Lauren Ipsum 🇨🇦
@laurenipsum37.bsky.social
Org effectiveness and talent developer. Delighted by nerdy science, the artistic mind and rambling conversations that spark new possibilities. Dachshund mom.
thank you for the laugh
“Starting today, fishermen will finally be allowed to sail into America’s protected aquariums, drop a net in any marine exhibit they please, and begin trawling,” Trump said at a press conference
Trump Opens Up Nation’s Aquariums To Commercial Fishing
WASHINGTON—Claiming that preservation efforts had impeded U.S. seafood production for far too long, President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he had opened up the nation’s aquariums to commercia...
theonion.com
April 24, 2025 at 12:20 AM
thank you for the laugh
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We are so close to 3.5%. There has never been a case where 3.5% or more of the population protesting hasn't brought about change. Check out this BBC article.
bbc.in/4hzF3ad
bbc.in/4hzF3ad
The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world
Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.
bbc.in
April 5, 2025 at 11:59 PM
We are so close to 3.5%. There has never been a case where 3.5% or more of the population protesting hasn't brought about change. Check out this BBC article.
bbc.in/4hzF3ad
bbc.in/4hzF3ad
Maybe she can give up her Canadian citizenship and go live in the US now as a 'proof of concept' for the rest of us.
April 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Maybe she can give up her Canadian citizenship and go live in the US now as a 'proof of concept' for the rest of us.
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@dorothywoodend.bsky.social: To be blunt, it’s not very fun living through history.
But documentaries are useful for context and even a grim comfort.
But documentaries are useful for context and even a grim comfort.
Four Films to Help the World Make Sense | The Tyee
History is like jazz, retracing what came before.
thetyee.ca
March 29, 2025 at 1:15 AM
@dorothywoodend.bsky.social: To be blunt, it’s not very fun living through history.
But documentaries are useful for context and even a grim comfort.
But documentaries are useful for context and even a grim comfort.
Oh ffs
“Ben Shapiro, a hugely popular U.S. podcaster who says Canada is a “silly country” that should be annexed without voting rights for citizens.
Smith & Shapiro are the keynote speakers at a $1,500 per ticket fundraiser for PragerU”
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
Smith & Shapiro are the keynote speakers at a $1,500 per ticket fundraiser for PragerU”
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
Braid: Smith shares stage with U.S. podcaster who calls Canada 'a silly country'
Braid: Premier Danielle Smith is off to the U.S. again to talk to right-wing group, share stage with a podcaster who calls Canada "silly."
calgaryherald.com
March 25, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Oh ffs
I love how Gurdeep Pandher simulateously acknowledges current events while also maintaining distance. So fantastic
Hey, Canada 🍁! Positive interference from the North! On April 28th, vote based on candidates' merits and hearts that show care — not on messages that create distances among us or simply on someone who looks like you — to bring joy across the nation. ❤️
March 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I love how Gurdeep Pandher simulateously acknowledges current events while also maintaining distance. So fantastic
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Mike Myers Meets Mark Carney
#CanadaStrongAndFree 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦
#CanadaStrongAndFree 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦
March 22, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Mike Myers Meets Mark Carney
#CanadaStrongAndFree 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦
#CanadaStrongAndFree 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦
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In this week’s newsletter, we talk about how Prairies reporter @drewanderson.bsky.social tracked down the Albertans behind oil and gas companies that didn’t pay their bills — including showing up to one businessman’s doorstep: thenarwhal.ca/newsletter-a...
When Alberta oil and gas companies don’t pay their bills | The Narwhal
How we tracked down the people behind unpaid Alberta oil and gas bills — including showing up to one businessman’s doorstep
thenarwhal.ca
March 21, 2025 at 5:31 PM
In this week’s newsletter, we talk about how Prairies reporter @drewanderson.bsky.social tracked down the Albertans behind oil and gas companies that didn’t pay their bills — including showing up to one businessman’s doorstep: thenarwhal.ca/newsletter-a...
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globalnews.ca/news/9178531...
Pierre Poilievre’s official YouTube videos included a hidden tag appealing to misogynistic online movements that Canada’s intelligence agencies view as a danger.
Pierre Poilievre’s official YouTube videos included a hidden tag appealing to misogynistic online movements that Canada’s intelligence agencies view as a danger.
Pierre Poilievre’s YouTube channel included hidden misogynistic tag to promote videos - National | Globalnews.ca
Poilievre's office said the misogynistic term has been embedded in his YouTube videos for four and a half years, but was removed when Global News alerted them to its use.
globalnews.ca
March 20, 2025 at 3:21 AM
globalnews.ca/news/9178531...
Pierre Poilievre’s official YouTube videos included a hidden tag appealing to misogynistic online movements that Canada’s intelligence agencies view as a danger.
Pierre Poilievre’s official YouTube videos included a hidden tag appealing to misogynistic online movements that Canada’s intelligence agencies view as a danger.
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This clip is the first time I have choked up after our friends in Spokane, Washington spoke up against Trump's threats of annexation against Canada.
Thank you American friends in Spokane from a Vancouverite, your close neighbour.
Finally, I feel a small glimmer of hope.
#Never51
#CanadaStrongandFree
Thank you American friends in Spokane from a Vancouverite, your close neighbour.
Finally, I feel a small glimmer of hope.
#Never51
#CanadaStrongandFree
March 19, 2025 at 8:43 AM
This clip is the first time I have choked up after our friends in Spokane, Washington spoke up against Trump's threats of annexation against Canada.
Thank you American friends in Spokane from a Vancouverite, your close neighbour.
Finally, I feel a small glimmer of hope.
#Never51
#CanadaStrongandFree
Thank you American friends in Spokane from a Vancouverite, your close neighbour.
