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David Waltner-Toews
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Founding Pres, Vets without Borders-Canada; Veterinary epidemiologist. Writer >20 books poetry fiction nonfiction On Pandemics,The Origin of Feces. Officer, Order of Canada.
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David Waltner-Toews is a Canadian epidemiologist, essayist, poet, fiction writer, veterinarian, and a specialist in the epidemiology of food and waterborne diseases, zoonoses and ecosystem health. He is best known for his work on animal and human infectious diseases in relation to complexity. He lives in Kitchener, Ontario. .. more

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David Waltner-Toews @doft.bsky.social · Jul 3
Spirit Bear scanning River in Great Bear Rainforest. Photo by my friend & colleague Barry Stemshorn. Presented to me at my OC investiture by Barry & my other friend, Enid Stiles.

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David Waltner-Toews @doft.bsky.social · 1d
Bruno was like Spinoza except a couple of hundred years earlier.

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David Waltner-Toews @doft.bsky.social · 1d
Well don’t disturb the pond witch goes without saying.

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David Waltner-Toews @doft.bsky.social · 3d
Beautiful spot that. My daughter lives nearby.

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David Waltner-Toews @doft.bsky.social · 4d
So a climate gamble on Patagonia is better than an archaeon bet on heat vents

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David Waltner-Toews @doft.bsky.social · 4d
Yes

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David Waltner-Toews @doft.bsky.social · 6d
Buy Swedish!!!!!

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David Waltner-Toews @doft.bsky.social · 7d
As I go into spinal surgery, I am reading Katabasis, by R.F. Kuang, about two grad students in analytical magik (a form of epidemiology); they are going to hell to rescue their advisor so he can sign off on their theses, so they can graduate. Glad I already signed off on all mine.

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David Waltner-Toews @doft.bsky.social · 8d
Wow. She belongs to the same officers club as I do PLUS she’s an epidemiologist (as I am) so winning this is awesome!!!

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David Waltner-Toews @doft.bsky.social · 12d
And why do Zoom and Google push hard for me to use AI and make it difficult to say no, I just like the old way?

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David Waltner-Toews @doft.bsky.social · 13d
Some of them started reading the New Testament! Who knew that was in the “Catholic Bible”?
maddow.bsky.social Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 13d
Here’s a gift link (no paywall) to the article, “Catholic bishops condemn ‘indiscriminate mass deportation’ in rare statement”:

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Reposted by Joe R. Feagin, Rosemary A. Joyce, Philip Nel , and 3 more

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 13d
Here’s a gift link (no paywall) to the article, “Catholic bishops condemn ‘indiscriminate mass deportation’ in rare statement”:

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David Waltner-Toews @doft.bsky.social · 14d
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Celebrate Black Fly Day
quotes from my 2017 book, Eat the Beetles, ECW Press In 2012, Doug Currie, Vice-President, Department of NaturalHistory and Senior Curator of Entomology at Toronto’s RoyalOntario Museum, launched B…
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David Waltner-Toews @doft.bsky.social · 14d
Make it long and slow and gentle and never-ending.

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David Waltner-Toews @doft.bsky.social · 14d
Never paint bricks or wood. That’s a crime. A kitchen you can turn around in with more than one person. Cupboards you don’t have to get down on your knees to open. Very inefficient use of spaces, lots of corners, extra stairs between floors. Much more interesting than “efficient” places.

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David Waltner-Toews @doft.bsky.social · 15d
Birds

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David Waltner-Toews @doft.bsky.social · 15d
LOL. That wasn’t the real Daniel Craig. That was an AI simulation by MI-6 to fool the bad guys.

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David Waltner-Toews @doft.bsky.social · 15d
You are more aware.

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David Waltner-Toews @doft.bsky.social · 15d
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Remembrance Day, 2025
On this Remembrance Day, 2025, I wish peace for all On Nov 9, 20205. I was asked to participate in a Rockway Church Service on Peace, Poetry and Pies. I baked a spinach quiche, then had to scrounge…
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David Waltner-Toews @doft.bsky.social · 16d
But doesn’t apply to pink, orange, tanned, or sunburned people.

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David Waltner-Toews @doft.bsky.social · 20d
Now I need to read Small Ceremonies by Kyle Edwards, GG winner for fiction. She grew up just across the river from me (we were in North Kildonan, the settler part of North Winnipeg). That’s in my new novel, The Incompleat Communist.

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David Waltner-Toews @doft.bsky.social · 20d
Congratulations to Claire Cameron for GG award for nonfiction. How to Survive a Bear Attack is a brilliant book…not just about bears and people.

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David Waltner-Toews @doft.bsky.social · 22d
Should have been on “This Hour Has 22 Minutes” on CBC. We could tell him it’s a show about trimming wasteful time from every hour.

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David Waltner-Toews @doft.bsky.social · 22d
I’m cheering from Canada.

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David Waltner-Toews @doft.bsky.social · 25d
Not controversial at all. Anyone who understands communication would know this.

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David Waltner-Toews @doft.bsky.social · 27d
lol. should have tried metaphyicists, get right into the details

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David Waltner-Toews @doft.bsky.social · 28d
Not sure Cuomo understands 2025 New Yorker Culture in

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David Waltner-Toews @doft.bsky.social · 28d
In Canada, we’re all vaguely left or middle.

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David Waltner-Toews @doft.bsky.social · 28d
My mother said we wren’t poor. We just didn’t have much money. I was happy to grow up in that ambiguous middle. Had to work extra jobs to pay for uni. But could go to uni. Had fun.

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David Waltner-Toews @doft.bsky.social · 28d
Reuters on the hurricane: "The timing could not be worse for the communist-run Caribbean island. “ This annoys me. For no other country do they say Republican-run or Libertarian-run or corporate-run or Fascist-run…

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David Waltner-Toews @doft.bsky.social · 28d
No baseball crisis here in Toronto🙃