Ms.Sally 🇨🇦

@ms-sally

Early Childhood Educator in rural Canada. Always questioning, always learning. Grateful sojourner on Secwepemc land

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Today, the wildfires in Southern BC aren't located in the middle of either the Kamloops or Cariboo Fire Centres. Presumably, the Fire Centre boundaries follow high mountain ranges, & most of our fires right now were caused by lightning. BC wildfires often start in the least accessible of places.

BC Wildfire map, July 21, 2026, 6:15 PM. Fires in the Cariboo and Kamloops fire centres are situated around and close to the boundaries of both fire centres.

Ms.Sally 🇨🇦@ms-sally· May 30

Here's a reply to something I posted yesterday in response to Mark Carney's mind-boggling pro-MAGA comment. Not the first time some dude has replied to an (accurate) observation I've made with a dismissive FFS. They get upset when we don't implicitly trust the supreme leader's 3D chess play. WTF?

Screen shot of responses to a Mark Carney post:
Ms. Sally to PMMC: 'Imagine if you had campaigned on the slogan "Make America Great Again"? How would that have gone?

Instead it was "elbows up" and right into the guts of ordinary Canadians as you pivot 180 degrees on the mandate we actually gave you.'

DDrae to Ms Sally:
'Oh for
Cripes sake

He knows what he's doing. We have to trade with them and he's going into negotiations. Just trust him. Fuck Sakes.'

Ms.Sally 🇨🇦@ms-sally· Feb 25

Ms.Sally 🇨🇦@ms-sally· Jan 27

"For Alex" Alex Jeffrey Pretti 1988-2026 RIP Illustration by M.J. Hiblen

Illustration of Alex Pretti, dressed in nursing scrubs, carrying a very sick person wrapped in the American flag, with a speech bubble that reads "Don't worry, I've got you."

Ms.Sally 🇨🇦@ms-sally· Dec 13

This is just electricity generation. We are very slow to adopt EVs. We haven't addressed emissions from agriculture. Fossil fuel extraction emits huge amounts before those fuels are even burned. (Doesn't matter where they are burned either - it's all one climate.) Overall, not doing well at all.

Chart showing per-capita carbon emissions for highest emitting countries with Saudi Arabia, then the U.S., then Canada as the top three. Source: World Bank, 2021

Ms.Sally 🇨🇦@ms-sally· Oct 13

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!

A vase with coloured leaves and a few garden flowers on a table, with some little gourds and tomatoes.

Ms.Sally 🇨🇦@ms-sally· Sep 16

Yup.

A young Robert Redford reclined slightly in a chair with his hands behind his head.

Ms.Sally 🇨🇦@ms-sally· Sep 9

So, one night after sneaking out on a clandestine canoe trip, Aiden (the main character) and his crush listen to some music in their tent, and Aiden kisses his friend on the cheek. That's it. This is a monumental mistake in 1995 when the book is set, and triggers a dramatic chain of events.

Two boys in shorts lie beside each other, each holding one of the ear-pieces of a pair of headphones to their ear, listening to music together.

Ms.Sally 🇨🇦@ms-sally· Sep 9

The book tells the story of a boy at Scout camp the summer before high school. He's attracted to his tent mate. Here's a depiction during the group shower - to his horror, our protagonist drops the soap. The book also includes dream/imagination sequences. None meet the criteria of the order.

A boy wearing shorts with a bar of soap in his hands, is on his knees at the feet of another boy, in the shower. Awkward conversation ensues, as the boy in the shorts makes a hasty exit from the shower.

Ms.Sally 🇨🇦@ms-sally· Sep 9

It's also a pretty accurate depiction of 12 year old boys horsing around and being cringe. The order also lists images of masturbation. So, here's the most "graphic" page on that topic, which also doesn't meet the criteria in the Ministerial Order (explicit images of sexual activity)

The naked back of the main character in Flamer, sitting cross-legged on the floor in front of a small illuminated tv screen (just white). Everything else is in shadows. The text reads "I started watching my dad's porn... a lot .. while I was naked and eventually I stumbled upon... a surprise sensation."

Ms.Sally 🇨🇦@ms-sally· Sep 9

Alberta's Ministerial Order bans books from school libraries on the basis of "explicit images of sexual activity", including depictions of the use of artificial sexual organs touching clothed or unclothed private parts. This image, the most graphic in the book, doesn't even show touching.

Ms.Sally 🇨🇦@ms-sally· Sep 9

🧵 Flamer, one of four graphic novels singled out to be banned by the government of Alberta, is a graphic novel about an adolescent boy who is bullied by his peers. He's very smart, very self-conscious and very afraid of high school in September. See the thread for images from the book:

The cover of the graphic novel Flamer by Mike Curato shows a boy with black curly hair making the three-finger Scout salute, surrounded by swirling flames.

Ms.Sally 🇨🇦@ms-sally· Aug 11

Guaranteed these misinformants don't have a forest fire burning up their back fence. Just saying. (Pic shows the forest behind my house after the fire in 2023. The green is our septic field.)

Burnt forest where Ms Sally's back fence used to be. The green ground is our septic field, which probably saved our house.

Ms.Sally 🇨🇦@ms-sally· Aug 5

I still have very mixed feelings about Trudeau, but here he is showing up at Vancouver Pride a year ago, just low key and real, doing it because it's the right thing to do. This feels like a significant contrast to Carney's staged PR video op, which is being lauded for its contrast to Poilievre.

Then Prime Minister Justin Trudeau posing for a photo with two people at the Pride Parade in Vancouver in 2024.

Ms.Sally 🇨🇦@ms-sally· Jul 14

You, yourself just reposted the attached yesterday! Note the bottom right corner. Lol. Little thing called climate change. Caused by burning fossil fuels. Makes it hot and dry.

Ms.Sally 🇨🇦@ms-sally· Jul 2