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Anna 🇨🇦

@annabelluz.bsky.social

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Living and working in Vancouver, BC with daughter Emi, our service pup Kya and horses Dazzle and Caleesi. Former Creative Editorial Director, now Learning thru Gaming Minecraft educator. I post about animal welfare, girlpower and stuff that happens!

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Anna 🇨🇦 @annabelluz.bsky.social · Sep 9

Mother Jones Editor-in-Chief Clara Jeffery has shared the Epstein birthday book files, linked below.

⚠️ CONTENT WARNING ⚠️
And why all good people around the world need to keep the kettle ON to bring justice to all victims and remove dRump and his sink of ants from office.
#usapoli #canpoli

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · Sep 9

Ok, you can get to the files from The Oversight Committee site.

Warning: It is not easy reading. oversight.house.gov/release/over...

entry from Jeffrey Epstein birthday book

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Anna 🇨🇦 @annabelluz.bsky.social · 7h

Ass. Whattya need 'em for? Go ahead, we're listening from Canada.

Anna 🇨🇦 @annabelluz.bsky.social · 7h

Oh, here. ⤵️ I think this applies to all of us, around the world. Ditch the Ring camera. #uspoli #ice #cdnpoli #canadasky

Kristen Thomasen @kristenthomasen.bsky.social · 8h

Remember how the Death Star had that one hidden weakness?

Well, an important kill switch in this massive surveillance network is: individual control over a bunch of the nodes. People hold the power to tear the network down.

Love your neighbour, trash the Ring camera.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 8h

Legion of Doom to partner with the Sinister Six.

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Anna 🇨🇦 @annabelluz.bsky.social · 7h

What a complete and utter waste of her valuable time. 😠

Anna 🇨🇦 @annabelluz.bsky.social · 12h

Their heads are so lost up there… how did this happen?!?!

Anna 🇨🇦 @annabelluz.bsky.social · 12h

I need to download some of the plans to see if this is accommodated. The idea here is right, but we need more progressive thinking cause 🙄 #climate !

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 1d

Next week, Oct 21 at 5:30 pm BST, @newcastleuni.bsky.social hosts @jaapderoode.bsky.social for a discussion of his book, Doctors by Nature, exploring how animals use medicine and what it can teach us about healing ourselves.

This event is free and open to the public. Save your spot: buff.ly/vjs1oVE

Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes, and Other Animals Heal Themselves by Jaap de Roode

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 18h

Bellingcat offers a variety of workshops designed to sharpen your online investigation skills. Want to learn how to verify online claims, or gather data through web scraping? Check out our upcoming online workshops and webinars. Make sure to sign up! ⬇️

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Anna 🇨🇦 @annabelluz.bsky.social · 16h

I dislike this kind of presser… with individuals (in this case children) in the background, shifting and floating with little to no interest. We can do better. #cdnpoli

Anna 🇨🇦 @annabelluz.bsky.social · 16h

Here’s the link to the just released ‘Housing Design Catalogue’ plans. Province-specific. There will be need for revisions depending on your site, local restrictions and build code requirements. That lack of roof overhang? Yikes. 😳 #CanadaSky
www.housingcatalogue.cmhc-schl.gc.ca

Housing Design Catalogue

The Housing Design Catalogue provides standardized designs to make homebuilding easier. It features accessory dwelling units, townhomes and multiplexes.

www.housingcatalogue.cmhc-schl.gc.ca

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ChrisSpalanca(🇨🇦) @chrisspalanca.bsky.social · 1d

🗣Canada🇨🇦 invested over $15 billion💰 in #Stellantis to secure Canadian🇨🇦 jobs & #EV production in #Ontario⚙️.

⚠️Shifting Jeep #manufacturing to the U.S🇺🇸 after taking that funding isnt a “business decision”, its a breach👎 of contract & violation of federal law⚖️. #cndpoli #cdnpoli #onpoli #PublicityStunt

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Natural Resources @natural-resources.canada.ca · 2d

Hello Bluesky! We’re excited to be here. Join us for updates on:

🔋 energy sources and distribution
🌲 forests and forestry
⛏️ minerals and mining
🛰️ earth sciences
🔌 energy efficiency
🔬 science and data

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Mary Shine @maryshine.bsky.social · 2d

🇨🇦 CANADIAN
#Covid-19 Forecast:
Oct 11-24, 2025

Tara Moriarty @moriartylab.bsky.social · 2d

Canadian COVID Forecast: Oct 11 - Oct 24, 2025
SEVERE: NL, NS, SK
VERY HIGH: MB, NB, North, PEI
HIGH: CAN, AB, BC, ON, QC
MODERATE: none

About 1 in 95 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

This image shows gauges with the Oct 11 - Oct 24, 2025 Forecast scores for Canada, the provinces, & territories. From left to right:

