Laurie Prange
@prangemartin.bsky.social
Teaching (business) professor by employment, but really just wants to pursue my hobbies and sleep a lot.
Will nag you to wear sunblock 🧴🇨🇦
Will nag you to wear sunblock 🧴🇨🇦
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Laurie Prange
@prangemartin.bsky.social
· Jun 18
During World War One, Canadians encouraged one another to Buy Canadian.
Now that Buy Canadian First had been revived, maybe it’s time to re-issue these cute stamps. What do you think Canada Post?
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Now that Buy Canadian First had been revived, maybe it’s time to re-issue these cute stamps. What do you think Canada Post?
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Shop these Indigenous holiday markets around Metro Vancouver this season
Indigenous Holiday Markets Around Vancouver
Shop from many talented, local, Indigenous vendors and artisans at these holiday markets and craft sales around Metro Vancouver this season.
miss604.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Shop these Indigenous holiday markets around Metro Vancouver this season
My great aunt who served in the 🇨🇦 women’s Air Force during WWII was also my penpal from roughly age 6 until she passed away when I was 39. I foolishly never kept any of her letters, but turns out nor did she. I only recently learned that no one else in the family knew we were pen pals except my mom.
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 AM
My great aunt who served in the 🇨🇦 women’s Air Force during WWII was also my penpal from roughly age 6 until she passed away when I was 39. I foolishly never kept any of her letters, but turns out nor did she. I only recently learned that no one else in the family knew we were pen pals except my mom.
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Colleen Jones was larger than life.
I’m devastated by her death. And will be forever inspired by how she lived. And fought. And loved.
More than anything I’ll miss our laughs and lattes. And am so grateful for every second we had together. I love you, Coll.
I’m devastated by her death. And will be forever inspired by how she lived. And fought. And loved.
More than anything I’ll miss our laughs and lattes. And am so grateful for every second we had together. I love you, Coll.
November 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Colleen Jones was larger than life.
I’m devastated by her death. And will be forever inspired by how she lived. And fought. And loved.
More than anything I’ll miss our laughs and lattes. And am so grateful for every second we had together. I love you, Coll.
I’m devastated by her death. And will be forever inspired by how she lived. And fought. And loved.
More than anything I’ll miss our laughs and lattes. And am so grateful for every second we had together. I love you, Coll.
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Bronwyn Lewis?
m.youtube.com/watch?v=D6hI...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=D6hI...
Bread and roses lyric video (version from the film Pride)
YouTube video by Camilla Rosati (CamillaRosatiWriter)
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November 26, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Bronwyn Lewis?
m.youtube.com/watch?v=D6hI...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=D6hI...
Americans, I’m enjoying your lively debating about pies 🥧
Please go further with it. I want to hear all your takes about the Amn Thanksgiving menu 🦃
This is a lot of fun reading your persuasive posts. Keep it up!! 👏
Please go further with it. I want to hear all your takes about the Amn Thanksgiving menu 🦃
This is a lot of fun reading your persuasive posts. Keep it up!! 👏
November 26, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Americans, I’m enjoying your lively debating about pies 🥧
Please go further with it. I want to hear all your takes about the Amn Thanksgiving menu 🦃
This is a lot of fun reading your persuasive posts. Keep it up!! 👏
Please go further with it. I want to hear all your takes about the Amn Thanksgiving menu 🦃
This is a lot of fun reading your persuasive posts. Keep it up!! 👏
Somehow didn’t know these was a sequel to Aquaman. Netflix told me it’s leaving tomorrow, so that’s what I’m hunkering down now to watch.
No spoilers and no criticisms please. This is brain candy night!
No spoilers and no criticisms please. This is brain candy night!
November 26, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Somehow didn’t know these was a sequel to Aquaman. Netflix told me it’s leaving tomorrow, so that’s what I’m hunkering down now to watch.
No spoilers and no criticisms please. This is brain candy night!
No spoilers and no criticisms please. This is brain candy night!
Introduced the idea to my 13yo that we can make our own granola. Now, to wait a couple days for him to process this information and come back to me to ask for more information.
Love teaching him new recipes and sharing my love of cooking with him, but we’re in the teen years so I have to move slow.
Love teaching him new recipes and sharing my love of cooking with him, but we’re in the teen years so I have to move slow.
November 25, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Introduced the idea to my 13yo that we can make our own granola. Now, to wait a couple days for him to process this information and come back to me to ask for more information.
Love teaching him new recipes and sharing my love of cooking with him, but we’re in the teen years so I have to move slow.
Love teaching him new recipes and sharing my love of cooking with him, but we’re in the teen years so I have to move slow.
Fascinating 🧐
Bring a politician is so tough.
As far as I’ve ever read, every politician gets these recall petitions, but I’ve never heard of 9 getting so many names and all on the same issues at the same time.
Albertans seem really unhappy with their govt.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Bring a politician is so tough.
As far as I’ve ever read, every politician gets these recall petitions, but I’ve never heard of 9 getting so many names and all on the same issues at the same time.
