Beth Ryan 🇨🇦 (she/her)

Beth Ryan 🇨🇦 (she/her)

@beryan.bsky.social

Retired communications professional living on a beautiful island in the North Atlantic Ocean | Active in progressive politics | Working towards a fairer world | Holding on to joy amid the chaos |

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Canadians don’t want U.S.-style health care. On Nov. 28, we’re taking that message to Parliament Hill with the @onthealthcoalition.bsky.social On to Ottawa Trek. Free trains from Toronto, Kingston and Montreal. Details and seats:

healthcoalition.caOn to Ottawa trek: November 28 protest on Parliament HillOrganized by the Ontario Health Coalition. Free chartered trains from Toronto, Kingston and Montreal.

Excellent interview! So refreshing to hear @lukaszukab.bsky.social straight up tell the truth about Smith's lies. Once again, sincere thanks to Thomas and his thousands of volunteers who stood up for Canada. 🇨🇦

Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk@lukaszukab.bsky.social

Is Danielle Smith outright lying? What’s next for #ForeverCanadian? Take a look: youtu.be/2c_Xo7xEKr4?...

Dire and frankly terrifying words from Edmonton emergency physician Dr. Warren Thirsk. The scenarios he describes are no doubt playing out in emergency departments all across Canada. Health care is in shambles, but we can still afford to subsidize oil and gas! 😠

Parksy@pfparks.bsky.social

edmontonsun.com/news... “I show up for a shift and I try not to look at all the pain and suffering around me,” he said. “Because it is unmanageable.” 100s of my Emerg docs across the province feel the same way... Our govt refuses to declare the ED crisis or to act!

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The whole Shane Gillis SNL thing is just another reminder that it's so easy to be a shitty, lazy comedian if you're just willing to expose the fact that you a) hate women and b) haven't had an original joke idea since the Reagan administration

Really insightful analysis by @markusoff.bsky.social

Jason Markusoff@markusoff.bsky.social

The timeline of western alienation may be long, but for so many Alberta separatists their trajectories really began in 2020 and 2021, with COVID. New by me: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Bank of Canada security officers have been on strike for 100+ days. The Bank has been caught twice violating federal anti-scab law and even hired Pinkertons, a contractor notorious for violent strikebreaking. PM Carney says he stands with workers. Why won't he condemn this corporate lawbreaking?

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DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

theintercept.comDoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam

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What will airport privatization mean for Canadians? "Canada's currently non-profit airports will become for-profit, gouging travellers by increasing fees and making travel in Canada more expensive," says @davidmaccdn.bsky.social. #cdnpoli globalnews.ca/video/120612...

globalnews.caPM seeking to privatize Canada’s four largest airports | Watch News Videos OnlineWatch PM seeking to privatize Canada’s four largest airports Video Online, on GlobalNews.ca

No we didn't vote for this - and Carney didn't campaign on it. 😡 Are NDPers who voted Liberal feeling any buyer's remorse yet?

Don Davies@donvdavies.bsky.social

BREAKING: Liberals plan to sell off airport operations in major cities. Result? Higher costs for travellers, poorer service and foreign ownership of infrastructure critical to our national security. That’s what happened in places like Heathrow. Canadians did not vote for this.

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“We need an Ozempic for cars. They are growing at a phenomenal rate, wreaking havoc on roads, squeezing out smaller vehicles and endangering pedestrians. Like ever-hungry teenagers, cars in Europe are growing on average a centimetre wider every year.” Don’t repeat North America’s mistake, Europe.

theguardian.comBritain’s cars and SUVs are growing bigger – but there is a way to stop this deadly ‘carspreading’ | Christian WolmarLarger vehicles crowd our roads and are far more dangerous to pedestrians. Let’s curb them before they do even more damage, says says transport commentator Christian Wolmar

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The Executive Director of the Office of Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is not only celebrating a far-right German extremist party’s election results He’s also attacking Andrew Coyne for being a “Laurentian elite” for pointing out he’s “cheering on the AfD”

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Olivia Rodrigo raised $20 million for women's well-being with a benefit show featuring a women-led lineup. Her show raised $10 million and Melinda French Gates pledged another $10 million. Rodrigo said the festival's artists and activists give her hope despite the “regression of women's rights."

nbcboston.comOlivia Rodrigo's festival is uniting women and girls behind nonprofits promoting their well-beingFew superstars are better suited to bridge the gap between Gen Z and nonprofits, which have struggled to build relationships with younger donors.

It's despicable how this Manitoba "employer" treated foreign workers. Where is the government oversight to prevent this kind of abuse? Deep respect for the workers who wouldn't stand for it - and the court agreed with them. Labour board rejects appeal by... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

cbc.caLabour board rejects appeal by chain that underpaid foreign workers at Manitoba hotel | CBC NewsA hotel chain must pay more than $100,000 to three foreign workers employed at one of its locations in Manitoba after the province's labour board denied the company's appeal.

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Have your say on the future of AI. 🤖 The Government of Canada is looking for your input on AI transparency, accountability, and public understanding. 🗓️ Share your views by September 23, 2026. 🔗 Take the survey: bit.ly/4xaepfZ

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Paging Jamil Jivani and Danielle Smith

Philippe J. Fournier@338canada.bsky.social

🍁New poll from the Angus Reid Institute shows majority of Canadians in all regions and age groups siding with Mark Carney's decision to pull out of negotiations.

Historians will be calling this era The Age of Stupidity, won't they?

Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social

People are smoking again because “modern life sucks?” Collosally stupid. You know what sucks? Dying of cancer in your mid-40s leaving behind 3 young kids because u smoked your whole adult life, like my older brother did. Feels like yet another manipulative “big tobacco” marketing campaign to me.

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Thank you @heathermcpherson.bsky.social for standing up for public health care. Shame on you: @mark-carney.bsky.social

Heather McPherson MP@heathermcpherson.bsky.social

Danielle Smith’s Bill 11 is the biggest attack on public health care in Canadian history, and Mark Carney is letting her. He and his Health Minister are refusing to enforce the Canada Health Act. (1/2) youtu.be/09BufyB0vWw?...

Some stories really touch your heart! Meet 11-year-old Nehemiah Turner, devoted reader to shelter animals.

Moo Dog Press@moodogpress.com

"I went up there with my book, and I sat down with this dog named Auggie. I started to read to him, and after we had to leave, I started to cry, because I didn't want to leave the humane society," the 11-year-old said.

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Love it!

David J. Climenhaga@djclimenhaga.bsky.social

$&#% your fascist pancakes! An Alberta moment. There’s just something about FYFP that perfectly encapsulates the current state of political affairs in Alberta. albertapolitics.ca/2026/07/your... #ableg #abpoli

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A reminder to keep up the US boycott, everyone.

Scott Robertson@sarobertson.bsky.social

Watters: Iran was never supposed to be a forever war. It was a precise and lethal operation. Trump took a shot, got the deal, and got out. Now we can book our next excursion. Cuba. Greenland, maybe. Or our 51st state, Canada.

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