Kathleen Westergaard 🇨🇦 MSW, RSW

@kathleenwester.bsky.social

I have a Masters degree in Leadership and like to cheer on the good guys. We need a court for crimes against the planet and a Professional College to regulate journalism. I support a #BlueStateNation to end #USRussia. Mackenzie, BC

El-Sayed: "They think they want to use my whole name against me. Mike, listen man, If you can't say the name -- it's Abdulrahman -- keep the name out your damn mouth."

Talarico’s argument is simple: Stop treating marijuana like a crime. Legalize it. Regulate it. Tax it. Stop wasting police resources on low-level marijuana offenses. Clear the records of people whose lives have been derailed by nonviolent marijuana convictions.

Notice DOJ doesn't talk about its efforts to obtain state voter files anymore. They are 0-20 in those cases and today is the beginning of the quiet period -- states can no longer do systematic removals of names from the voter rolls. TLDR: We won!🥳

A gracious concession: “I want to congratulate Abdul El-Sayed on winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. He is a doctor, a community health official, a Rhodes Scholar, and a dedicated Michigander. I am proud to offer my support as he takes on Mike Rogers in the general election…

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Let’s level set. MICHIGAN is a must-win if we want to flip the Senate. A word caution: This race was tighter than many predicted. El-Sayed needs Stevens supporters in the general, so it’s not smart strategy to keep them angry. Welcome them. Focus on issues. Time is short, so healing must be quick

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This is genuinely astonishing: a piece by the Globe and Mail’s editorial board lamenting the “new normal” of wildfires and summer smoke and no mention whatsoever of a) climate change, or b) the burning of fossil fuels that causes it. #cdnpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

Globe editorial: A summer season of fire, smoke, ashes and fear

The carefree feeling of summers past has been incinerated as wildfires rage across the country

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We are just at the early stages of the "new normal". As warned 20 years ago: Ocean temps will continue to rise. Weather patterns will continue to change. Droughts will become more severe and longer duration. Forest fires, crop failures Others will experience excessive precipitation more frequently.

In the Okanagan this winter season, the avg temp was 3.8c above normal, we got 25% of our usual precip & our snowpack was a historic low of 52% of norm & yr 4 of drought The super El Nino is coming faster & harder than expected. Climate crisis is real We are evacuated, these pics show scale

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I want to write "unbelievable", but it's not. The new normal? No, the beginning of the new normal. What other options do we have though other than to accept this??? Wow.

Don't Look Up, Max. "We have considered nothing and looked no place and yet we still can't understand the problem." Ignorance is more than bliss. Ignorance (and the perpetuation of such) is the strategy.

El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

😓 The number of injured of the Russian night terror has increased to 36 Brovary district suffered the most. Here the enemy killed 10 people, another 16 were injured. In the Buchma district, 5 people were killed, 16 were injured.

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❗️Ukraine's military intelligence says North Korea has begun deploying a missile unit to Russia's Voronezh region, where it could operate within Russia's 112th Missile Brigade. According to HUR official Cherniak, Moscow expects to receive 120 KN-23/24 ballistic missiles and six launchers. #Ukraine

The EU will provide Ukraine with another €1.4 billion from proceeds generated by frozen Russian assets, Prime Minister Serhii Koretskyi said. The funding will strengthen Ukraine's defense and national resilience as Russia continues its attacks. #Ukraine

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🇺🇦🚀 In the first half of 2026, Ukraine received three times fewer missiles for air defense than in the same period in 2025, - Zelensky "And we are talking about all periods of the first half of 2026. The partners have missiles. It is important that there are still necessary political decisions…"

❗️Putin announced a series of changes to Russia's military command. Valery Solodchuk will oversee all rear logistics services under the Defense Ministry, Andrei Ivanaev will command the "Center" grouping, Bulgarev the "Vostok" grouping, and Denis Lyamin will head Russia's Drone Forces. #Russia

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🥴 Putin announced personnel changes in the military leadership. Putin announced that all of the Defense Ministry's logistics services would be consolidated under a single leadership. Valery Solodchuk has been appointed to this position.