kimpoirier.bsky.social
@kimpoirier.bsky.social
Politics nerd, interested in social justice, NW native art, reading. I love a sarcastic sense of humour.
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The Canada-Alberta deal pushes a pipeline AND

- Allows Alberta to delay cutting methane emissions
- Suspends clean energy regulations in Alberta
- Loosens restrictions on tax breaks for clean tech to encourage more oil drilling
- Allows oil tankers on the west coast
thenarwhal.ca/carney-alber...
Carney’s Alberta pipeline deal weakens climate policies | The Narwhal
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s ‘grand bargain’ isn’t just about an Alberta pipeline —it also proposes rolling back a host of climate policies
thenarwhal.ca
November 28, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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The Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) says it’s against the memorandum of understanding that Canada and Alberta Thursday morning.

The MOU explicitly endorses the construction of a massive new bitumen pipeline from Alberta to the B.C. coast.
‘The answer is no and always will be’: UBCIC on Alberta-Canada MOU
The Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) says it’s against the MOU signed Thursday morning to build a massive new bitumen pipeline from Alberta to the B.C. coast.
www.aptnnews.ca
November 28, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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This kid is brilliant. Voice of a generation.
🎵 “Join Ice” - @wellesmusic on Colbert
November 22, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Hey Megyn Kelly,

14-year-old Eloise would like a word:

“If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good…
because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.”

Sound up! 🔥🔊

1/2
November 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Hey, we keep telling them how much better things are in Canada, but they just want to keep beating the drum of superiority and refuse to listen to anyone else.
November 10, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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After almost three decades, Canada has lost its measles elimination status.

That means in 2025, this extremely contagious disease spread consistently in our country for the first time since 1998.

This was preventable, which makes it embarrassing -- in more ways than you might realize:
November 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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There’s still time to call senators. Let me explain. Sorry not sorry about the cat. He’s also really upset about this deal.
November 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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I love this meme. We do need piñata economics!
November 9, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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According to Abigail Disney, Sean Duffy could cut 12% of air travel by grounding private planes. Commercial air travel would be fine. Let that sink in.
November 7, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Too soon?
#ostrichwaco
November 8, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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The lengths Trump will go to keep Americans hungry knows no bounds.

apnews.com/article/snap...
Supreme Court issues emergency order to block full SNAP food aid payments
The Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments amid the government shutdown.
apnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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It seems this petition is gaining some steam, so i thought i’d share it again.

Someone like this should not be their Ambassador to us. He needs to be kicked out of Canada asap.

c.org/L4vDMd8769
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
Remove Pete Hoekstra as US ambassador to Canada. Let's send Pete Packing!
c.org
November 1, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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I don't think we should talk about climate change anymore, we should talk about kitchen-table issues. Like how climate change will destroy your kitchen table and everything else you have
October 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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FYI :“Destruction of federal property is a federal crime. 18 U.S. Code § 1361 defines the crime as willfully injuring or committing any depredation against U.S. government property. If the damage exceeds $1k it is a felony with a fine, up to ten years in prison or both.”

Awaiting law enforcement.
October 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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October 20, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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The city pays the doctors a fixed-annual salary of approximately $280,000, plus benefits, a pension and paid vacation. Instead of running a private practice, doctors work out of a city-run clinic, with the municipality covering all overhead and administration.
In the struggle to recruit family physicians, the Vancouver Island community of Colwood, B.C., had hit rock bottom. #BritishColumbia

The city created a revenue-neutral model that brings physicians onto the municipal payroll alongside police

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www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
‘I get to go home to my family:’ How one B.C. city is attracting new family doctors
Colwood, B.C. struggled to recruit family physicians, but a new strategy may have found a solution.
www.ctvnews.ca
October 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack in Israel “plunged the region into a devastating war.”

That’s how an Associated Press article opens – one that some of Canada’s largest news outlets published today.

But Oct. 7 wasn’t the day this started.

Today, with @cjjpmedia.bsky.social, I'm giving a history lesson:
October 7, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Limerick of the day !
October 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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September 25, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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youtube.com/shorts/ru3y1...
What to say to a bully: "Fuck you, Make me."
There are only four words bullies understand | Last Week Tonight with John Oliver | BINGE
YouTube video by BINGE
youtube.com
September 25, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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If you think that adults taking Tylenol hurt kids, just wait until you read what the adults in the Epstein Files were doing to them.
September 25, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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I stand with Jimmy Kimmel.
September 18, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide.

As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.

End the genocide. Ceasefire now.
September 16, 2025 at 1:34 PM