My great grandparents lost 3 children in 2 days to diphtheria. Cemeteries tell the story of the world before vaccines.

#CapeBreton production designer blasts cuts to #NovaScotia arts sector after Oscars win #HoustonCuts #PCGovtFail Tamara Deverell and Dartmouth’s Shane Vieau awarded for their work on Frankenstein www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

@mark-carney.bsky.social Time to speak up. The world is listening. Canada had deep ties with Cuba, we must stand up for the Cuban people.

@mark-carney.bsky.social Cuba needs oil, full stop. Canada needs to help the Cuban people - humanitarian aid is helpful, but insufficient. The US regime needs to be held accountable for their criminal behaviour.

If you haven’t watched this before, you really should. The brilliant Dr. Carl Sagan testifying before the United States Congress in 1985 on #ClimateChange. We should have listened then. Will we now? Remember, climate change isn’t an on & off switch. It’s an exponential dial. We’re making it worse.

We need to call this what it is: a crime against humanity

For those of you who are struggling with the state of the world, and find yourselves with tears or so much emotion that it can feel overwhelming: I hope you never lose your capacity to experience empathy, because it makes you human.

it's time to tap the sign again -- understanding the origins + history of classical antisemitism tropes means that you can be clear on what legitimate critiques of a state you might want to critique might be & what might be promulgating 2000 year-old scapegoating conspiracy theories

Never normalize genocide

Dear Christian, You don’t have to tell people what your religious beliefs are. People see exactly what your beliefs are by the way you talk about and treat women, immigrants, people of color, the poor, those with disabilities, victims of war, and your political opponents.

UPDATE ON THE HORMUZ COALITION (Mon, March 16): 🇫🇷 France: REJECTED 🇬🇧 UK: REJECTED 🇮🇹 Italy: REJECTED 🇪🇸 Spain: REJECTED 🇯🇵 Japan: REJECTED 🇳🇴 Norway: REJECTED 🇨🇦 Canada: REJECTED 🇦🇺 Australia: REJECTED 🇩🇪 Germany: REJECTED 🇨🇳 China: NO RESPONSE 🇳🇱 Netherlands: NO RESPONSE 🇰🇷 South Korea: NO CONFIRMATION

It is the anniversary of the My Lai massacre today. I'd say that even more than most years, it's important to remember what happened. And the role Hugh Thompson, an active serviceman, played in both stopping and publicising it. Despite enormous military, political and public pressure to stay quiet.

Excellent Canadian Woman owned company for allergen free chocolate chips Available at Sobeys, less expensive than American competitor and much better. @minibubbly.bsky.social

Nothing is preventing @hfxgov.bsky.social from promoting use of transit and running an awareness raising campaign about what factually causes congestion: Not bus lanes, not bike lanes. Far too many driving, despite available and viable alternatives.

"My name may be forgotten when it comes, but the time will arrive when great outbreaks of cholera will be things of the past. And it is the knowledge of the way in which the disease is propagated which will cause them to disappear" Happy birthday to John Snow! His name & his work is not forgotten.

No one could have foreseen this.

New open access book! Case Studies in Global Health: Illuminating Theory and Practice www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

Another cut by the Houston government 🤬🤬🤬 #NovaScotia #Fail Mobile Food Market says it might close location due to funding cut from province 'Now is not the time to cut mobile food markets. Now is the time to invest in them' www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

It’s International Long Covid Awareness Day. One of the best things you can do to support people with Long Covid is wear a mask (ideally a respirator like an N95). Masks break chains of transmission. They prevent infection. The only way to avoid Long Covid is to avoid Covid!

It will forever baffle me at how someone could look at Jesus laying down his life out of love for the world rather than forcing it to conform to his will, then somehow conclude that political and theological authoritarianism is how his followers should represent him in the world.

Never normalize genocide

What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.” What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.” Funny how that works.

Yesterday the Ontario government gave notice to all publicly funded supervised consumption sites that their funding will be cut after 90 days, and thus will be forced to cease operations on June 13, 2026.

If we can’t see the hypocrisy of claiming to be “pro life,” while also being pro assault rifles, pro war, pro death penalty, pro cutting healthcare, pro cutting food assistance, pro science denialism, and pro rolling back environmental protections now, I don’t think we ever will.

