City Takes to the Streets to Stop ‘Completely Outrageous’ Move to Rip Out Bike Lanes. momentummag.com/city-takes-t...
Brenda Wilson 🏴 🇨🇦 💪
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Scottish Canadian retired academic.
They’ll make a musical about Pete Hoekstra getting run out of town called Fuck Off Back To Away.
The Globe and Mail@theglobeandmail.com · last mo.
Happy 10 year anniversary of the best mic drop on Twitter. Hard to believe it’s been so long! Congrats @astrokatie.com
Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”
With all due respect, this sounds like the old joke about the Toronto Star reporter covering a catastrophe with hundreds of deaths and the lead is “Toronto man dies”. But if this is what it takes for the USA (& Canada) to allocate more resources to the horrific Ebola outbreak, who am I to complain?
Adam R Houston@healthlawadamh.bsky.social · 3mo ago"A U.S. citizen working for a humanitarian organization in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has tested positive for the Bundibugyo Ebola virus, the U.S. CDC said on Friday." www.reuters.com/business/hea...
- so if you win a point you get 15 - umm… ok? - and if you win another one you have 30 - ok - and then if you win another one you have— - 45? - oh dear me no
Every now and then, the Universe sends a little wink to say "don't give up."
Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 5mo agoJK Rowling is now represented by a trans person in the Scottish parliament. Absolutely incredible.
Wishing our friends at the Ottawa Charge good luck as their pursuit of the Walter Cup begins tonight! We'll be cheering you on throughout these playoffs 🙌 #GoSensGo 🤝 @pwhlcharge.bsky.social
Mic cut out during O Canada and the Buffalo crowd brought it home
Are you ready to fight back or are you still not paying attention? #Ontario #FightFord
PressProgress@pressprogress.ca · 6mo agoOntario’s Recent Policy Changes Are Part of a Larger Pattern to Centralize Power and Silence Dissent, Critics Say Ford’s attempts to "streamline" the province are infringing on local democracy. pressprogress.ca/ontarios-rec...
Scotland temporarily ran entirely on wind power as turbines generated over 200 percent of national electricity demand.
US trade report flags Canada being its own country as a trade irritant. #cdnpoli www.ctvnews.ca/business/art...
Alcohol, ‘Buy Canadian’ policy flagged by U.S. as trade irritants: report
Provincial rules around alcohol and the federal government’s “Buy Canadian” policy have been flagged in a new report citing several trade irritants between Canada and the U.S.
ctvnews.ca
On this day in 1854, a Czech Jewish woman was born. A widow, on the 9 Jul 1942 she was deported to Theresienstadt where she perished on the 29 Jan 1943. Her name was Emma Fischmannova
“Australians can now live & work freely in the EU for 4 years and vice versa That means they now have 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 EU rights than British people. Free movement offered millions of us fantastic opportunities but Brexiteers slammed that door shut, most shamefully on their own children”
“Respirator masks (K/N95) are designed specifically to prevent inhalation of threats like asbestos or COVID-19. They have a much better filter than medical masks.” “Loose-fitting medical masks allow air to enter through the sides, making them inherently much less safe.” thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
The Human Cost of Failing to Name COVID ‘Airborne’ | The Tyee
Safety laws are being sidestepped. One doctor’s nightmare shows how health-care workers pay the price.
thetyee.ca
22 March 1928 | A French Jewish girl, Rosa Bravarski, was born in Paris. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 9 August 1942 in a transport of 1,069 Jews deported from Pithiviers and Beaune-la-Rolande. She was among the 794 people murdered after selection in gas chambers.
If you like making food and supporting Diabetes research, there is a Canada wide food competition in support of Diabetes Canada that just launched. If you are a foodie and don't feel like doing another 10k for charity, this one might be the something try, lots of cool prizes www.apronsinaction.ca
Aprons in Action Presented by Manulife
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Trump is like Saint Patrick except he lead all of the snakes in.
If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.
Two engineers from NRCan’s Geodetic Survey, along with Parks Canada, injected some artistic flair while filming their installation of a global navigation satellite system station at L’Anse aux Meadows, a UNESCO World Heritage site on Newfoundland.