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Veronica Leonard

@travelprose.bsky.social
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I’m retired from the Canadian Public Service and a former freelance journalist. Blue Sky is my morning coffee clatch. P share your views, news and laughter. No DMs please reply to my posts instead.🍁🇨🇦

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Veronica Leonard @travelprose.bsky.social · 15h
Fall colours at Mount Orford in the EasternTownships of Quebec this is a stop On the Louise Penny Three Pines tour based in this area
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Veronica Leonard @travelprose.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Happy Thanksgiving my Canadian family and friends. This wonderful October holiday with fall colours, Turkey and long cool walks enjoying the final dazzling blooms of summer- begonias, hydrangeas., and christhanthinums
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Veronica Leonard @travelprose.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anyone want share their experiences with Wegovy?
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Veronica Leonard @travelprose.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Am I the only one fearing that downed air ambulance plane was a victim of trigger happy border security.
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Veronica Leonard @travelprose.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Margo Gontar @margogontar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I know i shouldn’t be really surprised by anything by this point but WTF YOU MEAN RUSSIAN OLIGARCH CLOSE TO PUTIN PAID FOR U.S. PRESIDENT’S SON WEDDING ?!
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Veronica Leonard @travelprose.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
@waylen3297.bsky.social who are you. Lots of interesting posts but no personal details. Are you AI?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Federal minimum wage in: 2009: $7.25 2010: $7.25 2011: $7.25 2012: $7.25 2013: $7.25 2014: $7.25 2015: $7.25 2016: $7.25 2017: $7.25 2018: $7.25 2019: $7.25 2020: $7.25 2021: $7.25 2022: $7.25 2023: $7.25 2024: $7.25 2025: $7.25 2026: $7.25 Folks, it's time to raise the damn wage already.
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Island Girl (IG)🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @tenoaks6.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary." - Gloria Steinem RIP Warrior♥️ We will carry your torch as we continue the fight for change Go with the wind, knowing you've made a monumental difference in innumerable lives #loss #GloriaSteinem #hero #photography #change
Logs piled on top of one another at high tide in a misty beach cove. The cove is bordered by dense foliage in the process of autumn change.
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David W. Pippy @davidwilliampippy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Good morning! On a Halifax Pier photographed in Nova Scotia by Shane Paris.
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Monica Morrill @mmorrillart.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Hi! My name is Monica and I'm a landscape painter from British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦 This is my art, let me know what you think!
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Veronica Leonard @travelprose.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
@aloromeo.bsky.social thanks for the follow. I’ll be checking in in your posts. I don’t follow back until I get a sense of who you are and what’s important to yoy
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Veronica Leonard @travelprose.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Incredible tribute to Dolly Parton tonight on PBS. They might have lost their government funding but they still touch the souls of their viewers
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Veronica Leonard @travelprose.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I am not a fan of Doug Ford. I sometimes think of him as Trump North but in his opposition toTrump over the trade talks and his almost self deprecating offer for the President to kiss his ass as he has a lot of real estate back there, he was almost statesman-like. You are my premier warts and all!
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Angelica Shalagina Official🇺🇦 @angel-shalagina.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The strangest thing about war Is how small your dreams become During nights like this. You’re not thinking about next year. You’re not thinking about money, work, plans or holidays. You’re thinking: Please miss my house. Please miss my family. Please let me see the morning.
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Veronica Leonard @travelprose.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Can we have a Universal Day of Prayer for God to strike him dead?
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
When did it become normalized for the President of the United States to threaten to "bomb the shit out of" our allies—our *allies*—without that immediately leading to a serious conversation about whether he's mentally fit to serve as president
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Donnie DumBshit Declaration 📜...
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Veronica Leonard @travelprose.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I just backed A Familiar Life: the boy and the owl on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/gmc...
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A Familiar Life: the boy and the owl
A queer, young adult, urban fantasy novel set at the end of the 1990s in the fictional rural Acadian town of Grand Fort, New Brunswick.
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Veronica Leonard @travelprose.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I just backed A Familiar Life: the boy and the owl on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/gmc...
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A Familiar Life: the boy and the owl
A queer, young adult, urban fantasy novel set at the end of the 1990s in the fictional rural Acadian town of Grand Fort, New Brunswick.
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Ignacio GHOULlup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
“A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.” “West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.”
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A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.
West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.
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Veronica Leonard @travelprose.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
When I moved to Ontario in 2010 the Prince Edward County Wine region was in its infancy. Dan Sullivan at Rosehall Run introduced me, a travel blogger, to the challenges of wine making in the County. His vines were only 10 yrs old. I had his unoaked chard Friday & could taste the 16 yr difference
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Veronica Leonard @travelprose.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Now that my sister is on a nursing home and I visit frequently . I find her moods affect mine for the rest of the day. Sometimes it’s fun and we have great talks and other times she’s I full breakdown and telling me how I can’t ever go home because she needs me too much. ITime 4 Netflix Binge.
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Mira🌺 @deepgreens.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
For You…🌺 #BeachLife
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Veronica Leonard @travelprose.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
So FIFA is done what will replace the brotherhood, self discovery, crossnatio. Camaraderie and sheer joy of these games. Even Donald Trump couldn’t tarnish it.
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Sylvaners @sylvaners.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I have to give it to her when she's right. MTG pounces on Hegseth, claiming US troop casualties 'fuel' his 'bloodlust for a senseless war' flip.it/5Aoby3
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MTG pounces on Hegseth, claiming US troop casualties 'fuel' his 'bloodlust for a senseless war'
Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene accused War Secretary Pete Hegseth of "bloodlust" in response to a post Hegseth issued about fallen U.S. service members.
