Elle franco
@ellefranco.bsky.social
Canadian trying to be a better human
Settler on Treaty 6 Territory
Love is Love
ABC
Settler on Treaty 6 Territory
Love is Love
ABC
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Canadian Gifts & Homewares - Made in Canada
A curated collection of Canadian-made gifts and homewares. Know the story of your stuff, meet the makers, and #CraftChange in the community.
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November 29, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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I love this - Canadians have always known where we come from and what made us but we rarely say it so loudly and proudly.
Built in a place where we know we’re accepted just the way we are and the sky is the limit to our dreams, it’s no wonder that Canada has so many heroes.
#CanadaStrong
Built in a place where we know we’re accepted just the way we are and the sky is the limit to our dreams, it’s no wonder that Canada has so many heroes.
#CanadaStrong
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PURE CANADIAN GOLD
🇨🇦👍MUST WATCH💪🇨🇦
"Dear Canada..."
with 🎶 "A Case of You'
song by k.d. lang 🎶 🇨🇦
vimeo.com/1056619122
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PURE CANADIAN GOLD
🇨🇦👍MUST WATCH💪🇨🇦
"Dear Canada..."
with 🎶 "A Case of You'
song by k.d. lang 🎶 🇨🇦
vimeo.com/1056619122
🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁
Dear Canada...
Dear Canada... I felt compelled to do something, to make something for my country. To stick up for, and to honour it. To show our strength, beauty, genius, empathy,…
vimeo.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:09 AM
I love this - Canadians have always known where we come from and what made us but we rarely say it so loudly and proudly.
Built in a place where we know we’re accepted just the way we are and the sky is the limit to our dreams, it’s no wonder that Canada has so many heroes.
#CanadaStrong
Built in a place where we know we’re accepted just the way we are and the sky is the limit to our dreams, it’s no wonder that Canada has so many heroes.
#CanadaStrong
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Blue Jays
Cody Houle ~ Anishinaabe
2025
Cody Houle ~ Anishinaabe
2025
October 31, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Blue Jays
Cody Houle ~ Anishinaabe
2025
Cody Houle ~ Anishinaabe
2025
Please do this survey and share with Indigenous communities as much as possible
I did this, took like 30 min.
Points I kept hammering: domestic cloud, regulations around copyright and likeness rights, focusing on machine learning with concrete, real world uses (creating new drugs, etc), the damage done by slop, the need to listen to AI experts who are realists, not boosters.
Points I kept hammering: domestic cloud, regulations around copyright and likeness rights, focusing on machine learning with concrete, real world uses (creating new drugs, etc), the damage done by slop, the need to listen to AI experts who are realists, not boosters.
Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.
If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:
If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:
October 12, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Please do this survey and share with Indigenous communities as much as possible
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The fight about the BC ostrich farm is not really about the ostriches. It’s about far more important things than that. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
Bruce Arthur: The B.C. ostrich affair is not about the birds
This isn’t really about the ostriches, but rather it's about basic biosecurity in the age of viruses, and whether a government can make and enforce laws and policy.
www.thestar.com
October 9, 2025 at 2:06 AM
The fight about the BC ostrich farm is not really about the ostriches. It’s about far more important things than that. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
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@minibubbly.bsky.social Do you have any followers that might want to farm-sit this winter?
October 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
@minibubbly.bsky.social Do you have any followers that might want to farm-sit this winter?
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The H-1B visa fee hike in the United States opens a policy window for Canada
The H-1B visa fee hike in the United States opens a policy window for Canada
Policymakers inside and outside of government can provide ideas on creating targeted policies and pathways to recruit talented workers to Canada in the wake of the U.S. H-1B visa fee hike.
theconversation.com
October 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The H-1B visa fee hike in the United States opens a policy window for Canada
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The ostriches are not the issue. Bad actors who wish to undermine the Canadian government and the health of its people are. The cull must proceed to safeguard Canada's national security.
October 5, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The ostriches are not the issue. Bad actors who wish to undermine the Canadian government and the health of its people are. The cull must proceed to safeguard Canada's national security.
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October 3, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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These are the #pipelines Danielle Smith should be concerned about.
#Alberta is second with 3,286 km of #Asbestos cement pipes.
Look, the #UCP has done little to 🚫we must invest in our future, & support communities health & wellness. #ChangeIsPossible
preventcancernow.ca/where-are-ca...