Canada: HIGH - 8.9
Alberta: HIGH - 7.0
British Columbia: HIGH - 8.4
Manitoba: VERY HIGH - 14.9
New Brunswick: VERY HIGH - 11.3
Newfoundland & Labrador: SEVERE - 17.0
North: VERY HIGH - 12.3
Nova Scotia: SEVERE - 16.3
Ontario: HIGH - 7.5
Prince Edward Island: VERY HIGH - 11.8
Quebec: HIGH - 10.0
Saskatchewan: SEVERE - 17.0

A text box reads: "The COVID Forecast is calculated from 3 equally weighted categories: 1) Current infections and spread; 2) Healthcare system impact; 3) Mortality. Within each category there is one sub-category for trends over the most recent week (Trends) and one sub-category for current parameter values relative to a specified baseline (Current values). Trends and current values are weighted equally when determining the final score for a category. All Forecast input data and sources are available here (https://datastudio.google.com/embed/u/0/reporting/42b886cf-d661-488e-b7d8-5c5836b55ab6/page/p_2yqs028mwc). Past Forecast scores are available in the table below. Forecast scores are grouped into 4 ranges: MODERATE (1 to <5, white), HIGH (6 to <10, yellow), VERY HIGH (10 to <15, orange), SEVERE (>15 red)."

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Anna 🇨🇦 @annabelluz.bsky.social · 2d

Yep. THIS. 🌽 Gotta love the messaging our Creative Editorial teams can take!

Kelly Sutton (aka IglooChik)🐧 @igloochik.bsky.social · 2d

So the whiner in chief is at it again...this time it's at Time magazine. He hates this. picture taken of him. Actually, it shows something very clearly in the center of the picture... the one perfect undamaged ear. 😄😄😄

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Anna 🇨🇦 @annabelluz.bsky.social · 2d

Great lineup of new podcasts! Thx for sharing.

Anna 🇨🇦 @annabelluz.bsky.social · 2d

Watch. Some of these printing and distribution (and design, editing, photography?) expenses could be folded in and paid for by us, the taxpayer.

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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 2d

Fleet Week pilots face a unique challenge when they fly over San Francisco, according to Canadian Snowbirds lead pilot Brent Handy. It’s not the wind or fog, but the “distraction of such a beautiful city”

❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️
❤️🍁🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA 🇨🇦🍁❤️

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Anna 🇨🇦 @annabelluz.bsky.social · 3d

Urban deer are attracted to the sound of chainsaws, fresh (normally out of reach) branches to munch on!

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 5d

Diane Keaton was a true Californian. She was a self-described oddball, uniquely stylish, deeply creative, funny, and an acting legend who could steal the screen in comic and dramatic roles alike. She was in a class all her own, an icon.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 6d

Democracy is a precondition for lasting peace. However, we live in a world where democracy is in retreat, where more and more authoritarian regimes are challenging norms and resorting to violence.

Maria Corina Machado – awarded the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize – has spent years working for the freedom of the Venezuelan people. The Venezuelan regime’s rigid hold on power and its repression of the population are not unique in the world. We see the same trends globally: rule of law abused by those in control, free media silenced, critics imprisoned, and societies pushed towards authoritarian rule and militarisation. In 2024, more elections were held than ever before, but fewer and fewer are free and fair.

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Anna 🇨🇦 @annabelluz.bsky.social · 6d

Yep. Just about every season for the past decade … truckloads of cookies stolen, then sold at a higher price to unsuspecting seniors. It’s time to change how we generate funds for camps. Ugh.

Anna 🇨🇦 @annabelluz.bsky.social · 7d

New ad campaign, ‘Choose Canada’ from the Feds. Buy, Embrace, Explore and Protect (?). Very curious 🧐. #CanadaSky
Here’s the link. www.canada.ca/en/canadian-...

Choose Canada - Canada.ca

Choose Canada in every way, especially when you buy, travel, celebrate, cheer on, explore, and adventure.

www.canada.ca

Anna 🇨🇦 @annabelluz.bsky.social · 7d

And the United States of America needs to recognize TWO official languages: English and Spanish.

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Anna 🇨🇦 @annabelluz.bsky.social · 8d

STOP IT ALREADY! that’s it. Unfollowed. Me sad. This is so stupid.

Anna 🇨🇦 @annabelluz.bsky.social · 8d

What kinda hedline is this? C’mon… after all of that Prime Day slush. Ugh. 😩

Anna 🇨🇦 @annabelluz.bsky.social · 8d

Yep. This. ⬇️ Don’t be fooled! Amazon Prime Day ‘sale’ is notoriously sus. (You probably don’t need it, anyways). Climate is what pays for our obsession with possessions. #BuyNothing #PrimeDay

Jean Krak @jeankrak.bsky.social · 9d

I don't shop at Amazon as much as I used to (breaking the addiction) but I had an item sitting in my cart for a few days - thinking on it. It was $17 and change when I put it in my cart. Today, on Prime Day, it's $23.45 😂