Aengus Kane (he/him)
@aenguskane.bsky.social
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Just a guy in Treaty One from Whitbourne, Newfoundland & Labrador by way of Kenora, Ontario and Fukui City, Japan. Reading, talking and listening sets the table. Doing makes the meal. Humanity. Empathy. Compassion. Agape Love.
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aenguskane.bsky.social
Just reclaiming my family name from birth. 🥚

www.adoptee-identity.com
Adoptees are everywhere.

They are out students, our patients, our colleagues, and our family members. The common adoption narrative doesn't account for the nuance and the identity development challenges adoptees face.

17 million people in the US are estimated to be adopted.
50% are estimated to be adopted from the foster care system.
2X as likely to develop a substance use disorder.
4X great risk for attempting suicide than non-adopted peers.

Adoptee Identity reveals the layers than others often overlook.

*Source: National Institutes of Health
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detroitrudyowens.bsky.social
To those outside of #Portland: We're still having excessive military style tactics here, a nearly entirely boring and peaceful place. At least 1 Blackhawk is now circling again over the city at night, just to please those who care nothing for democracy. How it sounds.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=azxa...
Two Blackhawks continued ongoing surveillance over Portland, OR, October 3, 2025
YouTube video by Rudolf Owens
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aenguskane.bsky.social
She’s tethered herself to reality and is trying to drag it in a direction of Trump’s choosing.

Reality has a way of pushing back against these kinds of attempts.
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cdnresistance.bsky.social
Tamara Lich and Chris Barber are to be sentenced today for their illegal activities with the Freedom Convoy. That Pierre Poilievre and some Conservative MPs support these lawless assholes speaks volumes.
aenguskane.bsky.social
The mess Canada Post is in now if the direct result of both corporate and political "leadership" failing for decades.

www.facebook.com/share/1D6PfY...

#Labour
#CanadaPost
 I SUPPORT POSTAL WORKERS

cupw*sttp Canadian Union of Postal Workers
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rbreich.bsky.social
The wealth of the richest 1% in America just hit a record $52 trillion. These are the people getting huge tax cuts — paid for by cuts to health care for millions of Americans. Every lie Trump and Republicans are telling right now about the shutdown is meant to distract you from this.
aenguskane.bsky.social
2024

Last in the AL East

74-88

2025

First in the American League

94-68

#DivisionChampionshipSeries
#MLBPlayoffs
#GoBlueJays
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aenguskane.bsky.social
aenguskane.bsky.social
Submit to an upcoming anthology if you’re an estranged adoptee.
Publication of anthology via a traditional publisher; rights, author copies, compensation, etc. will be determined by the
publisher.
Editors won’t relinquish any author’s rights w/o their consent.

www.myadopteetruth.com/adoptee-estr...
Text surrounding a picture of a typewriter:

Open Submission

Adoptee Estrangement Anthology

An anthology of creative nonfiction work exploring the theme of estrangement, written by adoptee authors.

Deadline

December 15, 2025

adoptee.estrangement@gmail.com
aenguskane.bsky.social
Submit to an upcoming anthology if you’re an estranged adoptee.
Publication of anthology via a traditional publisher; rights, author copies, compensation, etc. will be determined by the
publisher.
Editors won’t relinquish any author’s rights w/o their consent.

www.myadopteetruth.com/adoptee-estr...
Text surrounding a picture of a typewriter:

Open Submission

Adoptee Estrangement Anthology

An anthology of creative nonfiction work exploring the theme of estrangement, written by adoptee authors.

Deadline

December 15, 2025

adoptee.estrangement@gmail.com
aenguskane.bsky.social
Let’s pretend teachers are babysitters at $18/hour & only work 6 hours per day.
Let’s pretend K-12 classes have 20 students.
$18 X 6hrs X 20 students = $2160/day.
Let’s pretend teachers only work 181 days per school year.

