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LeslieMaggie🇨🇦🍁

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Idealist who believes we can do better but at odds with current reality! 🇨🇦She/Her

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LeslieMaggie🇨🇦🍁 @lesliemaggie.bsky.social · Jan 20

Excellent thread from Cheryl, with sources. Tired of the federal Liberals? Think again. And keep handy for the next election.
#cdnpoli
#elxn44

Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · Jan 20

Since 2015 - the Liberal Party of Canada has done the following for Canadians: #elxn44 #cdnpoli (long thread - will continue to add to thread)

1. Introduced the new Canada Child Benefit, which gives more money to the families who need it most — lifting nearly 435,000 kids out of poverty.

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Marilyn Porter 🇨🇦 @marilynp.bsky.social · 1h

This is part of a pattern: concentrating power, bypassing debate, and weakening public institutions. We can’t just shake our heads; we need to organize, speak up locally, and support people pushing back.

Kimiko Shibata @eslfairy.bsky.social · 1h

globalnews.ca/news/1151241...

Ford government bypassing debate on bill to more easily takeover school boards | Globalnews.ca

A motion from House Leader Steve Clark looks to speed several bills through the legislative process after the government shortened the fall sitting by more than a month.

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 8h

“This first use of the Charter’s notwithstanding clause in an act of the Alberta legislature is a stain upon your record & undercuts the credibility of the many calls you have made for all levels of government to respect the rights of citizens.”

ATA to Smith today.

#abpoli

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 9h

The recall on Angela Pitt is officially a go!

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 5h

Investing smartly in public transit checks ALL the boxes right now, @mark-carney.bsky.social. It’s a credible example of both real nation-building & climate action. It’s a proven cost SAVER with a great ROI that makes Canadian cities more successful & competitive. It supports equity & affordability.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 20h

Not only is Tom Hanks protecting his own health, by masking up he’s protecting everyone else on public transit.

Many people taking the subway don’t have paid time off.

They don’t have the good healthcare someone like Hanks can afford.

Masking is community care.

Keith Muise @keithmuise.bsky.social · 20h

When asked by Stephen Colbert why he was wearing a mask in public, Tom Hanks said..

“I’ve had Covid enough in my life I don’t need to do that again. I’m wearing this for health reasons”

More celebrities need to speak out like this.

Picture is of Tom Hanks, sitting on a subway train with his legs crossed, wearing black boots and black pants with a green sweater and a green toque sitting on orange chair. He’s holding onto a support pole, and wearing a black respirator. Behind him on the walls, the subway map.

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Marit Stiles @maritstilesndp.bsky.social · 11h

💌 YOU’RE INVITED: Join us TONIGHT with MPPs Robin Lennox, Catherine McKenney and Sandy Shaw for a Renter Townhall!

➡️SAVE YOUR SPOT: OntarioNDP.ca/events

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

Welcome to Canada.

This video is aerial videos of #Newfoundland, on the east coast of Canada

ENJOY! #FallColours #Canada #Travel

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 16h

Did you know? #cdnpoli 👇

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 13h

Greater Toronto home sales down 9.5 per cent in October from last year #Toronto #Ontario

halifax.citynews.ca/2025/11/05/g...

Greater Toronto home sales down 9.5 per cent in October from last year

TORONTO — Toronto’s real estate board says home sales and prices were down in October from a year earlier as economic uncertainty persists. The Toronto Regional Real Estate Board says home sales total...

halifax.citynews.ca

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ScoTrek ElbowsUp! Slava Ukrani 🍁 @scotrekw2ts.bsky.social · 11h

Vassy is now known to be a Con friendly tv personality, but this point is dead on! Why indeed is it not ok now? Howdy Doodie's Harper gov did it, 5 times! Deflect, obfuscate & mislead, as always. #SheerNonsense

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kazzanmz.bsky.social @kazzanmz.bsky.social · 11h

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Tom Engel @tomengel7.bsky.social · 1d

Canadian Council of Criminal Defence Lawyers:
"To use this clause & to muse, as the Alberta govt has, about using it in a variety of circumstances, & to now implore other govts to use it, as the Premier has, demonstrates a disdain for the constitution which is unprecedented."

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Heather McPherson MP @heathermcpherson.bsky.social · 15h

This budget hurts people.

40,000 jobs cut.
Services cut.
Indigenous services gutted.
Nothing for the environment.
But American big-tech billionaires? They get tax breaks.

