MamãBear
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Family * Education * Science * Environment * Mental Health * Gratitude 🇨🇦 🌎
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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism!
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Hopefully soon! Canada has got to move faster. In the meantime, a lot of the advice in the Nordic ones is generally applicable, and they are available in other languages including French and English. For instance Finland’s digital brochure (link👇).
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Liberals🇨🇦🇺🇦
28 days ago
Want to overturn foreign media ownership/funding in Canada, stop the funnel of MAGA propaganda in Canada? Sign this, send it to everyone you know, and let's bankrupt Post Media, National Post, The Sun, and put Brian Lilley out of a fucking job.
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Yes, my Google home has randomly intercepted conversations too. 😱
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Digital privacy & security. ⬇️
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Olga Nesterova
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UPDATE: ONEST is migrating to a sovereign European digital infrastructure in the coming weeks. By moving to an EU-based framework, we’re adding a massive layer of protection for our members under the world’s strictest privacy laws. Your security and freedom of factual information is our priority.
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Do we have Canadian 🇨🇦 digital infrastructure too?? 🤔
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#AiSlop
— misinformation & political unrest. 🤦🏻♀️
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Dena McMartin 🇨🇦
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People like Rath who are overtly attempting to destroy and weaken Canada seem to think they’ll be victors in a new world order. To the US, he’s a useful idiot. To Canada, he’s a traitor.
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This is heartbreaking 💔 There needs to be more oversight in reviewing
#MAID
applications. And why is it different from one province to another?
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Ontario woman calls for reform after her son ‘shopped’ for MAID approval in B.C. — The Globe and Mail
Margaret Marsilla wants a moratorium for those without terminal conditions after her mentally ill son flew to Vancouver to end his life
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Anaximander's Elbows Up Tardigrade Brigade 🍁🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱
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Borders are arbitrary. Societies are not. I sincerely doubt that the people of Minnesota would be comfortable with Canadian culture, politics, and laws. Beginning with are gun laws. And I expect that the majority of Albertans would feel the same if annexed by the USA.
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Sadly, this is what can happen when parents exploit their kids on social media. Crazy times we live in. 😞
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#BuyCanadian🇨🇦
#ShopCanadian🍁
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Why geese legs don't freeze and other fascinating facts. 🇨🇦
#PolarVortex
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Why geese legs don't freeze and other fascinating facts of how Alberta wildlife survives the polar vortex | CBC News
Some birds enter a nightly hibernation, others have a specially designed pouch in their throat that they pack full of seeds before they retire for a cold night. These are just some of the things that ...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-animals-polar-vortex-1.5907942
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Why is this so relatable? 😣
#MentalHealth
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Brrrr 🥶
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Toronto is locked in an Arctic grip. Meteorologists say it hasn’t happened in ‘over 10 years’
Toronto isn’t just cold, it’s stuck in a deep freeze, with experts warning the city is locked into an Arctic pattern that’s proving unusually hard to shake.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/toronto-is-locked-in-an-arctic-grip-meteorologists-say-it-hasnt-happened-in-over-10-years/
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Action for Happiness
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Let go of the pressure to ‘catch up’. You’re not behind, you’re becoming Image:
www.instagram.com/headspace
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Care of Earth and People Ensure A Future World 🌎
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Sad. Risk of maternal death during pregnancy greatly underestimated, study finds, "The new analysis found that the mortality risk from pregnancy (including up to one year postpartum) is 44 to 70 times higher than the mortality risk from abortion"
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Risk of maternal death during pregnancy greatly underestimated, study finds
A new study comparing deaths of pregnant people and of those who have an abortion show that risk of death due to pregnancy is three times higher than previously estimated.
https://www.brown.edu/news/2026-01-28/maternal-mortality-abortion
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Rainforest
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Climate inflation
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Beef and coffee drive grocery inflation up
Prices for goods in both categories rose by more than 15% in December as food costs moved ahead at a quicker pace than the month before.
https://www.grocerydive.com/news/grocery-inflation-december-2025-coffee-meat-eggs/809857/
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LeslieMaggie🇨🇦🍁
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Covid year seven: still no standards to protect teachers & students. “Journalists covering teacher & student absenteeism without talking about COVID are ignoring an elephant in the room and gaslighting many people suffering from Long COVID & illnesses that may have developed from getting COVID.”
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ArtsNScience
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The Minister doesn’t let silly things like truth get in the way of politics. - Peel has NOT run years of deficits - due to previous supervision it was the Ministry setting Peel’s budget - Peel DSB was NOT about to lay off teachers The lies come fast & easy in
#ongov
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Ford government takes over Peel District School Board, puts York Catholic board ‘on notice’
Ontario is placing the Peel District School Board (PDSB) under provincial supervision and warning the York Catholic District School Board (YCDSB) it could be next, citing serious concerns about govern...
https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/local/peel/article/ford-government-takes-over-peel-district-school-board-puts-york-catholic-board-on-notice/
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ArtsNScience
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Don’t forget to submit your comments on the
#Ontario
budget and ask for more funding for education, more mental healthcare for youth, more money for youth employment and community engagement, stop selling vape products to kids, and invest in affordable housing.
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Survey: 2026 Budget Consultations
We want to hear from you! Tell us how Ontario’s next budget can help support your family, business or community.The 2026 Budget will continue to focus on protecting Ontario’s economy and workers, crea...
http://www.ontario.ca/form/survey-2026-budget-consultations
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"Bowmore families have been advocating for more [special education] supports and instead the TDSB is removing the staff who know the kids best." 😒
#OntEd
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Kathleen Westergaard 🇨🇦 MSW, RSW
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🇨🇦 We need to decarbonize.
#BC
is already a 🌎 leader. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 50°C? Parts of Australia enduring an unprecedented, multi-day heat wave - The Weather Network
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50°C? Parts of Australia enduring an unprecedented, multi-day heat wave - The Weather Network
We explain the conditions, including an ex-cyclone, that will cause a stubborn heat dome to linger over Australia, bringing scorching temperatures up to 20°C above normal.
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Toronto is failing — where are the supports? 😢
#MentalHealth
#Homeless
"There's a lot of violence in this hotel space. And yet there are no supports, there's no mental health support, there's nothing here for people."
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Toronto hospitals see increase in cold-related injuries as shelter system fills up | CBC News
More people experiencing homelessness are coming to Toronto hospitals this month seeking shelter and suffering from cold-related injuries than in recent months this winter, according to one physician.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/hospitals-cold-related-injuries-1.6333157
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Please, he humiliated himself!
#NotSorry
“Allowing your husband to be present while other nursing mothers are visible could infringe upon their reasonable expectation of security, safety and privacy, and in some cases, their cultural and religious values.”
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'Humiliating': This father was kicked out of the Toronto Eaton Centre's nursing room, and he and his wife say the mall's policy is unfair — Toronto Star
Moana and David Sangeo describe their experience as they tried to feed their six-week-old son in the mall. They've launched a human rights complaint.
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City of Toronto
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In response to the continued cold weather, the City has opened an additional temporary Warming Centre with 30 spaces at John Innes Community Centre (150 Sherbourne St.). Locations and other information can be found at
toronto.ca/warmingcentres
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Proof that public backlash works.
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Jim Pattison won't sell U.S. warehouse proposed as new ICE facility | CBC News
Jim Pattison Developments has announced it will not sell an industrial building in Ashland, Va., that was set to be turned into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) processing facility.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/jim-pattison-industrial-building-won-t-sell-ice-9.7068494
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Euronews
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NASA Astronauts will soon be heading back to the Moon for the first time in 50 years - but why are they going, who’s going, and what will they get up to?
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Everything to know about NASA's Artemis II Moon mission
NASA Astronauts will soon be heading back to the Moon for the first time in 50 years - but why are they going, who’s going, and what will they get up to?
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“Six people dead as Storm Kristin swept across mainland Portugal 🇵🇹 with winds reaching 202 km/hr, leaving a trail of destruction across eight districts and affecting electricity supply to around 1 million customers.”
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Six dead as Storm Kristin wreaks havoc in Portugal with 202 km/h winds — Euronews
Six people died as Storm Kristin battered Portugal with winds reaching record speeds, causing widespread destruction and leaving around 1 million people without electricity.
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“Sump pumps, flood maps: How to assess climate risks when house shopping”
#ClimateChange
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Sump pumps, flood maps: How to assess climate risks when house shopping — The Canadian Press
When Kathryn Bakos was house hunting a few years ago, her checklist included
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😭 Schools should be SAFE spaces for all kids. Why does the victim need to go to a new school, and not the bully!?
@tdsb.on.ca
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‘It broke my heart’: Toronto mother says school failed to protect her son from violent bully
A Toronto mother says she was forced to pull her son from classes after his school failed to protect him from a violent bully and the process to transfer him to another school dragged on for weeks.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/it-broke-my-heart-toronto-mother-says-school-failed-to-protect-her-son-from-violent-bully-heres-why-one-expert-says-thats-a-problem/
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Actually? He’s expecting far too much. 🤨
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David Eby
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There is an old word to describe going to a foreign power and asking for their assistance in breaking up a sovereign country — it’s treason. Canadians are standing together in defence of this beautiful land. 🇨🇦
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁
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'We could see shortages': Experts warn of impacts of tariffs on healthcare
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/from-drug-access-to-food-prices-heres-why-us-tariffs-can-affect-your-health/
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canadahealthwatch.ca/featured
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He’s not wrong… 😑
#Alberta
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Eby accuses Alberta separatists of ‘treason’ for meeting with U.S. officials — The Globe and Mail
B.C. Premier says he plans to raise the issue when he meets with Carney and his provincial counterparts
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“More than 60% of Ontario hospitals were in the red at the end of the 2025 fiscal year, and many have turned to banks to cover their costs, spending millions of public dollars on loan interest payments”
#OntHealth
#PublicHealth
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Ontario hospitals operating in the red are taking out private bank loans — National Post
Provincial legislation says they aren't supposed to run deficits. Yet operating shortfalls persist at more than 60% of Ontario hospitals
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“Climate change worsened rains and floods which killed dozens in southern Africa”
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Climate change worsened rains and floods which killed dozens in southern Africa, study shows — The Canadian Press
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Human-caused climate change worsened
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Eleanor Grant
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A nickel mine, a nuclear waste dump, and a new exemption for industrial water-taking - all without proper environmental assessments. I thought I followed the news but I didn't know about any of these!
#onpoli
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“Public pressure changes behaviour. The public is watching, and companies will be remembered for how they chose to act in this moment.”
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Pattison, Hootsuite face backlash over business linked to ICE
Two Vancouver-based companies are facing public backlash for their ties to U.S. federal agencies after two killings carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/pattison-firm-says-it-did-not-know-warehouse-was-to-become-ice-facility/
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Dutch Caribbean islanders sue Netherlands 🇳🇱 over climate change. “As a low-lying island, Bonaire is likely to experience serious consequences from climate change, including extreme weather and sea-level rise.”
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Dutch Caribbean islanders sue Netherlands over climate change — Guardian US
Bonaire citizens file formal legal challenge, as research shows part of island will be submerged by 2050
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“In a place with fixed roads, limited parking, fragile ecosystems and permanent residents, unlimited growth is not prosperity — it is erosion.”
#Banff
#NationalPark
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Opinion: Banff has reached a breaking point — Calgary Herald
During my term in municipal office in Banff, I repeatedly raised concerns about unmanaged growth — traffic congestion, vehicle overload and the absence of real limits on how many people and cars we in...
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Spicy Scorpio(Karen) 🇨🇦🧡🪶🏳️🌈
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Nipah Virus outbreak is beefing up screenings Nipah virus: Some Asia airports screen passengers after outbreak in India
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Nipah virus: Some Asia airports screen passengers after outbreak in India
Airports in Thailand and Nepal have begun screening passengers from West Bengal.
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”Toronto's needs will always outpace the money available to it.”
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Doug Ford taking over the Gardiner was supposed to ease Toronto's repair backlog. So why is it growing in 2026? — Toronto Star
Spending on the city’s 10-year capital budget is due to hit a historic high in 2026 — the second year in a row.
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Some excellent graphic novel recommendations, tailored for kids. 📚
#Education
#SchoolLibrarians
#MentalHealth
#YouthMentalHealth
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Yup. Include every social media post too.
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Hmm, another one 🤨 “Having this many boards under supervision is unprecedented in the province.”
#OntEd
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Education minister puts Peel District School Board under supervision, issues warning to another board — Toronto Star
The province has taken control of Peel public immediately, and given York Catholic two weeks to get its financial house in order.
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