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Linda Dalpé
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Mom, wife, snowshoer, mountain biker, wannabe techie, gardener et médecin à la retraite. Je cuisine surtout avec des tomates.

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drgorfinkel.bsky.social
BOTULISM is an EMERGENCY

🦠 CAUSE: Nerve toxin - Clostridium botulinum

😟SYMPTOMS
-Weakness: Face→Neck→Arms→Legs
-Poor feeding, weak cry, constipation, floppy tone

🍼 INFANTS = 7 in 10 cases​

TREATMENT Airway support, Immune globulin
TIME is CRITICAL

nationalpost.com/life/food/by...
Canadian parents urged to stop using ByHeart baby formula following infant botulism outbreak in the U.S.
The CFIA is warning the public not to consume ByHeart baby formula following an outbreak of infant botulism in the United States.
nationalpost.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:51 AM
dalpe.bsky.social
Thank goodness some experts talk about ventilation and masking because these are not on the table in our @govnb.bsky.social healthcare discussions.
Science please!
scienceupfirst.bsky.social ScienceUpFirst @scienceupfirst.bsky.social · 13h
It’s shaping up to be a rough flu season — time to layer up that protection. 💪

Need some inspo? Check out what others are doing to stay healthy this season
👉 tinyurl.com/SUFScienceChampions

#ScienceUpFirst #LaSciencedAbord #TogetherAgainstMisinformation
November 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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scienceupfirst.bsky.social
It’s shaping up to be a rough flu season — time to layer up that protection. 💪

Need some inspo? Check out what others are doing to stay healthy this season
👉 tinyurl.com/SUFScienceChampions

#ScienceUpFirst #LaSciencedAbord #TogetherAgainstMisinformation
November 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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julieslalonde.bsky.social
If you or someone you know is being stalked, I'm so, so sorry.

I created this PSA a few years ago which lays out safety planning information and tips on being a good ally.
Outside of the Shadows: A Project on Criminal Harassment in Canada
YouTube video by Outside of The Shadows Project
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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julieslalonde.bsky.social
Stalking kills. I am, by every possible measurement, a statistical anomaly because few people survive being stalked for a decade like I was.

Stalking is femicide in slow motion.

Grateful @thewalrus.ca covered this and asked me to weigh in.
Why Don’t We Take Stalking More Seriously? | The Walrus
The law makes it hard for victims of criminal harassment to prove they’re at risk
thewalrus.ca
November 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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julieslalonde.bsky.social
90% of deep fake images online are non-consensual pornographic images of women and girls.

And yet, these images are not yet illegal in Canada.
antistalkingcanada.bsky.social The Canadian Anti-Stalking Association (CASA) @antistalkingcanada.bsky.social · 1d
Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. This year's theme is digital abuse.

Fewer than 40% of countries have laws protecting women from cyber harassment or cyber stalking. This leaves 44% of the world’s women and girls without access to legal protection.
November 25, 2025 International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women Image of multicoloured women in profile Stalking.ca
November 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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rollingstone.com
How Oregon’s Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis

Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.

Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
November 25, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
We are in a bizarre moment of diplomatic history. The purported "peace plan" that appeared a few days ago begins in Russian unreality and American weakness. Demanding everything of Ukraine and nothing of Russia, its purpose is imperialism and profiteering.
snyder.substack.com/p/russian-un...
Russian Unreality and American Weakness
Notes from a bizarre moment of diplomatic history
snyder.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
This is a hugely important story. I wrote about its consequences already in "Road to Unfreedom" and we know much more now. If we want to be a democracy we have to create structures of factuality rather than selling our future to the loudest yeller in another country.
eliothiggins.bsky.social Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 3d
Although the scale of this is still to be assessed, this is the inevitable outcome of the monetization of the algorithm. Rage-bait becomes a personal revenue model. Nothing about this should be a surprise.
aaronparnas.bsky.social Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 3d
NEWS: I spent the past 24 hours going through major MAGA accounts on Twitter, and a bombshell development has become clear: most of the right-wing ecosphere is being fed propaganda from foreign actors.

