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@kevinski.bsky.social

98.3% chimpanzee. Super dad, secular humanist, progressive, teacher, SciFi fan, five one niner. May discuss #CdnPoli if provoked. Yes, we probably followed each other on Deadbird. #buycanadian #CanadaSky

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When researching your own Ontario trustee candidates, you can do a quick search for who is endorsed by "Together in Education" (which I think is good and grounded in education) and who is endorsed by Campaign for Life or Blueprint for Canada, (which I think are Anti-LGBTQ hate groups).

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Ontario municipal elections are tomorrow! I know, they're dull, but also very important. They affect us right where we live. Let's talk Waterloo school trustees. You have to choose three. (if you're not in Waterloo, you'll have to research your own candidates, sorry. I can only do so much)

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Ontario municipal elections are tomorrow! I know, they're dull, but also very important. They affect us right where we live. Let's talk Waterloo school trustees. You have to choose three. (if you're not in Waterloo, you'll have to research your own candidates, sorry. I can only do so much)

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They even had a little hate march in downtown Kitchener that year if I recall. One of their 2022 candidates, Cristina Bairos-Fernandes, is running this year and I had her on my 2022 spreadsheet as a big fat no, and I see no reason to change that.

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Geoff Horsman has some language on his site if you dig around that seems to align him with her, so I eliminated him. Clinton Heffernan is vague and almost neutral on such topics, but I sense he leans towards Horsman and Bairos-Fernandes.

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@kevinski.bsky.social

Ontario municipal elections are tomorrow! I know, they're dull, but also very important. They affect us right where we live. Let's talk Waterloo school trustees. You have to choose three. (if you're not in Waterloo, you'll have to research your own candidates, sorry. I can only do so much)

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In 2022, an Anti-LGBTQ hate group called Blueprint For Canada tried to basically take over the WRDSB and other major boards, by running multiple trustee candidates with distinct anti-gay, anti-trans, and anti-critical race theory platforms and very little about education.

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@kevinski.bsky.social

Ontario municipal elections are tomorrow! I know, they're dull, but also very important. They affect us right where we live. Let's talk Waterloo school trustees. You have to choose three. (if you're not in Waterloo, you'll have to research your own candidates, sorry. I can only do so much)

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For Waterloo I'm leaning towards the group of three candidates endorsed by Together in Education, an association of all the teachers unions, as they all seem to have similar progressive values as me. They are Brian Best, Karen Coviello, and Kathleen Woodcock (Incumbent).

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I've been through their sites and searched their histories and they seem to align with me. Best seems to have politely articulated views on Doug Ford's ministry of education that match my less politely stated views.

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Ontario municipal elections are tomorrow! I know, they're dull, but also very important. They affect us right where we live. Let's talk Waterloo school trustees. You have to choose three. (if you're not in Waterloo, you'll have to research your own candidates, sorry. I can only do so much)

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I'm not telling you which to choose. I'm telling you which ones I'm choosing. If you think my choices are a convenient way to skip some homework, that's your prerogative. If you think I've misread any of these, please tell me.

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I've got my grade 9 tech class making wooden kazoos, adapted from Nick Offerman's woodworking book "Good Clean Fun". It's my absolute favourite grade 9 project. I just watched two of my students walk to their next class playing "Careless Whispers" together on their brand new handmade kazoos.

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My 16-yr-old and I watched the original Fargo on Friday night. (He loved it) At one point he says "All these people sound like Americans when they're trying to imitate a Canadian accent!" "Well, they know we're up here somewhere, so they assume we sound like Minnesotans."

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I think it would be delightful if "Taco" held on in the English language long after Trump's gone, to refer to leaders and politicians backing down ignominiously, to the point where people have to look up the origin. That would be his greatest legacy. Like Quisling or Gerrymandering.

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My wife is a vendor at Shockstock at London ComicCon this weekend! Check it out. Yes, London Ontario.

instagram.comMeredith on Instagram: "NEW PRINTS!! I've made FIVE new prints available just in time for @londoncomiccon, friends. I'm really looking forward to getting these Weirdos out into the world! I'm partic...9 likes, 1 comments - graphiteorchidstudio on September 24, 2026: "NEW PRINTS!! I've made FIVE new prints available just in time for @londoncomiccon, friends. I'm really looking forward to getting th...
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When I saw Trump gloating about Greenland last night, my reaction was “I bet those sneaky Danes just handed him back the 1951 agreement in a new duotang with a few shiny baubles” Jan Dehn: Denmark just got Trump to ramp up the defence of Greenland without making a single meaningful concession.

jandehn.comHow to turn Trump into your little biatchDanish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen just got Trump to ramp up the defence of Greenland without making a single meaningful concession. Other leaders should pay attention - this is how you turn Trum...
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Here's me digging into details to find a Canadian-made barbecue sauce that is both produced in Canada, and produced by a Canadian brand. And here it is, the most Canadian bbq sauce I could find, at least at my local grocery store: Montana's Texas Bold BBQ.

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The "Trade" war is best understood through the US National Security Strategy (2025) AKA the Don-roe doctrine. "If USAs closest neighbour can resist, the doctrine is dead." It's not about trade. For the Doctrine, a Canada with diversified trade is a prototype that cannot be allowed to succeed.

kevinboucher32.substack.comCanada Isn't Turning to China. It's Doing Something Much More Dangerous.The fight over Canada isn't about trade. It's about whether a sovereign country can diversify its way out of dependence — and what happens to American power if it does.
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Just keep right on driving past that Rona. You've got a Home Hardware around there somewhere. They have the little local stores, but the Home Hardware Building Centre is the one you want for all that lumber and building materials. The Building Centres are mostly former Beaver Lumber locations.

open.substack.comCanada's Hardware Stores, Ranked by Who Really Owns ThemIs RONA Canadian-owned? I checked. The answer changed in 2023, and almost nobody noticed.
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Everyone is enjoying the memes line and the shade line, but personally I think the sharpest barb here is “Stop trying to be tough.” Knowing the type of people that guys like Hegseth and Trump are, that's the part that will probably get under their skin the most.

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1st day at a new school was 8 hours of info dumps. Also hard to get a word in edgewise. Now I'm at the dentist looking forward to a nice relaxing root canal where nobody is telling me anything and I can't see cause they have my glasses. I can just disassociate and let Air Supply take me away!

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Google posted this. I'm surprised, somebody at Google obviously had the sense to not show the bullshit name to 41 million amped up Canadians. We'd crash their feedback servers daily till they fixed it. Someone from the Toronto or Kitchener office must have spoken up at a meeting.

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Lol. Cmon. Did we need to google Hydronym? We all know what Hydro means from Hydroelectricity & hydraulics. Nym might be a little less obvious, but think for a sec. Pseudonym, acronym, demonym. As in "USA doesn't lend itself to a Demonym, so that's why they stole "American" from the whole continent"

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If I zoom in on the Rio Grand, I don't see Rio Bravo in brackets underneath. If we see (Lake America) in brackets under Lake Ontario, not only will we fill Google's inboxes and feedback forms, we will also step up our degoogling efforts. I've been lazy about it but I can step it up.