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School Psychologist Toronto 🇨🇦🇺🇦

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Ontario has underfunded schools by $6.3 billion since 2018 - CCPA The 2025 Ontario budget has lots of big numbers, but fails to address funding shortfalls in core program areas. CCPA’s same-day budget analysis examined the broad trend, and in an article for The Toro...

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25.05.2025 12:53 👍 31 🔁 16 💬 2 📌 3
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The Nation That Trump Could Never Break Canada didn’t just resist, they reminded the rest of us how to endure

Message from Ukraine:
Thank you, Canada.
For being yourselves when so many others are trying to be worse.
You reminded us that we are not alone.
Because of you, this morning felt a little less like the end of the world.
And more like something worth staying alive for.
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30.04.2025 18:40 👍 1430 🔁 409 💬 54 📌 62

We are selling the tech that allow Russian and North Korean missiles to hit Kyiv. But Trump won’t give or even sell Zelens’kyi the defensive tech needed to stop them.

25.04.2025 23:43 👍 1716 🔁 633 💬 49 📌 15

Shameful USA, absolutely shameful.

Slava Ukraini

19.04.2025 16:50 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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DOGE NORTH: Another Chapter in the Fascist Playbook It was called the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service. This lofty-sounding legislation was the battering ram by which Hitler destroyed the independent civil service in Germany.

Project 2025 was the roadmap for DOGE and the destruction of a non-partisan civil service.
Conservative insiders are bragging that enacting DOGE NORTH would be even easier in Canada.
Trashing the public service is key for the fascist playbook.
Please read my latest.

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18.04.2025 13:53 👍 681 🔁 325 💬 40 📌 40
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Canadian universities increasingly relying on admissions test which experts say lacks evidence | CBC News Most Canadian medical schools are screening future physicians with something called the Casper test — marketed as being able to assess people skills and predict future success. But critics say there’s...

Shut out of medical school, he blames controversial admissions test which experts say lacks evidence. Critics say claims that Casper predicts student performance are unsubstantiated, by Erica Johnson, @ana-kom.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/gopubli... via @cbcnews.ca #MedEd

14.04.2025 11:50 👍 11 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1
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Good morning to readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.

Ganka fled the war to the U.S. to find safety.

But now the country that was her refuge may tell her to leave.

Trump may issue an order that could send 280,000 Ukrainians back to nightly explosions and shattered homes.

12.04.2025 13:38 👍 116 🔁 45 💬 5 📌 1
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RFK Jr.’s Autism Bombshell RFK Jr. claims that he will find the cause of autism by September.

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RFK Jr. is set to derail progress on the causes of autism.

11.04.2025 11:29 👍 45 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 5

🇨🇦❤️

22.03.2025 22:25 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I’ve noticed this also. Thank you for pointing it out….it’s happening in US and Canadian media and not always fact-checked.

22.03.2025 01:54 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A must-read, which reveals the essence of Russian imperialism today— arrogant denial and genocidal ambition about Ukraine as Ukrainians define it, condescension and belief that more of Europe will be dominated by Ru, rejection of international order and political freedom…

21.03.2025 12:31 👍 171 🔁 79 💬 9 📌 4

Sounds “sneaky” to me. What’s PP hiding?

19.03.2025 03:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ozymandias

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

Ozymandias I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: ‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

Ozymandias

18.03.2025 06:20 👍 17611 🔁 2806 💬 674 📌 301
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Trump Admin Nixed Contract Helping Kidnapped Ukrainian Kids: Sources The fate of abducted Ukrainian children is a white-hot issue for peace negotiations—and it looks like the State Department may have just undercut the cause.

The Trump admin has quietly terminated a State Department contract that was in the process of transferring evidence of alleged Russian abductions of Ukrainian children—a potential war crime—to law enforcement officials in Europe, two people familiar with the situation tell @newrepublic.com

14.03.2025 18:16 👍 295 🔁 163 💬 21 📌 27

Allies of Canada - we need you to speak up and take action now.

