“So next time someone tells you Canada’s fires can be solved by raking the forests, you can point out that the thing filling their sky with smoke is a lightning-struck, drought-primed boreal forest doing what a warming climate is making it do more and more often.”

🧠 Daily Feed of Brain Damage 🧠 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Deeply irresponsible. We're in a climate crisis. This is such a terrible start. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Citing frustrations with a growing caseload and insufficient resources, the chair of the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal, Emily Ohler, is stepping down two years before her term ends. thetyee.ca/News/2026/07...

But when I stepped back, it’s pretty clear it’s because of this: The donors want people to confuse liberalism the political theory (mostly considered center-right to right today, often called neoliberalism in the US and on the left) with liberalism the US folk discourse word describing non-Repubs.

"But what really made it hit so hard was that it came amid a sharp pivot from Canada at least attempting to be an international leader in reducing emissions. Instead, we’re now actively betting against a global energy transition from the fossil fuels contributing to these events."

“What are the long-term consequences when a government deliberately weakens the institutions responsible for understanding emerging risks at precisely the moment those risks are beginning to accelerate?”

“Black women are particularly affected: in a 16 month period between 2024 and 2025, over twice the proportion of Black women received a maximum-security designation from SAFER, compared to white women.”

“What unfolded in the hours that followed was a brutal manifestation of a harsh and oft-repeated truth: Indigenous people on the land bear the brunt of climate change.” www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

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So, the pizza place near my kid's tutoring sells tandoori paneer pizza, and omg, it's sooooooo yummy.

Royal Canadian Air Force - Canadian Air Force rescues 11 #Minnesota teens and 4 staff members trapped in wildfires, Gov. Walz says #Canada They are all on their way back to Minnesota. www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

Ontario budgeted $150M for wildfire response in 2026 despite spending $271M last year. Now, half way through July, there are approx 190 active wildfires. There have been 483 total this season. There were 351 TOTAL last year. Story for @nationalobserver.com from last month.

Four days apart. One Canadian dies fighting wildfires in the U.S. Trump threatens Canada with tariffs over their wildfires.

Well, I'm close to tears over here. "BC removed direct funding from thousands of correctly diagnosed Level 1 & Level 2 autistic children — with no published study, no audit, no named expert, & no clinical review of a single affected child" @davidebybc.bsky.social fairfundingbc.ca/accountabili...

I'm just learning today that Carney's new consul general to New York City is the former President of Shell Canada, and y'all, if this were more on the nose it would be lodged up there like a toddler's crayon

Meet the Canadian civil servant responsible for sending our wildfire smoke to the U.S.

Quote of the day: "There is only so much public health failure I can watch at one time to protect my sanity."

I thought there were many cases not associated with Taco Bell? Anyone have current epi data handy?

But isn't it great that it is endemic now and you can keep getting more and more protection via infection and not vaccination. What are we even doing?

If you cannot justify the cost of a £25 vaccine, maybe your calculations are a wee bit wrong.

Here's a follow-up post from Dr Pretorius on the same topic (the initial thread is below): threadreaderapp.com/thread/20781...

...evidence does NOT include press releases, guidance, "expert" opinion (no matter how credentialled), assumptions, reviews, nor the "5-micron error". What *primary* sources show no significant portion of Ebola transmission is via aerosols (NOT "could be explained without" but "is not"). If...

...aware that the official party line is "those Africans won't stop touching dead bodies and eating bush meat even when we tell them to". This is a shallow explanation, and at risk of being influenced by racist / colonial biases around assigning fault for the failure to stop Ebola outbreaks.

...you know of a primary source, please check that its conclusions are supported by more than assumptions and then post it here. If you're tempted to link to a review, please dig out the actual primary source, then see above. If you don't know the answer, please repost until we find it. I am...

#medsky #scisky #polisky I need help falsifying a hypothesis: "A significant portion (>10%) of routine Ebola cases are a result of low-efficiency aerosol transmission." Yes, many official sources promise it's zero (as they did for COVID) - but what is the actual scientific evidence? Scientific...

That's a whole other Dunning-Kruger comedy of errors. Briefly: IPAC docs believe(d) aerosols over 5 microns in diameter fall to the ground within 3 feet, and ignore(d) warnings from actual scientific experts, unions, the SARS Commission etc. That's been out of date since 1934, but...egos & turf.🤷

Wildfire activity jumps again overnight after lightning strikes across B.C. (BC)

Lots of topics, great read, a friendly separatist (!), but this is scary! "In fact, Mark Carney and the Liberals aren’t just abdicating their responsibility to protect the Canada Health Act - federal legislation that is firmly within their jurisdictional responsibilities - they are ushering it in."

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Not the kind of climate change column I’ve normally written, or want to write, but I felt I had to. www.thestar.com/business/opi...

👋 Scientist here. Here are some science-backed tips that will help protect your health against wildfire smoke:

Oh. My. God.

Healthcare workers have died, become disabled, and left careers they loved after contracting COVID on the job—often while wearing the exact protection they were told was enough. Occupational health and safety laws are meant to protect workers from airborne hazards. (...)

Did a little explainer about cyclo for Chatelaine and did confirm with one Montreal based doc that Quebec has seen small bump in cyclo positives apple.news/A4HK-_aY9RAi...

"...intrinsic collection efficiency and structural/genomic stability of viruses under electrostatic fields depended on virus species...providing essential insights for developing robust, field-deployable surveillance strategies for infectious disease outbreaks" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Sorry about all that smoke and consequences, America.

So I thought this map showing Taylor Farms processing facilities and growing areas was interesting. Source: www.taylorfarms.com/wp-content/u...

For anyone asking how to help: Donate to True North Aid to assist Remote Indigenous Wildfire Evacuees - truenorthaid.ca/donate/ & Namaygoosisagagun First Nation Response: Donations an7gc.ca/donate/

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

To people in Ontario, if you have a car, check on disabled and aging neighbors to be part of their escape plan. I wrote this for @motherjones.com due to LA wildifres, but it's applicable everywhere. www.motherjones.com/environment/...

"But what really made it hit so hard was that it came amid a sharp pivot from Canada at least attempting to be an international leader in reducing emissions. Instead, we’re now actively betting against a global energy transition from the fossil fuels contributing to these events."

Walking in our farm's rainforest with the melting heat of these days, I am filled with such inexpressible anger at what is being done to our once stable climate. The richest 1% are actively, knowingly, and uncaringly sabotaging the future for all of us, and for the rest of the planet's life.

I want people to understand the full impact of the devastation that First Nations in Canada are facing. It's NOT just that people and wildlife are losing their homes...it's the history that is being lost for generations to come.

The apocalyptic skies over our cities should be a wake up call. American politicians are blaming arson. Canadian politicians assure us that by massively expanding oil infrastructure we can deal with emissions down the road. We have run out of road. My latest. substack.com/home/post/p-...

This thought provoking piece from Liam Bates of Kaiterra examines the largest accessibility gap in the modern workplace - the air we breathe. Read the article here:

Evacuation order and alerts due to wildfire near Pemberton, B.C.

So this happened today. A theory paper I am reviewing for a top tier journal, citing a paper written by me, that doesn’t exist - this just seems lazy - I have actually written A TONNE of papers that make the point. Why rely on gen AI?

It’s outrageous to blame children for the spread of disease due to a lack of hygiene, when in actual fact a lot of the diseases they spread are now being found to be transmitted by infectious aerosol… which ADULTS are responsible for cleaning… and