Siggie
@siggie.bsky.social
Retired civil servant now consultant. I love science, equality and our planet. Slava Ukraine. I support Greenland and Panama.🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦
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Our gift to you this Christmas 🎁🐘 We've created something special – a film celebrating the orphans in our care and the remarkable journeys you've made possible. Watch as we share what 'home for the holidays' truly means at the SWT. Watch along with us 🧡www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.o...
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November 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Our gift to you this Christmas 🎁🐘 We've created something special – a film celebrating the orphans in our care and the remarkable journeys you've made possible. Watch as we share what 'home for the holidays' truly means at the SWT. Watch along with us 🧡www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.o...
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I just bought some of their baked beans and will report back! The campfire variety has Canadian whiskey!😆😋
Ontario-based Sprague Foods is a family-owned cannery with a great line of organic soups. Buy Canadian! #ElbowsUp www.spraguefoods.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:50 AM
I just bought some of their baked beans and will report back! The campfire variety has Canadian whiskey!😆😋
Yes please! Ever since betting ads were allowed, I've felt I was living in the alternative reality of Pottersville instead of Bedford Falls, in 'Its a Wonderful Life'.😠
40 Canadian senators are asking the federal government to ban advertising for sports betting sites
Please? 🥺🙏
Please? 🥺🙏
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...
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November 24, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Yes please! Ever since betting ads were allowed, I've felt I was living in the alternative reality of Pottersville instead of Bedford Falls, in 'Its a Wonderful Life'.😠
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Must watch
Our trusted nation brand jumped to third on the Anholt Nations Brand Index of trusted brands. Guess who collapsed?
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Owning the Podium
YouTube video by Tod Maffin
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November 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Must watch
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The Trump family has been bragging that Trump's energy policy has enabled their Bitcoin-mining bonanza.
Turns out they're running part of their mining operations in Canada. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
Turns out they're running part of their mining operations in Canada. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
Justin Ling: The Trumps’ latest money-making scheme has a little-known Canadian connection. Can we do anything about it?
It's a refuge for criminals and a cash cow for the man who wants to annex us, yet bitcoin is still being mined in Canada.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:52 AM
The Trump family has been bragging that Trump's energy policy has enabled their Bitcoin-mining bonanza.
Turns out they're running part of their mining operations in Canada. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
Turns out they're running part of their mining operations in Canada. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
Timeline cleanser! Hosr frost on the birches this morning (Kingston, Ontario area)
November 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Timeline cleanser! Hosr frost on the birches this morning (Kingston, Ontario area)
What would it take for Canadia...
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Experts call ultra-processed foods a threat to public health. Why can't Canadians stop eating them? | CBC News
Researchers have linked ultra-processed foods to chronic diseases like obesity, Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. But helping Canadians make healthier choices comes with obstacles, experts ...
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November 20, 2025 at 12:56 PM
What would it take for Canadia...
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Tim Cook, the head of Apple, is having a nice dinner with MBS, who regularly orders executions, including for tweets.
Apple hosts "a Saudi app that allows men to track the movement of their wives and daughters. In 2019, Mr. Cook said he would investigate the app, but it is still available today."
Apple hosts "a Saudi app that allows men to track the movement of their wives and daughters. In 2019, Mr. Cook said he would investigate the app, but it is still available today."
November 19, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Tim Cook, the head of Apple, is having a nice dinner with MBS, who regularly orders executions, including for tweets.
Apple hosts "a Saudi app that allows men to track the movement of their wives and daughters. In 2019, Mr. Cook said he would investigate the app, but it is still available today."
Apple hosts "a Saudi app that allows men to track the movement of their wives and daughters. In 2019, Mr. Cook said he would investigate the app, but it is still available today."
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Evidence suggests that Russian secret services appear to have ordered the blowing up of a railway line in Poland over the weekend that is on a crucial route that delivers aid to Ukraine, a government spokesman said on Tuesday.
Poland suggests Russia is behind railway blast on Ukraine delivery line
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Evidence suggests that Russian secret services appear to have ordered the blowing up of a railway line in Poland over the weekend that is on a crucial route that delivers aid to Ukraine, a government spokesman said on Tuesday.
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November 18, 2025 at 12:41 PM
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Evidence suggests that Russian secret services appear to have ordered the blowing up of a railway line in Poland over the weekend that is on a crucial route that delivers aid to Ukraine, a government spokesman said on Tuesday.
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$1 billion data centre to maybe create 100 jobs. That's likely an overstatement.
It is truly not worth draining the living word for this vampiric tech and people are starting to realize it.
www.wisn.com/article/meta...
It is truly not worth draining the living word for this vampiric tech and people are starting to realize it.
www.wisn.com/article/meta...
Meta plans $1 billion data center in Beaver Dam
The facility is expected to be completed in 2027 and will support 100 jobs, according to state officials.
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November 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
$1 billion data centre to maybe create 100 jobs. That's likely an overstatement.
It is truly not worth draining the living word for this vampiric tech and people are starting to realize it.
www.wisn.com/article/meta...