#Alberta is second with 3,286 km of #Asbestos cement pipes.
Look, the #UCP has done little to 🚫we must invest in our future, & support communities health & wellness. #ChangeIsPossible
preventcancernow.ca/where-are-ca...
Where are Canada’s asbestos cement drinking water pipes? Check the data for where you live - Prevent Cancer Now
Does your community have asbestos cement in aging drinking water pipes? Statistics Canada's first national inventory shows almost 13,700 km of these pipes nationally.
preventcancernow.ca
October 3, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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“A report by the CBC revealed that Pierre Poilievre hired the team behind Canada Proud to ‘boost his messages online.’ The organization has since been caught running disinformation campaigns targeting Mark Carney. Canadians deserve to know every last detail about Poilievre‘s ties to Canada Proud.”
Observations from Montreal
An ever-changing collection of commentary and observations by Montrealers or about Montreal politics and culture.
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September 25, 2025 at 8:04 PM
“A report by the CBC revealed that Pierre Poilievre hired the team behind Canada Proud to ‘boost his messages online.’ The organization has since been caught running disinformation campaigns targeting Mark Carney. Canadians deserve to know every last detail about Poilievre‘s ties to Canada Proud.”
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The Resistance @meidascanada.ca tour is coming to Saskatchewan. I will be speaking at the University of Regina on tuesday night. 7pm.
I hope to see you there.
I can't wait to see the great people of the prairies.
@meidastouch.com
I hope to see you there.
I can't wait to see the great people of the prairies.
@meidastouch.com
September 21, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Chapman's is such a great Canadian company.
Canada's largest independent ice cream maker & uses only Canadian milk and cream.
This $200 million new plant will employ 200 people and expand production space by 35%.
They want to exclusively source Canadian ingredients.
www.chapmans.ca/press-releas...
Canada's largest independent ice cream maker & uses only Canadian milk and cream.
This $200 million new plant will employ 200 people and expand production space by 35%.
They want to exclusively source Canadian ingredients.
www.chapmans.ca/press-releas...
Chapman’s Expands Production Facility with $27 Million Support from Invest Ontario - Chapman's Ice Cream
Canadian ice cream manufacturer is growing as they increase their production with a new 175,000 square foot, multimillion-dollar facility. Markdale, ON Construction has begun on Chapman’s new producti...
www.chapmans.ca
September 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Chapman's is such a great Canadian company.
Canada's largest independent ice cream maker & uses only Canadian milk and cream.
This $200 million new plant will employ 200 people and expand production space by 35%.
They want to exclusively source Canadian ingredients.
www.chapmans.ca/press-releas...
Canada's largest independent ice cream maker & uses only Canadian milk and cream.
This $200 million new plant will employ 200 people and expand production space by 35%.
They want to exclusively source Canadian ingredients.
www.chapmans.ca/press-releas...
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Why do you appreciate unions?
I’ll start:
Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits
I’ll start:
Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits
August 31, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Why do you appreciate unions?
I’ll start:
Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits
I’ll start:
Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits
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We launch @meidascanada.ca on Labour Day.
I spoke earlier this summer at the PanAmerican Congress in Mexico on fighting fascism.
One of the key tools is building alternate networks of information.
This is why I have teamed up with @meidastouch.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8JP...
I spoke earlier this summer at the PanAmerican Congress in Mexico on fighting fascism.
One of the key tools is building alternate networks of information.
This is why I have teamed up with @meidastouch.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8JP...
WHY MEIDAS CANADA IS STEPPING UP
YouTube video by Charlie Angus
www.youtube.com
August 28, 2025 at 7:24 PM
We launch @meidascanada.ca on Labour Day.
I spoke earlier this summer at the PanAmerican Congress in Mexico on fighting fascism.
One of the key tools is building alternate networks of information.
This is why I have teamed up with @meidastouch.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8JP...
I spoke earlier this summer at the PanAmerican Congress in Mexico on fighting fascism.
One of the key tools is building alternate networks of information.
This is why I have teamed up with @meidastouch.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8JP...
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No one owns the Water.
No one owns the Land.
No one owns the sand.
These are given by Our Mother.
The Planet provides for Free.
Only by the hands of the Greedy does the Earth require a Fee 🌺
No one owns the Land.
No one owns the sand.
These are given by Our Mother.
The Planet provides for Free.
