Cindy Swoveland 🍁
@cpswoveland.bsky.social
Quilter, knitter, gardener, tennis player and fan. Retired librarian. Wife/Mom/Grandma living on beautiful Vancouver Island. Happily married for 58 years. Liberal federally; NDP provincially
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 5 Sea Holly flower. I have a small butterfly, bee and bird garden at my home and used macro to take this. The texture of the whole flower is just great.
December 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 5 Sea Holly flower. I have a small butterfly, bee and bird garden at my home and used macro to take this. The texture of the whole flower is just great.
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I sure hope Canada's prime minister steps in to stop the sale
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Canadians call for halt to ICE armored vehicle sale after report by The Independent
Canadian MP Jenny Kwan says she will be proposing revisions to a bill she sponsored, that would prevent such items from going to the United States
www.independent.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I sure hope Canada's prime minister steps in to stop the sale
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Re: the mention for @policyalternatives.ca in @salon.com. Here is Laura Pinto's original piece! @ontariotechu.bsky.social www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
Who’s the boss? “The Elf on the Shelf” and the normalization of surveillance - CCPA
Are we using play to prepare children to accept increasingly intrusive surveillance?
www.policyalternatives.ca
December 4, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Re: the mention for @policyalternatives.ca in @salon.com. Here is Laura Pinto's original piece! @ontariotechu.bsky.social www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 4 - Bucket of rose petals. I volunteer in the Sunken Rose Garden at Government House in Victoria and was deadheading when I looked at the bucket. I thought it looked like a big bouquet. Another one that would also make a nice fabric pattern!
December 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 4 - Bucket of rose petals. I volunteer in the Sunken Rose Garden at Government House in Victoria and was deadheading when I looked at the bucket. I thought it looked like a big bouquet. Another one that would also make a nice fabric pattern!
If you take photos, make pottery, textile art or other crafts, do paintings, sketches, collages or anything...whether you sell or just do it for fun...I would encourage you to participate in #ArtAdventCalendar You will enjoy looking back on your own work and find lovely things made by others.
Ending day 3 of #artAdventCalendar with 472 participants. A fair bit slower than last year where we had 625 on day 1 (!!)
but still good numbers and most importantly...great posts.
Be sure to let your artist friends on here know what a cool thing this is.
but still good numbers and most importantly...great posts.
Be sure to let your artist friends on here know what a cool thing this is.
December 4, 2025 at 5:21 AM
If you take photos, make pottery, textile art or other crafts, do paintings, sketches, collages or anything...whether you sell or just do it for fun...I would encourage you to participate in #ArtAdventCalendar You will enjoy looking back on your own work and find lovely things made by others.
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Those who commit the crimes may be powerful but they don’t get to decide whether or not they are guilty.
I offer this history lesson on why Canada must stand up against murder on the high seas today.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/why-canada...
I offer this history lesson on why Canada must stand up against murder on the high seas today.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/why-canada...
Why Canada Has a Stake in Hegseth’s War Crimes
You may not be familiar with the HMHS Llandovery Castle, which sank off the coast of Ireland on June 27, 1918.
charlieangus.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Those who commit the crimes may be powerful but they don’t get to decide whether or not they are guilty.
I offer this history lesson on why Canada must stand up against murder on the high seas today.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/why-canada...
I offer this history lesson on why Canada must stand up against murder on the high seas today.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/why-canada...
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👇🇨🇦"Religion shouldn’t be exempted from hate speech law: Liberal minister" #Religion #HateSpeech
#MarcMiller
#MarcMiller
Religion shouldn’t be exempted from hate speech law: Liberal minister
Culture Minister Marc Miller expressed support Tuesday for removing a religious exemption on hate speech from the Criminal Code.
www.ctvnews.ca
December 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
👇🇨🇦"Religion shouldn’t be exempted from hate speech law: Liberal minister" #Religion #HateSpeech
#MarcMiller
#MarcMiller
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 3 - A photo from several years ago of a fungus growing on a tree at Finnerty Gardens at the University of Victoria. This would make interesting quilting fabric!
December 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 3 - A photo from several years ago of a fungus growing on a tree at Finnerty Gardens at the University of Victoria. This would make interesting quilting fabric!
DIdn’t make too many quilts this year so digging into my photos..this was taken at VanDusen Gardens in Vancouver where I used to be a guide. Gingko leaves on snow. Snow came early that year #ArtAdventCalendar
December 2, 2025 at 3:53 PM
DIdn’t make too many quilts this year so digging into my photos..this was taken at VanDusen Gardens in Vancouver where I used to be a guide. Gingko leaves on snow. Snow came early that year #ArtAdventCalendar
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 1 - a flannel quilt made for my son and his wife. The pattern is Supersized Diana by Gudrun Erla of GE Designs.
December 1, 2025 at 2:59 PM
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 1 - a flannel quilt made for my son and his wife. The pattern is Supersized Diana by Gudrun Erla of GE Designs.
So CBC Sunday Morning has 3 reporters on talking about the MOU this morning..2 from Alberta; 1 from Ontario...NONE FROM BC!!! So, as usual, BC is being ignored again. #NoPipeline
November 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
So CBC Sunday Morning has 3 reporters on talking about the MOU this morning..2 from Alberta; 1 from Ontario...NONE FROM BC!!! So, as usual, BC is being ignored again. #NoPipeline
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Let’s talk about the Alberta-Ottawa MOU on a Pipeline. A special update from me.
youtube.com/shorts/RB8rI...
youtube.com/shorts/RB8rI...
