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Atheist, bleeding heart leftie, recovering local politician. Out & proud in the 70’s, survived AIDS, because science! Posting politics & home-baking for my sanity. Guilt-ridden about the mess we’re leaving our kids.

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🏳️‍🌈@oldtimeygay🇨🇦 @oldtimeygay.bsky.social · Nov 29

Here’s one of many reasons I am so happy to have left the bad place and relocated to the Blue one.

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@tweettothehan@ScienceTynan That seems to be all you shitbag mother fuckers know how to do. Fucking commie cocksuckers, the whole lot of ya!
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🏳️‍🌈@oldtimeygay🇨🇦 @oldtimeygay.bsky.social · 1d

Dog sitting the lovely dowager dog Miss Luna and regaling her with stories about my past.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 1d

I started Degenerate Art a year ago today, in the last weeks of the before times. Today, I wrote about the most important history and current events I've covered related to our rapidly expanding authoritarianism, and what the future is likely to bring.

State of the Degenerate union

The newsletter turned one today! What's happened and what's next.

degenerateart.beehiiv.com

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🏳️‍🌈@oldtimeygay🇨🇦 @oldtimeygay.bsky.social · 1d

Dog sitting the lovely dowager dog Miss Luna and regaling her with stories about my past.

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Anarcho Feminist @lleohn.bsky.social · 8d

Canada Post. Defend it!

CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 9d

The federal government’s plan to gut the post office would wreck Canada Post's greatest strengths. By @simonenoch.bsky.social and @whosestreets.bsky.social #cdnpoli
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

The post office must be defended - CCPA

When Stephen Harper’s government announced the end of door-to-door mail delivery in favour of community “super-boxes” in 2014, then Canada Post CEO Deepak Chopra was asked about the difficulty this wo...

www.policyalternatives.ca

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🏳️‍🌈@oldtimeygay🇨🇦 @oldtimeygay.bsky.social · 2d

I’m looking for evidence that the corporation sees those employees as anything but a drag on productivity.
Whatever the motivation, employees under accommodation are at a disproportionate disadvantage seeking new employment, so numbers aside, the impact is the same..

🏳️‍🌈@oldtimeygay🇨🇦 @oldtimeygay.bsky.social · 2d

“Grandstanding for leverage” is something the employer would never do. A Liberal grasping at straws to justify union busting and when that doesn’t work, he just bashes the union himself and doesn’t see it as the self- own it truly is.
Can you prove it isn’t true? No.

🏳️‍🌈@oldtimeygay🇨🇦 @oldtimeygay.bsky.social · 2d

As it should be and yet here we are. The only other explanation is coincidence and I am happy for you that unlikely refuge brings you some comfort.

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Taylor Noakes @taylornoakes.com · 2d

Guess what?

The grovelling isn't working.

#cdnpoli

Toronto Star @thestar.com · 2d

#Breaking: Trump threatens additional 25% tariffs on heavy trucks ahead of meeting with Carney

Trump vows new 25% tariff on heavy trucks ahead of Carney meeting

Carney is travelling to Washington on Monday ahead of planned meetings with Trump on Tuesday.

www.thestar.com

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🏳️‍🌈@oldtimeygay🇨🇦 @oldtimeygay.bsky.social · 2d

Ya purely coincidence.
Carney’s Liberals (like all LPC governments) might be anti-union but never anti-DEI!
"That is not what we have seen. What we've seen is that those who are on accommodation, those who the employer may have to spend some money to accommodate, those are the ones who have gone."

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 6d

last night at bedtime I was telling my son (3.5) that I love him, im glad he’s my kid etc, and he grabbed my face in his little hands and said “and you are a very good driver”

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Johanne Boucher 🇨🇦 @johanneboucher.bsky.social · 7d

Almost a whole episode of #CBCTheHouse and not one mention of the fact that there’s a for-profit arm of Canada Post called Purolator. 🤔

Also quite tired of the uppity tone about how much panelists don’t use Canada Post.

Labour abusing US-owned Amazon devotees, I guess.

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ᐋᐧᐳᐢ ᒥᓯᐟ @waposhpyii.bsky.social · 8d

ᓵᑭᐦᐃᑐᐃᐧᐣ ᒨᓴᐠ #TruthAndReconciliationDay

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 8d

A nice shoutout from @jfallows.bsky.social here for my essay "Mind the Gap," along with a trip down memory lane to revisit the drama around Loretta Lynch, and how it compares to the Bondi debacle today.

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 8d

Things I've found worth reading, in these circumstances.

fallows.substack.com/p/preserving...

