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Laura Banks
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🎨 Creative type
🧐 History nerd
🫶 Nonprofit marketing
💪 Feminist
📖 Ethical storytelling
☕️ Coffee snob
🗺️ Global citizen, proud Canadian 🇨🇦
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nytimes.com
The Beatles are back. The fourth volume of the band’s “Anthology Collection” of recordings (including 13 new demos) is arriving, along with a capstone episode to the 1995 eight-part documentary and a 25th-anniversary edition of “The Beatles Anthology” book.
Unreleased Beatles Demos and Footage to Be Shared This Fall
This episode goes behind the scenes of the 1995 documentary; new mixes of “Free as a Bird” and “Real Love” are coming out; and an updated book is due.
nyti.ms
August 23, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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carecanada.bsky.social
‼️“The alarm has sounded. The warnings have been repeated...Unless world leaders take action immediately, the number of Palestinians dying from starvation will exponentially increase.” Jolien Veldwijk, CARE Palestine https://care.ca/2025/08/22/famine-confirmed-in-gaza-as-assault-on-gaza-city-looms/
Famine Confirmed in Gaza as assault on Gaza City looms
A new report by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) released today has confirmed famine in Gaza. This marks the first time that famine has been officially confirmed in the Middle E...
care.ca
August 22, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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prismreports.org
“In Gaza, where war is constant, the internet is lifeblood.”

Israel’s digital siege of Gaza erases our presence & voice—the proof of our existence, writes Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi. This is not just missing updates. It is being buried alive in silence.
prismreports.org/2025/07/24/i...
Israel’s digital siege of Gaza is another effort to wipe out proof of our existence
In June, the internet vanished without warning, cutting us off from the world and each other
prismreports.org
July 29, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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cwebbonline.com
Wow! France gifted her to us, and now they’ve captured what so many Americans are feeling on Independence Day. The values the Statue of Liberty stood for are no more.

📌 A stunning mural of the Statue of Liberty covering her face was unveiled in Roubaix, France, on July 3, 2025.
July 4, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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sundaedivine.bsky.social
If Trump really wants to destroy Iran he should go be its president for a few months.
June 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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ogaines.com
#booksky #writingcommunity
June 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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carecanada.bsky.social
‼️CARE clinic workers in #Gaza have reported babies arriving as light as 4.4 lbs. CARE continues to call for a definitive ceasefire, the unconditional release of all hostages and full #humanitarian access.

Learn more, including how you can help, at care.ca/projects/gaz...
A photograph of an infant hand grasping an adult's finger. The infant has a piece of cloth tied around its wrist with Arabic writing on it. A quote from CARE Palestine (West Bank/Gaza) Country Director Jolien Veldwijk beneath the photo reads "Mothers are brining starving babies into our clinic. It is the children, the sick, and the elderly who are suffering the most."
June 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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loveandlight1.bsky.social
Hahaha yayaya for the penguins
May 29, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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fairvote.ca
Did you catch @acoyne.bsky.social on @tvotoday.bsky.social last week?

Here, he succinctly outlines what's wrong with first-past-the-post and why proportional representation is more important than ever!

#cdnpoli
May 28, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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arieltroster.com
After an intense two-day committee meeting that featured 42 delegations and a heated council meeting this week, councillors voted to direct staff to develop a bylaw to protect safe access to schools, religious institutions, daycares and long-term care facilities.
May 28, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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carecanada.bsky.social
Let's #CallItWhatItIs: #PinkTax 💸

Periods aren’t a choice—and access to period products shouldn’t come with a luxury price tag. Ever noticed this where you live?