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Veronica Leonard @travelprose.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Not quite a high testosterone type. Pete Hegseth wouldn’t approve.
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Veronica Leonard @travelprose.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I was locked out of Bluesky for five days! They send you a 10 letter a number code with a hyphen and each time I went back to my email to check the next part often code, I was kicked out. Five days without a Bluesky fix!
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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I’m Canadian. Apparently my life is bad. In reality, I have: - Vaccines. - Clean tap water. - Public transport. - Enforceable rights. - Food safety as a baseline. - Healthcare that doesn’t lead to bankruptcy. And I don’t need to carry a concealed weapon to walk my dogs. I LOVE CANADA 🇨🇦
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Veronica Leonard @travelprose.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Happy summer sunshine, birds singing, wind chimes dinging, squirrels playing tag in the trees, bees buzzing. The air so fresh and a gentle breeze is God’s version of a rotating fan. Butternut feathery branches are a screen from the neighbours and shade from the sun . Who needs trillions$$ .
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Veronica Leonard @travelprose.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
There are worse things than being stuck on the fourth floor of a long term care home with a view like this
A spacious common room with a wall Tv and fire place. On the outside wall, windows overlooking a green treed parkThe view from the dining room over The Bay of Quinte home of sailing regattas, ice fishing shacks bass fishing competitions
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Veronica Leonard @travelprose.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
80 year olds nap. It’s an old guy thing. If that was all he did it would not be a problem. It’s what he does when he is awake!!!
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Veronica Leonard @travelprose.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Anyone following my posts recently would know that life has been rough recently as my older sister who was my partner in crime for so macoffee adventure slips into dementia. Today we received wonderful news that she has a room at a long term care home 2 km from my house. So easy to visit.
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Veronica Leonard @travelprose.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
If the US is now “the running the country in Venezuela, what is the US doing to help? Why is rhe UNHCR begging people for money. Why isn’t Trump on the ground looking at the damage. Setting up relief committees?
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Charli Morgan @charlimorganmusic.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Middle eastern people are legally white ("Caucasian") because in 1909, a Supreme Court judge found that preferable to making Jesus Christ brown.
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Monica Morrill @mmorrillart.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Coastal Splendour 60x40 acrylic on canvas
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
“After it ended, the Belgian team’s social media account had a message to the U.S. on Twitter: “Overturn this.” Perfect. #WellPlayed #Belgium
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Belgium beats, then trolls, U.S. team on Monday night
Even though it was tied, 1-1, after Malik Tillman scored another goal on a free kick just outside the penalty area, it never felt close.
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Veronica Leonard @travelprose.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Summer bliss in Canada or anywhere, water , family and friends
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Veronica Leonard @travelprose.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I usually don’t do DMs but I was having an interesting chat about choral music with a tenor and somehow either I accidentally blocked the account or he blocked me. He had a very unusual name, possibly French Canadian but has vanished from my posting history. If it was my mistake, I’m sorry.
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Veronica Leonard @travelprose.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
@strategywoman.bsky.social Yara have you survived the recent attacks
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mainebogboy.bsky.social @mainebogboy.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Yaroslava just shared this joyous scene with us, Sunday. Please follow and support Yaroslava on Patreon. Her brilliant writing will add both joy and knowledge to your day. I know it has to mine.
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Veronica Leonard @travelprose.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
A double murder in Montreal was by an incel activist. If you are involuntarily cellibate. Look around you at the couples on the street. Most of those men are not hunks or even handsome They come in all shapes and sizes, but they are usually positive, friendly, kind and interesting. Women love that.
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Veronica Leonard @travelprose.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
We had a vacation day to Prince Edward County Ontario today. Lunch at Inn at Lake on the Mountain. One of the cCounty’s best restaurants with a fantastic cuisine at reasonable prices. A great choice of international local wines I had Stanners!s Vineyard 2018 oaked Chardonnay. It was superb.
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Veronica Leonard @travelprose.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I vacuumed and scrubbed the floors this morning, as well as a laundry of towels. None of these were as exhausting as visiting my sister in hospital.
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Veronica Leonard @travelprose.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Love Roger’s chocolate. Lovely tin.
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Veronica Leonard @travelprose.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Yesterday’s hospital visit was a little better. There are more moments of quiet conversation and less pain filled panic. I baked the moistest and most delicious rhubarb muffins I have ever made as a special treat and she barely tasted it . Where now recovery or a coma’s numbing embrace.
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Veronica Leonard @travelprose.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Sometimes when you go to visit a friend in hospital, you hear some one screaming, begging for help, and staff walk by as if nothing is happening. But yesterday it was my sister screaming helpless and hopeless in fear and pain. There was nothing I could do.
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mainebogboy.bsky.social @mainebogboy.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Our dear friend Yaroslava just posted from Kyiv, Saturday. Please keep her and all Ukrainians in your thoughts. Please follow her and support her on Patreon. Through her brilliant writing you will learn so much about Ukrainian culture & history. I have, and it has been a wonderful adventure.
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Veronica Leonard @travelprose.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I saw an amazing video n y a wild life Photographer with wild life coming to check him out and I can’t find it please Yhere was a huge owl, lemurs standing like statues, an alpaca licking his camera, monkeys giving him a hug. It made my day. Please DM this to me . I want this as my morning smile
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