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Christine Nayler 🇨🇦

@chrisnayler.bsky.social
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Trauma‑informed journalist, documentary storyteller,writer, artist & advocate. Writing and witnessing from systems of failure, grief & lived experience. #mentalhealth #neurodiversity #4Ryan substack.com/@christinenayler nationalapology.ca

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Christine Nayler 🇨🇦 @chrisnayler.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A reflection I wrote this morning and wanted to share with you all about the universal need for community. #4Ryan #RyansHope #CommunityBuilding #MutualAid substack.com/profile/3254...
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The Weight of Witness (@christinenayler)
In The Shelter of Each Other During COVID, one of the beautiful things that happened was that even in the isolation people were forced into, they still found ways to show up for each other. When p...
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Christine Nayler 🇨🇦 @chrisnayler.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Reflecting on the wisdom of the geese this morning. What we can learn and what we have yet to master. substack.com/profile/3254... #Leadership #Advocacy #CommunityCare #GeeseWisdom
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The Wisdom of the Geese One of my favourite teachings comes from the geese. People share it often, but rarely understand how practical it really is — especially in advocacy. When geese fly in form...
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Christine Nayler 🇨🇦 @chrisnayler.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
My first film is officially complete! I’m stepping into my filmmaking era with confidence, clarity, and so much gratitude. This moment feels like crossing a threshold into the creative life I’ve been growing toward. #IndieFilm #Documentary #Filmmaker #CanadianFilm
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Christine Nayler 🇨🇦 @chrisnayler.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is what depression looks like! Honest language saves lives. Silence costs them. #4Ryan #SuicideAwareness #SuicidePreventionMonth #livedexperiencematters substack.com/@christinena...
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The Weight of Witness (@christinenayler)
This is what depression looks like! September is Suicide Awareness Month! I live with traumatic grief, CPTSD, and depression. I speak openly because silence costs lives. Fourteen years ago, after b...
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Christine Nayler 🇨🇦 @chrisnayler.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
My first film is taking longer than I expected, not because of the technical work, but because of the emotional cost of returning to hard footage. It’s the cost of truth‑telling and the reality behind the work. #filmmaking #documentary #creativeprocess christinenayler.substack.com/p/what-this-...
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What This Film Is Asking of Me
And Why This Might Be the Hardest Film I Ever Make
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Christine Nayler 🇨🇦 @chrisnayler.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
New reflection today on the UK’s apology for forced adoption — the hope it offered, the hurt it reopened, and the silence Canada still chooses. Thank you for witnessing. #ForcedAdoption #AdoptionCoercion #HumanRights #cdnpoli open.substack.com/pub/christin...
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The Scarlet Letter
The shame they placed on us
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Christine Nayler 🇨🇦 @chrisnayler.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The UK has issued a historic apology for its forced adoption practices. More than 350,000 families in Canada were impacted by similar policies. Our campaign has released a public statement in response to this moment. The work continues. www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_6U...
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Starmer apologises to survivors of historical forced adoptions
YouTube video by Sky News
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Christine Nayler 🇨🇦 @chrisnayler.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I’ve published the full text of a deputation I delivered in 2023 about bylaw changes affecting our unhoused neighbours. I was cut off before finishing it, but the complete statement remains part of our public record — and part of Three Steps Back. #HumanRights open.substack.com/pub/christin...
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The Truth I Brought to Council
A lived‑experience perspective on homelessness, human rights, and community care.
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Christine Nayler 🇨🇦 @chrisnayler.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
New reflection: Journalist. Activist. Witness. On lived‑experience journalism and why I refuse neutrality in the face of harm. #Witnessing #ljournalism #Activism #HumanRights #cdnpoli open.substack.com/pub/christin...
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Journalist. Activist. Witness.
Why lived‑experience journalism isn’t a conflict of interest — it’s a commitment.
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Christine Nayler 🇨🇦 @chrisnayler.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
This is me getting real, and sharing my story of two types of child loss and the grief and trauma that come from those experiences and the growth that comes from finding a way to turn pain into purpose. #livedexperiencematters #childloss #trauma #mentalhealth www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvdl...
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Library of Lived Experiences: Reverend Christine Nayler
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Christine Nayler 🇨🇦 @chrisnayler.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
We’ve added supporter levels to our Lantern Light Films FundRazr. These two documentaries are being made in real time, capturing urgent stories across Canada, and every contribution helps us keep moving. #HarmReduction #ForcedAdoption #cdnpoli #DocumentaryFilmmaking crowdfundr.com/stories/bNLy...
