Karen Blair
@karenblair.bsky.social
Retired & recovering nonprofit & social justice warrior, still seeking better communities & moments of wonder. Ocean & trails lover.Trying to be hopeful about our planet, hard as it is. Like b'ball, tennis, St Mirren FC. Unama'ki/Cape Breton/Nova Scotia🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇨🇦
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Our Black Friday deals are HERE🔥
Now until December 1st, you can get up to 38% off a wide range of your favourite #hfxtidesfc merch 🌊
You can shop online, visit our office, or stop by our booth at the Evergreen Festival to take advantage of these Black Friday savings!
Now until December 1st, you can get up to 38% off a wide range of your favourite #hfxtidesfc merch 🌊
You can shop online, visit our office, or stop by our booth at the Evergreen Festival to take advantage of these Black Friday savings!
November 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Our Black Friday deals are HERE🔥
Now until December 1st, you can get up to 38% off a wide range of your favourite #hfxtidesfc merch 🌊
You can shop online, visit our office, or stop by our booth at the Evergreen Festival to take advantage of these Black Friday savings!
Now until December 1st, you can get up to 38% off a wide range of your favourite #hfxtidesfc merch 🌊
You can shop online, visit our office, or stop by our booth at the Evergreen Festival to take advantage of these Black Friday savings!
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PSA For you "DEI is bad" people
Equity is bad only when it's you with the privilege and you want to keep your position in life
If you're screaming about DEI you likely have all the privilege and none of the struggle
In a true democracy everyone participates and has rights
Equity is bad only when it's you with the privilege and you want to keep your position in life
If you're screaming about DEI you likely have all the privilege and none of the struggle
In a true democracy everyone participates and has rights
November 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
PSA For you "DEI is bad" people
Equity is bad only when it's you with the privilege and you want to keep your position in life
If you're screaming about DEI you likely have all the privilege and none of the struggle
In a true democracy everyone participates and has rights
Equity is bad only when it's you with the privilege and you want to keep your position in life
If you're screaming about DEI you likely have all the privilege and none of the struggle
In a true democracy everyone participates and has rights
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Agreed on both points. This is a good lesson.
I’m no fan of Elizabeth May but she’s educating us on proposed projects
November 22, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Agreed on both points. This is a good lesson.
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So apparently this is fine but Canadian governments using advertising to share views with Americans about trade is completely inappropriate.
Got it.
Got it.
November 21, 2025 at 7:09 PM
So apparently this is fine but Canadian governments using advertising to share views with Americans about trade is completely inappropriate.
Got it.
Got it.
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Allowing doctors to practise in both public and private systems solves what exactly? What Alberta is proposing may sound good superficially but makes no sense in the Canadian context, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Allowing doctors to practise in both public and private systems solves what exactly? What Alberta is proposing may sound good superficially but makes no sense in the Canadian context, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com
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Auctions for game-worn, signed jerseys are officially LIVE🔥
Get your bids in for a chance to take one home: shop.tidesfc.ca/collections/...
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November 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Auctions for game-worn, signed jerseys are officially LIVE🔥
Get your bids in for a chance to take one home: shop.tidesfc.ca/collections/...
Get your bids in for a chance to take one home: shop.tidesfc.ca/collections/...
Here we go with the Conservative Party MAGA moves.
A big chunk of the Conservative caucus showed up last night to rally behind Jamil Jivani, who used the spotlight to blast federal DEI policies.
He says Liberal policies create new forms of discrimination, where people are evaluated on race, gender or identity — instead of merit.
He says Liberal policies create new forms of discrimination, where people are evaluated on race, gender or identity — instead of merit.
November 19, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Here we go with the Conservative Party MAGA moves.
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Let’s be clear on this: Danielle Smith is ripping up the Charter of Rights & Freedoms to take away rights from the most vulnerable people in Alberta. And she’s doing it to protect herself from the militant wing of her own party, nothing more. Hope it’s all she’s ever remembered for in the long run
November 18, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Let’s be clear on this: Danielle Smith is ripping up the Charter of Rights & Freedoms to take away rights from the most vulnerable people in Alberta. And she’s doing it to protect herself from the militant wing of her own party, nothing more. Hope it’s all she’s ever remembered for in the long run
Totally skipping the 'why' this is supposed to be a good idea stage.
November 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Totally skipping the 'why' this is supposed to be a good idea stage.
