FlamingMaple
@eaffleck.bsky.social
Canadian settler. Sometimes successful wrangler of words and children. FlamingMaple on A03 and FB.
With the one-time funding we received to support the new #bced Indigenous Studies courses, our school purchased several books by Thomas King.
I’d *really* like to get that money back so we can buy some actually #authentic #Indigenous texts.
#pretendian #thomasking #indigenousstudies
I’d *really* like to get that money back so we can buy some actually #authentic #Indigenous texts.
#pretendian #thomasking #indigenousstudies
November 26, 2025 at 1:23 AM
With the one-time funding we received to support the new #bced Indigenous Studies courses, our school purchased several books by Thomas King.
I’d *really* like to get that money back so we can buy some actually #authentic #Indigenous texts.
#pretendian #thomasking #indigenousstudies
I’d *really* like to get that money back so we can buy some actually #authentic #Indigenous texts.
#pretendian #thomasking #indigenousstudies
After running to get a nonexistent AED from a school office to help someone in potential cardiac distress, I am very grateful to see this changing.
Every school in British Columbia will soon be required to be equipped with two types of lifesaving tools: AEDs and naloxone kits.
globalnews.ca/news/1132280...
globalnews.ca/news/1132280...
B.C. to require all schools to be equipped with AEDs, naloxone | Globalnews.ca
The mandate requires the tools to be in all high schools by the end of this year, while elementary schools must carry the equipment by September 2026.
globalnews.ca
August 8, 2025 at 4:06 AM
After running to get a nonexistent AED from a school office to help someone in potential cardiac distress, I am very grateful to see this changing.
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Doom doom doom doom PRETTY BIRDS doom doom CATS doom doom MILKY WAY doom doom
July 30, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Doom doom doom doom PRETTY BIRDS doom doom CATS doom doom MILKY WAY doom doom
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Public media has been defunded. Your support keeps journalists on the ground, lifts unheard voices, and connects communities.
Help us plan for what’s next. Make a monthly gift today. Stand with public media: n.pr/458sOhq
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July 27, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Public media has been defunded. Your support keeps journalists on the ground, lifts unheard voices, and connects communities.
Help us plan for what’s next. Make a monthly gift today. Stand with public media: n.pr/458sOhq
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When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
July 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
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Why Colbert's cancellation marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large
Colbert's cancellation is a dark warning
CBS's decision marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large.
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July 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Why Colbert's cancellation marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large
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Ann Coulter's statement that "We didn't kill enough Indians" is a call for violence against Native people.
July 7, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Ann Coulter's statement that "We didn't kill enough Indians" is a call for violence against Native people.
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I will never understand voting for something you’re ok happening to other families but not yours…
nationalpost.com/news/canada/...
Canadian mother reportedly detained in the U.S. as Trump-voting husband feels 'totally blindsided'
Cynthia Olivera told officials that the couple can pay for her fly her to Canada, where she would live with a cousin in Mississauga.
nationalpost.com
July 7, 2025 at 4:11 AM
I will never understand voting for something you’re ok happening to other families but not yours…
nationalpost.com/news/canada/...
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Masking doesn’t just harm us - it harms our relationships (or what we perceive to be relationships).
Because the people who know the mask don’t know us.
And the people who meet the real us don’t understand the shame we carry.
So we feel unseen in both places.
And alone in all of them.
Because the people who know the mask don’t know us.
And the people who meet the real us don’t understand the shame we carry.
So we feel unseen in both places.
And alone in all of them.
June 5, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Masking doesn’t just harm us - it harms our relationships (or what we perceive to be relationships).
Because the people who know the mask don’t know us.
And the people who meet the real us don’t understand the shame we carry.
So we feel unseen in both places.
And alone in all of them.
Because the people who know the mask don’t know us.
And the people who meet the real us don’t understand the shame we carry.
So we feel unseen in both places.
And alone in all of them.
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Book concept: People start finding books in a Little Free Library that were never written or published in this world. Some are exactly what the "borrower" needs. Some are a delight. But some are dangerous. And the Little Free Library just might have a sinister agenda...
May 17, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Book concept: People start finding books in a Little Free Library that were never written or published in this world. Some are exactly what the "borrower" needs. Some are a delight. But some are dangerous. And the Little Free Library just might have a sinister agenda...
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The families of Chelsea Poorman, Noelle O’Soup and Tatyanna Harrison are calling for a coroner’s inquest - saying they have faced roadblocks in obtaining accurate, or any, information about these #mmiwg cases from police, coroner and MCFD. #reddressday
May 6, 2025 at 1:55 AM
The families of Chelsea Poorman, Noelle O’Soup and Tatyanna Harrison are calling for a coroner’s inquest - saying they have faced roadblocks in obtaining accurate, or any, information about these #mmiwg cases from police, coroner and MCFD. #reddressday
VSB / Vancouver School Board folks: Check your work email!
Sent out after school yesterday: perpetrators may have “unlawfully obtained employee names, bank account details, pay amounts and employees’ VSB identification numbers.”
#bced #vsb #vancouver #school #board #identityfraud #bcpoli
Sent out after school yesterday: perpetrators may have “unlawfully obtained employee names, bank account details, pay amounts and employees’ VSB identification numbers.”
#bced #vsb #vancouver #school #board #identityfraud #bcpoli
April 26, 2025 at 9:13 PM
VSB / Vancouver School Board folks: Check your work email!