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Lantern Light Films posted a story update on Help Bring Two Urgent Canadian Documentaries to Life
Lantern Light Films is now offering supporter levels for those who want to help bring Three Steps Back and Moment of Truth to life. These films are being made in real time, documenting urgent ...
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Christine Nayler 🇨🇦 @chrisnayler.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
A short piece today on why carrying naloxone matters. Preparedness saves lives. Community saves lives. Please read.#naloxone #harmreduction #communitycare #cdnpoli #onpoli #pwud ##toxicdrugcrisis open.substack.com/pub/christin...
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How to Save a Life
Why You Should Carry Naloxone
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Christine Nayler 🇨🇦 @chrisnayler.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Our crowdfunding campaign for Moment of Truth and Three Steps Back is now open. If you believe in truth‑telling and lived‑experience documentary work, your support matters. #ForcedAdoption #ToxicDrugCrisis #harmreduction #onpoli #cdnpoli #livedexperiencematters #HumanRights fnd.us/d2kCv3?ref=s...
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Help Bring Two Urgent Canadian Documentaries to Life
is producing two urgent, real time Canadian documentaries that cannot wait for funding cycles or institutional timelines. These stories are unfolding now, and we are inside them with cameras rolling. ...
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Christine Nayler 🇨🇦 @chrisnayler.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
My latest Substack piece is a reflection on the cost of silence — and why I couldn’t ignore the call to launch a national movement and document it in real time. open.substack.com/pub/christin...
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The Story About this Story
How the movement came to be
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Christine Nayler 🇨🇦 @chrisnayler.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
I’ve learned that when institutions erase our stories, we have to create our own archives. This essay explores how public‑witness art becomes remembrance, record, and resistance. My latest reflection on Substack open.substack.com/pub/christin...
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When Institutions Erase
Public‑witness art as remembrance, record, and resistance
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Christine Nayler 🇨🇦 @chrisnayler.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
In Ottawa this week working on my documentaries Moment of Truth and Three Steps Back, and continuing the campaign for a National Apology. Busy day ahead with filming and meetings. These stories matter, and this moment matters. #cdnpoli #onpoli #HumanRights #HarmReduction ##ForcedAdoption
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Christine Nayler 🇨🇦 @chrisnayler.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Filming has begun on Three Steps Back, my new real‑time documentary about harm reduction, grief, moral injury, and political rollback across Canada. This work grows alongside Moment of Truth and is rooted in my lived experience and advocacy. #ThreeStepsBack #RyansHope #HarmReduction #HumanRights
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Christine Nayler 🇨🇦 @chrisnayler.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
For the 350,000 families impacted by forced and coerced adoption, silence is no longer an option. I wrote about why I’m documenting this moment in history as it unfolds. Read on Substack. substack.com/home/post/p-... #cdnpoli #CanadianHistory #ForcedAdoption #HumanRights
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Moment of Truth
Publicly witnessing for the history books
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Christine Nayler 🇨🇦 @chrisnayler.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I am making a documentary film titled Moment of Truth, which is documenting this growing survivor‑led movement Canadians for a National Apollogy in real time from the inside as they renew the call for justice. #cdnpoli #HumanRights #CanadianHistory #canadiansforanationalapology #ForecedAdoption
A woman stands at a parliamentary podium, speaking into multiple microphones. Canadian flags line the backdrop behind her, and a CPAC banner is visible at the bottom of the frame. She appears focused and composed as she addresses the press.
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Christine Nayler 🇨🇦 @chrisnayler.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Our new **Recommended Reading & Viewing** section is now live. Books, documentaries... that help tell the truth of Canada’s forced‑adoption era — and the survivors who spoke first. Visit www.nationalapology.ca for the full list. #ForcedAdoption #HumanRights #NationalApology @cdnpoli
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Home | Canadians for a National Apology
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Christine Nayler 🇨🇦 @chrisnayler.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Grateful to speak with Ian MacLennan about my lived experience as one of 350,000 women affected and the national campaign for a long‑overdue apology for Canada’s history of forced and coerced adoption. #cdnpoli #adoptioncoercion #forcedadoption #canandiansforanationalapology #humanrights
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Christine Nayler 🇨🇦 @chrisnayler.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
In case you missed it here is our conversation with Matt Galloway from CBC The Current. We share our lived experience with forced adoption and our call for a national apology. ##ForcedAdoption ##AdoptionTrauma #Cdnpoli #canadiansforanationalapology podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/c...
