@kathynavackas.bsky.social
I'm working on this description - so, that's kinda me. Working on living a good life, working on connecting, working on learning about politics, theatre, film, music, literature, and trying to be a better person. Proud Canadian.
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That song has always given me chills.
The SS Edmund Fitzgerald was lost 50 years ago today — around the time Gordon Lightfoot was at work on a new album.
An experienced Great Lakes sailor who knew those waters well, he later told NPR he was surprised that media coverage gave “short shrift for such a monumental event.”
#RIP
An experienced Great Lakes sailor who knew those waters well, he later told NPR he was surprised that media coverage gave “short shrift for such a monumental event.”
#RIP
November 11, 2025 at 3:15 AM
That song has always given me chills.
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I never want this to be Canada. We must always fight any attempts at privatization and demand federal and provincial governments put more, not less, funding into healthcare. No one should be unable to afford healthcare ever!
My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.
November 11, 2025 at 2:53 AM
I never want this to be Canada. We must always fight any attempts at privatization and demand federal and provincial governments put more, not less, funding into healthcare. No one should be unable to afford healthcare ever!
They don’t care what we, the public, think about anything. He only cares about enriching himself and his cronies.
By the time this man leaves office, we will have lost critical tracts of arable farming lands, been bled dry of potable drinking water, paved over critical wetlands, forestry, habitats of specifies at risk:
“Despite strong public opposition, the Ford
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/28/n...
“Despite strong public opposition, the Ford
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/28/n...
Ford fast-tracking water permits despite environmental concerns
Despite strong public opposition, the Ford government is moving ahead with changes to Ontario’s long-standing rules for water use that critics say will weaken public oversight and eventually suck Onta...
www.nationalobserver.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:02 AM
They don’t care what we, the public, think about anything. He only cares about enriching himself and his cronies.
PP has been awfully quiet these past few days. Isn’t it nice? Wouldn’t it be even better if it stayed this way?
November 11, 2025 at 2:23 AM
PP has been awfully quiet these past few days. Isn’t it nice? Wouldn’t it be even better if it stayed this way?
Transparency? Hah.
We won't have any idea what Ford and his oligarchy have actually done to us for 50 years...
Buried in the Doug Ford govt's fall budget are changes that would remove parts of Wasaga beach from provincial protection. As I reported in August, those parts are 60% of the world’s longest freshwater beach and the main nesting area for the endangered piping plover: thenarwhal.ca/wasaga-beach...
November 11, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Transparency? Hah.
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4/ And the white nationalist network is a threat. It is larger than it has ever been in Canada, and it’s time to do everything ethical, legal, and reasonable to stop it. Call your MP. Organize. Rally.
White Nationalism in Canada: Organized, Emboldened, and Growing
Canada’s white nationalist movement has consolidated into a network that includes three key branches: Diagolon, the propaganda arm; the Dominion Society of Canada, an incorporated political arm; and S...
www.antihate.ca
November 10, 2025 at 12:46 PM
4/ And the white nationalist network is a threat. It is larger than it has ever been in Canada, and it’s time to do everything ethical, legal, and reasonable to stop it. Call your MP. Organize. Rally.
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6/ You can help us identify the rest. If you know about any of these individuals, please contact us directly so we can engage in a verification process.
White Nationalist Networking: Help us Identify the Organizers and Guests
www.antihate.ca
November 10, 2025 at 12:46 PM
6/ You can help us identify the rest. If you know about any of these individuals, please contact us directly so we can engage in a verification process.
Did anyone act expect that this government would accomplish this?
....the province hasn’t delivered on the treatment and housing components. Critics say the opening of the hubs was poorly planned and removed a lifesaving service without ensuring sufficient supports to help clients move toward recovery.
Ford government promised these health-care centres would be far better than supervised consumption sites. Are they actually working?
The province says more support is on the way, but delays in opening the hubs and a lack of access to housing have led to doubts about the strategy.
www.thestar.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Did anyone act expect that this government would accomplish this?
We cannot hide from these horrible folks. They’re here, recruiting, and working to destroy our country.
1/ NEW: We identified 20 people who attended a white nationalist conference and, despite their efforts to keep it secret, caught another 30 people on film to identify in the future. Several MMA/combat sports instructors were discovered and their gyms have cut ties.
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Everybody Attending White Nationalist Conference Caught on Film
Advertised near-exclusively in white nationalist online spaces, promotional social media posts for the event include symbolism popular with neo-Nazis, including the kolovrat sun wheel and a table with...
www.antihate.ca
November 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
We cannot hide from these horrible folks. They’re here, recruiting, and working to destroy our country.
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Brazilian coup-plotters: charged 🇧🇷
American coup-plotters: pardoned 🇺🇸
American coup-plotters: pardoned 🇺🇸
November 10, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Brazilian coup-plotters: charged 🇧🇷
American coup-plotters: pardoned 🇺🇸
American coup-plotters: pardoned 🇺🇸
This was predicted. How are we making up this shortfall? Hm.....we'll spend 9.1 million on a consultation to see if we can build a tunnel (we can't), we'll make sure we continue to underfund education, health care, and social services. Guess we'll have to wait and see what the Ford-idiot does next.
November 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
This was predicted. How are we making up this shortfall? Hm.....we'll spend 9.1 million on a consultation to see if we can build a tunnel (we can't), we'll make sure we continue to underfund education, health care, and social services. Guess we'll have to wait and see what the Ford-idiot does next.
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No, I will not mind my own business about things that happen in the United States. The Americans have no qualms about butting into the affairs of other countries. When a demented US President threatens to annex Canada, you’re damn right I’ll make a lot of noise.
