Deborah McCaig
@damccaig.bsky.social
🇨🇦 Stand the gaff Canada. And FYFP Alberta! Interested in politics, world affairs, social justice, and all things sciencey. Background in university admin, leadership development, municipal management, and board governance.
A severe bout of COVID-19 can wake up an army of dormant viruses hiding inside the body go.nature.com/4fDUY9w
COVID can wake up a slew of dormant viruses inside you
Reactivation of typically harmless anelloviruses, in particular, seems to be linked with developing long COVID, study finds.
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Questions 1-5 in the upcoming referendum are about denying provincial services to immigrants on works visas Never mind that these immigrants pay taxes This will deny healthcare & education to 1000s of kids #NoToTheNine This cannot be my #Alberta #ableg #abpoli www.elections.ab.ca/elections/re...
watched a seagull pull a bag of rice crackers out of some dude’s unattended bag at the pool & as he flew into the sunset with his prize a lifeguard walking by goes “yeah, that’s steven. he’s notorious”
Today’s Canadian painting is “Cobalt” painted by Yvonne McKague Housser in 1931. N
in the Québécois version of King of the Hill (“Henri pis sa gang”), Boomhauer is named Papineau and sounds like this
When you wear denim jeans with a denim jacket and denim shirt, you create a very unique look. This look is known as The Canadian Tuxedo....but why? It all began in the 1950s in Vancouver. This is the story. 📸 Wikicommons (Erky-Nagy Tibor) 🧵 1/7
Not sure if everyone appreciates the difference. Rooftop solar hardwires into your main panel via a dedicated breaker, so it requires a permit, an installer, an electrician, and a utility agreement. Balcony solar just plugs into a wall outlet, sharing an existing circuit with no permits or rewiring.
A new deal on balcony solar just dropped in the US
Plug-in panels can lower your bills. To boost the American market for the tech, nonprofit Bright Saver is selling kits with no markup, starting at around…
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“For the past several days I’ve had the wonderful opportunity to explore Banff National Park. If you haven’t been before — or it’s been a while — I highly recommend that you come.” steveschmidt.substack.com/p/gone-hikin...
Gone hikin’
For the past several days I’ve had the wonderful opportunity to explore Banff National Park.
steveschmidt.substack.com
Amazing reporting from @breachmedia.ca Canadian universities running a secret surveillance network, keeping tabs on students opposing genocide Vile The top brass of all these institutions should apologize & resign immediately #cdnpoli
Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · 6d agoNew reporting from @breachmedia.ca shows that Canadian universities operated a secret national effort to coordinate surveillance and policing of anti-genocide activism and encampments. breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...
DIAMOND VALLEY, see you at 2 PM at the Stop Coffee House & Gathering Place. COCHRANE, see you today at 6 PM at the Cochran Historical Museum. Pick up your #ForeverCanadian free lawn sign!
Don't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036.
The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed
The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.
bloomberg.com
This is infuriating to read but not surprising. The media’s job is to ask the ?s powerful people would rather avoid, not make it easier for them to escape scrutiny. The biggest threat to accountability isn’t censorship, it’s a newsroom deciding that the truth is simply too inconvenient. #VichyPress
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d agoBanks permitted millions in suspicious transactions tied to Epstein—and former 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi had the story months ago. But the report would never air. trib.al/ZShZlIS
12 year old girls get genital inspections "for their safety" while wife beaters get endorsed for re-election. This whole protecting women and girls thing is a bit confusing.
"new state laws and safety codes are reclassifying these plug-in kits as standard appliances — meaning renters can finally treat home solar like a simple toaster oven, plugging a personal power plant into any wall socket and cutting electricity bills by up to 25% with zero landlord approval."
Renters have been locked out of solar energy for years, and a tiny balcony device now "picking the lock" is spreading through 8 states
Renters have been locked out of solar energy for years, and a tiny balcony device now "picking the lock" is spreading through 8 states to make it available.
energiesmedia.com
This is the best thing about Bluesky. I have 57K followers and say provocative stuff occasionally and have never once been dogpiled without my consent. The trick is to detach quotes, control replies and block liberally. Without hesitation. With reckless abandon. With carefree joy.
Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 2d agoBluesky's nuclear block supports a culture of consent. Each user can completely prevent another user from having any access to them on this site. Right wing harassers on X hate consent. They hate being told "no." They hate not being able to force their posts onto others and target others.
Day 35 of Stories Across Canada: The Magnificent Prairies A lot of Vanlife Youtubers in Canada dismiss the Prairies as boring. They are wrong because there are so many wonderful things to discover in Canada's Prairies. youtube.com/shorts/LEh75...
Day 35 of Stories Across Canada: The Magnificent Prairies
YouTube video by Canadian History Ehx
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“Premier Smith, Albertans with disabilities want to talk about how your government has betrayed them. And, dammit, so should you.” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli edmontonsun.com/opinion/colu...
TAIT: Albertans with disabilities betrayed by Smith government
Please don't call the most vulnerable among us freeloaders from a podium and walk away without proof.
edmontonsun.com
The speed limit in neighbourhoods here is 40km/h. Have they really ascertained that the driver was below that? That’s pretty slow! I don’t even mean to pick on this driver, who is very possibly someone I know and like. But I hate the culture of impunity around drivers and the choices they (we) make.
Ukrainian firefighters joined operations to fully extinguish the wildfire that devastated the Gironde region in southwestern France. Seventy firefighters arrived in a convoy, travelling through Ukraine, Poland and Germany to help their French counterparts. u.afp.com/SHUw
Hi! My name is Monica and I'm a landscape painter from British Columbia, Canada. This is my art, let me know what you think!
"Canada can generate a big economic boost and strengthen its food sovereignty by processing more food at home." www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Canada could add billions to its economy by processing more food. Here's what it's trying | CBC News
The federal government's national food security strategy is pledging hundreds of millions of dollars to scale up Canada's food processing industry. CBC's The House spoke to Ontario farmers and innovat...
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In other words, US not providing Ukraine a way to defend itself (although Europe paid for it), is THE strategy.
The rest of your natural life—and then some. That's how long we'll be cleaning up the mess of Trump and MAGAism. The nation as it was before is lost. It won't return. What we seek to save now isn't what used to be. It'll be something else altogether. It'll be what we make it.
Here is the info I was looking for. Taylor Farms uses prison slave labour and these are companies they supply. We need to send a message they will understand. @costco.com @walmart.com
Tony Cervo@tcervo.bsky.social · 4d agoHere are all the brands they supply: Earthbound Farm (owned brand) Eat Smart / FreshPoint Green Giant Fresh Good & Gather / Market Pantry (Target) Kirkland Signature (Costco) Private Selection / Simple Truth (Kroger) Marketside / Great Value (Walmart) Cont...
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
futurism.com
I think it also revealed just how quickly a bunch of otherwise very hard problems can be to solve with global collective action. The fuckin Ganga was running clear water for the only time in my lifetime because for 2 weeks nobody threw garbage in it. The canals in Venice had fish.
Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 4d agoCovid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.
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Joined the old gang at The Strategists podcast to talk Alberta referendum, constituency work, the Calgary Stampede, and - most importantly - the annual allocation of (Canadian) flags provided to MPs. On YouTube or where podcasts are found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q-W2wkE8OE
My dad, the USMC retired Col who led a bayonet charge on Guam during II, learned Chinese, and was in Korea, told me when I asked why he didn’t own guns - and I remember this so clearly, slowly, after pausing… Because I’ve seen What guns Do.
