Canadian Mom 🇨🇦
@cdoherty13.bsky.social
Canadian, weather, Canucks, RA, Long Covid, ME/CFS, Political junkie. ❤️ Democracy. Grandma.
Live on the traditional and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw & səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ Nation.
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Live on the traditional and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw & səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ Nation.
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Daniel will be missed! But his Canuck writings will still be available on substance.
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Pass it to Bulis has been fired
Yesterday morning, I was informed that Vancouver Is Awesome no longer wishes to have Canucks coverage on its website and that I, effectively immediately, was out of a job.
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November 15, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Daniel will be missed! But his Canuck writings will still be available on substance.
open.substack.com/pub/passitto...
open.substack.com/pub/passitto...
Funding Changes Might Leave BC's Long-COVID Patients in the Lurch via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/08...
Funding Changes Might Leave BC’s Long-COVID Patients in the Lurch | The Tyee
The province has one main clinic offering care to more than 5,200 online patients.
thetyee.ca
August 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Funding Changes Might Leave BC's Long-COVID Patients in the Lurch via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/08...
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Today, the products my employee unpacked and shelved for my store cost 10-20% more than they had in January. That money "collected" is from ME, a shopkeeper in a family-owned small business. Me, a veteran, Me, a senior citizen. Me, someone who can't afford to "eat" the tariffs.
If by tariffs are working you mean taxes on American consumers and businesses, then sure
August 9, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Today, the products my employee unpacked and shelved for my store cost 10-20% more than they had in January. That money "collected" is from ME, a shopkeeper in a family-owned small business. Me, a veteran, Me, a senior citizen. Me, someone who can't afford to "eat" the tariffs.
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Chasing perfection shouldn’t come at the cost of access. 1:1 care may be ideal, but for thousands with #LongCOVID, good care now is what’s urgently needed. Dr. Arseneau’s clinic works. Dismantling it helps no one. #LifeLineBC @brendavancouver.bsky.social @josieosborne.bsky.social
B.C. government plans to cut payments for long-COVID clinics, leaving at least 5,000 patients in the lurch https://vancouversun.com/news/bc-government-plans-to-cut-payments-for-long-covid-clinics
𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
July 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Chasing perfection shouldn’t come at the cost of access. 1:1 care may be ideal, but for thousands with #LongCOVID, good care now is what’s urgently needed. Dr. Arseneau’s clinic works. Dismantling it helps no one. #LifeLineBC @brendavancouver.bsky.social @josieosborne.bsky.social
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This clinic model got me back to work after Long COVID. Now the government is cutting access. That threatens care for rural, remote and homebound patients. Please take a minute to speak up and fill out the survey:
chng.it/CSZVF6zBtt
#lifelinebc #LongCOVID #MECFS #bcpoli
chng.it/CSZVF6zBtt
#lifelinebc #LongCOVID #MECFS #bcpoli
Have you seen this petition yet?
Josie Osborne: Protect Access to Care for Long COVID, ME/CFS, and Fibromyalgia Patients
chng.it
August 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
This clinic model got me back to work after Long COVID. Now the government is cutting access. That threatens care for rural, remote and homebound patients. Please take a minute to speak up and fill out the survey:
chng.it/CSZVF6zBtt
#lifelinebc #LongCOVID #MECFS #bcpoli
chng.it/CSZVF6zBtt
#lifelinebc #LongCOVID #MECFS #bcpoli
Timeline cleanse
August 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Timeline cleanse
Government of BC is now on BlueSky. Give them a follow.
Good morning! Is the sky really bluer here? Let's find out!
August 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Government of BC is now on BlueSky. Give them a follow.
BC residents with ME/CFS, #LongCOVID & #Fibromyalgia risks losing access to virtual care on Sept 1. MSP wants to cap group visits at 20 patients/hour—driving costs up & care down. 📢 Tell your MLA: Pause these cuts now! www.lifelinebc.ca/campaign
#SaveBC_CLMF #LifeLineBC #ProtectVirtualCareBC
#SaveBC_CLMF #LifeLineBC #ProtectVirtualCareBC
July 23, 2025 at 10:26 PM
BC residents with ME/CFS, #LongCOVID & #Fibromyalgia risks losing access to virtual care on Sept 1. MSP wants to cap group visits at 20 patients/hour—driving costs up & care down. 📢 Tell your MLA: Pause these cuts now! www.lifelinebc.ca/campaign
#SaveBC_CLMF #LifeLineBC #ProtectVirtualCareBC
#SaveBC_CLMF #LifeLineBC #ProtectVirtualCareBC
July 7, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Just off topic, @thetyee.ca has been publishing honest and excellent journalism for years, and they deserve the support of Canadians. There are other independent outlets as well, and it's worth your time to find them and support them too. It's also critically important right now, more than ever.
July 4, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Just off topic, @thetyee.ca has been publishing honest and excellent journalism for years, and they deserve the support of Canadians. There are other independent outlets as well, and it's worth your time to find them and support them too. It's also critically important right now, more than ever.
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At this point, Karoline Leavitt’s press briefings should come with a Surgeon General’s warning: “May cause dizziness, gaslighting, and a complete detachment from reality.”