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Christine Nayler 🇨🇦 @chrisnayler.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Grieving another loss in our community today. It brought me back to why I eventually had to step away from frontline outreach. I wrote a reflection on upstream work, downstream realities, and the toll of carrying so many losses. #outreach #trauma #advocacy open.substack.com/pub/christin...
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Upstream Work, Downstream Realities
And Why I Had to Step Back
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Christine Nayler 🇨🇦 @chrisnayler.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Sharing the CBC digital story on Canada’s forced and coerced adoption practices. Tune in to The Current at 8:30 for our discussion with Matt Galloway. #cdnpoli #NationalApology #ForcedAdoption www.cbc.ca/radio/thecur...
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More than 300,000 Canadian mothers were forced to give up their babies. They are waiting for an apology | CBC Radio
More than 300,000 unwed Canadian women were forced to give up their babies in the decades after the Second World War. Though many of these forcible adoptions happened in religious maternity homes that...
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Christine Nayler 🇨🇦 @chrisnayler.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
#PhotoOfTheDay A gentle reminder to slow down and notice something beautiful you encounter today. #EverydayBeauty #GentleMoments #NaturePhotography #CreativeCommunity #StorytellersOfBluesky
A woman and a young child lean over a concrete planter to smell bright red tulips, their faces close to the blooms in a quiet moment of connection and curiosity.
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Christine Nayler 🇨🇦 @chrisnayler.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Just launched a campaign calling for a Government of Canada apology for the forced adoption era. Learn more at nationalapology.ca If you are on Instagram give us a follow @canadiansforanationalapology to stay up to date #cdnpoli #cdnhistory #forcedadoption #institutionalharm #humanrights
Black‑and‑white photo of adult hands gently cradling a newborn’s head, symbolizing care and protection. Text reads “Canadians for a National Apology — A collective voice rising from decades of silence.
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Christine Nayler 🇨🇦 @chrisnayler.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Today marks the public launch of Canadians for a National Apology. The 45‑day response window is open, and the power of people standing together matters more than ever. nationalapology.ca #cdnpoli #forcedadoption #adoptioncoercion #HumanRights #Solidarity
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Home | Canadians for a National Apology
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Christine Nayler 🇨🇦 @chrisnayler.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
A collective voice is rising. The time for a national apology is now. My new Substack piece is here: open.substack.com/pub/christin... #NationalApology #TruthTelling #InstitutionalHarm
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A Collective Voice Rising from Decades of Silence
The time for a national apology is NOW!
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Christine Nayler 🇨🇦 @chrisnayler.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
A weekly invitation to share a forest moment — a path, a branch, a tree that held you. If you’d like to join in, I’d love to see your view. #ForestFriday #NaturePhotography #PhotoCommunity #Trees
A small child wearing a pink sun hat, tie‑dye shirt, and denim shorts stands on a forest path, looking at white trilliums blooming among green leaves. Sunlight filters through tall trees, creating a peaceful woodland scene.
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Christine Nayler 🇨🇦 @chrisnayler.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Peace and calm this morning. Just enjoying the quiet of the house while the coffee brews. #GentleMorning #QuietMoments #EverydayBeauty #SmallDelights #StorytellersOfBluesky #CreativeCommunity
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Christine Nayler 🇨🇦 @chrisnayler.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
“Even the calmest of souls have a #badfeatherday. This one made me smile. #birdoftheday #EverydayBeauty #SmallDelights #GentleMoment #NaturePhotography #PhotographyCommunity #StorytellersOfBluesky
Small duck standing on straw with a few feathers sticking out at the tail, looking slightly rumpled in a cute way
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Christine Nayler 🇨🇦 @chrisnayler.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Tenley catching the breeze, teaching me the art of slowing down and seeing what’s right in front of me. #SmallDelights #EverydayMagic #DailyBeauty #DogsOfBluesky #DogPhotography #CreativeCommunity
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Christine Nayler 🇨🇦 @chrisnayler.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Published a new piece today about the rhythm of advocacy — the steps forward, the steps back, and the work of keeping humanity alive when systems forget it. #advocacy #harmreduction #storytelling open.substack.com/pub/christin...
