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Olive 🇨🇦

@imapest.bsky.social
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Member of the Métis Nation ♾️ of Ontario 🇨🇦 transplanted from Manitoba to Vancouver Island. 🇨🇦 Aboriginal People = 1st Nations + Inuit + Métis I’ve worked as a journeyman machinist, teacher and now as a graphic designer.

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Olive 🇨🇦 @imapest.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I stopped buying American produce long ago because their FDA is controlled by big donors. Kennedy’s MAHA is a joke #pesticides #foodSafety www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Fruit giant Driscoll's faces class-action lawsuit in Quebec | CBC News
Lawyers are asking a Quebec Superior Court judge to authorize a class-action lawsuit against American fruit giant Driscoll’s. It comes after allegations that the company had sent millions of pounds of...
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Olive 🇨🇦 @imapest.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Campobello NB is being choked by trump’s asinine tariff war. Isn’t the tiny American zone of Point Roberts on the west coast in BC lower mainland in the same vulnerable position? Isn’t this a bartering chip? #tariff #Campobello #NewBrunswick #PointRoberts #trump #BC www.ctvnews.ca/world/trumps...
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Island mayor doesn’t know what comes next after truck wasn’t allowed over U.S.-Canada border
The truck bound for Campobello Island, N.B., was stopped earlier this week after it was found carrying milk and "over 1,000 bottles of spirits," U.S. Customs and Border Protection said.
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Olive 🇨🇦 @imapest.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Big waste of money but we've got no choice but to vote for him. Does this kind of legacy give him the warm fuzzies?
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Olive 🇨🇦 @imapest.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Came here to spew at the turd who called the election @davidebybc.bsky.social I really don't see typical NDP policy coming out of this government or even anything that inspires anyone to vote for you other than the fact that we're held hostage with few choices. Every vote you get = a bitter pill
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Olive 🇨🇦 @imapest.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Trump is aching for excuses to raise tariffs on Canada. How unpresidential to attack us when we’re fighting off wildfires caused by global climate change. Instead, besides offering help, he could improve global air quality instantly by ending his illegal Iran war www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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5m tonnes of CO2 emitted in just 14 days of US war on Iran, analysis finds
Exclusive: War in the Middle East is draining the global carbon budget faster than 84 countries combined
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Olive 🇨🇦 @imapest.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
I will ABSOLUTELY NEVER subscribe to Apple News as long as they promote the racist National Post outlet. NP is obsessed with Aboriginal hatred that’s jarring and hurtful even if I don’t click on it. Can NP be sued for its racist hate speech?
Screenshot of Apple News feed highlighting yet another anti Aboriginal racist National Post article ridiculing the existence of gravesites at former residential school sites
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Olive 🇨🇦 @imapest.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
How can Conservative seats be a part of federal Conservatives if they’re supporting the push for Alberta to separate from Canada? Treaty rights are forever. Respect UNDRIP globalnews.ca/news/1185804...
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Alberta referendum committee meeting implodes when UCP prematurely releases statement | Globalnews.ca
Chaos descended upon an Alberta legislature committee meeting when the UCP issued a news release declaring the outcome of a referendum question vote that had not yet happened.
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Olive 🇨🇦 @imapest.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
That $1.5 billion defence slush fund sure will come in handy after the midterms & beyond when trump expects to be fighting off endless legal battles. What’s to stop him from using the entire fund for himself?
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Olive 🇨🇦 @imapest.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Welcome back to Vancouver Island Pamela Anderson!! 🤗 Smart move. It’s really the best of all worlds apple.news/A8UDJfh_7RwK...
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Pamela Anderson wants to talk to you about Canada — The Washington Post
Pamela Anderson returned to her childhood home on Vancouver Island, part of her transition to a more authentic lifestyle. She shares tips for resetting in Canada.
