Patricia Chartier
patriciaorpat.bsky.social
Patricia Chartier
@patriciaorpat.bsky.social
Kinda sorta retired, I live in Toronto. Longtime overthinker. Love to cook. Hoping to rekindle leftie and centre grassroots democracy in Canada. Part of healthcare advocacy group The Ghost Gurney Project, and Woodrow Avenue Elbows Up.
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Elon Musk: Not The Most Racist South African Ever will forever be my Peak New York Times Moment

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/o...
Opinion | A (Partial) Defense of Elon Musk
www.nytimes.com
June 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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When @bradtakei.bsky.social and I first got together, we never imagined we’d one day celebrate Pride openly, let alone post about it on the internet. But here we are, joy and all. Happy Pride, everyone! Let’s keep showing up, speaking out, and marching forward (glitter optional, but encouraged). 🌈✨
June 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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June 3, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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Why do hospitals need the money, lady? Is somebody UNDERFUNDING them!?
Minister of health dismisses call to eliminate parking fees, says hospitals need the money ottawacitizen.com/news/ontario... @egpayne.bsky.social

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June 3, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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🚨BREAKING: Doug Ford’s Trump-style power grab is racing through Queen’s Park.

This week, the Ford government is fast-tracking 7 bills—cutting debate short, skipping committee scrutiny, and trying to ram through Bill 5, which would grant massive new “special economic zone” powers.
June 2, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Bringing all our lost sheep back home! Thank you Canadian investors.
June 1, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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🌮😆
June 1, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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NFLD 🇨🇦 Canadians
Be in the know
Newfoundland man publishes patriotic word-search puzzles #Canada

From Canadian sights-to-see to songs or meals, Nick Cranford is putting Canadiana on the map.

Gros Morne, Peggy’s Cove, Banff. Trailer Park Boys, Anne Murray, Michael J. Fox

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www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
Newfoundland man publishes patriotic word-search puzzles
Gros Morne, Peggy’s Cove, Banff. Trailer Park Boys, Anne Murray, Michael J. Fox. They’re all Canadian and they’re all words to seek and circle in Nick Cranford’s word search books.
www.ctvnews.ca
June 1, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Pulling up in a Cybertruck is nature’s way of saying, “The bloodline ends with me.”
June 1, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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The Hudson Bay Company plans to auction off all the Indigenous art and artefacts they stole, in order to pay off their debt. These items should have been returned to the Nations they were stolen from.

youtu.be/OTJSDNpe3Hk
HBC plans to auction off artifacts and art pieces – should they be returned? | Sav on the Street
YouTube video by APTN News
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June 1, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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whenever I talk to friends who are freelancers or have their own thing going - there's so much chasing money they're just simply owed.
May 30, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Plenty of folks smarter than I am have pointed out that all of this bullshit is actually really bad for us Jews.
The State Department has initiated a pilot program reviewing the social media accounts of all Harvard students seeking international visas for evidence of 'antisemitism.'

www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
May 30, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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This is obviously good, but we need to stop doing referenda/plebiscites on issues that are fundamentally about evidence/science. Citizen votes are about values. Otherwise, governments should just govern.
May 29, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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"This is all part of a project of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank ... It's a state project. The state is informed of everything. If there was a will to stop those attacks, it would have happened in a minute."
"Survivors of an attack by violent Israeli settlers have described being 'hunted' across a West Bank valley by men armed with pistols, rifles and batons, who beat them so badly that all 10 had to be taken to hospital for their injuries."
#WestBank #Palestine #Israel #EthnicCleansing
Chased, beaten and robbed: survivors describe Israeli settler violence in West Bank
Palestinians and activists forced out of the village of Mughayyir al-Deir say they were harassed, stoned and shot at
www.theguardian.com
May 29, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Destructive wind emergency alert over the phone and a thunderstorm warning for Edmonton on the app! #yeg #yegwx #abwx
May 30, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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May 29, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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arm the pedestritariat
The only time I really feel like "we're cooked" is when I drive around and see every third driver literally watching or scrolling their phones while driving. Not at a red light. While navigating traffic. The addiction is total.
May 29, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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As a parent I love the 15 minute city - I'm tired and just wanna sit down. the less I have to travel and the less I have to do, the better.
May 29, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Police have gotten more funding and power than before, haven't reduced crime, and cause more harm than before, but so often we hear about the detrimental effects of defunding the police, which never happened.
Also, read this great article by Robyn Maynard
www.thestar.com/opin...
What is life like for Black people five years after George Floyd’s murder?
The same political leaders who claimed to they’d heard the calls of this historic movement eschewed meaningful change in favour of the status quo.
www.thestar.com
May 29, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Trump says Canada would pay $61B for Golden Dome, or 50% off just to bribe him directly
Trump says Canada would pay $61B for Golden Dome, or 50% off just to bribe him directly
WASHINGTON D.C. - US President Donald Trump has offered Canada the "fabulous opportunity" to either pay $61 billion to join his military's proposed Golden Dome defense shield, or to pay just $30.5 bil...
www.thebeaverton.com
May 28, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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I do not know how to get around the fact that millions of Americans who will never, in their entire lives, go to a large city have fabricated a complicated alternate reality of American large cities.
May 29, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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It never ceases to amaze me there are no consequences for anti-Semitism on the far right.
May 29, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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all I ask is that Stephen Miller’s wife actually does leave him for the weirdo IVF commune of the most awkward man alive

I think we all deserve this, if we can’t have good things we can at least have schadenfreude
May 29, 2025 at 2:12 AM