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Christophe Veltsos @drinfosec.bsky.social · 1d

🎯🧵 by Dr. Dr Asad Khan FRCP FRACP pwLC:

"It is not a few months of lockdown or masking that has damaged the health of our children. It is the recurrent exposure to a deadly vascular virus which continues to kill & disable millions."

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It is not a few months of lockdown or masking that has damaged the health of our children. It is the recurrent exposure to a deadly vascular virus which continues to kill & disable millions.

Covid never went away; we know that the risk of Long Covid is cumulative (5% with each infection). The risk of acquiring it can be dramatically reduced by cleaning the air in indoor spaces; yet there is zero investment into this area, and children continued to be forced back to unsafe classrooms. This is despite the evidence that apart from reducing the risk of respiratory infections, ventilation improves academic performance and attendance.

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crboxfoundationuk.bsky.social @crboxfoundationuk.bsky.social · 13h

Clean indoor air is public health. 💙

We spend 90% of our lives indoors — at home, at work, and in schools.
Cleaner air means fewer illnesses, better focus, safer spaces.

See our latest campaign.
👇
go.corsirosenthalfoundation.org.uk/76TBlzW

#CleanAir #PublicHealth #IndoorAirQuality #CleanAirForAll

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Pamela Dolby @pdolby.bsky.social · 1d

Portland frog costume will win Halloween this year. You heard it here first

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 12h

Smith’s Al’merica ..

It may have been a small sample but I still recall the most sexist, violent, hateful, misogynistic words I ever heard were in this province.

Xtra @xtramagazine.com · 12h

According to provincial documents, if someone wants to challenge an athlete’s gender, they can do so.

Alberta’s new policy is forcing girls—cis and trans—out of school sports | Xtra Magazine

Gender forms mandated by Bill 29 are forcing families into tough decisions around whether to put their daughters in sports

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 13h

Please wear a helmet.

“Helmet use should be necessary for everyone,” Lin emphasized. “That’s not negotiable … once you’re using these micromobility vehicles at very high speeds, they start moving away from being a recreational vehicle.”

Lin told the Star that the vast majority of people in emergency rooms as a result of e-bike and e-scooter accidents, were not wearing helmets at the time of collision.

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 12h

How refreshing on many counts-but so happy to see article about importance of masking ACTUALLY showing a person in a non-surgical mask!! (Ok respirator, but people are generally not calling it that). Betting respirators not offered at hospital door nor worn by most 😞. Still-any’s better than none!

Dr. Jen Irwin @drjenirwin.bsky.social · 13h

Masks required again in all P.E.I. Health Facilities because “Masks are are known to be one of those easy measures that we can implement to ensure the safety and the health of our health-care workforce and our overall health-care system"

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Masks will be required in all Health P.E.I. facilities starting Oct. 14 | CBC News

Officials with Health P.E.I. say people will have to wear masks inside all of the provincial health authority’s facilities beginning next week.

www.cbc.ca

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 13h

As someone who makes and sells Christmas things one might expect me to celebrate but fact is I am NOT ready and don’t expect people to demand Christmas until November so I LOATHE early Christmas-we are having Thanksgiving here in Canada, next Halloween then Remembrance Day. It’s so unseemly.

H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 13h

I went to bed. Not my team. Saw benefits of Jays playing either. My entire household made different choices and it is VERY quiet here this morning. Only the dog and I are stirring. It’s our turkey day so they better get up soon!

Cortana 👻 @cortanav.bsky.social · 21h

When will my husband return from the Mariner’s game

Oil painting of a woman waiting by the sea

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 13h

What I have noted about Carney is he explains NOTHING. This is suggested to many of us as a strength-Many do this toxically thinking it’s (cough cough).. charming, & strong. Like they are Mary freaking Poppins. I think it will ultimately be his undoing. We can not trust this lack of transparency.

Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 14h

Carney’s strategy is the exact opposite of what Canadians voted for. It’s clear that he’s making many unacknowledged/unexplained assumptions, while ignoring many obvious risks.
Mark Carney is not the CEO of Canada. He’s an elected leader. He needs to explain himself to Canadians.

H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 13h

Where are your elbows @mark-carney.bsky.social . To my MP @juliedabrusin.bsky.social SPEAK UP. We do NOT want to be tied to this madness. We elected your party to NOT tie us to this madness.

Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 14h

“Carney’s decision to work with Donald Trump on an advanced missile shield ... will set the stage for deepening military co-operation between the two countries.”

How much more directly can it be said? This is deeper integration. Where you buy your guns doesn’t matter if you’re still on Team USA.

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 23h

You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live.

And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 23h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 1d

The meeting began
with an icebreaker:
“which of your skills
would be most useful
if you found yourself
sent back in time
to the Middle Ages?”
and as I looked around
at all the unmasked faces
I was tempted to say:
I know how to
avoid the plague,
but instead I just said:
I can knit.

