I mask outdoors anytime the AQI is moderate or high, but I am the only one doing so. We have become triggered by the sight of a mask in our society that people can no longer consider reasonable preventative health behaviors.

The wildest thing about it is he’s claiming that there’s a lack of corruption from the cardiac surgeon who promoted (branded?) raspberry ketones for weight loss. Just wow.

www.science.org/doi/full/10.... Mandating Indoor Air Quality in Public Buildings. Our paper in Science. 🧪 #healthpolicy

3/8 The U.S. government recently made it illegal to include equity, diversity and inclusion requirements in medical school accreditation. This policy shift gave Canadian associations "an enhanced duty to protect EDI principles." Different values demand different paths. #EDI #HealthEquity

The Canadian north is on fire. Making it even more inevitable that can Inuit people along our Arctic coast will suffer the worst of this climate emergency, with rates of warming among the fastest in the world. We need to divest from fossil fuels. But when the AQI is high, we also need to #MaskUp

Choking smoke spewed by wildfires is far more dangerous than previously thought, a new study has found, with death tolls from short-term exposure to fine particulates underestimated by more than 90 per cent. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/02/n...

It is not Ukraine Russia war. Russia invaded Ukraine. Media needs to frame it so it reflects facts and doesn’t minimize the invasion of a sovereign nation. Slava Ukraine substack.com/@viktorkravc...

🔥 Wildfires have displaced tens of thousands, destroyed communities, & burned 7.3M hectares this year in Canada. Our Signed, Seared, Delivered postcards show iconic Canadian landscapes at risk. 📬 Send yours to Ottawa to demand action for a climate-safe future: www.signedseareddelivered.com

These Guardian headlines are so incongruent. We need politicians to seize their ability to take collective action. Or we need a sufficiently alarmed community-based response. #ClimateChange is the biggest risk we face - the rest is distraction.

So many more places to sign the #ForeverCanadian petition in #YYC. We can sign enough to prevent Alberta separation from getting a vote!

UPDATE: Join us tomorrow, on Saturday, near Edmonton’s Strathcona Farmers’ Market, at the Gazebo Park, starting at 10am, and register as a signature collector. Also, sign the #ForeverCanadian petition. You can register to collect signatures at Forever-Canadian.ca #Yeg

Globe reporter @carrietait.bsky.social was harassed online and followed and photographed. This piece lists all the stories that Carrie and @alannasmith.bsky.social uncovered about Alberta's healthcare system, from the Turkish meds to the hockey tickets. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...

I’m so shocked that judges don’t have to study #ModernTrauma deeply - to understand how traumatic memories are stored. They’re fragmented, based on emotions and sensation, and often not chronological. The fact a witness is inconsistent may mean she’s more traumatized. They need mandatory training.

👏The Siksika and Kainai Nations are pushing back on the Alberta government's move to allow coal in the foothills and Rocky Mountains. AWA fully supports this challenge! The moratorium on coal should never have been lifted. jfklaw.ca/siksika-and-... #MountainsNotMines #Rockies #abpoli #ableg 🌎

A man with a scorpion bite. A woman with cholera. A diabetic who needed insulin. A 3-year-old boy. They all died when the U.S. stopped sending medicine to Sudan. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Withholding social services to immigrants would lead to longer ED wait times, lack of temporary foreign workers, and more racial inequity. Gross. Just gross.

Canadians family doctor shortage continues to worsen, “over six million people in Canada don’t have a regular family doctor … family doctors are highly valued by Canadians as an irreplaceable partner in health care.” We complain and nothing gets done. #Canada www.cfpc.ca/en/News-and-...

Sometimes overlooked is what Indigenous peoples are doing for clean energy in this country. Something well worth celebrating this National Indigenous History Month www.cbc.ca/news/science...

This is why we need to be collecting more race based data in healthcare. Often what we find is quite condemning of the system. But if we don’t look for it, we can’t change things. The CMA is modifying its code of ethics to be more overly anti-racist, specifically addressing anti-Indigenous racism.

We have only experienced the tip of the iceberg as to how Covid affects the human body long term. There hasn’t been enough time to see the causal links. We should be doing everything we can to prevent it - especially in kids.

Calgary! The DI is critically low on towels Please donate all items to their donation center at 3640 11a St NE, Calgary, AB T2E 6M7. M-Su 9-5 Please also click the link below to see their Amazon wish list for other critical needs! www.amazon.ca/hz/wishlist/...

