Margaret B
@mbien629.bsky.social
Books, poetry, nature and genealogy are some of my passions . Hoping and praying for justice and peace. “O world, I cannot hold thee close enough!” (Edna St. Vincent Millay). 🐿️🌿🇨🇦✍🏻🐚.
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How many people work in the Hamilton area, but don't yet earn a Living Wage? @policyalternatives.ca crunched the numbers, so let's find out...
#HamOnt #Hamilton #LivingWage @ontariolivingwage.ca hamiltonpoverty.ca
#HamOnt #Hamilton #LivingWage @ontariolivingwage.ca hamiltonpoverty.ca
November 6, 2025 at 9:20 PM
How many people work in the Hamilton area, but don't yet earn a Living Wage? @policyalternatives.ca crunched the numbers, so let's find out...
#HamOnt #Hamilton #LivingWage @ontariolivingwage.ca hamiltonpoverty.ca
#HamOnt #Hamilton #LivingWage @ontariolivingwage.ca hamiltonpoverty.ca
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#HamOnt beautiful picture @davidfillion.bsky.social - thank you for sharing!
Catherine Street - Hamilton, Ontario
Shot on Sony Alpha a7iii with Vivitar 600mm - 1300mm
#hamont #hamilton #myhamilton #hamiltontario #citylife #cityscape #niagaraescarpment #escarpment #autumn #fallvibes #photograghy #sonyalpha #a7iii #SonyAlphasClub #sonyImages #dfproductions
Shot on Sony Alpha a7iii with Vivitar 600mm - 1300mm
#hamont #hamilton #myhamilton #hamiltontario #citylife #cityscape #niagaraescarpment #escarpment #autumn #fallvibes #photograghy #sonyalpha #a7iii #SonyAlphasClub #sonyImages #dfproductions
October 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
#HamOnt beautiful picture @davidfillion.bsky.social - thank you for sharing!
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Sep 28, 1930: eight Canadian Pacific Railway passenger trains previously assigned to North Toronto Station begin operating out of Union Station. These were a daily Montreal overnight, a daily (except Sunday) Owen Sound round trip and two daily (except Sunday) Teeswater round trips. 1/2
September 29, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Sep 28, 1930: eight Canadian Pacific Railway passenger trains previously assigned to North Toronto Station begin operating out of Union Station. These were a daily Montreal overnight, a daily (except Sunday) Owen Sound round trip and two daily (except Sunday) Teeswater round trips. 1/2
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Canada has pledged to plant 2 billion trees. Here’s how close we are
Canada has pledged to plant 2 billion trees. Here’s how close we are
The Government of Canada says it is just over a 10th of the way to its goal of planting two billion trees across the country.
www.cp24.com
August 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Canada has pledged to plant 2 billion trees. Here’s how close we are
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Hundreds of former air force reservists and pilots join a chorus of defense establishment figures calling for an immediate end to the war in Gaza.
Hundreds of retired air force officers protest Israel's war in Gaza
Hundreds of former air force reservists and pilots join a chorus of defense establishment figures calling for an immediate end to the war in Gaza.
n.pr
August 14, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Hundreds of former air force reservists and pilots join a chorus of defense establishment figures calling for an immediate end to the war in Gaza.
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✅ signed 😊
Did you know Canada’s provincial electricity grids are more connected to the United States than with each other?
⚡NEW PETITION: Let’s call on the federal gov't to build a truly Canadian east-west electricity grid with new transmission lines & renewable power.⚡
Sign now: dsfdn.org/EastWestRene...
⚡NEW PETITION: Let’s call on the federal gov't to build a truly Canadian east-west electricity grid with new transmission lines & renewable power.⚡
Sign now: dsfdn.org/EastWestRene...
August 14, 2025 at 12:30 PM
✅ signed 😊
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Join me, the Ward 2 team, and local advocacy groups to discuss tenant issues, connect with your downtown neighbours, and learn more about how tenants can organize for better living conditions and more affordable housing this coming Thursday, July 10. Details below. #HamOnt
June 23, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Join me, the Ward 2 team, and local advocacy groups to discuss tenant issues, connect with your downtown neighbours, and learn more about how tenants can organize for better living conditions and more affordable housing this coming Thursday, July 10. Details below. #HamOnt
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U.S. Marines have arrived in Calgary for the G7 summit.
The presence on Canadian soil of U.S. Marines (which are also being deployed against civilians in L.A.) is repugnant.
#cdnpoli
The presence on Canadian soil of U.S. Marines (which are also being deployed against civilians in L.A.) is repugnant.
#cdnpoli
June 14, 2025 at 1:08 PM
U.S. Marines have arrived in Calgary for the G7 summit.
The presence on Canadian soil of U.S. Marines (which are also being deployed against civilians in L.A.) is repugnant.
#cdnpoli
The presence on Canadian soil of U.S. Marines (which are also being deployed against civilians in L.A.) is repugnant.