Finally, I feel a small glimmer of hope.
#Never51
#CanadaStrongandFree
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This man delivers more mental relief to Canadians than a truckload of Prozac ever will. I love it.
Keep Canada dancing, Gurdeep. 🍁❤️
Keep Canada dancing, Gurdeep. 🍁❤️
Tariff-free joy flows from Canada to the world—receive this heartfelt and positive export from the land of resilience and love. 🍁🧡
(and forward the positive vibes)
(and forward the positive vibes)
March 15, 2025 at 10:23 PM
This man delivers more mental relief to Canadians than a truckload of Prozac ever will. I love it.
Keep Canada dancing, Gurdeep. 🍁❤️
Keep Canada dancing, Gurdeep. 🍁❤️
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🇨🇦 Canada
& beyond
How to identify #misinformation, #disinformation, and #malinformation
www.cyber.gc.ca/en/guidance/...
& beyond
How to identify #misinformation, #disinformation, and #malinformation
www.cyber.gc.ca/en/guidance/...
How to identify misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation (ITSAP.00.300) - Canadian Centre for Cyber Security
How to identify misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation (ITSAP.00.300)
www.cyber.gc.ca
March 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
🇨🇦 Canada
& beyond
How to identify #misinformation, #disinformation, and #malinformation
www.cyber.gc.ca/en/guidance/...
& beyond
How to identify #misinformation, #disinformation, and #malinformation
www.cyber.gc.ca/en/guidance/...
Some levity from the chaos. And a reminder of how chronically uncoordinated i am
March 13, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Some levity from the chaos. And a reminder of how chronically uncoordinated i am
Abso-effing-lutely Brilliant!.
Aylmer – The Canadian Soup youtu.be/Tfq_Syd9_Ik?... via @YouTube
Aylmer – The Canadian Soup youtu.be/Tfq_Syd9_Ik?... via @YouTube
Aylmer – The Canadian Soup
YouTube video by Aylmer Foods Canada
youtu.be
March 12, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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I don’t often say this, but Alberta, I’m kind of proud of you today. From the Angus Reid data tables:
March 12, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I don’t often say this, but Alberta, I’m kind of proud of you today. From the Angus Reid data tables:
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Dear Canada, I felt compelled to make something. To stick up for, and to honour. To show our strength, beauty, genius, empathy, light & heart. It's made with deep gratitude for the people and places of this beautiful land. Vive le Canada 🇨🇦❤️✌️💪
vimeo.com/1056619122/f...
vimeo.com/1056619122/f...
Dear Canada...
Dear Canada... I felt compelled to do something, to make something for my country. To stick up for, and to honour it. To show our strength, beauty, genius, empathy,…
vimeo.com
March 12, 2025 at 7:53 PM
This is Dutch gold. youtu.be/ml9IFN8JzHY?...
Dutch Public TV spoof on Zelensky's meeting with Trump and Vance
YouTube video by Democracy Action Network
youtu.be
March 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
This is Dutch gold. youtu.be/ml9IFN8JzHY?...
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As a proud Canadian-owned and operated company, we want to do our part to support Canadians. As a family we have decided to absorb all immediate increases in our costs due to the Trump-tariffs for the rest of the year to maintain our prices. We will continue to reinforce our Canadian-first policies.
March 7, 2025 at 9:33 PM
As a proud Canadian-owned and operated company, we want to do our part to support Canadians. As a family we have decided to absorb all immediate increases in our costs due to the Trump-tariffs for the rest of the year to maintain our prices. We will continue to reinforce our Canadian-first policies.
Welcome back Joe Canadian
March 5, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Welcome back Joe Canadian
To any Canadian saying we want to join the US, I say to you 'Why wait?'. Go Right Now. If you want to live in chaos, cross the border and don't come back. Any fraction of an idea you have that the rest of us will go along with it exists entirely in the flawed, circular logic of your own mind.
February 26, 2025 at 3:29 AM
To any Canadian saying we want to join the US, I say to you 'Why wait?'. Go Right Now. If you want to live in chaos, cross the border and don't come back. Any fraction of an idea you have that the rest of us will go along with it exists entirely in the flawed, circular logic of your own mind.
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He’s running Putin playbook on us. Alleging we want this. Claiming we have no right to exist and the border is artificial
Trump: "It's true. A lot of people in Canada are liking becoming our beautiful, cherished 51st state."
February 26, 2025 at 12:07 AM
He’s running Putin playbook on us. Alleging we want this. Claiming we have no right to exist and the border is artificial
Ontario may want to reconsider their contract www.reuters.com/business/us-...
Exclusive: US could cut Ukraine's access to Starlink internet services over minerals, say sources
During a Thursday meeting, Ukraine was told it faced imminent shutoff of the service if it did not reach a deal on critical minerals, a source said.
www.reuters.com
February 22, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Ontario may want to reconsider their contract www.reuters.com/business/us-...
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"A war criminal and a convicted felon are deciding the future of Ukraine. If we are silent in allowing Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin to carve up Ukraine it is a repeat of Munich 1938. We cannot allow this to happen.”
- Charlie Angus, NATO meetings Brussels
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_hq...
- Charlie Angus, NATO meetings Brussels
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_hq...
Charlie Angus out the Gangsters Putin/Trump for Selling out Ukraine
YouTube video by Charlie Angus
www.youtube.com
February 19, 2025 at 10:37 AM
"A war criminal and a convicted felon are deciding the future of Ukraine. If we are silent in allowing Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin to carve up Ukraine it is a repeat of Munich 1938. We cannot allow this to happen.”
- Charlie Angus, NATO meetings Brussels
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_hq...
- Charlie Angus, NATO meetings Brussels
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_hq...