Alessia
@alsays.bsky.social
🇨🇦
Lost millennial & law school hopeful.
I ❤️ all things personal finance, economics, and politics. Former anthropology nerd. Usually in the middle of starting a never-to-be-finished craft.
She/Her
Lost millennial & law school hopeful.
I ❤️ all things personal finance, economics, and politics. Former anthropology nerd. Usually in the middle of starting a never-to-be-finished craft.
She/Her
Poking my head out from the newborn trenches like a groundhog in spring. Seeing the discourse…I think I’ll scurry back for six more weeks of living in the moment and ignoring the world at large.
December 18, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Poking my head out from the newborn trenches like a groundhog in spring. Seeing the discourse…I think I’ll scurry back for six more weeks of living in the moment and ignoring the world at large.
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Just a Christmas reminder: if your birth year starts with 19, wrap your presents on a table, not the floor.
November 15, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Just a Christmas reminder: if your birth year starts with 19, wrap your presents on a table, not the floor.
“The white nationalist movement used to be very fragmented and had a lot of infighting… they have managed to sort of figure out a unified and coherent strategy. And they are successfully recruiting large numbers of people doing it.”
MMA gym owners, coaches ID’d at secretive neo-Nazi event in B.C. | CBC News
This summer in Vancouver, dozens of people gathered to attend a conference organized and attended by some of Canada’s most prominent white supremacist organizations. CBC’s visual investigations team l...
www.cbc.ca
November 10, 2025 at 11:05 PM
“The white nationalist movement used to be very fragmented and had a lot of infighting… they have managed to sort of figure out a unified and coherent strategy. And they are successfully recruiting large numbers of people doing it.”
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Hi Bluesky 👋
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Hi Bluesky 👋
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
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Sections of Nova Scotia's coastal regions are literally disappearing, thanks to the forces of erosion and politics.
Residents like Ralph Wardrope are watching part of their past crumble into the sea.
“I’m paying property tax for land that’s at the bottom of the Cobequid Bay," he says.
Residents like Ralph Wardrope are watching part of their past crumble into the sea.
“I’m paying property tax for land that’s at the bottom of the Cobequid Bay," he says.
Castles made of sand: parts of Nova Scotia are falling into the ocean
Erosion rates along the Nova Scotia coast are variable, according to government documents — but residents are seeing it happen in real time as portions of their property are lost to the sea.
www.nationalobserver.com
August 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Sections of Nova Scotia's coastal regions are literally disappearing, thanks to the forces of erosion and politics.
Residents like Ralph Wardrope are watching part of their past crumble into the sea.
“I’m paying property tax for land that’s at the bottom of the Cobequid Bay," he says.
Residents like Ralph Wardrope are watching part of their past crumble into the sea.
“I’m paying property tax for land that’s at the bottom of the Cobequid Bay," he says.
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After cutting the gender equality ministry and ordering mostly women to end their strike to go back to unpaid work— it’s pretty clear Mark Carney’s government has no respect for women.
August 17, 2025 at 9:37 PM
After cutting the gender equality ministry and ordering mostly women to end their strike to go back to unpaid work— it’s pretty clear Mark Carney’s government has no respect for women.
"To legislate us back to work 12 hours after we started? I'm sorry, snowstorms have shut down Air Canada for longer than we were allowed to strike.”
This quote is everything. The government overreach on this back to work order is a precedent we should all remember when it’s time to go to the polls.
This quote is everything. The government overreach on this back to work order is a precedent we should all remember when it’s time to go to the polls.
Air Canada suspends plans to resume operations as flight attendants defy back-to-work order | CBC News
Air Canada says it has suspended plans to resume limited operations after the union representing the airline's flight attendants said Sunday it will defy a federal back-to-work order for binding arbit...
www.cbc.ca
August 17, 2025 at 6:48 PM
"To legislate us back to work 12 hours after we started? I'm sorry, snowstorms have shut down Air Canada for longer than we were allowed to strike.”
This quote is everything. The government overreach on this back to work order is a precedent we should all remember when it’s time to go to the polls.
This quote is everything. The government overreach on this back to work order is a precedent we should all remember when it’s time to go to the polls.
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This article is from Jan.2025. Almost 10,000 people in Ontario died on waitlists for healthcare services in 2024. 1,935 died waiting for surgery’s nd 7, 947 died waiting for diagnostics. Ford massively underfunded our public healthcare. ( linked graph below) dailyhive.com/canada/canad...
Over 15,000 Canadians died on waitlists for healthcare services | National
Thousands of Canadians died while on waitlists for healthcare services between 2023 and 2024, according to a troubling new report.
dailyhive.com
August 14, 2025 at 12:08 PM
This article is from Jan.2025. Almost 10,000 people in Ontario died on waitlists for healthcare services in 2024. 1,935 died waiting for surgery’s nd 7, 947 died waiting for diagnostics. Ford massively underfunded our public healthcare. ( linked graph below) dailyhive.com/canada/canad...
