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b East Ham, London, England 1949 Used to be a transportation planner and economist but now retired, living in Vancouver, BC Canada Definitely Green Tootfinder Still use […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mas.to/@StephenRees, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
An emergency medicine doc has a few words for #RFKJr: "Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told CNN’s Dana Bash that 'There were ICUs that were empty all across the country, including in New York, at the height.' "What a patently false, disgusting statement. It’s actually offensive, given the hell on Earth […]
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From Charlie Angus / The Resistance Luck, Dread and Hope Summer Sunday Reading Series — July 19, 2026 I spent my whole life waiting for the future, and now it is here. I just thought there would be more time. But I’m not the only one. As I write this, I can smell the smoke of the burning […]
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From Bill McKibben "every politician worth her salt should at every opportunity at least mention the anti-renewables jihad that the Trump administration has launched—the number of Americans who support shutting down 90% finished windfarms is tiny, and the rest of us are truly annoyed. "And in […]
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Frank Whittle: A Genius in the Family The David-versus-Goliath story of the man who built the WWII winning jet fighter in the face of huge opposition from the scientific community, the government and big business. In 1937, Whittle ran the world's first turbojet […] [Original post on mas.to]
TransLink’s PrideBus returns for 48th annual Pride Parade New ’90s-inspired wrap, extra SkyTrain service, and bus reroutes planned for August 2 TransLink employees and the one-of-a-kind PrideBus will once again take part in the Vancouver Pride Parade on Sunday […] [Original post on mas.to]
I admit that I had never heard of Fanny. It really is a great story and well worth watching. Now streaming on Knowledge Fanny: The Right to Rock Founded by Filipino American sisters June and Jean Millington, the rock band Fanny blasted glass ceilings of racism and […] [Original post on mas.to]
Endometriosis takes nine years to diagnose. That’s about to change. NICE has approved two tests for the NHS in England and Wales: a saliva test reading microRNA markers, and a gut-sensor test returning results in 45 minutes, sparing women the keyhole surgery currently needed to confirm a disease […]
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Metro Vancouver is a resource city. The mines are just somewhere else. https://www.europesays.com/canada/151106/ VANCOUVER – The Resource Economy You Can’t See – Canadian Energy News, Top Headlines, Commentaries, Features & Events By Stewart Muir How Metro Vancouver became the head office […]
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From David Suzuki On love and legacy: Shifting baseline syndrome strikes home https://community.davidsuzuki.org/index.php/email/emailWebview?email=MTg4LVZEVS0zNjAAAAGjV9h1-FXxYVn1_G5GOTkYr1spNxL1ltYzU-HQ9mwYnZeWxvy7-iao8md3nx5TfL2sk2CuvW4DB5C19MwiQBUVuVw5prYRca6VMA
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#Vancouver #Traffic Yew at Nanton is now a one way street. Traffic on Yew cannot continue southwards and ought to be able to use Nanton to get to Arbutus but the road is still closed. Traffic ought to be using Lahb to get to Arbutus south (or north). Currently we are […] [Original post on mas.to]
From Translink TransLink and PCI Developments (PCI) have officially broken ground on a new mixed-use development at West Broadway and Arbutus, marking the beginning of construction on the first project under TransLink's Real Estate Development Program. As […] [Original post on mas.to]
If you've never heard of #cyclospora before, remember: "The #TrumpAdministration initiated major cuts to #PublicHealth in 2025. Pandemic-era grants to state and local health departments were cut by $11.4bn, hampering their ability to respond to outbreaks. The #CDC lost between 25-30% of staff […]
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From Bill McKibben We talk regularly about Big Oil, but it would probably make more sense to at least occasionally refer to it as Big Gas—many of the same players are involved, of course, and the two are often found in the same places, but it’s been clear for some time that oil is not a growth […]
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From Translink Drive with Us Looking for a rewarding career? Apply to become a Bus Operator by Aug. 4 and help keep Metro Vancouver moving. Apply now […]
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TransLink adding extra service for Summer Lights fireworks #Vancouver #Transit Downtown reroutes also in place for the event on July 31 TransLink is boosting transit service and adjusting some bus routes to help customers get to and from the Summer Lights in English Bay fireworks night in […]
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https://thenarwhal.ca/grizzly-bear-haines-junction-yukon-coexistence/ An intimate look at life alongside grizzly bears Haines Junction sits in one of Yukon's densest grizzly bear corridors. In this tiny town, Indigenous Knowledge and decades of prevention are […] [Original post on mas.to]
#Vancouver is getting hundreds of new battery electric buses with dynamic charging (AKA in-motion charging). We have the technology to leave fossil fuels in the past, it is the fossils like Carney and Eby holding us back (as Canada burns). #climateaction #bcpoli #cdnpoli
Ruofan 🚎@ruofan.ca · 2w agoGot to try out the new Solaris trolleybus today. It was a smooth ride and the AC is going to be a godsend in the summer. Very excited for it to enter service!
