapped in Iran says Canada has offered ‘almost nothing’ to help
A British Columbia professor who is trapped in Iran says he's been told by officials there's "almost nothing" the Canadian government can do to help him and his family.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 23/06/2025
More than 190 firefighters in Greece are battling a series of wildfires on the island of Chios, where officials declared an emergency and a dozen communities were evacuated over the weekend, according to state media. The authorities are investigating the fires as arson. trib.al/ls1kGAZ
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Canadian Mom 🇨🇦 @cdoherty13.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Our southern neighbor gets more insane each and every day
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Elaine Hyshka @ehyshka.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
My colleague and current boss, Professor @jefferyjohnson.bsky.social has some choice words regarding Alberta's plan to stop paying for COVID vaccinations. "Unbelievable. Mind-boggling. Stunningly stupid." #ableg edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
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Opinion: Alberta's plan to limit free COVID vaccines makes no sense
Alberta's decision not to pay for most COVID shots makes no sense, on any level, nor do the arguments used to try to justify the policy.
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Canadian Mom 🇨🇦 @cdoherty13.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Crap. www.bbc.com/news/live/cn...
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Iran launches missiles at US base in Qatar in response to strikes - live updates
Qatar says it intercepted missiles fired at the US-run Al Udeid base and calls the attack a
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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
"Do you want America to be at war with Iran?" No: 85% Yes: 5% YouGov / June 22, 2025
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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
He just dropped $280,000,000 worth of artillery in a war that’s not ours, but our grandparents have to live on Ramen noodles because America can’t afford Meals on Wheels anymore. Make it make sense.
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Canadian Mom 🇨🇦 @cdoherty13.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
OMG
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Trump hints at hope for Iranian regime change: 'MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN'
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
And just like that, the ‘No New Wars’ people are all-in on a new war. Proving yet again that they really believe in nothing other than what one man tells them to believe today. Which could be different tomorrow. The very definition of a cult.
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
There are people who've been sick for 2, 3, 4+ years now & still aren’t believed by the people closest to them. Long COVID is real. Gaslighting is real. Support the people in your life trying to stay safe. You don’t need to experience it to care
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Starting a war is simple, it's like igniting a wildfire with gasoline. Ending a war is not so simple, it's like trying to stop that fire with water buckets scooped from a lake a mile away. Don't start something unless you know with some certainty what the end looks like and what it will cost.
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Watching so many Democrats wave away sexual harassment allegations against Cuomo—after spending years watching Republicans wave away rape and sexual assault allegations against Trump—is depressing. Saying that serious allegations of sexual abuse don't matter is morally repugnant.
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Fraser Valley Climate Action 🌿🌎💡 @fvca.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
War hurts people. citizens, soldiers, civil infrastructure, mental health. The justifications come pouring out of the TV. Its all BS. "Defence" doesn't take place on the opposite side of the planet. That is "offence". the justifications come pouring out of social media... BS War hurts people
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Personally I am unfamiliar with any legitimate activity that requires switching license plates, which by the way is illegal.
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WIRED @wired.com · 22/06/2025
Truth Social started experiencing global outages within minutes of Donald Trump posting details of a US military strike on Iran.
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Truth Social Crashes as Trump Live-Posts Bombing Iran
The social network started experiencing global outages around the world within minutes of Donald Trump posting details of a US military strike on Iran.
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Canadian Mom 🇨🇦 @cdoherty13.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Scary
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