Deborah Smith
@debs18.bsky.social
🇨🇦 Emergency manager. Cool auntie. Servant to hounds. She/her. Stuff I might talk about here: human rights, beautiful sunrises, risk management, dogs, horses, politics, poetry, gardens.
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Craig Mokhiber, Former UN Human Rights Office official, condemns Israel’s illegal interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla:
October 1, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Craig Mokhiber, Former UN Human Rights Office official, condemns Israel’s illegal interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla:
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Lighting up Windsor Castle.
The perfect way to highlight the atrocities committed by Jeffery Epstein and Fascist felon rapist Fuhrer Trump.
Convicted Fascist felon rapist bigot Trump cannot run or hide from his past.
The perfect way to highlight the atrocities committed by Jeffery Epstein and Fascist felon rapist Fuhrer Trump.
Convicted Fascist felon rapist bigot Trump cannot run or hide from his past.
September 16, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Lighting up Windsor Castle.
The perfect way to highlight the atrocities committed by Jeffery Epstein and Fascist felon rapist Fuhrer Trump.
Convicted Fascist felon rapist bigot Trump cannot run or hide from his past.
The perfect way to highlight the atrocities committed by Jeffery Epstein and Fascist felon rapist Fuhrer Trump.
Convicted Fascist felon rapist bigot Trump cannot run or hide from his past.
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The Global Sumud Flotilla says its main ship has been struck by a suspected drone in Tunisia, luckily all passengers and crew are safe
September 9, 2025 at 12:14 AM
The Global Sumud Flotilla says its main ship has been struck by a suspected drone in Tunisia, luckily all passengers and crew are safe
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Parliamentary Petition to ask the Government of Canada to immediately withdrawal Bill C2, sponsored by @jennykwan.bsky.social
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
August 28, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Parliamentary Petition to ask the Government of Canada to immediately withdrawal Bill C2, sponsored by @jennykwan.bsky.social
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
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Happening TOMORROW: nearly 1000 organizers coming together to learn how to CRUSH Bill C-2!
It's the worst surveillance bill since C-51, an entirely unjustified attack on refugee rights, and a total betrayal of values Canadians hold dear.
Join us in saying NO!
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
It's the worst surveillance bill since C-51, an entirely unjustified attack on refugee rights, and a total betrayal of values Canadians hold dear.
Join us in saying NO!
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
August 26, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Happening TOMORROW: nearly 1000 organizers coming together to learn how to CRUSH Bill C-2!
It's the worst surveillance bill since C-51, an entirely unjustified attack on refugee rights, and a total betrayal of values Canadians hold dear.
Join us in saying NO!
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
It's the worst surveillance bill since C-51, an entirely unjustified attack on refugee rights, and a total betrayal of values Canadians hold dear.
Join us in saying NO!
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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🇺🇦 Happy Independence Day, Ukraine!
Today we honor the strength, resilience, and courage of the Ukrainian people. Your fight for freedom inspires the world. May this day remind us that independence is priceless, and that Ukraine’s rightful place is among the nations of peace and democracy. 🌻
Today we honor the strength, resilience, and courage of the Ukrainian people. Your fight for freedom inspires the world. May this day remind us that independence is priceless, and that Ukraine’s rightful place is among the nations of peace and democracy. 🌻
August 23, 2025 at 10:13 PM
🇺🇦 Happy Independence Day, Ukraine!
Today we honor the strength, resilience, and courage of the Ukrainian people. Your fight for freedom inspires the world. May this day remind us that independence is priceless, and that Ukraine’s rightful place is among the nations of peace and democracy. 🌻
Today we honor the strength, resilience, and courage of the Ukrainian people. Your fight for freedom inspires the world. May this day remind us that independence is priceless, and that Ukraine’s rightful place is among the nations of peace and democracy. 🌻
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Air Canada strike:
“We’re going to stay committed to making sure that those workers can do the job that they love doing and actually be able to afford a roof over their heads, to afford caring for their families,” CUPE president just said.
“If it means folks like me going to jail, then so be it.”
“We’re going to stay committed to making sure that those workers can do the job that they love doing and actually be able to afford a roof over their heads, to afford caring for their families,” CUPE president just said.
“If it means folks like me going to jail, then so be it.”
August 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Air Canada strike:
“We’re going to stay committed to making sure that those workers can do the job that they love doing and actually be able to afford a roof over their heads, to afford caring for their families,” CUPE president just said.
“If it means folks like me going to jail, then so be it.”
