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🇨🇦Happy to be Canadian

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Susanne Spence Wilkins Writer, Podcaster Barn Quilt Painter, Gardener Check out my podcast of original short stories of rural Canadian life: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monte…

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🇨🇦Happy to be Canadian @susannesw.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
So Donald Trump finally got me to watch a world cup football game. I didn't realize I would enjoy it so much.
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🇨🇦Happy to be Canadian @susannesw.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Just a question... why aren't these prices in kg. And CDN $ ?
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🇨🇦Happy to be Canadian @susannesw.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Happy Earth Day
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🇨🇦Happy to be Canadian @susannesw.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
New headline: Poilievre's ineptitude leads to liberal majority on committees
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🇨🇦Happy to be Canadian @susannesw.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Balancing the books with nature and progress. It needs to work. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Opinion: Mark Carney gets it right with bold new nature strategy
Done right, a ‘nature-positive’ brand could strengthen global demand for Canadian resources and products
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🇨🇦Happy to be Canadian @susannesw.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Quebec buys three private jets for medical air travel, Doug Ford used it to justify his now defunct private jet purchase. Don't forget the "gravy plane". www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Yes, Doug Ford, Quebec bought private jets — but not for the premier's travels | CBC News
Last week, Ontario’s premier pointed to a fleet of Quebec government-owned planes as justification for having his own private aircraft. But Quebec’s premier has no such private plane. We got to the bo...
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🇨🇦Happy to be Canadian @susannesw.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Isn't this wonderful.
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🇨🇦Happy to be Canadian @susannesw.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
We tried REALLY hard to defeat him and came close but it's a true blue riding. Still working to defeat him next time. And, yes he is.
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🇨🇦Happy to be Canadian @susannesw.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Well this is a big relief for my riding. What do you think of all the conservatives posting on social media that they won't be crossing the floor. Do you think PP is doing a roll call?
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🇨🇦Happy to be Canadian @susannesw.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
If only I could stop by Bert's Books, today. Someday....
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🇨🇦Happy to be Canadian @susannesw.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
ICE is not welcome in Canada in any form. "FULL STOP".
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🇨🇦Happy to be Canadian @susannesw.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I think the word you mean is complicit?
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🇨🇦Happy to be Canadian @susannesw.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
I remember wanting to be teleported out of a Waffle House in Lexington. Is that the same thing?
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🇨🇦Happy to be Canadian @susannesw.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Fuck him.
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🇨🇦Happy to be Canadian @susannesw.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
PP. Do I get a prize?
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a woman sitting at a table with the words " you are the prize " written on the bottom
ALT: a woman sitting at a table with the words " you are the prize " written on the bottom
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🇨🇦Happy to be Canadian @susannesw.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Was he in the Epstein files?
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🇨🇦Happy to be Canadian @susannesw.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Sadly I've never tried a cross stitch. It would take me waaaayyy out of my comfort zone.
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🇨🇦Happy to be Canadian @susannesw.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Oh I need this.
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🇨🇦Happy to be Canadian @susannesw.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
As a grandparent of two children who ride the school bus, I don't care what reason they give to increase school bus safety. Children are killed because other drivers don't stop. The new flashing orange lights before the red ones in Ontario have caused confusion so more knowledge might be helpful. :)
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🇨🇦Happy to be Canadian @susannesw.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Or buy drapes. Which he seems to put more consideration into.
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🇨🇦Happy to be Canadian @susannesw.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
We might all need a day away ... I dreamt the other night that I was hired to do a photo shoot of Andrew M-W. to make him look prince-like. (I'm not a photographer). He couldn't do anything right and looked like a creepy goof in all the photos.
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🇨🇦Happy to be Canadian @susannesw.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
I'm not usually interested in watching millionaires play hockey, but that was satisfying.
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🇨🇦Happy to be Canadian @susannesw.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
It's a valiant attempt to appear relevant.
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🇨🇦Happy to be Canadian @susannesw.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Just when Canadians are spending more dollars and time traveling their own country to discover our stories. Bad decision N.S. think what could have happened to improve rural and urban communities if they had increased funding.
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🇨🇦Happy to be Canadian @susannesw.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Unfortunately Lawton is my MP and spewing his brand of sugar-coated hate and division here.
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🇨🇦Happy to be Canadian @susannesw.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Let's just be grateful. He would only add hate to a horrible tragedy. Sending love to all those hurting and struggling. I can't imagine the depth of their sorrow.
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🇨🇦Happy to be Canadian @susannesw.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
The Charlie and Stephen Resistance Tour is forming up ...