#cdnpoli
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Journalists, pundits, politicians - everybody, in fact - should stop using Trump’s favoured word “ #deal” for international agreements. Using it suggests they’re buying into his shabby, transactional, horse-trading vision of the relationship between sovereign states.
June 14, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Journalists, pundits, politicians - everybody, in fact - should stop using Trump’s favoured word “ #deal” for international agreements. Using it suggests they’re buying into his shabby, transactional, horse-trading vision of the relationship between sovereign states.
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Ezra Levant is perhaps the most far right personality in Canada (ok there are some pure Nazis as well), he is so extreme he had a truck moving through Toronto with a Muslim hate message on it side. They may try to act like a journalist but they are the worst of Canada.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Anti-Muslim messaging truck being investigated by Toronto police registered to Rebel News Network | CBC News
An advertising truck that is being investigated by Toronto police, after it was spotted this week driving through the city while displaying anti-Muslim images and messages, is registered under Rebel N...
www.cbc.ca
April 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Ezra Levant is perhaps the most far right personality in Canada (ok there are some pure Nazis as well), he is so extreme he had a truck moving through Toronto with a Muslim hate message on it side. They may try to act like a journalist but they are the worst of Canada.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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“over an ocean, the rain is lit up
by moments of fire, writing on the firmament
that disappears moments before we decipher it”
Today’s poem is by Cara Ellen Modisett
earthandaltarmag.com/posts/innoce...
by moments of fire, writing on the firmament
that disappears moments before we decipher it”
Today’s poem is by Cara Ellen Modisett
earthandaltarmag.com/posts/innoce...
INNOCENT OF ICE — Earth and Altar
would you wish yourself innocent of ice? (1) My mother says she loves rainy days the best but aren’t the skies weeping step outside and it’s messy the clouds heavy and gray – over an ocean, the ...
earthandaltarmag.com
April 17, 2025 at 2:04 PM
“over an ocean, the rain is lit up
by moments of fire, writing on the firmament
that disappears moments before we decipher it”
Today’s poem is by Cara Ellen Modisett
earthandaltarmag.com/posts/innoce...
by moments of fire, writing on the firmament
that disappears moments before we decipher it”
Today’s poem is by Cara Ellen Modisett
earthandaltarmag.com/posts/innoce...
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🚨NEWS: Exxon funneled $400,000 to Republican AGs, who are now pressing the Supreme Court to eliminate Americans' longstanding right to sue polluters that poison their towns.
The legal push comes as new data shows elevated cancer rates near refineries. www.levernews.com/exxon-presse...
The legal push comes as new data shows elevated cancer rates near refineries. www.levernews.com/exxon-presse...
Exxon Presses Supreme Court To Rescind Your Rights
Attorneys general bankrolled by the fossil fuel giant want the Supreme Court to stop Americans from suing polluters.
www.levernews.com
April 17, 2025 at 2:40 PM
🚨NEWS: Exxon funneled $400,000 to Republican AGs, who are now pressing the Supreme Court to eliminate Americans' longstanding right to sue polluters that poison their towns.
The legal push comes as new data shows elevated cancer rates near refineries. www.levernews.com/exxon-presse...
The legal push comes as new data shows elevated cancer rates near refineries. www.levernews.com/exxon-presse...
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"After nearly five hours, he and his wife were released. They are now pursuing legal action.
"It's not about the immigrants," his sister, told NBC10 Boston. "It's coming to us Americans, and it's going to go after all of us."
www.nbcboston.com/news/politic...
"It's not about the immigrants," his sister, told NBC10 Boston. "It's coming to us Americans, and it's going to go after all of us."
www.nbcboston.com/news/politic...
‘Treated like a criminal': US citizen says he was detained returning from Canada
Bachir Atallah, a real estate attorney from New Hampshire, says he and his wife, Jessica Fakhri, were stopped crossing from Canada into Vermont
www.nbcboston.com
April 15, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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"I think this is a very dangerous. We have a Charter of Rights and fundamental Freedoms in this country, and it's the responsibility...of the prime minister...to defend...those fundamental rights," said PM Mark Carney in response to Poilievre's Sec. 33 pledge #cdnpoli
April 14, 2025 at 10:41 PM
"I think this is a very dangerous. We have a Charter of Rights and fundamental Freedoms in this country, and it's the responsibility...of the prime minister...to defend...those fundamental rights," said PM Mark Carney in response to Poilievre's Sec. 33 pledge #cdnpoli
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Some good reading from @timbousquet.bsky.social this morning
PS: Subscribe to the @halifaxexaminer.ca if you don't already
PS: Subscribe to the @halifaxexaminer.ca if you don't already
Know who your enemies are, and who they aren’t www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file... Morning File by me
Know who your enemies are, and who they aren't - Halifax Examiner
This is what fascists want. They want us to hate and distrust each other, to be in eternal conflict, for no community to exist outside The Party.
www.halifaxexaminer.ca
April 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Some good reading from @timbousquet.bsky.social this morning
PS: Subscribe to the @halifaxexaminer.ca if you don't already
PS: Subscribe to the @halifaxexaminer.ca if you don't already
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You should read this article about how a popular Buy and Sell Facebook group in Hamilton (and it’s 18k followers) was likely sold and then converted into a group calling for Canada to become the 51st state.
