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Patricia Chartier

@patriciaorpat.bsky.social
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Kinda sorta retired, I live in Toronto. Longtime overthinker. Love to cook. Hoping to rekindle leftie and centre grassroots democracy in Canada. Part of healthcare advocacy group The Ghost Gurney Project, and Woodrow Avenue Elbows Up.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 03/06/2025
Elon Musk: Not The Most Racist South African Ever will forever be my Peak New York Times Moment www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/o...
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Opinion | A (Partial) Defense of Elon Musk
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
When @bradtakei.bsky.social and I first got together, we never imagined we’d one day celebrate Pride openly, let alone post about it on the internet. But here we are, joy and all. Happy Pride, everyone! Let’s keep showing up, speaking out, and marching forward (glitter optional, but encouraged). 🌈✨
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
1938
FASCISTS ADOPT MODERATE TONE
--The Enid Morning News, 25 Dec 1938
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Gord Spence @gord.spencenet.ca · 03/06/2025
Why do hospitals need the money, lady? Is somebody UNDERFUNDING them!?
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Chris Glover @chrisgloverndp.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
🚨BREAKING: Doug Ford’s Trump-style power grab is racing through Queen’s Park. This week, the Ford government is fast-tracking 7 bills—cutting debate short, skipping committee scrutiny, and trying to ram through Bill 5, which would grant massive new “special economic zone” powers.
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Loretta from Canada🇨🇦 @myview66.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Bringing all our lost sheep back home! Thank you Canadian investors.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Donations needed for #Manitoba wildfire evacuees winnipeg.citynews.ca/2025/05/31/d...
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Donations needed for Manitoba wildfire evacuees
Various organizations are taking donations for Manitobans who are fleeing from wildfires across the province. “These people are fleeing with just what they have on their bodies, not even able to bring...
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🌎 Save Our Democracy 🫂 @lavenderlove99.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
🌮😆
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A Simard 🇨🇦 @adadcoaching.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
NFLD 🇨🇦 Canadians Be in the know
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 01/06/2025
Pulling up in a Cybertruck is nature’s way of saying, “The bloodline ends with me.”
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SassyMetisChick @sassymetischick.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
The Hudson Bay Company plans to auction off all the Indigenous art and artefacts they stole, in order to pay off their debt. These items should have been returned to the Nations they were stolen from. youtu.be/OTJSDNpe3Hk
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HBC plans to auction off artifacts and art pieces – should they be returned? | Sav on the Street
YouTube video by APTN News
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
whenever I talk to friends who are freelancers or have their own thing going - there's so much chasing money they're just simply owed.
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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Plenty of folks smarter than I am have pointed out that all of this bullshit is actually really bad for us Jews.
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 29/05/2025
This is obviously good, but we need to stop doing referenda/plebiscites on issues that are fundamentally about evidence/science. Citizen votes are about values. Otherwise, governments should just govern.
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
"This is all part of a project of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank ... It's a state project. The state is informed of everything. If there was a will to stop those attacks, it would have happened in a minute."
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no brain, only alison @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Destructive wind emergency alert over the phone and a thunderstorm warning for Edmonton on the app! #yeg #yegwx #abwx
Thunderstorm critical alert
For Parts of Alberta
Issued may 29 at 7:25 pm
From Environment Canada

At 7:23pm MDT environment canada meterologists are tracking a very dangerous thunderstorm capable of producing destructive wind gusts.
Extreme wind gusts to 130 km/h have developed ahead of thunderstorms to the west of the area.
There is a risk of life-threatening injury.
Severe thunderstorm warnings are issued when imminent or occurring thunderstorms are expected to produce damaging hail, wind, or rain.Map of the affected areas: includes Edmonton, and a jagged line just slightly west of Highway 2 to Wetaskiwin and extending eastward from slightly north of Edmonton (but not to Ft Saskatchewan) across to the southern edge of highway 16 almost near Vegreville and south to include Camrose and parts of highways 13 and 21.