This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
November 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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placentadoc.bsky.social
Widower breaks down at Brampton, Ont., city hall amid cries for hospital reform

“He launched an online petition demanding sepsis screening and early prevention reform, which has amassed more than 15,000 signatures”
Widower breaks down at Brampton, Ont., city hall amid cries for hospital reform
The deaths of multiple mothers shortly after giving birth in Canadian hospitals has led the City of Brampton, Ont., to pass a unanimous motion calling for sweeping hospital reforms.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 24, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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aradwanski.bsky.social
I could not agree more strongly with this. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Senators call on prime minister to ban advertising for sports betting | CBC News
Two senators are calling on the federal government to ban advertising for sports betting in Canada. A letter to the prime minister from Charlottetown Sen. Percy Downe and Waterloo Sen. Marty Deacon as...
www.cbc.ca
November 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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dansinker.com
Yesterday I tried to put everything I knew about whistles—where to get them, where to get instruction sheets, how to distro—into one place so you can build off it for your own community's whistle needs: dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
November 22, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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drjudystone.bsky.social
Thank you, @dansinker.com for this wonderful resource on whistles. Our community is trying to figure out how to better organize. This will be a big help!
dansinker.com dan sinker @dansinker.com · 4d
Yesterday I tried to put everything I knew about whistles—where to get them, where to get instruction sheets, how to distro—into one place so you can build off it for your own community's whistle needs: dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
November 23, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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armineyalnizyan.bsky.social
Remember?
drgorfinkel.bsky.social Iris Gorfinkel, M.D. @drgorfinkel.bsky.social · 10d
🚨BUYER BEWARE
FOR-PROFIT DIAGNOSTIC CENTRES DON'T SAVE MONEY

They INCREASE
🧪 Tests not indicated
✖️ Anxiety
🧐 Waste of public resources
🗓️ Public wait times

...while Conflicts of interest, Upcharges & Oversold services
are NOT DISCLOSED

@alonghurst.bsky.social

calgaryherald.com/news/local-n...
U of C doctor says study shows for-profit diagnostic screening will lead to unintended problems
"We're going to prey on people's anxieties," says doctor who studied increased cardiac imaging in Alberta in the late 1990s.
calgaryherald.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
Important thread
bridgetbrink.com Bridget Brink @bridgetbrink.com · 5d
I served as our Ambassador in Ukraine for 3 years under Putin’s missiles and drones but resigned when Trump kept appeasing Putin. America does not bow to dictators. It’s not who we are.

Here's why this Trump-Putin so-called "peace plan" is a disaster:
November 22, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
Pure evil.
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 5d
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
nyti.ms
November 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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mark-ungrin.bsky.social
The second report of the UK COVID Inquiry is out. The two volumes are here: covid19.public-inquiry.uk/documents/mo...

The section on "The focus on handwashing over ventilation" begins in section 12.32 of the second volume (page 167 in the PDF of voume 2).

#itsairborne #COVID #longCOVID #aerosol
Module 2, 2A, 2B, 2C Report - Core decision-making and political governance UK Covid-19 Inquiry Archives
A report by The Rt Hon the Baroness Hallett DBE, Chair of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry on the core decision-making and political governance, dated 20 November 2025.
covid19.public-inquiry.uk
November 20, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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mark-ungrin.bsky.social
The information that could have stopped the pandemic in 2020, that Dr. Morawska was desperately trying to teach WHO infection control leaders in 2020, was known for 👉84 years👈 before these events (documented in @carlzimmer.com's excellent book AIR-BORNE):

