Just got home from @zerowasteemporium.bsky.social in #YYJ Bulk unscented detergents, hand soaps, witch hazel, nut butters, rice, pasta, biodegradable dental floss, scrubbies! Plus lots more. Just what I purchased the last two weeks and it’s walkable from home. Bonus!

It's that time of year again: Fellow cyclists, please calibrate your headlight as low beams rather than high beams and stop using your headlamp. Blinding oncoming traffic (cyclists, vehicles, and pedestrians) does not make anyone safer. #yyjbike

The number of these new family vehicles in #VictoriaBC and Paris has soared in the last decade. So nice! #yyj

77% of youth in #yyj utilize the free youth bus pass program. We must protect this at all costs. Youth have already lost so much of the freedom that they would’ve had 20, 10, or even five years ago. our society has become so much more isolating and we must protect freedom of movement for youth.

Celebrating Neha Mankani: midwife, researcher, and advocate, and now named to the TIME100 Climate list for their work advancing climate-informed maternal health. #MidwivesForClimate #QMNC #BirthResearch qmnc.org/news/1522217

#yyjwx #bcstorm

You are absolutely right, there is no vision for this building and it's such an important historical resource.

So why don’t we just feed the dogs as if it’s standard time all the time. So what if it’s an hour earlier on our clock.

“Permanent Standard Time (not springing ahead in March) could prevent 300,000 cases of stroke per year and lower nationwide prevalence of obesity by 2.6 million.” #DitchDST

Today, please, take 10 minutes to find and amplify appeals for funds that will continue work in Jamaica to support pregnant families and newborns, babies and toddlers. And take another 5 and STOP the well-meaning folks in your community who are asking for infant formula donations. #IYCFESavesLives

Quebec linemen help restore power in Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa #Quebec #Jamaica www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...

Once described as a tropical paradise, the coastal town of Black River, Jamaica, is now being compared to “hell on Earth” after being ravaged by Hurricane Melissa.

Very nice paper by Chyn & Shenhav looking at the effects of pollution and other factors on birth weight using an event study on mothers who switched location. #EconSky

A major front of the current information war: getting your facts, frames, propaganda, disinformation, etc. into the AI systems that create so much of the content we see and are rapidly becoming the de facto “ground truth” of the internet.

(1/2) Federal cuts are threatening essential perinatal data systems. Midwifery organizations are continuing to advance accountability and quality improvement with limited resources...

Food security for Tla'amin Nation (near Powell River) folks.

The QMNC Research Alliance has launched our new community platform — a space for connection, collaboration, and collective action to advance quality maternal and newborn care. Members check your inbox for an activation email — we can’t wait to see you! #QMNC #BirthResearch qmnc.org/news/1424502

“The transformation is astonishing. [Paris] has quietly—& quickly—become one of the most bike-friendly cities in the world. What started as a series of emergency “coronapistes” or pop-up bike lanes, built during the pandemic has evolved into a permanent bike network spanning hundreds of kilometres.”

On October 30th you can see award-winning journalist Angela Sterritt give a talk at Sngequ House! It will be a very powerful night of storytelling. This event is free but pre-registration is required. #yyj #uvic

Hi do you have any interest in #yyj transit? BC Transit is currently in the public engagement portion for the new regional transit plan and they need your input! #bctransit engage.bctransit.com/victoria-reg...

8 people arrested in case of Texas midwife charged with performing illegal abortions The eight individuals were indicted for allegedly practicing medicine without a license under the supervision of midwife Maria Margarita Rojas. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Ep 102 (ibit.ly/Re5V) Erin George on navigating birth settings and maternal health in Haiti and the US @phdmidwives.bsky.social #research #midwifery #education #birthsetting #uaznursing #acnmmidwives @academic-liz.bsky.social research link - t.ly/bt1_- mumhlab.com

Great article, congrats to Dr. Karen Lawford.

