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Sandra Valens

@heysandrav.bsky.social
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Retired architect. Perpetually hopeful urban gardener. Alphabetizes her spice drawer. Wanders aimlessly through Esquimalt BC, petting cats as often as possible. She/her. 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Sandra Valens @heysandrav.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
www.instagram.com/reel/DaOerTM...
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VIC "VICeJay" JIMENEZ on Instagram: "🇨🇦🎤 THE CANADIAN WAY 🇨🇦🎤 What happens when LEGO animation, hip-hop, and a message about leadership come together? You get *The Canadian Way* — a brand-new AI LEGO...
20K likes, 847 comments - vic.ejay on June 30, 2026: "🇨🇦🎤 THE CANADIAN WAY 🇨🇦🎤 What happens when LEGO animation, hip-hop, and a message about leadership come together? You get *The Canadian Way* — a ...
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Michelle Flynn @michelleflynn.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
media.tenor.com
a poster that says release the epstein files with a picture of a man
ALT: a poster that says release the epstein files with a picture of a man
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Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Make sure you do the email confirmation step or your signature won’t be recorded, folks! Trans rights are human rights. Please sign, if you’re Canadian.
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Jay Wilson @jayskis.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
He’s effectively daring Danielle Smith to do the work required to get her coveted pipeline built, knowing full well she can’t actually do it. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/o... @orourkeguelph.bsky.social
nationalobserver.com
The method to Mark Carney’s madness
The memorandum of understanding with Alberta might look like surrender. Look closer
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Sandra Valens @heysandrav.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
substack.com/@jennbudd/no... The method to the (apparent) madness…
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Jenn Budd (@jennbudd)
Explains a lot.
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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 13/10/2025
Stay Weird Portland! 🔥 Today Portland had an emergency naked bike ride to the ICE facility. IN THE RAIN. It was around 50°. Thousands were fully nude, half nude, or wearing costumes. Portland is VERY dedicated to exposing the absurdities of injustice. Here are some photos & videos. 🧵👇🏼
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Sandra Valens @heysandrav.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
open.substack.com/pub/canresis...
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Escape to Canada: How Americans Can Visit, Work, Seek Asylum, or Stay for Good
Starter Guide to Some Pathways
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Thanks to @meidastouch.bsky.social for sharing stories of the resistance on both sides of the border. #elbowsup
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Sandra Valens @heysandrav.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Seems familiar somehow…
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Sandra Valens @heysandrav.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
This. Look beyond the noise and follow the money.
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Jennifer Gallays 🇨🇦🌾 @jennifergallays.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
After many years of covering election campaigns in Canada, USA and Europe, the Conservative Party of Canada is the most outwardly aggressive and uncivilized that I’ve witnessed. It’s on par with Viktor Orbán in Hungary and the Republican Party in the USA. canadianjournalist.ca/poilievre-ca...
canadianjournalist.ca
Poilievre Stop in Fish Plant Smells | Canadian Journalist
Conservative Party of Canada election campaign stop in a fishing village in Newfoundland turns into a spectacle of party animosity towards media coverage.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
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Sandra Valens @heysandrav.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
The level of ignorance and incompetence is mind boggling. We are watching the American Empire collapse in real time. Buckle up boys and girls, it’s gonna get ugly. #elbowsup
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
What’s the difference between misinformation and disinformation? www.cma.ca/healthcare-f... via @healthcareforreal.bsky.social @cmadocs.bsky.social Watch for emotional triggers. "People create disinformation to make you feel shocked, angry and scared." Remember to "utilize fact-checking tools."
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What’s the difference between misinformation and disinformation?
Learn the difference between health misinformation and disinformation, their impact on public health, and how to protect yourself from false information. Stay informed and safeguard your well-being.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/04/2025
You have to see this. PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.
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20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow
YouTube video by PoliticsGirl
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Dave Thompson 🇨🇦 @davethompsonvic.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Please don't circulate these images of key people in Canada's Conservatives movement who support Trump and MAGA. It's embarrassing to them. #cdnpoli
Image of Chief Adviser to Pierre Poilievre, Conservative Party leader, wearing MAGA Trump hat.Image of article discussing Conservative support for Trump, who wants to take over Canada.Image of key people in Canada's conservative movement and their support for Trump MAGA
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🇨🇦 Bernice Hillier 🇨🇦 @bernicecb.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Elections Canada is launching a new online tool — dubbed "ElectoFacts" — that lists and debunks inaccurate information that is swirling online. #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Elections Canada has been in touch with social media platforms about election misinformation | CBC News
The head of Elections Canada says he has been in touch with social media platforms in an effort to address concerns about misinformation as Canada wades into an election campaign.
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Sandra Valens @heysandrav.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I pray this is true. End Poo-tin. End the war in Ukraine. Demonstrate that resistance is not futile.
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Sandra Valens @heysandrav.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I’ve seen varying numbers on the drop in cross border trips, but this study is for bookings from Canada to the US from April to September: down approximately 75%! Elbows up, indeed!
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Miss Lizzy @misslizzy.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
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Sandra Valens @heysandrav.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Take a moment to check that you’re registered to vote on April 28th. You can register at the time and place you vote at, but that slows down the process. C’mon Canada, get out and exercise your right to vote!🇨🇦
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Sandra Valens @heysandrav.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Half a trillion. America, are you great again, yet?
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🏴‍☠️ Bubba O'riley 🏴‍☠️ 🇨🇦 @crunker.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
What are your best Canadian memes? Let’s see ‘em 🇨🇦
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Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Day 62. People are already dead. Already crimes against humanity.