Albertans seem really unhappy with their govt.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
6 more UCP legislature members facing recall petitions, including 5 from Calgary area | CBC News
While reasoning varies, many of the newly approved petitioners said they were upset the UCP government used the Charter's notwithstanding clause last month to end a provincewide teachers strike. Anoth...
www.cbc.ca
November 25, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Fascinating 🧐
Bring a politician is so tough.
As far as I’ve ever read, every politician gets these recall petitions, but I’ve never heard of 9 getting so many names and all on the same issues at the same time.
Albertans seem really unhappy with their govt.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Bring a politician is so tough.
As far as I’ve ever read, every politician gets these recall petitions, but I’ve never heard of 9 getting so many names and all on the same issues at the same time.
Albertans seem really unhappy with their govt.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
One of my fav colleagues has a new article out on why so many post-sec institutions in BC are suddenly having to close programs and campuses. He also points out that a re-funding of these institutions combined with a Student Housing Strategy are BOTH needed!! vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...
Opinion: The slow unravelling of higher education in B.C. has begun
The federal cap on international students triggered the crisis. Decades of provincial underfunding made it inevitable.
vancouversun.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
One of my fav colleagues has a new article out on why so many post-sec institutions in BC are suddenly having to close programs and campuses. He also points out that a re-funding of these institutions combined with a Student Housing Strategy are BOTH needed!! vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...
Feeling a bit bored with the cookbooks at home, so loaded up on 8 cookbooks from the public library. Two are for meal prep and three I hope to use to teach family members how to use the Instant Pot.
Love my public library so much!! 📚
Love my public library so much!! 📚
November 24, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Feeling a bit bored with the cookbooks at home, so loaded up on 8 cookbooks from the public library. Two are for meal prep and three I hope to use to teach family members how to use the Instant Pot.
Love my public library so much!! 📚
Love my public library so much!! 📚
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I could not agree more strongly with this. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Senators call on prime minister to ban advertising for sports betting | CBC News
Two senators are calling on the federal government to ban advertising for sports betting in Canada. A letter to the prime minister from Charlottetown Sen. Percy Downe and Waterloo Sen. Marty Deacon as...
www.cbc.ca
November 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I could not agree more strongly with this. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Another reason never to buy American.
Sorry, eh 🇨🇦
Sorry, eh 🇨🇦
The EPA is greenlighting pesticides made with PFAS, actual forever chemicals, as active ingredients on foods like lettuce, broccoli, & potatoes. They’re also planning to weaken drinking water rules & relax PFAS reporting. This is a public health disaster being signed into policy
November 23, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Another reason never to buy American.
Sorry, eh 🇨🇦
Sorry, eh 🇨🇦
Living that gym life!
An update on my newest injury, which is my right-knee that I smashed into the floor during a sprinting session at the gym 8 days ago.
I’m a real redhead, which helps explain why it’s so huge and colourful.
It’s all about staying active for my future old lady life! 💪
An update on my newest injury, which is my right-knee that I smashed into the floor during a sprinting session at the gym 8 days ago.
I’m a real redhead, which helps explain why it’s so huge and colourful.
It’s all about staying active for my future old lady life! 💪
November 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Living that gym life!
An update on my newest injury, which is my right-knee that I smashed into the floor during a sprinting session at the gym 8 days ago.
I’m a real redhead, which helps explain why it’s so huge and colourful.
It’s all about staying active for my future old lady life! 💪
An update on my newest injury, which is my right-knee that I smashed into the floor during a sprinting session at the gym 8 days ago.
I’m a real redhead, which helps explain why it’s so huge and colourful.
It’s all about staying active for my future old lady life! 💪
Relaunched my Instagram account because it’s been over a month and my old one still hasn’t been un-frozen. I still don’t know why my Meta accounts were frozen. 🤷
First picture is of course from cooking. The duplicate of tonight’s supper of Taco Spaghetti Casserole. It’s really yummy 😋
First picture is of course from cooking. The duplicate of tonight’s supper of Taco Spaghetti Casserole. It’s really yummy 😋
November 23, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Relaunched my Instagram account because it’s been over a month and my old one still hasn’t been un-frozen. I still don’t know why my Meta accounts were frozen. 🤷
First picture is of course from cooking. The duplicate of tonight’s supper of Taco Spaghetti Casserole. It’s really yummy 😋
First picture is of course from cooking. The duplicate of tonight’s supper of Taco Spaghetti Casserole. It’s really yummy 😋
This will be simply the first in many announcements about cuts to Univ athletics as the impact of defunding post-secondary education finally shows up after years of it being hidden by international student tuition revenue hiding it.
Hundreds of McGill University student-athletes say they’ve been left devastated after learning the school will eliminate 25 varsity teams beginning in the 2026–2027 season.
“It’s an absolute gut punch”: McGill athletes reeling after 25 teams cut
Hundreds of McGill University student-athletes say they’ve been left devastated after learning the school will eliminate 25 varsity teams beginning in the 2026–2027 season.
bit.ly
November 22, 2025 at 10:41 PM
This will be simply the first in many announcements about cuts to Univ athletics as the impact of defunding post-secondary education finally shows up after years of it being hidden by international student tuition revenue hiding it.
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Starting to really resent the commercial inability to access writing, music, and movies from people not from the same small number of elite families.