Ep 103 (ibit.ly/Re5V) @christinecatling.bsky.social on choosing #homebirths, #workforce #sustainability and #interdisciplinary advantages @phdmidwives.bsky.social #research #midwifery #education #UTS #ACM @academic-liz.bsky.social research link - t.ly/XwoCO australianmidwiferyhistory.org.au

Can you help spread the word? @gemmaspencer.bsky.social 's #PhD is looking at the experiences of UK #nursing or #midwifery female students who identify as having ADHD. This research is vital in helping us in the HE sector shape the best possible student experience. Thanks!

“By 2028, an average family in the region will be paying around $70 a month extra on their electricity bills because of forecasted data center growth” I'm once again asking why ratepayers are subsidizing AI titans? www.eenews.net/articles/dat...

So much this!

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Here’s a good example of calling out liars lying about better city-building, via @taylornoakes.com in @cultmtl.com: “What’s particularly annoying about Roberts’ column is that he’s using his position of power to reinforce ignorance. Shame on him for doing so, but especially the Montreal Gazette…”

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

Today is National Seniors Day in Canada. 400,000 Canadian seniors are poor. Yet, a retired couple with $180,000 of household income receives $18,000/year in Old Age Security. Does that make sense? We've got a plan to eliminate seniors' poverty. Join us action.gensqueeze.ca/fix_oas #cdnpoli

Chicago may be a “hellhole” according to President Donald Trump, but the city by the lake proved a pretty attractive destination for visitors over the summer, generating records for hotel occupancy and revenue.

Who benefits? Follow the money.

10 years ago today, then-Governor of the Bank of England @mark-carney.bsky.social gave his landmark “Tragedy of the Horizon” speech. In it, Carney warned of the existential threat that the climate crisis poses to the global financial system.

Take the threats about banning or restricting mifepristone seriously. It’s all based on junk science. open.substack.com/pub/vajenda/...

Canadians, you need to realize they keep trying to sell us American products on sale because the American mega-producers are open to taking a loss to keep market share. SILK, KETTLE CHIPS, ADAM’S peanut butter — these are all American brands! Stop buying them. Elbows the fuck up.

If you live in Calgary, look at what @sprawlcalgary.bsky.social is doing for the upcoming municipal election and consider subscribing. Jeremy and his team are producing amazing original explanatory journalism in the public interest. mailchi.mp/sprawlcalgar...

Until it can sort, wash, dry, and put away, it’s not helpful in addressing the unpaid burden of care.

I only met Dr. Darren Markland a few times, but he made an impact on me. This clip from coffee outside (with Darren giving away free coffee from his bike-mounted coffee-maker) offers a glimpse into how he viewed cycling and community as interwoven. I'm so sorry for his family and community.

We have people in power making broad claims around certain drugs and autism that have been continuously disproven.

“We have the spectacle of my successor in the Oval Office making broad claims around certain drugs and autism that have been continuously disproved,” Obama said during remarks at London’s O2 Arena, according to a transcript provided to CNN by the former president’s office. https://cnn.it/3IvgVde

Conflicts of interest involving the dean of public health at Harvard and Tylenol/autism research? Imagine that.

Mothers have long been unfairly blamed for their children's autism, as Kate McAnelly recently wrote in #VIDAblog. Knowing this history is all the more important following yesterday's scientifically unfounded allegations about paracetamol/tylenol. Read more here ⬇️ www.auswhn.com.au/blog/unreal-...

The New York Times does a 24 paragraph story on Larry Ellison buying up new and old media properties and doesn't so much as HINT, anywhere, at the obvious goal of leveraging this properties to conduct right wing information warfare, or that this kind of consolidation is bad for the public

“This is an all-hands-on-deck moment for women across the world, who have benefited from the changes in laws, regulations and norms over the last 30 years, to realize that there are strong forces at work to try to turn the clocks back.”

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

New: Sarah MacLachlan, Jewel, and more musicians scheduled to perform at tonight's premiere for Hulu's ABC News doc LILITH FAIR have all pulled out after Disney scrapped the red carpet. First notable talent consequence of the Jimmy Kimmel situation.