@kathynavackas.bsky.social
I'm working on this description - so, that's kinda me. Working on living a good life, working on connecting, working on learning about politics, theatre, film, music, literature, and trying to be a better person. Proud Canadian.
Reposted
The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.
Christ on a cracker — these seemingly hostile drones only missed Zelensky’s plane because he was unexpectedly early www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM
The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.
Reposted
Reposted
The one weird trick to being able to bike in the winter is the city maintaining safe bike infrastructure year round as the transportation corridors they are
December 4, 2025 at 10:45 PM
The one weird trick to being able to bike in the winter is the city maintaining safe bike infrastructure year round as the transportation corridors they are
Reposted
Amazon is trying to kill the post office, and make no mistake: it will do the same in Canada.
Its subcontracted delivery model must be regulated out of existence if we care about not just the postal service, but ensuring delivery workers have good, union jobs they can depend on.
Its subcontracted delivery model must be regulated out of existence if we care about not just the postal service, but ensuring delivery workers have good, union jobs they can depend on.
Amazon eyes expanding delivery network after talks with USPS stall
Amazon looks into expanding its nationwide delivery network and giving up its long-standing partnership with the U.S. Postal Service.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Amazon is trying to kill the post office, and make no mistake: it will do the same in Canada.
Its subcontracted delivery model must be regulated out of existence if we care about not just the postal service, but ensuring delivery workers have good, union jobs they can depend on.
Its subcontracted delivery model must be regulated out of existence if we care about not just the postal service, but ensuring delivery workers have good, union jobs they can depend on.
Please, protect your kids!
Why whooping cough outbreaks in the U.S. have a Canadian doctor on edge
25,000 cases in the US so far
Vaccinate your children, the whooping cough (pertussis) can kill children and babies.
/1
www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
25,000 cases in the US so far
Vaccinate your children, the whooping cough (pertussis) can kill children and babies.
/1
www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
Why whooping cough outbreaks in the U.S. have a Canadian doctor on edge
Soaring cases of whooping cough, also known as pertussis, south of the border have a Canadian doctor raising the alarm about a similar trend here.
www.ctvnews.ca
December 4, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Please, protect your kids!
Reposted
Drive as if someone will jump out on the street at anytime and then be surprised if that doesn't happen. Not the other way around.
December 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Drive as if someone will jump out on the street at anytime and then be surprised if that doesn't happen. Not the other way around.
While I wish all of these productions great success, I wonder why Canadian theatres are so eager to pay huge royalties to American companies and import US culture. When will we support Canadian artists that could develop amazing productions? It takes money. I'm tired of US cultural invasion.
I’m working my way through the Ontario Frozens at the moment (I’ll be seeing the Grand’s in a few weeks), and I’ve been so delighted to get to know this show better.
I loved talking shop with five directors for this story. ❄️❄️❄️
www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/stag...
I loved talking shop with five directors for this story. ❄️❄️❄️
www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/stag...
Frozen fever has hit Canadian theatre. Here’s what Elsa and Anna are up to across the country
The production – complete with fake snow, costume changes and Easter eggs for superfans – is being staged by five directors
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:15 PM
While I wish all of these productions great success, I wonder why Canadian theatres are so eager to pay huge royalties to American companies and import US culture. When will we support Canadian artists that could develop amazing productions? It takes money. I'm tired of US cultural invasion.
I am sure that America's First Nations would wholeheartedly agree with this.
White South African who emigrated to North America says different races should remain in their countries of origin.
Do these people even hear themselves?
Do these people even hear themselves?
December 4, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I am sure that America's First Nations would wholeheartedly agree with this.
Reposted
When PP spoke to First Nations
"You don't come into our assembly and call us 'our Indigenous People.'"
vt.tiktok.com/ZSfWd6rqG/
"You don't come into our assembly and call us 'our Indigenous People.'"
vt.tiktok.com/ZSfWd6rqG/
December 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
When PP spoke to First Nations
"You don't come into our assembly and call us 'our Indigenous People.'"
vt.tiktok.com/ZSfWd6rqG/
"You don't come into our assembly and call us 'our Indigenous People.'"
vt.tiktok.com/ZSfWd6rqG/
Ah yes, let's bring in tourists from around the world and show them how the US hosts. It will be so dangerous form anyone to go there. Hey, come to Canada instead. We don't arrest tourists.
