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Donna Burke @momstheword.bsky.social · 17h

Happy Thanksgiving @bsky.app friends 🍂🦃🧑🏻‍🍳👨🏻‍🍳🐿️ 🍁and GO BLUE JAYS!! 🧢⚾️🏟️

a sign that says i 'm thankful for you with a cornucopia full of pumpkins

ALT: a sign that says i 'm thankful for you with a cornucopia full of pumpkins

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🎃 Leah says @leahincanada.bsky.social · 21h

‼️ Don't use the fake spiderweb stuff outside. It's a deathtrap for birds. #Halloween

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Sheila @shelearn.bsky.social · 21h

#Halloween

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Barry @bdidier.bsky.social · 18h

As far as I’m concerned, there are no innocent bystanders:

www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/b...

Canada’s boycott America movement is hurting innocent bystanders | CNN Business

Virginia Distillery CEO Gareth Moore was bullish on his company’s American single malt whisky sales north of the border when 2025 kicked off.

www.cnn.com

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Donna Burke @momstheword.bsky.social · 18h

Have you seen the version (French) where he stops recording to let the cat in? 😸

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Donna Burke @momstheword.bsky.social · 18h

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Trump plan to invite Netanyahu to Gaza summit aborted after Erdoğan warning

Turkish president threatens to pull out of Sharm el-Sheikh conference unless Israeli PM’s attendance ruled out

www.theguardian.com

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Orion Kidder @orionkidder.bsky.social · 2d

The ever-correct @jamellebouie.net argues that Kennedy is a eugenicist: those who are "fit" deserve healthcare.

I would add, and I think he'd agree, they measure "fitness" by things like lack of melanin and the presence of large quantities of money and/or political influence.

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 2d

Meanwhile the White House just illegally laid off dozens of CDC researchers and scientists during the shutdown.

Tweet by Dan Pfeiffer: “Anti-vax in the streets, pro-vax in the sheets.”
Below is Kaitlan Collins’ tweet showing a photo of a White House medical memorandum dated October 10, 2025, stating that President Donald Trump received his flu shot and COVID booster at Walter Reed.

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Donna Burke @momstheword.bsky.social · 2d

I had a dream this morning that we were at a friend’s house for Thanksgiving dinner and people kept arriving with Christmas presents. Now I know why.

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Loyal🇨🇦Dclord🇨🇦 @loyalcdndclord.bsky.social · 2d

#cdnmedia at it again.
Notice when there is a headline with "met with mixed reactions", the "mixed reaction" exclusively comes from either the IDU/CPC or one of their supporting groups. In this case it's the CTF. #CDNMEDIAFAILED #CDNPOLI

Automatic tax filing announcement met with mixed reactions

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation says the Canada Revenue Agency acting as both the tax collector and tax filer is a serious conflict of interest.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Donna Burke @momstheword.bsky.social · 3d

That “line” has been in use since PM Trudeau announced that the government purchased the pipeline. Words to the effect that all proceeds earned from the pipeline would be put towards green energy projects.

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Donna Burke @momstheword.bsky.social · 3d

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Syilx Okanagan Nation chiefs deny issuing cease and desist letter in ostrich cull controversy | CBC News

The Syilx Okanagan Nation in B.C. says it did not issue a cease and desist letter that claims to protect a controversial ostrich farm from a Canada Food Inspection Agency cull, and questions its authe...

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 3d

Big jobs print up north.

(Bloomberg) -- The Canadian economy added more jobs than expected but the unemployment rate held steady as more people entered the workforce.
Employment rose by 60,400 positions in September, driven by increases in full-time work.
The jobless rate was unchanged at 7.1%, Statistics Canada data showed Friday. The job gains surpassed even the most optimistic projection in a Bloomberg survey of economists -- the median forecast was for 5,000 jobs to be created.
Gains were led by public employment. The manufacturing sector added 27,800 employees, and agriculture, health care and other services all added workers. The employment rate -- the proportion of the working-age population that's employed -- rose 0.1 percentage points to 60.6% in September.

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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 5d

“Perhaps it is more illuminating to ask: is Alberta an actual province, or just a company town? The oil patch has intruded so far into Albertan institutions it is difficult to discern where private interests end, and public government begins.”

