CHARMAINEBLUESKYSOCIAL
@charf.bsky.social
Love to make things, sewing, rug hooking, avid reader, love the outdoors, share my home with Mike Heather and 2 cats who are the bosses.
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December 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Sharing a song about life's messy and often painful experiences. Maybe not for everyone but if it is, enjoy.
youtu.be/aGfQvfMkkao?...
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This Might Be the Most BEAUTIFUL Hallelujah EVER Sung! - Instant Chills | Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah
YouTube video by Leire
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December 21, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Sharing a song about life's messy and often painful experiences. Maybe not for everyone but if it is, enjoy.
youtu.be/aGfQvfMkkao?...
youtu.be/aGfQvfMkkao?...
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December 14th, 2025, another US tug has a navigational accident or loss of power on BC central coast near Butedale, the barge strikes a cliff face and look at the damage! Second one in less than a month. Remind me again tankers would be safe on the north coast? #cdnpoli #bcpoli
December 21, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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December 20, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Music break 🎶
From the album Safe, Sensible and Sane. 🪕
From the album Safe, Sensible and Sane. 🪕
Alison Brown & Steve Martin - Dear Time (feat. Jackson Browne with Jeff Hanna)
YouTube video by Alison Brown
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December 21, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Music break 🎶
From the album Safe, Sensible and Sane. 🪕
From the album Safe, Sensible and Sane. 🪕
One of the first pieces I rug hooked. I never finished the background, so finally did it. I will hand sew this to some fabric to make an 18 inch pillow. #ArtAdventCalendar.
December 21, 2025 at 1:00 AM
One of the first pieces I rug hooked. I never finished the background, so finally did it. I will hand sew this to some fabric to make an 18 inch pillow. #ArtAdventCalendar.
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“We have done everything...to be noticed and to be heard, and, again, to be disappointed by our federal government."
As Abbotsford again recovers from disastrous flooding, renewed pleas for a long-term flood mitigation strategy
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/briti...
As Abbotsford again recovers from disastrous flooding, renewed pleas for a long-term flood mitigation strategy
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/briti...
Abbotsford, neighbouring B.C. municipalities renew pleas for flood mitigation strategy
Provincial officials say they can’t fund the project alone and accuse the federal government of being absent
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 20, 2025 at 6:48 PM
“We have done everything...to be noticed and to be heard, and, again, to be disappointed by our federal government."
As Abbotsford again recovers from disastrous flooding, renewed pleas for a long-term flood mitigation strategy
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/briti...
As Abbotsford again recovers from disastrous flooding, renewed pleas for a long-term flood mitigation strategy
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/briti...
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Gotta say, hitting the year mark of when I first launched my independent news outlet is SCARY. I've had about a 10% drop in income after passing the "auto renew" dates from my initial launch, eek!
If you have some extra cash and wanna spend it on some independent journalism, consider subscribing :)
If you have some extra cash and wanna spend it on some independent journalism, consider subscribing :)
December 18, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Gotta say, hitting the year mark of when I first launched my independent news outlet is SCARY. I've had about a 10% drop in income after passing the "auto renew" dates from my initial launch, eek!
If you have some extra cash and wanna spend it on some independent journalism, consider subscribing :)
If you have some extra cash and wanna spend it on some independent journalism, consider subscribing :)
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This.
This is the problem.
OH and S standards are different for HCWs and for the life of me (and them) I can't understand why.
This is the problem.
OH and S standards are different for HCWs and for the life of me (and them) I can't understand why.
December 19, 2025 at 1:27 AM
This.
This is the problem.
OH and S standards are different for HCWs and for the life of me (and them) I can't understand why.
This is the problem.
OH and S standards are different for HCWs and for the life of me (and them) I can't understand why.
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Canada’s anti-greenwashing rules protect our health, but they’re under threat.
Send a message to Ottawa: don’t give fossil fuel companies the license to lie to us. Choose truth, health and transparency instead.
cape.ca/action/prote...
Send a message to Ottawa: don’t give fossil fuel companies the license to lie to us. Choose truth, health and transparency instead.
cape.ca/action/prote...
Tell the Prime Minister: Protect Canada’s anti-greenwashing rules - CAPE
Send a message to the Prime Minister to protect and strengthen Canada’s anti-greenwashing rules instead of dismantling them.
cape.ca
December 18, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Canada’s anti-greenwashing rules protect our health, but they’re under threat.