December 4, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Ah yes, let's bring in tourists from around the world and show them how the US hosts. It will be so dangerous form anyone to go there. Hey, come to Canada instead. We don't arrest tourists.
Reposted
This stuff would be absolutely batshit insane in ANY country. I mean, think of the absolute worst country you could possibly think of, & this would be batshit insane there.
Trump & GOP have made it a daily occurrence in the United States, along with too many other fascist & corrupt things to count.
Trump & GOP have made it a daily occurrence in the United States, along with too many other fascist & corrupt things to count.
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
This stuff would be absolutely batshit insane in ANY country. I mean, think of the absolute worst country you could possibly think of, & this would be batshit insane there.
Trump & GOP have made it a daily occurrence in the United States, along with too many other fascist & corrupt things to count.
Trump & GOP have made it a daily occurrence in the United States, along with too many other fascist & corrupt things to count.
I’ll give them some free advice: cut the paperwork and pay them more. You’re welcome.
December 4, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I’ll give them some free advice: cut the paperwork and pay them more. You’re welcome.
This is all by design. Wait for the school “voucher” program coming soon.
This is how stupid Ontario’s “Minister of Education” thinks we are:
Starve public system of funds, escalate class sizes, understaff all programmes, report unsatisfactory test scores, blame schools.
🤷🏼🙄🤷🏼
Starve public system of funds, escalate class sizes, understaff all programmes, report unsatisfactory test scores, blame schools.
🤷🏼🙄🤷🏼
December 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
This is all by design. Wait for the school “voucher” program coming soon.
Reposted
youtube.com/shorts/E6nLS...
Belly-laugh break-time.
Belly-laugh break-time.
HOW DO THEY ALL FALL 💀😂
YouTube video by PureEcho Stories
youtube.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:43 PM
youtube.com/shorts/E6nLS...
Belly-laugh break-time.
Belly-laugh break-time.
Reposted
And this while record numbers of Ontarians are using the food bank, while our public institutions are crumbling, and while we are in the midst of the opioid crisis, with downtowns across the province flooded with the homeless, mentally ill, and those struggling with addiction.
#DougieDoesn’tCare
#DougieDoesn’tCare
The Ontario PC govt spent more on public advertising in the run-up to Feb’s snap election than any other Ontario govt in history, the auditor general has found, pushing commercials with a message that “promotes the governing party.”
#FordIsCorrupt #onpoli #cdnpoli
globalnews.ca/news/1155560...
#FordIsCorrupt #onpoli #cdnpoli
globalnews.ca/news/1155560...
Ford government sets spending record for commercials ‘promoting’ governing party | Globalnews.ca
Auditor General Shelley Spence’s annual review of advertising found, in the fiscal year ending in March 2025, the province spent $111.9 million on advertising.
globalnews.ca
December 3, 2025 at 11:59 AM
And this while record numbers of Ontarians are using the food bank, while our public institutions are crumbling, and while we are in the midst of the opioid crisis, with downtowns across the province flooded with the homeless, mentally ill, and those struggling with addiction.
#DougieDoesn’tCare
#DougieDoesn’tCare
Reposted
This is the thing that drives me to Frank Grimes levels of absolute disbelief about Ontario voters continuing support of the Ford government: That it's the best equipped to manage the public purse.
In this case, Ford's cronies have set piles of money on fire.
In this case, Ford's cronies have set piles of money on fire.
"New Democrat Leader Marit Stiles called the auditor's findings "absolutely bonkers." "This is an agency that is run by the premier's former chief of staff who is overseeing a contract that is literally setting hundreds of millions of dollars on fire," she said. "
#OnPoli
#OnPoli
Ontario wrote off $1.4B of PPE, is burning expired equipment: auditor | CBC News
Ontario wrote off more than one billion items of personal protective equipment at a cost of $1.4 billion since 2021, the province's auditor general found.
www.cbc.ca
December 3, 2025 at 2:25 PM
This is the thing that drives me to Frank Grimes levels of absolute disbelief about Ontario voters continuing support of the Ford government: That it's the best equipped to manage the public purse.
In this case, Ford's cronies have set piles of money on fire.
In this case, Ford's cronies have set piles of money on fire.
We simply cannot let this happen!