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Olive 🇨🇦 @imapest.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Oh GREAT! 😡 Now Kristi Noem will be Canada’s and other North and South American countries’ problem. Of course her stellar performance as Homeland Security Secretary has proven her more than capable of managing trump’s dream team taking control of the Americas
Kristi Noem speaking at a congressional hearing with the caption indicating that Trump just fired her as homeland security secretary while simultaneously appointing her to a newly created position as special envoy for Shield of the Americas, a new security initiative for the Western Hemisphere. Screenshot is from NYT.
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Olive 🇨🇦 @imapest.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Things that make you go 🤔 hmmm! Charlie Kirk spoke out against Lindsey Graham’s calls for regime change in Iran. Shortly afterwords, Kirk was assassinateod. Kind of convenient since he would be leading the charge against Trump’s Epstein Distraction War apple.news/AlRqcqv3DQzi...
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“He Could Be Impeached.” Donald Trump’s Base Revolts Over War With Iran — Vanity Fair
MAGA leaders are expressing dismay and anger at the president, who campaigned on isolationism and
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Olive 🇨🇦 @imapest.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Not just New York. Tax the rich everywhere!! As it stands, they’re opportunists that keep moving to states that are tax havens. THEY’RE the problem migrants
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Olive 🇨🇦 @imapest.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
🤔 “notorious for his shocking rhetoric, making sexist remarks, cursing out the pope & Barack Obama & comparing himself to hitler” And he’s on trial for crimes against humanity! Kind of makes you hopeful that it’s training ground for donald trump’s trial. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Rodrigo Duterte: Ex-Philippine president faces court for crimes against humanity
Duterte is facing charges relating to a long and bloody war on drugs in which thousands were killed.
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Justin @ediparolev.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
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Olive 🇨🇦 @imapest.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Went to a neighbourhood party last night and we were outnumbered by the dogs that tagged along. And they also out charmed us!
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Olive 🇨🇦 @imapest.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
This strangely makes me feel heard
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Olive 🇨🇦 @imapest.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Why are these people carrying umbrellas?
People walking in a snowstorm carrying umbrellas with the American flag blowing in the background
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Olive 🇨🇦 @imapest.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Of course Kavanaugh is Trump’s hero. Rapists gotta stick together
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Olive 🇨🇦 @imapest.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
MAGA is still freaking out over Bad Bunny’s show not speaking English. Imagine the Washington National Opera having to cater to that crowd. No wonder they’re leaving the Kennedy Centre
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Olive 🇨🇦 @imapest.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Yes!! So please STOP 🛑 calling that one country “America” as though you’ve already annexed the rest of us!! I’m looking at you too NYT And ps it’s still the Gulf of Mexico 🇲🇽
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Olive 🇨🇦 @imapest.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
I guess putting lead back in gasoline is next. It would sure make gas guzzler manufacturers happy. Big deal if it destroys children’s brains and potential
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Olive 🇨🇦 @imapest.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Just got the latest Walrus magazine in the mail. I’m guessing that, if they had a crystal ball, the editors would not have published this right now when Canada is mourning the mass shooting of mostly children in Tumbler Ridge BC.
Cover of the latest Walrus magazine with the feature story titled “The Untold Story of the Deadliest Mass Shooting in Canadian History.”
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Olive 🇨🇦 @imapest.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Feeling grateful for my West Coast island life right now. Even though it’s kind of a damp day, seeing the start of cherry blossoms when we haven’t even hit February is a shot of happy #VancouverIsland #VictoriaBC
Downtown Victoria BC on Vancouver Island city scene with a few people walking on quiet streets lined with cherry blossom trees beginning to bloom
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Olive 🇨🇦 @imapest.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I’ve had some tough times with my daughter… as a single mom when she was a baby & might have made some questionable choices. But she sent me this song and my heart just melted. I’m atheist but still 💕 Makes it all seem worthwhile to have kept working through it all youtu.be/nnzV49VYHOc
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I Thank God for U
YouTube video by MC YOGI & John Pattern - Topic
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Olive 🇨🇦 @imapest.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Whatever happened to the person shot by border patrol a couple of days ago?? They were in critical condition but no name or immigration status was ever released. Or reason for the shooting. #CBP #ICE globalnews.ca/news/1164003...