We can still fix this. Mark Carney can still amend this budget and choose fairness.

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Leslie-Anne 🇨🇦🇫🇷😷☮️**I AM CANADIAN!** @leslie-anne.bsky.social · 1d

Dear Canadian Media:

Maybe ‘focus’ on the budget as an investment in SAVING OUR SOVEREIGNTY and not a ‘pearl clutching deficit’…..can you EVER try to support Canada?

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 13h

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Approval of Pierre Poilievre has reached an all-time low

cultmtl.com/2025/10/appr...

Approval of Pierre Poilievre has reached an all-time low

Approval of Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre has reached an all-time low.

cultmtl.com

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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 13h

How Alberta Became the Epicentre of Canada’s Measles Outbreak. A virus eradicated from Canada a generation ago just took the life of a newborn, by @monicakidd.bsky.social thewalrus.ca/how-alberta-... via @thewalrus.ca

How Alberta Became the Epicentre of Canada’s Measles Outbreak | The Walrus

A virus eradicated from Canada a generation ago just took the life of a newborn

thewalrus.ca

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Joe G @eastendjoe.bsky.social · 28d

Best 3 minutes you will spend on the internet today.

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Chris Glover @chrisgloverndp.bsky.social · 1d

Ford's gravy train stops at a strip club.

$10 million of Skills Development Fund went to the owner of a strip club.

Women refused to work and walked out because they were expected to wear fishnets and g-strings.

This is where Ford is spending our tax dollars.

#ONpoli

TheTrillium.ca @thetrillium.bsky.social · 1d

Venue of $10M Skills Development Fund recipient, partners now licensed as an ‘adult entertainment club’

For decades, Zlatko Starkovski has leased the historic Exhibition Place building, which hosted PC fundraisers and the party’s campaign manager’s wedding in recent years

dlvr.it

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LeslieMaggie🇨🇦🍁 @lesliemaggie.bsky.social · 16h

Yes, vaccines are important! They prevent severe illness and death in the case of Covid but they don’t stop the spread. Mask up with a good quality mask. Protect yourself & others.

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MamãBear @alsolearning.bsky.social · 1d

Sadly, I expect it’s the same in Ontario. 😱

Nurse at large Canadian hospital says they’re ‘surprised more people haven’t died while waiting’
www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

Nurse at large Canadian hospital says they’re ‘surprised more people haven’t died while waiting’

"It’s chaos 24/7," says a nurse of life inside Manitoba's largest hospital. They say the lack of bed space and staff is creating impossible working conditions.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 1d

This was a good week for global resistance. Shout outs to the Netherlands, Ireland and Albertan resistance - ground zero in the Canadian fight against MAGA MAPLE.
@meidascanada.ca @meidastouch.com

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVHL...

A GREAT WEEK FOR RESISTANCE - LET'S CELEBRATE!!!

YouTube video by Charlie Angus

www.youtube.com

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Norm Di Pasquale🇨🇦 @normsworld.bsky.social · 1d

So the Ford appointed supervisors will make more than all School Board Trustees combined, and that money will come out of the education budget that’s supposed to go to student needs. Shame! globalnews.ca/news/1151063... #topoli #onpoli #onted

Ford government supervisors can charge $350K per year to school boards | Globalnews.ca

Several school boards in Ontario, including Toronto public, Toronto Catholic and Ottawa-Carleton, have been under the management of supervisors for months.

globalnews.ca

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am-mccarthy.bsky.social @am-mccarthy.bsky.social · 1d

Once you wear a mask during a pandemic and don't get sick for a few years, you're pretty sold on masking

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 1d

Tom Hanks explains to Stephen Colbert why he masks on the subway:

"I'm doing a play right now so I cannot get sick... I've had COVID enough in my life, I don't need to do that again. So I'm wearing this for health reasons."

Thank you Tom! Masks are still a key part of public health.

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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 1d

"Our news networks are following the exact path the American networks took with Trump: let the man lie to voters for as long as he wants to, whenever he wants to, and don’t bother to follow up immediately — or interrupt — with real-time fact-checks."
www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/anal...

Opinion: Poilievre’s maple MAGA methodology

The guy standing behind Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre in the news conference (his public safety critic, Frank Caputo) bore a profoundly unsettling, heavyset resemblance to Trump acolyte Stephen...

www.winnipegfreepress.com

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