Karen Katherine
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Karen Katherine
@kkhem.bsky.social
Enjoy reading, sewing, painting, music, movies, family, friends, coffee, wine, my kitty. Canadian 🍁🇨🇦
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Please share this photo and story widely. There is a window of time to help this person whose life might be in grave danger.

"approximately 5'8" in height, with a beard. They were wearing eyeglasses, with a black t-shirt, black pants, white sneakers, and holding a black water bottle."
1 person came in contact with a bat that may have rabies: Toronto Public Health
Toronto Public Health (TPH) is looking for a person who came into contact with a bat that may have a rabies infection on Wednesday.
toronto.citynews.ca
June 29, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Winnie enjoying a peaceful spring morning in her favorite seat. She's come a long way from that noisy rescue.

#dogs
#dogsofbluesky
April 24, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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In the midst of proclaiming #ElbowsUp and #CanadaStrong we do have Canadians that are antichoice, anti science, antivax, antidemocratic (add more anti stuff - there’s more).

Even though we all love Canada, for the policies we support, it’s us against them.

Don’t let them win.

#Vote
#Carney
a canadian flag with a maple leaf on it is flying in the wind
Alt: a canadian flag with a maple leaf on it is flying in the wind
media.tenor.com
April 12, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Caturday with Meiko 😻
February 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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You absolutely have to have a listen to this. Go Charlie!
Explaining to CNN the economic chaos that Donald Trump is about to unleash on his own people. We will never break or concede to an erratic thug who seems like Al Capone in his syphilitic phase trying to pull a shakedown.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-ZE...
Canadian MP fires back after Trump says he wants Canada to be 51st state
YouTube video by CNN
www.youtube.com
February 4, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Slow stitching on a winter afternoon
January 23, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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The People’s March, moving through the streets of Washington D.C. today in opposition to Trump.
January 18, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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January 17, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Saturday sewing as the snow continues to fall.
December 7, 2024 at 8:09 PM
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December 6 is the National Day of Remembrance & Action on Violence Against Women. On this day 35 years ago, 14 women were brutally murdered in a targeted act of femicide.
December 6, 2024 at 10:31 PM
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In this week's newsletter: Pierre Poilievre's ongoing problems with the truth, Donald Trump's "joke" about Canada, and a *long* interview with the Food Professor.

www.nationalobserver.com/newsletters/...
Pierre Poilieve's war on the truth could cost Canada dearly
www.nationalobserver.com
December 4, 2024 at 3:52 PM
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When will Pierre Poilievre’s free ride with Canadians end as he cruises toward taking over the country with a large majority? Michael Harris writes. #cdnpoli
Poilievre’s Free Ride to Power Has to Stop | The Tyee
No more getting by with glib and shallow answers to these seven basic questions.
thetyee.ca
December 3, 2024 at 4:41 PM
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Wow. Here is one to brighten up your morning. The first images of the restored interior of Notre Dame cathedral. Breathtaking. In just five years France did it
November 29, 2024 at 8:08 AM
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Please share this.
youtu.be/paaen3b44XY?...
How a Historian Nailed Billionaires for Their Greed at Davos | NowThis
YouTube video by NowThis Impact
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November 24, 2024 at 6:53 AM
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November 24, 2024 at 8:08 PM
So I washed my duvet then after it was dry just placed on the edge of my bed, came back an hour later and there my Meiko is and of course I can’t disturb her. Cats! 😻
November 24, 2024 at 8:48 PM
Saturday afternoon sewing
November 23, 2024 at 9:22 PM
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine review – ‘a complicated literary pleasure’
November 23, 2024 at 1:19 AM
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A year ago, I wrote a review of Erik Larson's "In the Garden of Beasts," an account of the US Ambassador to Germany's tenure there in the early-mid 30s.

I shared lessons from the account that feel more relevant now than ever.

Here is a snippet of them:

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November 19, 2024 at 2:22 PM
November 14, 2024 at 3:14 AM