Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
Couldn’t agree more🎯 Please sign and share🤗 www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
Couldn’t agree more🎯 Please sign and share🤗 www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social)
If you know someone suffering with Post COVID-19 Condition (PCC), you know how debilitating it can be, or at the least how it impacts quality of life. Please contact your MP to ask the gov’t for more funding for research into PCC, its underlying mechanisms & effective treatments. Thank you🤗 #Covid
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
Post Covid-19 Condition (PCC) as of 2023 affected 11% of Canadians. Understandably it is higher among HCWs. In many cases it is debilitating. Although Health Canada has issued guidelines for Long Covid, much more research needs to be done on underlying mechanisms and effective treatments.
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
Good to hear John Carpay, the so-called Freedom Convoy’s lawyer, has been disbarred. Alberta, this is a wake up call.
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
😂 Although alliteration can be intimidating in certain circles😆
quietinkling.bsky.social (@quietinkling.bsky.social) reposted
Invisible swirls tattooed on my body where your fingers have touched #DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
Well done👏
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
😂🤪😂
Pete Quily (@pqpolitics.bsky.social) reposted
We, the undersigned, citizens of Canada, call upon the HOC to propose a bill to address the issue of perceived & actual misinformation being presented by MPs to the public, provided that such a bill could be informed by details outlined in white paper proposed by the ICDR #cdnpoi
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
Thanks for sharing🤗 I’ve signed and shared, and continue to share when I can. The amount of gaslighting on PP’s FaceBook page is disgraceful and dangerous. The lies must be stopped!
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social)
Your gangster name is your favourite colour and the last thing you ate. Wanna play? My name is Fuchsia Wine, and I kinda like it.☺️ #namegame
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
What?! He has a natural gift for peace. Last I heard he ended 10 wars. (Sarcasm, in case my tone isn’t clear.)
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
Fox Gaslighting at its finest🤯😡👿
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
Lovely✨
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
And also add solicitation for murder to his crimes. (Unless you believe Epstein committed suicide, in which case I have some prime real estate for you in Florida🐊😂)
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
🤔 maybe, I hadn’t thought of that. Also, they prescreen callers before they go on air so maybe they were leading with US sympathizers (and PCP supporters!)
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
🎯
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
I didn’t catch the whole program, but what I heard was strange. It seems like a number of people are missing the point. We’re at economic war with the US. Rather than being helpless we can use our buying power to fight back. Collectively we can defend our economy. It’s crucial not to lose momentum.
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
I caught part of a CBC call-in today about «elbows up». One caller was seeking sympathy for being shamed for vacationing in the US. Another said he doesn’t believe in «elbows up» because it causes division among people. He implied we shouldn’t be ´mean’ to Americans because of their administration!
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
This is Fox News Canadian edition. 99% posturing, misinformation and classic gaslighting😡 No solutions. Where are the fact-checkers?
Clare (@gettingthereclare.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
#dailyhaikuprompt #swirl A swirl of stardust Blown earthward on solar winds Brought her last wish home
Cat’s Eyes (@catseyelens.bsky.social) reposted
Through the window, Monet’s garden blooms. #WindowsOnWednesday #ClaudeMonet #Giverny #Monet’sGarden #France #Photographer #EastCoastKin
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
parks.canada.ca/pn-np/nb/fundy
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social)
Laverty Falls, Fundy National Park NB 🇨🇦 22/08/16 Chasing waterfalls Immersive experience In swirling rock-pool 🌊🌈✨ #WaterfallWednesday #DailyHaikuPrompt #swirl #haiku #waterfall #exploreNB #FundyNP
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
www.ontarioparks.ca/park/murphys...
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social)
🇨🇦 McParlan House at Murphy’s Point Provincial Park ON. #WindowsOnWednesday #exploreON
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
When we see this perspective it makes perfect sense that one of the first things PM Carney 🇨🇦 did was boost our defence spending and recruitment. We’re smack dab between a rock and a hard place😬
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
We can always dream, I guess🤷🏼♀️
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social)
What can we 🇨🇦 learn from our newest NATO allies, Finland and Sweden about preparing for the worst? www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
I get these releases and PMO statements too. So much is happening at a never-before-seen pace! Wouldn’t it be wonderful if PP could 1) read, and 2) would read these releases?! Then he would have to stop saying Carney isn’t doing anything.
