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Cat

@kitkatnorthof60.bsky.social

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Canadian gal living in the maple maga hell of Alberta; Bear’s mom; lab lubber; avid reader and lifelong learner; Métis proud “Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced,” James Baldwin

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Cat @kitkatnorthof60.bsky.social · 4d

I’m sharing an article from CBC News dated July 23/15 about a former RCMP Officer. He speaks about the lifelong guilt felt after participating in forcibly removing children from their parents. This guilt is what awaits folks in the US disappearing others. The guilt awaits to eat them alive.

Ex-RCMP who took kids to residential school seeks healing from guilt | CBC News

A former RCMP officer says he boxed away his feelings after his experience taking two children from their family in Fort Smith, N.W.T., and off to residential school. Fifty years later, he sought help...

www.cbc.ca

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Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦 @daveberta.bsky.social · 1h

UCP and NDP Presidents Rob Smith and Bill Tonita running in municipal elections. Provincial board leaders on the ballot in Mountain View and Strathcona County 🤠

UCP and NDP Presidents Rob Smith and Bill Tonita running in municipal elections

Provincial board leaders on the ballot in Mountain View and Strathcona County

daveberta.substack.com

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Bruce D. Cowherd @brucedc77.bsky.social · 1h

Canada eh! 🇨🇦🍁

PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 5h

This Hour Has 22 Minutes -
It’s a beautiful language, isn’t it? #cdnpoli

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Cat @kitkatnorthof60.bsky.social · 1h

RFK Jr. is one of the most dangerous people within the White House Cabinet. Absolutely nutters 🤦🏻‍♀️

Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 1h

Now RFK Jr is gonna tackle chemtrails?

Of course he is.

How on brand.

How ridiculous.

It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a Chemtrail? New Conspiracy Theory Takes Wing at Kennedy’s HHS kffhealthnews.org/news/article... via @kff.org

A good example of how the absurd can morph into policy. Sigh.

It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a Chemtrail? New Conspiracy Theory Takes Wing at Kennedy's HHS - KFF Health News

The idea that airplane vapors are toxic to people or that there are ongoing efforts to intentionally change the climate made the social media rounds. Now, it has found advocates at the Department of H...

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Steve Everitt @steve-everitt.bsky.social · 1h

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JanSk8rFan 🇨🇦🍁 @hearitagain.bsky.social · 16h

And that is over three years, so 1000 teachers in the first year, for over 1400 public schools in Alberta. Not even one full time equivalent for each school.

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Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 12h

From the ABteachers instagram page:

A mock-up Alberta licence plate from the Alberta Teachers Association that reads UNDR FUNDED

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Ken Wood part owner of 🇨🇦 @madhat59kenwood.bsky.social · 17h

100% 👍 shut this farm down now! #bcpoli #cdnpoli

🇨🇦🇨🇦 Proud Canadian 🇨🇦🇨🇦 @beppil007.bsky.social · 23h

www.pauljhenderson.com/b-c-ostrich-...
A grift:
‘These people have farmed ostriches for meat for more than 25 years only recently scrubbing their social media of images of Karen with cutting boards full of meat in the kitchen, feeding bloody chunks to dogs’
A MAGA convoy grift no doubt w/US support

B.C. ostrich meat farm owners hit with avian flu now claim to be animal lovers & scientists, raising $280K from online fundraisers & cryptocurrency

Long-time grifters, Edgewood farm owners defy CFIA rules and have now tricked anti-science conspiracy theorists and animal lovers into donating hundreds of thousands of dollars —— EXCLUSIVE to PaulJH...

www.pauljhenderson.com

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 18h

"Japan tells OpenAI to stop spiriting away its copyrighted anime. Tokyo cries foul over Sora slop abusing 'irreplaceable treasures' of anime, manga - oh, and copyright law" www.theregister.com/2025/10/15/j...

