Beth Ryan 🇨🇦 (she/her)
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beryan.bsky.social
Beth Ryan 🇨🇦 (she/her)
@beryan.bsky.social
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Retired communications professional living on a beautiful island in the North Atlantic Ocean |
Active in progressive politics |
Working towards a fairer world |
Holding on to joy amid the chaos |
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beryan.bsky.social
"The light is coming..."
December 23, 2025 at 10:43 PM
beryan.bsky.social
Warms my Canadian heart! ❤️ 🇨🇦
prognews.bsky.social Progressive News Service @prognews.bsky.social · 1d
Thousands turn out for anti-ICE march in Minneapolis. “Thousands of people braved the bitter cold Saturday morning, marching more than a mile along Minneapolis’ Lake Street corridor in a massive, coordinated anti-immigration enforcement protest." www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
Thousands march in "ICE Out" rally on Minneapolis' Lake Street corridor
Thousands of people braved the bitter cold Saturday morning, marching more than a mile along Minneapolis' Lake Street corridor in a massive, coordinated anti-immigration enforcement protest.
www.cbsnews.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:44 PM
beryan.bsky.social
This is great work by CBC! Unmask these racists.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
‘The Nazis were right': What the leaders of Canada’s biggest ‘nationalist’ group really want | CBC Accessibility
In official posts, Second Sons Canada calls itself a “men’s nationalist club” and promotes a nostalgic vision of Canada. But on personal podcasts and livestreams, its leaders consistently espouse anti...
www.cbc.ca
December 21, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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canadianpaintings.bsky.social
Solstice Drive to St. Anthony
Christopher Pratt
2008
December 21, 2025 at 12:30 PM
beryan.bsky.social
This is amazing! I wish governments would figure this out too 😒
December 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
beryan.bsky.social
Thanks for a really informative and helpful analysis on floor crossing! @aaronwherry.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 6:53 PM
beryan.bsky.social
Exactly! @dondavies.bsky.social
donvdavies.bsky.social Don Davies @donvdavies.bsky.social · 6d
A voluntary code of conduct for the grocery industry is a joke. With a national monopoly, a history of price fixing and gouging, family grocery bills already too high, and slated to rise by $1000 next year, concrete action is needed, not a wish list. www.ctvnews.ca/business/art...
The grocery code of conduct will take effect Jan. 1. Here’s what this means for Canadian shoppers
Canada’s long-debated grocery code of conduct, designed to make the food supply chain fairer and more transparent, is finally taking shape after years of development and industry negotiations.
www.ctvnews.ca
December 18, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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ntvnewsnl.bsky.social
Public Health strongly recommends vaccination this flu season ntv.ca/health/publi...
Public Health strongly recommends vaccination this flu season - NTV
The Department of Health and Community Services is advising of an early and concerning start to this year’s influenza season in Canada and globally. Public health is strongly recommending everyone six...
ntv.ca
December 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM
beryan.bsky.social
Yes
rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 10d
My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.
And everything is flawed, if you want to look at it that way. The analogy that has helped me most is this: in Hurricane Katrina, hundreds of boat-owners rescued people—single moms, toddlers, grandfathers—stranded in attics, on roofs, in flooded housing projects, hospitals, and school buildings. None of them said, I can’t rescue everyone, therefore it’s futile; therefore my efforts are flawed and worthless, though that’s often what people say about more abstract issues in which, nevertheless, lives, places, cultures, species, rights are at stake. They went out there in fishing boats and rowboats and pirogues and all kinds of small craft, some driving from as far as Texas and eluding the au- thorities to get in, others refugees themselves working within the city. There was bumper-to-bumper boat-trailer traffic—the celebrated Cajun Navy—going toward the city the day after the levees broke. None of those people said, I can’t rescue them all. All of them said, I can rescue someone, and that’s work so meaningful and important I will risk my life and defy the authorities to do it. And they did.
December 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
beryan.bsky.social
This can only get worse!
Thanks for posting @caulfieldtim.bsky.social
December 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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cdnhealthcoalition.bsky.social
Alberta has passed Bill 11: two-tier health care letting doctors charge unlimited fees at private clinics.

Other provinces may follow.

Click below to send a letter to Health Minister Michel & your MP urging them to enforce the Canada Health Act.

SHARE if you oppose US-style health care.
Alberta’s two-tier health care law threatens us all
Send a letter urging federal action on Bill 11
www.healthcoalition.ca
December 11, 2025 at 9:01 PM
beryan.bsky.social
Anything like this happening anywhere in NL? Seems like a very good option for unhoused people in our province!
Premier Wakeham? @govnl.bsky.social
Anyone?
minibubbly.bsky.social Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 13d
Modular sleeping units are arriving this week at #Fredericton’s new transitional housing site on Forest Hill Road.

The Neighbourly Homes location will include 27 individual sleeping units with shared bathrooms, showers, laundry and kitchen spaces.

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www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/new...
Sleeping units arrive at Fredericton’s new transitional housing site
Modular sleeping units are arriving this week at Fredericton’s new transitional housing site on Forest Hill Road.
www.ctvnews.ca
December 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
beryan.bsky.social
Another great question by the @nlndp.bsky.social

Also...why has Premier Wakeham refused to open our House of Assembly this fall?
nlndp.bsky.social NL NDP @nlndp.bsky.social · 13d
NDP Question Period, December 11: Canadian Housing Benefit Run Dry, Where is the Investment?

nl.ndp.ca/ndp-question...

