Yet Water Was 🇨🇦
@yetwaterwas.bsky.social
Poet (Brussels Review, Merion West, Pictura, Poets.ca & more), community acupuncturist in #YYJ. Add alt-text to images if you want me to follow you. #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #Canada
#clearthelist Please retweet. I am a fourth grade nyc teacher in a title I school. I would love some help with our wishlist with school supplies, books, and more. I appreciate you and any help you can provide. Thank you www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
Almost any Canadian child will remember Owl Magazine - well now you can gift a subscription to child who can't afford it! Thanks to @todmaffin.com for helping make this happen! I've donated: owlkids.com/giveagift
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The former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers who went on strike for 3+ years, only to have the owners sell the paper and fire most of them, have started their own cooperative news org. Important reporting by @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social
Corporate profiteers destroyed journalism. Worker-owned media can save it.
Former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers went on strike for over three years and won. Then, the owners sold the paper and most strikers lost their jobs. Now, they’ve launched “a cooperative news organiz...
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I feel like I might be the only person who doesn't understand the popularity of podcasts. I am almost instantly bored any time I try one.
Every morning I wake up with a random song in my head - anyone else have this? I call it my squirrel jukebox. This morning's a great Canadian one: music.youtube.com/watch?v=Frpi...
Lost Together (2012 Remaster)
YouTube video by Blue Rodeo - Topic
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If I see one person claim this is a joke just because he said it at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, I will, in fact, lose the last shred of hope I have in society's ability to read the collective room
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 2w agoTrump announces he will run for a "fourth" term and dons a "Trump 2028" hat
If you need a poetry anthology I cannot recommend this one enough - curated by Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milos, each page contains a shortish poem from all over the world and all throughout history. Pick it up, thank me later. #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity
bcgreens.ca/petitions/mo... British Columbians - sign the Green Party's petition to put a moratorium on AI Data centres in BC. #BCPoli #BCPolitics #NoAI #NoDataCentres
Petition: Moratorium on AI Data Centres
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A brilliant article by @rachelgilmore.bsky.social on the @thetyee.ca - We now have a Red Tory party called the Liberal Party of Canada thetyee.ca/Analysis/202... #CdnPoli #Canada #MarkCarney #LPC
Mark Carney, Red Tory | The Tyee
The prime minister is causing a major realignment in Canadian politics. More proof came Wednesday.
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WestJet flight attendants are fighting to end the exploitative practice of unpaid work. They have an undeniable 99% strike vote mandate from their membership. Tell the Federal Labour Minister: Don't strip WestJet flight attendants of their right to strike. social.cupe.ca/s/BJoggjkE
Sign the Petition to End Unpaid Work
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In case you missed it, here is my interview with Rachel Maddow about my new book, The Fix. This is how we take our government back. youtu.be/3hZB5NY8J_0?...
Maddow: This is how a prosecutor of ORGANIZED CRIME sees Trump's corruption
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Canada Post 🍁 has launched an online store selling home stuff, kitchenware, gift ideas, toys and more from Canadian retailers 🔗 canadashops.ca
‘As a descendant of Palestinian refugees and a successful poet, Lababidi is well-qualified to speak and shed light on the unfolding horrors of war in Gaza.’ www.goodreads.com/book/show/25... #booksky #news #Gaza #Palestine #Israel
If You Cannot Say GENOCIDE: Essays on Conscience and Wi…
Discover and share books you love on Goodreads.
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Honoured to stand with Ontario NDP MPPs and the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment to oppose the dangerous expansion of Billy Bishop Airport. Mark Carney and Toronto’s 25 Liberal MPs need to show up and defend Torontonians instead of siding with Doug Ford.
"Polluters and their cronies are not trying to win the climate argument, merely to prolong it in perpetuity so there’s never enough public consensus for action." #cdnpoli #wildfire
Emily Atkin@emorwee.bsky.social · 3w agoI am trapped inside my house and I am mad, so I angry-typed for a few hours. Here's what I got
This is how to speak to every single one of those sycophants.
"Driving the speed limit could slash fuel use and emissions at the cost of only 54 extra seconds a day." And, it will reduce the injury, death, and mayhem on our streets. https://phys.org/news/2026-07-limit-slash-fuel-emissions-extra.html #VictoriaBC
Driving the speed limit could slash fuel use and emissions at the cost of only 54 extra seconds a day
Speeding in your car to work, to pick up your children from school, or go from one errand to the next not only wastes money in gas and sends harmful emissions into the air, it barely saves you time, new research says.
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Girlfriend booked us a quiet UK getaway. On the way, I gingerly said "Given how close we are to the station, there's a good chance -" and she interrupted with "to see the new Class 810 Auroras, yes, that's why I chose it." She was never previously in to trains. She's the one.
Carney is making Harper look like an environmentalist. We've been had. #Carney #MarkCarney #CDNPoli #CanPoli #LPC
Canadian Dimension@canadiandimension.bsky.social · 3w agoWith the omnibus Bill C-30, the Carney government quietly handed itself the power to override scientific decisions on pesticides in the name of "food security." The changes followed repeated meetings with CropLife Canada, the pesticide industry's leading lobby group.
Dear America, Congratulations on your recent losses. May the orange felon soon join his henchmen in the roasty place. #USPolitics #America
Dignity for people. Stability for families. Stronger demand for the economy. Gail Vaz-Oxlade gets it.
