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🇨🇦💪🆙The Wicked Free Speech of the North @viridiandragon.bsky.social · 1m

Carney is just being honest. When Canada trolls you, it's subtle and for the intelligent people in the room.

🇨🇦💪🆙The Wicked Free Speech of the North @viridiandragon.bsky.social · 2m

It has the benefit of being true. When Canada trolls you, it'll be subtle and for the intelligent people in the room.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 19h

Thanks, New Yorker

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🇨🇦💪🆙The Wicked Free Speech of the North @viridiandragon.bsky.social · 19h

a man with a beard and a white shirt says you 've just

Alt: a man with a beard and a white shirt says you've just figured that out now?

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🇨🇦💪🆙The Wicked Free Speech of the North @viridiandragon.bsky.social · 19h

A tribute to Bob Ross:

My kid dressed up as Bob Ross on Halloween.

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🇨🇦💪🆙The Wicked Free Speech of the North @viridiandragon.bsky.social · 19h

My kid dressed up as Bob Ross for Halloween a few years ago (he was 10 or 11). His idea, not mine. Grew out his curly hair and everything.

I hope Ross's paintings sell for astronomical prices, because I can't imagine a better cause to benefit from his wonderful body of work.

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal funding cuts

Thirty paintings created by the bushy-haired, soft-spoken Bob Ross will soon be up for auction to defray the costs of programming for small and rural public television stations suffering under cuts in...

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🇨🇦💪🆙The Wicked Free Speech of the North @viridiandragon.bsky.social · 20h

🇨🇦💪🆙The Wicked Free Speech of the North @viridiandragon.bsky.social · 21h

Not kissing his ass exactly. Canadians don't like to lie, but neither do we ignore decorum.

We don't say, "All this gold shit in the Oval Office is unbearable to the eyes." We say, "You're a transformative president," tactfully w/o mentioning that the transformation into fascism is ugly AF.

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🇨🇦💪🆙The Wicked Free Speech of the North @viridiandragon.bsky.social · 20h

How do you figure? Are you saying we're likely to suddenly all get lobotomies (with our universal healthcare), deep-six public education, and forget that we love our country?

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🇨🇦💪🆙The Wicked Free Speech of the North @viridiandragon.bsky.social · 21h

Not kissing his ass exactly. Canadians don't like to lie, but neither do we ignore decorum.

We don't say, "All this gold shit in the Oval Office is unbearable to the eyes." We say, "You're a transformative president," tactfully w/o mentioning that the transformation into fascism is ugly AF.

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🇨🇦💪🆙The Wicked Free Speech of the North @viridiandragon.bsky.social · 23h

Canadians, on average, are considerably better educated than our American friends, and are therefore more capable of participating in and protecting a functioning democracy.

We see your fascism, and raise you public education. 🃏

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🇨🇦💪🆙The Wicked Free Speech of the North @viridiandragon.bsky.social · 23h

I believe you.

Please repost if you agree that #metoo is NOT over.

Former 'Derringer in the Morning' co-host takes Q107 parent company to human rights tribunal | CBC News

Jennifer Valentyne, a former co-host of a Toronto radio show, spoke in detail about alleged verbal abuse and gender-based discrimination at the Corus Entertainment Inc. program during a human rights t...

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🇨🇦💪🆙The Wicked Free Speech of the North @viridiandragon.bsky.social · 1d

Are you saying you think we'll become the 51st state?

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🇨🇦💪🆙The Wicked Free Speech of the North @viridiandragon.bsky.social · 1d

I would agree with you.

🇨🇦💪🆙The Wicked Free Speech of the North @viridiandragon.bsky.social · 1d

Ask any Canadian if they want universal healthcare.

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🇨🇦💪🆙The Wicked Free Speech of the North @viridiandragon.bsky.social · 1d

👇 For any 🇺🇸 American friends wondering about 🇨🇦 Canada's healthcare:

This has also been my experience with Canadian universal healthcare. Not a bill for anything but parking at hospitals (and usually there's another lot nearby—grocery store, community centre, strip mall, etc.—with free parking).

Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 1d

I will give you all an example of an emergency in my family here in Canada, and what I had to pay re healthcare costs.

My son at 8 years old was playing at my neighbours place, they had glass doors in their hallway, the boys were running up and down the hall, my son fell into one of the /1

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🇨🇦💪🆙The Wicked Free Speech of the North @viridiandragon.bsky.social · 1d

👇 For any 🇺🇸 American friends wondering about 🇨🇦 Canada's healthcare:

This has also been my experience with Canadian universal healthcare. Not a bill for anything but parking at hospitals (and usually there's another lot nearby—grocery store, community centre, strip mall, etc.—with free parking).

Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 1d

I will give you all an example of an emergency in my family here in Canada, and what I had to pay re healthcare costs.

My son at 8 years old was playing at my neighbours place, they had glass doors in their hallway, the boys were running up and down the hall, my son fell into one of the /1

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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 1d

Please enjoy my cartoon for Tuesday's Toronto Star

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🇨🇦💪🆙The Wicked Free Speech of the North @viridiandragon.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!!! I literally just realized and went to add a correction.

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🇨🇦💪🆙The Wicked Free Speech of the North @viridiandragon.bsky.social · 1d

By "majority" I include a good number of Canadian conservatives too.

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🇨🇦💪🆙The Wicked Free Speech of the North @viridiandragon.bsky.social · 1d

Over 80% of Canadians got at least one shot. We didn't achieve herd immunity because COVID-19 mutates too quickly, not because our vaccine uptake lagged.

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🇨🇦💪🆙The Wicked Free Speech of the North @viridiandragon.bsky.social · 1d

I'm literally watching last night's protests in Portland on CBC right now.

The world IS watching.

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🇨🇦💪🆙The Wicked Free Speech of the North @viridiandragon.bsky.social · 1d

Went looking to see where 🇺🇸 fits in to hwr.org, checked the Americas section, couldn't find it...then realized that the US has its OWN section:

A link menu at Human Rights Watch (HRW.org) showing the United States with its own section, separate from the Americas, with the options:
All United States
Criminal Justice
Democracy
Economic Justice
Immigrants' Rights and Border Policy
Racial Justice
US Foreign Policy

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José Machismo 🇨🇦🇪🇸🤘 @josemachismo.bsky.social · 1d

This handful of people are worth more than 10,000 rich celebrities signing whatever petition people were losing their shit over last week.

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 2d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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