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Anna 🇨🇦

@annabelluz.bsky.social

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Living and working in Vancouver, BC with daughter Emi, our service pup Kya and horses Dazzle and Caleesi. Former Creative Editorial Director, now Learning thru Gaming Minecraft educator. I post about animal welfare, girlpower and stuff that happens!

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Anna 🇨🇦 @annabelluz.bsky.social · Sep 9

Mother Jones Editor-in-Chief Clara Jeffery has shared the Epstein birthday book files, linked below.

⚠️ CONTENT WARNING ⚠️
And why all good people around the world need to keep the kettle ON to bring justice to all victims and remove dRump and his sink of ants from office.
#usapoli #canpoli

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · Sep 9

Ok, you can get to the files from The Oversight Committee site.

Warning: It is not easy reading. oversight.house.gov/release/over...

entry from Jeffrey Epstein birthday book

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Mary Shine @maryshine.bsky.social · 22h

🇨🇦 CANADIAN
#Covid-19 Forecast:
Oct 11-24, 2025

Tara Moriarty @moriartylab.bsky.social · 1d

Canadian COVID Forecast: Oct 11 - Oct 24, 2025
SEVERE: NL, NS, SK
VERY HIGH: MB, NB, North, PEI
HIGH: CAN, AB, BC, ON, QC
MODERATE: none

About 1 in 95 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

This image shows gauges with the Oct 11 - Oct 24, 2025 Forecast scores for Canada, the provinces, & territories. From left to right:

Canada: HIGH - 8.9
Alberta: HIGH - 7.0
British Columbia: HIGH - 8.4
Manitoba: VERY HIGH - 14.9
New Brunswick: VERY HIGH - 11.3
Newfoundland & Labrador: SEVERE - 17.0
North: VERY HIGH - 12.3
Nova Scotia: SEVERE - 16.3
Ontario: HIGH - 7.5
Prince Edward Island: VERY HIGH - 11.8
Quebec: HIGH - 10.0
Saskatchewan: SEVERE - 17.0

A text box reads: "The COVID Forecast is calculated from 3 equally weighted categories: 1) Current infections and spread; 2) Healthcare system impact; 3) Mortality. Within each category there is one sub-category for trends over the most recent week (Trends) and one sub-category for current parameter values relative to a specified baseline (Current values). Trends and current values are weighted equally when determining the final score for a category. All Forecast input data and sources are available here (https://datastudio.google.com/embed/u/0/reporting/42b886cf-d661-488e-b7d8-5c5836b55ab6/page/p_2yqs028mwc). Past Forecast scores are available in the table below. Forecast scores are grouped into 4 ranges: MODERATE (1 to <5, white), HIGH (6 to <10, yellow), VERY HIGH (10 to <15, orange), SEVERE (>15 red)."

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Anna 🇨🇦 @annabelluz.bsky.social · 1d

Yep. THIS. 🌽 Gotta love the messaging our Creative Editorial teams can take!

Kelly Sutton (aka IglooChik)🐧 @igloochik.bsky.social · 1d

So the whiner in chief is at it again...this time it's at Time magazine. He hates this. picture taken of him. Actually, it shows something very clearly in the center of the picture... the one perfect undamaged ear. 😄😄😄

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Anna 🇨🇦 @annabelluz.bsky.social · 1d

Great lineup of new podcasts! Thx for sharing.

Anna 🇨🇦 @annabelluz.bsky.social · 1d

Watch. Some of these printing and distribution (and design, editing, photography?) expenses could be folded in and paid for by us, the taxpayer.

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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 1d

Fleet Week pilots face a unique challenge when they fly over San Francisco, according to Canadian Snowbirds lead pilot Brent Handy. It’s not the wind or fog, but the “distraction of such a beautiful city”

❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️
❤️🍁🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA 🇨🇦🍁❤️

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Anna 🇨🇦 @annabelluz.bsky.social · 2d

Urban deer are attracted to the sound of chainsaws, fresh (normally out of reach) branches to munch on!

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 4d

Diane Keaton was a true Californian. She was a self-described oddball, uniquely stylish, deeply creative, funny, and an acting legend who could steal the screen in comic and dramatic roles alike. She was in a class all her own, an icon.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 5d

Democracy is a precondition for lasting peace. However, we live in a world where democracy is in retreat, where more and more authoritarian regimes are challenging norms and resorting to violence.

Maria Corina Machado – awarded the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize – has spent years working for the freedom of the Venezuelan people. The Venezuelan regime’s rigid hold on power and its repression of the population are not unique in the world. We see the same trends globally: rule of law abused by those in control, free media silenced, critics imprisoned, and societies pushed towards authoritarian rule and militarisation. In 2024, more elections were held than ever before, but fewer and fewer are free and fair.