July 2, 2025 at 5:08 AM
At this point, Karoline Leavitt’s press briefings should come with a Surgeon General’s warning: “May cause dizziness, gaslighting, and a complete detachment from reality.”
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Maternal flu vaccine protects newborns, vaccination in kids also effective, studies show https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-vaccines/maternal-flu-vaccine-protects-newborns-vaccination-kids-also-effective-studies
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July 2, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Maternal flu vaccine protects newborns, vaccination in kids also effective, studies show https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-vaccines/maternal-flu-vaccine-protects-newborns-vaccination-kids-also-effective-studies
𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
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I want to respect everyone’s mental health, but when exactly will it be okay to talk about the ongoing & future harms that #COVID infections cause?
June 27, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I want to respect everyone’s mental health, but when exactly will it be okay to talk about the ongoing & future harms that #COVID infections cause?
When will Health Authorities learn to listen to medical professionals?
St. Clare's internal medicine doctors give mass resignation notice, warn of 'impending crisis' | CBC News
Five doctors at a St. John's hospital have tendered a joint resignation notice, saying they'll be gone by Oct. 1.
www.cbc.ca
June 27, 2025 at 1:38 PM
When will Health Authorities learn to listen to medical professionals?
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(🚨) WAIT... WHAT??
Agents of Red Sea co-conspirators and Trump business partners MBS, MBZ, and el-Sisi were secretly in the White House as Trump agreed to go to war with their enemy Iran?
How is this not the big news right now? How is this not bigger than every other story major media is covering?
Agents of Red Sea co-conspirators and Trump business partners MBS, MBZ, and el-Sisi were secretly in the White House as Trump agreed to go to war with their enemy Iran?
How is this not the big news right now? How is this not bigger than every other story major media is covering?
June 27, 2025 at 3:11 AM
(🚨) WAIT... WHAT??
Agents of Red Sea co-conspirators and Trump business partners MBS, MBZ, and el-Sisi were secretly in the White House as Trump agreed to go to war with their enemy Iran?
How is this not the big news right now? How is this not bigger than every other story major media is covering?
Agents of Red Sea co-conspirators and Trump business partners MBS, MBZ, and el-Sisi were secretly in the White House as Trump agreed to go to war with their enemy Iran?
How is this not the big news right now? How is this not bigger than every other story major media is covering?
Shocker! (Not)
The US economy contracted in the beginning of the year at a much faster pace than previously reported, after new data factored in much weaker consumer spending — due in large part to Trump’s tariffs.
#TrumpTariffs
#TrumpTariffs
The US economy shrank much faster in the first quarter than previously reported | CNN Business
The US economy contracted in the beginning of the year at a much faster pace than previously reported, after new data factored in much weaker consumer spending.
www.cnn.com
June 27, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Shocker! (Not)
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After seeing what Elon did to Twitter, my confidence in a Tesla-run taxi service is about the same as my confidence in an drive-thru orthopedic surgery start-up run by Arby’s.
June 25, 2025 at 12:07 PM
After seeing what Elon did to Twitter, my confidence in a Tesla-run taxi service is about the same as my confidence in an drive-thru orthopedic surgery start-up run by Arby’s.
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Budzinski: Families making over $700,000 a year will see a boost of $12,000 almost entirely from tax cuts. Shockingly, households making $23,000 a year or less are set to lose about $1600 a year, mostly due to deep cuts to Medicaid and food assistance
June 26, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Budzinski: Families making over $700,000 a year will see a boost of $12,000 almost entirely from tax cuts. Shockingly, households making $23,000 a year or less are set to lose about $1600 a year, mostly due to deep cuts to Medicaid and food assistance
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People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid
June 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid
Canadians, please consider signing.
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June 25, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Denying the extreme danger of Covid-19 does not lessen the danger. Denial actually increases the danger.
#COVID19
#COVID19
The collective denial that currently prevails in regard to the extreme danger of uncontrolled Covid-19 constitutes a form of mass psychosis, in which most people have become willfully separated from the alarming truth of what is happening all around them.
#COVID19
#COVID19
June 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Denying the extreme danger of Covid-19 does not lessen the danger. Denial actually increases the danger.
#COVID19
#COVID19
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This is not only untrue, it is the exact opposite. COVID infection in pregnancy is associated with double the rate of stillbirths. COVID infection before or during early pregnancy is associated with three times higher rate of miscarriage.
June 24, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This is not only untrue, it is the exact opposite. COVID infection in pregnancy is associated with double the rate of stillbirths. COVID infection before or during early pregnancy is associated with three times higher rate of miscarriage.
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Growing anti-immigration sentiment in Canada is almost entirely driven by political leaders. It is not a grassroots-up issue that leaders are begrudgingly responding to. Leaders are whipping up resentment against immigrants, out of nowhere
Alberta Next survey asks if province should withhold social services for immigrants
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Alberta Next survey asks if province should withhold social services for immigrants
CALGARY — Whether Alberta should withhold social services from immigrants is among the issues Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is tabling for debate this summer when she travels the province to consult ...
www.rmoutlook.com
June 25, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Growing anti-immigration sentiment in Canada is almost entirely driven by political leaders. It is not a grassroots-up issue that leaders are begrudgingly responding to. Leaders are whipping up resentment against immigrants, out of nowhere