November 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Starting to really resent the commercial inability to access writing, music, and movies from people not from the same small number of elite families.
I am trying to watch “Good Morning Vietnam” (1987) but the way Robin Williams’ character is creepily stalking the woman is grossing me out.🤢
Refusing to take rejection from a woman is NOT romantic, it’s scary. 🫣
Such a creepy distraction from the good and funny parts. 😣
Refusing to take rejection from a woman is NOT romantic, it’s scary. 🫣
Such a creepy distraction from the good and funny parts. 😣
November 22, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I am trying to watch “Good Morning Vietnam” (1987) but the way Robin Williams’ character is creepily stalking the woman is grossing me out.🤢
Refusing to take rejection from a woman is NOT romantic, it’s scary. 🫣
Such a creepy distraction from the good and funny parts. 😣
Refusing to take rejection from a woman is NOT romantic, it’s scary. 🫣
Such a creepy distraction from the good and funny parts. 😣
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And people still look me square in the face and deadass ask me why women don't report.
"A Regina police officer has pleaded guilty to using police databases to pursue intimate and personal relationships with women. [...] It's not clear how many people Semenchuk may have contacted."
Regina officer pleads guilty to using police databases to pursue women | CBC News
Sergeant Robert Eric Semenchuck remains suspended with pay, as required under the province's Police Act. He has pleaded guilty to breach of trust and unauthorized use of a computer
www.cbc.ca
November 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
And people still look me square in the face and deadass ask me why women don't report.
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www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art... ‘The study by @iris-recherche.bsky.social and @policyalternatives.ca …analyzed the health-care systems of 25 member countries of the OECD….countries that allow greater private sector involvement in healthcare achieve poorer results on 7 mortality indicators’
More private health care linked to higher mortality, Quebec study warns
Experts are concerned about the direction Quebec is taking by increasingly turning to the private sector to provide care to the population (care that is often publicly funded).
www.ctvnews.ca
November 21, 2025 at 10:15 PM
www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art... ‘The study by @iris-recherche.bsky.social and @policyalternatives.ca …analyzed the health-care systems of 25 member countries of the OECD….countries that allow greater private sector involvement in healthcare achieve poorer results on 7 mortality indicators’
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Cheers to the person who leaked the initial changes www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
In reversal, Coast Guard again classifies swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The new order came hours after The Post reported the service would instead classify such symbols as “potentially divisive” under guidelines set for release next month.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Cheers to the person who leaked the initial changes www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Look, I’m doing my intermittent fasting and dieting like I’m supposed to, but I’m always going to wish that it was possible to exercise enough to lose weight without ever dieting.
But nope, diet is somewhere 80% of the way I’m going to shrink this unhealthy belly.
But nope, diet is somewhere 80% of the way I’m going to shrink this unhealthy belly.
November 21, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Look, I’m doing my intermittent fasting and dieting like I’m supposed to, but I’m always going to wish that it was possible to exercise enough to lose weight without ever dieting.
But nope, diet is somewhere 80% of the way I’m going to shrink this unhealthy belly.
But nope, diet is somewhere 80% of the way I’m going to shrink this unhealthy belly.
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Racialized and female workers disproportionately earn below the living wage.
In Metro Vancouver half of all racialized women earn less than decent wages, reflecting inequalities in our labour market say report authors @iglikaivanova.bsky.social and Anastasia French.
In Metro Vancouver half of all racialized women earn less than decent wages, reflecting inequalities in our labour market say report authors @iglikaivanova.bsky.social and Anastasia French.
Opinion: B.C.’s low-wage workers can’t be forgotten despite economic headwinds
There is now a staggering $10-per-hour gap between B.C.’s minimum wage and the living wage in Metro Vancouver
vancouversun.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Racialized and female workers disproportionately earn below the living wage.
In Metro Vancouver half of all racialized women earn less than decent wages, reflecting inequalities in our labour market say report authors @iglikaivanova.bsky.social and Anastasia French.
In Metro Vancouver half of all racialized women earn less than decent wages, reflecting inequalities in our labour market say report authors @iglikaivanova.bsky.social and Anastasia French.
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Imagine using the power of the state to limit professional regulatory bodies from being able to protect the integrity of the profession from members who use the credential to defend odious speech.
Alberta aims to curtail regulatory bodies from sanctioning workers for after-hours activities | CBC News
Many Alberta workers could no longer be investigated by their licensing bodies for what they say outside of work hours, should the legislature pass a new bill.
www.cbc.ca
November 21, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Imagine using the power of the state to limit professional regulatory bodies from being able to protect the integrity of the profession from members who use the credential to defend odious speech.
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Tonight there is a draft for a women’s pro baseball league and on Saturday I will watch the women’s soccer team I support play for a championship after their most successful season yet, surrounded by other diehard fans at a bar. I am living in a world 8-year-old me could have never imagined.
November 20, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Tonight there is a draft for a women’s pro baseball league and on Saturday I will watch the women’s soccer team I support play for a championship after their most successful season yet, surrounded by other diehard fans at a bar. I am living in a world 8-year-old me could have never imagined.