‘Power and Politics’ on CBC confirms, “if you look at the seat projections, Kelowna is in play again” Let’s go Kelowna! Every single vote counts. Every one. 🗳️ Let’s flip this seat back to the people! 🇨🇦 ❤️
Norah Bowman
@norahbowman.bsky.social
Feminist & writer & democratic socialist bi cis poet on unceded & traditional Syilx Okanagan territory. I ❤️Rutland, co-operative housing, experimental poetry, dogs, kooky art & nooks. PhD in English & Film studies, community college prof. #transrights
BREAKING: 36k people showed up in LA for Bernie and AOC’s rally. In the off year. Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.
Despite a growing number of Indigenous and other community leaders calling for the removal of Aaron Gunn as a candidate in North Island-Powell River, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre says he'll stay on. www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...
Conservative candidate Aaron Gunn to stay in the race in B.C.
Pierre Poilievre to stick with candidate Aaron Gunn despite a growing number of First Nations leaders demanding he take Gunn off the ballot.
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love how everybody's like "why would a Russian asset crash the US economy?"
NEW: CTV cancelled a fact-checking segment in response to political pressure from Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives An audio recording obtained by PressProgress shows CTV cancelled an ‘election misinformation’ segment with journalist Rachel Gilmore after online backlash from conservatives
CTV Cancelled a Fact-Checking Segment in Response to Political Pressure From Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives
Audio recording shows CTV cancelled an ‘election misinformation’ segment with journalist Rachel Gilmore after online backlash from conservatives
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Classic anti-democratic move: ridicule, censor, stop journalists. Especially women : fascism demands rigid gender roles & submission to authority. I ❤️ Rachel Gilmore. CTV, you should be ashamed.
Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 2y agoHELLO NEW BLUESKY USERS!!! ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE MYSELF I AM RACHEL GILMORE ✨ AND I AM YOUR LEAST FAVOURITE PERSON’S LEAST FAVOURITE JOURNALIST.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Canada is built on the violent oppression and harm of Indigenous Peoples. No reconciliation without truth. Residential “schools” were internment camps.
The hidden history of a predatory principal at a Manitoba residential school | CBC News
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission heard very little about Agnes Benn, a teen girl who died near a Manitoba residential school in 1930, and the multiple sex abuse charges faced by the school's pr...
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I value and I will protect our trans community members, today and every day. #transdayofvisibility #TDOV
TransParent OK 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈@transparentokanagan.ca · last yr.Trans Day of Visibility
One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.
“It is important for those who do not understand biology — specifically differences in sexual development — to recognize that a lack of comprehension does not mean that people who are gender diverse do not exist or are not natural.” www.kelownacapnews.com/local-news/t...
Kelowna's Trans Day of Visibility counters hate with love, education
The Transgender Day of Visibility event will be held on March 31, at the Laurel Packinghouse
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If the meaning of “oligarchy” feels like a blur from history class, don’t worry — its definition is actually pretty simple. We break it down ⤵️
What Is an Oligarchy, and Why Are People Worried the US Is Becoming One?
We break it down.
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Has Danielle Smith participated in election interference with an enemy of Canada? She asked the US administration to pause the tariffs to help get Poilievre elected.
My maternal grandmother died in the 1918 flu pandemic. RFK Jr can go fuck himself.
Fuck Stephen Miller and Tom Homan to hell. Goddamn bastards, both of them.
AOC: I want to live in an America that guarantees healthcare to every person. I want to live in an America that has a living wage for every person I want to live in an America where you have free speech to express yourself and not be afraid of being put on a list or deported.
Every time you see someone powerful acting like a craven coward in the face of this authoritarian menace, let it stiffen your own spine. We are all we've got.
The good news is that there *are* people meeting the moment. youtu.be/EJxRtjma7lc
Idaho teacher fights back after order to remove ‘Everyone is Welcome Here’ poster
YouTube video by MSNBC
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they’re arresting people for performing abortions, they’re deporting people for liking pro-palestine posts on social media, they’re sending immigrants to forced labor camps in south america, we are living under fascism right now
To Poilievre's friends. Lay off Carney's kid. Stop being a bunch of bullies and jerks. It's not okay.
Clear thinking as always from @timothysnyder.bsky.social: ”[C]olonized Canadians are not going to have the right the vote. Their country would be treated as a hostile military zone, to be exploited for its resources” substack.com/home/post/p-...
Blame Canada
Our warmongering, drugged-out conspiracy theory
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Only a deranged, deluded FoxNews fed tyrant would actually believe that Canadians would want to give up everything the U.S. wishes it could be to become the 51st state #ElbowsUp🇨🇦 #FuckTrump
www.thebeaverton.com/2025/02/man-...
Man who has spent entire political career attacking everybody promises he’ll attack Trump and Elon any minute now
OTTAWA - Pierre Poilievre, who has famously spent his 21-year political career vociferously attacking any person or political entity which opposed him, has vowed to "any day now" begin training that s...
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When this piece was made last year, I thought it was, you know, pretty clever. Now, I think it might be one of the most important pieces of the decade.
Claudia Friedlander@voiceteachernyc.bsky.social · last yr.Tesla Model 3 crushed by an Olmec statue By Mexican sculptor @chavismarmol.bsky.social
ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed. No one knows why he was detained.
Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained
Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.
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Bookstores may not be able to rescue us, but the best *are* oases from the financially craven & terminally stupid. Elbows up, as the Canadians say!