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Finder of information. Solver of mysteries. Fixer of staplers. Patron saints: Bunny Watson and Nancy Drew. Academic library. Former essential caregiver.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
On our election day, Trump is telling Canadians to elect.....Trump. Fucking pathetic, dude.
Trump Truth Social post reads: "Good luck to the Great people of Canada. Elect the man who has the strength and wisdom to cut your taxes in half, increase your military power, for free, to the highest level in the World, have your Car, Steel, Aluminum, Lumber, Energy, and all other businesses, QUADRUPLE in size, WITH ZERO TARIFFS OR TAXES, if Canada becomes the cherished 51st. State of the United States of America. No more artificially drawn line from many years ago. Look how beautiful this land mass would be. Free access with NO BORDER. ALL POSITIVES WITH NO NEGATIVES. IT WAS MEANT TO BE! America can no longer subsidize Canada with the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars a year that we have been spending in the past. It makes no sense unless Canada is a State!"
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Bijan63 @bijan63.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Raak!
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Jenn Allen @jenn-allen.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Same thing happened in Fall 2024, when the feds released a report on Long Covid that explicitly state that repeat infections are dangerous, the risk of developing LC is cumulative, and that 1 in 5 Canadians adults had Long Covid. Not a word from Canadian media. tinyurl.com/hahbhcy9
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Dealing with the fallout: Post-COVID Condition and its continued impact on individuals and society
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Oh fuck off. It's bad enough AI is sucking the soul out of art, putting millions out of work, and super-charging misinformation. Now you're asking us to rip away that last veneer of human politeness, however performative? Fuck right off. Please and thank you.
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Pamela Allard 🇨🇦 🦋 @plallard.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
“Crowd size is the new phallic symbol. The red-pilling of Canadian politics is complete”
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Jan Ska 🇨🇦 @janmoleski.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
"I would say to every Canadian who is listening to this: You should be looking up the voting records of whoever you're voting for in the upcoming election and see how they have voted on bills related to reproductive rights." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Author, gynecologist Jen Gunter says she's moving back to Canada as reproductive rights erode in U.S. | CBC News
Jen Gunter, a Winnipeg-born gynecologist and bestselling author, says she's had enough with the United States, but she’s also prescribing a stark warning for Canadian voters concerned about the future...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/04/2025
This is why you never capitulate. This would be the end of Columbia university. It would be a testing ground for the direct fascist takeover of private universities by a dictator. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
"Screenshot of a Wall Street Journal article headline reading, 'Trump Administration Wants to Install Federal Oversight of Columbia University.' The subheadline states, 'Government is aiming to legally bind the school to changes as they negotiate over federal funding.' The article is written by Liz Essley Whyte and Douglas Belkin and dated April 10, 2025, 2:18 pm ET."
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 09/04/2025
This is the literal destruction of knowledge. Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases. mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
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Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws - Mississippi Today
The two research collections state officials ordered for deletion included material from professional journals, conference papers, books, student dissertations, periodicals and newspaper articles.
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LibTechie @libtechie.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
According to the email containing this survey I received it because I'm a verify Conservative supporter which comes as news to me. Could only submit is if I checked how I'd support the Conservatives leading up to the election. I selected share social media posts - so sharing this nonsense survey,
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LibTechie @libtechie.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Not only is Pierre Poilievre and his team using slogans constantly in an attempt to get votes they are adding emojis to them in emails to show how serious they are. Next up they will be using gifs.
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LibTechie @libtechie.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Just got a phone call inviting me to the next Pierre Poilievre rally with a robo call voiced by none other than J. D. Vance's BFF Jamil Jivani. The number of worn out PP slogans used in the call tripled it in length. No, I will not be going.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Yesterday, Poilievre was posting about how the Canadian Pacific Railway might not even be able to be built today. Um, there’s a pretty good reason for that: the abuse and deaths of Chinese workers who built the railroad.
Pierre Poilievre posts: “Could we even build the Canadian Pacific
Railway today?
Conservatives will honour the legacy of Sir John A. Mcdonald & unite our country with a Canada First National Energy Corridor.
