Meghan Waters @MeghanJMJW Twitter profile

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Meghan Waters

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2 years

Som abortion thoughts: I teach sex ed and when I explain the menstrual cycle, I emphasize that if you are expecting your period, it’s one day late, and you take a pregnancy test, if it comes back positive, you are considered 4 weeks + 1 day into your pregnancy.

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I’ll never forget my first unionized job (CUPE 500), at 19, I was told to take a break and I was like “oh it’s ok, I don’t need a break, I’m good.” My colleague said “take your break because we earned it and some of us need them.” That lesson stuck with me.

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I repeat that 4 or 5 times. It bears repeating. Eventually it dawns on them: people who are one week late are 5 weeks pregnant. By the time you notice your period is late, get an appointment with a doctor, figure out your next steps,

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2 years

Students look confused. How could you be 4 weeks pregnant? What if you only had sex two weeks ago? Well, a pregnancy is calculated from the first day of your last menstrual cycle.

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2 years

You might easily be at 6, 7 or 8 weeks along. Especially if you got jerked around by a fake clinic. If you mistake implantation bleeding for a period, you would miss your next period and take a test. One week late, your pregnancy is at 9 weeks.

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2 years

If you mistake implantation bleeding for a light period and only figure it out when you miss your next period, the window to get a medical abortion is rapidly closing. If you live in certain states, you will have to make arrangements to travel to get one.

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2 years

Only a willfully ignorant person would refuse to understand. And those people are the ones calling the shots in so many states. Those are the people calling the shots in the Conservative Party of Canada. They must be stopped.

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2 years

One mistake will irrevocably change the trajectory of your life if you cannot make arrangements to get out of your state.

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2 years

That said, if you are pregnant and present to the hospital hemorrhaging from your vagina, that is a medical matter. No doctor in Canada will have to get on the phone to talk to a judge in order to save your life.

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2 years

I explain that an abortion is legal at any point in the pregnancy due to then fact that personhood is granted only once you are born.

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2 years

That is an unfortunate call that some doctors have had to make in the middle of the night to desperately try to reach a judge as a woman lay bleeding to death. When you put it that way, they understand.

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2 years

For sex ed, I get a lot of questions about abortion. One that often come up is « till when is an abortion legal in Canada? »

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2 years

Some students look shocked by this. I explain: you will be hard pressed to find a doctor in Canada able and willing to perform an elective abortion after some 21-23ish weeks on a viable pregnancy.

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2 years

This thread is gaining traction (leave it to me to have that happen with a typo in the first word). I want to recommend to all sexual health facilitators to read the Vagina Bible by fellow Winnipegger @DrJenGunter and consider a donation to

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4 years

The Macarena zone in front of our house has hilariously resulted in parents teaching their young children the Macarena in front of our front window. 10/10 would recommend a Macarena zone.

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1 year

I strongly believe that every workplace needs that union battle axe that tells the young whipper snappers what’s what and gives then their first initiation into the concept of solidarity.

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1 year

Going to get a little controversial here, but if your child comes out at school and not to you, your questions shouldn’t be with your child, or with their teacher. You should really be questioning yourself.

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2 years

@laurievanisland I teach them about ovulation, and how sperm can stay alive in their body up to a week, laying in wait in their Fallopian tubes. Knowledge is power!

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1 year

Happy to say that I’ve assumed that mantle in my workplace and am that fun person reminding people that they can contact the union with questions or concerns; that knows the collective agreement; and that encourages people to take their lunch breaks! 🫶🏻😁✊🏻

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3 years

@CanadianPatter She probably got home from her shift, saw all the snow, and decided to do it herself, mumbling angrily the whole time.

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1 year

Looks like my tweet has attracted the attention of anti-worker accounts who hate unions, and the need to rest and eat. I take solace in knowing that the labour movement fights for them too and unions got them breaks (even though they’re big and strong and don’t need them)

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2 years

@paigemason15_ I wasn’t taught about abortion either. My sex Ed course consisted of a PowerPoint of horrifically diseased genitals and pro-life and pro-abstinence videos. This was a public school, I might add.

