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Oma / Mother/ Teacher/ 1st Generation Canadian / Democracy defender / Pro-choice /Leave the world a better place 🇨🇦

Do you want to know how popular school vouchers are? They have never won on a ballot. Not once. In any state. Ever. The only way states are able pass a school voucher scheme is behind closed doors. Legislatively. The people would never approve their tax dollars going to private religious schools.

UPDATE: Minnesota lawmakers voted last night to cut funding for our No Boundaries to the Boundary Waters program, which connects thousands of students to the wilderness each year. We are devastated by this decision, but we are not backing down. Thank you for standing with us.

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My American neighbours: Please repost to help raise awareness and call your representatives to voice your opposition to a foreign (Chilean) company mining in protected waters to no economic advantage. Protect our mutual environment. Love from a Canadian neighbour. ❤️🇨🇦

Senate Votes to Strip Minnesota’s Boundary Waters of Protection from Mining Pollution

Earthjustice weighs legal options to stop Chilean-owned Twin Metals mine

earthjustice.org

#Iran #DV1 #ProudBlue Obama had Iran on a short leash: inspectors crawling all over their nuclear sites, strict enrichment limits, and a promise not to build the bomb. But Trump’s 5 double D chess trumped all that Because nothing says ‘maximum pressure’ like maximum capitulation.

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A politician with the guts to say it: "No American child from the blue collar or the middle class should have to die fighting in Iran. Let the Epstein class fight the Epstein War." - Premier Wab Kinew at the NDP national convention, Winnipeg.

Call your senators now!! This bill will be coming up this week and will detrimentally change protection of public lands in EVERY U.S. State. Listen to Heather Cox Richardsons Podcast with Senator Tina Smith (Feb 19) for more info. It’s a 50 vote, so we need 4 republican senators to vote against!

Breaking: The Senate vote on terrible Boundary Waters resolution has been DELAYED

Update on February 11: The U.S. Senate vote that will determine the fate of the Boundary Waters has been delayed.

savetheboundarywaters.org

Big Oil "purchased solar and EV patents to ensure others couldn’t use them, solicited control of renewable markets and then abandoned them, and funded powerful institutions to promote false solutions, all while using trade groups to downplay the harms of fossil fuels, according to the complaint." 😠

A Secret Oil Cartel Might Have Killed Our Clean-Energy Future

In a landmark antitrust case, Michigan alleges oil companies colluded to “capture and kill” clean-energy and electric-vehicle efforts.

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