Canadian ex-patriate novelist Emily St. John Mandel, author of the pre-pandemic (published 2014) post-pandemic novel Station Eleven, has a new novel forthcoming in mid-September, Exit Party: www.harpercollins.ca/978144346615...
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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦
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The Anthropocene, multispecies studies, environmental literature, psychogeography, energy humanities, wildlife. See "Wild Faces," https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/issue/17/1
#NewBrunswick #Canada #Science This is a huge discovery. Moncton-based company Breathe BioMedical has developed a test that can detect signs of breast cancer by analyzing breath samples in women of all breast density types. globalnews.ca/news/1200880...
N.B. company’s new breath test could change how breast cancers are detected | Globalnews.ca
A new breath test could change the way breast cancers are detected, specifically in women with dense breasts, thanks to Moncton-based company Breathe BioMedical.
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Ten minutes ago there was and may still be a moose trying to cross the 1A highway near Rocky Ridge Co-op. Keep your eyes open.
I smell encroaching wildfire smoke. The mountains are still discernible, if you know they’re there.
Irony is one of Canada’s founding principles.
Historica Canada@historicacanada.bsky.social · 2d ago#OTD in 1914, Canada entered the First World War. While serving a Dispatch Carrier during the First World War, long distance runner Tom Longboat was escorting an officer who struggled to keep up and complained "Who do you think I am? Tom Longboat?" buff.ly/EE1V9cK
Many thanks to CBC Vancouver for a solid discussion on #wildfire, @mark-carney.bsky.social, and the false promise of carbon capture: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tUB...
Are wildfires becoming worse?
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Just back from a casual meetup with other “Forever Canadians” in town including energizer and leader Thomas Lukaszuk. People with ethics and insights to share, fun to talk to, well-informed. And by walking to it I got 6416 steps in too. #FOREVERCANADIAN
Both incisive and kind of hilarious writing about the UCP push for so-called AI centres in Alberta: “Don’t worry about it, folks, slick online promotion advises, just think of hyperscale AI data centres as ‘digital refineries’!” #Digitalrefineries: It’s what you’re used to!
David J. Climenhaga@djclimenhaga.bsky.social · 3d agoAlberta propaganda push suggests UCP is encountering stiffer opposition to AI data centres than it expected. albertapolitics.ca/2026/08/albe...
Part 2 of our Edmonton show is live! IWhat are the foreign interference risks that Albertans are facing because of Danielle Smith's referendum? Dr Patrick Lennox holds nothing back! #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli youtu.be/wF_SAwPGn6s
Episode 8.38 - Live in Edmonton (Part 2) - Dr Patrick Lennox!
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Shuswap, Spallumcheen, Westside Rd., Ta Ta Creek area, Bradley Creek / Head of the Lake.. All these communities and more in the interior of BC on the run fleeing fires. This is big. And it’s in the present tense, not the future, not someday.
This is a super important petition regarding climate change, if you are Canadian and have 30 seconds to spare please sign and repost.
Mike@brechinbrae220031.bsky.social · 4d agoHOC Petition e-7522 - Canadians call on Government of Canada to stop fast-tracking environmentally catastrophic fossil fuel projects, protect health & wellbeing of all impacted by climate change & invest in worker, community & Indigenous-led green energy transition www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
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Is the point of these new combo ID cards in Alberta simply for the purpose of making it feel as if Alberta is a country, not a province? Are they breaking Canadian seniors’ hearts just for show?
RichardJR@electricbluesfan.bsky.social · 5d ago1/7 🇨🇦 ALBERTA REGISTRY CHAOS OVER NEW IDS 🇨🇦 The July rollout of integrated licences is causing massive delays. Strict new citizenship rules have seniors fearing they'll be unable to vote. Source: CBC News #CdnPoli #AbLeg #AbPoli #Yeg #RegistryWait #DriverIDs
See also Danielle Smith's redrawing of electoral boundaries.
Pete Buttigieg@petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 5d agoGerrymandering lets politicians choose their voters instead of the other way around. Until we end that, it will remain difficult to achieve the things most Americans already agree on.
This is not some tie-dye t-shirt, appliqué jeans exercise. This is core suit and tie. Same air, same water, same fire, same trees, buddy. Economist Jeff Rubin and David Suzuki more than a decade ago: "Economics is a form of brain damage."
Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦@pamelabanting.bsky.social · 5d ago“This is not some kind of a flower-power, tree-hugging exercise. This is core economics. This is core financial stability, core price stability.”
Savour this passage about 1910 air.
Richard Morris@ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 6d agoWriting about the time he visited now modern-day Kenya in 1910, Akseli Gallen-Kallela wrote: 'The visions around us change; everything is just days and nights that merge with the sun, the moon and the stars, in an air so gentle that one forgets one’s own existence.'
GOOD FOR HIM, BUT ONLY WHEN IT HITS THE BANKS DOES CLIMATE CHAOS MATTER? ECB official warns climate crisis poses growing threat to ‘core financial stability’ Exclusive: As wildfires rage, Frank Elderson says more work needed to assess risk from collapse of ecosystem services. MORE WORK? MORE?
Quote: Coalspur acknowledged its operations could completely curtail baseflow at the headwaters of McPherson Creek and said wastewater from the tailings will seep into the creek “approximately 11 to 160 years” after the mine shutters.
The Breakdown AB@thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 5d ago“AER issued regulatory permits to Coalspur Mines for an expansion of its operation at the Vista Coal Mine near Hinton, Alta., which would turn the largest coal mine in Canada into the largest in all of North America.” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
This probably explains Danielle Smith’s demolition of Albertans’ healthcare and health.
Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism@jksteinberger.bsky.social · 6d ago"The fossil-fuel companies ... have convinced themselves that they don’t need prosperous economies to prosper themselves. ... And so what if multitudes fail and die, from lack of food, healthcare, climate disasters or some combination thereof?" www.karlpolanyisociety.com/2025/11/06/f...
I really need everyone to remember that the fossil fuel industry knew-knows exactly the climate hell we now inhabit, and are determined to make it FAR worse. That's because they have decided our lives are worth far less than their profits. We are not angry -or organised- enough.
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The craziest thing to me is that the greatest concentration of money & brain power in the world right now is dedicated to accelerating a machine that murders all stories
Justina Ireland@justinaireland.com · 6d agoLook, this story is bananas. A whole bunch of people read an AI manuscript and wanted to throw money at it. But the craziest thing here is that PUBLISHERS MARKETPLACE RAN AN AUTHOR’S MANUSCRIPT THROUGH AN AI DETECTOR. Like, WTF are we doing here, guys?
