How a Nova Scotia mother’s kitchen experiment became a scientific breakthrough - She developed a natural repellant for ticks - PureGard - Faraone, a biochemist at Acadia University who specializes in tick research #NovaScotia /1 thread (see /2 for website link) www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

As would be no surprise to most, Peter MacKay is on BNN complaining a bit that Canada will be using an Australian arctic defense system when, despite the "politics of the moment" (his words), we should consider the US an ally. Not that the US needs anything from its 51st state. /s #cdnpoli

Maybe not a surprise, but sad to see that Trevor Tombe is now with the Phillip Cross (Frappuccino Institute) and Jack Mintz Macdonald-Laurier Institute. Economist with M-L stated on BNN that Trump has long wanted low gas prices. Which is why he jacked them up with his Iran debacle. /2 #cdnpoli

Promises, promises, promises. Alberta take note. #abpoli www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Elon Musk is one of the scariest men alive. He should be deported from the U.S. for lying on immigration docs in the 1990s and never again allowed in this country. On the same day he whined about being called a Nazi, he reposted what sure sounds like a call for racial genocide.

No thanks to Doug Ford for closing all the Safe Consumption Sites! 😒 #FordFailedThePeople #FordFailedOntario #onpoli #TOpoli www.cp24.com/local/toront...

Trump: "The concept I have had for quite some time — A strong feeling the name of these Patriots, 'ICE,' should be changed to, 'NICE,' in that it will totally discombobulate Unpatriotic Reporters. For them to say, 'We went to a NICE Facility today,' as opposed to 'ICE,' they will go totally crazy!"

When I was growing up my parents had a saying "Be known by the the company you keep"

Mark Carney warned the Brits that Brexit would be costly... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

If you suck up to a person of low/no character, this is what happens: you're besmirched, soiled, and provided with great domestic political material... www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Actually, they call him a Nazi because he repeatedly gave a Nazi salute on national TV, is trying to start a race war in Europe, and is partially responsible for 14 million deaths due to his interference in the U.S. government. For all that, no one wants him hurt, just indicted.

For those who have forgotten the past 40 years: Tax cuts for the rich ...don’t trickle down Boosting military spending ...doesn’t bring peace Slashing regulations ...doesn’t create jobs Folks, we’ve seen this all before.

This is bombshell stuff.

Strawberry capybaras. OK…it did make me smile…

Our national broadcaster wants Canadians to know that there are fine people on both sides of the Alberta separation conversation.🙄 #CdnMediaFailed www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

🧵 Today @thestar.com has a thoughtful review of how Québec led the way for 🇨🇦Canada to adopt enlightened MAID legislation.

Desecrating the place

After Japan battled the Netherlands to a 2-2 draw, the Japanese fans stayed behind and cleaned up every single piece of trash from their section at Dallas Stadium after the game. You LOVE to see it 🇯🇵 That’s how you represent your country well. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🙇🏻

Using the tools of an American AI company to generate realistic-looking depictions of hungry Canadians is grotesquely antihuman. It drags politics out of the real world and into the dystopic world of generative AI. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

Josh Hokit just ended his post-fight speech at the White House UFC event by yelling "Michelle Obama is a man!" A disgraceful spectacle through and through

Although research has bipartisan support in the US Congress, and trust in science is above 75% across the country, the Trump administration seems as determined as ever to mortally wound the nation’s scientific enterprise. After the scientific community persuaded Congress to restore most of the

it's notable to me that the administration tried to frame tonight's UFC event as a "gift to Americans" but you can't watch it unless you have a paid subscription to Paramount+

A world-class education is now completely free — MIT has opened its entire vault of more than 2,500 courses to the public online. source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (2026). About Us: MIT OpenCourseWare. MIT Open Learning. 😊

The emotionally weak make hate profitable. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The US has fallen 12 points and continues its decline. For reference, the US is behind South Africa, who Trump accuses of committing a “white genocide”. Btw, the most free countries are all of the ones republicans call communist and Marxist states.

Russia is helping the USA destabilise NATO countries bsky.app/profile/robe...

I doubt that Dani will put this on the October referendum. She thinks democracy is whatever she decides "“They cherry picked a group of people who want the jobs who will not suffer the effects of the mine. They pretend that’s democracy, and it’s just propaganda bullshit,” Corb Lund told reporters."

An update on the UCP’s ongoing efforts to rig the map for our next election. It’s clear - they don’t believe they can win d are add in a fair election, so they’re trying to cheat to win. Albertans deserve a government that respects our democracy, not one that tears it down. #abpoli

There have been many allegations of financial corruption, conflicts of interest and so forth. Overpaying private health providers. This is different. This is next level corruption, anti-democratic in the extreme, and cynical. Interfering with fair and free elections.

THERE IS AN ACTIVE POGROM IN NORTHERN IRELAND. FASCISTS IN SKULL MASKS ARE GOING DOOR TO DOOR PULLING MIGRANTS OUT OF THEIR HOMES AND SETTING THEM ON FIRE.

Hey susan what happened?

This article is bizarre. Isn't it the air carrier's responsibility to ascertain correct licensing ***before promoting the pilot***? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

A nearby 7-11 has closed. No notice. Windows covered in brown craft paper. This is corporate downsizing. No thanks for your years of patronage. We're sorry for the inconvenience, but these 7-11s are still open. Screw you, customers.

PM Carney welcomes Louise Arbour as Canada's 31st governor general: Her Excellency will represent the best of Canada to Canadians and to the world. A Canada that is a bastion of justice, security and prosperity for all. A Canada that is a beacon to a world at sea.

9th night of protest in Albania — protesters are currently out in Tirana to demand the cancellation of Trump and Kushner’s luxury resort plan.

Mr. Topp is absolutely correct: Alberta’s Quisling Queen of Stupid Danielle Smith “needs to be demolished in the court of social media and on television, at scale and in volume.” 🇨🇦🧐🇨🇦

Russia has now lost four elections in a row: in Romania, Moldova, Hungary, and now Armenia. What's more, no one expected the margin in Armenia to be so large. This suggests that Armenians have lost faith in Russia and are distancing themselves from it.

Facebook is paying people overseas promoting Alberta separatism CBC uncovers 14 accounts from India, Pakistan, Indonesia posting on popular Alberta separatist groups www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I keep seeing "indigenous" being used as a noun, as in "the indigenous...". It's an adjective, not a noun. Here is a guide... And, whatever you do, don't insert "our" in front of the non-noun "indigenous". www.ictinc.ca/blog/indigen...

Let's give it the ol' "cui bono" test, shall we? Q) Who benefits from near-instantaneous election results? A) TV networks selling advertising space on election night. Q) Who benefits from pretending mail-in votes are fraudulent? A) People who would prefer some eligible voters be disenfranchised.

I'm thinking that the indigenous peoples of what is now the US might take another view of things. The name "Mayflower" might be on their lips - thinking of invasions, shores, and "discoveries"... www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Katalin Karikó is one of the most extraordinary scientific stories of this era. A girl from a modest Hungarian household helped develop technology that saved millions of lives worldwide. In 2023, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for discoveries that enabled effective mRNA vaccines.

Some call it sleeping. I call it rehearsing.

ICYMI. I did...