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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 · 7h
US federal court strikes down California rule that prevents some disabled voters from casting a confidential ballot www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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California’s mail ballot system excludes disabled voters, court rules
Requiring people with print disabilities to obtain assistance to vote “denies them meaningful access to the vote by mail program,” a federal judge wrote.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 11h
Carleton University, of which I am an alumnus, hosts the Canadian Accessibility Network National Office, the Accessibility Institute, the Abilities Living Lab, and the Collaborative Specialization in Accessibility graduate program.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 11h
I hope that the Solfagnano Charter commitments to disability rights and concrete actions actually make a difference in the lives of disabled people in Canada, Italy and elsewhere.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 11h
Interested to see that Carleton University in Ottawa welcomed Italy's Minister for Disabilities, Alessandra Locatelli, for a panel discussion on accessibility and to open an "exhibition showcasing the G7 commitment to integrate disability rights across political agendas."
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 15h
The cooperation we experience on the Seaway and Great Lakes extends to the oceans. Right now the story is Americans searching for a Canadian aircraft. But tomorrow it could be Canadian S&R techs doing a medical evac of an injured crew member on an American fishing boat.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 15h
I live near the St. Lawrence Seaway, and US-Canada search & rescue cooperation on the Seaway and Great Lakes is very close, with numerous agencies - US and Canadian Coast Guard, Royal Canadian Air Force, customs, and local police forces all working together when a boat is in trouble.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 15h
Some suspiciously similar posts with "the US Coast Guard is searching for a Canadian plane while Canadians are booing the US national anthem. We are not the same." I wonder who is putting these out - it may be part of "blame Canada" messaging being ramped up for the post-midterms period.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 15h
1939: "Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop sought to assure Poland that the Reich has no designs on the country."
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Je prie pour les députés nouvellement élus de l'Assemblée nationale du Québec, pour Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, qui deviendra premier ministre, ainsi que pour les membres des équipes de campagne, les responsables électoraux et les journalistes qui ont encore des tâches à accomplir.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Praying for the newly elected Members of the National Assembly of Quebec, for Paul St-Pierre Plamondon who will become Premier, and for campaign staff, election officials and journalists who still have tasks to accomplish.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As the CBC Decision Desk projects a Parti Québécois government in Quebec, thinking of my father in law, who WAS the Decision Desk for numerous federal and provincial elections in the 1970s and 80s. It was his data that the CBC used to call the election result (racing CTV to the early call).
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Mushrooms are indeed fungi, but I'm sure that many diners choose not to think about this.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hotel in Suzhou had little cards for each breakfast dish at the buffet, and translated "mushroom" as "fungus."
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Praying today for voters, candidates, election officials, and journalists as Quebec holds elections for the National Assembly.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If you feel that you are not getting enough attention on social media, offer an opinion that the r-slur might be getting a bit too much use, and you will hear from many people, who are adamant that employing this word is a key part of their identity.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Or rural Eastern Ontario. I was on a phone call with a woman from my church when she said, "I have to go. The guy is here to drop off a deer head for taxidermy."
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I thought this might be a post about how the Indigenous spirit of Lake Ontario begins haunting the "Lake America" zealots.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We have Methodist roots and are moving towards a Full Communion relationship with the United Methodist Church, so we are pleased that the UMC Council of Bishops Leadership Gathering will be held in Calgary this month. www.umnews.org/en/news/coun...
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Countdown begins to Leadership Gathering | UMNews.org
Organizers are providing resources to help all United Methodists engage with the gathering intended to help faithfully reimagine the denomination’s future.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Canada has announced spending on expensive new military kit - submarines, surveillance aircraft, weapons systems etc. - yet Trump Admin toadies like Bessent and Navarro keep trotting out tired old rhetoric about Canada as a "freerider" whose defence budget just "buys hockey sticks to hand out."
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Canadian photography group on Facebook has been forced to ban posts with photos of Lake Ontario because MAGA commenters will overwhelm the group chat with "it's Lake America" nonsense.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The big project to study the "future of warfighting" will be led by three guys who have not spent a second in uniform, let alone combat.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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 · 30/09/2026
The school was far to the east, in Alberta, and he and his friend were forbidden to speak their own language.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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 · 30/09/2026
âcimostâtowak (They Tell Stories to One Another) Kent Monkman ~ Cree 2025
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Truly groundbreaking. This was 75 years ago.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is all part of the US government's "Canada is so uniquely evil that we are justified in taking every measure to break Canada apart and subjugate it" propaganda offensive.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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 · 29/09/2026
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 · 27/09/2026
I probably know enough Blockheads, Joy Division and Clash songs to go for a while.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
God Save the Queen the national anthem, or God Save the Queen by the Sex Pistols?
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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
Was that Butterfly Gold? I am frequently served church meals on it.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We use ours, which we received as a wedding gift nearly four decades ago, all the time. They have the Blue Cornflower pattern. And we eat off my mother's Blue Willow dinnerware.
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Dan Hayward @danielhayward.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If you hang out in Canadian church basements, as I do, you will see the full range of Corningware and Pyrex 1970s patterns. Corning's Blue Cornflower remains a standard.
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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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