MamãBear
@alsolearning.bsky.social
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“Nasty” Canadian 🇨🇦 😉
“Nasty” Canadian 🇨🇦 😉
Including people sitting in hospital ERs, waiting for hours on end just to be seen. 😣
Tens of thousands of Canadians died waiting for medical care in the past year: report www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
Tens of thousands of Canadians died waiting for medical care in the past year: report
A new report is raising alarm over growing wait-list deaths in Canada.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 27, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Including people sitting in hospital ERs, waiting for hours on end just to be seen. 😣
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A student was away today because she was becoming Canadian at a citizenship ceremony. That sparked an interesting discussion about anthems, patriotism, and identity.
We hear different versions of O Canada as part of our morning announcements. Here’s one of our favourites.
youtu.be/L7_ZUBjuTi4
We hear different versions of O Canada as part of our morning announcements. Here’s one of our favourites.
youtu.be/L7_ZUBjuTi4
O Canada - A Prelude and Anthem
YouTube video by Revv52
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 1:21 AM
A student was away today because she was becoming Canadian at a citizenship ceremony. That sparked an interesting discussion about anthems, patriotism, and identity.
We hear different versions of O Canada as part of our morning announcements. Here’s one of our favourites.
youtu.be/L7_ZUBjuTi4
We hear different versions of O Canada as part of our morning announcements. Here’s one of our favourites.
youtu.be/L7_ZUBjuTi4
Yes.
November 27, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Yes.
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Washington Homeowners Sue Big Oil Over Soaring Insurance Costs
“Big Oil took its playbook directly from the minds of Big Tobacco & think they can get away with the same deliberate disinformation campaign, coercing the public to pay for the very harms they suffer.”
#Climate #Oil&Gas #Disaster #Health
“Big Oil took its playbook directly from the minds of Big Tobacco & think they can get away with the same deliberate disinformation campaign, coercing the public to pay for the very harms they suffer.”
#Climate #Oil&Gas #Disaster #Health
Washington Homeowners Sue Big Oil Over Soaring Insurance Costs | Common Dreams
Washington homeowners sued Big Oil over climate lies and rising insurance rates.a
www.commondreams.org
November 27, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I’m completely & utterly exhausted — mentally, emotionally, & physically — if I don’t take a #MentalHealth day off soon, I run the risk of doing something devastating. 😭
#OntEd #ToxicWorkplace
#OntEd #ToxicWorkplace
a close up of a woman making a funny face with her hands in the air .
Alt: a woman making an angry face and gesturing with her hands.
media.tenor.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:36 PM
I’m completely & utterly exhausted — mentally, emotionally, & physically — if I don’t take a #MentalHealth day off soon, I run the risk of doing something devastating. 😭
#OntEd #ToxicWorkplace
#OntEd #ToxicWorkplace
From 2016 - 2024, the number of reported physical assaults on Toronto-area transit leapt by 160% , while reports of all violent crimes on the #TTC were up by 127%.
#Toronto @tps.ca
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#Toronto @tps.ca
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Transit violence rising across Canada — in some cities by nearly 300% | CBC News
A joint investigation by CBC News and the Investigative Journalism Foundation has found that transit violence in some of Canada's biggest municipalities remains well above pre-pandemic levels, despite...
www.cbc.ca
November 26, 2025 at 11:07 PM
From 2016 - 2024, the number of reported physical assaults on Toronto-area transit leapt by 160% , while reports of all violent crimes on the #TTC were up by 127%.
#Toronto @tps.ca
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#Toronto @tps.ca
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
I pick the Bear please. 😡
Louise Beriot, a lawyer for several of the women, said of the alleged druggings: “Under the pretext of a sexual fantasy, this is about power and domination over women’s bodies … through humiliation and control
‘I didn’t even know this type of attack existed’: more than 200 women allege drugging by senior French civil servant — Guardian US
In a case echoing the Pelicot trial, dozens of women allege they were given hot drinks mixed with a diuretic to make them urinate. Three of them speak out here
apple.news
November 26, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I pick the Bear please. 😡
November 26, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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#LandBack it always was theirs!
Ontario First Nation prepared to block highway to stop #mining near drinking #water source.
After a decade of government inaction, elders signal they’re done being ignored as development plans advance without consent.
New from @jonthompson.bsky.social:
ricochet.media/indigenous/o...
#onpoli
After a decade of government inaction, elders signal they’re done being ignored as development plans advance without consent.
New from @jonthompson.bsky.social:
ricochet.media/indigenous/o...
#onpoli
Ontario First Nation prepared to block highway to stop mining near drinking water source
In a community grieving five recent deaths after a decade of government inaction, elders signal they’re done being ignored as development plans advance without consent
ricochet.media
November 24, 2025 at 9:38 PM
#LandBack it always was theirs!
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Please
More trees
Fewer data centers
More trees
Fewer data centers
November 24, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Please
More trees
Fewer data centers
More trees
Fewer data centers
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This fcuking pr*ck 😡
Alt text: screenshot of Doug Ford - Tweet by Tina Yazdani @TinaYazdani which reads “Premier Doug Ford yells "go find a job," at one of the Bill 60 protesters in the galleries.”
Alt text: screenshot of Doug Ford - Tweet by Tina Yazdani @TinaYazdani which reads “Premier Doug Ford yells "go find a job," at one of the Bill 60 protesters in the galleries.”
Former CEO of his dad's company has job search tips for the general public.
November 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
This fcuking pr*ck 😡
Alt text: screenshot of Doug Ford - Tweet by Tina Yazdani @TinaYazdani which reads “Premier Doug Ford yells "go find a job," at one of the Bill 60 protesters in the galleries.”