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You've probably seen news recently about the Israeli military deliberately targeting Palestinian civilians seeking food and water at aid sites.
Because it's difficult to truly grasp how often these war crimes are taking place, here is a thread of some distinct incidents since June 1. 🧵
Because it's difficult to truly grasp how often these war crimes are taking place, here is a thread of some distinct incidents since June 1. 🧵
July 20, 2025 at 11:18 PM
You've probably seen news recently about the Israeli military deliberately targeting Palestinian civilians seeking food and water at aid sites.
Because it's difficult to truly grasp how often these war crimes are taking place, here is a thread of some distinct incidents since June 1. 🧵
Because it's difficult to truly grasp how often these war crimes are taking place, here is a thread of some distinct incidents since June 1. 🧵
“Micro-retirements” 🥲
July 9, 2025 at 2:26 PM
“Micro-retirements” 🥲
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🐶 Heat risk in dogs
A new study found dog deaths rise on hot days in NSW. Risk increased linearly after 25°C, and jumped 9.5% on extreme heat days. Public holidays saw the highest mortality.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/avj....
#SciComm #Dogs #Climate 🧪
A new study found dog deaths rise on hot days in NSW. Risk increased linearly after 25°C, and jumped 9.5% on extreme heat days. Public holidays saw the highest mortality.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/avj....
#SciComm #Dogs #Climate 🧪
Feeling the heat: associations among daily ambient temperatures, extreme heat days and risk mortality in Australian dogs from New South Wales (1997–2017)
Global warming is expected to drive increases in daily temperatures and extreme heatwaves which are in turn expected to lead to increases in heat-related illness (HRI) morbidity and mortality in huma...
doi.org
July 9, 2025 at 10:26 AM
🐶 Heat risk in dogs
A new study found dog deaths rise on hot days in NSW. Risk increased linearly after 25°C, and jumped 9.5% on extreme heat days. Public holidays saw the highest mortality.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/avj....
#SciComm #Dogs #Climate 🧪
A new study found dog deaths rise on hot days in NSW. Risk increased linearly after 25°C, and jumped 9.5% on extreme heat days. Public holidays saw the highest mortality.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/avj....
#SciComm #Dogs #Climate 🧪
When doing paperwork for an internship I did in the US, the ethnicity was genuinely so confusing. I didn’t have an “other”/“mixed” option like in 🇨🇦. I didn’t know if I was Asian or Caucasian or something else. Don’t remember what I chose, but either way an argument could be made that I was wrong.
The NYT is so in touch with progressives that it assumed it could fabricate a “race faker” scandal about Mamdani and leave leftists to eat him alive. That is how utterly distant their editors are from actual, living souls whose brains haven’t been rotted by the mediasphere.
July 8, 2025 at 6:23 AM
When doing paperwork for an internship I did in the US, the ethnicity was genuinely so confusing. I didn’t have an “other”/“mixed” option like in 🇨🇦. I didn’t know if I was Asian or Caucasian or something else. Don’t remember what I chose, but either way an argument could be made that I was wrong.
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Mark Carney could have made a condition of scraping the DST returning the Canadians in ICE detention, he did not. 55 Canadians have been disappeared and I don’t think we’ll hear much about them again.
June 30, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Mark Carney could have made a condition of scraping the DST returning the Canadians in ICE detention, he did not. 55 Canadians have been disappeared and I don’t think we’ll hear much about them again.
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Why do the characters in JAWS not simply defeat the shark in the marketplace of ideas?
June 21, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Why do the characters in JAWS not simply defeat the shark in the marketplace of ideas?
Wondering if it’s just 2am logic, or if ditching my plans for tomorrow so I can drive 3 hours to a butter tart festival is just the sparkle my life needs right now.
June 14, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Wondering if it’s just 2am logic, or if ditching my plans for tomorrow so I can drive 3 hours to a butter tart festival is just the sparkle my life needs right now.
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Wow: after 15 years, YouTube has taken down the original 'Rick Roll' video due to a "licensing issue," likely due to the acquisition of Astley's record lable.
The metadata remains, but if you click through it goes to 'video not found':
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4...
The metadata remains, but if you click through it goes to 'video not found':
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4...
Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Rick Astley
www.youtube.com
May 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Wow: after 15 years, YouTube has taken down the original 'Rick Roll' video due to a "licensing issue," likely due to the acquisition of Astley's record lable.
The metadata remains, but if you click through it goes to 'video not found':
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4...
The metadata remains, but if you click through it goes to 'video not found':
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4...
I’m so sick of conflicting reviews on every single baby product.