11.03.2025 20:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Where are Canada's allies?

11.03.2025 20:48 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Why Won’t Pierre Poilievre Get His Security Clearance?
Why Won’t Pierre Poilievre Get His Security Clearance? YouTube video by Justin Trudeau

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau 🇨🇦 -
Why Won’t Pierre Poilievre Get His Security Clearance? #cdnpoli #peipoli
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvVD...

08.03.2025 17:32 👍 208 🔁 84 💬 9 📌 25

Mike Myers > Wayne Gretzky 🇨🇦 #canadaisnotforsale #canada

02.03.2025 16:50 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

We. Are. Canadian! 🇨🇦 #Canada #elbowsup

05.03.2025 21:31 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.

This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

02.03.2025 16:55 👍 54158 🔁 37067 💬 2031 📌 3070
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If only Rubio would listen to Rubio 🙁

Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGtcq5W...

02.03.2025 20:31 👍 6854 🔁 2141 💬 251 📌 160
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Thank you, Borys, for introducing me to your community. (1/4)

01.03.2025 01:21 👍 1382 🔁 180 💬 29 📌 12
Rare Disease Day 2025 – Raising awareness for people living with rare diseases and their families worldwide.

Today is Rare Disease Day, and a great reminder of the importance of NIH and science funding in driving hope 🧬⬇️

www.rarediseaseday.org

01.03.2025 03:56 👍 148 🔁 46 💬 2 📌 5

Не помиляйтеся: Україна веде боротьбу за демократію. Справедливий і міцний мир вимагає, щоб Україна була за столом переговорів, а її перемога уможливить більшу безпеку для усіх нас.

Україна має перемогти. Путін повинен програти.

Слава Україні.

28.02.2025 21:27 👍 103 🔁 23 💬 5 📌 3
WEIMAR+STATEMENT

FRANCE, GERMANY, POLAND, ITALY, SPAIN, UNITED KINGDOM EU HIGH REPRESENTATIVE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND SECURITY POLICY

We are ready to enhance our support for Ukraine.
We commit to its independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity in the face of Russia's war of aggression.
We share the goal to keep supporting Ukraine until a just, comprehensive and lasting peace is reached.
A peace that guarantees the interest of Ukraine and our own.
We are looking forward to discussing the way ahead together with our American allies.
Our shared objectives should be to put Ukraine in a position of strength. Ukraine and Europe must be part of any negotiations.
Ukraine should be provided with strong security guarantees.
A just and lasting peace in Ukraine is a necessary condition for a strong transatlantic security.
We recall that the security of the European continent is our common responsibility. We are therefore working together to strengthen our collective defense capabilities.

WEIMAR+STATEMENT FRANCE, GERMANY, POLAND, ITALY, SPAIN, UNITED KINGDOM EU HIGH REPRESENTATIVE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND SECURITY POLICY We are ready to enhance our support for Ukraine. We commit to its independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity in the face of Russia's war of aggression. We share the goal to keep supporting Ukraine until a just, comprehensive and lasting peace is reached. A peace that guarantees the interest of Ukraine and our own. We are looking forward to discussing the way ahead together with our American allies. Our shared objectives should be to put Ukraine in a position of strength. Ukraine and Europe must be part of any negotiations. Ukraine should be provided with strong security guarantees. A just and lasting peace in Ukraine is a necessary condition for a strong transatlantic security. We recall that the security of the European continent is our common responsibility. We are therefore working together to strengthen our collective defense capabilities.

BREAKING: France, Germany, Poland, Italy, Spain & UK sign a joint statement vowing to protect Ukraine’s sovereignty & demanding a role in the peace talks.

This is leadership.

It’s also unprecedented.

A western alliance is having to form against a new, twin & united threat: Trump & Putin.

12.02.2025 22:29 👍 23613 🔁 7090 💬 675 📌 844