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One Step Forward, Three Steps Back
On Advocacy, Backlash, and the Work of Keeping Humanity Alive
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Christine Nayler 🇨🇦 @chrisnayler.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Some work arrives softly but unmistakably. I’m leaning into it, the stories, the memory work, the quiet truths that keep rising. One careful step at a time. #creativepath #memorywork #artistlife
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Christine Nayler 🇨🇦 @chrisnayler.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
A reflection on the circles that carry us — in grief, in advocacy, and in the quiet work of showing up for one another. New piece: Circles of Strength. #grief #advocacy #solidarity #livedexperience #healing #justice open.substack.com/pub/christin...
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Circles of Strength
What geese, grief, and advocacy taught me about moving forward
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Christine Nayler 🇨🇦 @chrisnayler.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Woke up at home for the first time in weeks. Letting the quiet settle into my bones. Creativity feels different when the nervous system finally has room to breathe. #WritersOfBluesky #CreativeLife #MorningThoughts #Nature #SmallMoments #Tuesday
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Christine Nayler 🇨🇦 @chrisnayler.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
A bright sky and a long drive home. Letting the light make space for creating again. #Writing #CreativeCommunity #Nature #Monday
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Christine Nayler 🇨🇦 @chrisnayler.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I’ve published a reflection on why I’m finally telling this part of my story, why breaking the silence matters, and why this is the moment I chose to speak. #forcedadoption #cdnpoli #livedexperience #adoptioncoercion substack.com/@christinena...
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Silent No More
A collective truth Canada can no longer ignore.
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Christine Nayler 🇨🇦 @chrisnayler.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I’ve published a reflection on why I’m finally telling this part of my story, why breaking the silence matters, and why this is the moment I chose to speak. #forcedafoption #cdnpoli #livedexperience #adoptioncoercion substack.com/@christinena...
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Silent No More
A collective truth Canada can no longer ignore.
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Christine Nayler 🇨🇦 @chrisnayler.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
After a day of heavy conversations in Parliament, I found these tulips — a reminder that beauty persists even beside stone walls.
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Christine Nayler 🇨🇦 @chrisnayler.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
I’m writing on Substack now — across lived experience, justice work, trauma, grief, and whatever else needs a voice. First pieces are up. Feel free to subscribe substack.com/@christinena...
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The Weight of Witness | Substack
Christine Nayler writes from the weight of lived experience, bearing witness to the social issues that shape people’s lives through storytelling, insight, and reflection. Her work moves across systems...
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Christine Nayler 🇨🇦 @chrisnayler.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
My petition on Canada’s postwar forced adoption practices was tabled in the House of Commons yesterday. The government now has 45 days to respond. Grateful to @karinagould.bsky.social for tabling it. Our voices are finally being heard. #cdnpoli #forcedadoption #adoptioncoercion #livedexperince
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Christine Nayler 🇨🇦 @chrisnayler.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
I spoke from lived experience at the May 26 CPAC press conference, addressing Canada’s postwar forced adoption practices and the need for a national apology. #cdnpoli #onpoli #forcedadoption #adoptioncoercion #livedexperience #traumainformed #griefaware www.cpac.ca/headline-pol...
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MP Gould and Senator Petitclerc Speak About Forced Adoptions – May 26, 2026
At a news conference in Ottawa, Liberal MP Karina Gould and Senator Chantal Petitclerc call on the federal government to make a formal apology and provide support services for those who were subjected...
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Christine Nayler 🇨🇦 @chrisnayler.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Yesterday at Parliament, I spoke as the 15‑year‑old girl I once was and for all the mothers whose voices were silenced by Canada’s postwar adoption practices. It was emotional, necessary, and decades overdue. #cdpoli #forcedadoption #adoptioncoercion #livedexperience #mentalhealth #traumainformed
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Christine Nayler 🇨🇦 @chrisnayler.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Worth a listen. As someone who has worked on the frontlines Dr. Chown understands the harsh realities our unsheltered friends face.
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Christine Nayler 🇨🇦 @chrisnayler.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Our petition closes in 10 days. If you are a Canadian citizen or resident please consider signing and sharing. An apology is a vital step towards healing. #AdoptionCoercion #ForcedAdoption #Cdnpoli
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Christine Nayler 🇨🇦 @chrisnayler.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Canada’s postwar adoption policies have caused irreparable harm and trauma to these unmarried mothers, their children, and families. Please consider signing and sharing this petition. #ForcedAdoption #AdoptionCoercion #AdoptionTrauma #cdnpoli www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
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Petition e-6782 - Petitions
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Bianca D @beedeeveedee.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Housing is #harmreduction
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