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Sandra Valens @heysandrav.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
This. #elbowsup
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Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
That’s a bit disingenuous by Jagmeet. He hasn’t mentioned that Liberals have also proposed to increase dental care coverage across Canada to households up to $90k (it’s $55k now, I think?) and removing GST on first-time home purchases up to $1 million. I think Jagmeet knows the polls are right.
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Sandra Valens @heysandrav.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
The true North. Unbreakable. 🇨🇦
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Sandra Valens @heysandrav.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Reposting everything I find on PP. Canadians, we have one chance to get this right.
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Sandra Valens @heysandrav.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Watch out for this nonsense in the lead up to the Canadian election. Demand answers from PP’s team. Demand why he doesn’t have his security clearance yet after 20 years as a politician.
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Allie 🇨🇦 @alliephoto.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Is everyone listening?? Well, I'm sure the majority here on Bluesky are. But all Canadians need to hear this and understand what this means! 🇨🇦 #VoteLiberal #MarkCarneyForPM #MarkCarneyForCanada #KeepCalmAndCarneyOn #NeverPoilievre #PoilievreIsFascism
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Sandra Valens @heysandrav.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
At this point, it’s just easier to assume that every word that comes out of his orange cakehole is a lie.
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Sandra Valens @heysandrav.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Bogeymen and Trojan Horses open.substack.com/pub/thinkbig...
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Bogeymen and Trojan Horses
How to identify and call out Trump and Musk’s fascist tactics
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Sandra Valens @heysandrav.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
I like him more and more. 🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
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🇨🇦 Made in Canada 🇨🇦 ELBOWS UP 💪🍁🦫🌈🦋 @canadianpride.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
All of the Carney hate flowing from The Administration Downstairs makes a lot more sense now I know that Mark Carney has been advising global central banks to ditch the US dollar as the dominant reserve currency since at least 2019. #voteliberal #never51 #markcarneyforPM
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Brittlestar @brittlestar.com · 15/03/2025
Dear Americans... www.brittlestar.com/p/dear-ameri...
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Sandra Valens @heysandrav.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Call an election and lock this in, Mr Carney!
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Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
For the Americans: The blue line are the Conservatives. They are anti-women, anti-climate, anti-trans, anti-everything, and in December they were up 45% nationally. The Liberals (the red line), Trudeau's party, had fallen to 19%. Now? 50% nationally. This is STUNNING.
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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 13/03/2025
JP Morgan cuts Tesla target price to $120 a share. FYI just a bit below that price Musk faces margin calls and the stock goes into a death spiral. www.reuters.com/business/aut...
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J.P.Morgan cuts price target on Tesla shares, brokerage expects lower deliveries
J.P.Morgan cut its price target on Tesla's stock as the brokerage expects a second straight year of lower deliveries, with analysts also pointing to a change in sentiment toward the EV maker from existing customers and potential new buyers.
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Sandra Valens @heysandrav.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Here’s a PSA for all my fellow Canadians: you can get free Canada flags and pins from your Member of Parliament. Contact their office to confirm that they still have stock. And yes, it’s made in Canada. 🇨🇦 #ElbowsUp
Bags of folded up Canada flags and lapel pins.
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Sandra Valens @heysandrav.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Paging all American doctors - code maple, stat!
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Sandra Valens @heysandrav.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. This is right out of the fascist playbook. Next up: declare a national emergency, martial law, then … invade Canada to ensure national security? Americans, it’s time to stop playing nice with these fascists. #ElbowsUp
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Kenneth Chan @iamkennethchan.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Federal government has released the final designs for its 49 standardized housing templates for Canada's builders. These regional-based designs are intended to speed up new housing and reduce costs. dailyhive.com/vancouver/ca...
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These are Canada's 49 official new housing design templates | Urbanized
Through CMHC, the federal government has created 49 design templates for its Housing Design Catalogue to improve housing affordability.
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Sandra Valens @heysandrav.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Good idea. And carry an indelible marker to correct incorrect and misleading store signage.
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Mary Shine @maryshine.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
💛 "Keep planting seeds of truth. Some will grow." 😊 #FightDisinformation #TruthMatters #BreakTheCycle The Evolution of #Disinformation: From the Bolsheviks to the Digital Age Article &🧵 👇
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Sandra Valens @heysandrav.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Blocking lots of bots today. With an election looming on the horizon, Russia and its allies are focusing on us and trying to flood social media with disinformation. Watch out for new profiles with little engagement, and posts with unsubstantiated negative claims (‘Canada is a tax heIl’) #ElbowsUp
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Sandra Valens @heysandrav.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
With all the well deserved buzz about Mark Carney, I thought I’d post this …
A meme listing the accomplishments of Carney and Trump-lite.
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Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
HI CANADIANS JUST LEAVING THIS HERE FOR NO REASON (Also, Canadian forces trained them in a lot of these tactics. Turns out Canada’s pretty good at insurgencies.)
foreignpolicy.com
Ukrainian Civilians Are Pioneering the Art of Resistance
Nonviolent tools are undercutting the Russian occupation.
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Mary Shine @maryshine.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
🇨🇦 Canada & beyond How to identify #misinformation, #disinformation, and #malinformation www.cyber.gc.ca/en/guidance/...
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How to identify misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation (ITSAP.00.300) - Canadian Centre for Cyber Security
How to identify misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation (ITSAP.00.300)
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Catherine 🇨🇦 🌎 @capeacadia.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Trudeau confirms there ARE serious threats to security TO and WITHIN the CPC. Poilievre STILL REFUSES SECURITY CLEARANCE. Ask him WHY? #CanadaSky #NeverPoilievre #NeverVoteConservative
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Sandra Valens @heysandrav.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Resist.
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