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Dr Karen Pinder 🇨🇦 🔬 @drkarenpinder.bsky.social · 15m

Dr Cullis works in the same building as I do and every time I pass him in the hallway I fan girl science geek myself out. 😄

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuhL...

UBC professor played key role in development of mRNA vaccine technology

YouTube video by CBC British Columbia

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Neil Before Zod @waytowichneil.bsky.social · 4h

I no longer believe that the words illegal/legal, moral/immoral, or ethical/unethical have any meaning in the United States.

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John Berlinsky @berlinskyjohn.bsky.social · 1h

Figure from Martin Wolf's article in today's Financial Times, showing that Canada's current effective US tariff rate, at about 7%, is the lowest of all countries shown, although it is more than an order of magnitude higher than at the end of 2024. on.ft.com/4958sbo

Comparison of effective US tariff rates for various countries. The highest rates for October 2025 are those of China (45%), India (36%) and Brazil (29%), while the lowest is Canada at (7%). The world average rate is about 19%.

John Berlinsky @berlinskyjohn.bsky.social · 19h

This is the life-saving work that the Trump Regime is doing its best to destroy.

I have to add: please note that this work is the result of long years of university research, much of it federally funded. And note that the years (decades) of less-successful attempts that have led up to these papers are in the same category: NIH and NCI money are all over this field. This is the very thing that the Trump administration has been working tirelessly to destroy. I am not exaggerating. They have been hitting these funding agencies over and over with layoffs, budget cuts, and whatever obstacles they can dream up, and they are also ripping into the universities where these funds have been granted. The exact phrases that J. D. Vance, Stephen Miller, Russell Vought and their henchmen have used is "universities are the enemy" and federal workers "need to be put into trauma". More specifically, the attitudes of our HHS head (RFK, Jr.) and his own minions toward mRNA research and vaccination are easy to summarize: they hate it and they want it to stop. It seems bizarre and insane and almost impossible to believe, but that is exactly what is happening. Every time you see scientific progress being made from US universities, remember that our elected officials are trying every day to defund it, to cripple it, to kill it outright. They are hitting it again and again in the hopes that it will finally stop moving. Act accordingly.

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John Berlinsky @berlinskyjohn.bsky.social · 1d

Can't watch it in Canada.

Video unavailable. The uploader has not made this video available in your country.

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John Berlinsky @berlinskyjohn.bsky.social · 1d

We shouldn't trade with Russia and should maintain sanctions because Russia is waging an illegal war against Ukraine and engaging in war crimes. India has been involved in extrajudicial killings and called out by Canada and the US, but nothing they've done has risen to the level of Russia's crimes.

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John Berlinsky @berlinskyjohn.bsky.social · 1d

Those articles all refer to planning and possibilities. Have you seen evidence than any budget has actually been cut? The budget won't be tabled until November 4.

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John Berlinsky @berlinskyjohn.bsky.social · 1d

My opinion of Modi is at least a low as yours, but India is the largest country in the world in terms of population. Does it make sense for Canada not to work with them or instead to alienate them?

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John Berlinsky @berlinskyjohn.bsky.social · 1d

My point is that Carney hasn't actually approved any of Alberta's demands. All he's done is listen. So far, no projects have been approved nor have any cuts been made. Pretty much all of the concerns about what will happen are speculative.

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🌸Norma Jeen🌸 @normajeen.bsky.social · 2d

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John Berlinsky @berlinskyjohn.bsky.social · 1d

I feel that it's premature to judge Carney because so little has happened in any final way, no budget tabled, legislation passed or major projects approved. I also sense that he wants to move toward the centre to draw in more Canadians since having a country of warring factions isn't going to work.

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Thomas Hansen @thomashansen.bsky.social · 2d

#NeverForget

Thomas Hansen @thomashansen.bsky.social · Nov 25

#GoldenAgeOfFraud

#Crypto

From Twitter:

Sick of people calling everything in crypto a Ponzi scheme. Some crypto projects are pump and dump schemes, while others are pyramid schemes. Others are just standard issue fraud. Others are just middlemen skimming of the top. Stop glossing over the diversity in the industry.

