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Dan Hayward

@danielhayward.bsky.social
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Minister, hunchback, religious hillbilly, he/him. Disability, Christianity, politics, miscellany. Any political statements are made in my personal capacity.

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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 3h
Trump lickspittle Peter Navarro says "I love the Canadian people. Their negotiators? Different story." I'm comforted that various toadies join the President in showing us love by endeavouring to destroy our economy so that we will give up our sovereignty.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 4h
On the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, I am thinking of my friend who is an Indigenous elder in northern British Columbia. When he was a child, a United Church minister came to his community and took him and another boy away to residential school.
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 6h
âcimostâtowak (They Tell Stories to One Another) Kent Monkman ~ Cree 2025
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 16h
Truly groundbreaking. This was 75 years ago.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 20h
Numerous Vichy Canadian accounts posting Trump adviser Peter Navarro saying that Canada is unique for hiring lobbyists in Washington, which is hilarious to anyone familiar with how many people in the US capital are on the payroll of the UAE, Oman, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia etc. etc.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 23h
I wonder if we can get US Senator Schmitt to cook up a convoluted conspiracy theory that implicates a Canadian politician, but it hinges on the BC Lions and the Detroit Lions being the same team.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Postseason baseball on the TV, NHL hockey season starts today, WNBA playoffs tonight along with the big Toronto-Montreal hockey tilt. Fall is a great time of year.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In a disability theology seminar with Amy Kenny, the author of My Body is Not a Prayer Request, and Rabbi Julia Watts Belser. I'm very much looking forward to this discussion.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Asking my sister to cross-stitch this so I can frame it and put it on my wall.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Blessings to my colleague Rev. Éric Hébert-Daly, who will be the next General Secretary of The United Church of Canada.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I notice that there is a community-wide food drive for the food cupboard I brought to the church I formerly served. It's great to see the whole township adopting this as their project - a church initiative that has been taken on by the community.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Why don't disabled people have peer-reviewed studies proving that MAID is coercive?" Well, maybe the disabled people most at risk of being coerced are busy trying to avoid coercion into assisted dying.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Everyone was in orange shirts at Athens United Church today, on the Sunday prior to the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation. And we had ASL signing of the entire service!
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yes, social media pundits, all disabled people are faking. I am currently faking that my autoimmune disease, which shows up w/o warning in different body parts, has caused my left thumb to stop functioning, which is going to complicate working this morning.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The arguments of pro-MAID Canadians need to move beyond "my loved one/patient had a lovely death so disabled people are lying about MAID Track 2." No one addresses concerns about coercion other than to reiterate what the guidelines say.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
There should be some kind of award for Ottawa CFL fans who watched or listened to every Redblacks game in this losing season (losing as in, haven't won at all).
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Classic.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Classic.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Bonne Journée des Franco-Ontariens et des Franco-Ontariennes! Happy Franco-Ontarian Day!
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Watched the Blue Jays defeat Cincinnati. Toronto is out of the postseason, but it's nice to get a win. Two more games left.
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Untitled - Beaver Norval Morrisseau ~ Anishinaabe 1973
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A very sobering read about the threat of biological warfare: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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How the author of a bestselling book on biological war feels about AI
The plague in Annie Jacobsen's latest scenario makes Covid look like child's play.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In a meeting to plan a church event, and the sanctuary of the host church has "only one step up" - there is no ramp and one of the participants cannot get onto the chancel. Sigh. I have banged the drum on accessibility until my arms are sore, and does anything change?
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Canadian evening news led with the story that the Prime Minister has had to plan for a possible American invasion, which is... sobering.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If Canada meets with China, the Communist Party is at the gates of the American homeland, Canada is now a puppet of Beijing, etc. If the US meets with China, it's winning at diplomacy and trade, 5D chess, etc.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Any mention that Canadian doctors and nurses have "offered" or "suggested" assisted dying is called a lie or misinformation - "if this really happened, call the police or regulatory body!" It is permitted to do so in the MAID guidelines, even if social media commenters don't believe it.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The truth is, you can belittle maskers, shrug off disabled people, and call us all crazy a million times, but you’re going to have to live in the world you’re building with these choices, and outcomes don’t care that your views are popular right now. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/mor...