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1 year

The 55 minute non-contact is a particular sacred calf in my household because my mother was on the bargaining committee that secured it for her school division. “We left things on the bargaining table so we could have this” is what she would say to me.

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4 years

@jeanho I never wear shoes in my house. I’ve never been in a house where people wear shoes indoors. One of the many ways Americans are strange.

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8 months

It’s unreal to me how otherwise progressive people can have a total case of car brain. It’s come up a few times in polite conversation that I work at a school where a child was killed by a car.

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4 years

@NASCAR I’m really upset. My wife, my cousin and I are cancelling our season tickets so that’s two paying fares you’re never going to see again.

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21 days

@Amy_Siskind @PeterKellyBC Maybe he’s being benched. Or couched.

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2 years

@cottoncandaddy My dumb ass: you can still have a father-daughter dance if you marry a woman! Oh…

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3 years

I'm delighted to announce that I will be running in the upcoming federal election with the @NDP under the leadership of @theJagmeetSingh for the riding of Saint-Boniface/Saint-Vital

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Meghan Waters

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3 years

The government’s plan for schools is in two steps. September: fuck around. October: find out.

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3 years

If I’m sitting at a table with people I’m getting to know, and someone reaches for the water and in doing so, exposes a swastika tattoo, I’m getting up and leaving that table. When people show you who they are, believe them.

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3 years

@MaximeBernier How can you microwave your bugs with electricity shortages? In terms of dystopian futures go, this one is sorely lacking in imagination.

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1 year

Perks to being pregnant 9 days after one’s due date: I wouldn’t know. Introducing Hypatia Andrée Waters born June 5th at 8:59 pm at Ode’imin Birthing Centre. @Palmquist88 and I are delighted.

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5 months

I’ve never seen so many bald eagles in one place before!

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Meghan Waters

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3 years

Driving through the suburbs and realized that South Pointe stole the “E” from Bridgwater.

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Meghan Waters

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2 years

Sex ed thread 13: The talk I teach sex ed so I’m just going to come out and say it. Parents: please don’t have « the talk » with your children. 1/14

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2 years

Lots of new followers today. Just to introduce myself, I’m your lefty leftist biking feminist killjoy who likes to teach math and sex ed when I’m not fighting people on Twitter.

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@MeghanJMJW

2 years

All of Winnipeg Twitter right now

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3 years

If MB fined Springs 10% of its income, I’d call that tithe for tat.

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Meghan Waters

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4 years

Added an Alphabet hop!

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1 year

@ejrosetta I took a gender studies course back in 2008 and, as a woman, did not feel erased.

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1 year

Had the ultimate urbanist birthing experience, walking to and from the birthing centre right in our community. Now that’s a 15 minute neighbourhood!

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1 year

@EuphoriTori Terfs out there reinforcing patriarchal notions of female beauty standards. Too tall? Trans. Too muscular? Trans. Small boobs? Trans. How can they not see that this harms all women?

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3 years

Hey Gérald First and foremost, I’m absolutely allowed to have dated. No, my husband is not the only man I’ve gone out with. This is the 21st century.

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3 years

To the Winnipeg transit driver that tooted his horn and waved to my toddler having a total meltdown, you fixed it. You’re an MVP!

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3 years

Liberals commenting on my posts on Facebook crying that my successful campaigning and hard work will *only* split the vote…that’s quite undemocratic. Do you not want me to try? And furthermore, if only there had been some way to balance the electoral system. 🙃

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Meghan Waters

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2 years

I want to live in a city where 14 year olds don’t murder folks in the library.

Former high school football star killed in Winnipeg's Millennium Library | CBC News

Tyree Cayer, 28, the man identified as the victim in Sunday's fatal stabbing inside Winnipeg's downtown Millennium Library, is being remembered for his prowess on the high school gridiron.

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1 year

@DorindaDorinda The star ship enterprise doesn’t constantly go around space at maximum warp, it would burn out the engine.

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3 years

Me and my husband laying on the couch, reading hilarious replies to the driveway tweet, laughing our butts off. At least it’s strengthened our marriage?! ❄️

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1 year

@ask_aubry Guaranteed if you check the hard drive of any man who uses the term “hit the wall”, you’ll find illegal content related to children.