$2160 X 181 = $390,960.00
This is just babysitting. No teaching has occurred.
Calgary

Rocky View school division struggling with bigger overcrowding problem than Calgary districts

Classrooms are bursting at the seams as student populations grow

Reid Soutwick CBC News Posted: Jun 3, 2019 6:00 AM CDT
Last Updated: June 3, 2019

Caption under a picture of elementary students with their hands raised to the teacher at the front of the classroom.

"The allure of cheaper homes and a slower quality of life has attracted droves of young families in Chestermere, Airdrie and Cochrane, putting signigicant pressure on the region's schools."

(Syda Production/Shutterstock)
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scottsantens.com
It is not a step too far. It is necessary. We should have done it decades ago, and here we are now with AI already beginning to impact jobs. It can't wait and the lack of it is a big reason why MAGA happened.
aenguskane.bsky.social
For a report issued in 2018, not much has happened.🥚
THE SHAME IS OURS: FORCED ADOPTIONS OF THE BABIES OF UNMARRIED MOTHERS IN POST-WAR CANADA

"They explained that even if they appeared outwardly to have moved on with their lives with spouses, children and careers, they have also experienced depression, pathological grief, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and suicidal thoughts or behaviour, that have been a part of their lives ever since losing  their babies to adoption. The treatment of unmarried mothers in  post-war Canada may have been a product  of the times, but it was cruel, nonetheless, from any perspective."

"The social worker stood  in front of me. Coldly,  she said, “You will never see your baby again  as long as you live.  If you search for the baby, you’ll destroy his life  and the lives of the adoptive parents”. Sandra Jarvie, mother, Origins Canada."

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aenguskane.bsky.social
American adoption is a $25+ billion dollar supply & demand industry.

It’s not a mark of public service.

It’s just a market.

1–2 million Americans hope to adopt w/ 400,000 children in foster care & only 19,000 infants available.

The majority of int’l adoptions bought overseas arrive in the USA.
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6 infants sit in a line.

Text above says:

“Every year in the US, about 18,000-20,000 infants are relinquished for adoption.

In contrast, 1-2 million people are hoping to adopt.

The demand for babies far outweighs the supply.

Below the infants:

@theadoptedchameleon
aenguskane.bsky.social
We are not the same.

We are distinctly different countries.

#Canada
#USA
Politics

Canada issues warning for citizens with gender-neutral passports travelling to U.S.

Global Affairs says 'X' marker may not be recognized at the border

Elizabeth Thompson
CBC News
Posted: Oct 01, 2025 2:05 PM CDT
Last Updated: 36 minutes ago

Picture of a Canadian passport/passeport

Canadians with the gender-neutral 'X' marker on their passport are being advised that they could face additional scrutiny from U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents.

(Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press)
aenguskane.bsky.social
When children are used as weapons of war and subjugation, it gives you an idea of how adoption works as a system.🥚
united24media.com
After the Rain by Sarah McCarthy shows the tough recovery of Ukrainian kids kidnapped by Russia.

🧵 1/12 ⬇️
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marconi333.bsky.social
Confidentiality in child welfare cases only protects predators and corrupt systems - not children.

We deserve transparency in our child welfare systems.
Public Records
State Tries To Seal Foster Care Files To Protect Info It Already Revealed
When Civil Beat sought exhibits in the trial of an abusive Hawaiʻi foster dad, the Attorney General’s Office intervened to prevent “family trauma” from becoming public. It already had.

By John Hill / About 17 hours ago
The state of Hawaiʻi says it’s bound by law to protect the confidentiality of anyone involved in the foster care system — names, histories, reports of abuse or anything else from their files. Even the names of foster parents, paid by taxpayers, must be kept secret.

That’s why the Attorney General’s Office says it’s trying to block Civil Beat from seeing documents in a civil lawsuit about a foster parent who a judge found had sexually and physically abused children in his care.

The lawsuit was filed against the foster parent and the state. And here’s the kicker: The state itself had included those supposedly verboten items, including names, histories and intimate details of maltreatment of one-time foster children, in its own publicly available filings in defending itself in the case. 

It all came about in the final weeks of reporting a four-part series that begins Tuesday about the foster dad who, according to a judge’s 2024 verdict, sexually and physically abused boys in his care in the 1990s and 2000s.