Send a message to Ottawa: don’t give fossil fuel companies the license to lie to us. Choose truth, health and transparency instead.
cape.ca/action/prote...
Send a message to Ottawa: don’t give fossil fuel companies the license to lie to us. Choose truth, health and transparency instead.
cape.ca/action/prote...
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I missed this story. Makes me so mad.
Why was 'incredible' giant cedar cut down, despite B.C.'s big-tree protection law?
Joshua Wright says a yellow cedar tree he photographed last year was "incredible," the largest he'd ever seen in a decade of hiking around Vancouver Island, until it was cut down.
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December 17, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I missed this story. Makes me so mad.
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it’s fine
it’s fine that our transport/supplies/connectivity to the whole rest of the province can be severed by “heavy rain”
hashtag
itsclimatechangemotherfuckers
hashtag
somebodytellcarney
it’s fine that our transport/supplies/connectivity to the whole rest of the province can be severed by “heavy rain”
hashtag
itsclimatechangemotherfuckers
hashtag
somebodytellcarney
December 17, 2025 at 5:11 AM
it’s fine
it’s fine that our transport/supplies/connectivity to the whole rest of the province can be severed by “heavy rain”
hashtag
itsclimatechangemotherfuckers
hashtag
somebodytellcarney
it’s fine that our transport/supplies/connectivity to the whole rest of the province can be severed by “heavy rain”
hashtag
itsclimatechangemotherfuckers
hashtag
somebodytellcarney
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Write your MPs and MLAs to demand this clause be removed so we can continue having great libraries in Canada.
They have never been more important than now.
They have never been more important than now.
Not good. Not good! (via @parismarx.com)
Libraries say budget proposal to end shipping program would be 'catastrophic | CBC News
Libraries across Canada say a proposed change in the federal budget bill would end their ability to ship books at
reduced rates, threatening interlibrary loan programs and possibly forcing the closure...
www.cbc.ca
December 15, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Write your MPs and MLAs to demand this clause be removed so we can continue having great libraries in Canada.
They have never been more important than now.
They have never been more important than now.
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People aren't getting it.
Carney plans to spend $1.7 billion on recruiting researchers from the US or who would otherwise go to the US.
Yay, right?
The *entire annual budget* of NSERC is $1.3 billion. And he's cutting that.
Carney plans to spend $1.7 billion on recruiting researchers from the US or who would otherwise go to the US.
Yay, right?
The *entire annual budget* of NSERC is $1.3 billion. And he's cutting that.
December 16, 2025 at 5:01 AM
People aren't getting it.
Carney plans to spend $1.7 billion on recruiting researchers from the US or who would otherwise go to the US.
Yay, right?
The *entire annual budget* of NSERC is $1.3 billion. And he's cutting that.
Carney plans to spend $1.7 billion on recruiting researchers from the US or who would otherwise go to the US.
Yay, right?
The *entire annual budget* of NSERC is $1.3 billion. And he's cutting that.
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This is the US setting up Indigenous people. No one heard of them because they aren't Indigenous people or they are acting outside of any community which I doubt. Isahell hates native people too. 🪶
Something is just not right about this. I mean, of all the organizing work I've done with organizations around the world....never heard of Turtle Island Liberation Front. I'm also here in Los Angeles and never came in contact with these folks.
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FBI foils New Year's Eve terror plot in Los Angeles, officials say
Four people are facing conspiracy charges after they were apprehended while planning to test explosives in the desert.
www.bbc.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:43 AM
This is the US setting up Indigenous people. No one heard of them because they aren't Indigenous people or they are acting outside of any community which I doubt. Isahell hates native people too. 🪶
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18.6°C in #Kamloops today. It was pretty amazing & kinda disturbing at the same time being that's its the middle of December.
18.6°C in #Kamloops today. It was pretty amazing & kinda disturbing at the same time being that's its the middle of December.
27 B.C. communities experience warmest Dec. 15 on record
A frontal system that brought heavy rain and strong winds to much of B.C. also caused temperatures to rise, making Monday the warmest Dec. 15 on record in several communities, according to data from E...
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December 16, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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18.6°C in #Kamloops today. It was pretty amazing & kinda disturbing at the same time being that's its the middle of December.
18.6°C in #Kamloops today. It was pretty amazing & kinda disturbing at the same time being that's its the middle of December.
