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West coast Islander, family man, card carrying educator, lover of arts, food, football (NFFC) and dogs. Chasing waves while I still can “Life is too short for bad coffee” Gord Downie Living on the unceded territory of the K’omoks First Nation
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CANADA POST STRIKE: You ever rage at something only to realize halfway through… you were dead wrong? That was me with Canada Post workers. I used to scoff at their “demands” — until I did something dangerous. I looked it up. #canadapost #cdnpoli #canlab youtube.com/shorts/_j1BF...

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Anyone who believed Elon Musk would “step back” from being the biggest political donor in US history and a major powerbroker in the Trump administration is a sucker. Here he is—a white supremacist who hates the Black-run South African government—overseeing the racist sneak-attack in the Oval today.

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They did it...

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The man speaking, Dr. Gabor Maté, is a Holocaust survivor who lost family at Auschwitz and, drawing on his experiences as a very young child, has specialized as a physician on understanding the clinical sequelae of childhood trauma.

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Best news since…..?

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What happened to my piss post? I Placed it in a strategic location at my local park…it didn’t last 24hrs :(

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Sooo good…. Pirates were working class revolutionaries podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w...

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Who could've guessed joining a make-believe Resistance against an Evil Empire would ever happen in real life?

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A nurse from Texas says she’s considering moving to Nanaimo with her wife, also a nurse. She says as a same sex couple in a red state, under Trump, they’re compelled to move here. BC is trying to make that process faster for American health care workers like her. youtu.be/fQlVxtE072o

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theskeena.com/2025/05/06/t...

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@cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social Wawa Ontario

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@cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social Jagger has some good ideas, NDP would do well to listen to younger progressives like him…

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Was it ever a difficult choice, Canada? It wasn't that hard a choice to make. Experienced financial wizard or a 21 year grifter of taxpayers?

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Canada says Fuck off Fascists youtu.be/VwcKwGS7OSQ

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#cdnpoli

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Residential school survivors confront Conservative candidate Aaron Gunn over genocide comments. Brandi Morin reports from Northern Vancouver Island, where she followed two residential school survivors as they attended an Aaron Gunn rally and spoke to the candidate. ricochet.media/politics/res...

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Never forget, all the same awful people in the United States and Russia who wanted Donald Trump to win, badly want Pierre Poilievre to become Canadian Prime Minister. Poilievre, who still refuses to apply for the normal security clearance that would, among other things, identify foreign influences.

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This guy has always been a slimy, smug little man. How anyone could peg him as a leader of anything is beyond me…

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Local Returning Officers must stop disruptors at polls—warn, remove, or call police. 📍 Report to polling staff immediately. If they fail to act, escalate: 📨 csep-pesc.elections.ca/en-CA/intake... 📞 1-800-463-6868 Protect 🇨🇦 democracy. Stand up. Speak out. #cdnpoli #Elxn45

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an unfortunate part of being morally opposed to using a website owned by someone who says “Canada is not a real country” is a lot of B.C.’s core public institutions still exclusively use that website to give incremental updates on news City of Vancouver council meetings, TransLink, BC Ferries, etc.

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Great to hear @charlieangus104.bsky.social in Cumberland this evening. We are on indeed on the front line fighting fascism, elbows up!

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Posting this one today in honour of the late Clem Burke "Heart Of Glass" RS youtu.be/3uE-nAluDiM?...

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It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.

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