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Owl of the Sea
Kenojuak Ashevak ~ Inuk
1977
Kenojuak Ashevak ~ Inuk
1977
November 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Owl of the Sea
Kenojuak Ashevak ~ Inuk
1977
Kenojuak Ashevak ~ Inuk
1977
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It’s hard to even know where to begin with this. Professor Falk is in his 90s and one of the world’s most prominent international legal scholars. It beggars belief that he could even remotely be considered a threat to Canada.
Falk, who has investigated Israeli abuses, says questioning reflects push to silence truth of Israel's war on Gaza.
Former UN special rapporteur Richard Falk interrogated for hours in Canada
Falk, who has investigated Israeli abuses, says questioning reflects push to silence truth of Israel's war on Gaza.
bit.ly
November 16, 2025 at 12:04 AM
It’s hard to even know where to begin with this. Professor Falk is in his 90s and one of the world’s most prominent international legal scholars. It beggars belief that he could even remotely be considered a threat to Canada.
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“As virtually each day goes by, I think the suppression of asylum rights and asylum seekers in the United States grows worse,” says former foreign affairs minister Lloyd Axworthy. “And yet we’re claiming that this is a safe place to go.” #cdnpoli #uspoli www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/w...
A Challenge to Canada’s Official Policy That the U.S. Is Safe for Migrants
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:08 PM
“As virtually each day goes by, I think the suppression of asylum rights and asylum seekers in the United States grows worse,” says former foreign affairs minister Lloyd Axworthy. “And yet we’re claiming that this is a safe place to go.” #cdnpoli #uspoli www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/w...
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I've been uploading species occurrences into iNaturalist for a few years now with a primary focus on the Hudson Bay coastal area in Manitoba.
If you have some free time I would appreciate your help confirming species identifications- plants, mammals, bugs, all kinds of fun stuff.
If you have some free time I would appreciate your help confirming species identifications- plants, mammals, bugs, all kinds of fun stuff.
November 15, 2025 at 5:37 AM
I've been uploading species occurrences into iNaturalist for a few years now with a primary focus on the Hudson Bay coastal area in Manitoba.
If you have some free time I would appreciate your help confirming species identifications- plants, mammals, bugs, all kinds of fun stuff.
If you have some free time I would appreciate your help confirming species identifications- plants, mammals, bugs, all kinds of fun stuff.
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A moment of relief:
Sponges have been restored at the root of the evolutionary tree -- and not the comb jellies, those hot freaks.
Sponges have been restored at the root of the evolutionary tree -- and not the comb jellies, those hot freaks.
NEW pub in @science.org 🥳
Is it sponges (panels A & B) or comb jellies (C & D) that root the animal tree of life?
For over 15 years, #phylogenomic studies have been divided.
We provide new evidence suggesting that...
🔗: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Is it sponges (panels A & B) or comb jellies (C & D) that root the animal tree of life?
For over 15 years, #phylogenomic studies have been divided.
We provide new evidence suggesting that...
🔗: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
November 13, 2025 at 9:33 PM
A moment of relief:
Sponges have been restored at the root of the evolutionary tree -- and not the comb jellies, those hot freaks.
Sponges have been restored at the root of the evolutionary tree -- and not the comb jellies, those hot freaks.
Lol, who's the sour puss now? American spirit distillery moves some production to Canada as response to Canadian provinces pulling US from shelves. I'll take this tariff war win. Sour Puss moves some liqueur production to Canada after trade war devastates sales
www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...
www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...
Sour Puss moves some liqueur production to Canada after trade war devastates sales
American distiller Phillips Distilling Company is moving production of its Sour Puss alcoholic beverage to Montreal in order to regain the Canadian market.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Lol, who's the sour puss now? American spirit distillery moves some production to Canada as response to Canadian provinces pulling US from shelves. I'll take this tariff war win. Sour Puss moves some liqueur production to Canada after trade war devastates sales
www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...
www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...
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Betcha didn't have money on the Catholic Church being the only institution with the spine to stand up to fascism this time round.
BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.
NEW: At Pope Leo’s Urging, Bishops Issue Historic Rebuke of Trump’s Raids
Nearly all U.S. Catholic bishops united in Baltimore to denounce the Trump administration’s “inhumane” deportation campaign — a near-unanimous, unprecedented moral stand against a sitting president.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Betcha didn't have money on the Catholic Church being the only institution with the spine to stand up to fascism this time round.
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Once again I must ask, how much use of military force makes for no ceasefire, rather than a “strained” or “tested” ceasefire?
Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in Gaza since ceasefire
Entire neighbourhoods controlled by Israel have been levelled in less than a month, the images show.
www.bbc.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Once again I must ask, how much use of military force makes for no ceasefire, rather than a “strained” or “tested” ceasefire?
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This sounds reasonable but is 100% wrong. Whether you or agree or disagree with a study is completely immaterial. What matters is whether the study was conducted properly and generates valid results. And it's impolitic to say but it's true: you have to have some level of expertise to judge that.
JD Vance: "Science as practiced in its best form is that if you disagree with it, then you ought to criticize it and you ought to argue against it."
November 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This sounds reasonable but is 100% wrong. Whether you or agree or disagree with a study is completely immaterial. What matters is whether the study was conducted properly and generates valid results. And it's impolitic to say but it's true: you have to have some level of expertise to judge that.
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I feel like the business community in Canada is just not getting the message - there is no miracle deal with Trump and any arrangement we make will be immediately upended when he somehow takes offence at some trivial thing.
November 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I feel like the business community in Canada is just not getting the message - there is no miracle deal with Trump and any arrangement we make will be immediately upended when he somehow takes offence at some trivial thing.
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What a preventable tragedy caused by a disinformation grievance industrial complex. Shameful.
Canada expected to lose long-standing measles-elimination status on Monday, by @kkirkup.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art... via @theglobeandmail.com
Canada expected to lose long-standing measles-elimination status
If the country loses its status, public-health researchers say the return of endemic measles would carry serious health consequences
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:13 AM
What a preventable tragedy caused by a disinformation grievance industrial complex. Shameful.
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This is one of the best explainers on the ongoing saga out of BC.
Too few mainstream news articles touch on the connections to the Convoy, or the fact that it’s really the same movement, with ostriches.
The farmers are saying this is just starting. it’ll be interesting to see where it goes now.
Too few mainstream news articles touch on the connections to the Convoy, or the fact that it’s really the same movement, with ostriches.
The farmers are saying this is just starting. it’ll be interesting to see where it goes now.
For months, I’ve been following a Canadian ostrich farm ordered to cull its flock after a bird flu outbreak. It was a cause célèbre for MAHA activists, a MAGA billionaire, and, of course, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The trucker convoy with birds ended last night. They lost. www.msnbc.com/news/news-an...
Why the conspiratorial right rallied around a flock of ostriches
The anti-vaccine, anti-government crusade to save "the miracle cure birds" is over — and the fringe activists lost.
www.msnbc.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
This is one of the best explainers on the ongoing saga out of BC.
Too few mainstream news articles touch on the connections to the Convoy, or the fact that it’s really the same movement, with ostriches.
The farmers are saying this is just starting. it’ll be interesting to see where it goes now.
Too few mainstream news articles touch on the connections to the Convoy, or the fact that it’s really the same movement, with ostriches.
The farmers are saying this is just starting. it’ll be interesting to see where it goes now.
Tamara Deverell, the production designer for Guillermo del Toro's new Frankenstein film, lives in a house in the woods near Inverness, Cape Breton when she isn't making movies. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Oscar-nominated 'Frankenstein' production designer finds inspiration in rural Cape Breton | CBC News
The latest film adaptation of Frankenstein marks the fifth time Tamara Deverell, who now calls Cape Breton home, has worked with visionary director Guillermo del Toro.
www.cbc.ca
November 9, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Tamara Deverell, the production designer for Guillermo del Toro's new Frankenstein film, lives in a house in the woods near Inverness, Cape Breton when she isn't making movies. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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get in bitch we're destroying the west
November 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
get in bitch we're destroying the west
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On this day in 1946, Viola Desmond's car broke down in New Glasgow, NS. She went to a movie and sat in a Whites-Only area. Her refusal to move helped spark the modern Canadian civil rights movement.
Learn more in my Deep Dive 👇
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Learn more in my Deep Dive 👇
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November 8, 2025 at 12:30 PM
On this day in 1946, Viola Desmond's car broke down in New Glasgow, NS. She went to a movie and sat in a Whites-Only area. Her refusal to move helped spark the modern Canadian civil rights movement.
Learn more in my Deep Dive 👇
canadaehx.com/2025/02/04/v...
Learn more in my Deep Dive 👇
canadaehx.com/2025/02/04/v...
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It’s how our Parliamentary system works
November 7, 2025 at 10:03 PM
It’s how our Parliamentary system works