Alt text: screenshot of Doug Ford - Tweet by Tina Yazdani @TinaYazdani which reads “Premier Doug Ford yells "go find a job," at one of the Bill 60 protesters in the galleries.”
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Coffee and Chocolate
This is the next in our holiday trees series at Our Trees. I hope you will read the story, and your comments are welcome.
This is the next in our holiday trees series at Our Trees. I hope you will read the story, and your comments are welcome.
Coffee and Chocolate
Making good choices for the future.
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Coffee and Chocolate
This is the next in our holiday trees series at Our Trees. I hope you will read the story, and your comments are welcome.
This is the next in our holiday trees series at Our Trees. I hope you will read the story, and your comments are welcome.
“The wars of the twenty-first century
will be fought over water.”
~ Ismail Serageldin
will be fought over water.”
~ Ismail Serageldin
November 23, 2025 at 10:28 PM
“The wars of the twenty-first century
will be fought over water.”
~ Ismail Serageldin
will be fought over water.”
~ Ismail Serageldin
November 23, 2025 at 9:52 PM
A wise Canadian politician - one of the few and far between.
“Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege.”
— Tommy Douglas
— Tommy Douglas
November 23, 2025 at 9:07 PM
A wise Canadian politician - one of the few and far between.
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In general, companies that “privatize profits and socialize costs” spend a fraction of the $profit to hide the much bigger $costs.
Many examples from internal documents can be found in @ucsf-industrydocs.bsky.social:
www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/home/
Many examples from internal documents can be found in @ucsf-industrydocs.bsky.social:
www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/home/
Industry Documents Library
www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu
November 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
In general, companies that “privatize profits and socialize costs” spend a fraction of the $profit to hide the much bigger $costs.
Many examples from internal documents can be found in @ucsf-industrydocs.bsky.social:
www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/home/
Many examples from internal documents can be found in @ucsf-industrydocs.bsky.social:
www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/home/
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Tobacco giants knew their products caused cancer.
Oil companies knew their products cause climate change.
Social media companies know their products facilitate abuse of minors
Seeing a pattern? It’s not a few bad actors it’s a feature of a system that rewards profit at any cost
Oil companies knew their products cause climate change.
Social media companies know their products facilitate abuse of minors
Seeing a pattern? It’s not a few bad actors it’s a feature of a system that rewards profit at any cost
Imagine knowing your platform was a playground for predators, fueling teen depression, eating disorders, and suicide and deciding the best course of action was… absolutely nothing. Meta didn’t just “miss” anything.
November 23, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Tobacco giants knew their products caused cancer.
Oil companies knew their products cause climate change.
Social media companies know their products facilitate abuse of minors
Seeing a pattern? It’s not a few bad actors it’s a feature of a system that rewards profit at any cost
Oil companies knew their products cause climate change.
Social media companies know their products facilitate abuse of minors
Seeing a pattern? It’s not a few bad actors it’s a feature of a system that rewards profit at any cost
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And shame on those in media who are so quick to sing her praises. (Looking at you David Axelrod ) Marge chased survivors of Parkland screaming about false flag claims. Lipstick on a pig…
November 23, 2025 at 8:57 PM
And shame on those in media who are so quick to sing her praises. (Looking at you David Axelrod ) Marge chased survivors of Parkland screaming about false flag claims. Lipstick on a pig…
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THis is fantastic!!
November 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
THis is fantastic!!
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“You don’t call climate change an ‘existential threat’ and the ‘single biggest investment risk that we face’, and then spend the next year pouring $7 billion from the Canada Pension Plan into investments which make this crisis worse,”
November 23, 2025 at 3:50 AM
“You don’t call climate change an ‘existential threat’ and the ‘single biggest investment risk that we face’, and then spend the next year pouring $7 billion from the Canada Pension Plan into investments which make this crisis worse,”
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Gonna check in on Canada, where politics is more normal... I see there is a convoy headed to Ottawa to avenge a flock of dead ostriches
November 23, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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In today’s least surprising local news, speed display signs aren’t enough to make our roads safer.
Speed display signs only slow drivers down by 1km/h: Halifax report
Halifax has installed nearly 50 speed display signs around the municipality, but on average they only slow down drivers by less than one km/h, according to a new staff report.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 22, 2025 at 12:04 PM
In today’s least surprising local news, speed display signs aren’t enough to make our roads safer.
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Volunteer @ a local school, day care or library to read to kids & @ seniors homes to read to adults.
Read to your kids 📖
No kids? Read to your friends’ kids.
No friends with kids? Make a friend—preferably one who comes with kids to expedite the operation—and start reading!
It is imperative that children are read to ☝️
#WritingCommunity #BookSky #ReadToKids
No kids? Read to your friends’ kids.
No friends with kids? Make a friend—preferably one who comes with kids to expedite the operation—and start reading!
It is imperative that children are read to ☝️
#WritingCommunity #BookSky #ReadToKids
November 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Volunteer @ a local school, day care or library to read to kids & @ seniors homes to read to adults.
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I’m atching seasons 1-4 of #StrangerThings with my teen (he’s already seen them all) in anticipation of season 5; OMG so weird, gory and gross.. I’m not really into season 3. It totally looked like a kid show but it is so not - it gets worse with each season?
November 22, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I’m atching seasons 1-4 of #StrangerThings with my teen (he’s already seen them all) in anticipation of season 5; OMG so weird, gory and gross.. I’m not really into season 3. It totally looked like a kid show but it is so not - it gets worse with each season?