So we can stand on our own two feet - for a change: conservative.ca/cpc/canada-fir”Article title from OHS reads: “For every mile of Canadian railroad built, three
Chinese workers died: B.C. government”
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James Andrew Smith @drsmith.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Academics in the US & Canada: reflect on leadership at your institutions. Has management been kowtowing to political and corporate demands? Does your Board of Directors hide its work? Have hires in admin outpaced hires in faculty & staff? Then you have a problem. #ElbowsUp #Gleichschaltung
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Kim @trinity888.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
This, so much this. People mean well, but the pressure to be well, or at least on the improve, is huge.
Non disabled people understand terminal illness. They can.procwss a disease that makes you sick and then you die. They can process a temporary ailment or injury where you're sick and then you recover. They struggle with  chronic illness. Processing the reality of living in the grey forever is hard for them.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Danielle Smith is on the Quisling 2025 tour with Ben Shapiro. He calls us a "silly little country that can be annexed like Puerto Rico." He says Canadians would welcome Trump like a "liberator." She is doing a fantastic job of sinking Poilievre's campaign. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/03/27/n...
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Danielle Smith and Ben Shapiro discuss Canada electing ‘solid allies’ to Trump at Florida event
On stage at a PragerU fundraiser, the Alberta premier, under fire for allegedly encouraging U.S. leaders to influence Canadian politics, said, 'I come in peace.'
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✊🏻The Rebel Spoonie🥄 @therebelspoonie.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
To those who feel this way, you might not know if you are “vulnerable”. Many illnesses that could leave you more open to long term consequences can sneak by undetected UNTIL something pushes them over the edge and then BOOM!! Ask me how I know!
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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
“Create a ruckus” = co-write a (not even particularly strident) op-ed for a student newspaper. Americans, you need to fight like hell, because they’re coming for everyone who dissents.
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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Just a reminder that the higher ed system in Canada is in total crisis and part of pur productivity problem comes from there. And that this approach isn't actually fixing anything. It needa to be accompanied by massive public investments.
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Matt Strauss, one of the worst quacks of the pandemic. Now running as one pf Poilievre's Conservative candidates in Kitchener Ontario. Canada, we can do better than this. "He previously said on social media he'd sooner give his children COVID-19 over a Happy Meal" #canpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Controversial medical officer critical of mask mandates resigns from job in Ontario county | CBC News
Haldimand-Norfolk county medical officer Matt Strauss, has resigned effective April 1, closing out a controversial 18-month run. During his time as medical officer, Strauss has made comments questioni...
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LibTechie @libtechie.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Why did I put off something for 3 months that painlessly took me 20 minutes to do?
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LibTechie @libtechie.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Talking to someone and they mentioned possibly moving to Alberta to be with family. I responded with "might be a good idea to wait and see what happens" They responded with "I hope they separate. I'm serious they need to protect their oil." Me:
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Jordan Roberts @corruptario.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
We threw our own children under the bus.
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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Remember how much shit we all took for daring to suggest Israel would bomb a hospital? How many hospital bombings ago was that?
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Demi 🇨🇦 @demidclarke.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
#nevervoteconservative
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
In one week we have this & we have another Conservative/Shopify-adjacent org attacking the PM because his child is trans. This stuff has been present for the last years but the election will be a test for Canada. Will it backfire? 1/2
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Diana Chan McNally @dianachanmcnally.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Is everyone going to ignore the ongoing $95 billion lawsuit by 10 Ontario first nations against the jurisdiction of provincial and federal governments over Crown lands in the Ring of Fire?
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
"The more we learn about the dangers of repeated COVID infections, it seems that without better protections, workers’ rights to safe work and students’ rights to safe learning spaces are being ignored to maintain the status quo." Ty @teachrprecarity.bsky.social! www.thespec.com/opinion/cont...
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COVID five years later: Governments are ignoring the rights of workers and students
Trying to avoid COVID-19 is seen as a personal choice, despite it being a public health threat for everyone.
