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Looking for connection with those who care about one another and our planet.
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Tara Goddard
12 days ago
I have a father and mother in law in Iran. I have a sister in law. A niece. She's 14. She likes silly pink headbands and purses and dresses, just like kids her age all over the world. There are 93 million people like her in Iran. People who do all the normal mundane life things as the rest of us.
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My IRL friends call me Chris
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Bruce Arthur
about 2 months ago
I hope OpenAI gets sued into the sun
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Christine Cooper 🇨🇦🏴
2 months ago
@chapmans.ca
(our mostest favouritist bestest ice cream company in Canada) is sending out their annual coupons. I get one every year. This year I'm using ours for grabbing up some Cherry Chocolate Truffle. Here's the link JIC you want a coupon!
#SupportingCanadian
www.chapmans.ca/coupon/chapm...
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Chapman's $3 Annual Coupon 2026 - Super Premium Plus
Request a mail-to-home coupon and save $3 off your next purchase of Chapman's Super Premium Plus ice cream.
https://www.chapmans.ca/coupon/chapmans-3-annual-coupon-2026/?mc_cid=aaec982d01&mc_eid=48076f6484
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Linsey Marr
3 months ago
"House burping" is trending. Open your windows for a few minutes each day to ventilate the house, like a full-body cleanse for your indoor air. Pollutants from cooking and product use build up indoors, so it's good to flush if outdoor air quality is good.
www.outsideonline.com/health/welln...
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House Burping Sounds Gross But It May Boost Your Wellbeing
The centuries-old German practice is trending on TikTok, and for good reason.
https://www.outsideonline.com/health/wellness/house-burping/
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My IRL friends call me Chris
3 months ago
When I have more time, I will probably pull-quote some of this tomorrow for people who have less time to watch, but if you do right now, watch this. Please.
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Dick Zoutman
3 months ago
I just signed a petition demanding the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry Ban X/Twitter in Canada. Join me in signing here:
you.leadnow.ca/petitions/ba...
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Ban X/Twitter in Canada
I just signed a petition demanding the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry Ban X/Twitter in Canada. Join me in signing here: https://you.leadnow.ca/petitions/ban-x-twitter-in-canada/?source=f...
https://you.leadnow.ca/petitions/ban-x-twitter-in-canada/?source=bsk
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Maxwell Smith, PhD
3 months ago
COVID killed >100,000 people per year over the course of 2023 and 2024 in the US alone. The level of indifference to this massive annual toll among both the public and the majority of my public health colleagues is stunning.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Estimated Burden of COVID-19 Illnesses, Medical Visits, Hospitalizations, and Deaths
This cross-sectional study estimates the age group-specific burden of COVID-19–associated illnesses, outpatient visits, hospitalizations, and deaths in the US from October 2022 to September 2024.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2843383?guestAccessKey=c26397f8-3193-499d-a048-281b78b4d8b6
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Nosferatu
4 months ago
With the high rate of severe influenza we are seeing do NOT take part in family gatherings if you are unwell especially if you are going to be with very young, elderly, or immunocompromised folks. JUST DON’T DO IT.
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Dr. Genevieve Eastabrook, MD FRCSC (she/her)
4 months ago
The current circulating strain(s) of influenza are causing severe morbidity & deaths in pregnant people and young children. Vaccines are still available but it takes about 2 weeks for them to take effect. If you’re part of one of these populations, be cautious around holiday gatherings. 😷 💉
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Tara Moriarty
5 months ago
Canadian COVID Forecast Nov 8 - Nov 21, 2025 CANADA VERY HIGH [no change] About 1 of every 118 people is infected. Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada: -Infections: 7.6 x higher -Long COVID: 6.0 x higher -Hospitalizations: 10.4 x higher -Deaths: 12.2 x higher
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Sabina Vohra-Miller
6 months ago
Our system is crumbling around us, and it is by design. We are burning it to the ground so provinces can push for privatization. Demand better people, vote and advocate like your life depends on it.
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My IRL friends call me Chris
6 months ago
The vehicle is a 2024 Nissan Kicks with a Quebec licence plate FRV4520. Please keep your eyes open.
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Amber Alert issued for missing 1-year-old girl last seen in Brampton
Police have issued an Amber Alert for a missing one-year-old girl who was last seen in Brampton.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/local/peel/article/amber-alert-issued-for-missing-1-year-old-girl-last-seen-in-brampton/
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🇨🇦 Kari Raymer Bishop
7 months ago
This is great! I have been trying to figure out how to get these from Europe!
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David Fisman.
7 months ago
From my u of t colleague
@timothysnyder.bsky.social
Worth your time
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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Speak truth to power
And other thoughts about a difficult week in the US
https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/speak-truth-to-power?r=7y244&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Louise Hidinger, PhD
7 months ago
FYI: I'll be at North York Central, Toronto Public Library this Sat Sept 13, 2 pm, talking about adapting
#skincare
practices to suit changes in skin that commonly occur with age, especially as cooler weather approaches! To register:
www.eventbrite.ca/e/no-filter-...