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More than 1 in 10 US healthcare workers report ongoing long-COVID symptoms, study finds
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I love this, and my late friend, a very talented artist and calligrapher, would have swooned over it.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You got what you wanted! You are living your normal lives, as demanded, free of legal or social responsibility toward disabled people who are still at high risk. Now you’re going to laugh at us trying to find ways to keep going? That’s not just discrimination, that’s dehumanization.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My spouse is watching a game show on one of the Detroit channels, and all of the commercials are for Republican election candidates.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Popular travel site Fodor's provides a helpful summary of just some of the latest horror stories in the "disabled people try to fly somewhere on a plane" genre: www.fodors.com/news/photos/...
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These Stories Show How Badly Airlines Treat Passengers With Disabilities
Staff often treat them without kindness.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Here is a thread responding to an article prompting much online mocking of anyone who masks or wants alt-text on images as a neurotic weirdo.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It is the international Day of Sign Languages! This year's theme is "Declaring Deaf People's Human Rights." I am praying today for everyone across Canada who relies on ASL, LSQ, and other sign languages.
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betsy ladyzhets 😷 @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Today @thesicktimes.org: We republished a recent piece by Julia Doubleday at The Gauntlet, pushing back on a much-derided ableist article in The Telegraph. "The state and its media allies are working desperately to sever the connection between COVID-19 and its consequences."
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COVID-19 — not TikTok — is disabling young women - The Sick Times
The Telegraph published an article titled, “How having a disability became cool." This article shores up the government narrative that rising rates of disability are being driven, not by the ongoing a...
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I'm not particularly impressed by politicians running around decrying one MAID story when every federal political party in Canada supports Track 2 MAID for people not at the end of life, and none are inclined to fix the Canada Disability Benefit.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I did work for Project Ploughshares, oh, nearly 40 years ago. Ernie Regehr was heading it then, and he is still around the Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies at Conrad Grebel University College, Waterloo ON.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Rev. Dr. Kimberly Heath, the Moderator of The United Church of Canada, has responded in prayer to the shooting at the Sons of Jacob synagogue in Belleville, Ontario: /
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The government of Saskatchewan refused to let potash be part of Canada's retaliation against US bullying. This has been repaid by the Trump administration choosing to replace Saskatchewan potash with product from Russian ally Belarus.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NHL.com has a nice piece on the adulation received by celebrated goalie Mathieu Fleury in Saint-Boniface QC, and mentions that he grew up near Trois-Rivières while playing youth hockey "10 minutes away" in Longueuil. Trois-Rivières is nearly two hours from Longueuil most days.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Praying for the victims of a shooting near the synagogue in Belleville, Ontario.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Local Central Canadian Hockey League team had its home opener at the arena next door last night, and NHL preseason hockey was on tonight. Hockey time begins! We love it - Blind hockey, sledge hockey, powerchair hockey, university, junior, NHL, PWHL, international, bring it all on.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I'm tired of responses to Canadians on social media like "Trump's a NYC guy so you may not like how direct he is, but Canadian trade needed rebalancing as Canada is taking advantage." Um, if we take out US imports of (discounted!) Canadian oil, the US has a trade surplus with Canada.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Eric Trump says that, with the Greenland agreement, "we now have Canada surrounded." Ah, for the days when sharing one of the world's longest borders with a friendly ally was regarded by Americans as a strategic advantage. Oh, and a crime family was not running the USA.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Canada loses the wheelchair basketball women's gold medal game by one point. Full marks to the Americans, who were behind for long stretches and then found their defensive energy. Canada had a skilled, gritty team.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Second quarter of the wheelchair basketball world championship gold medal game in Ottawa, and Canada is leading the US. Keep it up!
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The Festival Western de St-Tite is an iconic event, not just in the Mauricie, but for all of French Canada, and a centrepiece of francophone country music. The news that a driver struck and injured numerous festival-goers is very disturbing. Praying for those affected.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The "now we own Greenland, Canada is next" posts have begun, even though the draft Greenland agreement specifically says that the US does not own the territory.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I will wait until the text of the US-Denmark-Greenland agreement is available. Most of the coverage so far is based on US government and MAGA accounts.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Our niece was very impressed with a restaurant, and when we saw that it was named one of Air Canada's Best New Restaurants, we thought it might be a place for our anniversary or other occasion. So we read the write-up: " at the top of a flight of stairs..." Sigh. Not for us disabled folk.
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