📢 Let's end period stigma so people who get their period feel safe, healthy and supported ➡️ care.ca/period
A graphic with a bright purple and orange background and the CARE logo in the bottom right. Text on the graphic in large font reads "Paying more because you bleed? Yeah, that's a thing." A graphic with a bright purple and orange background and the CARE logo in the bottom right. There are two speech bubbles. Text in the first speech bubble reads "What is pink tax?" Text in the second speech bubble reads "Pink tax is the higher cost of products and services that are considered 'feminine' and marketed towards women, compared to similar products for men." A graphic with a bright purple and orange background and the CARE logo in the bottom right. There are two speech bubbles. Text in the first speech bubble reads "This isn't just about financial costs..." Text in the second speech bubble reads "It's about the basic human right to be able to manage our health and wellbeing. It's about equity." A graphic with a bright purple and orange background and the CARE logo in the bottom right. There is large, bold text in the center of the graphic that reads "Fight period poverty. End pink tax." Illustrations of pink tax products sit beneath the text: a pair of underwear with a flower on it, a sanitary pad, a tampon, a package of pills, and a menstrual cup. At the bottom of the graphic is the white CARE logo alongside text with a call-to-action that reads "Let's end period stigma: care.ca/period"
May 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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ditzkoff.bsky.social
Grampa Simpson: “Food was called groceries. ‘Going to the store for some groceries,’ you’d say.”
May 15, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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merriam-webster.com
*crab-walked
A CNN news notification : The convicted killer crab walked between two walls and pushed through the newly installed razor wire to break out of prison, authorities say
May 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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carecanada.bsky.social
🩸Periods are natural. The stigma surrounding them isn’t.

When we talk openly about #periods, we end the shame and create healthier, happier communities—not just for people who have periods, but for EVERYONE.

Let's #CallItWhatItIs and end period stigma: care.ca/period/
A graphic with a purple and orange gradient background and speech bubbles that have different euphemisms for someone having their period. The speech bubbles say terms like "that time of the month," "surfing the crimson wave," "girl flu," "shark week," "on the rag," and "Aunt Flo's visiting." In large bold font in the middle of the speech bubbles the text says Call it what it is. Period. At the bottom of the graphic is the orange CARE logo with the call-to-action "Let's end period stigma. Visit care.ca/period"
May 14, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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wickdchiq.bsky.social
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tryangregory.bsky.social T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · Apr 29
Good:

* Poilievre isn't Prime Minister.
* Poilevre lost his own seat.

Bad:

* Everything has shifted substantially rightward.
* 40% of popular vote and +20 seats for Cons.
* Basically a two-party parliament of centre right and far right.
* Left leaning parties wiped out.
April 30, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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fairvote.ca
1/18 “This is what a two-party system looks like.”
— Chantal Hebert, CBC Election Night 2025

First-past-the-post is failing voters. It fuels division, strategic voting, and regional shutouts—while pushing Canada closer to U.S.-style hyperpolarization.

#election2025 #cdnpoli

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Black and white side-by-side image of Mark Carney and Pierre Poilievre speaking at separate political events. Carney is on the left at a podium, mid-sentence with one hand raised. Poilievre is on the right, speaking passionately with fists clenched and “Canada First” signs in the background.
April 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social
I'm sharing an image a day to celebrate the vibrant and unique culture and history of Canada.
Today it is drivers with the No. 3 Section of the Motor Ambulance Convoy, Royal Canadian Army Service Corps in 1945.

#ProudlyCanadian #ElbowsUp

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A group of people in military uniforms, likely from the mid-20th century, are gathered in a room. They’re sitting around a table with hats and papers, near a wood stove and a dartboard. Some are writing or reading, while others converse.
April 30, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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acyn.bsky.social
Walz: I do want to give a huge shout out to our Canadian neighbors, they know that this is wrong. They stood up to it
April 30, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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whereisgraeme.bsky.social
Good morning to everyone but especially Bruce Fanjoy, the new MP for Carleton!!!
April 29, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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rachelgilmore.bsky.social
One thing that I was thought was revealing about the divisions within Canada:

When Carney acknowledged Poilievre's hard work on his campaign in his victory speed, the crowd of Liberals cheered.

When Poilievre mentioned Carney in his concession speech, there was loud booing.
April 29, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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carecanada.bsky.social
🍁CARE Canada stands ready as an ally and partner, supporting Canada to invest in global stability and prosperity, gender equality, international solidarity and Canada’s global leadership.

📢 Read our full #CanadianElection2025 statement: care.ca/2025/04/29/c...
A quote on a dark blue background from CARE Canada's President and CEO Barbara Grantham that reads: "This is not the moment for our country to turn inward or work in isolation. Rather it is an opportunity to use these first steps as a new government to reach out and build global bridges, securing and strengthening the allyships that Canada has long been known for." The orange CARE logo appears beneath the quote.
April 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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April 29, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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wickdchiq.bsky.social
April 29, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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cdnresistance.bsky.social
Congratulations to Liberal MP-elect Bruce Fanjoy for defeating Pierre Poilievre in Carleton.
April 29, 2025 at 11:52 AM