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“Be a Rainbow in Someone’s Cloud”

Maya Angelou, the poet, the civil rights activist, was one of the most powerful voices in American Literature & Social Justice!

Maya taught the world a truth that still scares the powerful!

Be A Maya👊

#SheShed
#StrongWomen
#StillIRise

DakhaBrakha - Baby (Live on KEXP) YouTube video by KEXP

I have to share this video a few times a year because some days it just dawns on me that there are people who've never heard DakhaBrakha and that's a shame. Slava Ukraini!
youtu.be/u1KdGDEkj_U?...

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

World leaders need to look to Spain right now. I am so exhausted hearing about polite, calm diplomacy in the face of two countries starting illegal wars, lying about it, murdering children, and committing genocide in plain sight. It's shameful. I can't stop thinking about the Iranian girls' school.

Stop Please

New addition to the bookshelf (hi randy)

Let’s Dance

National pharmacare program to begin in B.C. on March 1, expanding access to diabetes, hormone drugs | CBC News B.C. Health Minister Josie Osborne says the funding is a game changer and will benefit more than half a million residents who are living with diabetes and about 160,000 people with menopausal symptoms...

Hey, BC, in case you missed the memo:

All hormone replacement therapy, contraceptives, AND diabetes medications will be 100% free in British Columbia starting March 1.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

In a world of US Men's Olympic hockey teams, be a Mariner's Josh Naylor talking about the first female umpire in the MLB.

I Don’t Recognize Alberta Anymore - Macleans.ca My province has always fought with Ottawa. What’s new is a premier who gives legitimacy to separation.

Maclean's approached me about writing a personal essay on Alberta Secession and my opposition to it.
It was published today.
macleans.ca/politics/i-d...

I Don’t Recognize Alberta Anymore - Macleans.ca My province has always fought with Ottawa. What’s new is a premier who gives legitimacy to separation.

"Smith uses political speak to say she supports a sovereign AB within a united Canada. What does that even mean? She dances around the subject because she painted herself into a corner by aligning with that fringe base.The lunatics are now running the asylum, and we lack a premier with conviction."

A Toronto hospital has ranked in the top 10 world’s best - Toronto | Globalnews.ca UHN's Toronto Western Hospital and Princess Margaret Cancer Centre also made the annual ranking of the world's top 250 best hospitals.

🇨🇦 Healthcare facts:
Trump told us we'll get better healthcare if we join the US. So let's see:
- Canada has the #2 ranked hospital in the world (Toronto General) - Newsweek
- We live three years longer than Americans
- We spend roughly half as much on healthcare

globalnews.ca/news/1170015...

“I used to say I was Albertan with pride, but now I fear we all look like separatists and traitors to the nation. It’s a tragedy because so many Albertans love Canada.”

TRUTH

I Don’t Recognize Alberta Anymore - Macleans.ca My province has always fought with Ottawa. What’s new is a premier who gives legitimacy to separation.

Take the 5 minutes. A good read!
macleans.ca/politics/i-d...

Need a new best friend? We've been fostering Inti since January 9. He's almost 4 months, super smart, and he's ready to be adopted!
Find him at Alberta Homeward Hound: www.albertahomewardhound.com/ahhrbadoptab...

(We'd keep him ourselves if we didn't already have two!)

Ahh, here they are

My mother was a nine year old refugee when she came to this country. She and her sister spoke no English. There were no ESL classes then. But good teachers in the small town of Barrhead where they lived taught them, and taught them well. They all became voracious readers with beautiful diction.

Canada is happy being independent from USA.

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NBC Commentators, know what the Canadian CBC commentators are NOT talking about during the Gold Medal women's hockey game between Canada and the USA?

Men. They're not talking about men. Not the men's league. Not the men's game. Not male players.

They're talking about the women on the ice. Period.

Did you say tornado? So what, not getting out

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The Great Illusion of Freedom. Surely This Must Be a Democracy? We are paying a hefty price for having confused capitalism with democracy.

Today, we are trying to solve the disasters of capitalism with more capitalism. This has never worked, and it never will. Profit feeds inequality, inequality feeds totalitarianism, and totalitarianism feeds profit. This closed loop can only be broken-

georgetsakraklides.substack.com/p/the-great-...

Smith changed Alberta's laws to enable the Alberta separatists
It doesn't matter whether or not she signs the petition
Alberta wouldn't be in his mess if it wasn't for her
#ableg #abpoli

Puppies with attitude

Time for crazy Z….

This dog is being called a "real-life Lassie" after helping find a missing 3-year-old boy in Kentucky. “I don’t know where the dog came from,” one officer said. “But it was a blessing from God that day.” We think the dog deserves some credit too, so we're awarding him our highest honor, a 15/10

I once again request that someone smarter than me adds up all the money the UCP have wasted so that we can counter when they claim -
There's no money left but it's not our fault

Where did all the money go from those budget surpluses they had a few years ago?
Frittered away
#ableg #abpoli

UCP Warns of Bad-News Budget, but Denies Responsibility | The Tyee And Danielle Smith pushes for more control of judges.

UCP Warns of Bad-News Budget, but Denies Responsibility
And Danielle Smith pushes for more control of judges.
Conservatives have ruled Alberta for 49 of 53 years the fuck up they own.
thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...