H. Bell
@grudgingcloud.bsky.social
Handmade ECE. 🇨🇦n. Passionate Beluga defender, clothesline, camping &snowthusiast. Stubbornly mendy tie/toymaker. #CovidIsAirborne #noDinoPipelines #WearAMask
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My youngest child's nearly out of this system..but this email today annoyed me profoundly. Of course they tap things that parents ARE concerned about while side-stepping their own culpability & fact that their underfunding for past 7 yrs is contributing & making problems far worse.
I really hate these school board-shaming propaganda emails from Paul Calandra. "You expect better results for your children, and so do I."
You've been in power seven years. Your "back-to-basics" stuff has only marginally improved EQAO scores? Your answer is a new "advisory body"? On you.
You've been in power seven years. Your "back-to-basics" stuff has only marginally improved EQAO scores? Your answer is a new "advisory body"? On you.
December 4, 2025 at 1:10 AM
My youngest child's nearly out of this system..but this email today annoyed me profoundly. Of course they tap things that parents ARE concerned about while side-stepping their own culpability & fact that their underfunding for past 7 yrs is contributing & making problems far worse.
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I really hate these school board-shaming propaganda emails from Paul Calandra. "You expect better results for your children, and so do I."
You've been in power seven years. Your "back-to-basics" stuff has only marginally improved EQAO scores? Your answer is a new "advisory body"? On you.
You've been in power seven years. Your "back-to-basics" stuff has only marginally improved EQAO scores? Your answer is a new "advisory body"? On you.
December 3, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I really hate these school board-shaming propaganda emails from Paul Calandra. "You expect better results for your children, and so do I."
You've been in power seven years. Your "back-to-basics" stuff has only marginally improved EQAO scores? Your answer is a new "advisory body"? On you.
You've been in power seven years. Your "back-to-basics" stuff has only marginally improved EQAO scores? Your answer is a new "advisory body"? On you.
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December 4, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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On CBC Radio they're talking about St. Michaels' doctors studying the increase in accidents due to e-bikes. The outcome? Because there are more accidents, more injuries result and so e-bikes should be licensed.
We don't need doctors to study this.
Why? Because physics.
We don't need doctors to study this.
Why? Because physics.
December 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
On CBC Radio they're talking about St. Michaels' doctors studying the increase in accidents due to e-bikes. The outcome? Because there are more accidents, more injuries result and so e-bikes should be licensed.
We don't need doctors to study this.
Why? Because physics.
We don't need doctors to study this.
Why? Because physics.
We once had a fun family camping trip to Dinosaur Provincial Park near Brooks, Alberta… and many know of Drumheller.
However, Alberta is known for its dinosaurs - - in all the wrong ways.
Why must Canada join in this madness again?!!
However, Alberta is known for its dinosaurs - - in all the wrong ways.
Why must Canada join in this madness again?!!
New from me, Rick Smith, and Peter Nicholson.
“Our policy advice is pretty simple: Clean up electricity and electrify everything possible. This is the nation-building project Canada needs…”
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
“Our policy advice is pretty simple: Clean up electricity and electrify everything possible. This is the nation-building project Canada needs…”
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
New data shows the world is embracing renewable energy. Canada can’t follow Trump’s fossil fuel obsession
North America at risk of becoming an island of fossil fuels in an electrifying world. Canada should take note and choose a better path.
www.thestar.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:18 AM
We once had a fun family camping trip to Dinosaur Provincial Park near Brooks, Alberta… and many know of Drumheller.
However, Alberta is known for its dinosaurs - - in all the wrong ways.
Why must Canada join in this madness again?!!
However, Alberta is known for its dinosaurs - - in all the wrong ways.
Why must Canada join in this madness again?!!
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New from me, Rick Smith, and Peter Nicholson.
“Our policy advice is pretty simple: Clean up electricity and electrify everything possible. This is the nation-building project Canada needs…”
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
“Our policy advice is pretty simple: Clean up electricity and electrify everything possible. This is the nation-building project Canada needs…”
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
New data shows the world is embracing renewable energy. Canada can’t follow Trump’s fossil fuel obsession
North America at risk of becoming an island of fossil fuels in an electrifying world. Canada should take note and choose a better path.
www.thestar.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:47 PM
New from me, Rick Smith, and Peter Nicholson.
