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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This morning, the Coldstream Guards at Buckingham Palace performed a tribute to Dolly Parton. The last time I remember the guards at the palace honoring the memory of an American entertainer was when they paid tribute to Aretha Franklin after she passed away.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 29/07/2026

Just a head’s up to everyone who hasn’t reassessed their relationship with Shopify yet: its CEO is actively pushing far-right politics in Canada, now with Elon Musk’s explicit support!

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NDP @ndp.ca · 16/07/2026

1/ Climate change is not some far-off threat. It is here. It is happening. And it is caused by the burning of fossil fuels that the Liberal government is pouring billions of public money into expanding. This is the crisis we cannot afford to ignore.

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Maria Schamis Turner @turnmaria.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Why book flights that there is no way to make? I booked an AirBnB in Bologna and paid extra to check in at 10 am. Now I won’t be there until 2:30 pm.

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Maria Schamis Turner @turnmaria.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

This was entirely foreseeable to anyone who knew about the new system (Air Canada) and the short time between flights (1 hour) and the layout of the Frankfurt airport. 2

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Maria Schamis Turner @turnmaria.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

@aircanada.bsky.social I booked a flight through Air Canada to Bologna. The flight was through Lufthansa and went through Frankfurt. Thanks to a delay leaving Montreal and the new immigration system in Germany I missed my connecting flight. 1

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Maria Schamis Turner @turnmaria.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I lost my almost 14-year old dog in September last year. It is so, so hard.

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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

The preliminary ruling of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal is a sobering reminder that the harms of colonialism are not confined to Canada’s past. (🧵1/4)

June 1, 2026

Statement by MP Gazan Regarding Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal Ruling on Canada's Continuing Genocide Against Indigenous Peoples

On June 1st, 2026, Member of Parliament Leah Gazan issued the following statement:

The preliminary ruling of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal is a sobering reminder that the harms of colonialism are not confined to Canada’s past. After hearing testimony from survivors, families, experts, and advocates, the tribunal concluded that there are clear indications of an ongoing genocide against Indigenous Peoples, rooted in the residential school system and sustained through continuing patterns of state action and inaction.

Witnesses detailed the devastating intergenerational impacts of forced family separation, cultural destruction, physical and sexual abuse, and the trauma that continues to affect Indigenous children, families, and communities today. The tribunal found that Canada bears legal, moral, and political responsibility for these harms and identified a continuing pattern of denying Indigenous rights, sovereignty, and accountability under international law.

These findings come at a time when the federal government is cutting funding for residential school survivors, families, and communities seeking truth, justice, healing, and the recovery of missing children. At the same time, it is rolling back investments intended to address the ongoing genocide of Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQIA+ people, despite the Calls for Justice of the National Inquiry and repeated warnings from Indigenous organizations and human rights experts.

In 2023, I put forward a unanimous consent motion in the House of Commons affirming that what happened in residential schools constituted an act of genocide. That motion received the unanimous support of all members of the House. Unfortunately, this acknowledgement has been met with callous cuts.

I strongly urge the government to reinstate the funding that has already been cut to mental health and wellness and healing programs, the Residential Schools Missing Children Community Support Fund, and to table my Bill C-254 as a government bill to ensure that survivors, families, and communities are finally protected from growing anti-indigenous racism and residential school denialism.

Reconciliation cannot be achieved through words alone. It requires action, accountability, and sustained investment in survivor-led healing, community-led investigations, and the protection of Indigenous rights. When governments reduce support for those most directly impacted by these atrocities, they undermine the very work needed to confront the truth and build justice.

The testimony heard by the tribunal reinforces what survivors and Indigenous communities have been saying for generations: the legacy of residential schools is not over. Canada must stop retreating from its responsibilities and instead fully support the work of truth, justice, healing, and Indigenous self-determination.

Contact:
MP Leah Gazan
leah@leahgazan.ca

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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Me when the conversation turns to what AI has done, not done, will do, fails to do, fucks up, or offers.

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Maria Schamis Turner @turnmaria.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Photo of the painter Marc Chagall taken by my father in Chicago in the late fifties.

black and white photo of the painter Marc Chagall scanned from a scratched negative so his face is the clearest thing in the image

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Maria Schamis Turner @turnmaria.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

No Kings collage available to download and print

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

When I was embarking on my first book of narrative non-fiction, I wrote a proposal for publishers that cited three examples of the form that I thought beautiful and flawless. Two were "Soul of A New Machine" and "Among School Children." Tracy Kidder was a gentle, graceful master of the form.

theguardian.com

Tracy Kidder, Pulitzer-winning author who turned unlikely subjects into bestsellers, dies aged 80

Writer looked to topics such as computer engineering and life in a nursing home to produce richly researched books

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kelly @kickinson.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Honestly boycotting the World Cup would be the most effective and probably the least disruptive of all of the options available to Europe. I’m not sure how you can send teams and fans to contribute to a spectacle designed entirely to celebrate a guy trying to invade your territory.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 14/01/2026

I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/01/2026

masked, unidentified goons who assault and murder with impunity. a literal gestapo.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.