"The new corporation could set water rates for municipal residents, as a privately owned, for-profit organization. Municipalities would have to transfer all their water and wastewater assets, staff, debt, contracts and infrastructure to the new body." 🤮
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/28/n...
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/28/n...
Ford government dives into municipal business as it eyes water services
The province has assumed sweeping new powers to seize control over municipal water systems — one of Ontario’s largest public assets, worth $175.8 billion — raising fears the move could pave the way fo...
www.nationalobserver.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
We simply cannot let this happen!
Reposted
Data centres are energy hungry but what if we could use their waste heat to heat our homes?
That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.
That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.
December 3, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Data centres are energy hungry but what if we could use their waste heat to heat our homes?
That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.
That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.
Reposted
"We need regulation of e-bikes!!!" people scream as SUVs and trucks get larger and deadlier and people speed and drive distracted with impunity.
I'm happy to talk about e-bike regulation as long as folks agree that the *most urgent* problem is cars.
I'm happy to talk about e-bike regulation as long as folks agree that the *most urgent* problem is cars.
Love how much energy we all spend circle jerking over classes of ebikes while car culture runs around with metrics of multiple tons, hundreds of horsepower, and top speeds only limited in triple digits.
December 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
"We need regulation of e-bikes!!!" people scream as SUVs and trucks get larger and deadlier and people speed and drive distracted with impunity.
I'm happy to talk about e-bike regulation as long as folks agree that the *most urgent* problem is cars.
I'm happy to talk about e-bike regulation as long as folks agree that the *most urgent* problem is cars.
Reposted
Brutal. Slink back under the rock you slithered put from under PeePee
POILIEVRE: Today the PBO revealed that his brand new bureaucracy will only build 5k homes per year...
CARNEY: The great thing about being a lifelong member of Parliament is you've never built anything and you don't know numbers.
CARNEY: The great thing about being a lifelong member of Parliament is you've never built anything and you don't know numbers.
December 2, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Brutal. Slink back under the rock you slithered put from under PeePee
Reposted
I’m 56 years old, and for my whole life we’ve been asking some version of the question “what would WE, our generation, have done to stop the Nazis, either in Germany as they were rising, or around the world to fight for freedom.
Now we’re answering the question in real time. Each of us & all of us.
Now we’re answering the question in real time. Each of us & all of us.
December 2, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I’m 56 years old, and for my whole life we’ve been asking some version of the question “what would WE, our generation, have done to stop the Nazis, either in Germany as they were rising, or around the world to fight for freedom.
Now we’re answering the question in real time. Each of us & all of us.
Now we’re answering the question in real time. Each of us & all of us.
And so far, our answers suck.
We’re also answering the question “could we band together to collectively fight worse global pandemics?”
And we’re answering “could we choose to change our conveniences in order to protect the livability of the planet for our own children, & every generation after them?”
We’re answering right now.
And we’re answering “could we choose to change our conveniences in order to protect the livability of the planet for our own children, & every generation after them?”
We’re answering right now.
December 2, 2025 at 9:57 PM
And so far, our answers suck.
Record spending on themselves to promote themselves. Not education, healthcare, homelessness. Themselves. Wasting taxpayer $$$$.
Ford government sets spending record for commercials ‘promoting’ governing party.
globalnews.ca/news/1155560...
#OnPoli
#FordAbomiNation
#FordFailedThePeople
#FordCorruptAF
#NeverVoteConservative
globalnews.ca/news/1155560...
#OnPoli
#FordAbomiNation
#FordFailedThePeople
#FordCorruptAF
#NeverVoteConservative
Ford government sets spending record for commercials ‘promoting’ governing party | Globalnews.ca
Auditor General Shelley Spence’s annual review of advertising found, in the fiscal year ending in March 2025, the province spent $111.9 million on advertising.
globalnews.ca
December 2, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Record spending on themselves to promote themselves. Not education, healthcare, homelessness. Themselves. Wasting taxpayer $$$$.
Beauty
The caracal, a medium-size wildcat, roams the savannas, deserts, and forests of much of Africa and parts of the Middle East. Their extraordinary ears each have over 20 muscles that swivel around like satellite dishes to detect sounds of their prey.
a close up of a cat 's ear in the grass
ALT: a close up of a cat 's ear in the grass
media.tenor.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Beauty