patrick callaghan
@patricklpc.bsky.social
Christian, struggling to follow Christ, husband, father, son, neighbour,therapist, social/economic justice advocate, lover of people, animals( esp cats),nature, music, exercise,peace,life...
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The child who is not welcomed by the village
will burn it down to feel its warmth
(African Proverb)
will burn it down to feel its warmth
(African Proverb)
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Tucked in on a wintery day
November 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Tucked in on a wintery day
Justice creates peace.
November 11, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Justice creates peace.
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Extreme weather can wreak unbelievable havoc.
Nobody knows this better than those forced to flee.
#COP30 must deliver solutions for those hardest hit.
Nobody knows this better than those forced to flee.
#COP30 must deliver solutions for those hardest hit.
November 10, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Extreme weather can wreak unbelievable havoc.
Nobody knows this better than those forced to flee.
#COP30 must deliver solutions for those hardest hit.
Nobody knows this better than those forced to flee.
#COP30 must deliver solutions for those hardest hit.
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At #COP30, words aren’t enough.
We need urgent, inclusive action to break the cycle of displacement.
Displaced and host communities can lead climate resilience—if we invest in them.
🔗 Learn more: www.unhcr.org/news/press-r...
We need urgent, inclusive action to break the cycle of displacement.
Displaced and host communities can lead climate resilience—if we invest in them.
🔗 Learn more: www.unhcr.org/news/press-r...
UNHCR report reveals extreme weather driving repeated displacement among conflict-affected communities | UNHCR
BELÉM, BRAZIL – Millions of refugees, people forced to flee, and their hosts are trapped in an increasingly vicious cycle of conflict and climate extremes, according to a new report released today by ...
www.unhcr.org
November 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
At #COP30, words aren’t enough.
We need urgent, inclusive action to break the cycle of displacement.
Displaced and host communities can lead climate resilience—if we invest in them.
🔗 Learn more: www.unhcr.org/news/press-r...
We need urgent, inclusive action to break the cycle of displacement.
Displaced and host communities can lead climate resilience—if we invest in them.
🔗 Learn more: www.unhcr.org/news/press-r...
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Despite being hardest hit, displaced people are left out of most national climate plans.
UNHCR urges real action:
✔️ Include refugees in climate decisions
✔️ Fund resilience where it’s needed most
✔️ Bridge the climate finance gap
UNHCR urges real action:
✔️ Include refugees in climate decisions
✔️ Fund resilience where it’s needed most
✔️ Bridge the climate finance gap
November 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Despite being hardest hit, displaced people are left out of most national climate plans.
UNHCR urges real action:
✔️ Include refugees in climate decisions
✔️ Fund resilience where it’s needed most
✔️ Bridge the climate finance gap
UNHCR urges real action:
✔️ Include refugees in climate decisions
✔️ Fund resilience where it’s needed most
✔️ Bridge the climate finance gap
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🚨 Extreme weather is colliding with conflict—forcing people to flee again and again.
A new @unhcr.org report reveals how floods, droughts, and deadly heat are undermining recovery, increasing humanitarian needs and amplifying the risks of repeated displacement. #COP30
A new @unhcr.org report reveals how floods, droughts, and deadly heat are undermining recovery, increasing humanitarian needs and amplifying the risks of repeated displacement. #COP30
November 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
🚨 Extreme weather is colliding with conflict—forcing people to flee again and again.
A new @unhcr.org report reveals how floods, droughts, and deadly heat are undermining recovery, increasing humanitarian needs and amplifying the risks of repeated displacement. #COP30
A new @unhcr.org report reveals how floods, droughts, and deadly heat are undermining recovery, increasing humanitarian needs and amplifying the risks of repeated displacement. #COP30
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We do not live in a rational society
November 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
We do not live in a rational society
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Harper Conservatives are "letting employers keep their TFWs for longer and blocking paths to citizenship that could eliminate the underclass of exploitable guest workers that has been distorting the Canadian labour market. It’s shameful.”
afl.org/harper_gover...
afl.org/harper_gover...
November 11, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Harper Conservatives are "letting employers keep their TFWs for longer and blocking paths to citizenship that could eliminate the underclass of exploitable guest workers that has been distorting the Canadian labour market. It’s shameful.”
afl.org/harper_gover...
afl.org/harper_gover...
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"The study by the conservative-leaning @CDHoweInstitute concludes that changes to the TFW program in the past decade contributed to a rise in unemployment, particularly for workers...qualified for low-skill jobs in the service industry."