(figure: academic.oup.com/aje/article/...)
A page from Carl Zimmer's book AIR-BORNE: Kerkhove started the conversation off politely, but it quickly devolved. Some WHO representatives rejected Group 36's concerns out-right, dismissing their evidence as weak. Julian Tang, a British virologist with Group 36, pushed back, pointing out that WHO was claiming that fomites and large droplets spread SARS-CoV-2 while it had no rigorous proof of its own. Before long, Jimenez recalled, the temperature hit the boiling point. He watched John Conly scream at Morawska. "He kept yelling, 'But, Lidia, where is your evidence? Where is your evidence?" Jimenez recalled. "I was thinking, 'Jesus Christ, what is this?" The Group 36 scientists would later publish a collective account of the shocking experience. "After the call was finished, disappointed and frustrated, we wondered, Why are they acting like this?" they wrote. "Why are they so bluntly rejecting our arguments?" I later asked Conly about Group 36's account. He stressed that he was not directly involved in the conflict over WHO's guidelines. With over thirty advisors from around the world helping to develop the guide-lines, he wasn't that high on the WHO ladder. Conly thought that scien-tists like Li and Morawska did great work, but he saw many gaps in the evidence about how Covid-19 spread. They all deserved careful scientific inquiry. With so much complexity and uncertainty to contend with, dis-putes were inevitable. "The flattest pancake in the world has two sides," Conly told me. Reeling in frustration after the April 3 call, Group 36 conferred about what to do next. "We were like, 'Okay, we need to find more evidence," Jimenez said. They had to find an outbreak of Covid-19 that they could document, taking proper account of the role that air played in the infections. A plot from Wells' 1934 paper showing particles on the order of 100 microns or less will evaporate to airborne aerosol size before they have time to fall to the ground from head height. Associated text reads: residues or nuclei physically comparable with particles of fine dust may be of considerable hygienic importance. The size of droplet nuclei depends upon the amount of solid matter contained in the evaporating droplet. Because of the high percentage of water in body fluids, nuclei will be small in proportion to the size of the original droplet. Yet they will remain large in comparison to the mass of a bacterium. Normal saline droplets would reduce to salt nuclei roughly one-fifth of the former diameter, having a volume of some ten thousand bacteria. The nuclei of such droplets would settle slowly and be carried long distances by light air currents.
November 21, 2025 at 6:05 PM
dalpe.bsky.social
www.unicef.ca/fr/la-conven...
La Convention relative aux droits de l’enfant dans un langage adapté aux enfants
La Convention relative aux droits de l’enfant des Nations Unies constitue un accord important entre plusieurs pays, dont le Canada, qui se sont engagés à assurer les droits fondamentaux des enfants.
www.unicef.ca
November 20, 2025 at 4:20 PM
dalpe.bsky.social
We need these updated educational posts from our PH units in @govnb.bsky.social and stop focusing on ONLY vaccines and hand washing, which is sooooo 2020.
#YouDon'tBreathThroughYourHands
durhamhealthnc.bsky.social Durham County Department of Public Health (DCoDPH) @durhamhealthnc.bsky.social · 7d
Respiratory virus season is here, but there are steps you can take to protect yourself and others from COVID-19, flu, RSV, and more! Masks, vaccines, good handwashing, and maintaining clean indoor air can help keep you safe and protect your short-term and long-term health.
Protect Yourself This Respiratory Virus Season! Wear Masks. Wearing masks helps protect you from multiple illnesses, including COVID-19, flu, common colds, and more, by blocking virus particles from entering your body! High-quality masks like N95s and KN95s work best, but if you don’t have those, wear the best quality available to you. Protect Yourself This Respiratory Virus Season! Get Vaccinated Getting vaccinated helps reduce your chances of getting sick, and if you do get sick, vaccines help reduce your chances of serious illness or death. All people age 6 months and older should be vaccinated against COVID-19 and flu. Ask your doctor about RSV vaccines if you are age 50 or older, pregnant, or have an infant. Protect Yourself This Respiratory Virus Season! Wash Your Hands It’s important to wash your hands frequently with soap and water for at least 20 seconds. Although handwashing cannot prevent infection from virus particles in the air, it can lower the risk of infection from viruses like RSV that can also spread by touching contaminated surfaces then getting virus particles into your eyes, nose, or mouth. Protect Yourself This Respiratory Virus Season! Maintain Clean Indoor Air By maintaining good ventilation and clean indoor air, you can lower the amount of viral particles in the air and reduce your risk of exposure. Help keep the air ventilated and clean by opening windows or using a portable HEPA air purifier if you’ll be indoors around others.
November 19, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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durhamhealthnc.bsky.social
Respiratory virus season is here, but there are steps you can take to protect yourself and others from COVID-19, flu, RSV, and more! Masks, vaccines, good handwashing, and maintaining clean indoor air can help keep you safe and protect your short-term and long-term health.
Protect Yourself This Respiratory Virus Season! Wear Masks. Wearing masks helps protect you from multiple illnesses, including COVID-19, flu, common colds, and more, by blocking virus particles from entering your body! High-quality masks like N95s and KN95s work best, but if you don’t have those, wear the best quality available to you. Protect Yourself This Respiratory Virus Season! Get Vaccinated Getting vaccinated helps reduce your chances of getting sick, and if you do get sick, vaccines help reduce your chances of serious illness or death. All people age 6 months and older should be vaccinated against COVID-19 and flu. Ask your doctor about RSV vaccines if you are age 50 or older, pregnant, or have an infant. Protect Yourself This Respiratory Virus Season! Wash Your Hands It’s important to wash your hands frequently with soap and water for at least 20 seconds. Although handwashing cannot prevent infection from virus particles in the air, it can lower the risk of infection from viruses like RSV that can also spread by touching contaminated surfaces then getting virus particles into your eyes, nose, or mouth. Protect Yourself This Respiratory Virus Season! Maintain Clean Indoor Air By maintaining good ventilation and clean indoor air, you can lower the amount of viral particles in the air and reduce your risk of exposure. Help keep the air ventilated and clean by opening windows or using a portable HEPA air purifier if you’ll be indoors around others.
November 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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julieslalonde.bsky.social
A lot of true crime makes my skin crawl. Beyond the stories themselves, there's a gross exploitive energy to them that I can't shake.

