Kate Barker
@katelbarker.bsky.social
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A Canadian writer wondering WTF is going on
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Joyful motherfucker🇨🇦🇺🇦
29 days ago
I love Canadians
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LeTitsNow
about 2 months ago
So good
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Dave Kaufman
about 2 months ago
If Canada was the 51st State this would be our Vichy Gov’s official statement:
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Disappointed but not surprised by the mealy-mouthed official Canadian response to the American attack on Venezuela. It’s not even from our PM. Elbows up feels so very long ago. Who is next?
about 2 months ago
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Watching BBC live coverage of US attack on Venezuela because apparently CBC is unaware
about 2 months ago
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Seems fitting that I just finished this as Americans take to the streets again for a national No Kings protest.
#booksky
#nokings
4 months ago
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Taco Taco Man …
9 months ago
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Evan Solomon? Really?
#cdnpoli
10 months ago
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And, soon to make a big comeback in America, folks, please give a warm round of applause for...Typhoid Fever.
#stupidamericans
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10 months ago
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So glad Persephone Books is re-printing this
www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
#booksky
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The lost 1934 novel that gave a chilling warning about the horrors of Nazi Germany
Published years before WW2, Sally Carson's prescient novel captures the dawn of Nazi tyranny in a small German town – and remains relevant today.
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20250506-the-lost-1934-novel-that-gave-a-chilling-warning-about-the-horrors-of-nazi-germany
10 months ago
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Screw Loblaws and all its tentacles - No Frills, Shoppers. I have spurned Loblaws for years and feel so vindicated. Money grubbing price fixing asshats.
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Heartbreaking.
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Arithmetically. Catalyze. Duplicatively. Words Carney used in his first press conference since the election. Love having an egg head in charge.
#cdnpoli
#elbowsup
10 months ago
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I am so proud of my country in this moment. Canadians have united to take a stand against fascism and anti-democratic forces around the world and against Trump in particular. Elbows up Canada!
#democracy
#canada
#liberals
#yourvotematters
10 months ago
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Given Blanchet’s unfortunate recent comments about Canada - pitch perfect, Beaverton
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10 months ago
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End the safe third country agreement with the States now - Canada is complicit in torturing families. There is nothing safe about the USA.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#democracy
#Canada
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Family of 4 jailed in U.S. for weeks after Canadian border guards turned them away | CBC News
As the family of four from El Salvador walked over the Rainbow Bridge in March, hoping to cross into Canada to flee immigration uncertainty in the U.S., they had no idea they would instead find themse...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/us-family-cbsa-1.7516978
10 months ago
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Winnie: Dec. 27 2012 - April 23, 2025. He was a very sweet boy. Now is the hardest time to be athiests. Though we don't believe he is with his sweet sister, we do know he is no longer alone. And all they ever knew was love. And that is something.
#cats
#caturday
#hugyourpets
10 months ago
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I'm in a thing. For tix:
www.kingstongrand.ca/events/unity...
#theatre
#kingstontheatre
#kingstonarts
10 months ago
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Hmmm. When they catch the guy, will it be electrocution, firing squad or will they simply chuck him out of a plane at 30,000 feet?
www.cnn.com/2025/04/21/p...
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s bag, including $3,000 in cash, is stolen from DC restaurant | CNN Politics
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem fell victim to a thief while eating dinner at a downtown Washington, DC, restaurant Sunday night, the secretary confirmed Monday.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/21/politics/homeland-security-kristi-noem-purse-stolen/index.html
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Yup
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Sinead
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10 months ago
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About to cast our votes in the most important election of our lives as we are surrounded by fascists.
#canadavotes
#kingstonvotes
#elbowsup
#canada
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Alison Croggon
10 months ago
Every morning I read the news and something else reminds me of Robert Musil saying in 1930s Germany that one of the defining aspects of fascism was the mockery of compassion
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Yes!
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦
10 months ago
“Rebel is a conspiratorial partisan outlet that spreads misinformation and actively campaigns against candidates it doesn’t like. This isn’t journalism and it’s obscene that the Debate Commission let them on — and even more wild that it allowed so many of their faux-journalists to hijack…”
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French debate live updates: Carney, Poilievre and other leaders spar in first forum, Trump mentioned less than expected
Follow the federal leaders’ debate with live video, reporting and analysis from the Star, including during post-debate scrums.
https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/french-federal-debate-live-blog/article_092932c1-453c-497a-84f8-b829f829e063.html
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Free Willy
10 months ago
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PP wears heels - good to know.
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10 months ago
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CBC - please get Adrienne, Rosemary and David inside. They look frozen.
#Debate
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Timothy Snyder
10 months ago
"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps. This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
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State Terror
A brief guide for Americans
https://snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
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As I listen to evil gas-powered leaf blowers blasting bees into oblivion, please don't start gardening yet. The bees are in trouble. Wait until it is 10 degrees out there for a while, please.
#bees
www.cbc.ca/life/hellosp...
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Don't clean up your garden just yet! Insects need some old brush to thrive in spring | CBC Life
Instead of spring cleanup this year, consider using this time to observe some of the returning and resident invertebrate wildlife.
https://www.cbc.ca/life/hellospring/don-t-clean-up-your-garden-just-yet-insects-need-some-old-brush-to-thrive-in-spring-1.5989352
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Chapter three from Viktor Orban’s best seller How to Make an Autocracy
www.cnn.com/2025/04/14/u...
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Trump administration announces freeze in $2.2 billion for Harvard after university rejects request for policy changes | CNN
The Trump administration announced Monday that it would freeze $2.2 billion in multi-year grants and $60 million in multi-year contract value at Harvard University after the school said it would not f...
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/14/us/harvard-rejects-policy-changes/index.html
10 months ago
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PP’s inside voice: Bring back hanging!
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Poilievre says he'd pass a law that overrides a Charter right. That would be a first for a PM | CBC News
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre announced a politically groundbreaking promise to become the first prime minister to invoke the notwithstanding clause.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/pierre-poilievre-notwithstanding-clause-1.7509802
10 months ago
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And this is Canadian “outrage” making headlines today. So glad I live here. Anyone want a button?
#elbowsup
11 months ago
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Let's stop pretending the US is still a democracy. "We are living in the dark, just as people do in other kleptocracies, and this changes everything."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Kleptocracy Presidency
Under Trump, conflicts of interest are just part of the system.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/trump-kleptocracy-autocracy-inc/682281/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK34ayvhDI7RVUDRSgLkNluMk&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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News to celebrate for a change
www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
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25-year-old makes history as Birdtail Sioux's youngest and 1st female chief | CBC News
In a whirlwind 24 hours this week, Tréchelle Bunn won an Indspire Award and an election, becoming the youngest serving chief in Manitoba.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/trechelle-bunn-birdtail-sioux-chief-1.7508528
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If I went to ribfest and asked how many people there like BBQ, not too many will tell me no, actually, I’m vegan.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Some Conservative supporters question whether the polls can be trusted | CBC News
CBC’s Poll Tracker shows the Conservatives trail the Liberals by nearly seven points nationally, but some Pierre Poilievre supporters say they don't believe it.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/do-you-believe-the-polls-poilievre-supporters-ask-1.7507437
11 months ago
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"Her voice if full of money."
#booksky
11 months ago
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In case, on this anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge, anyone wants to read a very interesting take on a great myth-making moment in Canadian history.
#booksky
11 months ago
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Halfway through this book last night and I had to put it down to take a breather. Carol Off so eloquently contextualizes the crisis facing democracy. Great interviews with so many smart people. Deep breath before I dive back in and return it to the library for the next reader.
#booksky
11 months ago
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Experiencing more pathetic fallacy here in Kingston this morning.
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andy™
11 months ago
the market is cruising
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William Shakespeare
11 months ago
Madness in great ones must not unwatch’d go.
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Canadian Resistance 🇨🇦
11 months ago
The Prime Minister sometimes stumbles in French. So what. Canadians didn’t mind when Jean Chrétien stumbled in English.
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William Shakespeare
11 months ago
It is a tale Told by an idiot
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Kentucky, read the room.
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11 months ago
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And PP claims not to be Trump Lite?
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11 months ago
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And, when I’m really feeling peeved with the States…A plague on both your houses
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11 months ago
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So great to see my parents' old vacation spot is going full-tilt hands off. Fight the power, St. Augustine FL. It would be nice to be able to visit you again one day.
#handsoff
#April5
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