My IRL friends call me Chris

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Gardener. From flack to florist. From PR to peonies. Still fluent in spin. I media scan, therefore I am. Mister Rogers/Mary Oliver stan. Born at 326 ppm. Old married broad. Mom. Dogs' person. Canadian. she/her #BlackLivesMatter #LFC

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2026-07-05T23:34:23.106Z

My IRL friends call me Chris@christyceeck.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

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A decade of analyses have struggled to find the factor that causes citizens to choose anti-democratic leaders or embrace angry fallacies about race or immigration. Those don’t correlate strongly with race, sex, age, income, social class or geography. But they often do with one factor: Education level. People who’ve spent time in a university or college are far less prone to falling for dark delusions and the candidates who endorse them. Democratic backsliding is measurably a product of low education rates.

That doesn’t mean graduates are virtuous, or that those without letters after their name (like me) are democratic threats. But it does mean a country can defend itself against extremism and hate by raising the education rate. If Canada can move it up another notch, we’ll be more resistant to the awful ideas from the U.S., our parties less inclined to choose leaders who echo them.

2026-07-05T23:17:33.771Z

My IRL friends call me Chris@christyceeck.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

Mark Carney:

“The changes we have made will mean that our emissions will be higher in the next few years than they were projected to be under the previous government’s plan.

“In my judgment that plan was not sustainable over the long term.”

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2026-07-05T15:38:32.362Z

My IRL friends call me Chris@christyceeck.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

15h

“Make no mistake, we are still transitioning to clean energy. We’re just going to slow down. Way down. Make the transition so gradual it won’t make anyone angry. So gradual no one will even notice. Especially not fossil fuel industry shareholders or lobbyists.”

#CdnPoli

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