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 1d

On this day in 1886, Yoho National Park was created in British Columbia. It was established after Sir John A. Macdonald and his wife Agnes passed through the area on the newly-built CPR. The 1,313 sq-km national park is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

A vibrant landscape photograph captures a turquoise glacial river rushing over rocks in the foreground, with two hikers—one in purple, the other in blue—standing on the rocky riverbank. Dense coniferous forests of evergreen pines and firs, including some fire-scarred dead trees, line the valley and rise up steep, rugged cliffs on either side. In the background, a towering snow-capped Rocky Mountain peak looms dramatically under a partly cloudy blue sky.

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Tania J. Spencer @taniaspencer.bsky.social · 1d

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Just a reminder that we likely wouldn't be in the 6th year of an #OngoingPandemic with #NEIS if governments had implemented effective mitigations against #Airborne transmission -

healthydebate.ca/2025/03/topi...

How denial of airborne COVID transmission broke the world - Healthy Debate

Five years later, the greatest basic science failure in generations caused the pandemic harms highlighted by people across the political spectrum, and broke our social cohesion.

healthydebate.ca

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 1d

What an incredibly wasted opportunity!!

Andrew Dobbie @a-dobbie11.bsky.social · 1d

FYI
ON teachers are required to complete annual medical training.
Part of that training involves recognition and policies/practices related to in-school communicable diseases.
All ON school boards continue to ignore COVID-19 as a communicable disease & in-school cases are NOT reported.

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 1d

It also makes MUCH more lovely sounds!!

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed. The evidence is SO obvious and yet people continue to vote for him. It’s unreal.

H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 1d

Our loon is WAY prettier. Just saying.

Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 1d

🤣😂🤪🤣😂🤪🤣😂🤪

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 1d

Battle of the St. Lawrence. Many don't know that WW2 was actually happening in the St. Lawrence River. This happened just off the coast of where the Molsons spent their summers (Metis-sur-Mer) and well past the many populations living on the Gaspe peninsula. I can only imagine how chilling this was.

Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 2d

#OTD 9/10/1942 #RememberRCN -U69 torpedoes SS Carolus (Merchant Marine Ltd, Ottawa), off Metis-sur-Mer, St. Lawrence, while in convoy NL-9. 11 sailors killed & 19 survivors rescued by HMCShips HEPATICA & ARROWHEAD. This attack is the furthest west in the Battle of St. Lawrence.

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 1d

When my mother was a little girl and visited Notre Dame du Portage in the summers during these years they had to keep all the lights out at night.

Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 3d

#OTD 8/10/1942 #RememberRCN -U69 penetrates the St. Lawrence River to Pointe-au-Père just east of Rimouski, Quebec. This marks the furthest west any U-boat patrolled during the Battle of St. Lawrence in the Second World War.

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 1d

Ford is shameless. To see the harmful impacts of shameless government we need only look South. Yet we know his shamelessness has been causing harm here for years & in Toronto his brother’s shamelessness before that. Shamelessness is ok in some arenas but is the modern scurge when it comes to greed.

Norm Di Pasquale🇨🇦 @normsworld.bsky.social · 1d

Hospitals & police chiefs agree: speed cameras save lives. So why is Ford banning them?

Ford is putting kids & pedestrians at risk just to let reckless drivers off the hook.

Tell Ford to keep speed cameras & enforce speed limits. Sign here: www.progresstoronto.ca/petition-pro... #topoli #onpoli

Tell Ford Keep Speed Cameras: Protect Kids & Pedestrians — Progress Toronto

Doug Ford announced plans to ban speed cameras—making it easier to speed. This move puts children and pedestrians at risk. Tell Ford and Queen’s Park: keep the speed cameras and keep enforcing speed ...

www.progresstoronto.ca

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 1d

Toad looked out of his window. “These messy leaves have covered everything,” said Toad.

Toad peeks out from his house, eyeing the swirling autumn leaves.

From "The Surprise"
In *Frog and Toad All Year*

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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 1d

Pipelines should be understood as pipelines to hell now. Gain nothing useful, risk so much. Tell @mark-carney.bsky.social, MP/enviro min(hey @juliedabrusin.bsky.social)you DON'T want more pipelines prolonging our ties to dinosaur tech & destroying our land in dispersed (CO2/plastic)& localized⬇️ways.

consbegone.bsky.social @consbegone.bsky.social · 1d

An investigation determined that the pipeline rupture was caused by stress corrosion cracking resulting from a combination of soil conditions, the pipeline’s degraded protective coating and increased internal pressure.

Leave it in the ground ffs

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

TSB releases findings on Alberta pipeline rupture that caused explosion, wildfire | CBC News

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada published its findings on the causes of the rupture of a natural gas pipeline near Edson, Alta.

www.cbc.ca

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 1d

Quebec’s daycare registry system is changing. Here’s how — and when — you can sign up your child #Quebec

Replacement portal for La Place 0-5 won't allow parents to register unborn children

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Quebec’s daycare registry system is changing. Here’s how — and when — you can sign up your child | CBC News

For thousands of parents across the province, La Place 0-5 website, Quebec's sole portal for accessing recognized child-care services, has been a key resource from the moment they learn they’re expect...

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

They didn’t just NOT give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, they wrote a citation that reads like an anti-Trump rallying cry.

(He’s gonna extra-tariff Norway now, isn’t he?)

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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