Buying my car felt like less of a loaded decision than picking a stroller 😭.
Buying my car felt like less of a loaded decision than picking a stroller 😭.
May 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I’m so sick of conflicting reviews on every single baby product.
Buying my car felt like less of a loaded decision than picking a stroller 😭.
Buying my car felt like less of a loaded decision than picking a stroller 😭.
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Apparently the new Minister of Immigration is from a notorious Halifax slumlord family. 😳 (According to Redditors at least.) if true, that should have been a disqualifying conflict of interest.
That, combined with the new AI ministry, has me side-eyeing the new cabinet.
#cdnpoli
That, combined with the new AI ministry, has me side-eyeing the new cabinet.
#cdnpoli
May 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Apparently the new Minister of Immigration is from a notorious Halifax slumlord family. 😳 (According to Redditors at least.) if true, that should have been a disqualifying conflict of interest.
That, combined with the new AI ministry, has me side-eyeing the new cabinet.
#cdnpoli
That, combined with the new AI ministry, has me side-eyeing the new cabinet.
#cdnpoli
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An “AI”- focused ministry (no science ministry to be seen) in 2025 has the feel of Trudeau and the online platforms pre-Cambridge Analytica. How’d that work out?
Tell me you don’t understand digital policy without telling me you don’t understand digital policy.
Tell me you don’t understand digital policy without telling me you don’t understand digital policy.
May 13, 2025 at 4:13 PM
An “AI”- focused ministry (no science ministry to be seen) in 2025 has the feel of Trudeau and the online platforms pre-Cambridge Analytica. How’d that work out?
Tell me you don’t understand digital policy without telling me you don’t understand digital policy.
Tell me you don’t understand digital policy without telling me you don’t understand digital policy.
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Schools are flooded with edtech. But it's not only sold to them. Emerging "edtech brokers" do intermediary work to build teachers' trust in edtech, synchronize their practices to platforms, and shape teachers' professional identities as pedagogic "innovators".
New paper doi.org/10.1080/0962...
New paper doi.org/10.1080/0962...
‘Enthuse and inspire’: edtech brokers and the affective construction of teacher innovation
Digital technologies interact in different ways with the professionality of teachers to ultimately reshape the most defining features of their job. In this article, we explore how edtech brokers, i...
doi.org
May 7, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Schools are flooded with edtech. But it's not only sold to them. Emerging "edtech brokers" do intermediary work to build teachers' trust in edtech, synchronize their practices to platforms, and shape teachers' professional identities as pedagogic "innovators".
New paper doi.org/10.1080/0962...
New paper doi.org/10.1080/0962...
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Mark Carney, sitting in the Oval Officr in front of Donald Trump rejects the 51st state talk.
“As you know from real estate, there are some places that are never for sale,” Carney said.
“Having met with the owners of Canada over the course of campaign…it’s not for sale. It won’t be for sale ever.”
“As you know from real estate, there are some places that are never for sale,” Carney said.
“Having met with the owners of Canada over the course of campaign…it’s not for sale. It won’t be for sale ever.”
May 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Mark Carney, sitting in the Oval Officr in front of Donald Trump rejects the 51st state talk.
“As you know from real estate, there are some places that are never for sale,” Carney said.
“Having met with the owners of Canada over the course of campaign…it’s not for sale. It won’t be for sale ever.”
“As you know from real estate, there are some places that are never for sale,” Carney said.
“Having met with the owners of Canada over the course of campaign…it’s not for sale. It won’t be for sale ever.”
Had to go to emergency at Grand River and the protocols bc of #measles are reminiscent of Covid. Fully masked person screening for symptoms right at the door, etc.
Meanwhile, outside these spaces it just feels like business as normal. The dichotomy feels so surreal.
Meanwhile, outside these spaces it just feels like business as normal. The dichotomy feels so surreal.
May 6, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Had to go to emergency at Grand River and the protocols bc of #measles are reminiscent of Covid. Fully masked person screening for symptoms right at the door, etc.
Meanwhile, outside these spaces it just feels like business as normal. The dichotomy feels so surreal.
Meanwhile, outside these spaces it just feels like business as normal. The dichotomy feels so surreal.
Voted at around 11am in Kitchener Center, and the voting station was surprisingly busy for the time of day. It was nowhere near as busy during the last federal election, when I also voted late morning/early afternoon.
Encouraged to see people showing up!
#canadavotes #cdnpoli
Encouraged to see people showing up!
#canadavotes #cdnpoli
April 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Voted at around 11am in Kitchener Center, and the voting station was surprisingly busy for the time of day. It was nowhere near as busy during the last federal election, when I also voted late morning/early afternoon.
Encouraged to see people showing up!
#canadavotes #cdnpoli
Encouraged to see people showing up!
#canadavotes #cdnpoli
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