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2 years

@clairewillett I personally love seeing a national treasure handle a national treasure.

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Meghan Waters

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3 years

I have an announcement that will likely surprise nobody: I’m seeking the @mbndp nomination for the Saint Boniface constituency. It is my hope that members of the Saint Boniface will select me to help build a better Manitoba for all of us under the leadership of @wabkinew

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3 years

Have students messaging me on teams asking whether we’re going remote. It’s cute how they think I know what’s happening next week.

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4 years

Yasssss @dougmcarthur you are now the director of our street’s chapter of the ministry of silly walks.

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8 months

Then I’ll often hear something like « yeah but didn’t that kid run out in front of the car? » and my blood wants to boil over. I try to be polite and say something like « we expect kids to make mistakes and learn from them. They can’t learn if they die when they’re 8 years old. »

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3 years

Is it just me or is Pallister trying to paint the hospitalized Covid patients as irresponsible?

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3 years

Siri, what’s the record for shortest amount of time a person has served as a minister?

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2 years

It makes me sad that we live in a world where a man can publicly comment on a woman’s body on this platform and thousands of people think it’s an ok thing to do. When I see a body that I do not find attractive, I do this cool thing called shutting up about it.

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3 years

Back to school this morning! What an experience that was. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for every vote, every step, every hour, every dollar, every sign, every word of encouragement and all the many ways that thousands of people showed their support during the campaign. 1

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@quyanaanaana I feel like having a tattoo on your face shows you have skills that are transferable to the workplace. Being able to sit there while someone pokes your face with sharp implements means you can sit though the most boring of meetings.

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2 years

This costume is my crowning achievement

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8 months

We, as a society, do not condone the death penalty for even the most heinous of crimes and yet in polite conversation we’ll allude to it being acceptable that a child die for the « crime » of being excited to get to school.

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3 years

Dear restaurants: your drink menu should feature non-alcoholic options for a myriad of reasons.

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3 years

Making something special for @WinnipegTrails 🥰💐❄️🧊

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1 year

@DrJenGunter I’m doing formula with this baby after exclusively breastfeeding my first two and I keep feeling the need to explain myself but then I stop because screw that, it’s my business, and my baby is getting science milk and it’s good for her too.

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@goats_for_days @ScottGillingham @JaniceLukes The close calls are so terrifying. I’m so glad your daughter is physically unharmed. 💛

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People that cry about bike lanes make no sense to me. They are significantly less expensive to build and maintain than roads. The vehicles that use them do way less damage to people and property if the operator loses control.

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3 years

I think the city of Winnipeg should look into donating the bikes that police retrieve, especially the kids bikes, to bike co-ops instead of auctioning them off.

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4 years

Neighbour did this one if anyone needs ideas! I hope sidewalk chalk doesn’t become the new toilet paper though...

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9 months

From today’s CBC article about our decision to buy a minivan. I feel like this photo really exemplifies how hostile transit can be for people travelling with small children. The sidewalk is glare ice and goes right to the 60 km/h road. The bench is imbedded an icy snow bank.

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3 years

I’m going to have to say it: electing women to office isn’t feminist if they and their party stand for the oppression of women and other equity-seeking groups.

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Heather Stefanson says she’s pleased to be on the PC leadership ballot. “Regardless of what happens in this race, Manitoba will be lead by a woman for the first time in its history. This is an exciting and historic time for Manitoba!” #mbpoli

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2 years

So given the fact that the overwhelming majority of the comments on my recent sex ed post decry a huge lack of sexual education, over the next couple days, I’ll be posting threads pertaining to how I address certain topics. Stay tuned!

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3 years

🤣🤣🤣

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2 years

PSA to all Manitoban athletes: if your sports team is playing against the premier’s kids, please try to win. A) you don’t want your team named and shamed in the legislature. B) You don’t want t give her material to sidestep important questions.

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8 months

Inoculate yourself against car brain and shift your blame away from the victims of our deadly road design and question our societal eagerness to prioritize the movement of people in cars to the detriment of the safety of those outside them.

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3 years

So now I’m just straight up crying. Thank you @WabKinew and the @mbndp for the beautiful flowers. You made my day!

