Dr. Young-Leslie {use alt-text, humans} ElbowsUp! 🇨🇦🚲
@ethnographer.bsky.social
Anthropologist, feminist, fietsster, research whisperer; settler in Amiskwaciwâskahikan aka Yeg🇨🇦
My research focussed on cultural responses to public health messages (MCH, HIV, COVID)
Mostly skeet on bikes, climate∆, #FeministSky, just transition, urbanism
My research focussed on cultural responses to public health messages (MCH, HIV, COVID)
Mostly skeet on bikes, climate∆, #FeministSky, just transition, urbanism
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A feed of & for feminists & women academics:
"Feminist Scholars" AKA #FeministSky.
It collects skeets with keywords ie: feminism, patriarchy, suffrage, intersectional, LGBTQ, Trans... & some theorists ie:de Beauvoir, Cixious, Kristeva, Irigaray, Haraway... &♀️women scholars. 📌 or ask to be added!
"Feminist Scholars" AKA #FeministSky.
It collects skeets with keywords ie: feminism, patriarchy, suffrage, intersectional, LGBTQ, Trans... & some theorists ie:de Beauvoir, Cixious, Kristeva, Irigaray, Haraway... &♀️women scholars. 📌 or ask to be added!
@nicolettelittle.bsky.social @nicoleroach.bsky.social Check out this unique approach to reimagining a city: open.substack.com/pub/urbancyc...
#urbanism+
#urbanism+
Rethinking Urban Futures Through Children’s Books
CRB'25 scholarship recipient, Peter Füssy's insight on breaking away from a car-oriented imaginary through Radical Children's Literature
open.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:58 AM
@nicolettelittle.bsky.social @nicoleroach.bsky.social Check out this unique approach to reimagining a city: open.substack.com/pub/urbancyc...
#urbanism+
#urbanism+
Asking #academicsky if you agree with @sobchuk.bsky.social?
Before the monstrous transformation of Twitter to X, it was considered normal to be active on academic Twitter. Now, even though we've migrated to Bluesky ("safe space"), I feel that many ppl (including myself) are less active in posting anything. Have you noticed this trend? Or am I imagining this?
November 26, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Asking #academicsky if you agree with @sobchuk.bsky.social?
Do I know anyone looking for an ethnographer, fietsster and urbanist-nerd / architecture-geek to be part of their Venice Biennale of Architecture proposal? Deadline Jan 15'26. Biennale 2027 runs May - Nov.
canadacouncil.ca/initiatives/...
#Design #Architecture
canadacouncil.ca/initiatives/...
#Design #Architecture
Venice Architecture Biennale
The Venice Biennale of Architecture is an international platform that engages critical conversations about contemporary architecture.
canadacouncil.ca
November 26, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Do I know anyone looking for an ethnographer, fietsster and urbanist-nerd / architecture-geek to be part of their Venice Biennale of Architecture proposal? Deadline Jan 15'26. Biennale 2027 runs May - Nov.
canadacouncil.ca/initiatives/...
#Design #Architecture
canadacouncil.ca/initiatives/...
#Design #Architecture
Well dammit #ThomasKing; dammit to hell.
November 25, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Well dammit #ThomasKing; dammit to hell.
The UCP aiming to bribe MDs.... so as to expand that crack in Albertans' universal health care access, and prioritization (which is supposed to be based on highest need not highest greed).
The provincial election cannot come fast enough. Nor can those MLA recalls!
The provincial election cannot come fast enough. Nor can those MLA recalls!
NEWS: Province to allow some doctors to work in both public, private settings
Province to allow some doctors to work in both public, private settings
Government of Alberta introduces Bill 11 to introduce 'dual practice' health care model
dlvr.it
November 25, 2025 at 11:22 PM
The UCP aiming to bribe MDs.... so as to expand that crack in Albertans' universal health care access, and prioritization (which is supposed to be based on highest need not highest greed).
The provincial election cannot come fast enough. Nor can those MLA recalls!
The provincial election cannot come fast enough. Nor can those MLA recalls!
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Manitoba Métis leader David Chartrand and two others were cleared Tuesday of allegations of financial impropriety in a civil case pursued by a council they led before a major split.
Multimillion-dollar suit against MMF leader dismissed
Chartrand, two others ‘acted honestly’ while leading Métis National Council, Ontario judge rules
www.winnipegfreepress.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Manitoba Métis leader David Chartrand and two others were cleared Tuesday of allegations of financial impropriety in a civil case pursued by a council they led before a major split.