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1 person shot, in critical condition in incident involving U.S. Border Patrol - National | Globalnews.ca
'Patient care was transferred to a local medical helicopter for rapid transport to a regional trauma center,' the Santa Rita Fire District said.
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Olive 🇨🇦 @imapest.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
For many of us in Canada’s labour movement, the Winnipeg General Strike is as important as any major religious holiday. It didn’t end with major concessions but it set the stage and sent a powerful message about the strength of unity. ICE needs this message newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/win...
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Winnipeg Strikes: The city's working class shook Canada in 1919
Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 shook the ruling class, planted roots for modern workers' rights
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Olive 🇨🇦 @imapest.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Too bad Trump killed Biden’s power grid expansion. A resilient infrastructure that can withstand catastrophic hurricanes & snow storms would have been too much of a testament to Biden’s legacy for Trump’s fragile ego. So instead of power grids, you have coal mines. www.eenews.net/articles/whi...
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White House unveils plan to accelerate power grid expansion
DOE created a one-stop shop for permitting, helping transmission developers avoid the regulatory patchwork that has tripped up projects.
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Olive 🇨🇦 @imapest.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Incredible essay that expands on Canada’s PM Carney’s speech at Davos. I’d add that the US stayed back in WW2, profiting by building factories to supply war machinery only getting involved when Pearl Harbour was attacked. And then the US attacked & overthrew Hawaii govt www.bbc.com/news/article...
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As we return to a pre-WW2 order, the middle powers face a challenge
With economic stagnation and extremes of inequality comes corrosion of trust in democratic institutions. So Trump may be a symptom, not a cause, of what Carney called a "rupture" with the post-WW2 ord...
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Olive 🇨🇦 @imapest.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
How can Canada work in partnership with USA to defend the Arctic when we must constantly keep watch on aggressive threats from our supposed ally? It doesn’t feel safe to invite him inside our walls. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Stuck between the US and Russia, Canada must prove it can defend its Arctic territory
Canada has been boosting its forces in the Arctic in the face of new threats - and US concerns.
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
C’est notre pays. C’est notre avenir. Le choix nous appartient.    Nous choisissons le Canada. youtu.be/_MTTo8Qt6tU?...
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We choose Canada • Nous choisissons le Canada
YouTube video by Mark Carney
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Olive 🇨🇦 @imapest.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Biggest news of the day is a snow and ice (not ICE) storm that’s freaking out the entire country. How are these people going to manage an invasion of Canada or Greenland?
Map of USA showing most of the country to be hit by snow and ice storm in the next couple of days
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Olive 🇨🇦 @imapest.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Jonathan Ross is a murderer. Kristi Noem doesn’t want you to say his name.
South Park cartoon of Kristi Noem in an ICE uniform holding up a handgun
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Olive 🇨🇦 @imapest.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
So basically Trump wants to turn Greenland into another Puerto Rico. Or worse.
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Olive 🇨🇦 @imapest.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
#PedophileProtector Donald Trump is scared of revealing the details of his juicy deal with his fellow pedophile, Ghislaine Maxwell Justice Department asks federal judge to deny special master for Epstein files - www.reuters.com/world/us/jus...
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Justice Department asks federal judge to deny special master for Epstein files
The U.S. Justice Department has asked a New York federal judge to deny a request by two lawmakers seeking an appointment of a special master to monitor the public release of records tied to the late f...