Sent out after school yesterday: perpetrators may have “unlawfully obtained employee names, bank account details, pay amounts and employees’ VSB identification numbers.”
#bced #vsb #vancouver #school #board #identityfraud #bcpoli
Sent out after school yesterday: perpetrators may have “unlawfully obtained employee names, bank account details, pay amounts and employees’ VSB identification numbers.”
#bced #vsb #vancouver #school #board #identityfraud #bcpoli
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"A writer has to write until they find out who they are. There's no way around it and you can't as a writer know how long it will take to find you. That's why it happens right away for some and not for a while for others. The only rule in #writing is persistence." - Wrtr #amwriting #author #writer
April 22, 2025 at 4:31 AM
"A writer has to write until they find out who they are. There's no way around it and you can't as a writer know how long it will take to find you. That's why it happens right away for some and not for a while for others. The only rule in #writing is persistence." - Wrtr #amwriting #author #writer
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The possibility of abduction by a sovereign and imprisonment abroad is one criterion that separates democracies from dictatorships.
The Declaration of Independence called the British king tyrannical for transporting Americans, “beyond Seas to be tried for pretended Offenses.”
The Declaration of Independence called the British king tyrannical for transporting Americans, “beyond Seas to be tried for pretended Offenses.”
April 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The possibility of abduction by a sovereign and imprisonment abroad is one criterion that separates democracies from dictatorships.
The Declaration of Independence called the British king tyrannical for transporting Americans, “beyond Seas to be tried for pretended Offenses.”
The Declaration of Independence called the British king tyrannical for transporting Americans, “beyond Seas to be tried for pretended Offenses.”
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Writing: It's amazing and wonderful how people carry things from books throughout their entire lives. Even so much as we remember books from different times in our lives when things happened, and we needed them. - Wrtr #amwriting Be #Writing #author #writer #authorsky
April 17, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Writing: It's amazing and wonderful how people carry things from books throughout their entire lives. Even so much as we remember books from different times in our lives when things happened, and we needed them. - Wrtr #amwriting Be #Writing #author #writer #authorsky
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Calm the negative, write. Write just the first paragraph. Then the next paragraph. Being an author is just the small fact of continued writing. - Wrtr #amwriting #amediting Be #Writing .. #author #writer #authorsky
April 10, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Calm the negative, write. Write just the first paragraph. Then the next paragraph. Being an author is just the small fact of continued writing. - Wrtr #amwriting #amediting Be #Writing .. #author #writer #authorsky
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Gosh. If only there were an historical analogue we could study to learn about the horrors of rounding people up without due process and sending them to torture camps in other countries.
March 29, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Gosh. If only there were an historical analogue we could study to learn about the horrors of rounding people up without due process and sending them to torture camps in other countries.
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Write your first and even your second draft without worry. Remember it is the essence of the story that is all-important to get down first. Things will evolve and change later, including the #writing, and edits.- Wrtr #amwriting #author #writer ~ Keep change notes. You write best without worry.
February 14, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Write your first and even your second draft without worry. Remember it is the essence of the story that is all-important to get down first. Things will evolve and change later, including the #writing, and edits.- Wrtr #amwriting #author #writer ~ Keep change notes. You write best without worry.
Hi from #Canada, #Utah #educators. Just sharing a picture of my very not-a-flag #pride #classroom door :-)
#translivesmatter
#translivesmatter
February 15, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Hi from #Canada, #Utah #educators. Just sharing a picture of my very not-a-flag #pride #classroom door :-)
#translivesmatter
#translivesmatter
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Speaking on CBC’s On the Coast today Paul Finch, president of @bcgeu.bsky.social says members have described a toxic culture + lack of oversight at CLBC and passed a resolution at last year’s convention mandating the union to campaign to move CLBC back into government. #bcpoli #bcgeu #clbc
February 6, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Speaking on CBC’s On the Coast today Paul Finch, president of @bcgeu.bsky.social says members have described a toxic culture + lack of oversight at CLBC and passed a resolution at last year’s convention mandating the union to campaign to move CLBC back into government. #bcpoli #bcgeu #clbc
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is it good or bad that a billionaire oligarch with close ties to foreign dictators is currently downloading the most sensitive information the us federal government has about its citizens to his own private servers?
February 2, 2025 at 6:36 AM
is it good or bad that a billionaire oligarch with close ties to foreign dictators is currently downloading the most sensitive information the us federal government has about its citizens to his own private servers?
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Canada’s biggest labour organization is calling on the federal government turn off the taps, “cutting US access to critical Canadian resources—including electricity, lumber, critical minerals, oil, and gas—until the tariffs are lifted”
75% of Canadians support restricting US access to our resources
75% of Canadians support restricting US access to our resources
Cut Off U.S. Energy and Resources Now: No Electricity, No Critical Minerals, No Oil and Gas | Canadian Labour Congress
WINNIPEG – Bea Bruske, President of the Canadian Labour Congress, issued the following statement today: Donald Trump’s reckless tariffs are an attack on Canadian workers and our economy. With 2.4 mil...
canadianlabour.ca
February 2, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Canada’s biggest labour organization is calling on the federal government turn off the taps, “cutting US access to critical Canadian resources—including electricity, lumber, critical minerals, oil, and gas—until the tariffs are lifted”
75% of Canadians support restricting US access to our resources
75% of Canadians support restricting US access to our resources