Special Update: Let’s talk about the Alberta-Ottawa MOU on a Pipeline.
YouTube video by Will Greaves, M.P. for Victoria
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November 29, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Let’s talk about the Alberta-Ottawa MOU on a Pipeline. A special update from me.
youtube.com/shorts/RB8rI...
youtube.com/shorts/RB8rI...
Statement from Will Greaves: www.facebook.com/share/v/1Bjc...
Redirecting...
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November 29, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Statement from Will Greaves: www.facebook.com/share/v/1Bjc...
So lessons learned from the MOA: 1) threaten separation. It gets you rewarded. 2) BC is not important to either Liberals or Conservatives (this would NEVER happen to Ontario or Quebec).
November 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
So lessons learned from the MOA: 1) threaten separation. It gets you rewarded. 2) BC is not important to either Liberals or Conservatives (this would NEVER happen to Ontario or Quebec).
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As a new pipeline to the coast rears its head, towns in the path of the last one — Trans Mountain — are facing a major loss of tax revenue from the pipeline.
BC towns fight pipeline tax break that would gut municipal budgets
After years of lobbying the provincial government, major pipeline companies, including Enbridge, Trans Mountain and FortisBC, convinced BC Assessment to change how it determines the value of pipelines...
www.nationalobserver.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:52 PM
As a new pipeline to the coast rears its head, towns in the path of the last one — Trans Mountain — are facing a major loss of tax revenue from the pipeline.
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Shouldn't you ask BC and the natives here what we think? WE voted for you, Alberta did not.
November 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Shouldn't you ask BC and the natives here what we think? WE voted for you, Alberta did not.
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It's a strange way to go about building national unity—agreeing with Alberta what should be built in BC without talking to BC about it.
Can't imagine the federal government taking this approach to a project that went through Ontario or Quebec.
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
Can't imagine the federal government taking this approach to a project that went through Ontario or Quebec.
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
Carney briefs cabinet on Alberta energy deal to be unveiled Thursday
Agreement could open the door for a new heavy oil pipeline to the B.C. coast
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
It's a strange way to go about building national unity—agreeing with Alberta what should be built in BC without talking to BC about it.
Can't imagine the federal government taking this approach to a project that went through Ontario or Quebec.
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
Can't imagine the federal government taking this approach to a project that went through Ontario or Quebec.
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
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Canada should be focused on nation-building. Instead we are getting sucked into a needless pipeline war to appease Moe and Danielle Smith.
If the PM tries to kill the tanker ban without consulting BC premier Eby or First Nations he will be in for the fight of his life.
And he will lose.
If the PM tries to kill the tanker ban without consulting BC premier Eby or First Nations he will be in for the fight of his life.
And he will lose.
November 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Canada should be focused on nation-building. Instead we are getting sucked into a needless pipeline war to appease Moe and Danielle Smith.
If the PM tries to kill the tanker ban without consulting BC premier Eby or First Nations he will be in for the fight of his life.
And he will lose.
If the PM tries to kill the tanker ban without consulting BC premier Eby or First Nations he will be in for the fight of his life.
And he will lose.
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IMHO Carney has underestimated how badly a pipeline deal with Smith will go over, especially here in BC. I’m old enough to remember the RCMP staking out Northern Gateway pipeline opposition meetings.
Source: CBC share.google/IUMyN8h6r7yx...
Source: CBC share.google/IUMyN8h6r7yx...
Civil liberties group files complaint over alleged spying on Northern Gateway opponents | CBC News
Privacy advocates in B.C. are demanding an investigation into the RCMP and Canadian Security Intelligence Service for allegedly spying on opponents of the Northern Gateway pipeline project.
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November 25, 2025 at 3:28 AM
IMHO Carney has underestimated how badly a pipeline deal with Smith will go over, especially here in BC. I’m old enough to remember the RCMP staking out Northern Gateway pipeline opposition meetings.
Source: CBC share.google/IUMyN8h6r7yx...
Source: CBC share.google/IUMyN8h6r7yx...
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It’s worth noting that Poilievre’s new campaign manager is a Christian ultranationalist who is responsible for Blaine Higgs (former NB Premier), etc.
He’s literally Project 2025 Canada edition.
#cdnpoli
He’s literally Project 2025 Canada edition.
#cdnpoli
November 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
It’s worth noting that Poilievre’s new campaign manager is a Christian ultranationalist who is responsible for Blaine Higgs (former NB Premier), etc.
He’s literally Project 2025 Canada edition.
#cdnpoli
He’s literally Project 2025 Canada edition.
#cdnpoli
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November 23, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Sign at the US Military Academy at West Point:
November 23, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Sign at the US Military Academy at West Point:
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Share TF OUT OF THIS!#TrumpCrushesYourDreams
November 22, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Share TF OUT OF THIS!#TrumpCrushesYourDreams
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Pro tip for politicians considering a pipeline of dilbit to BC's north coast. If you're trying to miraculously turn Alberta red, dream on. You could build 2000 pipelines, those dumb F's won't give you seats. What you may well do is lose seats in BC over another pipeline and you won't gain them in AB
November 14, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Pro tip for politicians considering a pipeline of dilbit to BC's north coast. If you're trying to miraculously turn Alberta red, dream on. You could build 2000 pipelines, those dumb F's won't give you seats. What you may well do is lose seats in BC over another pipeline and you won't gain them in AB