Only by the hands of the Greedy does the Earth require a Fee 🌺
August 18, 2025 at 11:39 PM
No one owns the Water.
No one owns the Land.
No one owns the sand.
These are given by Our Mother.
The Planet provides for Free.
Only by the hands of the Greedy does the Earth require a Fee 🌺
No one owns the Land.
No one owns the sand.
These are given by Our Mother.
The Planet provides for Free.
Only by the hands of the Greedy does the Earth require a Fee 🌺
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A post from Save the CBC
August 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
A post from Save the CBC
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Went on @60minutes.bsky.social to talk to Bill Whitaker about H5N1. As Kamran Khan from Bluedot told Bill, we don’t know if or when this virus might acquire pandemic capabilities, but it can.
And if it does, as I told Bill, that will be worse than COVID. Much worse.
www.cbsnews.com/news/bird-fl...
And if it does, as I told Bill, that will be worse than COVID. Much worse.
www.cbsnews.com/news/bird-fl...
Bird flu, feared as a possible pandemic, poses growing risk to people as pathogen spreads, scientists warn
More than 100 federal scientists who track bird flu, including vaccine and food safety experts, have been laid off. This comes as the deadly pathogen rips through dairy herds and poultry flocks.
www.cbsnews.com
April 20, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Went on @60minutes.bsky.social to talk to Bill Whitaker about H5N1. As Kamran Khan from Bluedot told Bill, we don’t know if or when this virus might acquire pandemic capabilities, but it can.
And if it does, as I told Bill, that will be worse than COVID. Much worse.
www.cbsnews.com/news/bird-fl...
And if it does, as I told Bill, that will be worse than COVID. Much worse.
www.cbsnews.com/news/bird-fl...
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Update
The City of Victoria will no longer use X/Twitter as of 12 August 2025.
Following a motion from Councillor Thompson, the city moved away from X, and now uses this one and Threads for weather alerts, updates, and emergency comms.
VicAlert remains preferred source for emerg communications.
The City of Victoria will no longer use X/Twitter as of 12 August 2025.
Following a motion from Councillor Thompson, the city moved away from X, and now uses this one and Threads for weather alerts, updates, and emergency comms.
VicAlert remains preferred source for emerg communications.
August 6, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Update
The City of Victoria will no longer use X/Twitter as of 12 August 2025.
Following a motion from Councillor Thompson, the city moved away from X, and now uses this one and Threads for weather alerts, updates, and emergency comms.
VicAlert remains preferred source for emerg communications.
The City of Victoria will no longer use X/Twitter as of 12 August 2025.
Following a motion from Councillor Thompson, the city moved away from X, and now uses this one and Threads for weather alerts, updates, and emergency comms.
VicAlert remains preferred source for emerg communications.
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Good for you Dr Rasmussen 💪
This is a very thoughtful thread about communicating about science on social media.
The hellsite algorithm throttles most of my tweets. Despite my follower count. But when I subtweet Ebright with a big red RETRACT image such as he's made for my papers, I still do numbers. Why is that?
The hellsite algorithm throttles most of my tweets. Despite my follower count. But when I subtweet Ebright with a big red RETRACT image such as he's made for my papers, I still do numbers. Why is that?
Bluetorial: On the importance of precision and accuracy in language, even in social media discussions of science, and of privilege.
August 4, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Good for you Dr Rasmussen 💪
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Sign the Petition
Community Petition to Cancel the Sean Feucht Event in Saskatoon
www.change.org
August 2, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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MAGA MAPLE Premier calling on Canada to give up, be polite and kiss the gangster's ring.
Not on my watch.
Not on my watch.
August 1, 2025 at 8:43 PM
MAGA MAPLE Premier calling on Canada to give up, be polite and kiss the gangster's ring.
Not on my watch.
Not on my watch.
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NPR and PBS should move to operate in Canada.
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Corporation for Public Broadcasting will shut down after Trump funding cuts | CNN Business share.google/LbedDKyB6oHm...
Corporation for Public Broadcasting will shut down after Trump funding cuts | CNN Business share.google/LbedDKyB6oHm...
Corporation for Public Broadcasting will shut down after Trump funding cuts | CNN Business
The CPB announced on Friday that it will wind down its operations due to the successful Republican effort to defund local PBS and NPR stations across the country.
share.google
August 1, 2025 at 9:06 PM
NPR and PBS should move to operate in Canada.