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Voting Time Is upon Us

Apr 27, 2025 Lynette d'Arty-Cross 27 Comments

After three months of federal government upheaval, a Liberal party leadership race and then a whirlwind federal election campaign, it’s finally time to vote. It’s our duty to ourselves, our families and friends and last but not least, to our country to do so. Every vote is important.

Plan your day to ensure that you can get to your polling station; they will be open for 12 hours and your employer is required by law to allow you time to leave work for the purposes of voting. If you don’t have your registration card, be sure to bring along two pieces of identification that show your address. All Canadians 18 years and older may vote.

If you are disabled, please click this link for further information on polling station accessibility: https://www.elections.ca/content2.aspx?section=acc&document=index&lang=e

Happy Voting Day!

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Reblog: Something I really think Americans should read, or, maybe more importantly, everyone else

Feb 20, 2025 Lynette d'Arty-Cross 27 Comments

Sorry to dwell on the unpleasant, but we are witnessing existential threats to the world order, cataclysmic changes when one consider that the …

Something I really think Americans should read, or, maybe more importantly, everyone else

Here is an important post from Jane Fritz at Robby Robin’s Journey. She has reprinted an opinion piece from Andrew Coyne, a columnist for the Globe and Mail. Please click the link above to read the post in its entirety.

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Dear Ukraine 🇺🇦

Feb 28, 2022 Lynette d'Arty-Cross 22 Comments

You are facing gargantuan odds against the greedy Putinesque determination to have you, to take you, to force you against your will, and that is now threatening the use of nuclear weapons.

But you have united fiercely against him and are holding out. There’s not much I can practically do for you, but today I am making a donation to the Canada-Ukraine Foundation. It’s how I can help.

With all my heart I wish you well. You have the support of huge chunks of the world. Sanctions are taking effect, and even many of Putin’s own citizens don’t support his actions. His oligarchs are becoming worried about their bank accounts. Maybe it will be enough. I hope it is.

Good luck.