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Tamra 🇨🇦 she/her/mama bear
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🏳️‍🌈 Love will drown out the hate
Be kind
Mama Bear 🐻
Dog & Cat Mum 🐶🐶🐱
Tunisian crocheter
Food is my love language
Toronto Blue Jays fan
Mask wearer for health & community care
Covid Competent 😷

#CleanTheAir
#CovidIsntOver
#WearAMask
#SaltingTheVibes
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I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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We still see room for improvement in the budget. Let's start by fixing Old Age Security! Financially secure seniors are still getting payments while 400,000 seniors live in poverty and while we badly need more funding for housing!!! action.gensqueeze.ca/fix_oas
November 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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It's not like we were born with an innate understanding of N95 masks and airborne transmission. Many of us put in the intellectual effort to understand it, starting in 2020. You don't need a medical degree to understand this stuff. It has been explained, and explained, and explained.
November 1, 2025 at 8:01 PM
A delightful, whimsical thread about Claire 🥰
Look, about the ghost.

We haven't actually registered an apparition / cold spot / odd noise in this house.

(Unless you count a few customers asking the name of the white cat. Our cats are orange and tortoiseshell...?)

So we usually disappoint ghost hunters.

That said...

Her name is Claire.

🧵
November 15, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Saying it again.
November 15, 2025 at 8:05 PM
My addition: treating offenders better than the victims
What are four hallmarks of purity culture that also neatly align with how pedophiles think? Wow, I'm so glad you asked.

1). Sexualizing children constantly
2). Romanticizing the father/daughter relationship
3). Believing heterosexuality needs to be taught
4). Treating children like little adults
November 12, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Excuse my language, but fucking anti vaxxers who have no compassion or empathy for others caused this. Listen to Science not the keyboard warriors who think they know more than doctors.

#Canada has lost its measles elimination status after more than 25 years

halifax.citynews.ca/2025/11/10/c...
Canada has lost its measles elimination status after more than 25 years
TORONTO — The Public Health Agency of Canada says the country has officially lost its measles elimination status, which it had held since 1998. The federal agency says the Pan American Health Organiza...
halifax.citynews.ca
November 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Local woman wakes up, is wondering if anyone has 2 free or low cost tickets to Sigur Ros in Edmonton tonight for local woman and her husband, makes oatmeal.
November 10, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Did you know that in Canada, if a budget doesn’t pass the government doesn’t shut down?

Federal workers aren’t furloughed.

Funding for social services doesn’t dry up.

Failure to pass a budget triggers an election.

It puts the politicians jobs on the line.

They get the budget passed.
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Safe people know how to handle hearing "no" without losing their sh*t & pivoting to emotional abuse.

No exceptions.
November 9, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Timeline cleanse. Big, goofy smiles incoming.
Service dog meets his hero.
November 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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I find that statement “kids are germiest“ utterly infuriating.

Children are meant to be cared for by adults.

If they have excess quantities of “germs” it’s our fault for not giving them healthier environments to grow up in.

They are kept in overcrowded, under-ventilated, under funded 💩 holes.
November 7, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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If you are rich, like Million$ plus… and you’re not doing a damn thing to help others, especially right now, you should be ashamed of yourself. And your hell loop is gonna be a doozy.
November 7, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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This seems like it deserves more attention.
A young Tory MP's name gets mentioned as someone ready to cross the floor. He goes to ground and then suddenly announces he is stepping down.
Young MPs just don't quit politics unless someone dumped a political horse head in the bed.
#cutthroatontherideau
#carneyneedsjust1
November 7, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Just added to my Etsy shop:
🌿final small print run of my '26 calendars
🪶my handmade recycled silver jewellery designs (incl intricate casts of real flowers)
🌸limited ed'n mounted art prints of my photos
💐tiny posy mental health kits
Last orders for📮 in time for🌲: 19 Nov
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
November 5, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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I imagine Carter, RBG, Lewis, Hortman are smiling down on us all tonight. 💙
November 5, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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The elephant in the room: Canada's deficit is projected to be $78.3 billion this year, and $56.6 billion by 2029. Buried in this red ink lies the same structural tension that has haunted Ottawa for decades: growth in spending tied to age. #cdnpoli #budget2025
November 4, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Do you feel like the only one who still wears a mask at home in 2025 when people are still sick? Well guess what? You're in good company - thank you, Christina Applegate!
November 4, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Canadians be aware! #Canada

Man billed $1,500 for vehicle he didn't own, insurer says he still has to pay

Legal loophole means sellers can be held responsible for vehicles after they've sold them
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www.cbc.ca/news/go-publ...
Sold your car? You could still be on the hook for the new owner’s bills | CBC News
A retired truck driver in B.C. is on the hook for a bill connected to a vehicle he no longer owns after the buyer failed to register the sale. A legal expert says the case exposes a gap in vehicle tra...
www.cbc.ca
November 3, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper

www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
November 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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What an awesome journey. It didn't work out in the end, and that's ok.
Most of the world is full of gloom, but this was a bright spot that brought people together in all kinds of ways.
Thank you #BlueJays!!
a blue jays mascot on a baseball field
ALT: a blue jays mascot on a baseball field
media.tenor.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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Holidays can be especially hard for Covid Conscious folks. Let's make this year different.

12 Days of Covid Consciousmas -a holiday season of our own- is coming your way!

Crafting, game nights, movies, comedy, and more are in the works! Details in graphic below. Stay tuned!
November 1, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Only 4 pitchers have recorded a Pitcher’s Cycle — striking out every batter in the opposing lineup — in the World Series:

Trey Yesavage, 2025 G5
Randy Johnson, 2001 G2
Bob Gibson, 1968 G1
Jesse Barnes, 1921 G6
Trey Yesavage struck out all 9 Dodgers at least once tonight, a feat that Herm Krabbenhoft dubbed a “pitcher’s cycle”

sabr.org/journal/arti...
The Pitcher’s Cycle: Definition and Achievers (1893–2023) – Society for American Baseball Research
sabr.org
October 30, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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SOURCE REQUEST: Can anyone recommend an internationally trained doctor who could talk about licensing in Ontario through the Practice Eligibility Route?

I'm working on a story about financial arrangements for the period of supervision required.

I can respect anonymity in reporting. Thank you!
October 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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You don't owe anyone any apologies for taking your time. Survivors committed to working a realistic, sustainable trauma recovery understand the value of slowing down.

If someone's trying to rush you, they're telegraphing they don't understand (or care) how recovery happens.
October 26, 2025 at 12:46 AM