“We’re going to stay committed to making sure that those workers can do the job that they love doing and actually be able to afford a roof over their heads, to afford caring for their families,” CUPE president just said.
“If it means folks like me going to jail, then so be it.”
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The cop who punched Abdirahman Abdi to death in Ottawa, Daniel Montsion, was the highest paid officer in Ontario in 2024. His salary is nearly double the other highest salaries, at a stunning $410,710.
August 13, 2025 at 2:55 AM
The cop who punched Abdirahman Abdi to death in Ottawa, Daniel Montsion, was the highest paid officer in Ontario in 2024. His salary is nearly double the other highest salaries, at a stunning $410,710.
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Does Canada's government care that Gaza is starving? What they told me today suggests they don't.
I had asked them to respond to a message from @yipengge.bsky.social, a doctor who has been on the ground in Gaza.
Here's why he called their answer "insulting" and "disappointing."
I had asked them to respond to a message from @yipengge.bsky.social, a doctor who has been on the ground in Gaza.
Here's why he called their answer "insulting" and "disappointing."
July 23, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Does Canada's government care that Gaza is starving? What they told me today suggests they don't.
I had asked them to respond to a message from @yipengge.bsky.social, a doctor who has been on the ground in Gaza.
Here's why he called their answer "insulting" and "disappointing."
I had asked them to respond to a message from @yipengge.bsky.social, a doctor who has been on the ground in Gaza.
Here's why he called their answer "insulting" and "disappointing."
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Hi, yes, g'morning. This is awkward.
But targeting a reporter - hi! - with
surreptitiously obtained photos and details of her tooling around town is an attack on the public's right to know.
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
But targeting a reporter - hi! - with
surreptitiously obtained photos and details of her tooling around town is an attack on the public's right to know.
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Globe and Mail reporter targeted by online campaign, photographed surreptitiously in public settings
An anonymous X account posted photos of Alberta reporter Carrie Tait and described her movements as she reported on a health authority controversy
www.theglobeandmail.com
July 21, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Hi, yes, g'morning. This is awkward.
But targeting a reporter - hi! - with
surreptitiously obtained photos and details of her tooling around town is an attack on the public's right to know.
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
But targeting a reporter - hi! - with
surreptitiously obtained photos and details of her tooling around town is an attack on the public's right to know.
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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Long and insightful: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world | Moustafa Bayoumi
The rules of the institutions that define our lives bend like reeds when it comes to Israel – so much that the whole global order is on the verge of collapse
www.theguardian.com
July 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Long and insightful: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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HALF of the money.
HALF of all the money in the world is going to the richest 0.00005%.
This is why there is no money for you, and never will be.
HALF of all the money in the world is going to the richest 0.00005%.
This is why there is no money for you, and never will be.
July 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
HALF of the money.
HALF of all the money in the world is going to the richest 0.00005%.
This is why there is no money for you, and never will be.
HALF of all the money in the world is going to the richest 0.00005%.
This is why there is no money for you, and never will be.
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It would be nice if liars get kicked out of Parliament for the day, and their empty seat gets a sign that explains they have been booted for lying.
June 18, 2025 at 8:27 PM
It would be nice if liars get kicked out of Parliament for the day, and their empty seat gets a sign that explains they have been booted for lying.
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Asking the Liberals to be courageous is going as well as asking Democrats to be.
June 19, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Asking the Liberals to be courageous is going as well as asking Democrats to be.
Canada is fully complicit. If this was the 1939 invasion of Poland, Mark Carney & Anita Anand would be there issuing press releases about Germany’s right to defend itself.
The way out is thru laws and institutions built in the ashes of WWII, not extending impunity to genocidal aggressor states.
The way out is thru laws and institutions built in the ashes of WWII, not extending impunity to genocidal aggressor states.
June 17, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Canada is fully complicit. If this was the 1939 invasion of Poland, Mark Carney & Anita Anand would be there issuing press releases about Germany’s right to defend itself.
The way out is thru laws and institutions built in the ashes of WWII, not extending impunity to genocidal aggressor states.
The way out is thru laws and institutions built in the ashes of WWII, not extending impunity to genocidal aggressor states.
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Canada’s sovereignty is facing an existential threat over disproven allegations that illicit fentanyl, originating from Canada, is significantly contributing the American drug poisoning emergency.
This Bill is a dangerous and unfounded admission of guilt
🧵
#cdnpoli
www.canada.ca/en/public-sa...
This Bill is a dangerous and unfounded admission of guilt
🧵
#cdnpoli
www.canada.ca/en/public-sa...