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Tonight on APTN National News: Manitoba’s red dress alert system pilot project released its final report this week.
Ontario Superior Court dismissed lawsuit against the MMF president and former MNC president for alleged misspending of millions.
Ontario Superior Court dismissed lawsuit against the MMF president and former MNC president for alleged misspending of millions.
APTN National News: November 25, 2025 – Red dress alert project, Court dismisses lawsuit against MMF
YouTube video by APTN News
youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Tonight on APTN National News: Manitoba’s red dress alert system pilot project released its final report this week.
Ontario Superior Court dismissed lawsuit against the MMF president and former MNC president for alleged misspending of millions.
Ontario Superior Court dismissed lawsuit against the MMF president and former MNC president for alleged misspending of millions.
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Will you swim against the consumer current this week? Our independent journalism is made possible by people like you — and we need to add 400 members to meet our 2025 goal.
Join today and we’ll send you a Narwhal toque!
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November 25, 2025 at 11:12 PM
We’ve got a better idea for Black Friday…
Will you swim against the consumer current this week? Our independent journalism is made possible by people like you — and we need to add 400 members to meet our 2025 goal.
Join today and we’ll send you a Narwhal toque!
thenarwhal.ca/black-friday/
Will you swim against the consumer current this week? Our independent journalism is made possible by people like you — and we need to add 400 members to meet our 2025 goal.
Join today and we’ll send you a Narwhal toque!
thenarwhal.ca/black-friday/
AND another YEG traffic fatality, this time in Mill Woods (Silverberry) area.The weather was clear. EPS are asking for help, if you were in the 34 St & 28A Ave area, Sunday Nov 23, 2pm. Condolences to family & friends.
@yegbike.bsky.social @bikeedmonton.bsky.social
#VisionZero
#Yegbike
#Whitebike
@yegbike.bsky.social @bikeedmonton.bsky.social
#VisionZero
#Yegbike
#Whitebike
Anyone with info about or video of the crash is asked to contact the Edmonton Police Service at 780-423-4567 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
#YEGbike
#YEGbike
November 24, 2025 at 11:57 PM
AND another YEG traffic fatality, this time in Mill Woods (Silverberry) area.The weather was clear. EPS are asking for help, if you were in the 34 St & 28A Ave area, Sunday Nov 23, 2pm. Condolences to family & friends.
@yegbike.bsky.social @bikeedmonton.bsky.social
#VisionZero
#Yegbike
#Whitebike
@yegbike.bsky.social @bikeedmonton.bsky.social
#VisionZero
#Yegbike
#Whitebike
Good idea! Sharing it with @edmontonanne.bsky.social.
#VisionZero
#Autonormativity
#ClimateAction
#Bikesky
#Yegbike
#VisionZero
#Autonormativity
#ClimateAction
#Bikesky
#Yegbike
#Edmonton's next 4-year budget planning starts soon. We hope YegCC takes a VERY hard look at how #autonormativity is costing everyone, in taxes & lives. We’re grateful to the @yegbike.bsky.social for this report card! Share it with your local city councillor: open.substack.com/pub/yegbike/...
Edmonton’s Fall 2025 Budget
What Moves Us Forward — and What Holds Us Back
open.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Good idea! Sharing it with @edmontonanne.bsky.social.
#VisionZero
#Autonormativity
#ClimateAction
#Bikesky
#Yegbike
#VisionZero
#Autonormativity
#ClimateAction
#Bikesky
#Yegbike
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Edmonton has been paying lip-service to public safety; adopting babysteps, but eschewing decisions that wld shift stats for seniors, children, women, & anyone living in the $under-privileged neighbourhoods. #YegCC are debating the current 4-yr budget’s adjustments edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...
Edmonton property taxes going up about $220 in proposed 2026 budget
Council needs to find $3.8 billion to cover city's costs, Edmontonians can anticipate a 6.4 per cent property tax levy hike
edmontonjournal.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Edmonton has been paying lip-service to public safety; adopting babysteps, but eschewing decisions that wld shift stats for seniors, children, women, & anyone living in the $under-privileged neighbourhoods. #YegCC are debating the current 4-yr budget’s adjustments edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...
Lip-service includes:
‣VisionZero strategy 2019-2032: some traffic-calming, but 0 enforcement; +fatalities
‣$100M for active transportation: mostly multi-user paths, few complete streets.
Next challenge? Culture of speeding-as-a-right, aka #autonormativity edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
‣VisionZero strategy 2019-2032: some traffic-calming, but 0 enforcement; +fatalities
‣$100M for active transportation: mostly multi-user paths, few complete streets.