So I was really delighted when the production company reached out to us to ensure Canadian viewers had their own supports listed at the end. This should be standard!
antistalkingcanada.bsky.social The Canadian Anti-Stalking Association (CASA) @antistalkingcanada.bsky.social · 8d
"My Nightmare Stalker" is now streaming in the US on Paramount+ and here in Canada on Crave.

We're grateful to the production company Forté Entertainment for reaching out to include us as one of their resources for Canadian viewers.
Poster for the documentary "My Nightmare Stalker: The Eva LaRue Story" now streaming on Paramount+ featuring a photo of Eva LaRue with a man behind her depicted as her stalker. Screengrab from the documentary that says "For information on Anti-Stalking Advocacy in Canada contact the Canadian Anti-Stalking Association (CASA) at stalking.ca"
November 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
dalpe.bsky.social
Rereading @stephenking.bsky.social "The Running Man" which is set in the future (2025)

"I remember when Mick Jagger was a big name. You don't even know who he was, do ya?"

Who could have predicted that he is still here and is still a big name in 2025? 🤭
November 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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nbcovidinfo.bsky.social
👋 @ipaccanada.bsky.social This is really important for a group that claims they are: “committed to public wellness and safety” and they “advocate for best practices in infection prevention and control in all settings” (from IPAC’s website).
safedavid3.bsky.social David Osborn @safedavid3.bsky.social · 9d
On Thurs 20th, Lady Hallett publishes her module 2 report.

We wait with interest to see how it covers the deception wrought upon HCWs that: a) Covid is droplet/fomite, but not airborne b) Flimsy Fluid Resistant Surgical Masks are 'PPE' and will keep you safe.
November 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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njbbari3.bsky.social
Do you know how many healthcare workers should have been exposed to the novel H5N5 virus?

Thats right.

Zero.

According to the dark site apparently there were more than 100.

🤷🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️
November 18, 2025 at 12:34 PM