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"In a study published in October, Cooke and his co-authors found selenium concentrations downstream of three coal mines in the McLeod River watershed exceeded guidelines meant to protect aquatic life."
Add: reclaimed mines.
Add: reclaimed mines.
“What our paper, I think, makes fairly clear is that there’s pretty much an utter failure of environmental management regulation and enforcement in relation to coal mining,”
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Alberta officials stalled coal mine pollution study | The Narwhal
An Alberta government scientist was prevented from speaking publicly about his coal mine pollution research, emails show
thenarwhal.ca
December 15, 2025 at 9:58 PM
"In a study published in October, Cooke and his co-authors found selenium concentrations downstream of three coal mines in the McLeod River watershed exceeded guidelines meant to protect aquatic life."
Add: reclaimed mines.
Add: reclaimed mines.
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Another poison pill buried in Mark Carney’s budget: a repeal of a reduced postage rates for books and shipments between libraries.
Libraries across the country are sounding the alarm for what it would mean for the viability of another essential public institution.
Libraries across the country are sounding the alarm for what it would mean for the viability of another essential public institution.
Libraries say budget proposal to end shipping program would be 'catastrophic | CBC News
Libraries across Canada say a proposed change in the federal budget bill would end their ability to ship books at
reduced rates, threatening interlibrary loan programs and possibly forcing the closure...
www.cbc.ca
December 15, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Another poison pill buried in Mark Carney’s budget: a repeal of a reduced postage rates for books and shipments between libraries.
Libraries across the country are sounding the alarm for what it would mean for the viability of another essential public institution.
Libraries across the country are sounding the alarm for what it would mean for the viability of another essential public institution.
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Holiday gathering reminder 🎁
If your guests test w/rapids twice before the event, 48 hours apart, it’ll catch 63% of Covid cases even if they have no symptoms. Testing 3x improves that to 79%!
This is how we curb the annual January surge that gave me Long Covid—thanks for protecting yr community 🤍
If your guests test w/rapids twice before the event, 48 hours apart, it’ll catch 63% of Covid cases even if they have no symptoms. Testing 3x improves that to 79%!
This is how we curb the annual January surge that gave me Long Covid—thanks for protecting yr community 🤍
Study Examines Performance of Serial COVID Testing - News Center
Testing performance of rapid antigen tests for SARS-CoV-2 improved for both asymptomatic and symptomatic patients after testing multiple times in 48-hour intervals, according to findings published in ...
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December 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Holiday gathering reminder 🎁
If your guests test w/rapids twice before the event, 48 hours apart, it’ll catch 63% of Covid cases even if they have no symptoms. Testing 3x improves that to 79%!
This is how we curb the annual January surge that gave me Long Covid—thanks for protecting yr community 🤍
If your guests test w/rapids twice before the event, 48 hours apart, it’ll catch 63% of Covid cases even if they have no symptoms. Testing 3x improves that to 79%!
This is how we curb the annual January surge that gave me Long Covid—thanks for protecting yr community 🤍
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This list is worth reading for my friends in other provinces, too. You might not have expected to have to advocate for your kids’ human rights, or your neighbours’ treaty rights or workers’ rights, or to tell your premier to stop meddling in municipal affairs, but here we are.
2025 was the darkest for Alberta democracy.
Here are 10 things you can do this holiday season to help restore the light.
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Here are 10 things you can do this holiday season to help restore the light.
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What Can We Do?
A Holiday Plan for Restoring Alberta’s Democracy
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December 12, 2025 at 9:35 PM
This list is worth reading for my friends in other provinces, too. You might not have expected to have to advocate for your kids’ human rights, or your neighbours’ treaty rights or workers’ rights, or to tell your premier to stop meddling in municipal affairs, but here we are.
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I’ve worked in public libraries for 20 years, today was the first time we’ve had to tell someone they couldn’t bring their chainsaw in the library.
December 11, 2025 at 1:30 AM
I’ve worked in public libraries for 20 years, today was the first time we’ve had to tell someone they couldn’t bring their chainsaw in the library.
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For Day 9 of #ArtAdventCalendar, a small butterfly elephant from last year! Paper mache, glass eyes, metal wire, painted with acrylics using a sand effect medium for a textured surface.
December 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
For Day 9 of #ArtAdventCalendar, a small butterfly elephant from last year! Paper mache, glass eyes, metal wire, painted with acrylics using a sand effect medium for a textured surface.
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