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Olive 🇨🇦 @imapest.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Gotta get back outside tomorrow after all this depressing stuff
Driftwood sculpture of a googlie eyed man on a rocky beach along a shoreline opposite Victoria inner harbour on Vancouver Island
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Olive 🇨🇦 @imapest.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Oh yah back in the day we gave equal time to protest and organizing songs and Raffi ❤️ Makes sense
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Olive 🇨🇦 @imapest.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
I can’t imagine what would become of the picturesque country of Greenland or, for that matter, Canada, if it were to be invaded by US forces. Years ago, Disneyland was eyeing property on our incredible Vancouver Island to create another grotesque theme park. Even that was too much a threat 🙄
A woman walks near a church in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland. Photograph: Evgeniy Maloletka/AP.
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Olive 🇨🇦 @imapest.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
So Ashli Babbitt’s mother sued $30M for her death when she was definitely rioting. Looks like the 3 babies left behind by Renee Good’s death by ICE’s savagery should get at least $90M + since they’re so young www.bbc.com/news/article...
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US to pay $5m to family of 6 January rioter Ashli Babbitt
It would settle a wrongful death suit brought by the family of Ashli Babbitt, who was fatally shot by police while breaching the US Capitol.
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Olive 🇨🇦 @imapest.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
There’s a whole lot of ketchup dripping down the walls tonight!! Congratulations to Mayor Mamdani & all the other amazing winners of today’s elections. The slow moving train of Donald Trump’s political death has begun. Too bad he’s too in love with himself to pull a Jeffery Epstein now.
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Olive 🇨🇦 @imapest.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
My head’s exploding. How does trump win a lawsuit against organizations that muzzled him when he’s now muzzling free speech? I just want to take that smug face and give it a swirly!! www.huffpost.com/entry/youtub...
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YouTube To Pay $24.5 Million To Settle Trump Lawsuit
Under the settlement terms, $22 million will be paid to a nonprofit dedicated to building Trump's White House ballroom.
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Olive 🇨🇦 @imapest.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Thanks so much John Oliver. I’ve been desperately hoping someone would finally point out that Kimmel’s statement was both true and harmless. Not even Bill Maher would point it out and bring reason to the uproar. MAGA did focus on distancing from Kirk’s killer, a guy raised by a MAGA family / church
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Olive 🇨🇦 @imapest.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
If trump really wanted to honour Kirk’s memory, he’d release all of the Epstein files www.axios.com/2025/07/15/t...
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Charlie Kirk talks Epstein, urges Trump administration to act
Kirk devoted Tuesday's podcast to extensive interviews about Epstein — a day after he and several other MAGA figures suggested they would take President Trump's advice and move on.
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Olive 🇨🇦 @imapest.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
I’m flying from Vancouver Island to Puerto Vallarta & my options were layovers in Houston, Seattle, or Calgary. Easy choice that had nothing to do with price. I don’t feel safe even passing through an American airport.
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Olive 🇨🇦 @imapest.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Funny how trump didn’t immediately order national guard to take over Utah.
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Olive 🇨🇦 @imapest.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Sure looks like tRump has had a stroke. The left side of his face is drooping. www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...
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Here’s A Video Of Trump At Today’s Sept. 11 Ceremony
Just one video and a couple of photos.
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Ethan Nichtern @ethannichtern.com · 12/06/2025
You just stand up for people who are more in danger than you. You just do it. It could be a self-interest thing, that you realize that someday you will be the one in danger. But it’s even more important to do it if that’s never true. You just do it because humans are worth standing up for.
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Olive 🇨🇦 @imapest.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
“To keep you is no gain; to lose you is no loss.” — Khmer Rouge warning You’re right USA. It’s not who you are. You’re the Killing Fields. Notice this is from the American Holocaust Museum You learned the wrong lesson. www.ushmm.org/genocide-pre...
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Explore Cambodia 1975-1979 - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
From April 17, 1975, to January 7, 1979, the Khmer Rouge perpetrated one of the greatest crimes of the 20th century. Nearly two million people died.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 13/06/2025
An advance look at “On Parade,” David Plunkert’s cover for next week's issue. #NewYorkerCovers
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Dammit Doug Smith @dammitdougsmith.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
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