Preserving Our Sanity, During Insane Times.

The daily flow of disaster is simply overwhelming. Here are some people with reflections on how to avoid becoming paralyzed and instead take positive steps.

fallows.substack.com

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Jen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social · 8d

"More than a century ago, a Canadian official sat down and wrote one of the first damning reports on his country’s emerging system of residential schools." thetyee.ca/News/2025/09...

The Definitive History of Canada’s Residential School Shame | The Tyee

Ten years ago, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its landmark report. Everyone should read it.

thetyee.ca

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 8d

Today is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also known as Orange Shirt Day – a time to raise awareness for the ongoing impacts of residential school and remember the children who never came home.

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SassyMetisChick @sassymetischick.bsky.social · 8d

Today we honor the children taken, the survivors, and the strength of our Nations. Truth and Reconciliation Day is a call to listen, learn, and stand with us. The path forward is built on truth, respect, and action, together.

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🏳️‍🌈@oldtimeygay🇨🇦 @oldtimeygay.bsky.social · 10d

Charlie does a beautiful job of reminding us how USA extremism and conflict helped shape Canada and sheds light on why we’re so different from our American cousins.
open.substack.com/pub/charliea...

Rethinking D’Arcy McGee in a Age of Political Violence

As the world watches the frightening spiral of political violence in the United States, I have found myself thinking a great deal about D’Arcy McGee.

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BC Wildfire Weekly - Wildfires + More @bcwildfirewkly.bsky.social · 11d

ICYMI: “North Vancouver RCMP are requesting the public’s assistance in finding a missing Indigenous woman who, according to family, was last seen over a week ago.” www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar... - @ctvnewsvancouver.bsky.social

#MissingPerson #MMIW #NorthVan #NorthVancouver #YVR

North Vancouver RCMP calls on public for help in finding missing Indigenous woman

North Vancouver RCMP are requesting the public’s assistance in finding a missing Indigenous woman who, according to family, was last seen over a week ago.

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Stephen Lautens @stephenlautens.bsky.social · 10d

Canada Post is a service. Like other govt or quasi-govt services, it is not supposed to turn a profit. It needs to be efficient, but so do healthcare, the military, food inspection, schools, and other govt services. We subsidize it because people, businesses & remote communities rely on it. #cdnpoli

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 12d

A meme of an angry Don Draper saying, “That’s what the taxes are for.”

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 13d

Canada nation built (and built and built and built) until the 1970s, then began the great dismantling. I'd pin it to Mulroney era when rails were ripped out across country & Chretien/Harris pulling out of housing funding/backstopping. Canada Post stuff is just another dismantling moment.

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🏳️‍🌈@oldtimeygay🇨🇦 @oldtimeygay.bsky.social · 11d

Hardly in the mood for this hype while watching your government destroy a national public service like #CanadaPost on the false premise that public services should make money. Wrecking the post office, gee, who does that remind me of?
Is Carney really just Trump-lite?

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Blackfoot Niitsítapi 🪶🇨🇦🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💙🌎🐝 @thoughtsnations.bsky.social · 12d

www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

North Vancouver RCMP calls on public for help in finding missing Indigenous woman

North Vancouver RCMP are requesting the public’s assistance in finding a missing Indigenous woman who, according to family, was last seen over a week ago.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Dr. Catherine Scott @cataranea.bsky.social · 13d

Canada Post “lost” 1 billion dollars last year?

How about, “it cost Canadians 1 billion dollars to have a national postal service” which works out to costing about $25 a year per person (population of Canada in 2024 = 40 million). Seems like a pretty reasonable cost to me.

Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 13d

"Canada Post is on track to lose money" Hum. Duh. It cost less than a toonie to send a letter across Canada.

"Canada Post is a service and not a business" was common knowledge until late stage capitalism brain rotted most people into think if it ain't making money for shareholders, it's failing.

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🏳️‍🌈@oldtimeygay🇨🇦 @oldtimeygay.bsky.social · 12d

Makes my blood boil that Carney & the #LPC are taking down national institutions like #CanadaPost on the false premise that public services should be profitable. Gee, who does that remind me of? Starting to think Carney is just Trump-lite.

Canadian Cynic @canadiancynic.bsky.social · 12d

I knew Mark Carney was going to be bad for Canada, but I never *imagined* he would be this destructive so quickly.

Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 13d

The government is reducing service standards and Canada Post’s biggest advantage: its nationwide network.

This plan is about cutting back the postal service instead of investing to give it new revenue tools through things like postal banking. It’s shameful.

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