Next challenge? Culture of speeding-as-a-right, aka #autonormativity edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
November 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Lip-service includes:
‣VisionZero strategy 2019-2032: some traffic-calming, but 0 enforcement; +fatalities
‣$100M for active transportation: mostly multi-user paths, few complete streets.
Next challenge? Culture of speeding-as-a-right, aka #autonormativity edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
‣VisionZero strategy 2019-2032: some traffic-calming, but 0 enforcement; +fatalities
‣$100M for active transportation: mostly multi-user paths, few complete streets.
Next challenge? Culture of speeding-as-a-right, aka #autonormativity edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
CPSC Warns Consumers to Immediately Stop Using Batteries for E-Bikes from Rad Power Bikes Due to Fire Hazard; Risk of Serious Injury or Death www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/202...
November 24, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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congrats to the UCP govt! it took the PCs 40+ years to become complacent, lazy and out of touch... something that the UCP has achieved in only 6 years
edmontonjournal.com/opinion/ucp-...
edmontonjournal.com/opinion/ucp-...
Leong: UCP learns first-hand how badly written laws can have bad consequences
From its use of notwithstanding clause against teachers to shoddy recall legislation, the Alberta government taking flak from all side.
edmontonjournal.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
congrats to the UCP govt! it took the PCs 40+ years to become complacent, lazy and out of touch... something that the UCP has achieved in only 6 years
edmontonjournal.com/opinion/ucp-...
edmontonjournal.com/opinion/ucp-...
THIS! Heads up, @sgsp-abndp.bsky.social: While acting as shadow-govt, let's see some actual new legislation drafted, on education, health, human & Charter rights, coal, H2O, energy futures. Prove to Albertans you're ready to roll. Show us substance over rhetoric @naheednenshi.bsky.social #AbPoli
Critics allege that Zohran Mamdani only won New York City’s mayoral election because of slick social media content and easily wooed voters.
On the contrary, an analysis finds that his messaging contained vastly more policy detail than Andrew Cuomo’s.
On the contrary, an analysis finds that his messaging contained vastly more policy detail than Andrew Cuomo’s.
Zohran Mamdani Won on Substance, Not Just Style
Critics allege that Zohran Mamdani only won New York City’s mayoral election because of slick social media content and easily wooed voters. On the contrary, an analysis finds that his messaging contained vastly more policy detail than Andrew Cuomo’s.
jacobin.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:10 PM
THIS! Heads up, @sgsp-abndp.bsky.social: While acting as shadow-govt, let's see some actual new legislation drafted, on education, health, human & Charter rights, coal, H2O, energy futures. Prove to Albertans you're ready to roll. Show us substance over rhetoric @naheednenshi.bsky.social #AbPoli
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This week at McGill, Krista Maxwell discusses INDIGENOUS HEALING AS PARADOX: Re-Membering and Biopolitics in the Settler Colony with a panel of scholars:
Tuyaa Montgomery (Anthropology)
Wanda Gabriel (Social Work)
Leslie Sabiston (Anthropology)
Dennis C. Wendt (Education)
https://bit.ly/4l6Smk4
Tuyaa Montgomery (Anthropology)
Wanda Gabriel (Social Work)
Leslie Sabiston (Anthropology)
Dennis C. Wendt (Education)
https://bit.ly/4l6Smk4
November 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
This week at McGill, Krista Maxwell discusses INDIGENOUS HEALING AS PARADOX: Re-Membering and Biopolitics in the Settler Colony with a panel of scholars:
Tuyaa Montgomery (Anthropology)
Wanda Gabriel (Social Work)
Leslie Sabiston (Anthropology)
Dennis C. Wendt (Education)
https://bit.ly/4l6Smk4
Tuyaa Montgomery (Anthropology)
Wanda Gabriel (Social Work)
Leslie Sabiston (Anthropology)
Dennis C. Wendt (Education)
https://bit.ly/4l6Smk4
Hey, anthropologists & curriculum writers.... Intended for children, summarizing very basic lessons from Anth101, this neat piece in @theconversation.com (Canada), might help with your local under-educated, over-ideologued policy influencers?
theconversation.com/if-evolution... #Anthrosky
theconversation.com/if-evolution... #Anthrosky
If evolution is real, then why isn’t it happening now? An anthropologist explains that humans actually are still evolving
We are indeed still evolving, though it can be hard to tell because it happens over generations and often involves things you can’t see, such as what foods different people are able to digest.