Affected areas (9):
Beaver county near Tofield,
Camrose County near Camrose and Bittern Lake
City of Edmonton - St Albert - Sherwood Park
Leduc County near Leduc, Beaumont and Kavanagh
leduc County near New Sarepta and Rolly View
County of Wetaskiwin near Wetaskiwin, Millet and Hwy 2
Strathcona County near Ardrossan and Cooking Lake
Camrose County near Hay Lakes and Miquelon Lake Park
Camrose County near new Norway, Edberg and Ferintosh.

Action to take:
Take cover immediately if threatening weather approaches.
If outside, protect yourself from flying debris and hail.
If you hear roaring wind, see a funnel cloud, flying debris, or any threatening weather approaching, take shelter immediately.
Intense lightning is likely and tornadoes are possible with any thunderstorm that develops.
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Michael de Adder @deadder.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
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jam @socialistboat.dad · 29/05/2025
arm the pedestritariat
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
As a parent I love the 15 minute city - I'm tired and just wanna sit down. the less I have to travel and the less I have to do, the better.
Me wearing a tee shirt with the words 15 minute cities in blue. 
No big conspiracy just lazy below.
Don’t wanna go far for stuff in Orange at the top
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Cory Johnston @skepticalleftist.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Police have gotten more funding and power than before, haven't reduced crime, and cause more harm than before, but so often we hear about the detrimental effects of defunding the police, which never happened. Also, read this great article by Robyn Maynard www.thestar.com/opin...
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What is life like for Black people five years after George Floyd’s murder?
The same political leaders who claimed to they’d heard the calls of this historic movement eschewed meaningful change in favour of the status quo.
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 28/05/2025
Trump says Canada would pay $61B for Golden Dome, or 50% off just to bribe him directly
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Trump says Canada would pay $61B for Golden Dome, or 50% off just to bribe him directly
WASHINGTON D.C. - US President Donald Trump has offered Canada the "fabulous opportunity" to either pay $61 billion to join his military's proposed Golden Dome defense shield, or to pay just $30.5 bil...
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
I do not know how to get around the fact that millions of Americans who will never, in their entire lives, go to a large city have fabricated a complicated alternate reality of American large cities.
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Shannon Phillips 🇨🇦 @sphillipsab.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
It never ceases to amaze me there are no consequences for anti-Semitism on the far right.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/05/2025
all I ask is that Stephen Miller’s wife actually does leave him for the weirdo IVF commune of the most awkward man alive I think we all deserve this, if we can’t have good things we can at least have schadenfreude
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𝐒𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐧 (𝐬𝐡𝐞/𝐡𝐞𝐫) 🇨🇦🇮🇹 @susanincanada.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
From an unidentified Battle-River Crowfoot Indigenous constituent: “What if #Indigenous voters flipped PP’s by-election? 5,000+ Indigenous ppl live here. Low turnout would help him win, but not if communities voted.” What if an Indigenous candidate ran as an independent? #deadly #abpoli #cdnpoli
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A Dave you know you know @notjustdave.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
This is excellent and it would make several premiers steaming fucking mad, which is just gravy.
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Amy K @amyklassen.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
It's not a war, it's a slaughter.
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Robin @h20bug55.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
America this is real! We are coasting into fascism quickly with full @republicanparty.bsky.social support
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 28/05/2025
The shocking loss of older (usually thicker) #Arctic sea ice - comparing changes in late March with the latest 2025 data... + Data: nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0... + Info: doi.org/10.5194/tc-1...
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 28/05/2025
I don't know if a suspension is appropriate. What I do know is that we have a public school system that has all sorts of rules about dress that aren't premised on 'legality vs illegality', and a 'straight pride' shirt is inherently designed to insult and impugn members of the community.
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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Every time Andrew Tate pops up in my timeline I am compelled by law to post one of the @thebeaverton.com headlines I experienced the most joy writing
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Stop what you’re doing and watch this immediately. Canadian doctors returned from Gaza and are sharing what they witnessed and lived. They are demanding action from Mark Carney. Their testimony is our failure.