>> pressprogress.ca/harper_governm…#Cdnpolili
>> pressprogress.ca/harper_governm…#Cdnpolili
November 11, 2025 at 12:52 AM
"The study by the conservative-leaning @CDHoweInstitute concludes that changes to the TFW program in the past decade contributed to a rise in unemployment, particularly for workers...qualified for low-skill jobs in the service industry."
>> pressprogress.ca/harper_governm…#Cdnpolili
>> pressprogress.ca/harper_governm…#Cdnpolili
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Immigrants didn't price fix your bread. Galon Weston did.
Immigrants didn't raise your rents. Corporate landlords did.
Immigrants don't charge you an extra 30% on each purchase. Jeff Bezos did.
They want you looking left & right so you don't look up.
LOOK. UP.
📹 @everyonehateselon.bsky.social
Immigrants didn't raise your rents. Corporate landlords did.
Immigrants don't charge you an extra 30% on each purchase. Jeff Bezos did.
They want you looking left & right so you don't look up.
LOOK. UP.
📹 @everyonehateselon.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Immigrants didn't price fix your bread. Galon Weston did.
Immigrants didn't raise your rents. Corporate landlords did.
Immigrants don't charge you an extra 30% on each purchase. Jeff Bezos did.
They want you looking left & right so you don't look up.
LOOK. UP.
📹 @everyonehateselon.bsky.social
Immigrants didn't raise your rents. Corporate landlords did.
Immigrants don't charge you an extra 30% on each purchase. Jeff Bezos did.
They want you looking left & right so you don't look up.
LOOK. UP.
📹 @everyonehateselon.bsky.social
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Israel continues to bomb Gaza and deny the entry of aid in a blatant violation of the ceasefire deal.
Canada must hold Israel to account. Email and call your MP today to demand sanctions and a FULL arms embargo.
✉️: leadnow.ca/campaigns/sa...
☎️: leadnow.ca/campaigns/sa...
Canada must hold Israel to account. Email and call your MP today to demand sanctions and a FULL arms embargo.
✉️: leadnow.ca/campaigns/sa...
☎️: leadnow.ca/campaigns/sa...
October 21, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Israel continues to bomb Gaza and deny the entry of aid in a blatant violation of the ceasefire deal.
Canada must hold Israel to account. Email and call your MP today to demand sanctions and a FULL arms embargo.
✉️: leadnow.ca/campaigns/sa...
☎️: leadnow.ca/campaigns/sa...
Canada must hold Israel to account. Email and call your MP today to demand sanctions and a FULL arms embargo.
✉️: leadnow.ca/campaigns/sa...
☎️: leadnow.ca/campaigns/sa...
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📣 Say it with us: the rent is TOO DAMN HIGH.
That’s why we are fighting for #HomesForAll — and demanding the government invest in housing solutions that work for us.
Share this video, then join the Homes for All campaign 👉 leadnow.ca/HomesForAll
@350canada.bsky.social @smallchangefund.bsky.social
That’s why we are fighting for #HomesForAll — and demanding the government invest in housing solutions that work for us.
Share this video, then join the Homes for All campaign 👉 leadnow.ca/HomesForAll
@350canada.bsky.social @smallchangefund.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
📣 Say it with us: the rent is TOO DAMN HIGH.
That’s why we are fighting for #HomesForAll — and demanding the government invest in housing solutions that work for us.
Share this video, then join the Homes for All campaign 👉 leadnow.ca/HomesForAll
@350canada.bsky.social @smallchangefund.bsky.social
That’s why we are fighting for #HomesForAll — and demanding the government invest in housing solutions that work for us.
Share this video, then join the Homes for All campaign 👉 leadnow.ca/HomesForAll
@350canada.bsky.social @smallchangefund.bsky.social
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Canadian climate policy a decade after the Paris Agreement
The good, the bad and the ugly. By @hadrianmk.bsky.social @marclee.bsky.social and Rachel Pettigrew #climatecrisis @policyalternatives.ca
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
The good, the bad and the ugly. By @hadrianmk.bsky.social @marclee.bsky.social and Rachel Pettigrew #climatecrisis @policyalternatives.ca
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
Canadian climate policy a decade after the Paris Agreement - CCPA
The Paris Agreement was signed in 2015 by 196 countries amid a wave of global urgency to confront the defining crisis of our time—climate change. Grounded in the best available science, it called for ...