Spotted near the Calgary airport for President Zelenskyy’s arrival. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 🌻🇺🇦Slava Ukraini. Heroiam Slava🇺🇦🌻 ❤️🇨🇦🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧 WE STAND WITH #UKRAINE🇨🇦🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧❤️

For @thewalrus.ca, I wrote about this latest chapter for Alberta separatism and what makes this time a bit different. thewalrus.ca/alberta-is-t...

My air is unsafe in #YYC. So I go from wearing a mask indoors to protect from infectious disease to wearing a mask outdoors to protect my lungs from particulates. No wonder everyone’s in flight & flight. We are in danger everywhere.

Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024

Canada needs UBI not just because AI is coming but because we collectively have enough to make sure no one should be suffering food or housing insecurity. Especially since children are disproportionately affected.

Pay attention to this one… They’re all in it together, and they already have our personal data— to build a massive database to track every single one of us. But tell me again that TikTok is the security risk we should be worried about!

Canadian Long COVID Virtual Healthcare Study - National Public Survey open.substack.com/pub/popnb/p/...

May 29, 2025 and Calgary, Alberta remains in a heat wave. At risk: humans, animals, plant life. Farmers will continue to experience decreases in crop yields. People without air-conditioning, expels heat in environment and uses fossil fuel energy to run, at risk of high morbidity & mortality. 1/3

The last story is a doozy - and explains how conservative rags are so blind to ethnic cleansing in Gaza - but they’re all worth hearing.

Brilliant analysis of USA-specific trauma, dissociation, and possible paths to community care. It’s a Must Watch. Please share!

Please sign this petition to keep these ancestral lands in BC away from US development. www.change.org/p/nuxalk-nat...

We need more love in the world

A woman took 5 hockey players to trial for alleged sexual assaults. She was subjected to 9 straight days of interrogation by 5 legal teams, one for each defendant. Our justice system is telling women they can't report multiple assaults or they will be victimized again. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Ask yourself why… SaveAthana.com

On Jeju Island and a local fisherman decided I wasn’t eating enough stew. I’m a lucky little bean. #WritingRetreat #Jeju #WhenLifeGivesYouTangerines #SouthKorea

In end stage capitalism, society judges our worth based on economic contribution. As a result, it devalues disabled people. That inherent ableism fuels eugenics and fascism. We must stop assigning value to people based on their health or job status. We are all inherently valuable. We all matter.

HIV should be a chronic disease. Not when the US steps in. It was always ridiculous how their programs purchased American-made products when building pharmaceutical capacity for the continent made more sense too.

This is nonsense. Half the original tariff threats were ostensibly about their fentanyl crisis?? Sniffs of uncaring about the people actually suffering.

I don’t get why they’re predicting a blue sweep of Alberta - my riding is doing great for @coreyhogan.ca so far. Still hopeful!

Virginia Guiffre predicted she'd be murdered, and it would be made to look like a suicide. I don't believe that she killed herself. Like I don't believe the Boeing whistleblowers killed themselves. Like I don't believe the OpenAI whistleblower killed himself. www.reuters.com/world/us/jef...

Voted for Corey! Another vote for Carney. They make it make sense.

This is so Canadian. Body Break doing a special elbows up get out to vote segment.

The #TrumpCrash of spring 2025 is the 3rd crash in less than 20 years of a global economic system that overwhelmingly favours the rich. We'll do MUCH better with a #WellBeingEconomy for ALL. This month's guest is @lindsaymclaren.bsky.social of #ParklandInstitute www.podcastics.com/episode/3572...

Calgary Confederation & Calgary Centre are tied between Liberals and Cons. NDP voters: orange is closer to red than blue. Your vote may determine if Calgary gets real representation in a Carney majority government—or a former UCP MLA in opposition. #ElbowsUp 🇨🇦 #yyc #Calgary #Alberta #cdnpoli

Your periodic reminder that one way to think about privilege is: who's allowed to make mistakes?

READ THIS 🇨🇦 @markcarneyforpm.bsky.social has promised to strengthen our safety, our health system and coverage (including national licensure!), transport hubs, and resiliency. Wished ⬆️ mention of climate but 🥰 idea of being world leader defending women and 🏳️‍🌈 rights. liberal.ca/wp-content/u...

Time to advance vote, Canada! Every vote counts this time.

Keep the climate emergency frontline in this election! Learn how to #MeetTheMoment: assets.nationbuilder.com/gensqueeze/p... @cape-acme.bsky.social

Dr. Raegan McDonald-Mosley at @powertodecide.bsky.social shares five things you should know to safely access abortion care in 2025. rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/04/14/o...