I'm here to banish the darkness, if only for a moment. A vaccine for chlamydia in koalas. Developed in Canada by a global team, with help from the family of Steve Irwin. It reduces mortality, reduces disease severity, provides protection for baby koalas. Turning the tide on a deadly disease.

I’m writing this as a mother with a sixteen year old son, standing right at that age where freedom starts to stretch past your reach and trust becomes the thing you hold onto instead. 💔 open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

orcas have the chance to do the funniest thing

Buffalo Drive, by William R. Leigh, 1947, 📸 by @sickoscommittee.org

I kind of like this whole “We won’t buy your liquor but we will air your state-suppressed news stories” niche that Canada’s apparently carved out.

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

2025 has been so shitty but at least it gave us two iconic images of unmitigated joy. Taking down pedophiles. Taking down Nazis. *chef’s kiss*

for every one hundred likes [within reason] i’ll put pam bondi in some form of trash receptacle.

if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄

A story I found about Haiti: In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."

Fun way to rack up hours of flight time: www.youtube.com/shorts/IHCAT...

When a few Canada Post employees in Vancouver started answering letters to Santa in the early-1970s, it eventually led to the most famous postal code in Canada. H0H 0H0. Each year, thousands of letters to Santa from around the world are answered. This is the story. 🧵1/8

Diggit.

Bringing an actual pull-up bar to the airport press conference to demonstrate your pull-up form on TV without being 1000% sure you can do a bunch of really cool pull-ups first is the perfect demonstration of the Trump administration's approach to literally everything

32 years ago today, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera, and Ryan Gosling join J.C. Chasez and Keri Russell in the cast of The All-New Mickey Mouse Club.

50 years ago today, Nov. 10, 1975, the Edmund Fitzgerald sank beneath the waves of Lake Superior during a massive storm. The sinking took the lives of all 29 men on the ship, and became immortalized in Gordon Lightfoot's song. This is the story of this terrible tragedy. 🧵1/20

Did you know that in Canada, if a budget doesn’t pass the government doesn’t shut down? Federal workers aren’t furloughed. Funding for social services doesn’t dry up. Failure to pass a budget triggers an election. It puts the politicians jobs on the line. They get the budget passed.

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

A look back at the CDC's 2011 graphic novel on a "zombie pandemic." As the agency's systems are dismantled, the idea of a coordinated national response to a health emergency seems as fictional as zombies themselves.

Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario who ran the ad, is a member of the Conservative Party (as was his brother, the late Rob Ford who was mayor of Toronto).

N.I.C.E. Agents on the #Halifax waterfront #NovaScotia #Canada 🤣🍁 youtu.be/S1yYGb1U31o?...

Things that are awesome in real life but never good in scary movies/tv shows: white sheets on clotheslines…. children and anything to do with children (especially tricycles, rolling or bouncing balls and nurseries)…. claw foot tubs and shower curtains….. decorative wooden boxes…. small towns...

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly 🧵

Cool #educational #tool (free): "Drop a raindrop anywhere in the world and follow its path to the ocean." river-runner-global.samlearner.com

"In some places, French postal workers now pick up prescriptions, return library books, and deliver flowers. Last year, only twenty eight per cent of La Poste’s revenue came from sending mail." Services can evolve in positive ways to meet new and growing needs.

US confirms contestants in all 2028 Olympic track events will be chased by ICE agents

Little things in life make me happy. Like now being able to save posts on Bluesky.

Here's a short happy-go-lucky 🎶 parody about the way that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is now collapsing American healthcare - based off #PaulSimon's toe-tapping "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard". youtu.be/FDiXrd-R68U It's called: "Measles and Polio Down in the Schoolyard."

Not yet quite dead?

Report: Entire world refreshing newsfeed for no particular reason

Also keeping in mind that we are a small country with limited stock, & provinces have been purchasing fewer doses because of the lower demand. I have expanded on that below in these two slides. Point #4 in particular is relevant.

I feel so much for Americans, with the US restrict access to COVID-19 vaccines (whatever happened to choice?!!). Many have asked about obtaining doses in Canada, but because we have a predominantly public pay system for the COVID-19 vaccines, it will be challenging.

On this day in 2016, The Tragically Hip gave their final concert. Performed in their hometown of Kingston, it aired live on CBC TV and radio, and streamed on the Internet. The concert was watched by 12 million Canadians, one-third of the country. 📸 David Bastedo

Canada’s 🍁 bad ass “waterbombers” in action in Europe a few days ago. These pilots are rock stars! European countries have been buying them for the increasing wildfires! Credit to killian428

"$1.8 billion. That’s how much in export revenue is lost for every 1% drop in international visitor spending, according to the U.S. Travel Association. If the downward trajectory continues through the end of the year, the country stands to lose at least $21 billion in travel-related exports."

With the upcoming by-election in Battle River-Crowfoot .... Roman Danylo strikes again. 🤣👍 #cdnpoli

Here’s your free link to the Trump/ Epstein story www.wsj.com/politics/tru...

Canadians travelling to the US advised to not fucking do that

Trump administration: Foreign students aren't welcome here. Queen's University (Canada): This initiative provides support for 20 doctoral students whose offers from top U.S. schools have been rescinded or who are reconsidering their acceptance to a U.S. school for the 2025/26 academic year.

okay this is an emergency assistance thread for anyone who got this National Endowment for the Arts email today some of you can still get your money and I’m going to tell you how article to come later this weekend but here is the Cliffs Notes version:

“…this morning, from a war zone half a world away, I was reading about your election. And for the first time in days, I exhaled. A small, almost invisible breath. Relief. And then came gratitude… You didn’t just choose kindness or experience… You chose not to flirt with fascism.” From Ukraine.

"I'm not informed about the issues." Talk to people you trust. "Trump is joking." He's absolutely not. “The polls say...” The polls don't matter. "The parties are all the same." They're absolutely not. “It doesn’t matter who wins." It matters very much to someone you care about. #CanadaVotes

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

Cleaning up some old files and came across this interesting screenshot... (rate is in Canadian funds, but still would have been around $3600 US)