No Blood For Oil vs. Exactly How Much Oil Are We Talking About?

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.

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Maria Schamis Turner @turnmaria.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Kobo is the way to go for library books if you use Libby.

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Maria Schamis Turner @turnmaria.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Santasaurus preferred to pull the sleigh himself.

Dinosaur with a Santa hat pulling a sleigh with a bag of gifts

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 17/12/2025

Turns out climate change keeps happening even when we decide we don't want to talk about it anymore www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

The Arctic endured a year of record heat and shrunken sea ice as the world’s northern latitudes continue a rapid shift to becoming rainier and less ice-bound due to the climate crisis, scientists have reported.

From October 2024 to September 2025, temperatures across the entire Arctic region were the hottest in 125 years of modern record keeping, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) said, with the last 10 years being the 10 warmest on record in the Arctic.

The Arctic is heating up as much as four times as quickly as the global average, due to the burning of fossil fuels, and this extra heat is warping the world’s refrigerator – a region that acts as a key climate regulator for the rest of the planet.

Changes to polar bear DNA could help them adapt to global heating, study finds
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The maximum extent of sea ice in 2025 was the lowest in the 47-year satellite record, Noaa reported on in its annual Arctic report card. This is the latest landmark in a longer trend, with the region’s oldest, thickest ice declining by more than 95% since the 1980s as the Arctic becomes hotter and rainier.

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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 05/12/2025

Today, unionized nonprofit newsrooms across the country are standing shoulder-to-shoulder to demand that news industry leaders agree to common-sense guardrails around the implementation of artificial intelligence to protect the integrity, quality and accuracy of our journalism.

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

On this day in 1989, an armed gunman murdered 14 women at École Polytechnique de Montréal. Another ten women and four men were injured. The anniversary of the massacre is commemorated annually on Dec. 6 as the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.

A black granite memorial plaque features a circular arrangement of names in white text, bordered by silver rivets. At the top center is an emblem of a bee with gears. The text reads "in memoriam" followed by two columns of names: Geneviève Bergeron, Hélène Colgan, Nathalie Croteau, Barbara Daigneault, Anne-Marie Edward, Maud Haviernick, Maryse Laganière, Maryse Leclair, Anne-Marie Lemay, Sonia Pelletier, Michèle Richard, Annie St-Arneault, Annie Turcotte, Barbara Klucznik Widajewicz. At the bottom: "6 DÉCEMBRE 1989".

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

"Reguly implies, correctly I think, that the best argument for buying the F-35 is political, not economic or strategic. That they would remain under US control, giving the US a veto over Canadian military missions, strategy, & potentially over other areas of the relationship, should IMO be decisive"

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🦋Dr. Natalia🕊🌻🪬 @solnatamd.medsky.social · 17/10/2025

‼️Demands of the march🪧🪧🪧: 🚨Remove Robert Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services Secretary. 🚨Reverse the harmful changes Kennedy has made to America’s critical public health institutions.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 15/10/2025

Fascism is such a fundamental attack on wonder and the human imagination and I think everyone should have the opportunity to let their imagination wonder as it wanders — doesn’t matter what you do for a living. Your mind matters! Your relationship with the universe is meaningful!

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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 19/09/2025

In case you’re wondering, it’s barely fall & our children’s hospital is already almost always full with kids boarding in the ER. And the pediatric workforce is stretched thin. Our system does not have the capacity to care for the influx of vaccine preventable diseases that is coming.

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Maria Schamis Turner @turnmaria.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

My No Kings collage is now available to download for free. Please share! drive.google.com/file/d/1pexD...

Image of a T-Rex dressed in a blue frock and a purple-ribboned bonnet waving a no kings flag

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/

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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

This list is a failure of process and imagination. Process, in that one man is determining, with no public consultation, the future direction of the Canadian economy. Imagination, in its tripling down on resource extraction, returning Canada to its colonial roots. The opposite of transformative.

cbc.ca

Carney recommending 5 'nation-building projects' for approval, including LNG expansion: sources | CBC News

Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to unveil several “nation-building” projects Thursday morning that his government has identified as part of a promise to bolster Canada's economic independence amid a...

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

i wrote this post in july two years ago when blue sky had around 200,000 total users and i thought i would ask again tell me what u are doing be proud of what u do and share it here

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Maria Schamis Turner @turnmaria.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I made a No Kings collage poster and pdf for anyone who wants one. Just let me know and I’ll send you a link!

T-Rex in a blue frock wearing a jaunty purple hat carrying a No Kings sign

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I like the analogy of digital asbestos. Treated like a miracle product now, but it's going to be a huge pain to remove all the embedded AI slop in the future.

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Maria Schamis Turner @turnmaria.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Sadly, we are all too familiar with this word.

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.

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Maria Schamis Turner @turnmaria.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

This is utterly ridiculous. Alberta — do better

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Maria Schamis Turner @turnmaria.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

“Canada’s most urgent problems will not be solved by investing in the military”

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