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3 years

Every single one of these people had better have voted open so help me.

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3 years

Portage and Main after the big @Wpg_BlueBombers win!!! Let’s go!!! #fortheW #winnipeg

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3 years

Government decided to take the last major unvaccinated population, put them in small rooms together with no masks or social distancing and is just going to wait and see what happens.

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3 years

I once had a teacher organize for our class to attend a sweat lodge. You can’t attend when it’s your period so I and a couple classmates were not able to go. But never fear, our teacher organized a make up one 4 weeks later.

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3 years

Just saving this Facebook post from Dorothy Dobbie (former progressive conservative MP for Wpg South) for posterity’s sake in case it mysteriously disappears.

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2 years

I’m really happy for Canadian men. We’ve always known that women can be good at soccer but now men and boys finally have role models to strive for. Soccer is for boys too!

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3 years

This protest really is sustained by profoundly unintelligent human beings and all this tomfoolery is making me more steadfast in my belief that we need to invest more in education.

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As Ottawa police get closer to Wellington Street, protesters are building a snow wall (?) to slow the officers’ advance

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3 years

God bless Ryan and all white collar office workers 🙏🏻 Time to put some bread in the toaster.

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1 year

Imagine if this were what Osborne looked like 😍

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In Montreal, a real city.

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2 years

You should be having many ongoing conversations with your children that are age-appropriate and that focus on empowering them to reach decisions about their own bodies and that teach them to respect the bodies of others. 3/14

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2 years

@jordanbpeterson @JustinTrudeau I know psychologists don’t rigorously study data analysis /s and that might explain why the concept of averages might be confusing for you. Have you considered looking at the Gini coefficient of these countries to see that the disparity between the wealthy and the poor is?

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3 years

1 964. That’s now many new votes there were for the NDP in my riding this election. To the exactly 10 000 people other than me that cast their ballot for me, thank you from the bottom of my heart. I can’t wait to take a deep dive into the data and see which polls were the best!

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6 months

@akohan « How many people have they killed in the last year? »

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1 month

To me, it’s not that I don’t have empathy for folks that get their stuff knicked, but it’s the narrative that it shouldn’t somehow happen because they chose to live in Sage creek. Why is property crime in Sage Creek any more outrageous than in Windsor Park or Lord Selkirk?

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McMansion Blues 🎵 ‘We wanted our bedroom community to be a short drive from all the services of Wpg. This was supposed to be little Niverville! Imagine having to lock my car and garage. Now I need a security system to protect my 2nd + 3rd cars while I’m at the lake.’

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It’s just a little thing, an interaction through a windshield, but it made my morning because I saw that someone else was watching out for my safety when I was in a dangerous spot. Thanks @winnipegtransit ! You have some really great drivers.

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I’m so glad the NDP have finally won this election because HOLY HELL I’ve been on my best behaviour not criticizing them for fear of costing them a single vote and I nearly gave myself an aneurism.

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4 years

@pressprogress Another reason to #boycottTimHortons Haven’t supported them since the lockout in Winnipeg over a 10 cent wage increase

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@LorriNielsen A normal pregnancy can be between 36-42 weeks.

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3 years

The fuck?

RadioGenoa

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3 years

Coutts police honors, greets and hugs truckers who have blocked the US - Canada border for 18 consecutive days.

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2 years

Remember when CTV called the election for one mayoral candidate and then another mayoral candidate won?

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1 year

@PC_Manitoba @HStefansonMB Sounds like you should increase wages to healthcare workers then. You are trying to put workers against each other because you’re scared what will happen when they unite against you.

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3 years

Maximum NDP ZEAL!!

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3 years

When I first decided to run for office, I had a man message me about how I should style my hair. I feel like men who run for office don’t get these kinds of weird comments. By the way, I style (more usually don’t style) my hair however the f*** I want.

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I must say that if my MLA came to my door asking for non-perishables and they were in government… I would have choice words for them.

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2 years

Wait, what? Did Meghan just tell me not to talk to my kids about sex? No. Absolutely talk to your kids about sex. But don’t just have one conversation about it and then wash your hands of it. 2/14

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