So, the genocide in Gaza is expanding to Lebanon. The Israeli regime must be stopped. A strong Canada stands against genocide, no matter who the aggressor is. Sanction this lawless regime. @mark-carney.bsky.social

N.S. opposition NDP says arts and culture cuts will hurt provincial economy #NovaScotia #Facts #HoustonCuts www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nov...

N.S. grant cuts will harm Mi'kmaq programs that address historic inequities: chiefs #NovaScotia #HoustonCuts www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nov...

In fact, the Liberal Conservatives and Conservative Conservatives just voted down an NDP bill that would have closed loopholes on Canada arming the genocide. www.cjpme.org/pr_2026_03_1... (ps: Remind me why a minority with NDP holding balance of power is no better than what we have now?)

“This would be a step backwards,' continued Rainkin. 'It would prevent small woodlot owners from having more flexibility on how they manage their land. ...this would drive more clearcutting and incentivizing clearcutting on private land, rather than incentivizing ecological forestry.”

I think every #NovaScotia mayor I interviewed so far as said the province ditching coastal protection was a huge mistake and letdown. Now those municipalities are trying to figure out how to protect their communities. Some of the mayors working together on plans.

“All wars are a choice, and they hasten destruction of people and the planet. A redoubled counter movement from civil society and global health communities is needed to make health the fight of our lives. Health is a bridge to peace, and peace a prerequisite for health” @jocalynclark.bsky.social

Tim Houston has screwed over most Nova Scotian's 🤬 but this is disgusting. Fate of new inclusive daycare in limbo after province denies extra funding #NovaScotia YWCA Halifax says centre will not be able to accommodate kids with disabilities without this money www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Budget bill gets pushback from woodlot owners reported by Jennifer Henderson @dartjenhen.bsky.social

"What is unfolding is not immigration enforcement. It is a state project of ethnic rollback. The purpose is not to administer law but to override it. The aim is not security but purification. The prerogative state is not a bug—it is its essential operating system." open.substack.com/pub/theunpop...

1/ Has life expectancy fully recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic? In a new pre-print, we find that 31 of 34 high-income countries had still not returned to their expected life expectancy trajectories five years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... #demography

Lucifer has a point

Great podcast in @theglobeandmail.com on why permanent daylight savings time isn't in line with health science but instead all about capitalism. Follow the money 💵 www.theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/the...

"[E]nvironmental disaster in Tehran." "[C]hoking-levels of smoke, and black raindrops full of toxic oil falling." "[P]oisoning civilians, devastating the environment, and endangering lives on a massive scale." #Iran #USA #Israel #Military #Water #Air #Genocide #FossilFuels #Climate

Sad to see PM Carney choosing to skip the Parliamentary debate over the Iran war. In times of crisis we look to the PM. This would have been a powerful moment to provide the Canadian people with a sense of leadership in this dark time.

Yes. Also lots of rich yt folks being like "well it's better for me personally" when we know DST will disproportionately impact kids and poor people with very early work start times

Always remember the time in October of 1975 when 90% of women in Iceland went on strike: zero paid work, housework, or child-rearing were done for the entire day. The entire economy drove to a halt, men were forced to take on unpaid labour, and everywhere sold out easy-to-make meals like sausages.

In support of Stand Up For Science, enjoy this science: Stars that go supernova are responsible for creating many of the elements of the periodic table (e.g. C, Fe), including those that make up our bodies You & I are both made up of the same star dust Stop funding wars and start funding science

New — My case for why it’s not enough to call this “Trump’s war” when violence abroad implicates us all, and how we don’t need hindsight to know that unequivocally opposing this war will be the correct (and only morally defensible) choice:

This is what ecocide looks like.

@mark-carney.bsky.social Is this a country we should be supporting? They tariff us for a minuscule amount of fentanyl, but they hang out with terrorist organizations. The US is not our friend or ally.

Never normalize genocide

HOLY SH*T: Black rain is pouring down on Tehran, Iran following military strikes on their oil facilities last night. Residents of Tehran are now reporting severe breathing issues. Is this what "liberating the Iranian people" looks like?

So many organizations complicit in the ongoing genocide.

#IWD #Herstory