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@pathsforpeople.bsky.social where can we report/advocate for better infrastructure? Almost got flattened by someone not paying attention to flashing crosswalk lights on 106 Ave in Forest Heights. I truly believe it's a matter of time before someone is killed on this road.

This is the Canadian Premier League soccer finals and we have a bicycle kick goal in the middle of a blizzard … and that’s the most Canadian thing I’ve ever seen 😂

Losing measles elimination status is an embarrassment.

After yesterday's snow, roads are melted and clear today. A little bit of partially melted snow and ice on the Ottewell shared pathway but not too bad! Really nice weather for it today. #yegbike

Still river this morning #yegbike

Because people think it's super cool to post what they think is a "gotcha" about the likely Kamloops burial sites:

Great resource for all! How to gauge the quality of a research study: 13 questions journalists should ask journalistsresource.org/media/good-r... Eg: - peer reviewed? - top-tier academic journal? - other scholars trust this work? - funding? - credentials? - COI? - sample size? - methods?

I want to just announce to the world I hated Elon Musk before it was cool.

ICE looking more and more like the American Gestpo.

You know what’s 💯 preventable? This 👇🏾 www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...

1 month countdown to my wedding 😮

The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.

Gonna keep saying this: In the 1840s, Southerners insisted that they could kidnap any person they alleged was a slave without any state or federal process. This turned even minimal process into resistance and raised the salience of the issue, which radicalized a bunch of people against slavery.

"Three prominent critics of President Donald Trump are leaving Yale’s faculty — and the United States — amid attacks on higher education to take up positions at the University of Toronto in fall 2025."

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#Measles Can Damage the Immune System for Years. An infection can also leave children and adults with other long-term health problems. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/w... via @nytimes.com #vaccination

Tell me about your problems

My cat just sits in front of the door and screams until someone lets her outside to go bully the neighbour cat through its basement window

If tariffs persist, Canadian economy will shrink permanently by 3%. Enormous pain. But Northern US states will feel extraordinary pain, too. Asymmetric retaliation options include not respecting US copyrights, including around things like drug licensing. Options are on the table.

I was trying not to doom scroll today but HOLY SHIT.

Watching agape and aghast.

Here's a short list of communicable diseases that were once devastating but we rarely think of anymore in Canada, thanks to public health victories of the past. ⚠️ Warning: Some gross images in the thread below.⚠️ Thread ⤵️

Heartbreaking. The rising anti-science death cult is doing real & immediate harm. A child dies of measles in West Texas outbreak www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... "...the first death from the disease in a decade in the United States. The child had not been vaccinated against measles..."

It feels wrong but it's true

Yeah this is another reason to not buy USA produced food.

Infectious disease knows no borders. This will have major impacts on us in Canada.

Safe to say over the next 4 years, the US government will attempt to kill all academic research that is not geared toward technological development or wealth creation. US universities need to tighten their belts and weather the storm. Also, it will bleed over into Canada, too.

This is shocking. Stop everything and read this: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...

Screw Trump and screw every brain dead idiot that voted for him

Musk has a paid subscription to a pro-apartheid Twitter account and people are still saying that wasn't a Nazi salute

Billionaires are standing with Trump at the inauguration and Elon just did a Nazi salute...but yeah, nothing to see here

What they don't tell you about planning a wedding is you'll wake up in the middle of the night after the most bizarre stress dreams. Last night I was calling my matron of honour to duty BC my makeup and hair stylists didn't show up

6 months to go, let the wedding stress dreams begin

So today, in Canada: -Finance Minister Freeland abruptly resigned -Roughly 60 of Justin Trudeau's MPs have reportedly signed a letter calling him to go -Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc, who has been handling relations with Trump, is now also finance *and* public safety minister.

Doing my first proposal review of something very obviously written by an AI LLM...what a mishmash of gobbledygook. My fav part is the sentence that starts with "The document you uploaded..."

Wow! More TB outbreaks in #Nunavut. TB was to be eradicated, right? as Trudeau vowed in Iqaluit in 2019…But there’s still been a lot of secrecy and inaction. Often people haven’t even known where outbreaks are taking place. Add to that poverty, food insecurity, overcrowded housing etc etc

Sometimes Canadian news lives up to the stereotypes of Canadian news. 🔗: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Gaetz nomination lasted less than a Scaramucci

Summertime harvest...I got big tomato plans for next year.

I don't think people understand the global impact on scientific advancements in human health that will happen if NIH is targeted by RFK Jr. Grants targeted at vaccine development (e.g. cancer vaccines)? Good luck.

1/ X's algorithm was changed in mid-July 2024 to systematically boost Republican-leaning accounts and Elon Musk's own account following his endorsement of Donald Trump, according to a newly released computational study of engagement from the Queensland University of Technology.⬇️

The inmates are truly running the asylum.

I heard the internet likes cats