Violet Affleck is the leader we need for Gen Z. Thank you Violet Affleck for your advocacy & for using your platform for good. As a Registered Early Childhood Educator I echo your concern for children’s repeat infections being treated like a proper right of childhood-as though it were a simple cold.

Here's a Youtube link of Violet Affleck's full speech about COVID and clean air at the United Nations:

People need to LISTEN to Violet Affleck. Especially everyone who purports to care about children. #CleanAirNow

Design WITH nature they said. Not precisely LIKE nature. Therein lies the problem as people really suck at nuance.

Oceans dangerously acidic from carbon emissions, report warns Planetary Health Check report says 7 of 9 'boundaries' have now been crossed www.cbc.ca/news/climate...

Clearly my blind dog is going to have to step up her game. So far she is fantastic at providing unconditional love and pat-pat-pat therapy -as well as entertainment as she is the Roomba of dogs bumping into walls and then reorienting.

Washington Post reporter Joe Heim confirms this Trump-Epstein “Friendship Month” statue has been placed on the National Mall

For the love of good and the babies and children can we PUuuLEASE fix the air!!

Brain Microstructural Alterations in Children Post‐COVID‐19 Infection Through VBM, SBM, and Structural Covariance Network Analysis - Wang - 2025 - Brain and Behavior - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Today on Canadian History Ehx: Ron Sexsmith! One of Canada's most acclaimed singer-songwriters, he has produced amazing music during his career. His new album Hangover Terrace is out now. Listen on all podcast platforms link.chtbl.com/chx Read 👇 canadaehx.com/2025/09/23/r...

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There’s a long list of things that I would have thought were too obvious to post but here we are so I am posting.

Meanwhile over the weekend, the US government sent a letter threatening France, Australia, the UK, and Canada if they recognized Palestinian statehood. Despite US warnings of “punitive measures,” they proceeded with recognition.

Health advocates call on Liberals to keep pharmacare promise ahead of budget https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/health-advocates-call-on-liberals-to-keep-pharmacare-promise-ahead-of-budget/article_1ee1457b-378f-5908-a4da-b9f08759d108.html 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

Support child care, respect ECEs as far more than “babysitters”-pay well to offer dignity, respect, longevity &comfort while ensuring access to quality programming across income levels. Sorry socialism-phobes this can’t be market driven &successful. Essential infrastructure like healthcare/schools.

Ages 0-4 are the most important years of human development. The kids & parents of this country deserve quality, affordable child care & early education. I was glad to meet Head Start educators from Vermont doing incredible work supporting working class families in our state.

Oil execs love their luxury more than their children is my take. And in a few cases genuinely brainwashed. Similar to c19 denial if you keep the denial alive it deletes culpability. It erodes even their biological drive to have a positive biological legacy. It’s nonetheless awful and weird.

A new walking tour! Explore the seedy underbelly of Victorian Toronto with stories of crooks, con artists & thieves. Happening this upcoming Saturday!

The DVP rainbow has been defaced again.

Tomorrow. Sept 24, at 7:00 pm I'm giving a 1-hr talk looking inside 2 Toronto mansions. Former homes of "Mr Christie" (cookie maker) & Wilmot Matthews are both now part of U of T campus. Talk is free at Northern District branch of TPL: www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?E...

I dislike seeing his mug SOOO much but this is a good summary. Don’t forget his IDU funds hate filled populist governments everywhere so it isn’t just 🇨🇦 that suffers.

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Ireland just released a report showing the huge success of the unconditional basic income it provided to artists. Each $1 spent led to society gaining $1.39. Artists' earned incomes went up more than their side job incomes fell. And they were happier and used less welfare www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

Sun rising over False Creek

This is such an exciting signal of what's to come with COP30 and beyond. It's about time that countries came together and made a plan to phase out fossil fuels based on science and fact, without the influence of those that stand to benefit from continued expansion, who have been holding us back.

This, ABOVE ALL ELSE.

The Nazi playbook over & over. The political right decided obliterating the truth on every subject, is their strategy now. A relentlessly manufactured parallel universe. What Naomi Klein wrote about in her book #Doppelgänger. Any popular figure, idea, or fact, will have a lie spun in its place.

WTF Global-I’m really not interested in seeing this BM hosting any news!! He’s full of 💩

Someone took the chip from their Presto Card and put it into a magic wand.

Autumn, Batchewana Lake, Algoma Sketches XXIX Lawren Harris 1918

I find videos with ICE goons assaulting women really upsetting. It's clear it's not the first time many have assaulted a woman. It's clear that some of them enjoy assaulting women. And this is just what we're seeing in public. The partners of a lot of these men are not alright.

More of this in public spaces. I’m old enough to remember when Ontario had an actual Science Centre. And I’m old enough to remember it had a cracking one of these. I ESPECIALLY appreciate sign explaining that Concrete is made FROM cement, water, sand&gravel. “Cement” is glue people, not the product.

Attn Vancouver: please get your gulls under control! Didn’t spot sign until tragedy had hit. 😭I really didn’t appreciate this mama bird’s sneak attack from behind grabbing half of my Lee’s doughnut from my firm grasp and biting my finger in the process! Insultingly, none was fed to her “baby”!

Today I am giving a shoutout to all the reusable water bottle filling stations that have followed my meandering recent travel from Toronto through Ottawa, Victoria and Vancouver… if you can find no other progress to celebrate today this-at least-is progress.

Every major network, including #CBC in 🇨🇦, covered #CharlieKirkMemorial. This is what capitulation to fascism looks like. Airing a tacky pro-wrestling style memorial for a vile lie-spewing white supremacist who’s being used by the Right to create an alternate reality “hero”. Comparing him to PLATO!🤦‍♀️

“You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realised how seldom they do.” David Foster Wallace Be curious about how you’re living and keep reminding yourself of what truly matters. 🧡 #learning #kindness #SelfAwareness Picture by joyfulsmolthings

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Love how not just boring things grow from cracks in Victoria’s sea walls, but snap dragons instead.

When my kid was 11 he did an exchange to Copenhagen. Was meant to be social justice piece & in TO easy to find volunteer gig-eg help in a garden helps homeless. In Denmark tho they were 🤷‍♀️ hard to find open suffering/issue they could at least try to help. Danish counterpart’d never seen homelessness.

“In this case, there’s no reason not to credit both scientists, who made original discoveries independently. But Foote got there first. Had she been given the credit she was due at the time-& the institutional support to match-there’s no telling how far her work would have taken her.” Eunice Foote

apnews.com/video/protes... Protesters took to the streets ahead of New York Climate Week to rally against a number of issues they say are driven by the ultra wealthy...

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Oh look – it is the beginning of what @georgemonbiot.bsky.social calls an onanocracy – including one guy suing another for $15bn for pointing out he’s a pervert, but all friends in power really.

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Just landed in BC and within 3 minutes of setting foot down it was very clear that Bonnie Henry was here.

1914-09-05: Babe Ruth hit his 1st professional home run for visiting Providence and pitched a shutout. The game occurred at Hanlan's Point in Toronto. Here's an article with commentary from our chapter members Barry Naymark & Bill Humber. www.wbur.org/onlyagame/20...

In older adults it’s age related. In peri/menopausal women it’s just menopause. In young children there is no baseline so you just think your kid was born with the issues. Teens? Hormones? Can’t understand why everyone refuses to work together & try to fix it with clean air, 😷in some settings, vax