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Madge 🍁

@madgeo.bsky.social
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Left of center Canadian

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Madge 🍁 @madgeo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Had a bit of a struggle finding Canadian cranberry products in Saskatoon.
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Madge 🍁 @madgeo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
My plan was to install the emergency furnace and then upgrade my ac unit to a heat pump when it was ready to be replaced. I didn’t have an option at the time and certainly didn’t after the non-compliant furnace was installed.
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Madge 🍁 @madgeo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Not a lot of choice when it’s -40
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Madge 🍁 @madgeo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A central heat natural gas furnace can be used as a secondary heat source for a heat pump if it is the right type of furnace.
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Madge 🍁 @madgeo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The furnace has to have a specific type of fan to connect to the heat pump
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Madge 🍁 @madgeo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
They should legislate that any furnace sold has to be suitable for adding a heat pump to the system. We had to have a new furnace put in during a week of -40 weather. When we needed to change the ac unit we couldn’t put in a heat pump because of the furnace installed.
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Madge 🍁 @madgeo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
And the Jian Ghomeshi case
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Madge 🍁 @madgeo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Should also report the gap between the CEO and the lowest paid worker.
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Madge 🍁 @madgeo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
💔 that is hard.
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pceebee23 @pceebee23.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
REPEAT AFTER ME: privatisation is a scam, a fraud and theft of community owned assets for the benefit of a few
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Madge 🍁 @madgeo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Timmy’s is owned by the same corporation that owns Burger King
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Madge 🍁 @madgeo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Not entirely true.
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Sheldon Boyarski @booarski.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Explains why Moe gets along with Carney so well. The first phone lines in rural Saskatchewan were run along farmer’s barbwire fences with the understanding sharing their fence lines meant connecting the community, not profiteering. cowboycountrymagazine.com/2011/03/fenc...
cowboycountrymagazine.com
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Madge 🍁 @madgeo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
And the federal government is giving money to a private company to install fiber optic cable also undermining the crowns.
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Madge 🍁 @madgeo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
And that was just a morning. Seems kind of crazy.
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Madge 🍁 @madgeo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I spent the morning in emerg a couple of years ago. Reading online of the same experiences of some Americans, I found out it would have cost me in the neighbourhood of $14,000!
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Madge 🍁 @madgeo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Crazy. And not the first time this month
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Madge 🍁 @madgeo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Near Weyburn
Flooding near Weyburn
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Alan Drummond MD @dralandrummond.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
My letter in today's Globe and Mail:
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Madge 🍁 @madgeo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Fibromyalgia? Not real.
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Madge 🍁 @madgeo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I need to check my parents’ line 😬
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Madge 🍁 @madgeo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
And Saskatchewan. The bargaining with nurses proposes that they be required to work within 200km (?) of their home position. I can see them taking positions in the private clinics so they don’t have to travel to work.
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Solstice 🇨🇦 @notabot1.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Please sign and share this petition. We, the undersigned, People of Canada, call upon the Government of Canada to 1. Vigorously enforce the Canada Health Act and its principles of public administration, comprehensiveness, universality, portability and accessibility; www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
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Petition e-7691 - Petitions
Only validated signatures are counted towards the total number of signatures.
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Madge 🍁 @madgeo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This will not be well received.
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Madge 🍁 @madgeo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
💔
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
This isn't the first time the USA has placed 50% tariffs on Canada. In 1890, the USA's Tariff Act was touted as a way to build up American industry, but the true goal was forcing the annexation of Canada. It backfired and made Canada stronger. This is the story. 📸 LoC 🧵1/10
Political cartoon criticizing the Republican platform for favoring untaxed whiskey (jug labeled "Untaxed Whiskey 20¢ Gal.") while presenting war‑taxed common cloth with an 89% tariff, highlighting perceived hypocrisy.
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
“I deal with many countries, and Canada is easily the most difficult and unreasonable,” - Trump Canadians: Good.
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Madge 🍁 @madgeo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Wow!
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Kawacatoose First Nation members head south to retrieve stolen teepee cover from U.S. Story of the theft has been passed down for 100 years #Canada www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Kawacatoose First Nation members head south to retrieve stolen teepee cover from U.S. | CBC News
Family members from Saskatchewan are travelling to Washington, D.C. for the return of a precious item made by an ancestor who was promised payment but never received any.
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Madge 🍁 @madgeo.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
But then Canadian products become too expensive and don’t sell so producers and their workers take a hit.
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Madge 🍁 @madgeo.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
They all use artificial light so no windows needed
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Madge 🍁 @madgeo.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
We can use the data center buildings
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Heather McPherson MP @heathermcpherson.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
For months, I have been raising the alarm in the House of Commons about Danielle Smith’s attack on public health care. I’ve raised it repeatedly during Question Period. I’ve written to the Prime Minister and the Health Minister multiple times. And for months, the federal gov’t stayed silent. (1/3)
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Madge 🍁 @madgeo.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
We drank powdered skim milk because it was subsidized by the government to help dairy farmers.
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Madge 🍁 @madgeo.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Only when we were visiting rich kids.
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Jen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I'm loathe to share this man, but this one is personal. My masters thesis was on the MMR controversy, so believe me when I say that this path of separation of the MMR will result in nothing but increased sales of too-small coffins, and children with life-altering medical conditions.
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Madge 🍁 @madgeo.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I remember one trip my uncles found a clear underground spring that they lined with rock so we could dip water (one uncle was an engineer specializing in water issues). Mini cereal boxes?? Ha!
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Madge 🍁 @madgeo.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
We never even got Tang!
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David Elfstrom 🍁 @davidelfstrom.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Heads up Canadian #crbox builders and PC fan air cleaner enthusiasts – Canadian Tire has a sale on 2-packs of Filtrete 1900 starting Thursday for $26.99 ($13.50 each). Normal price is $64.99, hope they are in stock by then. No rainchecks. @northboxsystems.bsky.social (That's like $9.64 each in USD)
Photo of Canadian Tire advertisement showing 3M Filtrete 1900 filter 2-pack on sale for 26.99 special buy, August 13-20 2026Regular price on CanadianTire.ca of 2-pack Special Buy if Filtrete 1900. 20x20 and 20x25 shown.
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Heather McPherson MP @heathermcpherson.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
I called on the 🇨🇦 govt to guarantee, no-cost access to COVID-19 vaccines, including for every child under 12. Under the Canada Health Act, every Canadian deserves equal access to care no matter where they live, or how badly their provincial gov’t ignores science, health guidelines & their citizens.
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Madge 🍁 @madgeo.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
We would like ours just to ring when we get a call on our cell phones.
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 21/07/2026
The announcement of 50% tariffs on a range of Canadian goods is the latest economic grenade thrown over the border by an out of control President who has lost touch with reality. /1
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Paul Dechene @pauldechene.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
All this hullabaloo over a 3 minute call to prayer. That's 3 minutes out of the 10,080 in a week. That's 0.03% of a week taken up by the call to prayer. And for the average Reginan who maybe goes downtown for Farmer's Market they'll here it 0% of the time b/c it to happen on Fridays. #yqrcc
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Madge 🍁 @madgeo.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Frontal lobotomy?
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TTCriders @ttcriders.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Last year, City Council approved a pilot to deploy Toronto Community Crisis Service (TCCS) in the downtown U of the subway, a new non-police emergency service for people experiencing crises on transit. One year later, the results are in. TCCS's non-enforcement approach to safety is working. 🧵⬇️ 1/
Graphic: Toronto's approach to community safety is working on the TTCInfographic

