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Sharon 🇨🇦🦋

@gingerwhinges.bsky.social

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Tiohtiá:ke/Montréal Vive le Canada! Bonjour/Hi. Hobbyist photographer, book lover, gardener, friend to bees, birds & occasional Monarch minder. Canadian politics. Environment. Stargazer. Weird sense of humour. She/her. Nasty Canadian. 🚫DMs #TeamCanada

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Sharon 🇨🇦🦋 @gingerwhinges.bsky.social · Jul 24

I stand with E.M.

#BelieveWomen
#JusticeForVictims
#SexualAssault

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consbegone.bsky.social @consbegone.bsky.social · 13m

Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown told CBC News late Wednesday morning that the province, along with Ottawa, made "massive investments" in 2022 to retool Stellantis plants in Windsor and Brampton.

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Politicians call on Stellantis to fulfil promises to Brampton, Ont., autoworkers | CBC News

Stellantis announced Tuesday it will invest $13 billion US over the next four years to expand its manufacturing capacity in the U.S., moving production out of the Brampton Assembly Plant. That's spark...

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Sharon 🇨🇦🦋 @gingerwhinges.bsky.social · 14m

There is also this website which is still active as far as I can tell since I was able to put products in the cart. It's for the sale of skin care products made with ostrich oil. Hmmmm, wonder how they get the oil from the ostriches?
onubodycare.ca

Onu Body Care

A Healthy Skin Care Regime Starts With ONU Skin Care Products with the Essential Omega 3,6, and 9 Oils.

onubodycare.ca

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Sharon 🇨🇦🦋 @gingerwhinges.bsky.social · 14m

Yes, I saw those photos of the owner in the kitchen. Such hypocrites. They scrubbed their original website following the outbreak but thanks to the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, it's still viewable:
web.archive.org/web/20241206...

Universal Ostrich Farms Omega Ostrich | Ostrich Meat and Oil | Canada

Universal Ostrich Farms Inc. and Omega Ostrich Inc. Ostrich farming in North America, Ostrich Oil and red meat.

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Sharon 🇨🇦🦋 @gingerwhinges.bsky.social · 1h

Yes, it does actually according to what the pharmacy told me which is great and I meant to include it. That being said though, having to pay for it will result in a good number of people skipping it altogether and there will also be many who just cannot afford to do so.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 16h

Pierre Poilievre says he wants to “restore merit.” He needed to be handed arguably the safest, most impossible to lose conservative seat in all of Canada after losing his own seat.

Seems like the opposite of merit. #Poilievre

(oh, and he still refuses to complete a check for a security clearance)

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Sharon 🇨🇦🦋 @gingerwhinges.bsky.social · 2h

Was at the pharmacy the other day inquiring about commencement of vaccinations for flu and Covid and was told the Covid vaccination would be around $200. That is definitely going to make a lot of people say no thanks.

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 18h

Just watched a clip of Poilievre talking about Charlie Kirk, who killed him, and why. And it was not very different from what Trump says: blaming the authoritarian, violent left. It's an ideologically warped distortion field. Pierre may be worried about the leadership review. Or he might believe it.

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Sharon 🇨🇦🦋 @gingerwhinges.bsky.social · 2h

Another fake story from Pierre recounted with all the emotion of a plank of wood.

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Sharon 🇨🇦🦋 @gingerwhinges.bsky.social · 12h

Heard it on the radio earlier and I just shook my head in disgust. How are so many falling for the con from the CONS? Depressing indeed.

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Sharon 🇨🇦🦋 @gingerwhinges.bsky.social · 12h

Some of the convoy usuals are or have been there including Tamara Lich. I feel sorry for those poor birds too - pretending they are beloved pets now to be able to continue the grift with multiple fund pages on their website & offsite not to mention their monetary support from that US billionaire.

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Sharon 🇨🇦🦋 @gingerwhinges.bsky.social · 13h

It is frightening and some of the stuff they come up with is off the wall crazy. I saw a video yesterday of the spokesperson for the ostrich farm - now they're saying the CFIA is disappearing their birds to bleed them and stockpile their blood for vaccines because those birds will save humanity. 🙄

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Sharon 🇨🇦🦋 @gingerwhinges.bsky.social · 13h

Totally get it. My late brother had become very entrenched in the whole conspiracy theory rabbit hole and was always railing on how everything was Trudeau's fault. It's not something easily dealt with & it got to the point I dreaded speaking with him - still makes me so sad when I think about it.