“Our policy advice is pretty simple: Clean up electricity and electrify everything possible. This is the nation-building project Canada needs…”
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
“Our policy advice is pretty simple: Clean up electricity and electrify everything possible. This is the nation-building project Canada needs…”
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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I read this to see, as expected, no mention of using N95 masks to prevent the spread of respiratory illnesses. But hey, lots of recommendations on hand washing & disinfecting surfaces.
So tired of this nonsense, as if there never was a pandemic.
www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
So tired of this nonsense, as if there never was a pandemic.
www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
How to reduce the spread of infection during cold and flu season
If you’ve noticed a swell of coughs and sneezes echoing throughout the city of late, you’re not alone. While viruses may seem particularly prevalent this year, the Eastern Ontario Health Unit CEO and ...
www.ctvnews.ca
November 30, 2025 at 12:43 PM
I read this to see, as expected, no mention of using N95 masks to prevent the spread of respiratory illnesses. But hey, lots of recommendations on hand washing & disinfecting surfaces.
So tired of this nonsense, as if there never was a pandemic.
www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
So tired of this nonsense, as if there never was a pandemic.
www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
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Watch our Nov 24 session on Health Security Unbound: Navigating Power, Surveillance, and Ethics, with insights from Joy Fitzgibbon, David Fisman and Victoria Haldane
📺 Available now: youtu.be/57iEOn0BWj8?...
#HealthSecurity #GlobalHealth
📺 Available now: youtu.be/57iEOn0BWj8?...
#HealthSecurity #GlobalHealth
Health Security Unbound: Navigating Power, Surveillance, and Ethics
In this compelling and timely webinar, Joy Fitzgibbon leads an exploration of the evolving landscape of health security in pandemic prevention and response. As global threats increasingly blur the…
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November 28, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Watch our Nov 24 session on Health Security Unbound: Navigating Power, Surveillance, and Ethics, with insights from Joy Fitzgibbon, David Fisman and Victoria Haldane
📺 Available now: youtu.be/57iEOn0BWj8?...
#HealthSecurity #GlobalHealth
📺 Available now: youtu.be/57iEOn0BWj8?...
#HealthSecurity #GlobalHealth
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Hands down the best analysis I've read of last week's Fed-Alberta energy agreement. Trust me, @chrishatch.bsky.social's piece will make you both laugh and cry 👇
Danielle Smith’s love tap www.nationalobserver.com/newsletters/...
Danielle Smith’s love tap www.nationalobserver.com/newsletters/...
Danielle Smith’s love tap
www.nationalobserver.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Hands down the best analysis I've read of last week's Fed-Alberta energy agreement. Trust me, @chrishatch.bsky.social's piece will make you both laugh and cry 👇
Danielle Smith’s love tap www.nationalobserver.com/newsletters/...
Danielle Smith’s love tap www.nationalobserver.com/newsletters/...
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This is huge. On the same day Canada announces a new tarsands pipeline and a roll back of climate policy UK announces no new oil and gas licences and a fossil fuel phase out plan. Congratulations and thank you to the UK for your leadership. And Canada?! PM Mark Carney, embarrassing. #cdnpoli
Huge news from the UK today: after UN climate talks in which there was a massive fight over language on fossil fuels, the UK government today announced that it will in fact be keeping many millions of barrels of oil & gas in the ground. Deeds rather than just words for a change! 🧵
November 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
This is huge. On the same day Canada announces a new tarsands pipeline and a roll back of climate policy UK announces no new oil and gas licences and a fossil fuel phase out plan. Congratulations and thank you to the UK for your leadership. And Canada?! PM Mark Carney, embarrassing. #cdnpoli
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“Want to break the mental spell? Go to PubMed. Search SARS-CoV-2 or Long COVID. Hundreds of thousands of studies staring you in the face. Tons of damage.”
whn.global/covid-is-dif...
whn.global/covid-is-dif...
COVID Is Different - WHN
This is the eighth of a series of posts on Long COVID by David Brasure. See parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7. I get it. You think COVID isn’t that dangerous anymore. You think it’s just like all the othe...
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December 1, 2025 at 11:13 PM
“Want to break the mental spell? Go to PubMed. Search SARS-CoV-2 or Long COVID. Hundreds of thousands of studies staring you in the face. Tons of damage.”
whn.global/covid-is-dif...
whn.global/covid-is-dif...
LHSC Cancer Clinic:
Saw few people in 😷 apart from ourselves. Only one N95. Air could be worse but also-honestly FAR better considering location & what’s at stake.
