Olive 🇨🇦

Olive 🇨🇦

@imapest.bsky.social

Member of the Métis Nation ♾️ of Ontario 🇨🇦 transplanted from Manitoba to Vancouver Island. 🇨🇦 Aboriginal = 1st Nation + Inuit + Métis, I’ve worked as a journeyman machinist, teacher and now as a graphic designer.

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Olive 🇨🇦
@imapest.bsky.social

Americans should look to BC Canada to see the devastating effects of sitting out an election either as a protest statement or not believing that their votes matter. Low voter turnout has allowed ultra conservative freedom convoy (J6 types) separatists to take over government. We’re doomed #vote

Olive 🇨🇦
@imapest.bsky.social

Vancouver Island seriously got screwed over by Eby’s amateur move. We overwhelmingly re-elected NDP but not sure how much good it will do now

Olive 🇨🇦
@imapest.bsky.social

What is wrong with BC voters?! As angry as I was for Eby’s stupid stunt, calling a snap election, there’s no way I was going to allow a pseudo Trump party take the reins. Conservatives are ready to get to work for the rich and big corporations. #bcpoli #election

Olive 🇨🇦
@imapest.bsky.social

David Eby deserves to be trashed. BC doesn’t. But we will be once the Conservatives get to work on us. Thanks Eby! Idjut!!

Jen St. Denis@jenstden.bsky.social

“if I had a million dollars” plays at BC NDP HQ as news networks project a Conservative majority #bcpoli

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Brent Toderian
@brenttoderian.bsky.social

As Canada awaits the Alberta separation referendum results, let’s remember how stupid this all is. Huge public money spent on a Russian & American-fuelled separation movement for an awfully-written and badly managed unbinding referendum on whether to hold a binding referendum that would be illegal.

Olive 🇨🇦
@imapest.bsky.social

My daughter voted in the Alberta referendum today. It’s even crazier than you would imagine. Danielle Smith is confusing voters. Funny how she claims to be pro Canada. Seems like she just doesn’t want to come right out and alienate pro Canada voters #Alberta #election

Olive 🇨🇦
@imapest.bsky.social

Rather than say that I live with Dystonia, I'd rather say that it lives with me. It moved in and won't leave. Now I have to adjust my life with this increasingly intrusive houseguest that keeps taking over more space.

Dystonia Medical Research Foundation@dystoniafoundation.bsky.social

Oct. 10 is #WorldMentalHealthDay. The theme is "Lived experiences heard: real voices, real change." Members of the dystonia community have a lived experience of a rare neurological disorder. Resources related to dystonia are on the DMRF website: https://bit.ly/4zcS56x #dystonia #dmrf

Olive 🇨🇦
@imapest.bsky.social

Campobello NB is being choked by trump’s asinine tariff war. Isn’t the tiny American zone of Point Roberts on the west coast in BC lower mainland in the same vulnerable position? Isn’t this a bartering chip? #tariff #Campobello #NewBrunswick #PointRoberts #trump #BC www.ctvnews.ca/world/trumps...

ctvnews.caIsland mayor doesn’t know what comes next after truck wasn’t allowed over U.S.-Canada borderThe truck bound for Campobello Island, N.B., was stopped earlier this week after it was found carrying milk and "over 1,000 bottles of spirits," U.S. Customs and Border Protection said.
Olive 🇨🇦
@imapest.bsky.social

Came here to spew at the turd who called the election @davidebybc.bsky.social I really don't see typical NDP policy coming out of this government or even anything that inspires anyone to vote for you other than the fact that we're held hostage with few choices. Every vote you get = a bitter pill

Olive 🇨🇦
@imapest.bsky.social

Trump is aching for excuses to raise tariffs on Canada. How unpresidential to attack us when we’re fighting off wildfires caused by global climate change. Instead, besides offering help, he could improve global air quality instantly by ending his illegal Iran war www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

theguardian.com5m tonnes of CO2 emitted in just 14 days of US war on Iran, analysis findsExclusive: War in the Middle East is draining the global carbon budget faster than 84 countries combined
Olive 🇨🇦
@imapest.bsky.social

I will ABSOLUTELY NEVER subscribe to Apple News as long as they promote the racist National Post outlet. NP is obsessed with Aboriginal hatred that’s jarring and hurtful even if I don’t click on it. Can NP be sued for its racist hate speech?

Olive 🇨🇦
@imapest.bsky.social

How can Conservative seats be a part of federal Conservatives if they’re supporting the push for Alberta to separate from Canada? Treaty rights are forever. Respect UNDRIP globalnews.ca/news/1185804...

globalnews.caAlberta referendum committee meeting implodes when UCP prematurely releases statement | Globalnews.caChaos descended upon an Alberta legislature committee meeting when the UCP issued a news release declaring the outcome of a referendum question vote that had not yet happened.
Olive 🇨🇦
@imapest.bsky.social

That $1.5 billion defence slush fund sure will come in handy after the midterms & beyond when trump expects to be fighting off endless legal battles. What’s to stop him from using the entire fund for himself?

