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Caitlin Manz

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Frontline Support Worker | Legal Advocate ⚖️ | Backcountry Enthusiast🌲🏔 Passionate about community mobilization + Grounded in lived experiences of mental health, poverty, substance use, IPV, and houselessness.

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Caitlin Manz @caitmanz.bsky.social · Aug 24

For those upset that the Capital Pride parade was shut down ask the right questions: why did Cap Pride cancel it rather than speak to community groups openly and in good faith?

Why were VAST swaths of queer community groups today ignored in their calls for transparency & Palestinian solidarity?

Caitlin Manz @caitmanz.bsky.social · Aug 20

@cupescfp.bsky.social care to share your statement of claim for Federal Court file T-3029-25: the suit against Minister Hajdu for their use of s.107? Proud to support workers standing up for our Charter rights to strike ✊✊

Caitlin Manz @caitmanz.bsky.social · Aug 18

In a hearing that lasted until the early hours this morning, the CIRB declined filing for contempt of court in the Federal Court against CUPE workers due to their wildcat strike.

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CUPE SCFP @cupescfp.bsky.social · Aug 17

88% of Canadians support Air Canada flight attendants, new poll confirms

cupe.ca/88-canadians...

88% of Canadians support Air Canada flight attendants, new poll confirms

New polling conducted by Abacus Data confirms that nearly 9 in 10 Canadians support Air Canada flight attendants’ fight for fair pay – and they want the federal government to back off and let them neg...

cupe.ca

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ruthko @ruthmkb.bsky.social · Aug 16

The absolutely gross and obscene inequity.

Air Canada, this is disgusting!

#AirCanadaStrike #cdnpoli

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Caitlin Manz @caitmanz.bsky.social · Aug 18

The Liberal govt’s continued invocation of s.107 of the Canada Labour Code violates s2(d) of the Charter. Workers have the right to withhold their labour so employers will bargain in good faith.

nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articl...

The rise of Section 107

The recent unprecedented use of the Labour Code provision to end disputes has prompted legal challenges and concerns about the power it grants the federal labour minister

nationalmagazine.ca

Caitlin Manz @caitmanz.bsky.social · Jun 10

#DivestNow #BDSCanada
#EndUniversityComplicity
#FreePalestine

Caitlin Manz @caitmanz.bsky.social · Jun 10

Yes, absolutely agree!

Caitlin Manz @caitmanz.bsky.social · Jun 10

The day after my grad and protest, Israel committed yet another war crime by kidnapping the Madleen activists carrying aid while in international waters.

Caitlin Manz @caitmanz.bsky.social · Jun 10

🎓I graduated from @UOttawa + my tuition funded war crimes.

UO refuses to divest from companies which manufacture weapons & surveillance tech targeting civilians in Gaza.
#DivestFromGenocide
#EndAcademicComplicity

thefulcrum.ca/news/disclos...

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Caitlin Manz @caitmanz.bsky.social · Jun 9

Just another war crime to add to the Zionist entity's list. All eyes on the #Madleen

Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · Jun 9

#freedomflotilla #madleen #gaza #palestine #greta

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · May 3

lol, in Australia, the party whose leader acted most like Trump not only lost the election, but their leader lost his seat

I smell a trend 👀

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AUSTRALIA DECIDES:
Labor Party and Anthony Albanese win majority government in Federal Election as Peter Dutton loses seat of Dickson

Labor and Anthony Albanese have secured a majority government in the 2025 Federal Election as the Liberal Party suffers a major blow with Peter Dutton losing his seat. Join
SkyNews.com.au for rolling coverage and expert analysis.

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Caitlin Manz @caitmanz.bsky.social · May 3

I am already VERY fatigued of listening to Conservative MPs like Sheer trying to spin it like they didn't blow their over 20 point lead...

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Caitlin Manz @caitmanz.bsky.social · May 2

Haven't stopped chortling at this 🤣

Caitlin Manz @caitmanz.bsky.social · Apr 29

😂😂

Caitlin Manz @caitmanz.bsky.social · Apr 29

"This is likely the first time a Federal political leader blew a 20 point lead AND still came in with 40% of the vote but didn't win" 🤣

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It's the morning after the election. Front Burner's here for you

Power & Politics: Election Daily · Episode

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · Apr 29

Holy shit, Liberals just flipped Terrebonne when the final poll reported.

Winning by a difference of 35 votes, the Liberals are now just three seats away from a majority.

Terrebonne
PARTY
CANDIDATE
VOTES
SHARE
| LIB
Tatiana Auguste
23,296
38.7%
I BQ
Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné*
23,261
38.7%
I CON
Adrienne Charles
10,938
18.2%
I NDP
Maxime Beaudoin
1,552
2.6%
GRN
Benjamin Rankin
637
1.1%
| PPC
Maria Cantore
446
0.7%

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Caitlin Manz @caitmanz.bsky.social · Apr 29

This is truly the poetic justice we deserve to see - Bruce Fanjoy was the unsung hero of election night.

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Medias 🇨🇦 @mediasca.skyfleet.blue · Apr 29

Pierre Poilievre loses Carleton riding he’s held for 20 years

Pierre Poilievre loses Carleton riding he’s held for 20 years | Globalnews.ca

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre lost his riding of Carleton to Liberal candidate Bruce Fanjoy, a seat he's held since being elected in 2004.

globalnews.ca

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Caitlin Manz @caitmanz.bsky.social · Mar 13

She is POWERFUL and clear on her inherent worth 🫶🏻

Caitlin Manz @caitmanz.bsky.social · Mar 1

Somerset West CHC was forced to close its safe consumption site services this week - it will transition into an Addiction Recovery Hub (HART) but won't offer safer supply or clean gear.

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Mark Gerretsen @markgerretsen.bsky.social · Feb 16

It’s the exact same playbook.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · Feb 15

From a federal court decision blocking Trump's anti-trans healthcare order: "The Court cannot fathom discrimination more direct than the plain pronouncement of a policy resting on the premise that the group to which the policy is directed does not exist."

Section 3(g) of the Gender Identity Order is admittedly slightly vaguer than Section 4 of

the Healthcare Order in that it only proscribes the use of "[fJederal [grant] funds [to] promote

gender_ idcology."

The Gender Identity Order, appears, however, to deny the existence of

transgender persons altogether. See Gender Identity Order $ 1 (describing the purpose of the order

as "defend[ing] women's rights and protect[ing] freedom of conscience by using clear and accurate

language and policies that recognize women are biologically female, and men are biologically

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male"); id. $ 2 ("It is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female.

These sexes are not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality.")

The Court cannot fathom discrimination more direct than the plain pronouncement of a policy

resting on the premise that the group to which the policy is directed does not exist. Thus, Section

3(g) of the Gender Identity Order can only be read as doing exactly what Section-4 of the

Healthcare Order does

cease funding institutions, including medical institutions, that provide

gender affirming medical care to patients under the age of nineteen.

Thus, as with Section 4 of

Healthcare Order, Kadel mandates a similar finding of discrimination as to Section 3(g) of the

Gender Identity Order.

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Caitlin Manz @caitmanz.bsky.social · Jan 22

Federal Court granted a motion to expedite and set hearing dates for Feb 13-14 regarding a challenge to the lawfulness of the Trudeau prorogation in light of US tariff negotiations.

www.fct-cf.gc.ca/Content/asse...

www.fct-cf.gc.ca

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Chase Strangio @chasestrangio.bsky.social · Jan 21

“Defending” women while banning abortion, limiting recourse for pregnancy discrimination, engaging in a campaign to deport families, seeking to revoke birthright citizenship. Don’t be deputized to enact their cruelty.

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