#Fensterfreitag Down Cathedral "The historical burial place of St Patrick. St Bridgit and St Colmcille"
Science Matters - Clean power pathways beat carbon capture from David Suzuki We know that spewing greenhouse gases into the air, mainly by burning fossil fuels, is the primary driver of rapidly accelerating global heating, and that carbon dioxide can remain in the […] [Original post on mas.to]
#cdnpoli #ClimateChange #Wildfires #Smoke #America #Trump #MarkCarney #yyc #yyccc
Bentley ****TALK CLIMATE****@bigclimate.bsky.social · 12mo ago🧵 Dear Republican lawmakers, Canada has the largest intact boreal forest on the planet. An increasingly hotter world due to #ClimateChange makes longer dry seasons, far larger wildfires & yes, more smoke. No amount of "raking" fixes it. The scientists warned of exactly this for a very long time /1
For anyone in the lower mainland of British Columbia interested in monitoring the air quality during smoke season here in Vancouver, I have added a PM 2.5 chart to my weather station in Yaletown, Vancouver. You can reach it at https://yaletownnow.ca #BCStorm #BCWX #YVRWX #wildfires
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From Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives September 17 at 7 pm PT for this year‘s Rosenbluth Lecture with Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks, who will be speaking about their new book Cancelling Billionaires Before They Cancel Us. Linda needs no introduction as one of Canada’s top journalists and […]
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From Translink #Vancouver #Transit Expo Line weekend maintenance work resumes in downtown Vancouver Service impacts on Saturdays and Sundays through this fall Starting Saturday, July 25, Expo Line service will be temporarily reduced on weekends in downtown […] [Original post on mas.to]
Today on Volts: a crossover with @jigarshahdc.bsky.social's "Energy Empire" podcast! Jigar, Arnab Pal of @deployaction.bsky.social, & I discuss the data center backlash--how widespread it is, what's driving it, why utilities & hyperscalers are being so dumb about it, & how governors might respond.
Making sense of the data center backlash
A crossover with Jigar Shah's "Energy Empire" podcast!
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Smoke Gets In Your...Hole Where Your Soul Should Be MAGA may have a set a new mark for belligerent stupidity BILL MCKIBBEN JUL 20 ...wildfires, and hence smoke, will persist all summer, and since the hot world we’re creating produces ever more wildfire and hence an […] [Original post on mas.to]
BC small towns push back on data center The Tyee reports on how the small northern British Columbia town of Terrace and other cities in rural BC are pushing back against new data centers to fuel the stupid AI boom. York University researcher Lyndsey Rolheiser told the Tyee that supposed job […]
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From The Conversation Where else can you peer into the labs and lecture halls of Canadian researchers and academics, who draw on their life's work to explain what being sedentary does to your body, why male chimps repeatedly throw rocks at trees and how the international legal order has […]
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📰 Apex Predators Are Quietly Reshaping the West 🦅 Western U.S.: Bald eagles, gray wolves, condors, and black bears are back from the brink due to decades of environmental policy, habitat restoration, and public support. 🌄 Their return is restoring ecological function at landscape scale, from […]
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