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Collected Item: “"Well, Atlantic Canada is now bubbled up!" text”

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"Well, Atlantic Canada is now bubbled up!" text

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

screenshot/ text message

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

A text sent to a group chat of graduate students now dispersed across the county. The writer is from, and is currently living in, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. He is sardonically expressing frustration at the absurdity of a state of affairs where the province cannot provide some basics, but can make interprovincial deals to allow people to travel and associate with others in the Maritimes.

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atlantic Canada, maritimes, humour, bubbles

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Hope Gresser

Give this story a date.

2020-06-24
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