#antiageing
#perimenopause
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No Filter Required: Tips for great skin
This seminar covers common skin concerns including ageing, acne and hyperpigmentation, and the basics of how to identify effective products.
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/no-filter-required-tips-for-great-skin-tickets-1632972959079?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Linsey Marr
8 months ago
We have policies/laws/regulations to ensure that our food and water are clean and safe. Why not for air, too? Typical amounts taken in per day: food = 4 lb water = 3 lb air = 30 lb
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Dr. Jen Irwin
8 months ago
Lots of people heading to school tomorrow here in Canada… 1 in 65 has COVID. Mask, open windows, clean the air.
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Nick Tsergas
8 months ago
The most important part of this article, to me, is the end. It challenges a false binary between “long COVID” and “everyone else.” Maybe it's a spectrum... 🧵 (1/5)
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
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Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2
“Immunity debt,” a theory to explain the global surge in non-covid infections since pandemic restrictions were lifted, is increasingly being challenged by emerging evidence. Nick Tsergas reports Myco...
https://www.bmj.com/content/390/bmj.r1733
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Dr. Jen Irwin
8 months ago
Airborne aware folk, please ‘bump’ the crap out of this today ⤵️
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David Fisman.
9 months ago
Bravery is hard to come by these days, but it’s nice to see it when it pops up
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Kimiko Shibata
8 months ago
“Children and adolescents spend up to half of their waking hours in school, where indoor air can be 2-5 times more polluted than outdoor air. Poor IAQ has been linked to increased illness, asthma attacks, absenteeism and even decreased academic performance.”
www.prnewswire.com/news-release...
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As Students Go Back to School, New Study Highlights the Importance of Clean Air in Classrooms
/PRNewswire/ -- With students across the country preparing to head back to school in the weeks ahead, today the American Lung Association, in collaboration...
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/as-students-go-back-to-school-new-study-highlights-the-importance-of-clean-air-in-classrooms-302521005.html
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David Fisman.
9 months ago
the politicians starving our health system in service of break-it-so-you-can-privatize-it killed this kid as surely as if they’d shot him with a gun This happens all the time. When they’re statistical lives nobody seems to care. But here’s someone with a face and a grieving family
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My IRL friends call me Chris
9 months ago
UN Human Rights Chief, Volker Türk: "Countries that fail to use their leverage may be complicit in international crimes." "I have warned again and again about the commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and about the need to prevent genocide"
@mark-carney.bsky.social
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Barry Hunt
9 months ago
Good News! Canadian Standards Association (CSA) has called for universal respirator use in healthcare settings & when performing patient care outside of healthcare settings (eg – in the home) in the latest edition of CSA Z94.4, Selection, use and care of filtering respirators.
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Tara Moriarty
10 months ago
Canadian COVID Forecast: Jun 28-Jul 11, 2025 SEVERE: none VERY HIGH: none HIGH: ON MODERATE: CAN, AB, BC, MB, NB, NL, North, NS, PEI, QC, SK About 1 in 120 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
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Nosferatu
9 months ago
Think back to the times in your life when you were at your lowest. Anxious? Lonely? Depressed? Now think how just one person made a difference. It may be something very meaningful or something that seemed inconsequential at the time. Acts of kindness can be life altering; be kind
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Kristie De Garis
10 months ago
We’re being trained to only notice extremes. Outrage or comfort. Villain or hero. Horror or hope. But most harm doesn’t look like that. It lives in the middle. Quiet, familiar, easy to excuse. This essay is about what we’re missing… and what it’s costing us.
shorturl.at/TPZFX
#Scotland
#Writing
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The Overlooked Harms of the Attention Economy
On what gets attention, what doesn’t, and the stories we choose to ignore
https://shorturl.at/TPZFX
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Nosferatu
10 months ago
Please share
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My IRL friends call me Chris
10 months ago
Ontario folks, please share widely. There's a window of time that matters here, potentially for the life of this person. "Health officials say someone physically handled a bat exhibiting symptoms of rabies at the north entrance of 88-100 Harbour Street on Wednesday June 25 at approximately 9:24 am"
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1 person came in contact with a bat that may have rabies: Toronto Public Health
Toronto Public Health (TPH) is looking for a person who came into contact with a bat that may have a rabies infection on Wednesday.
https://toronto.citynews.ca/2025/06/27/1-person-who-came-in-contact-with-bat-may-have-rabies-toronto-public-health/
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Dr. Jen Irwin
10 months ago
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Trish Greenhalgh
10 months ago
Thanks for the reminder
@janemunday.bsky.social
. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.
slate.com/technology/2...
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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
https://slate.com/technology/2013/06/rescuing-drowning-children-how-to-know-when-someone-is-in-trouble-in-the-water.html
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🇨🇦 Kari Raymer Bishop
10 months ago
There are very few places that we crowd people together in poor air quality like we do to kids in schools for 194 days/yr. It's time to clean the air & provide safe learning conditions for kids. We could change everything for families who deal with so much illness. And, of course, kids are worth it.