@jimdinn.bsky.social #nlpoli #nlndp
December 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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heathermcpherson.bsky.social
The genocide in Gaza is still happening.

Join me and Alexandre Boulerice for a virtual Stand Up for Palestine town hall to recap the work that our party has done and to talk about shared challenges in this organizing work and next steps.

Reserve your spot us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
December 9, 2025 at 6:37 PM
beryan.bsky.social
😁
brianbilston.bsky.social Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 14d
Here’s a poem which has become trapped in a vicious circus (and other phrases of a similar elk).
To Be Pacific Why do you always go off on a tandem, say goodbye without further adieu? It’s time you climbed down from your pedal stool – this is not a phrase you’re going through,   when antidotal evidence suggests you’ve been three-wheeling right from the start. Or rather, from the gecko, as you might say. You’re always upsetting the apple tart.   Now I’m not saying I’m above approach: it takes two to tangle, I won’t deny it. But when push comes to shovel and all’s set and done, I need rest bite. A little piece of quiet.   I’d love to curl up in the feeble position but you pass me from pillow to post, you see, with your Belgian whistles and semi-skilled milk – they do not pass mustard with me.   I don’t regard you as a social leopard. You’re no escape goat – just a hapless case. But do be aware there may be reaper cushions when you cut off your nose despite your face.   Brian Bilston
December 10, 2025 at 1:55 PM
beryan.bsky.social
Great idea!
nlndp.bsky.social NL NDP @nlndp.bsky.social · 15d
NDP Question Period, December 8: O’Leary Calls on Gov to Sell off U.S. Alcohol and Donate Revenue

nl.ndp.ca/ndp-question...
December 9, 2025 at 12:01 AM
beryan.bsky.social
Always remember- and work for change.
heathermcpherson.bsky.social Heather McPherson MP @heathermcpherson.bsky.social · 17d
Today, on the anniversary of the École Polytechnique massacre, we remember the names of every woman who was killed because they were women. (1/3)
December 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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julieslalonde.bsky.social
FYI Canadian media : Recently, the Criminal Code removed the term “child pornography” and replaced it with “child sexual abuse and exploitation material (CSAEM)”.

Words matter and language like "child porn" conflates abuse and exploitation with consensual sexual activity.

Use the right words!
December 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
beryan.bsky.social
Great column from @hannahdaly.ie about the "laziest possible excuse in the climate debate"
hannahdaly.ie Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 22d
If Ireland's emissions are "too small to matter" then I might as well evade my taxes and eat doughnuts for lunch.

Read my latest column about the laziest excuse in the climate debate:

www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
‘Too small to matter’ is the laziest-possible excuse in climate debate
At a time of crisis, co-operation is the only way to resolve the climate collective-action problem
www.irishtimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:40 PM
beryan.bsky.social
Thanks to Sheilagh and the @nlndp.bsky.social for keeping climate action top of mind, while Premier Wakeham and former Premier John Hogan have failed to even acknowledge this dire threat.
nlndp.bsky.social NL NDP @nlndp.bsky.social · 22d
NDP Question Period, December 2: O’Leary Calls for Climate Action Plan

nl.ndp.ca/ndp-question...

#nlpoli #nlndp
December 2, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
Before choosing bottled water over tap water, remember it takes more than 10X the water that a bottle of water holds to make the plastic bottle and transport the water. And that’s before considering the fuel and GHGs, the 1000 year bottle life, and the RIDICULOUS amount of $ we’re paying for water.
A boat being rowed through a mass of plastic bottles
November 21, 2025 at 7:05 PM
beryan.bsky.social
Meanwhile in Alberta, the UCP government continues to surpass itself in mean-spirited stupidity
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Great column by @djclimenhaga.bsky.social !
November 21, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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nlndp.bsky.social
NDP Statement on National Housing Day
nl.ndp.ca/ndp-statemen...
#nlpoli #nlndp @jimdinn.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 1:18 PM
beryan.bsky.social
This is truly reprehensible! The federal government is building up the military while demanding veterans pay more for long term care.
@mark-carney.bsky.social
Government needs to change course now.

Government seeks to retroactiv...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Government seeks to retroactively change law, potentially avoiding paying veterans over federal error | CBC News
The Carney government’s budget legislation contains an amendment that lawyers representing veterans say is a bid to cover up a decades-long error that led to overcharging for long-term care.
www.cbc.ca
November 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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armineyalnizyan.bsky.social
Important message from the Canadian Medical Association about Danielle Smith's announcement that Alberta's docs can work both sides of the street, public and private, and charge what the market will bear from whoever can pay out of pocket.
www.canadiandoctorsformedicare.ca/canadian_doc...
Canadian Doctors for Medicare Warns Albertans of Premier’s Plan to Undermine Public Health Care
Seeking to strengthen and improve Canada's universal publicly-funded health care system. Evidence-based, values driven.
www.canadiandoctorsformedicare.ca
November 19, 2025 at 4:47 PM