Upturn on graph➡️R is cab& good reminder re cars.
Place packed. SO MUCH F-ing CANCER 😔
Also unhappy to see ‘masking station’ closed
Saw few people in 😷 apart from ourselves. Only one N95. Air could be worse but also-honestly FAR better considering location & what’s at stake.
Upturn on graph➡️R is cab& good reminder re cars.
Place packed. SO MUCH F-ing CANCER 😔
Also unhappy to see ‘masking station’ closed
December 1, 2025 at 5:42 PM
LHSC Cancer Clinic:
Saw few people in 😷 apart from ourselves. Only one N95. Air could be worse but also-honestly FAR better considering location & what’s at stake.
Upturn on graph➡️R is cab& good reminder re cars.
Place packed. SO MUCH F-ing CANCER 😔
Also unhappy to see ‘masking station’ closed
Saw few people in 😷 apart from ourselves. Only one N95. Air could be worse but also-honestly FAR better considering location & what’s at stake.
Upturn on graph➡️R is cab& good reminder re cars.
Place packed. SO MUCH F-ing CANCER 😔
Also unhappy to see ‘masking station’ closed
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📣 NEWS! Last week a key paper defending #glyphosate, ghostwritten by #Monsanto (now #Bayer), is retracted after undermining safety decisions for 25 years!
👉 This should lead to the EU to reconsider glyphosate's permit on the EU market.
😡 But EC and Big Polluters team up to weaken safety rules
👉 This should lead to the EU to reconsider glyphosate's permit on the EU market.
😡 But EC and Big Polluters team up to weaken safety rules
December 1, 2025 at 11:39 AM
📣 NEWS! Last week a key paper defending #glyphosate, ghostwritten by #Monsanto (now #Bayer), is retracted after undermining safety decisions for 25 years!
👉 This should lead to the EU to reconsider glyphosate's permit on the EU market.
😡 But EC and Big Polluters team up to weaken safety rules
👉 This should lead to the EU to reconsider glyphosate's permit on the EU market.
😡 But EC and Big Polluters team up to weaken safety rules
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⚠️ BREAKING:
Scientists Detect Live H5N1 (Clade 2.3.4.4b) in Ticks Feeding on Gulls, Raising Alarms Over a Possible New Transmission Vector
Scientists Detect Live H5N1 (Clade 2.3.4.4b) in Ticks Feeding on Gulls, Raising Alarms Over a Possible New Transmission Vector
December 1, 2025 at 2:03 AM
⚠️ BREAKING:
Scientists Detect Live H5N1 (Clade 2.3.4.4b) in Ticks Feeding on Gulls, Raising Alarms Over a Possible New Transmission Vector
Scientists Detect Live H5N1 (Clade 2.3.4.4b) in Ticks Feeding on Gulls, Raising Alarms Over a Possible New Transmission Vector
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CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
November 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
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Canada, abortion rights are under attack. The forced birthers are using the same strategies that worked in the U.S. open.substack.com/pub/vajenda/...
Abortion Rights in Canada are Under Attack
Forced-birth groups are testing their strategy
open.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Canada, abortion rights are under attack. The forced birthers are using the same strategies that worked in the U.S. open.substack.com/pub/vajenda/...
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While everyday Americans are getting hit with higher costs due to Trump's misguided tariffs....their tax dollars are being spent on Trump's golf trips👇
Trump’s golf trips have cost taxpayers $71m since January and could eventually top staggering $300m, report says. ca.news.yahoo.com/trump-golf-t...
Trump’s golf trips have cost taxpayers $71m since January and could eventually top staggering $300m, report says. ca.news.yahoo.com/trump-golf-t...
Trump’s golf trips have cost taxpayers $71m since January and could eventually top staggering $300m, report says
President spent $151.5m in taxpayer-funded golf travel and security in his first presidential term
ca.news.yahoo.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:25 AM
While everyday Americans are getting hit with higher costs due to Trump's misguided tariffs....their tax dollars are being spent on Trump's golf trips👇
Trump’s golf trips have cost taxpayers $71m since January and could eventually top staggering $300m, report says. ca.news.yahoo.com/trump-golf-t...
Trump’s golf trips have cost taxpayers $71m since January and could eventually top staggering $300m, report says. ca.news.yahoo.com/trump-golf-t...
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"The problem with Long COVID is that most of society would rather not see it. We want to believe the pandemic was just a bad dream we awoke from years ago. (When I hear someone say during COVID, in the past tense, I want to flip a table.)"