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Dr Doug Eyolfson @drdougeyolfson.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Compare and Contrast This liberal government instituted: -Canada Child Benefit -school lunch program -child care program -pharmacare -dental care for low income Canadians A CPC government under Pierre Poilievre: -will get rid of all these things
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
It's so hard to grasp just how utterly evil these people are
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LibTechie @libtechie.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Good news!
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Carole Paré Payne @paros13.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Hopefully the majority of Canadians have a long memory. Too much is at stake otherwise
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Hi youth of Canada. We won't build you housing and we've squeezed public services and education to the breaking point. As compensation, you will be forced to join the military.
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David Fisman. @dfisman.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
This new work from @blakemurdoch.bsky.social is spot on. Denial of airborne transmission was the great crime (yes, crime) of the pandemic. It changed, and broke, everything healthydebate.ca/2025/03/topi...
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How denial of airborne COVID transmission broke the world - Healthy Debate
Five years later, the greatest basic science failure in generations caused the pandemic harms highlighted by people across the political spectrum, and broke our social cohesion.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Make no mistake, "you do you" Covid policies helped pave the way for Trump's victory They emboldened him to be more aggressive and openly fascist this time around You can't throw away entire groups of people & not see very real consequences The Spanish Flu pandemic helped pave the way for Hitler
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Fed study ties 1918 flu pandemic to Nazi Party gains
The paper examined municipal spending levels and voter extremism in Germany from the time of the initial influenza outbreak until 1933.
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MKR in Victoria 🍁🇨🇦 @mkryyj.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
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LibTechie @libtechie.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
It's amazing how much he wants a country that supposedly has nothing the US wants or needs.
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The Vertlartnic @thev.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Why Is Everyone Sick All The Time? And Don’t Say It’s Because We Caught Covid. And Don’t Say It’s Because We Caught Covid A Whole Bunch Of Times.
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Why Is Everyone Sick All The Time?
And Don’t Say It’s Because We Caught Covid.And Don’t Say It’s Because We Caught Covid A Whole Bunch Of Times.
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LibTechie @libtechie.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
They are out to destroy everything that actually does some good.
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Free2explore 🇨🇦 @free2explore.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
This is a good read and points out things that I think some Canadians are really not aware of. #elbowsup and remember #neverpoilievre #nevervoteconservative
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Sarah Gelbard @gelbard.ca · 11/03/2025
This 👇💯
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Covid is a mass disabling event, yet people talk about it in terms of death rate only. The millions of people who are living with severe chronic illness due to Long Covid get completely ignored. Forgotten. Disappeared. People fear disability, so they ignore it. We need to face it to prevent it
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
We know masks prevent Covid & other respiratory infections We know hospital acquired covid has a 10% mortality rate We know patients are scared or postponing medical care because they can’t risk Covid We know many HCWs are burned out & suffering Long Covid So why aren’t we masking in healthcare?
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We Need Mandatory Masking in Healthcare, and We Need it Now
Healthcare facilities should set the tone when it comes to masking. They should help patients protect themselves from Covid and other threats. Instead they push droplet dogma and put lives at risk.
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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Now, "it’s the masked passenger who is suspect, nobody notices the scuffed distancing lines and trust in vaccines has taken a tumble. A different narrative has invaded the conversation: it wasn’t the virus that ruined our lives, but the response." 🧵 1/5 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Five years on from the pandemic, the right’s fake Covid narrative has been turbo-charged into the mainstream | Laura Spinney
Before the next outbreak, we need a serious conversation about how to cope, but first, the more strident, misguided voices must be muted, says author Laura Spinney
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Something else liberals/centrists pretend to care about—or they only pay attention when the right whines about not being able to call people slurs as a lmk infringement on free speech
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LibTechie @libtechie.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Person who will be running as the Conservative candidate in my area is getting out her campaign materials already.
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Dr Doug Eyolfson @drdougeyolfson.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Prime Minister @JustinTrudeau brought Canada through unprecedented challenges while being continuously sabotaged and defamed by Pierre Poilievre, a number of Provincial Premiers, and complicit members of the press, but through it all is still a true statesman. He will be missed
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