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Radio-Canada Info @info.radio-canada.ca · 16h

Retard dans la livraison de doses de vaccin contre la COVID-19 au Québec

Ce retard pourrait entraîner le report de certains rendez-vous de vaccination déjà planifiés.

rc.ca

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Sharon 🇨🇦🦋 @gingerwhinges.bsky.social · 16h

Gone for nine months and he is still living rent free in all of their little CON heads.

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Sharon 🇨🇦🦋 @gingerwhinges.bsky.social · 16h

Good grief, the raging egos on all of these assclowns.

Sharon 🇨🇦🦋 @gingerwhinges.bsky.social · 18h

Oh my gosh, just a little one. So cute.

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David Hamer @davidhamer1951.bsky.social · 2d

Police are there to enforce the law, not to lobby for legislation of any kind - that’s the job of others: civilians, politicians, media, NGOs, etc.
Cops should stay in their lane.
The further we allow them to go in behaving like this arrogant union leader, the more 🇺🇸American we will become.
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Dena McMartin 🇨🇦 @dwmcmartin.bsky.social · 22h

There’s a group of CPC MPs (AB: Genuis and Vierson) who are preoccupied with policing women and their bodies. Attempts to limit Canadians’ freedoms needs are serious. Our individual & collective rights & responsibilities need to respect the views & beliefs of others. But not impose them on others!

The Pearson Project @projectpearson.bsky.social · Aug 3

The Honourable Arnold Viersen, Member of Parliament for Peace River - Westlock, here presenting a petition proposing legislation to "protect the pre born".

This is a tactic by the anti abortion lobby to make abortion illegal by declaring the fetus alive at heartbeat detection

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Sharon 🇨🇦🦋 @gingerwhinges.bsky.social · 23h

"It's me (🇨🇦), hi
I'm the problem, it's me."

That's their angle tho' - always pointing to 🇨🇦 as being the problem. Until they acknowledge the issue is in their own backyard, I've no sympathy at all. Meantime, it's "business" as usual as I go on supporting local and/or anything other than the USA.

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

TORONTO — Canadian Tire Corp. Ltd. says it has identified a data breach involving personal information belonging to customers, which was stored in an e-commerce database. #Canada

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Canadian Tire says recent breach of e-commerce database involved customer info

Canadian Tire Corp. Ltd. says it has identified a data breach involving personal information belonging to customers, which was stored in an e-commerce database.

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

Librarian fired after refusing to censor 2SLGBTQ+ books wins $700K US settlement #USA

‘I'm relieved to have this outcome,’ says Wyoming’s Terri Lesley

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Librarian fired after refusing to censor 2SLGBTQ+ books wins $700K US settlement | CBC Radio

A former Wyoming library director who was fired amid an uproar over books with sexual content and 2SLGBTQ+ themes that some people complained were inappropriate for young readers will be paid $700,000...

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 1d

The think tank is widely known for creating Project 2025.

And this isn’t the first meeting Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has had with allies of the U.S. president.

David Falk writes. A @desmog.com Canada reprint. #canpoli

Smith Reveals Meeting with the US Heritage Foundation After Trump Win | The Tyee

The Alberta premier said she met with the right-wing think tank because of its influence on the president.

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Sharon 🇨🇦🦋 @gingerwhinges.bsky.social · 1d

Gosh, who's surprised that the supporters that UOF's Katie Pasitney always describes as "standing together peacefully because they care about “truth, justice and the well-being of living creatures" resort to threats and violence when anyone's views differ from theirs?

The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 1d

Violent threats against government workers and businesses and a shocking physical attack on an elderly neighbour of the farm have highlighted how tensions around a CFIA-ordered cull of hundreds of ostriches have taken a very dark turn.

@jenstden.bsky.social reports. #canpoli

How the Ostrich Farm Cull Has Unleashed Threats of Violence | The Tyee

The CFIA union head says members and their families are being threatened.

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Sharon 🇨🇦🦋 @gingerwhinges.bsky.social · 1d

More pistachio recalls (British Columbia)

#FoodRecalls
#PistachioNuts

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Certain Raw Pistachios recalled due to Salmonella - Canada.ca

The affected products are being recalled from the marketplace due to possible Salmonella contamination.

recalls-rappels.canada.ca

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@cohencidents.bsky.social @cohencidents.bsky.social · 1d

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