theconversation.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Hey, anthropologists & curriculum writers.... Intended for children, summarizing very basic lessons from Anth101, this neat piece in @theconversation.com (Canada), might help with your local under-educated, over-ideologued policy influencers?
theconversation.com/if-evolution... #Anthrosky
theconversation.com/if-evolution... #Anthrosky
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We like Helsinki as a comparator:
HEL vs YEG:
Pop: 1.6M vs 1.2M
PopDensty: 3,050-3,217 vs 1,320.4km2
Avg Rent 2brm: €800–€1,100 vs $1,679|€1,036.51
LRT: 43km/2 lines vs 9.6km/3 lines
🚲paths: 1200km vs 210km (lanes+MUPs)
🚗: 736K vs 727.3K
Size: 213.75km2 vs 765.61km2
Budget: €5.2B|$6.84B vs $10.8B
HEL vs YEG:
Pop: 1.6M vs 1.2M
PopDensty: 3,050-3,217 vs 1,320.4km2
Avg Rent 2brm: €800–€1,100 vs $1,679|€1,036.51
LRT: 43km/2 lines vs 9.6km/3 lines
🚲paths: 1200km vs 210km (lanes+MUPs)
🚗: 736K vs 727.3K
Size: 213.75km2 vs 765.61km2
Budget: €5.2B|$6.84B vs $10.8B
November 18, 2025 at 10:04 PM
We like Helsinki as a comparator:
HEL vs YEG:
Pop: 1.6M vs 1.2M
PopDensty: 3,050-3,217 vs 1,320.4km2
Avg Rent 2brm: €800–€1,100 vs $1,679|€1,036.51
LRT: 43km/2 lines vs 9.6km/3 lines
🚲paths: 1200km vs 210km (lanes+MUPs)
🚗: 736K vs 727.3K
Size: 213.75km2 vs 765.61km2
Budget: €5.2B|$6.84B vs $10.8B
HEL vs YEG:
Pop: 1.6M vs 1.2M
PopDensty: 3,050-3,217 vs 1,320.4km2
Avg Rent 2brm: €800–€1,100 vs $1,679|€1,036.51
LRT: 43km/2 lines vs 9.6km/3 lines
🚲paths: 1200km vs 210km (lanes+MUPs)
🚗: 736K vs 727.3K
Size: 213.75km2 vs 765.61km2
Budget: €5.2B|$6.84B vs $10.8B
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Wow, the budget and density numbers really jump out! We get colder winters, but they aren't typically sustained as @yegwxnerdery.bsky.social recently analyzed.
bsky.app/profile/yegw...
The amount of snowfall might be different, and the amount that comes down each event, but they manage snow better.
bsky.app/profile/yegw...
The amount of snowfall might be different, and the amount that comes down each event, but they manage snow better.
Whether you're a newcomer to Edmonton, or an oldtimer, today we hope to shed a little light on our darkest season with a little something called: Edmonton's Winters - the Good, the Bad, and the Data (Part 1).
edmontonweathernerdery.blogspot.com/2025/11/edmo...
#yegwx #yeg
edmontonweathernerdery.blogspot.com/2025/11/edmo...
#yegwx #yeg
Edmonton's Winters - the Good, the Bad, and the Data (Part 1)
Weather history for Edmonton Alberta, from a year-round active-commuter. Trends and records for the northernmost city of 1M people in North America.
edmontonweathernerdery.blogspot.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Wow, the budget and density numbers really jump out! We get colder winters, but they aren't typically sustained as @yegwxnerdery.bsky.social recently analyzed.
bsky.app/profile/yegw...
The amount of snowfall might be different, and the amount that comes down each event, but they manage snow better.
bsky.app/profile/yegw...
The amount of snowfall might be different, and the amount that comes down each event, but they manage snow better.
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Saab has promised that if Canada picks the Gripen, it’ll be built right here in Canada. #cdnpoli
That means thousands jobs, full control over maintenance.
Ongoing talks are to swap the U.S. engine for a Canadian-made Rolls-Royce one from Montreal, which would break free from U.S. export controls.
That means thousands jobs, full control over maintenance.
Ongoing talks are to swap the U.S. engine for a Canadian-made Rolls-Royce one from Montreal, which would break free from U.S. export controls.
November 20, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Saab has promised that if Canada picks the Gripen, it’ll be built right here in Canada. #cdnpoli
That means thousands jobs, full control over maintenance.
Ongoing talks are to swap the U.S. engine for a Canadian-made Rolls-Royce one from Montreal, which would break free from U.S. export controls.