Government of Canada strengthens border security - Canada.ca
A strong Canada means strong borders. Today, the Honourable Gary Anandasangaree, Minister of Public Safety introduced the Bill, the Strong Borders Act to strengthen our laws and keep Canadians safe.
www.canada.ca
June 3, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Canada’s sovereignty is facing an existential threat over disproven allegations that illicit fentanyl, originating from Canada, is significantly contributing the American drug poisoning emergency.
This Bill is a dangerous and unfounded admission of guilt
🧵
#cdnpoli
www.canada.ca/en/public-sa...
This Bill is a dangerous and unfounded admission of guilt
🧵
#cdnpoli
www.canada.ca/en/public-sa...
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The right wing does not think they’re the Empire. They think they’re the Rebels. Probably because they’re media illiterate morons who are always saying things like, “when did Star Trek go woke”
May 27, 2025 at 11:03 PM
The right wing does not think they’re the Empire. They think they’re the Rebels. Probably because they’re media illiterate morons who are always saying things like, “when did Star Trek go woke”
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on this day in 1609 Shakespeare's sonnets are first published.
“Love is not love which alters it when alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove: O no! It is an ever fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken; it is the star to every wandering bark whose worth's unknown,...
“Love is not love which alters it when alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove: O no! It is an ever fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken; it is the star to every wandering bark whose worth's unknown,...
May 20, 2025 at 12:04 PM
on this day in 1609 Shakespeare's sonnets are first published.
“Love is not love which alters it when alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove: O no! It is an ever fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken; it is the star to every wandering bark whose worth's unknown,...
“Love is not love which alters it when alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove: O no! It is an ever fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken; it is the star to every wandering bark whose worth's unknown,...
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Netanyahu blasts Starmer, Macron and Carney over Israel sanctions threat www.politico.eu/article/benj...
Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com
Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com
Netanyahu blasts Starmer, Macron and Carney over Israel sanctions threat
Western criticism grows over Israel’s military assault on Gaza.
www.politico.eu
May 20, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Netanyahu blasts Starmer, Macron and Carney over Israel sanctions threat www.politico.eu/article/benj...
Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com
Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com
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#DougFord wants to use #Bill5 to bypass provincial and federal laws to rapidly drain and pave over lands that act as natural barriers to disasters.
Wet lands reduce severity of flooding, droughts and forest fires.
#Ontario people will experience greater losses under this decision.
#Onpoli
Wet lands reduce severity of flooding, droughts and forest fires.
#Ontario people will experience greater losses under this decision.
#Onpoli
Question: What is a fire spread day?
Answer: Today in parts of Manitoba, Ontario and Minnesota - hot, dry and windy. Winnipeg Temp 36C Rh 19% winds SSW 44 G71 km/h
See lots of active fires on the GOES-East Geocolor loop
Answer: Today in parts of Manitoba, Ontario and Minnesota - hot, dry and windy. Winnipeg Temp 36C Rh 19% winds SSW 44 G71 km/h
See lots of active fires on the GOES-East Geocolor loop
May 13, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Liberal hacks are gonna lose their shit on me but it is a huge 🚩 that we have a cabinet Minister for AI but not one for Labour.
May 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Liberal hacks are gonna lose their shit on me but it is a huge 🚩 that we have a cabinet Minister for AI but not one for Labour.
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Relieved to hear that all the advocacy from my sector ensured that Carney re-introduced a Minister for Women and Equality.
Reminder that holding politicians accountable is literally our job as voters.
Calling out Carney did not mean we wanted the CPCs to win. It was for this exact outcome.
Reminder that holding politicians accountable is literally our job as voters.
Calling out Carney did not mean we wanted the CPCs to win. It was for this exact outcome.
May 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Relieved to hear that all the advocacy from my sector ensured that Carney re-introduced a Minister for Women and Equality.
Reminder that holding politicians accountable is literally our job as voters.
Calling out Carney did not mean we wanted the CPCs to win. It was for this exact outcome.
Reminder that holding politicians accountable is literally our job as voters.
Calling out Carney did not mean we wanted the CPCs to win. It was for this exact outcome.
As a former legal professional, I can state confidently that I was expecting the legal professionals to be precisely this depraved ☹️
Everyone was worried about the Canadian media’s handling of the Hockey Canada trial, no one expected the legal professionals to be this depraved.
May 8, 2025 at 12:38 AM
As a former legal professional, I can state confidently that I was expecting the legal professionals to be precisely this depraved ☹️
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May 6, 2025 at 11:48 PM