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Kathleen Westergaard 🇨🇦 MSW, RSW

@kathleenwester.bsky.social

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I have a Masters degree in Leadership and like to cheer on the good guys. We need a court for crimes against the planet and a Professional College to regulate journalism. I support a #BlueStateNation to end #USRussia. Mackenzie, BC

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Kathleen Westergaard 🇨🇦 MSW, RSW @kathleenwester.bsky.social · 2h

🇨🇦 Must require that #China end all involvement with #Russia & #Putins and illegal invasion of #Ukraine and their menacing towards #Taiwan. Then, I would support #FreeTrade between #China and #Canada along with mutual support.
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Kathleen Westergaard 🇨🇦 MSW, RSW @kathleenwester.bsky.social · 1m

🇨🇦 #Canada must upgrade our defense capabilities. There are far too many threats these days and we have a lot that others want.
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ChrisSpalanca(🇨🇦) @chrisspalanca.bsky.social · 27m

🗣What I expect to see over the next few months are new trade deals, new shipping routes & a end to the 🇨🇦–🇨🇳 trade war.

💡A Northern "Silk Road" could connect #Canada’s🇨🇦 Pacific ports to #China’s🇨🇳 coast — faster, cleaner & more efficient.

👉It’s time to move forward & leave division in the past.👏

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Shannon Peel 🇨🇦 @shannonpeel.bsky.social · 1h

What do you want to see from negotiations with China?

ChrisSpalanca(🇨🇦) @chrisspalanca.bsky.social · 2h

🗣Fully agree with Premier Moe, it’s time to put aside differences, drop trade💰 barriers & strengthen our economies together.🙏

🟢 #Canada🇨🇦🤝🇨🇳#China

✅️ 🇨🇦Trade Minister Anita Anand is in China working to finalize this vital deal📜.👏
#cdnpoli #Unity #Trade #AnitaAnand #ScottMoe #StrongerTogether #cndpoli

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rosemarydanielis.bsky.social @rosemarydanielis.bsky.social · 3m

The world’s moving on — and smart countries are diversifying. Canada is too. That's why PM Carney's been working on new trade routes & new partners — that’s how you protect farmers and consumers.

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rosemarydanielis.bsky.social @rosemarydanielis.bsky.social · 3m

PM Carney is right - the old relationship with the US is over. We sided with the US on EVs & what did it get us? More tariffs, more grief, zero gratitude. The U.S. plays “I Win/You Lose” every time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLWj...

Canada should further develop trade relationship with China amid latest Trump threats: Mulcair

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Naida46 @naida46.bsky.social · 7h

Center for Countering Disinformation

⚡️russian government has planned to cut spending on the production of airplanes and helicopters.
In 2026 funding for the corresponding federal project will decrease by more than 1.5 times – from 139 to 85 billion rubles (≈ $1.47 and $0.9 billion, respectively)

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Dannie D 🦋 @dannied.bsky.social · 4h

ICE is offering $50K sign-on bonuses while our military waits in food banks.

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AnnieOakleyinGA @annie1x.bsky.social · 1h

#Pinks #ProudBlue
Elon and the MAGAs are melting down over Bad Bunny doing the Super Bowl. 😂 Liberals are going to win the culture war because our acts are better. Nobody wants to see old, tired ass Kid Rock or Lee Greenwood. Get real.
gridironheroics.com/ice-will-be-...

“ICE Will Be The Bigger Show”: Fans React As Elon Musk Threatens To Pull $40M Super Bowl Deal Over Bad Bunny Halftime Drama - Gridiron Heroics

The NFL’s biggest stage faces fresh controversy after reports surfaced that Elon Musk threatens to withdraw his company’s $40 million Super Bowl advertising

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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 3h

Dems: No Kings

GOP: Pro Kings

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Do Not Obey. We are Democracy. @zangerliberia.bsky.social · 18m

Acts of history making & resistance.

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Frank McGillicuddy @frank-mcg.bsky.social · 18m

Alberta’s pipeline pursuit could erode Indigenous support for infrastructure projects, B.C. First Nations leader says

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✨🌟 ⭐️ LoveKat ⭐️🌟✨🟦♿️🧬🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🌎☮️🕊️🟪 @lovekat41.bsky.social · 3h

We all realize that Melania is the Red Sparrow, right? Just imagine what intel Putin has his hands on…USA will never be trusted, again.

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 5h

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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 18m

On this day in 1997, The Verve began a four-week run at #1 on the U.K. album chart with Urban Hymns. Home to ‘Bitter Sweet Symphony’ and ‘The Drugs Don’t Work,’ it turned Britpop into pure emotion.

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Lauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 9h

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suffered another round of deep staff cuts late Friday, with disease detectives, outbreak forecasters, policy and data offices among those impacted, according to four sources with knowledge of the layoffs.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/11/h...

‘The damage is beyond repair’: The CDC faces another round of deep staff cuts | CNN

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 22h

Happy Birthday Governor Newsom
Keep On Trolling.......

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X-ABdadvocate 🇨🇦 @abdadvocate.bsky.social · 17m

Mange makes it 2-zip
#LetsGoOilers

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 1h

I dunno, seems okay.

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Montreal Mike🇨🇦 @mikemontreal.bsky.social · 23h

The food program and auto tax filing is great.

However, I’m still waiting to see what’s going to be done for single childless people who rent and live paycheck to paycheck working full time. Many even with disabilities or aging.

I’m tired of a “single person tax” on life.
#cdnpoli

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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 1h

The brown people aren't stealing your jobs.
The orange man is stealing your future.

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Leasa @fishgirl66.bsky.social · 10h

This is how you write a headline. Finally @cnn.com

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 2h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1h

ICE GOONS are harassing two 15-year-old boys on bicycles in Chicago.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2h

I credit the executive producers of "The Morning Show," Jennifer Aniston and Reece Witherspoon, for hiring so many talented women as lead writers and directors.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2h

I keep seeing this get posted. The AZ electors were charged a year and a half ago. The AZ Superior Court ENDED the case five months ago. The AZ AG will have to appeal to the AZ Supreme Court or go back and start again with a grand jury. Please stop sharing this.

Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 5h

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