November 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Nothing. Poilievre is just very aware that attacking Trudeau is literally the only thing in politics he’s ever been successful at. So it’s a variation of the old saying “when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”
Plus, get your security clearance, Poilievre. If you actually can.
Plus, get your security clearance, Poilievre. If you actually can.
What the hell did Trudeau do to PP that has him SO obsessed with Trudeau?
CANADA: May correctly calls out Poilievre for stealing from the Trump/Project 2025 playbook again.
Oh, and it’s ANOTHER good day to remind everyone that Poilievre STILL hasn’t done the normal security check, still hasn’t received the standard security clearance that EVERYONE in his position gets.
Oh, and it’s ANOTHER good day to remind everyone that Poilievre STILL hasn’t done the normal security check, still hasn’t received the standard security clearance that EVERYONE in his position gets.
November 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Nothing. Poilievre is just very aware that attacking Trudeau is literally the only thing in politics he’s ever been successful at. So it’s a variation of the old saying “when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”
Plus, get your security clearance, Poilievre. If you actually can.
Plus, get your security clearance, Poilievre. If you actually can.
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Everything has become confidential under this government. Protected by vague, widely-encompassing exceptions like “advice to government” or “economic and other interests of Ontario.”
The Ford government refuses to release earlier assessments that found “risks to public safety from impacts of the tunnel to Highway 401 such as potential for roadway collapse” globalnews.ca/news/1151718... #onpoli
Ford government refuses to release completed work on Hwy. 401 tunnel idea | Globalnews.ca
Ontario is refusing to release already completed work on the viability of Premier Doug Ford's Highway 401 tunnel vision after signing a $9.1 million contract to study it again.
globalnews.ca
November 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Everything has become confidential under this government. Protected by vague, widely-encompassing exceptions like “advice to government” or “economic and other interests of Ontario.”
The actual stupidity of this! We know how to eliminate measles and prevent the spread yet some people think they know better than the science. Bravo idiots!
This must bring such a warm feeling to the anti-vaccination crowd.
Canada loses measles elimination status | CBC
www.cbc.ca
November 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The actual stupidity of this! We know how to eliminate measles and prevent the spread yet some people think they know better than the science. Bravo idiots!
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If we designed roads for cars in the same way we design bike paths, we'd never have to worry about speeding again. Problem solved.
November 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
If we designed roads for cars in the same way we design bike paths, we'd never have to worry about speeding again. Problem solved.
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“Muster your wits; stand in your own defence; or hide your heads like cowards, and fly hence.”
“Love’s Labour’s Lost”
“Love’s Labour’s Lost”
November 10, 2025 at 2:39 AM
“Muster your wits; stand in your own defence; or hide your heads like cowards, and fly hence.”
“Love’s Labour’s Lost”
“Love’s Labour’s Lost”
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I suggest all Americans read this, because we need a good reminder of what the bastard that is called President is. Then we need to ask ourselves is this the kind of society we want, where rich people can freely rape & pillage? I know my answer is NO!
What's your America?
What's your America?
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...
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...
Trump's Heart of Darkness
Warning: This story involves allegations of child rape and abuse
charlieangus.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I suggest all Americans read this, because we need a good reminder of what the bastard that is called President is. Then we need to ask ourselves is this the kind of society we want, where rich people can freely rape & pillage? I know my answer is NO!
What's your America?
What's your America?
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The popular opinion here is that the Democrats have the support to keep the government shut down. yeah, if they vote to back with only a promise to negotiate they’ll definitely lose their momentum.
November 9, 2025 at 11:55 PM
The popular opinion here is that the Democrats have the support to keep the government shut down. yeah, if they vote to back with only a promise to negotiate they’ll definitely lose their momentum.
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Corruption is a cancer. It spreads. Doug Ford spreads it. After a decade of Ford's ideologically incompetent & debauched leadership, the quality of Ontario's bureaucracy will be compromised. Ford's placement of hacks into the judicial selection process makes the news, but it is happening everywhere.
November 9, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Corruption is a cancer. It spreads. Doug Ford spreads it. After a decade of Ford's ideologically incompetent & debauched leadership, the quality of Ontario's bureaucracy will be compromised. Ford's placement of hacks into the judicial selection process makes the news, but it is happening everywhere.
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We might be the last generation to experience the gentle glow of fireflies on summer nights.Once they twinkled in meadows/forests, but today they are disappearing at an alarming rate.Habitat loss, pesticides, light pollution, urban sprawl are pushing these luminous insects to the brink of extinction
a bug is sitting on a person 's finger against a blue sky
ALT: a bug is sitting on a person 's finger against a blue sky
media.tenor.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 PM
We might be the last generation to experience the gentle glow of fireflies on summer nights.Once they twinkled in meadows/forests, but today they are disappearing at an alarming rate.Habitat loss, pesticides, light pollution, urban sprawl are pushing these luminous insects to the brink of extinction
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From a Threads post. Now you know why Canada is known as a Mosaic, not a Melting Pot, and why Justin Trudeau was a progressive.
November 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
From a Threads post. Now you know why Canada is known as a Mosaic, not a Melting Pot, and why Justin Trudeau was a progressive.
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This is really important.
The main thing that makes it hard to achieve integrated nature and green in cities isn’t density of buildings or density of people — it's density of cars. And the more well-designed and integrated density of people & buildings you achieve, the fewer cars you need or want.
The main thing that makes it hard to achieve integrated nature and green in cities isn’t density of buildings or density of people — it's density of cars. And the more well-designed and integrated density of people & buildings you achieve, the fewer cars you need or want.
November 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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