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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It’s well past time for Catholic hospitals to be secularized. Religion does have a place in health care, but only when it applies to respecting rights, not denying them, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com
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Opinion: It’s well past time for Catholic hospitals to be secularized
Religion does have a place in health care, but only when it applies to respecting rights, not denying them
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Tristan Stewart-Robertson @srtristan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
And the full link is as brutal as the graphic.
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Jason Arday told the press he was at his limit. It answered with 188 more articles. He is dead at 41.
A full census of the 249 articles fifteen national outlets published about Jason Arday in 22 days, with the last day reconstructed hour by hour. Every article listed and linked.
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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
What Jason Kenney calls "brilliant" is a horribly inaccurate account of the abolition of slavery 👇 The video he's applauding speaks admiringly of the compensation of enslavers, omitting that enslaved ppl received nothing. And what "Canadian version" does he allude to??
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De Facto Journalism Co-op @defactomedia.ca · 03/07/2026
2) A BC mining company may use a Trump executive order to bypass UN rules against mining international waters bsky.app/profile/akka...
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Rachel Hope Cleves @rachelcleves.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Thanks, John. Should have thought of that: bookshop.org/p/books/char...
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Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America
A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America
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Michael Spratt @mspratt.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
From me: Some advice for Pierre Poilievre, If someone tells you Mexico is safer than Vancouver, it doesn’t mean it is. And if you want to be a leader, you better start acting like one. www.canadianlawyermag.com/news/opinion...
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Poilievre, your doomsday depiction of Canadian crime is wearing thin
If someone tells you Mexico is safer than Vancouver, it doesn’t mean it is
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BC Humanist Association @bchumanist.ca · 12/01/2026
We're in court today (and for the next few weeks) in a case that could determine the future of religious hospitals in BC. www.bchumanist.ca/religious_ho...
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Religious hospital obstructions trial begins
The case could determine the future of faith-based hospitals in BC.
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Deborah 🇨🇦 @dem3.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Does Neuralink cover the entire cost of surgery and post op recovery in our publicly-funded health care system?
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BC Humanist Association @bchumanist.ca · 04/09/2025
Like many Canadians, we were disturbed to hear the Prime Minister had invited an American Christian Nationalist to speak to cabinet. It's good he's not coming but we're disappointed Mark Carney continues to want to engage the worst elements of the MAGA movement.
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Project 2025 architect Kevin Roberts no longer attending cabinet forum - iPolitics
“Regrettably, Dr. Roberts’ office indicated that he can no longer join us to present today,” the PMO said in a statement distributed at the forum. “Our team will continue further engagement and…
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Craig Saunders @craigsaunders.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Most Canadians Side with Flight Attendants in Dispute with Air Canada - @davidcoletto.bsky.social abacusdata.ca/most-canadia...
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Most Canadians Side with Flight Attendants in Dispute with Air Canada - Abacus Data
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza
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Deborah 🇨🇦 @dem3.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
I don't disagree at all. Mamdani is achieving success on policy because he seems to genuinely believe what he is saying and comes across very positively. I didn't get the same sense at all with Singh - I recognize that he likely struck others differently but not to a degree that meant success
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Deborah 🇨🇦 @dem3.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Woulda been nice. But I agree with reply below: Singh doesn’t have the personality. Came across to me like the “how do you do, fellow kids” meme
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Deborah 🇨🇦 @dem3.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
@cityofwestkelowna.bsky.social @cityofabbotsford.bsky.social
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Deborah 🇨🇦 @dem3.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Thanks for asking this - I was looking online last night for a solid place to donate to so am glad to have this recommendation and have donated
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BC Humanist Association @bchumanist.ca · 22/07/2025
People are understandably upset that an American Christian Nationalist plans to host a concert at a national parks site.
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Residents want MAGA musician's concert at Parks Canada historic site cancelled | CBC News
Sean Feucht, a Christian rocker and rising star in the MAGA movement, is scheduled to perform Wednesday at the York Redoubt National Historic Site near Halifax.
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Deborah 🇨🇦 @dem3.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
C'mon Vancouver - fix this @ptfry.bsky.social @cityofvancouver.bsky.social
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Tim Ford @timfordwrites.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I don't think the post linked here is in good faith, frankly. I got pretty fed up with Brodie Fenlon with the 51st State Cross Country Checkup debacle. Read like our version of the New York Times trying to defend Mamdani hit pieces. I don't think he's an honest person. And that's not great.