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Lisa @blueravefinn.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
I can't stop laughing., 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
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Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
This keeps happening 🙃
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 28/05/2025
Get the new ep of The Beaverton Weekly Report wherever you get your podcasts! -A king talks about lowering the cost of living -Justin Trudeau crashes the party -Pierre Poilievre gets a visitor's pass +More Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5u6a...
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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Snake oil salesmen never went away. Now they're called "wellness coaches" "alternative/integrative medicine practitioners," "energy healers," etc. www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Are you a scientist and not sure what to do to help with all the awfulness all around us? Inspired by Vietnam era activism, @standupforscience.bsky.social is hosting a series of "teach ins," in which scientists share a bit about their area of expertise and why it's important with the public. 🧪🦑🌎
Flier for my talk Friday 5/30 at 7 p.m.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Say no to the golden handcuffs. This is a multibillion scam that will force Canada further into the military "protection" of the authoritarian regime in Washington. It is about making us a vassal state. We need to put the protection of our interests as top priority for military investments.
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Lise Vaugeois @lisevaugeois.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
🚨 Doug Ford’s Bill 5 is an assault on democracy, Treaty rights and the environment in Ontario. Environmental defenders, civil liberties advocates, & Indigenous leaders are linking arms to stop Bill 5 before it wipes out the Endangered Species Act and take away our rights. #ONpoli
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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 28/05/2025
This has come up on a few lists, so I'm reading Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell. It's a great title and I understand that it features a lesbian monster, so I'm all in. #BookSky 💙📚 🏳️‍🌈📚 🌈📚
Luna, a black cat, with Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell.
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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
So let me get this straight. King Charles comes to Canada, reaffirms and defends Canada’s sovereignty. Our PM already told him “Never gonna happen” and he is still calling us the “51st state”? For Americans who still didn’t understand why we are so angry. There is the reason. F*CK OFF #Canada #USA
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Brooke Fairplay Nasty Canadian🍁🌻🎗🏳‍🌈 @brookefairplay.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
trump at it again! After King leaves Canada, says that Canada is deciding whether to pay 62 billion for golden dome or pay nothing and become the 51st state Freakin Retard Mark Carney responded, as per discussions in past, that Canada will never be the 51st state.
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DCapTO @dcapto.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Stopped to check out some flowers in one of the ravine trails today and spotted a Garter snake! It was more scared of me than I was of it this time. So lucky to have so many ravines and bike trails in Toronto. Every day is wildlife spotting day 🚴🏼‍♂️🐍🤩🦌🚴🏼‍♀️ #BikeTO
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Meet "Nimbus", aka SARS-CoV-2 variant NB.1.8.1. (Thread) 1/
Diagram showing the ancestry of Nimbus (NB.1.8.1). The evolution of NB.1.8.1 has including three recombination events, including XBB (Kraken) and BA.2.86 (Pirola) lineages.Evolutionary tree of SARS-CoV-2 variants showing the small fraction of diversity covered by every variant with a Greek letter except "Omicron", and the enormous diversity within "Omicron", including Nimbus NB.1.8.1.
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A Simard 🇨🇦 @adadcoaching.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
N.S 🇨🇦 Canadians Be in the know
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Michelle Gamage @michellegamage.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Cases of whooping cough are on the rise in the Pemberton area. Young unvaccinated kids get sickest, suffering from pneumonia, seizures, brain damage or even death. This is often in babies under 12 months old. Vaccines start at 2 months old. Coughing for 2 weeks = see a doc www.vch.ca/en/news/pert...
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Pertussis cases increasing in the Pemberton area | Vancouver Coastal Health
Vancouver, B.C. — VCH Public Health has identified an increasing number of pertussis (whooping cough) cases in the Pemberton area.
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Jordan Roberts @corruptario.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
All the grifts connect. The chair of the board of Ontario Place Corp (he was the entire board 😂) is also chair of the board of the LCBO. Carmine Nigro, former VP of the PC fundraising committee, has also benefitted from MZOs. All this grift connects, and involves the same people over and over.
Clip from CBC outlining all of Nigro's associations.
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