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
Challenge accepted!🤓 Fond mem’ry evoked Her lotion’s scent transports me I hand her my soul Okay, I cheated a little on the assignment☺️☝️ Here’s an ode to Abraham Lincoln a la Walt Whitman👇 My ship sails for thee Hand lotion! My hand lotion! Stormy weather port #haiku
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
Me too🧡
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
Good Lord🤯 Who’s next to be awarded? Epstein?
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social)
PEI🇨🇦 south shore 25/08/11 Red sands undulate Cinnamon spice bars revealed Eaten at high tide 🌊 #TidesOutTuesday #tides #DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku #spice #explorePEI
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
☺️thank you. 🤗✌️
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
Are you out there? Hello? Summer is over (not literally for a few weeks, but it’s September!)
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social)
The tenacity of life💚
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
Thank you✨🤗🧡
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social)
An enlightening read.💡 Bottom line: 1)ignorance is not bliss, 2)authority stands on the shoulders of knowledge, 3)choose knowing. «Again, the goal here does not seem to be knowing, but not-knowing, as a way of claiming the authority of ignorance.» ~A.R. Moxon
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
A longish read, but well worth it. It shines a light on a lot of what’s happening in the US today.💡 Lots to ponder. (I smugly like to think that my commitment of 20 minutes reading puts me in the category of choosing knowledge over ignorance!)
Keyser Lauze 🇨🇦 (@keyserlauze.bsky.social) reposted
Goodnight my #bluesky friends! Sleep well everyone, see you tomorrow 💙😁🌊✨️🦋✨️ "I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be" - Douglas Adams #sunset #eastcoastkin #photography #nature #islandlife #westcoast #driftwood #rocks
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
Thank you, Katira 🤗✌️
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
Thanks Tom. Let’s keep this petition going! PP and others need to held accountable for the messages they spread. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social)
Aurora borealis 24/10/10 View from my front porch✨ ON🇨🇦 Magic of the North Unearthly sprouts stretch heav’nward Celestial splendour✨ #ColorADay #PinkMon #BlueSkyMonday #MagentaMonday #DailyHaikuPrompt #sprout #auroraborealis #northernlights
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
✨✌️✨
Thoreau and Friends 🌿🌿🌿 (@thoreauandfriends.bsky.social) reposted
“Landscape was here long before we were even dreamed. It watched us arrive.” - Robert MacFarlane #RobertMacFarlane #MacFarlaneMondays #scape #landscape #landscapephotography #photographersofbluesky #naturewriting #lake #forest #mountain #eastcoastkin
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
Here’s looking at you, kid!
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
Great List! I’ve read most of those books, and am making a note of the others to add to my want-to-read list.📚✅
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
I have no idea🐟🐋🦈🦭🐬😂
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
Please sign and share! This petition addresses the crisis of MPs like PP spreading misinformation. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
midnightblue8.bsky.social (@midnightblue8.bsky.social) reposted
#haikupoetry #haikuwriter #haikucommunity #575haiku #poetry #poem #poet #575poem #micropoetry #haiku #haiku575 #micropoem #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #writing #originalpoem #blueskypoetry #skypoets #3lines #blueskypoet #blueskypoets #blueskypoem #picturepoem #love #light #noend #truelove
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
Thanks! Just sharing a bit of silly🙃
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s such a emotive piece on the cello✨ I get all sappy and haiku-y when I hear or see such beauty☺️
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
Thank you so much for this.❤️ It’s a real treasure for sure. A lot of TLC went into that piece.
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
Thank you☺️
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social)
Confederation Bridge from PEI at sunset 25/08/15 Mist ebbs o’re the Sound Her lifeline rises then falls Awash in sunset #ColorADay #OrangeSun #Stunday #ExplorePEI #exploreNB #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt #mist
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
Such a meaningful treasure for you🥹 Any chance you could share a picture of it?
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
This made me chuckle🤭🙌 Recognized around the world for sure!
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
😁 More of a look but don’t touch situation though we did get up to our knees.🥶 A couple of folks took a dip, but it was in and out with hilarious sound effects! As for biking - by all means do it, but it’s along a roadway to get there, no actual bike trail. Bonne chance!
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
As a Canadian through and through I get disheartened knowing Alberta’s gov’t has gone rogue. But as Cole said, “Alberta’s future doesn’t belong to the UCP. It belongs to the people.” Alberta has its work cut out for it, but there’s a glimmer of hope, and I’ll take a glimmer over despair any day.
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
The water is extremely cold year round, well it’s ice in winter so that’s cold!