Enhancing Mental Health Crisis Response on the TTC Pilot

November 15, 2025 to May 31, 2026

9792 community interactions
528 calls for crisis support

Call types
Wellbeing Check - 56.3%
Thoughts of Suicide - 29%
Distressing/Disorderly Behaviour - 8.3%
Advised/Referral - 0.2%

The average response time for TCCS-TTC teams to arrive on scene is 5 minutes

Pilot stations map showing the downtown U Line 1 and 2 stations

Emergency Service requests

6% of calls requested TTC Special Constables
3% of calls had a request for medical services
2% of calls had a request for police services
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Madge 🍁 @madgeo.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
"This is a problem"
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Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Hey AB: Our functional ED capacity in the Edmonton area has been devastated We have NEVER had overcrowding in our EDs that looks like this in our summer (typically we see admitted volumes decrease in the summer) > 6mnths since Mr. Sreekumar's tragic death, NOTHING is better 1/2
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Alan Drummond MD @dralandrummond.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Emergency room disruptions at seven Sask health-care facilities www.gx94radio.com/2026/07/18/e...
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Emergency room disruptions at seven Sask health-care facilities
SASKATCHEWAN — Seven health-care facilities are affected by emergency room service disruptions July 18 at 9 a.m., according to the Saskatchewan Health Authority. New emergency room service ...
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Madge 🍁 @madgeo.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Grocers too
Loblaws signage indicates US product is product of Canada
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