That means thousands jobs, full control over maintenance.
Ongoing talks are to swap the U.S. engine for a Canadian-made Rolls-Royce one from Montreal, which would break free from U.S. export controls.
Good to see Canadian military brass taking lessons from Finland's 'whole of society' defense strategy.
This is great news!
"bolster the nation’s defences by creating a civil force made up of 300,000 volunteers"
"The plan calls for a “whole of society” approach ... ranging from low-intensity natural disaster response to high-intensity large scale combat operations.”"
www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
"bolster the nation’s defences by creating a civil force made up of 300,000 volunteers"
"The plan calls for a “whole of society” approach ... ranging from low-intensity natural disaster response to high-intensity large scale combat operations.”"
www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
The military plans for a volunteer force to defend Canada
Faced with rising threats from competing states and climate change, the top military minds in the Canadian Armed Forces are drafting a plan to bolster the nation’s defences by creating a civil force m...
www.ctvnews.ca
November 20, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Good to see Canadian military brass taking lessons from Finland's 'whole of society' defense strategy.
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In Edmonton too, city council candidates who opposed or down-played city-wide bike infrastructure, were not-elected - except one. We're inviting #KarenPrincipe (she, who invited the Prov Minister of Transportation to interfere in Municipal jurisdiction) to join us on a bike ride. #yegbike
Say goodbye to city councillor Mary Deros, perhaps Montreal's most fervent bike-lane hater.
She hated then so much!
She lost the recent election, asked for a recount, and lost by more! Let's all hope that's the last we ever hear or see from her.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
She hated then so much!
She lost the recent election, asked for a recount, and lost by more! Let's all hope that's the last we ever hear or see from her.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Recount confirms longtime councillor Mary Deros's loss in Montreal's Park Ex | CBC News
Elvira Carhuallanqui’s victory unseats Mary Deros, who was first elected in 1998 with Pierre Bourque’s Vision Montréal and went on to win six more terms under various banners, including Ensemble Montr...
www.cbc.ca
November 15, 2025 at 5:44 PM
In Edmonton too, city council candidates who opposed or down-played city-wide bike infrastructure, were not-elected - except one. We're inviting #KarenPrincipe (she, who invited the Prov Minister of Transportation to interfere in Municipal jurisdiction) to join us on a bike ride. #yegbike
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“I am not working in those facilities because I find it morally inappropriate.”
A Tyee investigation found that Calgary anesthesiologists are being scheduled by managers, in response to government directives, to work in for-profit chartered surgical facilities, sometimes against their will. #abpoli
A Tyee investigation found that Calgary anesthesiologists are being scheduled by managers, in response to government directives, to work in for-profit chartered surgical facilities, sometimes against their will. #abpoli
Insiders Detail Ways Alberta’s For-Profit Surgery Push Is Failing | The Tyee
The shift strong-arms doctors but hasn’t saved money or shortened waits for critical operations, sources say. A Tyee investigation.
thetyee.ca
November 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
“I am not working in those facilities because I find it morally inappropriate.”
A Tyee investigation found that Calgary anesthesiologists are being scheduled by managers, in response to government directives, to work in for-profit chartered surgical facilities, sometimes against their will. #abpoli
A Tyee investigation found that Calgary anesthesiologists are being scheduled by managers, in response to government directives, to work in for-profit chartered surgical facilities, sometimes against their will. #abpoli
Hey urbanism fans, an interesting take on #Edmonton, as seen via Google Earth:
youtu.be/fU7HBOi-7uQ?...
#yeg
#urbanism+
#citysky
youtu.be/fU7HBOi-7uQ?...
#yeg
#urbanism+
#citysky
November 16, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Hey urbanism fans, an interesting take on #Edmonton, as seen via Google Earth:
youtu.be/fU7HBOi-7uQ?...
#yeg
#urbanism+
#citysky
youtu.be/fU7HBOi-7uQ?...
#yeg
#urbanism+
#citysky
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i am so sad about the beached whale in yachats :( as of an hour ago it's still alive. there's a billion people down there in wetsuits doing a bucket brigade, they've got coffee and food donated. the marine biologist can get there in 2 hours but high tide isn't until 9. hang on big buddy!
November 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
i am so sad about the beached whale in yachats :( as of an hour ago it's still alive. there's a billion people down there in wetsuits doing a bucket brigade, they've got coffee and food donated. the marine biologist can get there in 2 hours but high tide isn't until 9. hang on big buddy!