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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · Aug 23

PLEASE REPOST 🥺🙏

The Canadian Letters & Images Project is an online digital archive of Canadians’ experience during wartime at home & in battle. It contains thousands of personal letters & photos that reveal people’s experience through their own words & eyes.
www.canadianletters.ca/content/abou...

The homepage for the Canadian letters and images project. It shows soldiers posing for a photograph and there is a search bar in the centre. In the about section below, which cannot be seen in this image, it provides this information:

The Canadian Letters and Images Project, created in 2000, is an online digital archive of the Canadian war experience, both home front and battlefront, from any conflict in which Canadians have participated. The focus of the project is on the personal materials of participants, such as letters and photographs, which permit us to experience the war through their eyes and their words. These are very often the stories of ordinary Canadians, largely forgotten and overlooked. Our mission is to digitally preserve and continue to make freely accessible this important part of Canada’s heritage for this generation and future generations.

The vision of the project is to continue to expand this repository of Canadian archival materials by collaborating with Canadians to preserve and share the individual and collective stories that have shaped our past

Accessibility to the past is key to understanding who we are as a nation. We are committed to free access for everyone to the materials of the project.

All collections are of equal importance. Every letter, photograph, or other artifact has an important story to tell.

The collections and their contents are not edited or censored. Our role as historians is not to judge the past in light of the present, but to present everything in its entirety at the time of its creation.

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irenehenriques.bsky.social @irenehenriques.bsky.social · Aug 19

That is how to respond to an unlawful request. Well done!

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Aug 12

Stephen Miller tried to claim only real "Americans" built the Empire State Building, but he left out the true stories of the Indigenous ironworkers who actually did. The Mohawk Skywalkers helped shape America's skylines—and shatter the lie behind Miller’s whitewashed nostalgia.

Mohawk Skywalkers: The History Stephen Miller Whitewashed

The Kanien'kéhá:ka Haudenosaunee ironworkers were vital to building Miller's favorite monuments to modern America

thinkbigpicture.substack.com

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · Aug 3

Must read

Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · Aug 3

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:

$678M raised through those spam tactics

$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.

$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)

The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine

How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

open.substack.com

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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanhneville.medsky.social · Aug 1

The massive list of suspended UCLA grants came out today: 300 NSF and 500 NIH grants. I am miraculously not on the list, but this is devastating. Science will be lost, progress will be frozen, people will lose jobs, and careers in science and medicine are being destroyed. This is not ok.

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irenehenriques.bsky.social @irenehenriques.bsky.social · Jul 28

SIM planned new activities - AOM 2025 Copenhagen

irenehenriques.bsky.social @irenehenriques.bsky.social · Jul 28

@aomsim.bsky.social

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irenehenriques.bsky.social @irenehenriques.bsky.social · Jul 28

ONE welcome to Bluesky

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irenehenriques.bsky.social @irenehenriques.bsky.social · Jul 12

Canadian here with family living in the US - cannot understand how a country as rich as the US would privatize health. A universal healthcare system is so much better - it is better for businesses and a social strength. Why should a cancer patient worry about affording her care?

Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · Jul 12

We must demand universal health care. Nothing short of that is acceptable

Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · Jul 11

A Canadian doctor explains the difference between the universal health care system in Canada, where everyone is covered and there are no out-of-pocket costs, and the American system where people go bankrupt in order to receive cancer treatment.

irenehenriques.bsky.social @irenehenriques.bsky.social · Jun 14

They certainly do!

Michael de Adder @deadder.bsky.social · Jun 14

The Globe and Mail

irenehenriques.bsky.social @irenehenriques.bsky.social · Jun 14

Brilliant!

irenehenriques.bsky.social @irenehenriques.bsky.social · Apr 27

Early voted - #ElbowsUp! Please go out and vote 🇨🇦

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irenehenriques.bsky.social @irenehenriques.bsky.social · Apr 22

@Telus and @Koodo - was the damage this story did to your reputation worth it? Taking advantage of the elderly is unforgivable - do better.

www.thestar.com/business/the...

She accidentally overpaid her cell bill — by $13,000. After nine months, Koodo still hadn’t returned the money

Hazel Maki, 84, finally received a refund from Koodo after Star advocate Diana Zlomislic stepped in. "I think they were really hoping I'd die before they paid me," the retired

www.thestar.com

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Common Sense @cmmnsensedspnsr.bsky.social · Mar 20

“The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media”

Passage from Carl Sagan’s 1995 book, the demon haunted world. The passage states “ not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world. This book is a personal statement, reflecting, my lifelong love affair with science. but there’s another reason: Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a four boating of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time - when the United States is a service or information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those and authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good, and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media. The 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially, a kind of celebration of ignorance.

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irenehenriques.bsky.social @irenehenriques.bsky.social · Mar 16

This is a must read - brought tears to my eyes…..

GG.Never51 @isthisagoodhandle.bsky.social · Mar 16

A poignant and powerful story of unimaginable sacrifice. Canadian costly liberation of the Scheldt from the fascist nazi army. And why the Dutch are forever our allies. RIP 🇨🇦☮️ #ww2

Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · Mar 15

When there was a shitty job in the war it was given to the Canadians. We never flinched.
As the US threatens us and allies like Britain duck, we know where we stand. Defending democracy might be a thankless job but give it to Canadians.
We will get it done.
My latest.
substack.com/home/post/p-...

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GG.Never51 @isthisagoodhandle.bsky.social · Mar 16

A poignant and powerful story of unimaginable sacrifice. Canadian costly liberation of the Scheldt from the fascist nazi army. And why the Dutch are forever our allies. RIP 🇨🇦☮️ #ww2

Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · Mar 15

When there was a shitty job in the war it was given to the Canadians. We never flinched.
As the US threatens us and allies like Britain duck, we know where we stand. Defending democracy might be a thankless job but give it to Canadians.
We will get it done.
My latest.
substack.com/home/post/p-...

CANADA KNOWS WHO OUR FRIENDS ARE

A Story of the Scheldt and the Netherlands

substack.com

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irenehenriques.bsky.social @irenehenriques.bsky.social · Mar 14

You are wrong

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David Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · Mar 9

Bernie Sanders is holding MASSIVE rallies in packed venues, bigger crowds than Trump was getting, and legacy media is practically silent. Bernie is talking to workers rather than hanging out with socialites with mediocre plastic surgery at Mar-a-Lago, and it's just not interesting to corporate media

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irenehenriques.bsky.social @irenehenriques.bsky.social · Mar 4

As an economist, all the Trump team needs to take an ECON 101 class pronto! This Canadian business economist is happy to volunteer…

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irenehenriques.bsky.social @irenehenriques.bsky.social · Feb 28

Slava Ukraini

Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · Feb 28

#IStandWithZelenskyy

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Pass it on.

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irenehenriques.bsky.social @irenehenriques.bsky.social · Feb 26

NL Premier Andrew Furey is an orthopaedic surgeon who knows how to work under pressure. Politicians in Canada know that Trump is an erratic bully who is destroying the US from within and trying to take US allies with him. Just like a tough hockey game we are refreshing our lines! We will be ready.

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irenehenriques.bsky.social @irenehenriques.bsky.social · Feb 23

You are brilliant and funny!

irenehenriques.bsky.social @irenehenriques.bsky.social · Feb 21

Congratulations Team Canada!! What an amazing hockey game 🎉

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irenehenriques.bsky.social @irenehenriques.bsky.social · Feb 21

Beautiful letter - thank you for all you do! Canadians are rooting for warriors like yourself.

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