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🇨🇦Happy to be Canadian @susannesw.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
I learned last week about Hay on Wye. I discovered it after stumbling onto a reel about Wigtown, Scotland. And then I wrote last week's email newsletter about book towns. I believe I'm now in some heavenly algorithm so I'll see lots and lots about booktowns. #booktowns #hayonwye #wigtown
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🇨🇦Happy to be Canadian @susannesw.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I think we have a Harrier cruising through the gully behind our house amidst every day, but I haven't been able to positively identify him. #harrier
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🇨🇦Happy to be Canadian @susannesw.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Heck yea
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🇨🇦Happy to be Canadian @susannesw.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
WTF Doug? Get on a bike if want to keep that figure ... instead of just one slice of pizza. Bike lanes are a safe route for many. I wish we had more in our rural areas. Stop waiting or tax dollars on lawyers. #bikelanes #dougonabike
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
“To you this is murder?” “Yes. I know it is. — People are feeling like there’s nobody here to help us. What can we do? The constitution doesn’t seem to matter.” She witnessed the killing of Alex Pretti, now she is bravely coming forward. Stella is the best of us. 🇺🇸
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🇨🇦Happy to be Canadian @susannesw.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Sounds like it's the right thing to do. With our eyes wide open. Do not go along to get along.
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🇨🇦Happy to be Canadian @susannesw.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
“So, we have to say, no. To confront this like Carney did … with his impressive speech, as a lesson for the whole world,”
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Anita Anand @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Right now, in this moment of geopolitical volatility, we will stand on guard for our country by diversifying trade partnerships and bolstering national defence and security. The work is urgent and we will not retreat.
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
We cannot normalize this federal occupation of Minneapolis. It is not normal to watch people abducted in front of our eyes—dragged from car windows, pulled from their homes, and children left without parents. This is not about immigration. It’s about unchecked cruelty.
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5 foot Home Depot skeleton @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
I hope people support birchbark books in the twin cities which is run by Ojibwe writer Louise Erdrich. birchbarkbooks.com
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Birchbark Books & Native Arts / Minneapolis, Minnesota
Owned by author Louise Erdrich, Birchbark Books is a full range bookstore specializing in Indigenous American books, arts & gifts. Our books are lovingly chosen. Our store is tended with care. We are ...
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🇨🇦Happy to be Canadian @susannesw.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Hey Doug Ford. When you're on Team Canada, you don't always get to be on the ice. But when one of us scores, we all win. Don't be a puck hog.
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🇨🇦Happy to be Canadian @susannesw.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
And people thought Carney wasn't a skilled politician... burn
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marymary🍁 @marymarymary.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
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🇨🇦Happy to be Canadian @susannesw.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
We're good.
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FF-Suze @suze-bsky.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
For anyone wanting to understand a bit more about the discord between rural and urban or for those with a narrow view of Albertans. A good listen for all Canadians especially those who would like a true voice rather than a party one. Great interview! #BattleRiverCrowfoot
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🇨🇦Happy to be Canadian @susannesw.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Also grateful we don't have alligators.
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🇨🇦Happy to be Canadian @susannesw.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Border Collie glamor pic. #bordercollie
A black and white border collie smiles at the camera as he sits in a field of daisies.
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🇨🇦Happy to be Canadian @susannesw.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
We always stop for lunch at Jelly Bakery in Shelburne, Ontario whenever we travel nearby. #pierogies #jellyisasurname
Three large handmade pierogies are topped with fried bacon and onion. They look delicious.
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🇨🇦Happy to be Canadian @susannesw.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I'm glad he was my teen idol. RIP Bobby Sherman.
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🇨🇦Happy to be Canadian @susannesw.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
He forgot to add "Thank you for your attention to this matter."
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🇨🇦Happy to be Canadian @susannesw.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
So lovely when the farmer's market baker has a sense of humor. #pie
Script on bottom of a pie box reads: If you are reading this, your pie is either gone or smooshed. Our condolences. 
Murphy's Farm Market and Bakery.
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🇨🇦Happy to be Canadian @susannesw.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Delpiniums. Remind us that we can reach the sky,even after we have been laid low by the cruelest of months.
Purple spikes of delphiniums bloom along a sidewalk. Other perennials also line the walkway.
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🇨🇦Happy to be Canadian @susannesw.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
A morning bicycle ride can be the setup for a really good day. #ontariobybike
A woman's arm is holding onto a black bicycle handlebar as she rides among a gravel road underneath a bright green forest canopy.
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