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www.desmog.com/2025/10/08/d...

Danielle Smith’s Pipeline Without a Proponent Is All Dollars and No Sense

Canada has a higher calling than wasting time and political capital indulging fossil fuel fever dreams.

www.desmog.com

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Donna Burke @momstheword.bsky.social · 4d

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

French appeal court increases sentence of Gisèle Pelicot rapist

Husamettin Dogan loses appeal after jury at retrial finds him guilty of raping Pelicot while she was sedated

www.theguardian.com

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Donna Burke @momstheword.bsky.social · 4d

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The EU has a secret weapon to counter Trump’s economic bullying. It’s time to use it | Johnny Ryan

The anti-coercion instrument, or ‘trade bazooka’, is designed to shield against foreign pressure, says civil liberties campaigner Johnny Ryan

www.theguardian.com

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Donna Burke @momstheword.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you jesus , thank you lord. Do this #BlueJays.

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John Roscoe @johnroscoe.bsky.social · 5d

"Who should we call to represent Conservatives in a committee on National Security?"
"Well, that calls for an experienced statesman; somebody who would never invent evidence to smear a reporter and settle an old grudge."
"How about Chris 'Lock Her Up' Alexander?"
"Or we could get him, yeah good."

Headline: "'Lock her up' chant is srtike three for Tory Hopeful Chris Alexander: Hebert" from Toronto Star, Dec. 6, 2016.

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Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @lukaszukab.bsky.social · 5d

On Thursday, the #ForeverCanadian Unity Bus will be stopping by Red Deer, Innisfail, Sylvan Lake, Rimbey and Rocky Mountain House.

I am looking forward to helping our volunteers collect petition signatures.

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Shannon Waters @sobittersosweet.bsky.social · 5d

The bill has been introduced and there's a division call at first reading

This is unusual. Most bills get a cursory pass through to second reading

We're going to have a standing vote with each MLA's vote recorded #bcpoli

Shannon Waters @sobittersosweet.bsky.social · 5d

The One BC caucus also plans to introduce a private members' bill titled, "Protecting Minors from Gender Transition Act"

With the new procedures for PMBs, this bill could see debate. However, there are about a dozen PMBs ahead of it in the queue, so to speak, and only 5 weeks of debate this session

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Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @lukaszukab.bsky.social · 5d

The Unity Bus keeps rolling throughout Alberta. When you see it, honk, or send a kiss to the driver 😃

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 8d

There are 3 major reasons why the cull must proceed:
1. Economic security: upholding trade agreements for our $2B poultry export market
2. Health security: preventing avian flu spread to other farms
3. Government sovereignty security: uphold the rule of law & democracy

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 6d

What do you know, the ostrich farmers owe money all over Canada for the ostrich schemes of the past. They are in arrears on $250K worth of debt and their creditors find their interim payments of ostrich oil instead of actual loonies to be insufficient
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Creditors circle as cull controversy shines light on B.C. ostrich farmers' unpaid bills | CBC News

After years of chasing debts through the courts, creditors of a high-profile ostrich farm in southeastern B.C. have filed paperwork against the Canada Food Inspection Agency in the hopes of recouping ...

www.cbc.ca

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 5d

T. Joseph Mattingly estimates that the 2025 measles outbreak in Texas will cost $90M. Measles is expensive. It's also preventable. Vaccination increases productivity & reduces costs.

Vaccination is healthy for people & the economy.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Penny wise, pound foolish: The cost of reduced support for measles prevention

Measles, a vaccine-preventable disease previously declared eliminated in the United States, is reemerging with over 1400 cases reported in 2025. This …

www.sciencedirect.com

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John Roscoe @johnroscoe.bsky.social · 5d

I miss the old Chris Alexander, the pre-smearing innocent journalists with neither reason nor consequence Chris Alexander, back when he was merely a font of inanely cruel xenophobia and Skeletorian dinkishness.

This new guy is the pits.

A comparison of Chris Alexander and Skeletor. Mr. Alexander's comment was "Simply arriving on our shores and claiming hardships isn't good enough. This isn't a self-selection bonanza, or a social program buffet" (2014).

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Donna Burke @momstheword.bsky.social · 5d

Meanwhile in Canada ….

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 5d

Canada vs. America

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