#LongCOVID
Source: archive.md/7Rer1
#LongCOVID
Source: archive.md/7Rer1
November 29, 2025 at 5:56 AM
"The problem with Long COVID is that most of society would rather not see it. We want to believe the pandemic was just a bad dream we awoke from years ago. (When I hear someone say during COVID, in the past tense, I want to flip a table.)"
#LongCOVID
Source: archive.md/7Rer1
#LongCOVID
Source: archive.md/7Rer1
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Flu season has arrived in Canada with a sharp increase in influenza cases.
Flu shots are free and available at pharmacies and some GP clinics.
Masking in indoor public places protects you and others.
www.cp24.com/news/canada/...
Flu shots are free and available at pharmacies and some GP clinics.
Masking in indoor public places protects you and others.
www.cp24.com/news/canada/...
Canada sees spike in flu cases across the country, health agency reports
The latest numbers by Health Canada of reported cases of the influenza virus shows a spike in cases across the county.
www.cp24.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Flu season has arrived in Canada with a sharp increase in influenza cases.
Flu shots are free and available at pharmacies and some GP clinics.
Masking in indoor public places protects you and others.
www.cp24.com/news/canada/...
Flu shots are free and available at pharmacies and some GP clinics.
Masking in indoor public places protects you and others.
www.cp24.com/news/canada/...
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Les enfants de la ville
Jean Paul Lemieux
1965
Jean Paul Lemieux
1965
November 28, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Les enfants de la ville
Jean Paul Lemieux
1965
Jean Paul Lemieux
1965
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Willow trees on Prince William’s land in Devon and sprayed with glyphosate on protected trees hoped to stop peat erosion and flooding
Trees need security guards to be protected
Imagine thugs who hate trees so much they have to buy poison and kill them
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Trees need security guards to be protected
Imagine thugs who hate trees so much they have to buy poison and kill them
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Willow trees on Prince William’s land in Devon poisoned with herbicide
Exclusive: Unknown culprit suspected of spraying glyphosate on protected trees hoped to stop peat erosion and flooding
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Willow trees on Prince William’s land in Devon and sprayed with glyphosate on protected trees hoped to stop peat erosion and flooding
Trees need security guards to be protected
Imagine thugs who hate trees so much they have to buy poison and kill them
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Trees need security guards to be protected
Imagine thugs who hate trees so much they have to buy poison and kill them
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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'Pesticides and other common chemical pollutants are toxic to our ‘good’ gut bacteria.'
Researchers suggest the best way to try and avoid exposure to chemical pollutants is to wash our fruit and vegetables before we eat them, and not to use pesticides in the garden'.
www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...
Researchers suggest the best way to try and avoid exposure to chemical pollutants is to wash our fruit and vegetables before we eat them, and not to use pesticides in the garden'.
www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...
Pesticides and other common chemical pollutants are toxic to our ‘good’ gut bacteria
A lab-based screening has discovered over 150 common industrial chemicals, from pesticides to flame retardants, that have a toxic effect on bacteria found in
www.cam.ac.uk
November 28, 2025 at 12:38 PM
'Pesticides and other common chemical pollutants are toxic to our ‘good’ gut bacteria.'
Researchers suggest the best way to try and avoid exposure to chemical pollutants is to wash our fruit and vegetables before we eat them, and not to use pesticides in the garden'.
www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...
Researchers suggest the best way to try and avoid exposure to chemical pollutants is to wash our fruit and vegetables before we eat them, and not to use pesticides in the garden'.
www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...
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Rosalind Franklin (1920–58), physical chemist, @newnhamcollege.bsky.social revealed DNA’s double helix at www.kcl.ac.uk. Contemporaries @cambridgephysics.bsky.social + KCL won the 1962 Nobel. @nobelprize.org.
Her untimely death and bias denied rightful recognition.
Injustice that demands correction.
Her untimely death and bias denied rightful recognition.
Injustice that demands correction.
November 28, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Rosalind Franklin (1920–58), physical chemist, @newnhamcollege.bsky.social revealed DNA’s double helix at www.kcl.ac.uk. Contemporaries @cambridgephysics.bsky.social + KCL won the 1962 Nobel. @nobelprize.org.
Her untimely death and bias denied rightful recognition.
Injustice that demands correction.
Her untimely death and bias denied rightful recognition.
Injustice that demands correction.