Japan asks OpenAI to keep Sora 2’s hands off anime IP

: Tokyo cries foul over Sora slop abusing 'irreplaceable treasures' of anime, manga - oh, and copyright law

www.theregister.com

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Jen🇺🇸🏴‍☠️ @jen.sheshed.rocks · 22h

Gotta love a serenade and a bit of shade 🤭🤣

Enjoy 🤣
#SheShed

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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 19h

Obviously the Swastika is the worst thing, but the map labeling Canada as "SOON TO BE OHIO" doesn't thrill me either

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 19h

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

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Montreal Mike🇨🇦 @mikemontreal.bsky.social · 22h

I know many of my followers find Poilievre difficult if not impossible to listen to but the videos I share of him are essential so we simply don’t write him off. His rhetoric speaks to some people here and we need to be aware of what he’s saying. He’s not a consensus builder by no means.
#cdnpoli

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 20h

Of course they did. Because this is who they are. It is what the Trump Regime is.

Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 21h

Border Patrol Posts Instagram Propaganda Video Featuring Antisemitic Slurs

The video was pinned to Border Patrol's Instagram Reels.

gizmodo.com

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think Putin can afford to admit that the war hasn't been a mistake&stop the war he cannot win.This’ll mean the end of his power.He needs a war that lasts- lasts until the end of his life

Is Putin ready to stop the war?That is the wrong question
The right question is:Can Putin stop the war?⤵️

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David Shepherd @dshepyeg.bsky.social · 1d

A shout out to AB teachers who are out every day fighting for public education.

The UCP need to get back to the table with a fair deal for teachers with smaller class sizes & safer classrooms.

That’s how we get better for teachers, students & our education system.

Better is possible. #abpoli

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 1d

The hardest-hit communities included Kipnuk, population 715, and Kwigillingok, population 380.

2 villages in Alaska decimated by remnants of Typhoon Halong

More rain is expected on Wednesday, where the remnants of Typhoon Halong battered Kipnuk and Kwigillingok, two villages in Alaska.

www.aptnnews.ca

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John @johnbull.wtf · 1d

How the living fuck did we get to a point where Marjorie Taylor Greene is the voice of reason of the Republican party.

I want off this ride

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AB Resistance @abresistance.bsky.social · 1d

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Cat @kitkatnorthof60.bsky.social · 1d

I’m hoping they’ll be charged for being collaborators when this whole nightmare is over. Perhaps they’ll be treated like the “collaboration horizontale” in France following WWII and have their heads shaved. Easy way to tell who laid with the devil.

Cat @kitkatnorthof60.bsky.social · 1d

This is science ingenuity at its best and I’m here for it! Way to go UBC for one heck of a breakthrough 🇨🇦 🍁

Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · 2d

This is huge news!
UBC has developed an enzyme that can convert donor organs to type O, making them universal.
Normally a using organs of the wrong blood type causes the recipient's immune system to attack the organ, leading to failure.
❤️🇨🇦⚕️
news.ubc.ca/2025/10/univ...

UBC enzyme technology clears first human test toward universal donor organs for transplantation - UBC News

UBC-developed enzymes successfully converted a kidney to universal type O for transplant, marking a major step toward faster, more compatible organ donations.

news.ubc.ca

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Cat @kitkatnorthof60.bsky.social · 1d

Time in a Bottle gets me every single time. Reminds me of my Mom. Jim Croce’s music was pure perfection poetry.

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RC deWinter @rcdewinter.bsky.social · 1d

remembering Jim Croce, a huge talent who left us far too soon.
Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels) music.youtube.com/watch?v=khYx...

Jim Croce - Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels) [Official Music Video]

YouTube video by Jim Croce

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Spudislander45 🇨🇦❤️🌎💪🫡 @spudislander45.bsky.social · 1d

#Canadian #Snowbirds performance in San Fransisco, #California in early October 2025. #CanadaSky

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Cat @kitkatnorthof60.bsky.social · 1d

If I could press the ❤️ button more than once I would! 😊

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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 1d

“John had a quality of vulnerability,” talent agent Catherine McCartney once told journalist Martin Knelman. “He had the ability to make people feel special even if he had only known them a short time.” thewalrus.ca/john-candy/

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Alison Creekside @alisoncreekside.bsky.social · 1d

Doug Ford has not moved much from his role as a dealer/enforcer in the parking lot of James Gardens.

Globe investigation: The Ford family’s history with drug dealing

Long before the current controversy at Toronto City Hall, The Globe and Mail set out to trace the Ford brothers’ rise to prominence. Reporters found the Mayor’s siblings have former ties to drug traff...

www.theglobeandmail.com

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