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Nosferatu
10 months ago
Share widely, please.
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Blake Murdoch
10 months ago
The American Medical Association’s journal of Pediatrics now advises the public that long covid is more common than the second most common chronic childhood disease, asthma. Meanwhile teachers and principals are trying to psychopathologize my parent friends for sending their kids to school masked.
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David Fisman.
11 months ago
Happy Zhabohadyuking, everyone
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Rachel Gilmore
11 months ago
Stop what you’re doing and watch this immediately. Canadian doctors returned from Gaza and are sharing what they witnessed and lived. They are demanding action from Mark Carney. Their testimony is our failure.
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Dr. Jen Irwin
11 months ago
“We can “follow the science” even when it scares us, instead of insisting that “we have to live our lives” until those lives go up in flames.” Violet Affleck get its! This article should be picked up by every serious outlet in mainstream media.
yaleglobalhealthreview.com/2025/05/18/a...
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A Chronically Ill Earth: COVID Organizing as a Model Climate Response in Los Angeles
BY VIOLET AFFLECK I spent the January fires in Los Angeles arguing with my mother in a hotel room. She was shell-shocked, astonished at the scale of destruction in the neighborhood where she raised…
https://yaleglobalhealthreview.com/2025/05/18/a-chronically-ill-earth-covid-organizing-as-a-model-climate-response-in-los-angeles/
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Tara Moriarty
11 months ago
Canadian COVID Forecast: May 10-23, 2025 SEVERE: none VERY HIGH: AB, BC, NB, North, ON, PEI HIGH: CAN, MB, NL, NS, QC, SK MODERATE: none About 1 in 134 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
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Bruce Arthur
11 months ago
Read this for the exceptional banality of the evil. I have an old Canadian buddy who used to live in Worcester for a while. Just another town in America.
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Conor Browne
12 months ago
Extremely important study: 'Results demonstrate that air purifiers reduced indoor air pollution by 28%, corresponding to an 11% reduction in student absences'.
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/EGU25-...
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Abstract EGU25-20302
https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/EGU25-20302.html
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MJ Nabuurs
about 1 year ago
#Toronto
clean air advocates - something to sink your teeth into 😃! Deadline: Noon on Apr 22. Clean Indoor Air Toronto (CIATO) is asking the Trustees of the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) to implement a clean indoor air policy and to invest in HVAC upgrades,… /1
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Tara Moriarty
about 1 year ago
Canadian COVID Forecast: Apr 12-25, 2025 SEVERE: none VERY HIGH: AB, BC, CAN, MB, North, ON, QC HIGH: NB, NL, NS, PEI, SK MODERATE: none About 1 in 151 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
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Tara Moriarty
about 1 year ago
Canadian COVID Forecast Apr 12-25, 2025 CANADA VERY HIGH (no change) About 1 in every 151 people infected Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada: -Infections ~9X higher -Long COVID ~9X higher -Hospitalizations ~13X higher -Deaths ~12X higher
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Louise Hidinger, PhD
about 1 year ago
Disheartened by last night's Planning & Priorities
@tdsb.on.ca
meeting, at which the 2024-2025 Climate Action Plan was presented. No mention of IAQ actions to protect against both air pollution from climate events and airborne pathogens. 1/n
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Kimiko Shibata
about 1 year ago
Today is
#DayOfPink
. You may not have heard much about it at your school or workplace. It’s not as palatable as “pink shirt day” because everyone can get behind a general anti-bullying message, but speaking out against Queerphobia isn’t as safe in our political climate. Be the safe space.
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Kristie De Garis
about 1 year ago
💥POW💥 Let the unbearable cuteness of this tiny, wiggly lamb hit you like a freight train.
#Scotland
#Countryside
#Spring
#Lambs
#Outdoors
#Cute
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Kimiko Shibata
about 1 year ago
Sign the petition to let WCDSB know that the Pride flag helps to make our community more inclusive:
win.newmode.net/waterlooprid...
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New/Mode | Make your voice impossible to ignore
https://win.newmode.net/waterlooprideflag
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Dr. Jen Irwin
about 1 year ago
Canadians: this feels kinda maga-y…and something we should be using our ‘freedom of expression’ to push back against. Free speech just might be a “use it of lose it” kinda thing…here’s the link to CTV’s ‘contact us’ page if you’d like to provide feedback:
www.ctvnews.ca/about-us/con...
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David Fisman.
about 1 year ago
New from Chris Holcroft Poilievre's bizarre slate of candidates
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
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Candidates with Extreme Views Welcomed on Poilievre’s Team | The Tyee
Disturbing stances, including ties to JD Vance, seem to offer an edge rather than barrier to being selected.
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/03/31/Extremist-Candidates-Welcomed-Poilievre-Team/
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