www.policyalternatives.ca
November 6, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Canadian climate policy a decade after the Paris Agreement
The good, the bad and the ugly. By @hadrianmk.bsky.social @marclee.bsky.social and Rachel Pettigrew #climatecrisis @policyalternatives.ca
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
The good, the bad and the ugly. By @hadrianmk.bsky.social @marclee.bsky.social and Rachel Pettigrew #climatecrisis @policyalternatives.ca
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
Canadian climate policy a decade after the Paris Agreement
The good, the bad and the ugly. By @hadrianmk.bsky.social @marclee.bsky.social and Rachel Pettigrew #climatecrisis @policyalternatives.ca
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
The good, the bad and the ugly. By @hadrianmk.bsky.social @marclee.bsky.social and Rachel Pettigrew #climatecrisis @policyalternatives.ca
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
Canadian climate policy a decade after the Paris Agreement - CCPA
The Paris Agreement was signed in 2015 by 196 countries amid a wave of global urgency to confront the defining crisis of our time—climate change. Grounded in the best available science, it called for ...
www.policyalternatives.ca
November 11, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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Responsible resource development will be complicated—not enhanced—by United Kingdom’s accession to Asia-Pacific trade pact. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
Investment treaties, UNDRIP and the Building Canada Act - CCPA
“Build big things” has become a mantra of the current federal government. Partly in an effort to lessen our economic vulnerability to U.S. shocks, Prime Minister Mark Carney has been out luring foreig...
www.policyalternatives.ca
November 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Responsible resource development will be complicated—not enhanced—by United Kingdom’s accession to Asia-Pacific trade pact. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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I wish!
My dogs are so terrified of them.
My dogs are so terrified of them.
November 8, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I wish!
My dogs are so terrified of them.
My dogs are so terrified of them.
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glad you have each other, i'm sure it still feels nice to be touched
@foxes-in-love.bsky.social flashback from January 2021 🫶
@foxes-in-love.bsky.social flashback from January 2021 🫶
November 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
glad you have each other, i'm sure it still feels nice to be touched
@foxes-in-love.bsky.social flashback from January 2021 🫶
@foxes-in-love.bsky.social flashback from January 2021 🫶
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50% of Conservatives say they approve of Donald Trump.
MAGA Cons are the most likely to say they approve of Donald Trump and the least likely to say they’re proud to be Canadian — by far. #cdnpoli
cultmtl.com/2025/11/50-o...
MAGA Cons are the most likely to say they approve of Donald Trump and the least likely to say they’re proud to be Canadian — by far. #cdnpoli
cultmtl.com/2025/11/50-o...
50% of Conservatives say they approve of Donald Trump
50% of Conservatives say they approve of Donald Trump
cultmtl.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:20 AM
50% of Conservatives say they approve of Donald Trump.
MAGA Cons are the most likely to say they approve of Donald Trump and the least likely to say they’re proud to be Canadian — by far. #cdnpoli
cultmtl.com/2025/11/50-o...
MAGA Cons are the most likely to say they approve of Donald Trump and the least likely to say they’re proud to be Canadian — by far. #cdnpoli
cultmtl.com/2025/11/50-o...
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Now would be a good time to ask ourselves if we’re okay with this. We need to get objective about our new PM and put on our critical thinking caps. Because are we really okay with this? I’m sure not, the CUPE is not, neither.
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Pre-election Mark Carney might want to have a word with post-election @mark-carney.bsky.social.
How are liberal voters okay with this?
This is an astonishing reversal, with impacts on the quality of life for Canadians that will be generational & which promotes the growth of fascist movements. 🧵1/
How are liberal voters okay with this?
This is an astonishing reversal, with impacts on the quality of life for Canadians that will be generational & which promotes the growth of fascist movements. 🧵1/
November 10, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Now would be a good time to ask ourselves if we’re okay with this. We need to get objective about our new PM and put on our critical thinking caps. Because are we really okay with this? I’m sure not, the CUPE is not, neither.
bsky.app/profile/sust...
bsky.app/profile/sust...
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There is no way this move will not diminish citizen access to and quality of public services. 7/
cupe.ca/carneys-cuts...
cupe.ca/carneys-cuts...
Carney’s cuts threaten services and jobs that help our communities thrive
The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) is sounding the alarm after a report in the Globe and Mail revealed that the federal government is planning deep, multi-year cuts to direct program spendi...
cupe.ca
November 10, 2025 at 12:41 AM
There is no way this move will not diminish citizen access to and quality of public services. 7/
cupe.ca/carneys-cuts...
cupe.ca/carneys-cuts...
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Sick, probably. Will get back in a week or two.
November 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Sick, probably. Will get back in a week or two.