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Rebecca Girouard
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Artist🎨, Healer, Sailor, Dog Mom and Wife. Retired RN ICU/Open Heart. Avid reader, NFL and MLB enthusiast. Offering guidance and stability in these chaotic times. 🇨🇦
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Our spring garden. A welcome break from these challenging times.🥰
April 22, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Interesting… 🧐
altnps.bsky.social Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Apr 14
Many products sold in the U.S. are made in El Salvador. In response to the El Salvador president’s statements today, we’re calling for an immediate boycott of all Salvadoran-made goods. Please help by listing any products or brands made in El Salvador in the comments below.
April 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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March 21, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Free art day tomorrow! It’s the International Art and Found Day 2025! Check the website for where a registered artist is near you! #artandfoundday2025
March 12, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Canada outlaws another 179 types of firearms, announces classification review
#Canada #cdnpoli

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Canada outlaws another 179 types of firearms, announces classification review
The Liberal government has outlawed another 179 firearm varieties, adding to the list of prohibited guns it considers too dangerous for use by hunters or sport shooters.
www.ctvnews.ca
March 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Reminder: Amazon Blackout—starting tomorrow.

Amazon ❌, Whole Foods ❌ off the to-do list!
March 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Precisely.
March 5, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Brutal is right.
anneapplebaum.bsky.social Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Mar 5
"In just a few minutes, the behavior of Donald Trump and J. D. Vance created a brand new stereotype for America: not the quiet American, not the ugly American, but the brutal American"
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Europe Confronts the Rise of the Brutal American
This is how the bad guys act.
www.theatlantic.com
March 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Wow.
onestpress.onestnetwork.com Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · Mar 4
Carnival in Germany
March 5, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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March 1, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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TOMORROW- Friday, February 28th is BLACKOUT FRIDAY!

If you believe we are in danger of losing our Democracy forever, FIGHT BACK!

Let's make our voices heard in numbers too big to ignore.

JOIN US if you've had it with Comrade Krasnov. 🤬 🇷🇺

#24HourEconomicBlackout
February 27, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Canada, we can do this! Spread the word.
February 25, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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February 19, 2025
February 19, 2025
The past week has solidified a sea change in American—and global—history.
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February 20, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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Marco D'Amico -
I stand corrected. This is the loudest Canadian anthem I have ever heard live.
Wow. #cdnpoli #onpoli #peipoli
February 16, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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A non-traditional Valentines bouquet from my DH. 🥰 These latte roses are gorgeous.💖
February 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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🇨🇦 needs Europe. Feeling extremely vulnerable.
February 17, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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The activity coming from the Trump administration is consistent with a regime shift away from democracy and toward authoritarianism. It’s important to use this label so people begin to appreciate the gravity and consequences of what’s happening.
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February 16, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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BTW, my dad had polio when he was just a young boy. He was damaged by it.Polio is a real thing. I stood in the line up in 1963, grade 3, to receive my sugar cube with the polio vaccine in it. I’ve also seen the Iron Lung in action and cared for patients with polio.
February 16, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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I almost NEVER agree Kinsella or things in the Toronto Sun BUT I do agree with this column. NO CANADIAN SHOULD PRETEND TUMPS THREATS ARE NOT REAL. WE NEED TO STAND FIRM AND PROTECT OUR COUNTY. THERE WILL BE PAIN IN DOING THIS BUT WE NEED TO RESIST AND PUSH BACK HARD. torontosun.com/opinion/colu...
KINSELLA: Donald Trump's threats against Canada no 'head fake'
"Flooding the zone" is a football term, but it's been appropriated by political people.
torontosun.com
February 16, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.
February 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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It appears the whole world could use a whole lotta love.
February 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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DOJ leadership has put all Public Integrity Section lawyers into a room with 1 hour to decide who will dismiss Adams indictment or else all will be fired. Sending them strength to stand by their oath, which is to support the Constitution, not the president’s political agenda. 🇺🇸
February 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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The Quebec Winter Carnival is currently running!
Founded over 125 years ago, it became an annual event in the 1950s and is a defining part of the winter culture of Canada. Not to mention it has Bonhomme!
Let's learn more about this famous festival!

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The photo features a person in a large, cheerful snowman costume standing in front of an impressive ice castle structure. The snowman costume is white with black button details and a colorful striped belt, and it's topped with a red hat with a tassel. The ice castle behind the snowman is intricately constructed from large blocks of ice, with a blue-tinted roof and cylindrical towers, giving it a majestic and fairy-tale-like appearance. The sky is clear and blue, suggesting a bright, sunny day.
February 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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On the top of the CIBC building in downtown Windsor facing Detroit.

Canada is not for sale! 🇨🇦🖕🏻🍁
February 6, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Sunday morning cartoons in Canada.
February 2, 2025 at 1:43 PM