Olive 🇨🇦
@imapest.bsky.social

Oh GREAT! 😡 Now Kristi Noem will be Canada’s and other North and South American countries’ problem. Of course her stellar performance as Homeland Security Secretary has proven her more than capable of managing trump’s dream team taking control of the Americas

Olive 🇨🇦
@imapest.bsky.social

Things that make you go 🤔 hmmm! Charlie Kirk spoke out against Lindsey Graham’s calls for regime change in Iran. Shortly afterwords, Kirk was assassinateod. Kind of convenient since he would be leading the charge against Trump’s Epstein Distraction War apple.news/AlRqcqv3DQzi...

apple.news“He Could Be Impeached.” Donald Trump’s Base Revolts Over War With Iran — Vanity FairMAGA leaders are expressing dismay and anger at the president, who campaigned on isolationism and
Olive 🇨🇦
@imapest.bsky.social

Not just New York. Tax the rich everywhere!! As it stands, they’re opportunists that keep moving to states that are tax havens. THEY’RE the problem migrants

Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social

Mark Ruffalo: "Tax the rich... They can handle it, trust me."

Olive 🇨🇦
@imapest.bsky.social

🤔 “notorious for his shocking rhetoric, making sexist remarks, cursing out the pope & Barack Obama & comparing himself to hitler” And he’s on trial for crimes against humanity! Kind of makes you hopeful that it’s training ground for donald trump’s trial. www.bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.comRodrigo Duterte: Ex-Philippine president faces court for crimes against humanityDuterte is facing charges relating to a long and bloody war on drugs in which thousands were killed.
Olive 🇨🇦
@imapest.bsky.social

MAGA is still freaking out over Bad Bunny’s show not speaking English. Imagine the Washington National Opera having to cater to that crowd. No wonder they’re leaving the Kennedy Centre

Olive 🇨🇦
@imapest.bsky.social

Just got the latest Walrus magazine in the mail. I’m guessing that, if they had a crystal ball, the editors would not have published this right now when Canada is mourning the mass shooting of mostly children in Tumbler Ridge BC.

Olive 🇨🇦
@imapest.bsky.social

Feeling grateful for my West Coast island life right now. Even though it’s kind of a damp day, seeing the start of cherry blossoms when we haven’t even hit February is a shot of happy #VancouverIsland #VictoriaBC

Olive 🇨🇦
@imapest.bsky.social

Whatever happened to the person shot by border patrol a couple of days ago?? They were in critical condition but no name or immigration status was ever released. Or reason for the shooting. #CBP #ICE globalnews.ca/news/1164003...

globalnews.ca1 person shot, in critical condition in incident involving U.S. Border Patrol - National | Globalnews.ca'Patient care was transferred to a local medical helicopter for rapid transport to a regional trauma center,' the Santa Rita Fire District said.
Olive 🇨🇦
@imapest.bsky.social

For many of us in Canada’s labour movement, the Winnipeg General Strike is as important as any major religious holiday. It didn’t end with major concessions but it set the stage and sent a powerful message about the strength of unity. ICE needs this message newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/win...

newsinteractives.cbc.caWinnipeg Strikes: The city's working class shook Canada in 1919Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 shook the ruling class, planted roots for modern workers' rights
Olive 🇨🇦
@imapest.bsky.social

Too bad Trump killed Biden’s power grid expansion. A resilient infrastructure that can withstand catastrophic hurricanes & snow storms would have been too much of a testament to Biden’s legacy for Trump’s fragile ego. So instead of power grids, you have coal mines. www.eenews.net/articles/whi...

eenews.netWhite House unveils plan to accelerate power grid expansionDOE created a one-stop shop for permitting, helping transmission developers avoid the regulatory patchwork that has tripped up projects.
Olive 🇨🇦
@imapest.bsky.social

Incredible essay that expands on Canada’s PM Carney’s speech at Davos. I’d add that the US stayed back in WW2, profiting by building factories to supply war machinery only getting involved when Pearl Harbour was attacked. And then the US attacked & overthrew Hawaii govt www.bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.comAs we return to a pre-WW2 order, the middle powers face a challengeWith economic stagnation and extremes of inequality comes corrosion of trust in democratic institutions. So Trump may be a symptom, not a cause, of what Carney called a "rupture" with the post-WW2 ord...
Olive 🇨🇦
@imapest.bsky.social

Biggest news of the day is a snow and ice (not ICE) storm that’s freaking out the entire country. How are these people going to manage an invasion of Canada or Greenland?