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Save the CBC 🇨🇦✌️ @savethecbc.bsky.social · 4d

🇨🇦 The Trump admin is buying into Canadian critical mineral companies — giving Washington a stake in our clean-energy future.

CBC reports Ottawa can still block the deal under national security laws.

This is why we need a strong public broadcaster — facts, not spin.

🔗 r.pebmac.ca/https://www....

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Vicky Smallman @offhandremarks.bsky.social · 4d

It was basically a raspberry flavoured butter tart. Delicious but sweeeeeeet

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Vicky Smallman @offhandremarks.bsky.social · 4d

Latest blog, a few reflections on one of Hintonburg’s finest. miss-vickys-offhand-remarks.ghost.io/on-paulette/

On Paulette

Last week I attended the celebration of life of one of the best of us. Paulette Dozois, former archivist, indefatigable community volunteer, staunch New Democrat and Hintonburg champion, has left a ma...

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Vicky Smallman @offhandremarks.bsky.social · 6d

Hopefully the amount of cheese I consume will make up for it

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Vicky Smallman @offhandremarks.bsky.social · 6d

Let’s have some of this leadership on this side of the border, please.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 6d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 6d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Vicky Smallman @offhandremarks.bsky.social · 6d

I’m not really a pork eater (even though some may call me a porkchopper)

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Vicky Smallman @offhandremarks.bsky.social · 6d

But there are these ones www.uc-cranberries.com

Upper Canada Cranberries - Cranberries in Ottawa Ontario

www.uc-cranberries.com

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Vicky Smallman @offhandremarks.bsky.social · 6d

At the IGA in Mont Laurier

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Vicky Smallman @offhandremarks.bsky.social · 6d

Thanksgiving shopping in Mont-Laurier - nary a turkey to be found. And forget about a gravy separator (tried both Cdn Tire and Home Hardware). However, local cranberries and a raspberry/sucre a la crème pie, as well as the fine local cheeses so it all balances out

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 6d

PHILIPPINES / CANADA: Filipino migrant workers in Canada call for livable wage, job security www.bulatlat.com/2025/10/11/f...

Filipino migrant workers in Canada call for livable wage, job security

“In an industry where precarious jobs, wage theft, unsafe conditions can be commonplace, where workers — especially migrants, women — face intimidation, fear of reprisal, for speaking up, it is not en...

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Vicky Smallman @offhandremarks.bsky.social · 10d

Gauri: We are not immune in Canada but we also have enjoyed for decades a commitment to the idea of Canada as a welcoming place & the values of social solidarity. We can and should demand better of our politicians and find ways to meet people where they are at and reminds people of common interests

Vicky Smallman @offhandremarks.bsky.social · 10d

We are pushed down this funnel where we are agreeing with the premise of a crisis around birth rates when we need to question how the conversation is framed. How can we counter? Doubling down on our commitments and resistance to divisive narratives

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Vicky Smallman @offhandremarks.bsky.social · 10d

Final question around the growth of the far right - fashioning policies around racist notions of purity etc. the movements driving anti gender attacks are the same ones driving anti BLM, anti-immigrant sentiments and more

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Vicky Smallman @offhandremarks.bsky.social · 10d

Claire from Dignity Network - we get caught in the trap of dog whistles like “the queer agenda”.

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Vicky Smallman @offhandremarks.bsky.social · 10d

There is so much that can unite us - to call for more robust public services, care systems, etc

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Vicky Smallman @offhandremarks.bsky.social · 10d

There are many blocks in our existing system to families reuniting if they don’t fit the heteronormative definition of family. Also cites the different way that refugees from Sudan and Palestine are treated - requiring them to have a family member, where others did not have that requirement

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Vicky Smallman @offhandremarks.bsky.social · 10d

Gauri expands on the idea of a toxic narrative by describing the discourse around the temporary foreign workers program - its toxic because it distracts us from really looking at what needs to change so we can all thrive, access survives, and get decent jobs

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Vicky Smallman @offhandremarks.bsky.social · 10d

We see the impact of this playing out at the UN and other multilateral institutions.

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Vicky Smallman @offhandremarks.bsky.social · 10d

SRHR and other rights are presented as an attack on traditional values and the family - and the forces that would roll us back have been very effective at doing so

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Vicky Smallman @offhandremarks.bsky.social · 10d

Carol - on the issue of language and words, especially the word family. What does the notion of a conventional “family” mean for those who don’t fit the convention? Fred: the seizing of concepts like family and weaponization of it to push policies that strip away what families need to thrive.

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Vicky Smallman @offhandremarks.bsky.social · 10d

Reproductive freedom for 2SLGBTQI+ communities - creating the families and relationships we long for - it’s about the power of self-determination. It’s all the issues necessary to create a more inclusive world

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Vicky Smallman @offhandremarks.bsky.social · 10d

Tremendous uptick in anti-gender and anti-rights activity esp in Africa and other parts of the global south. Very well funded networks driving these activities and policies

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Vicky Smallman @offhandremarks.bsky.social · 10d

On to the speaker from Dignity Network, who points out that human diversity is the norm yet criminalization of sexuality and identity exists in many counties. Who gets to be part of society’s future has too often been determined by church, colonization and other systems

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Vicky Smallman @offhandremarks.bsky.social · 10d

We are known to be leaders on these issues (citing gender persecution as a verification for refugee status) but C-2 puts that reputation under threat.

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