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Kari Raymer Bishop 🇨🇦 @kariraymerbishop.bsky.social · 4h

Oh boy, oh boy. The temps drop and the crockpot comes out. Today's deliciousness is vegetarian chili, adapted from Sally's turkey chili recipe. What's simmering in your crockpot?

A pottery bowl full of chili sits on the cutting board on the kitchen counter. Hungry goldendoodle watches in the background.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 9h

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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Kari Raymer Bishop 🇨🇦 @kariraymerbishop.bsky.social · 7h

🤣 50.... STAY ABOVE 50!!!

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 25d

Our only real enemy is the belief that this world is filled with enemies to be conquered rather than filled with neighbors to be loved.

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Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 1d

Police in Airdrie, Alberta (just north of Calgary) say this driver hit a 17-year-old girl in a marked crosswalk, got out of the vehicle, and appeared to get upset at the teenager before driving away.

They released this video and are now trying to identify the driver.

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Kari Raymer Bishop 🇨🇦 @kariraymerbishop.bsky.social · 1d

I would use those gorgeous habaneros for making Jamaican Rice and Peas. Such good flavour and heat!

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Kari Raymer Bishop 🇨🇦 @kariraymerbishop.bsky.social · 1d

Oh! I love this! The lines, the saturation.... wonderful!

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Kari Raymer Bishop 🇨🇦 @kariraymerbishop.bsky.social · 1d

Kiddo pointed out how they emphasized the trauma of removing the 2YO from the only home she'd ever known — while not saying the same about the 1/3 Indian children who had been forcibly removed from their homes. So much trauma in every direction.

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Kari Raymer Bishop 🇨🇦 @kariraymerbishop.bsky.social · 1d

There was just no clear, simple decision to be made and even the decision handed down by the Supreme Court was garbage in terms of rationale — but safe, I suppose.

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Kari Raymer Bishop 🇨🇦 @kariraymerbishop.bsky.social · 1d

New rule: your neighbourhood gets one NIMBY veto and then you are at the top of the list for whatever comes next. Use your NIMBY veto wisely because you wouldn't want to waste it on homeless seniors and get what's behind door number two! 🤣

🖇️3 Sides🟥🍁🟥🪶🐦‍⬛🧷 @3sides.bsky.social · 1d

NIMBY! What type of person would want to deny seniors from being sheltered?
A$$holes are everywhere.
toronto.citynews.ca/2025/10/06/c...

Community group sues City of Toronto over proposed homeless shelter for seniors

A community group is suing the City of Toronto and their local councillor for $1 million in damages over the plan to build a homeless shelter for seniors in a parking lot at 66 Third Street in Etobico...

toronto.citynews.ca

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Kari Raymer Bishop 🇨🇦 @kariraymerbishop.bsky.social · 1d

I think that might actually be his plan 🤔 Especially for his tunnel highways.

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Kari Raymer Bishop 🇨🇦 @kariraymerbishop.bsky.social · 1d

If you want to engage in some significant critical thinking, listen to this podcast. We just heard it & kiddo could not handle how messy it was, with no simple answers. He had to pause it repeatedly to ask BIG questions about serious implications. So challenging! www.wnycstudios.org/story/adopti...

Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl

One case that puts a little girl at the center of a storm of legal intricacies, Native American tribal culture, and heart-wrenching personal stakes.

www.wnycstudios.org

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Isaac Callan @isaaccallan.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: A vehicle assigned to a Ford cabinet minister has been recorded at stunt driving speeds 12 times.

The premier's office suggested it was the same driver each time, and implied they still work for the government. #OnPoli
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Ford government vehicle recorded at stunt driving speeds on Ontario highways | Globalnews.ca

At least one cabinet-assigned vehicle was recorded driving more than 50 km/h over the speed limit multiple times in the past three years, according to documents.

globalnews.ca

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Tyler Watt @tylerwatt.bsky.social · 1d

This just keeps getting worse. The Ford government gave $2 million to a dental brokerage run by a PC donor connected to the minister’s family.

Doug Ford’s Skills Development Fund keeps looking more like a friends-and-family plan.💰 #onpoli

www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...

Millions from Ontario training funding went to dentists’ brokerage with ties to then-labour minister’s wife

Dentacloud received more than $2 million through the Ford government’s Skills Development Fund

www.thetrillium.ca

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 1d

Nobel prizes: Here are 5 scientific breakthroughs https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/article/5-nobel-worthy-scientific-advances-that-havent-won-the-prize/

𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter

Chemists Shankar Balasubramanian and David Klenerman and biophysicist Pascal Mayer stand onstage at the Ninth Breakthrough Prize ceremony in April 2023 in Los Angeles.

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Kari Raymer Bishop 🇨🇦 @kariraymerbishop.bsky.social · 1d

My homeschooled kiddo is giggling about 6 7 in math class today & he doesn't even go to middle school 🤣

I told him I would have shut that down so quickly, by fully embracing it — wearing my 67 shirt and saying it all the time until it was a teacher thing and NOT COOL. Appropriation for the win 🤣

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Jessica Smith Cross @jessiecatherine.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: Clients of lobby firms connected to the premier and his nephew were given tens of millions from the Skills Development Fund.

Clients of Rubicon — a lobbying firm owned by the premier’s campaign manager — got more than $100M, records show.

www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...

Clients of lobby firms connected to premier, his nephew given tens of millions in training funds

Groups represented by a lobbying firm owned by the premier’s campaign manager got more than $100 million in grant money, a Trillium analysis has found

www.thetrillium.ca

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Kari Raymer Bishop 🇨🇦 @kariraymerbishop.bsky.social · 2d

My child was born at 25 weeks — so very early. He spent 124 days in the NICU at a cost of about $4K per night. I paid $100 per month for a parking pass so I could be there every day. That was our only charge at the hospital. Thank you, Canada, for universal healthcare.

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Kari Raymer Bishop 🇨🇦 @kariraymerbishop.bsky.social · 2d

Sunscreen and skincare. And every time you put that stuff on your face and neck, do the back of your hands too 😜

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Mary Fernando M.D. 🇨🇦 @maryfernando.bsky.social · 2d

Siri, explain why Ford got rid of the speed cameras that save lives…

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Vehicles registered to Ford cabinet ministers caught by speed cameras more than 20 times | Globalnews.ca

Documents obtained by Global News reveal that, over three years, vehicles registered to Ford’s cabinet minister received more than $3,300 in fines for speeding.

globalnews.ca

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Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · 2d

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Kari Raymer Bishop 🇨🇦 @kariraymerbishop.bsky.social · 3d

Is there any place more joyful than a dog beach? Port Burwell, October 5th, 28°C.

A man and a boy are in the shallow water along the shore of Lake Erie. The sun is so bright that they are just silhouettes. There are three dogs gathered around them, hoping that one of them will throw a ball.

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Kari Raymer Bishop 🇨🇦 @kariraymerbishop.bsky.social · 3d

But you WOULD use this dump truck for therapy or a relationship or all your personal communication, right?

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Kari Raymer Bishop 🇨🇦 @kariraymerbishop.bsky.social · 3d

In Ontario, school boards are under attack by the provincial government. Premier Ford wants to get rid of them — removing local control and oversight from school boards.

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