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Deborah 🇨🇦 @dem3.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
@davidebybc.bsky.social @adriandix.bsky.social @cityofvancouver.bsky.social @mark-carney.bsky.social
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Deborah 🇨🇦 @dem3.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
@cityofvancouver.bsky.social @davidebybc.bsky.social @mark-carney.bsky.social
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David J. Climenhaga @djclimenhaga.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Next Alberta surveys: Push polls with zero validity, consent baked in, and a mandatory propaganda video. albertapolitics.ca/2025/06/next...
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Next Alberta surveys: Push polls with zero validity, consent baked in, and a mandatory propaganda video - Alberta Politics
Social media exploded yesterday with criticism that the six “surveys” on the so-called Next Alberta Panel’s slick website are an exercise in manufacturing consent, to use Noam Chomsky’s now familiar p...
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Deborah 🇨🇦 @dem3.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
It's such a phony poll albertapolitics.ca/2025/06/next...
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Next Alberta surveys: Push polls with zero validity, consent baked in, and a mandatory propaganda video - Alberta Politics
Social media exploded yesterday with criticism that the six “surveys” on the so-called Next Alberta Panel’s slick website are an exercise in manufacturing consent, to use Noam Chomsky’s now familiar p...
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BC Humanist Association @bchumanist.ca · 03/06/2025
Christian nationalists want Canada to become the 51st state and yet their churches still give tax receipts for donations. It's time to end the automatic presumption that religion is a public benefit. Email your MP today: www.bchumanist.ca/religion_cha...
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Risks of bird flu are real. We can’t bury our heads in the sand, even for the love of ostriches. We’re being bamboozled by a small group of zealots who think laws - and science - don’t apply to them, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... @theglobeandmail.com #H5N1
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Opinion: The risks of bird flu are real. We can’t bury our heads in the sand, even for the love of ostriches
We’re being bamboozled by a small group of zealots who think laws - and science - don’t apply to them.
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BC Humanist Association @bchumanist.ca · 02/06/2025
As religious groups, these churches benefit from automatic charitable status. Ask your MP to modernize the law www.bchumanist.ca/religion_cha...
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End the privileged status of religion in charity law
Ask your MP to remove 'advancement of religion' as a charitable purpose.
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Deborah 🇨🇦 @dem3.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
It’s a shame that options, like composting similar to what Recompose in Washington state does, are not available in BC. Mystifying, really
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BC Humanist Association @bchumanist.ca · 04/05/2025
The BC Government needs to update the law to permit modern, environmentally-friendly ways to handle the remains of our dead friends and family.
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Cremation capacity strained as B.C. considers alternatives
With ongoing prohibitions against water cremation, B.C. funeral homes say their flame crematoriums have reached capacity amid rising demand, with slim chances for expansion
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
WHO’s emergencies director, Mike Ryan, sounds the alarm on Israel’s ongoing genocide operation in Gaza. Netanyahu has turned the strip into an open air concentration camp and is deliberately starving civilians.
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Luke Côté @locutusof.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
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BC Humanist Association @bchumanist.ca · 02/05/2025
On Tuesday, a Christian Nationalist group was invited to spread its bigotry in the BC Legislature's foyer. Tell your MLA the Legislature has no space for hate. www.bchumanist.ca/nohateintheleg
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British Columbia Humanist Association
Tell your MLA the Legislature has no space for hate
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BC Humanist Association @bchumanist.ca · 02/05/2025
It's contemptible that BC MLAs would host this extremist Christian Nationalist group in the legislature. We call on all MLAs too reject the bigotry embodied by these fundamentalists. vancouversun.com/news/bc-cons...
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B.C. Conservatives host Christian advocacy group at legislature to discuss MAID, transitioning minors
Rustad said he passed through the event and had a conversation with some ARPA members around SOGI 123 school curriculum.
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Healthy Debate @healthydebate.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
"About half of B.C. and Ontario’s respective medical lab sectors are now U.S. owned." By @maddidellplain.bsky.social healthydebate.ca/2025/04/topi...
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LifeLabs strike highlights risks of foreign ownership in Canadian health care - Healthy Debate
The months-long strike at British Columbia’s LifeLabs has raised questions about foreign ownership of medical services and Canadians’ health data.