It is truly not worth draining the living word for this vampiric tech and people are starting to realize it.
www.wisn.com/article/meta...
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Over the last 2 months Ukraine has scored 100 Gripens and 100 Rafale fighter jets for its military, dwarfing the need for US F16s. The manufacturing of these systems will be divided between the EU and Canada as both push to become further independent from the unreliable US arms industry.
November 18, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Over the last 2 months Ukraine has scored 100 Gripens and 100 Rafale fighter jets for its military, dwarfing the need for US F16s. The manufacturing of these systems will be divided between the EU and Canada as both push to become further independent from the unreliable US arms industry.
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This was already demonstrated over half a century ago with the banning of DDT.
Why are we on repeat here?
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Why are we on repeat here?
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France’s birds start to show signs of recovery after bee-harming pesticide ban
Analysis shows small hike in populations of insect-eating species after 2018 ruling, but full recovery may take decades
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November 17, 2025 at 8:40 PM
This was already demonstrated over half a century ago with the banning of DDT.
Why are we on repeat here?
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Why are we on repeat here?
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AI sucks up way too much power & water & raw materials. Most energy used in its data centres is sourced from fossil fuels which results in the expansion of harmful greenhouse gases. AI sucks, period, because the environment & sustainability of AI is getting much too little attention.
November 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
AI sucks up way too much power & water & raw materials. Most energy used in its data centres is sourced from fossil fuels which results in the expansion of harmful greenhouse gases. AI sucks, period, because the environment & sustainability of AI is getting much too little attention.
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Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Monday that an explosion on a section of railway line used for deliveries to Ukraine was an “unprecedented act of sabotage.”
Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Monday that an explosion on a section of railway line used for deliveries to Ukraine was an “unprecedented act of sabotage.”
Poland says railway blast was an ‘unprecedented act of sabotage’ - National | Globalnews.ca
While visiting the site Monday, Polish prime minister Donald Tusk said the incident had taken place on a line that is vital for delivering aid to Ukraine.
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November 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Monday that an explosion on a section of railway line used for deliveries to Ukraine was an “unprecedented act of sabotage.”
Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Monday that an explosion on a section of railway line used for deliveries to Ukraine was an “unprecedented act of sabotage.”
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The economic sense is so extremely in favour of renewables now, Pakistan is even paying Qatar penalties to rather NOT deliver the fossil gas that Pakistan already placed orders for, because their Solar PV and batteries make much more sense.
It saves them money to cancel their gas imports and pay!
It saves them money to cancel their gas imports and pay!
So Pakistan is *paying* Qatar to *not* deliver LNG because even including this penalty payment their solar PV and battery spending is much better value for money and saves them billions.
How fascinating!
How fascinating!
November 16, 2025 at 11:26 AM
The economic sense is so extremely in favour of renewables now, Pakistan is even paying Qatar penalties to rather NOT deliver the fossil gas that Pakistan already placed orders for, because their Solar PV and batteries make much more sense.
It saves them money to cancel their gas imports and pay!
It saves them money to cancel their gas imports and pay!
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The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative | Euractiv
The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software
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November 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
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Halifax doctor shocked by success of using heat to force cancer cell death #Halifax #NovaScotia
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Halifax doctor shocked by success of using heat to force cancer cell death
There could be another option to treat cancer in the future, after a human trial proved to be extremely successful by raising the temperature of a tumour to kill it off. Dr. Camen Giacomantonio, the c...
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November 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Halifax doctor shocked by success of using heat to force cancer cell death #Halifax #NovaScotia
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Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
November 10, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
Written by a close friend who was also adopted in Canada from Romania in the 80s. 😰
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Trafficked by Paperwork: Romania’s Stolen Children and the Woman Fighting to Exist
Trafficked by Paperwork: Romania’s Stolen Children and the Woman Fighting to Exist
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November 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Written by a close friend who was also adopted in Canada from Romania in the 80s. 😰
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A group of North York nurses is on strike after provincial funding for retention and recruitment was directed elsewhere by their employer. The stagnant wages are especially hard to stomach after an exec there got a major salary bump last year, writes nurse Rita Ha. www.thegrindmag.ca/opinion-nort...
OPINION: North York Health Workers Need Fair Wages
Maintaining access to primary care requires fair wages for providers. My co-workers and I at North York Family Health Team workers have been on strike since our employer held our wages the same after…
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November 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
A group of North York nurses is on strike after provincial funding for retention and recruitment was directed elsewhere by their employer. The stagnant wages are especially hard to stomach after an exec there got a major salary bump last year, writes nurse Rita Ha. www.thegrindmag.ca/opinion-nort...
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I hope this defence spending is going to go towards fighting information warfare. Tanks, planes & missiles won't prevent Putin from orchestrating another American flag waving occupation of our capital.
November 6, 2025 at 3:21 AM
I hope this defence spending is going to go towards fighting information warfare. Tanks, planes & missiles won't prevent Putin from orchestrating another American flag waving occupation of our capital.