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Heather e^-1/x^2 @heathermoandco.bsky.social · 4d

There’s a reason hate mongers and disinformationists like #AndrewLawton are so concerned. They want no consequences for their hate entrepreneurship, disinformation spreading and destabilization efforts against 🇨🇦’s civil society. bsky.app/profile/heat... #cdnpoli

Heather e^-1/x^2 @heathermoandco.bsky.social · Apr 5

Something else I’d like to add about #AndrewLawton, #PierrePoilievre’s handpicked #CPC candidate in London, On. Lawton’s racist misogynist views, weren’t just evident in many years past (which he blamed on mental illness), Lawton continued to dog whistle to white nationalists, much more recently.

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Deirdre Mitchell-MacLean @mitchellab.bsky.social · 3d

"I think it's wrong to have the highest rate of funding for private schools in a province where we have the lowest rate of funding for public schools," the Calgary teacher said in an interview on Tuesday.
I agree.
#ableg #abpoli

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Alberta teacher prompts petition on province's private school funding | CBC News

If high school chemistry teacher Alicia Taylor gets her wish, Albertans will vote in a referendum on whether to end public funding for independent schools.

www.cbc.ca

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Amy K @pubdef4thepeople.bsky.social · 3d

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David E. Rovella @davidrovella.bsky.social · 4d

Masked ICE agents beat US citizen, threaten him with attack dog, arrest him for hours on no charges.

apnews.com/article/us-c...

US citizen detained and held at ICE building in Portland for hours before release, lawyer says

A lawyer in Portland, Oregon, says he is representing a U.S. citizen who was detained and held at the city's U.S.

apnews.com

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 4d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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🎃 Fiona "Fi" Webster 🎃 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 7d

Recurring🧵of cartoons: when you get to the end, click on Read 1 more reply.

If you save a cartoon, keep caption w/ artist's name & handle.

Previous 🧵s under Feeds tab of my profile.

Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social

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🎃 Fiona "Fi" Webster 🎃 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 7d

Clay Jones @claytoonz.bsky.social
Support Clay at open.substack.com/pub/claytoonz/

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Dr Karen Pinder 🇨🇦 🔬 @drkarenpinder.bsky.social · 7d

💥 🔥 #NeverPeePee

Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 7d

Please enjoy my cartoon for Wednesday's Toronto Star

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John Berlinsky @berlinskyjohn.bsky.social · 9d

Nobody in the USA wants to believe we are in mid 1930s Germany right now. When you say NAZI even people on the left get upset ...
Sunday thought: America’s trauma
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

Sunday thought: A national trauma

We need to talk about it openly

open.substack.com

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John Berlinsky @berlinskyjohn.bsky.social · 9d

I left X in December 2024 and have not looked back. I think people should be very critical of Canadian decisionmakers who use X, and I would encourage you to leave X and take as many of your large audience as you can with you. The only way to kill it is to stop using it.

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John Berlinsky @berlinskyjohn.bsky.social · 11d

The solution is clearly that more resources are required because the available resources are not adequate to deal with the workload.

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John Berlinsky @berlinskyjohn.bsky.social · 15d

Timely reading, if not long overdue, for a gloomy late-September day.

Kim Richard Nossal @kimnossal.bsky.social · Nov 16

I was hoping that this 2023 speculation on the impact of the return of Trump would become an historical curiosity in November. Instead, American voters have plunged us all into the post-American era.

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John Berlinsky @berlinskyjohn.bsky.social · 18d

"Nations aren’t made of clumps of earth or of drops of blood. They are made of stories, images and memories in people’s minds. The memory of the Russian invasion [and] atrocities and of Ukrainian sacrifices, will continue to sustain Ukrainian patriotism for generations to come."

on.ft.com/3KmyOLS

Why Ukraine is winning the war

Russia has failed to achieve its core aim — the destruction of the Ukrainian nation

on.ft.com

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