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Courtney Theriault @ctheriault.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
"If you or any other Canadians are not happy living on Treaty lands, they are free to apply for citizenship elsewhere." Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation issues a scathing rebuke of Danielle Smith's talks on a national unity crisis.
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Deborah 🇨🇦 @dem3.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Jamil Jivani, candidate in Canada's federal election in Bowmanville-Oshawa North, and best friend of US VP JD Vance, has no comment... www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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J.D. Vance's Best Friend, the Canadian Politician, Has No Comment
In his campaign for parliament in Canada, Jamil Jivani has nothing to say about Vance, after Trump’s threats and tariffs upended the election.
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
This is a must read.
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
And the mask finally drops. Take Back Alberta founder David Parker declares that Canada can’t be “saved”, immigrants ruined the country, Canada is a “hotel for the worlds welfare cases” Alberta should separate & if it doesn’t, people should leave Alberta & Canada entirely. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
"We can react by seeing all of this for what it is, and naming it by name: incipient state terror. We can react by associating ourselves with others who are repressed before we are. Only in solidarity do we affirm law."
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
the only way kidnapping and illegally detaining lawful permanent residents (or citizens!) in foreign concentration camps "plays out" is we all live our lives under fascism or the fascists are jailed and many of them executed. that's it. read a fuckin book.
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 08/04/2025
A vial of insulin costs far, far, far, far more in the U.S. than it does in Canada, as do most other drugs. Could our beloved price gap become a casualty of Trump's trade war? Possibly, if a group of pharma companies gets its way. canadahealthwatch.ca/newsletter/2...
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Pharma giants push Trump insiders to target Canadian drug pricing
A vial of insulin costs far, far more in the U.S. than it does up here.
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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 08/04/2025
His second story, from Edmonton, arrived hours after the rally concluded. I read it with bleary eyes in bed this morning and knew it was a banger. He found that far from what the polls are telling us about Canadians, many of the rallygoers LOVE Trump. And they want Poilievre to be more like him.
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Poilievre is backed into a Trump-shaped corner
At Poilievre’s largest rally yet, his greatest strength reveals his greatest weakness. While the campaign is trying to distance him from Donald Trump, who is wildly unpopular in Canada, many of his su...
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 08/04/2025
Tariffs xkcd.com/3073
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 15/08/2024
Posting this extract from a lecture by John Maynard Keynes, speaking on the BBC in the middle of the Second World War, to every Labour cabinet minister
Let us not submit to the vile doctrine of the nineteenth century that every enterprise must justify itself in pounds, shillings and pence of cash income … Why should we not add in every substantial city the dignity of an ancient university or a European capital … an ample theater, a concert hall, a dance hall, a gallery, cafes, and so forth. Assuredly we can afford this and so much more. Anything we can actually do, we can afford… We are immeasurably richer than our predecessors. Is it not evident that some sophistry, some fallacy, governs our collective action if we are forced to be so much meaner than they in the embellishments of life? …
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Tom McIntosh @proftomuofr.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
See previous post. This is the kind of stuff that makes soft-LPC voters into determined-LPC voters. It confirms the things that made them wary of the CPC in the first place. It makes the hold-your-nose-&-vote-Liberal types want to put a Carney sign in their front yard.
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Jill Konkin 🇨🇦 🍁 @djillk.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
"While it may be politically convenient to blame AHS, responsibility for the poor performance, high costs, and potential irregularities sits squarely with the government." @alonghurst.bsky.social Funding for private surgical facilities has gone up but # of surgeries hasn't. Private doesn't deliver.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/04/2025
Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom. Few Americans know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country. (Published 2022)
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That Cardboard Box in Your Home Is Fueling Election Denial
A previously unreported boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline has provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/04/2025
they are segregationists, it has been obvious from the jump, and i think that pundits who dismissed the charge as hyperbolic should explain why they couldn’t see the fact pattern
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 06/04/2025
The Conservative Party, especially the form it takes under Pierre Poilievre, shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near the levers of power.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
This is what happens when you ask me to indulge your false equivalencies about the Trump tariffs.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Must read from @jvl.bsky.social . www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...
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The American Age Is Over
Emergency Triad: The United States commits imperial suicide.
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