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Ben Darrah
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Artist and teacher and interested in just about everything. Pro-kindness. He/him 🇨🇦
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Smith on respecting First Nations and Treaty Rights...

Well really, I only have to take the treaties seriously and show respect if the separatists get the signatures, I wouldn't want to offend anyone!

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
February 1, 2026 at 9:58 PM
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Meanwhile, on the health file, the 🇨🇦Conservatives have Pierre Polievre as the leader who hates expertise, incited the anti-vaxx KuKluxKonvoy truckers and promises to ban all vaccine mandates so your kids can get polio, whooping cough, measles, mumps, COVID etc etc.
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February 1, 2026 at 11:41 AM
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Important info good Canadians
Petition to sign
End US/Foreign Interference in Canada
Keep 🇨🇦 Canadian
Sign Petition e-6821 to pass legislation requiring majority Canadian ownership of news media.
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Protect Canadian Sovereignty: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
🍁Vive le Canada🍁

#elbowsup #cdnpoli #canadasky #boycottusa
Sign this Petition - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
February 2, 2026 at 2:16 AM
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By the way, ONLY party members who paid $1000 and went to the convention, got to vote. The rank and file members did not get a vote. #cdnpoli #CPCConvention
February 1, 2026 at 3:56 AM
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youtube.com/shorts/Aks3Q... and what did Trump do? He laughed, and said ‘I guess that means I own the tallest building now’. He scammed $150k from the 9/11 assistance fund, lying that his building had damage, yet, THIS is the kind of person who gets elected - TWICE. He doesn’t care. USA? Really?
America did not stand alone after 9/11. It just forgot who stood with it.
YouTube video by Tod Maffin
youtube.com
January 21, 2026 at 1:47 AM
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“Unlike the car, the e-cargo bike afforded a unique sensitivity to the natural world and local environment [that] enabled parents to train their children in local geography and responsible mobility.”

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RW2MT...
November 4, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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If you don’t fallow Charlie Angus (you really should) here’s his reaction to that ridiculous letter from Maine.

youtu.be/9BptD9K1Bu4?...
CHARLIE ANGUS: MESSAGE TO THE LOSER SENATOR FROM MAINE
YouTube video by Charlie Angus
youtu.be
August 15, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Abier—

"To all TV hosts and reporters: thinking of interviewing Francesca Albanese without doing your homework? Good luck, she doesn’t leave crumbs 💀"
August 1, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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I think a lot about this from P.J. O’Rourke:

“The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.”
July 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Trillium Health came to my door asking for donations to build a new public hospital in Waterloo.

I told them: I respect your work-but no. I already pay taxes. Doug Ford is hoarding billions and
starving public healthcare.

Ask him where the money went. #ONpoli
#HealthcareCrisis
July 6, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.
June 22, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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This is a sensible explanation of what went down at the G7 today - and why tRumpy is beating a hasty retreat.
June 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Living in Ontario is getting worse by the day.
Doug Ford is as bad as Trump, in a smaller playground.
So many bad bills it is hard to keep up.
#Resistance
“This is not education reform; it’s authoritarianism cloaked in the language of accountability, designed to deflect blame, suppress dissenting voices, and tighten political control over a public education system this government has failed to adequately fund." www.etfo.ca/news-publica...
ETFO responds to Ford government’s egregious overreach, forced return of police in schools
This is not education reform; it’s authoritarianism cloaked in the language of accountability, designed to deflect blame, suppress dissenting voices, and tighten political control over a public educat...
www.etfo.ca
May 30, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Trump had an Oval Office meltdown over Wall Street’s new acronym for his tariffs: TACO Trade, which stands for “Trump Always Chickens Out.”
#TACO
Trump Melts Down at ‘Why Do You Always Chicken Out’ Question
The president also lashed out at the reporter who asked about Wall Street’s new nickname for his trade war.
www.thedailybeast.com
May 28, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Trump gets asked about the #TACO trade: 🌮

@followtheh.bsky.social
May 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Thou shalt call Donald a TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out) from now on because HOLY SHIT HE HATES IT.
May 28, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Support Our Kids!

#OntEd

#Rally4Edu

Saturday, May 24, 2025
12:00 pm-1:30 pm at Queen's Park South Lawn.

See you there!

(Free ice cream!)
May 17, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Today is the last day for Ontarians to comment on Bill 5, which would wipe out the the Endangered Species Act and give cabinet the power to create “special economic zones” where development can be pushed through without regard for provincial or municipal rules. #onpoli
Bill 5: Ontario’s development and mining law, explained | The Narwhal
Public commenting on Bill 5 closes in a few days. Here’s everything you need to know about Ontario’s omnibus development bill
thenarwhal.ca
May 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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This is my favorite post today and it isn’t even close
Idk why, but I saw this the other day and it immediately made me think of @floregonian.com — the Refried of bsky
May 16, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Please Ontario people - read this. Ford is destroying this province. Ontario is killing its Endangered Species Act. Here’s what you need to know: thenarwhal.ca/ontario-enda...
Ontario is killing its Endangered Species Act | The Narwhal
The Doug Ford government’s Bill 5 could affect redside dace and other endangered species on the path of Highway 413
thenarwhal.ca
May 16, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Remember this when Ontario burns this summer. This terrible human being thought it was a good idea to cut fire fighting services. #SV4A
May 14, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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This research article investigates the cardiovascular effects of Long COVID, specifically how SARS-CoV-2 impacts heart cells at the mitochondrial level.

Overall, the findings suggest that SARS-CoV-2 directly harms mitochondria in heart cells.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
May 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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A thousand yeses to this from Cole Arthur Riley.
May 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Best post today?
Here's some advice from the guy who has never had a job in the real world.
Now about that 19-room taxpayer funded mansion you live in Pierre....
#evictthesquatter
April 30, 2025 at 10:31 PM