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Picked up potatoes, onions, shallots, carrots, garlic, lettuce, apples, parsnip, beet and a dozen eggs for $30 from a local non-profit society that distributes local produce (Comox Valley and Vancouver island). I estimate the same bag would have cost $45 in the grocery store. #BuyCanadian #BuyLocal

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Canada, the bullying beast below us is starting to whimper as we choke off their exports and tourism... Local papers there are running articles about just how bad the pain might become as we shun them... Time to double down... Nothing USA, today and every day... True North Strong & Free! 😎

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

OPEN LETTER TO CBC: the sight of the US president is nauseating. Since everyone knows what he looks like, could you please stop posting his picture in your news stories? Instead, you could show images of people affected by his insane policies. #BuyCanadian

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Canadians should be upset at the fact that Pierre Poilievre used our flag day, our day of pride, to hold a campaign rally, spewing hate & lies, bashing the Liberals. Today of all days, He is a disgusting little vermin that is unfit to lead. What a disrespect to our flag and country. AXE THE ASS

submitted 7 days ago • 53 comments

Remember, Product of Canada can be up to twice as supportive as Made in Canada (if you have the choice, that is)

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

🇨🇦 Grocery adjustments: at this time of year, I can’t get local celery or sweet potatoes so I will have to experiment with alternatives. Butternut squash for USA sweet potato for sure. Roasting local beets for added colour and flavour to my soup. What else? #BuyCanadian #BoycottAmerica

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

submitted 9 days ago • 1052 comments

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submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Looking for alternatives to USA products/businesses? Consider Kanopy, the public library’s streaming service, instead of AmazonPrime, etc. Where I live, a non-profit gathers and sells local produce for reasonable prices, and some producers sell at the farmers market. Other ideas?

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www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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I know my impact on a trade war is minuscule but my choosing to buy products not made in the USA is also my small gesture of support for Canadian industries who face real difficulties. 🇨🇦 all the way! #BoycottAmerica

submitted 10 days ago • 20 comments

I hereby declare the former & great states of Washington, Oregon & California as Canada’s 11th, 12th & 13th provinces. The western area of North America south of Alaska, north of Mexico & west of Alabamaberta will heretofore be know as Cascadia. I demand Google maps make the appropriate changes.

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

Canada. True. North. Strong. Free. Always have been. Always will be. Why? Because we detest the dog eat dog ideology of the American right. In Canada we look out for each other. And no thug from Mar-a-Lago will make us change.

submitted 10 days ago • 205 comments

Got my hands on the last 🇨🇦 and pole at Canadian Tire today. Fly your flags, fellow Canadians! #CanadaFlagDay

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I love broccoli and cauliflower but won’t buy them until the grocery store is able to bring in such produce from Canada or Mexico. #BoycottAmericanGoods #BoycottAmerica

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

www.cbc.ca/news/politic... I have to laugh (ruefully) at US politicians who claim trump doesn’t represent Americans. Sorry, but you voted for him…TWICE. Canadians can’t trust you anymore.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Who would guess this perfectly innocent-looking little dog would look forward to winter because of the delicious frozen poo snacks in the yard? #DogsOfBluesky

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Loving how trump’s latest Batch of MAGAts are surprised by his statements. Surprised, Mr. Rubio?

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

IDGAF that trump has paused tariffs against Canada for 30 days. I’m not buying American products or services period.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Time to turn off the taps. Not a single bottle of American wine, beer or bourbon should be sold anywhere in Canada. From here on in I will only drink "freedom" wines from Canada, France or Spain. As for the beer? It's shit anyways. True. North. Strong. Free. @strongasfuck

submitted 21 days ago • 2566 comments

Emotional day today, culling books of my late mother. So many still with bookmarks, clippings tucked inside, and her name on the cover page. Boxes and boxes of books to donate, to be read by others in their turn. As it should be.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Reading 1993’s Parable of the Sower. So prescient, chilling. Feels like Western society is inexorably collapsing while we ignore the warning signs.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Sorry I threw your F🍁ck Trudeau water bottle in the trash at the gym.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

The more I know about friends’ marriages, the clearer it becomes why my single women friends are happy and living their best lives.

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

December 27 is the saddest day. Christmas is over but we can’t let up on the fucking cheer until January 1. I’m so tired.

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

(Joseph scratching head) there's no way we're fitting all these gifts on the donkey

submitted 60 days ago • 3 comments

Static cling #DogsOfBluesky

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submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

Listening to Martin Crane attempting the high note in O Holy Night is one of my favourite Christmas traditions.

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

I appreciate everyone who follows me, but you should know I won’t follow back if your focus is on American politics. The gut punch from the US election still hurts and I don’t want to watch the daily dying of what was a great democracy.

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

New coif: The Barney Rubble. #DogsOfBluesky

submitted 74 days ago • 5 comments

What is the loveliest version of Somewhere (West Side Story) and why is it Tom Waits’s?

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

A huge bonus in retirement that comes up for me at this time of year is I don’t have to attend any more stupid fake-smiling office Christmas parties ever again. No more Secret Santa BS. Perfect.

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

Big day today. My two #DogsOfBluesky pooped at the same time so only needed one bag. Life is good.

submitted 79 days ago • 3 comments