Happy to Share! 🌤️ (@happytoshare.bsky.social) reposted
It was +40c when this fella made its way along my path. Resting and flitting in equal measure, I imagine its shadow was left wondering where it would land next.
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
😊 Love the personification of the shadow.
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
That’s wonderful! We’ve travelled across the country with our camper and I can tell you there is something for everyone to enjoy! ✌️🇨🇦✌️
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
Thanks! Sometimes only emoticons can express how an image makes us feel. 🤩 Words fail. 🙌✌️🙌
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
✌️I love that so many traditions and beliefs all look to the source as inherently good.
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
It was an awesome place to visit, but there’s no place like home. I love to travel to see our amazing country, but it’s always good to get home✌️
MS Kohut (@mskohut.bsky.social) reposted
We were taught to fear communism & socialism but Christian Nationalism wasn’t even on the radar. Genius.
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
Okay, now I’m really jealous💚
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
Isn’t it great that we can rant on BlueSky and know we’re heard, like really heard, ✌️🇨🇦💪 and feel safe doing it! Gotta love the BlueSky community.
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
Thank you. My pleasure to share😊
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
You’re preaching to the converted on that point! ❤️🇨🇦
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
Once the Canada Strong pass expires next month we will once again have to pay an entrance fee for National Parks. It’s been nice getting into the parks and historic sites for free this summer.
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s a National Park (Banff NP) and yes it benefits from conservation efforts.😊
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes! those are the operations we’re aware of, and no doubt there are other covert operatives, and not so covert ones like Sean Feucht. I was postulating that we need defence for various reasons, including for when Trump tries to take Greenland. We’re stuck in the middle. www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
Hiking is an option, but not recommended by Parks Canada due to the distance and lack of pathway along the road. It’s a hilly 14 km hike each way on open roadway. Oh and bears! We passed one on the side of the road while biking.
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
Troubling times. This, and that fact that Trumpf has covert operatives in Greenland, are why Canada is boosting defence spending and recruitment. Our neighbour is far from stable and a fair-weather ally at best.
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
This is good news for Canada. Anywhere but the US sounds good to me though.
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
Reality sucks. Can I just live in my Pollyanna bubble for a bit longer? I’ll worry again tomorrow.✌️
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
My pleasure, Bernadette!🤗✌️
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
Wow🤩 That’s beyond words!
jimjimmyjames.bsky.social (@jimjimmyjames.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
We were there for Sunrise on the 13th August. Absolutely mind blowing.
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
Clearly the National Guard is not needed for the purposes Trumpf claims. Maybe he has them there b/c he’s fearing for his life. That I could believe.
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
Looks peaceful✨
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
A sight to behold, for sure✌️
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
Which is why I lean to the left and try to stay informed. I think most Albertans want to protect our country and remain in Canada. But it must be hard when all they hear is divisive blather and woe-is-me from Smith and PP. I was disappointed Bonnie Critchley didn’t receive more votes🤷🏼♀️
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
Happy to spread a little bliss☺️✌️
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
Great memories, no doubt. But who would have thought there’d be that much ice and snow in June🤷🏼♀️ It is the Rockies, I guess😂
lisao61.bsky.social (@lisao61.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
We got there early and got the top rocks at sunrise.
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
OMG that is stunning 🤩 Thanks for sharing🤗
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
Nothing else like it on earth✨
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
Unfortunately AB’s Smith and now PP are a blight on the province. It’s still a beautiful place though ✨✌️🇨🇦✨
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m sure it was beautiful ❄️ It’s closed for access in the winter so your experience would be as close as it gets to the winter feel!
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
I can imagine it must have been like an assault on the pristine environment. I hope that’s all they add because it’s busy enough. We need to protect these places from too much human interference.
CelticStoic 🏴 (@celticstoic.bsky.social) reposted
"We must be just to others, generous to others, and yet we must realize that it is a shameful and wicked thing not to withstand oppression with high heart and ready hand." - Theodore Roosevelt, Sagamore Hill, Oct. 1, 1913.
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
I can’t open the article but I don’t need to read it all to know enough🤪 And the Darwin Award goes to…
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
I feel your angst! He NEVER has anything good or constructive to say. It’s exhausting.
Laura🇨🇦 (@lbp60.bsky.social) reply parent
That’s a fact ✅ It was under Con gov’t in 2013 when the current law, permitting a person to defend themselves with proportional resistance, were put into place. Now PP wants people to be able to use a machine gun to defend against a butter knife🤯 That’s not okay.