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Vicky Smallman
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Feminist. Trade Unionist. Mom of teens. Learning and unlearning constantly and working to make things better. She/her
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Let’s go Ottawa Charge!
Two hockey fans at a game. Middle aged woman wearing glasses and a tuque beside a red headed teenager
December 3, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Date night! With weapons!
Selfie of blonde bespectacled woman; behind her are two men throwing axes at targets
November 29, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Not so horny but very, very Canadian. With dinosaurs.
Promo image for Primeval: New Word, featuring four determined looking people and a dinosaur
November 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Marking the #16Days to end GVB at #CLCLobby
Selfie with multiple people and the message Unions Rise up against gender based violence
November 25, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Kickoff meeting got tomorrow’s @canadianlabour.bsky.social Lobby Day - pretty sure this is one of the biggest crowds we have had. Tonight they talk about the issues, tomorrow they bring their voices to MPs and Senators.
Meeting room with audience seated, facing a stage with one woman at a podium and a screen behind that says “Workers Together”
November 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Lansdowne 2.NO
Crowd at a hockey game. Someone is holding a sign that says Lansdowne 2.NO
November 23, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Home opener! Let’s goooo!
Two happy people in a hockey arena
November 23, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Feminist Theatre night at the GCTC!
A hand holds a can of beer called “Warrior Woman”, and beside it is a programme for a play called “the elephant girls”
November 15, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Seeking a kickass feminist Canadian maker who might be able to produce (in quantities) custom earrings featuring the slogan below. Flexible on design and medium.
Half of Vicky’s face with a red and white plastic earring that reads “ union women get shit done”
November 14, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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We may have waited a bit too long to finish up our closing tasks! Just a few more things to do before the chalet gets shut down for the winter
A small cottage, with trees and the beginnings of a pink sunset behind. On the ground in front and on the surface of the deck is a dusting of icy snow
November 8, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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The five ways gender mobilizes extremism
PowerPoint slide on 5 ways that gender mobilizes extremism. Containment, punishment, exploitation, erasure, enabling - each has a hashtag.
October 30, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Waiting for this to start. Let’s see if I can muster the energy for some live skeeting. #CanFem
October 30, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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The view from here - Douglas Coldwell Layton Foundation’s annual Mouseland Gala, featuring a panel of NDP leadership candidates. #NDP #Mouseland
A meeting room on Parliament Hill. A stage is set up at the front with four people seated on it and three screens above. People around are seated at tables.
October 29, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Great speech by @jleiper.bsky.social about the challenges facing this city. We need to grow smarter, not further, he says, calling for transparency and accountability. It’s 365 days until the next election. We can do so much better. Let’s do this.
Jeff Lieper, a clean shaven fellow with glasses wearing a white shirt and khaki trousers, speaks into a microphone beside a speaker
October 26, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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The view from here #CanLab #WorkersTogether #NDPLeadership
Two people seated on a riser, surrounded by a seated crowd. In the foreground is a media riser with camera workers and lighting S behind the speakers and crowd are windows, orange lighting and screens that say “Workers together”
October 22, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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At an event to launch the latest UNFPA report, hosted by @actioncanadashr.bsky.social and the Canadian Association of Parliamentarians for Population Development.
Two sights in front of an intricately-patterned decorative wall. On one side is a sign with the logo of Action Canadian for Sexual Health and Rights. The other is a French cover of the report on “the real fertility crisis” which shows two hands not quite reaching each other
October 7, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Lots of great, determined interventions by speakers today, including NDP MP @leahgazan.bsky.social
Leah Gazan, wearing jeans and a white shirt, stands in the circle gathered for the MMIWG Sisters in Spirit Vigil. She holds a microphone.
October 3, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Can’t believe it’s been twenty years since these MMIWG vigils started. #SistersInSpirit
Minister of Crown Indigenous Relations, wearing a back suit and a red floral Kokum scarf, stands at a podium outside of the House of Commons. The crowd is seated, some in chairs; some on the lawn. Many ware wearing red or colourful ribbon skirts Gladys Tolley of Families of Sisters in Spirit, stands at a podium with a microphone. In front of her are seated women, many wearing red and black. She wears a white T shirt with a message about justice for missing and murdered indigenous women
October 3, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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At Abbotsford House on Bank for Judy Darcy’s Ottawa book launch. Bread and roses an appropriate decor choice!
A table with a vase of orange and white roses. A basket with braided bread, and a copy of labour leader Judy Darcy’s new book, Leading From the Heart
September 29, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Uplifting, fierce and determined Take Back the Night march through downtown Ottawa today, culminating in a Take Back the Budget rally on Parliament Hill. Powerful speakers, great chants, a convergence of two rallies in the Market - fantastic! #EndGBV #TBTN #FundFeministMovements
Three women standing in front of a monument for victims of gender based violence. A woman who uses a wheelchair is at a microphone Women marching through the streets of Ottawa. They are carrying signs in English and French with feminist messaging A sign on cardboard with I Believe Survivors written on it is held aloft by a pair of arms Marchers arrive on Parliament Hill. The centre block tower is flanked by construction cranes. Some of the protestors are carrying candles
September 19, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Happy Labour Day, union fam! #solidarity #WorkersTogether
Selfie from the Labour Day parade - a woman with short hair, glasses and a grey ball cap with the Canadian Congress Logo, with a bearded bespectacled man wearing a raccoon shirt and a hat that says “never cross a picket line”
September 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Cottage update. Made a batch of crabapple jelly today. Worked on a puzzle. Took a lake shower. Made bean salad. Enjoyed yet another ridiculous sunset
Sunset over a lake. Clouds and trees are reflected in the water
August 18, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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The icing on the cake of a great vacation day. Tried to record the sound of the loons across the lake but it didn’t take.
Golden sunset on lake
August 15, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Best I could do
Lake shoreline at sunset. On the right are silhouettes of trees and a rock. Just past the rock there is a silhouette of a small animal swimming in the water
August 15, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Schnauzer at Golden Hour, on the alert
A standard schanauzer, a grey dog with glorious beard and eyebrows, sits on a dock. The setting sun shines on him turning his fur a lovely golden colour
August 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM