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housing and community activist. person. still hopeful in ottawa
TVO doc on Valentine's Day. What's Cupid up to here???
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Charlie Angus
19 days ago
"People are trying to politicize this. It's not about guns. It's not about transgenderism. It's about mental health. It's about a lack of resources. I truly believe that she did everything she could to try to help." - Maya's Mom speaking up for the shooter's mother.
#Prayersfortumblerridge
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Jim Acosta
24 days ago
BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world.
#standwithsurvivors
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Where does Harriet live?
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Drew Harwell
26 days ago
The Washington Post just laid off its entire award-winning photo team. They were our eyes in places we'll never see. It's a horrifying loss at a time when lying governments, propaganda and AI slop are on the rise.
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Connections🤯 Puzzle #972 🟦🟦🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟪 🟩🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟩🟪
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The Rundown
30 days ago
On the
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about "the greatest convention day speech" he's ever seen, and the value of delegated conventions:
youtu.be/R5RnbQa2ibg?...
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Will McKinley
about 1 month ago
SCTV is on Internet Archive if you'd like to enjoy the early work of Catherine O'Hara and her fellow sketch comedy gods. S1:
archive.org/details/sctv...
S2:
archive.org/details/sctv...
S3:
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S4-5:
archive.org/details/66-s...
S6 + Cinemax:
archive.org/details/sctv...
#TVSky
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Kathleen O'Grady 🇨🇦
about 1 month ago
I'm not sure how I missed this four years ago but it is beautiful. And now, what a beautiful tribute to a joyful soul. Your whole country mourns you
youtu.be/vOWn4CUsFak?...
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Noah Reid performs A Case of You | Noah Reid interprète A Case of You
YouTube video by GGAwards-PrixGG
https://youtu.be/vOWn4CUsFak?si=k03o6ktv1Vw-rtMR
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Jake Tapper, long-suffering Philly sports fan
about 1 month ago
DOJ has since killed this link. This is what was there:
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Davide
about 1 month ago
#70sTop30
1 - Joni Mitchell - River No one does heartbreak like Joni. I haven’t seen many mentions of Joni in this challenge, which is odd because her run of LPs 68-77 is one of the best in the history of recorded music. Forever underrated and under-appreciated.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8Mq...
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Joni Mitchell - River (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Joni Mitchell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8MqF7xEGhs&list=RDF8MqF7xEGhs&start_radio=1
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Simon Kuestenmacher
about 1 month ago
You can't possibly comprehend this map...
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Ricci
about 1 month ago
It’s really difficult & disorienting but the feds hit LA extremely hard today. There were kidnappings all over & reported cluster raids in Chinatown, East LA, Ktown. This list shows to 1130 AM but they haven’t stopped all day Just because the media attention stopped doesn’t mean the abductions have
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn
about 1 month ago
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
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paulseesequasis
about 1 month ago
‘Who controls the present controls the past’ - Walter Benjamin [National Park Service staffers are pictured removing panels that are park of the “Freedom and Slavery in the Making of a New Nation” exhibit at the President's House in Philadelphia. WPVI}
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about 1 month ago
Way to go Republicans! You freaks.
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Heather Badenoch 🇨🇦
about 1 month ago
Please spread the word to our neighbours about a place to get warm.
@jleiper.bsky.social
@catmckenney.bsky.social
@arieltroster.com
@shawnmenard.bsky.social
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Grievous Angels
about 1 month ago
The Grievous Angels are playing at the Motel Chelsea north of Ottawa on March 1. It is a late afternoon show and will sell out very quickly. Book your tickets now. It will be a chance to get advance copies of the Grievous Angels Revolution album. Tickets here:
www.showpass.com/grievous-ang...
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Grievous Angels - Motel Chelsea - Chelsea - Mar 1, 2026
The Grievous Angels have covered a lot of ground over their three decades –two Juno nominations and countless gigs played. They have just finished their 10th album Revolution. It is a soundtrack of re...
https://www.showpass.com/grievous-angels/
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Ms Alli Lux ❤️🌈
about 2 months ago
I have been feeling a lot of anger lately due to our political climate. Dolly made this video today for her 80th birthday to benefit pediatric cancer. We can’t lose hope.
youtu.be/McaD2PG8jOE
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Dolly Parton - Light of a Clear Blue Morning ft. Lainey Wilson, Miley Cyrus, Queen Latifah & Reba
YouTube video by Dolly Parton
https://youtu.be/McaD2PG8jOE
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Hey Ottawa, it's an election year! Let's ask for a portion of our tax dollars to be for participatory budgeting. We can do this.
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about 2 months ago
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Grievous Angels
about 2 months ago
We were treated like royalty at the sold out show at the old town hall in Alymer. We will be at Hotel Wolf Island February 28. Chelsea Motel, Quebec March 1. The new Grievous Angels album Revolution is now at the pressing plant.
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Cassie Smith (she/her)
about 2 months ago
When you build a world where kids can't walk anywhere to get candy this is a natural outcome. Very glad everyone is okay. This is very scary. 😬
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Now that PP has weighed in, can we hear from our Prime Minister?
@mark-carney.bsky.social
about 2 months ago
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes
2 months ago
It is to Canada's shame we have not spoken out or supported a Canadian judge being sanctioned by the US Her life is frozen. She cannot use credit cards, travel, move money, or access email. This is not sustainable
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
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‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock International Criminal Court judge out of daily life
Canadian judge Kimberly Prost is unable to use credit cards, transfer money or book everyday services in what she calls an attack on the independence of the judiciary
https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/12/12/its-surreal-us-sanctions-lock-international-criminal-court-judge-out-of-daily-life/
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August 18, 2025. She died on September 8. Miss her😿
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matched by pile of coats on bed upstairs.
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And why don't the morning radio traffic reports tell us how it's going for cyclists, walkers or transit users ? (my new pet peeve).
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2 months ago
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Led to the formation of a strong community of activists= the Centretown Plan=saving residential downtown=creation of
@ccochousing.bsky.social
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Texas Paul
2 months ago
The 60 minutes segment they don't want you to see. Thank you Allison. You are priceless.
www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
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WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-60-minutes-cecot-segment
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these are not beer
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3 months ago
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Segregation by Design
3 months ago
Paradise Valley, Detroit, seen on a John Lee Hooker album cover that captures the neighborhood before it was demolished for construction of the Chrysler Freeway and “urban renewal” in the 1960s. More info:
www.segregationbydesign.com/detroit/hast...
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Send Doug Ford to the Principal's office
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3 months ago
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Ariel Troster
3 months ago
Both
@jleiper.bsky.social
and I are fighting for a budget that puts people first, a budget that delivers reliable transit, safe communities and a city where everyone can afford to live and thrive. Add your name to tell City Council that we need a budget built for people:
www.arieltroster.com/budget
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Takeaway: Helsinki controls 70% of the land within its boundaries. Hey Ottawa, can we do the same?
centre.support/study-tour-i...
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Study tour in Finland: Five days in a country that is driving down homelessness
Finland has roughly 400,000 community and social housing units, representing about 11% of its entire housing stock.
https://centre.support/study-tour-in-finland-five-days-in-a-country-that-is-driving-down-homelessness/?utm_source=Centre+audience&utm_campaign=2c4ee68944-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_09_04_08_21_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-d11ea22334-380361011
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Charlie Angus
3 months ago
Looking forward to seeing folks today at the Rainbow Bistro in Ottawa. The
@grievousangels104.bsky.social
afternoon show is sold out. Tickets available for the 7pm show. Rainbow Bistro in the Market. See you there.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pPt...
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HEARTBREAK TOWN - GRIEVOUS ANGELS
YouTube video by Grievous Angels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pPttxxRIgQ&list=RD0pPttxxRIgQ&start_radio=1
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Gravel Influencer
3 months ago
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood. She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
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A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/25/metro/babson-college-freshman-deported/
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Ariel Troster
4 months ago
I was nervous when I agreed to be interviewed for CBC’s Fifth Estate about safe supply, but they got the angle exactly right. Safe supply was never implemented properly because govts were scared to prescribe what people are actually addicted to. It was set up to fail.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XJ-...
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The political war on safe drugs | Full episode | the fifth estate
YouTube video by the fifth estate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XJ-r-M8Ifw
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Charlie Angus
4 months ago
This past week there was a photo from Trump's gala of a barely clad woman frolicking in a giant champagne glass. She looked like a teen. It made me think of Jane Doe-another young woman who attempted to shine a light on the darkness in Trumpland. My latest.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/trumps-hea...
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Trump's Heart of Darkness
Warning: This story involves allegations of child rape and abuse
https://charlieangus.substack.com/p/trumps-heart-of-darkness
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Ariel Troster
4 months ago
Exactly what we said would happen when the Ford govt forced the supervised consumption site at Somerset West Community Health Centre: more overdoses in public. Bad for people with addictions, a burden on city services and terrible for the vitality of Chinatown.
www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
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Increase in Ottawa paramedic calls for overdoses near closed drug consumption site: data
Data from the City of Ottawa shows an increase in the number of overdose incidents paramedics have responded to since the closure of the supervised consumption site at the Somerset West Community Heal...
https://www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/article/increase-in-ottawa-paramedic-calls-for-overdoses-near-closed-drug-consumption-site-data/
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Sarah Goodyear
4 months ago
This post really helped me put the videos I've been seeing in context. Everyone should read it. Coincidentally, I found the whistle I have owned for decades in a box when I was cleaning out a closet the other day.
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Robbie Richardson
6 months ago
Tlingit artist Nicholas Galanin, “Architecture of return, escape (The British Museum)”, a deerskin map a floor plan of the British Museum and possible escape routes for various Indigenous cultural belongings held there.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers
5 months ago
On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️🌈
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Toon Dreessen
5 months ago
Pledged to plant a million trees, but that’s not in the budget either. As aspirational as the goal is, if it’s not in the budget it’s not there.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
@brenttoderian.bsky.social
@toderianuw.bsky.social
for the image
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Ariel Troster
5 months ago
Paulette was an integral part of so many progressive causes in Ottawa. I will miss her sharp analysis, her humour and her warmth. May her memory be for a revolution.
ottawacitizen.remembering.ca/obituary/pau...
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Paulette Dozois Obituary | Ottawa Citizen Remembering
View Paulette Dozois's complete obituary, share memories, and explore 5 tribute posts from the community.
https://ottawacitizen.remembering.ca/obituary/paulette-dozois-1093269269?fbclid=IwZnRzaANNBmRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHofm65ovNCD2iYmWqDwFQkMnUdZZMhmqpuysxPAAZukx5g-wuysVI4ZA2wl6_aem_wSrL8q8zNf5ap_lf_Lf4hA
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Barracks Life 🇺🇸🪖🌈
6 months ago
"In the span of three days, Disney won five Emmys for Andor (a show about resisting fascism) and then suspended Jimmy Kimmel (for resisting fascism)." – @case.murphy
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Anne Louise Avery
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Charlie Angus
6 months ago
I spoke many times with Catherine McKenna about the failure of the RCMP/Parliamentary Security to address rising levels of threat. Homes were outfitted with security cameras but little was done to track online threats. Good people gave up on serving the public.
nationalnewswatch.com/2025/09/12/f...
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Former environment minister details abuse she endured in politics in…
National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.
https://nationalnewswatch.com/2025/09/12/former-environment-minister-details-abuse-she-endured-in-politics-in-new-memoir
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there simply isn't enough coverage of the fact that, as a matter of ideology and public policy, trump and his administration think domestic violence is good
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