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Catherine 🇨🇦📚🎸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🖇️

@buca.bsky.social

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Retired teacher, atheist, progressive. Voracious reader. Love Prog Rock and nature in all its forms. LGBTQ+ Ally. 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ McGill alumna. Proud Canadian. 🇨🇦🖇️

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Catherine 🇨🇦📚🎸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🖇️ @buca.bsky.social · 10d

When the world is going crazy, it’s important to search for and enjoy the beautiful things. 🍁
Québec, Canada - October 1, 2025

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Catherine 🇨🇦📚🎸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🖇️ @buca.bsky.social · 1h

Me too. 79 is too young.

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Heatherface Wixson @thehorrorchick.bsky.social · 2h

This one hurts a lot. RIP Diane Keaton.

I don’t even know what else to say.

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Catherine 🇨🇦📚🎸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🖇️ @buca.bsky.social · 7h

This is happening big time in Quebec. More and more drs opting out of the public system each year. I’ve been on a list for a family dr for over 4 years, and I’m not optimistic.
My options are to wait for many, many hours in the emergency dept or pay $200 plus to see a dr in private practice.

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Sabine Shutterbug @sabineshutterbug.bsky.social · 17h

Natural chandelier
Have a great weekend everyone.
#BlueSkyArtShow #glow
#Spooktober #spider
#31DaysOfHalloween #AlphabetChallenge #WeekOforOpulence #EastCoastKin

A spider web shimmers in the morning light, each delicate strand adorned with tiny raindrops that glow like golden beads. The intricate pattern evokes a sense of quiet splendor, with the droplets forming luminous chains along the web’s curves and angles. Bathed in warm, shadowy light, the scene feels both enchanted and unsettling, as if the web is waiting for something in the hush. The sparkling focus and rich, layered brilliance lend a touch of spooky elegance, transforming simple grass and silk into a moment of atmospheric mystery. It’s like a natural chandelier, where every bead of dew catches the light and casts a mesmerizing glow

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Catherine 🇨🇦📚🎸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🖇️ @buca.bsky.social · 20h

Nice visuals. Would be even better if the music was Canadian.

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Catherine 🇨🇦📚🎸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🖇️ @buca.bsky.social · 22h

I’m a retired Grade one teacher and I came close SO many times, I’ve become an expert in thinking it but not saying it. 🤫🫢

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 1d

Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old.

There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.

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Catherine 🇨🇦📚🎸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🖇️ @buca.bsky.social · 22h

Agreed! 🤭

Catherine 🇨🇦📚🎸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🖇️ @buca.bsky.social · 22h

JFC people are so weird. They’ll find any stupid excuse to be offended/outraged by positive things.

Catherine 🇨🇦📚🎸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🖇️ @buca.bsky.social · 22h

Same 🤭

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Catherine 🇨🇦📚🎸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🖇️ @buca.bsky.social · 22h

a woman in a white sweater says oh please in orange letters

ALT: a woman in a white sweater says oh please in orange letters

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Catherine 🇨🇦📚🎸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🖇️ @buca.bsky.social · 23h

That was an easy block. 😂
Thanks for helping to remove one more asshole from my timeline.

Catherine 🇨🇦📚🎸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🖇️ @buca.bsky.social · 1d

Obviously someone with WAY too much time on their hands. But I agree, they shouldn’t be allowed to do this.

Catherine 🇨🇦📚🎸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🖇️ @buca.bsky.social · 1d

I blocked and reported him and just got put on the exact same lists as you. 🙄

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Catherine 🇨🇦📚🎸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🖇️ @buca.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, read the article out of curiosity. It only talks about what you can or can’t bring back into the country. No mention whatsoever of what we really need to know. 🙄

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Catherine 🇨🇦📚🎸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🖇️ @buca.bsky.social · 1d

So majestic.

Catherine 🇨🇦📚🎸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🖇️ @buca.bsky.social · 1d

Good, because they were making themselves obsolete by continuing the general strike.

Catherine 🇨🇦📚🎸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🖇️ @buca.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve never seen him look that young!

Catherine 🇨🇦📚🎸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🖇️ @buca.bsky.social · 1d

I received my copy in Canada only a few days after the release. No extra taxes/duties to be paid.

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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 1d

Carney on Canada's National School Food Program: "No child should go to school hungry or sit in a classroom all day wondering where their next meal will come from... Until today, this program was a pilot..so, we're announcing we'll move forward with the funding and legislation to make it permanent."

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Catherine 🇨🇦📚🎸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🖇️ @buca.bsky.social · 1d

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Borage and Bachelor's Button

What’s the difference between Borage (Borago officinalis) and Bachelor’s Button (Centaurea cyanus)? Today, let’s take a refresher and learn a little about both.

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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 1d

Canada Strong Pass to be renewed for the holidays and Summer 2026

Providing free entry or discounts for Via Rail, national parks and participating museums, the pass is back from Dec. 12 to Jan. 15, as well as next summer.

Canada Strong Pass to be renewed for the holidays and Summer 2026

The Canada Strong Pass, first introduced during the summer, is being renewed for the holidays (Dec. 12 to Jan. 15) and next summer.

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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 1d

Carney on automatic federal benefits: "This program will pay out hundreds of millions of dollars in benefits in the next few years that would otherwise be left unclaimed, helping our most vulnerable get the supports that they need."

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Catherine 🇨🇦📚🎸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🖇️ @buca.bsky.social · 1d

This is heartbreaking.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

No family, no stability, no social fabric: the anguish of Gaza’s wounded orphans

As the number of WCNSFs – wounded child no surviving family – grows, charities struggle to find adults to look after them

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Catherine 🇨🇦📚🎸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🖇️ @buca.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent!

mayormarksutcliffe.bsky.social @mayormarksutcliffe.bsky.social · 1d

It was a pleasure to join Prime Minister Mark Carney for an announcement that will have a positive impact on Ottawa. The renewal of the Canada Strong Pass will bring more visitors to Ottawa to enjoy our wonderful museums and cultural institutions.