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Anna 🇨🇦 @annabelluz.bsky.social · 5d

Yep. Just about every season for the past decade … truckloads of cookies stolen, then sold at a higher price to unsuspecting seniors. It’s time to change how we generate funds for camps. Ugh.

Anna 🇨🇦 @annabelluz.bsky.social · 6d

New ad campaign, ‘Choose Canada’ from the Feds. Buy, Embrace, Explore and Protect (?). Very curious 🧐. #CanadaSky
Here’s the link. www.canada.ca/en/canadian-...

Choose Canada - Canada.ca

Choose Canada in every way, especially when you buy, travel, celebrate, cheer on, explore, and adventure.

www.canada.ca

Anna 🇨🇦 @annabelluz.bsky.social · 6d

And the United States of America needs to recognize TWO official languages: English and Spanish.

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Anna 🇨🇦 @annabelluz.bsky.social · 7d

STOP IT ALREADY! that’s it. Unfollowed. Me sad. This is so stupid.

Anna 🇨🇦 @annabelluz.bsky.social · 7d

What kinda hedline is this? C’mon… after all of that Prime Day slush. Ugh. 😩

Anna 🇨🇦 @annabelluz.bsky.social · 7d

Yep. This. ⬇️ Don’t be fooled! Amazon Prime Day ‘sale’ is notoriously sus. (You probably don’t need it, anyways). Climate is what pays for our obsession with possessions. #BuyNothing #PrimeDay

Jean Krak @jeankrak.bsky.social · 8d

I don't shop at Amazon as much as I used to (breaking the addiction) but I had an item sitting in my cart for a few days - thinking on it. It was $17 and change when I put it in my cart. Today, on Prime Day, it's $23.45 😂

Anna 🇨🇦 @annabelluz.bsky.social · 7d

This is getting tiresome. :(

Anna 🇨🇦 @annabelluz.bsky.social · 7d

The depths of my distaste for this woman has hit bedrock. She needs to go.

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Anna 🇨🇦 @annabelluz.bsky.social · 7d

This is a bot. Block!

Anna 🇨🇦 @annabelluz.bsky.social · 8d

🤯 suddenly crafting sugarcane to paper makes TOTAL sense. (In Minecraft AND Irl!) #Gaming #Environment #Climate #Education

The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 8d

#WhatWorks: When sugar cane is crushed to make sugar, it turns into a pulpy material known as bagasse, which then gets turned into paper.

Sugar cane can be harvested up to four times per year — much quicker than the 30 years it may take for a tree to grow and be chopped down. 🗒️🌳🍬

Want to Save Trees? Put Some Sugar in Your Printer | The Tyee

Social Print’s founder wanted to protect forests. So his British Columbia company makes paper from sugar cane.

thetyee.ca

Anna 🇨🇦 @annabelluz.bsky.social · 8d

Hey @whaleresearch.bsky.social 🐋… I hear a new baby orca was born to Jpod?! Our endangered Southern Resident pods 5th calf this year. Very good news! Born around mid-September… here’s more! #CanadaSky #Science #Nature cheknews.ca/new-orca-cal...

New orca calf brings hope to endangered J pod near Vancouver Island

Researchers are celebrating the birth of a new orca calf in the endangered Southern Resident killer whale population — a rare bright spot for the struggling J pod.

cheknews.ca

Anna 🇨🇦 @annabelluz.bsky.social · 8d

Yep. Nope. Pack a lunch, tow a potty, or better yet… just go home.

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Government of British Columbia @governmentofbc.bsky.social · 9d

Under tonight's full moon, Asian communities in BC and around the world celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival—a time to give thanks for the harvest, reflect on the year’s blessings, and share hopes for the future with loved ones. Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! (1/5)

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 9d

With parents looking for options for kids during the strike…

It’s a good time to remind everyone affected to choose carefully.

Cause there could be very real consequences.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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Anna 🇨🇦 @annabelluz.bsky.social · 10d

I think it they are referring to ‘legal aliens’. Such an American term!

Anna 🇨🇦 @annabelluz.bsky.social · 12d

Yes. I read through his posts and… I could see that.

Anna 🇨🇦 @annabelluz.bsky.social · 12d

I used to rock my head on my pillow the number of times (say 7) to reflect the AM time I wanted to wake up. Old 70s trick. It worked. Now I fuss over alarm sounds on my phone and my ‘ideal sleep schedule’. This is worth the read for a good nights sleep. Gonna share with my students. 🙏

Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 12d

Want better sleep? Nature reports how circadian research shows how important your body’s internal clock is to blissful slumber. Scientists emphasize three basics: contrasting light and dark, consolidating mealtimes and keeping sleep times consistent. 🧪

How to get the best night’s sleep: what the science says

Chuck the gadgets, the fads and the alarm. Circadian research reveals how important your body’s internal clock is to blissful slumber.

go.nature.com