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Banner: "Lest we forget" In honour of Nov. 11 Remembrance Day in Canada. Stunning poppy image from @mayorofwy.bsky.social
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"Cancer can be harder to detect in dense breasts using traditional mammography, but advanced imaging technologies can help. The challenge? Access. By advocating for these tools, we can improve early detection and save lives."
www.densebreastscanada.ca/make-your-vo...
Make Your Voice Heard | Dense Breasts Canada
Stop the needless suffering and deaths of the women in our lives. Make Your Voice Heard Demand that the provincial government act now to improve breast cancer screening and save lives. Breast cancer s...
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Russia sends stolen Ukrainian children to North Korea to become militarized.
December 4, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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A Kelowna-area MLA (Nutjob🤪)wants a holiday to celebrate the 2022 (Hillbilly Taliban) Freedumb Convoy that terrorized the citizens of downtown Ottawa and wanted to overthrow a duly elected government.

We don't celebrate 𝙏𝙀𝙍𝙍𝙊𝙍𝙄𝙎𝙈 in Canada ❗
#Cdnpoli🍁
#CanadaSky🇨🇦

www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna...
Kelowna-area MLA wants provincial holiday in honour of the Freedom Convoy - Kelowna News
A Kelowna-area MLA wants a new statutory holiday to honour the 2022 Freedom Convoy that took over downtown Ottawa.
www.castanet.net
December 4, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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“If they can do this to George, they can do this to anyone.”

ICE brutally arrested and illegally detained George Retes, an American citizen and Army veteran.

Learn more about how we are elevating his story here:
WATCH: The Veteran Who ICE Abducted — and Is Fighting Back
Here’s how we’re counter-programming DHS’s propaganda ads.
newsletter.ofthebrave.org
December 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Ushakov is claiming that Witkoff and Kushner ‘promised’ the Russians that they wouldn’t go to Ukraine, wouldn’t meet with Zelenskyy, and would return to Washington instead.
December 3, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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This dude’s private jet is airborne over Africa again.
NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

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December 3, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement.”

The latest from George F. Will:
Opinion | This moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans
Regarding Venezuela, Ukraine and much more, Trump and his acolytes are worse than simply incompetent.
wapo.st
December 2, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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“the combination of wind and solar provided 15.1% more electricity than coal during the first nine months of this year… Capacity additions by solar, wind, and battery storage continue to dramatically outpace gas, coal and nuclear.” #CleanIsCheaper

www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2025/12/sola...
Solar output beats wind power for third straight month in US
The latest "Electric Power Monthly" report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) shows that solar grew by 29.9% in September 2025 compared
www.solarpowerworldonline.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Tetra Pak just launched a heat-pump-based pasteurization system that can cut energy use by up to 77%.

Electrification + heat recovery = massive efficiency gains. This is the kind of behind-the-scenes innovation that quietly transforms entire sectors.

www.foodtechbiz.com/business-upd...
Tetra Pak launches integrated heat pump system to electrify pasteurization and cut energy use by up to 77%
Tetra Pak announces the expansion of its Factory Sustainable Solutions portfolio with its new Tetra Pak Integrated Heat Pump system for pasteurizers, designed t
www.foodtechbiz.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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Angel From Montgomery(Live)
-Susan Tedeschi
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Susan Tedeschi - Angel From Montgomery (Live)
Listen to Angel From Montgomery (Live) on TIDAL
tidal.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Mira Nair.

Trailblazer. Oscar-nominated. A feminist filmmaker who’s spent her life telling the stories of marginalized communities—and the woman who raised Zohran Mamdani.
Mira Nair, the Creative Visionary Who Shaped New York's Next Mayor
A look at the trailblazing director of Monsoon Wedding, Salaam Bombay!, and Mississippi Masala
contrarian.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Gee this response / denial / strategy sounds familiar.
www.businessinsider.com/people-trump...
December 2, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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How can Danielle Smith claim to barely know the man at the center of the CorruptCare scandal when she's had dinner at his house, met with him multiple times, and her closest advisors include five members of his family?

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Danielle Smith claims she doesn't know the man at the centre of the CorruptCare scandal...
YouTube video by Naheed Nenshi
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December 2, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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The Trump apologist checklist after Trump or his administration does something awful:

1. Fake news, it didn’t happen.
2. It might’ve happened, but it would be OK if it happened.
3. So it happened, so what.
4. Whatabout [insert names of various presidents here]
November 30, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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A new post by a Republican state Senator in Indiana, saying she will "not cave" on redistricting as she shares that she was just the target of a pipe bomb threat to due "DC political pundits."
November 30, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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🎶"blackbird singing in the dead of niiiight!
take these broken wings and... get a cab... because-everyone-went-home-and-you're-standing-here-like-a plank-because-you-don't-know-where-you-paaaarked... and now it's morning and fuu-uuu-uuuuck it's coooold!"🎶
November 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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need something fun to watch? how about this: THREE MEN IN A BOAT (1975), dramatized by Tom fuckin' Stoppard and starring Tim Curry and Michael Palin
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"THREE MEN IN A BOAT" (1975 Jerome K. Jerome TV Adaptation-starring Tim Curry, Michael Palin)
YouTube video by Archive Media Vault
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November 28, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Oof. He was truly a master, from Rosenkrantz & Guildenstern to Arcadia to Leopoldstadt—just a lifetime of tremendous, thought-provoking, hilarious work. RIP. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard dies at 88
www.bbc.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Something to cheer about today:

Trump’s job approval rating has fallen five percentage points to 36%, the lowest of his second term, while disapproval has risen to 60%.

news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
Trump's Approval Rating Drops to 36%, New Second-Term Low
President Donald Trump's job approval rating has slipped to a new second-term low point and is approaching his all-time low of 34%.
news.gallup.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM