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Dan 🇨🇦

@veloveritas.bsky.social

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Retired executive with 🇨🇦's federal public service. Full-time cyclist. Here on Bluesky looking for sensible perspectives on the existential threats facing us all. Ottawa. 🏳️‍🌈 ally always. ✌️

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Dan 🇨🇦 @veloveritas.bsky.social · Nov 18

An introduction: I grew up in Hamilton, not far from the steel mills. My dad provided for a family of four working three shifts at International Harvester before the company offshored its manufacturing. My opportunity to find work as a labourer evaporated when conservative neo-liberalism… 1/8

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Dan 🇨🇦 @veloveritas.bsky.social · 12h

I have never seen a man of his age behave so expertly, and in a manner befitting an insecure child. He is perfect.

I got a failing grade in maths.
The teacher hates me.

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White House blasts Nobel Committee for not awarding Peace Prize to Trump

A spokesman says the Nobel Committee placed "politics over peace" in awarding the coveted award to Venezuela's opposition leader.

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Dan 🇨🇦 @veloveritas.bsky.social · 12h

I am a heterosexual white male in his mid 60s. Married for 32 years.

All of those characterizations of men are valid. I wouldn't use those words or claim that we've been "taught" to believe that we are a cancer in the world. Nah, we just need to look at the history; especially, world war history.

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Dan 🇨🇦 @veloveritas.bsky.social · 16h

So happy to see one set of balls walking the hallowed halls of academia. I hope MIT is the first, but not the last domino, to fall.

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 17h

Three cheers for MIT. When the White House tried to buy obedience with funding strings...MIT said, “Hell No!” Merit over mandates. Freedom over control. Finally...an institution with the guts to tell power where to shove its politics.

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Dan 🇨🇦 @veloveritas.bsky.social · 22h

The tamarack or the eastern larch. Soon, this conifer will shed its needles to prepare for winter's slumber.

Ottawa Arboretum.

Dan 🇨🇦 @veloveritas.bsky.social · 23h

...so I'm sitting on the couch asking my spouse what our sneaky pup is up too. She looks at me, rolls here eyes, and gestures towards the couch. 🤦

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Dan 🇨🇦 @veloveritas.bsky.social · 23h

"The Liberal government will begin rolling out a long-awaited automatic tax filing system for low- income Canadians."

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Carney announces long-awaited automatic tax filing, makes school food program permanent | CBC News

Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Friday that his government will begin rolling out an automatic tax filing system for low-income Canadians and will make the school program permanent, in advance of...

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Dan 🇨🇦 @veloveritas.bsky.social · 23h

The narcissist and his shiny things.

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Michael de Adder @deadder.bsky.social · 1d

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Dan 🇨🇦 @veloveritas.bsky.social · 23h

Back in the day.

#BuyCanadian

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Dan 🇨🇦 @veloveritas.bsky.social · 1d

The the red brick building at Ottawa's City Centre was built in 1925 by the W.C. Edwards and Company lumber business, which operated a mill nearby. The structure served as a focal point of industrialization in the area & was associated with the Ottawa, Arnprior, and Parry Sound Railways. #Ottawa

Dan 🇨🇦 @veloveritas.bsky.social · 1d

Shame on me.

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Dan 🇨🇦 @veloveritas.bsky.social · 2d

I can't believe vaccines are an issue in the United States. I thought y'all followed the expert advice of virologists, epidemiologists, public health officials and primary care MDs.

What the heck happened to the Great Experiment?