#topoli #onpoli #canpoli
www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
#topoli #onpoli #canpoli
www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
The story of ‘Canadians for the 51st state and Elon Musk for Governor’: How a thriving buy-and-sell forum turned into Facebook’s largest voice for annexation
The Facebook group now called “Canadians for the 51st state and Elon Musk for Governor” used to be Hamilton’s thriving buy-and-sell community — until it was “hijacked.”
www.thestar.com
April 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
You should read this article about how a popular Buy and Sell Facebook group in Hamilton (and it’s 18k followers) was likely sold and then converted into a group calling for Canada to become the 51st state.
#topoli #onpoli #canpoli
www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
#topoli #onpoli #canpoli
www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
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People in #hamont and surrounding areas should keep an eye out for this clown.
"Spencer" runs a channel called MCGA where he harasses and trolls NDP and Liberal candidates.
He also goes to people's homes based on their lawn signs, records them, and harasses them.
Don't talk to this creep!
"Spencer" runs a channel called MCGA where he harasses and trolls NDP and Liberal candidates.
He also goes to people's homes based on their lawn signs, records them, and harasses them.
Don't talk to this creep!
April 9, 2025 at 1:54 AM
People in #hamont and surrounding areas should keep an eye out for this clown.
"Spencer" runs a channel called MCGA where he harasses and trolls NDP and Liberal candidates.
He also goes to people's homes based on their lawn signs, records them, and harasses them.
Don't talk to this creep!
"Spencer" runs a channel called MCGA where he harasses and trolls NDP and Liberal candidates.
He also goes to people's homes based on their lawn signs, records them, and harasses them.
Don't talk to this creep!
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Visit our website to learn about these adoptable animals and our animals who will be available soon!
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www.ladybirdanimalsanctuary.com/animals-avai...
#lookwhatlovecando #hamont #hamiltonontario #rescuedanimals #adoptdontshop #dontshopadopt #availableforadoption #adoptable #adoptables
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www.ladybirdanimalsanctuary.com/animals-avai...
#lookwhatlovecando #hamont #hamiltonontario #rescuedanimals #adoptdontshop #dontshopadopt #availableforadoption #adoptable #adoptables
April 2, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Visit our website to learn about these adoptable animals and our animals who will be available soon!
❤️
www.ladybirdanimalsanctuary.com/animals-avai...
#lookwhatlovecando #hamont #hamiltonontario #rescuedanimals #adoptdontshop #dontshopadopt #availableforadoption #adoptable #adoptables
❤️
www.ladybirdanimalsanctuary.com/animals-avai...
#lookwhatlovecando #hamont #hamiltonontario #rescuedanimals #adoptdontshop #dontshopadopt #availableforadoption #adoptable #adoptables
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According to Political Science Professor at McMaster University Don Abelson, a destabilization program is "an intentional and coordinated effort using statecraft for a specific outcome." windsornewstoday.ca/windsor/news...
Is Canada experiencing a U.S. destabillization campaign?
One might forgive Canadians if they wonder if the Americans have engaged in a destabilization program against their closest allies and purported best friends.
windsornewstoday.ca
March 30, 2025 at 11:59 AM
According to Political Science Professor at McMaster University Don Abelson, a destabilization program is "an intentional and coordinated effort using statecraft for a specific outcome." windsornewstoday.ca/windsor/news...
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Alarm as Florida Republicans move to fill deported workers’ jobs with children: ‘It’s insane, right?’
Alarm as Florida Republicans move to fill deported workers’ jobs with children: ‘It’s insane, right?’
Governor Ron DeSantis leads push to loosen child labor laws as immigration crackdown leads to workforce shortage
Beneath the smugness of Ron DeSantis, at Florida leading the nation in immigration enforcement lies something of a conundrum: how to fill the essential jobs of the scores of immigrant workers targeted for deportation.
The answer, according to Florida lawmakers, is the state’s schoolchildren, who as young as 14 could soon be allowed to work overnight shifts without a break – even on school nights. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
March 29, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Alarm as Florida Republicans move to fill deported workers’ jobs with children: ‘It’s insane, right?’
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The death toll from a powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar jumped to more than 1,000 on Saturday as more bodies were pulled from the rubble of the scores of buildings that collapsed.
Myanmar's earthquake death toll jumps to more than 1,000 as more bodies are recovered
The death toll from a powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar jumped to more than 1,000 on Saturday as more bodies were pulled from the rubble of the scores of buildings that collapsed.
www.npr.org
March 29, 2025 at 12:56 PM
The death toll from a powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar jumped to more than 1,000 on Saturday as more bodies were pulled from the rubble of the scores of buildings that collapsed.