@cmandin.bsky.social
Passionate about saving our blue dot for the next generations. Hoping to survive the plague and our current politics. Nevertheless, I persist. she/her
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Even the Churches are opposed to Bill 9.
It’s a simple message. Treat everyone with basic dignity and respect, not hate or harm.
It’s a simple message. Treat everyone with basic dignity and respect, not hate or harm.
November 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Even the Churches are opposed to Bill 9.
It’s a simple message. Treat everyone with basic dignity and respect, not hate or harm.
It’s a simple message. Treat everyone with basic dignity and respect, not hate or harm.
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New peer reviewed research confirms that gender affirmative care reduces the rate of suicide in gender diverse youth over time.
These findings published in the Journal of Pediatrics are consistent with other studies.
Access to timely care is critical.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
These findings published in the Journal of Pediatrics are consistent with other studies.
Access to timely care is critical.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Changes in Suicidality among Transgender Adolescents Following Hormone Therapy: An Extended Study
To examine changes in suicidality following hormone therapy (HT) among transgender and gender-diverse adolescents and young adults.A retrospective cha…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:48 AM
New peer reviewed research confirms that gender affirmative care reduces the rate of suicide in gender diverse youth over time.
These findings published in the Journal of Pediatrics are consistent with other studies.
Access to timely care is critical.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
These findings published in the Journal of Pediatrics are consistent with other studies.
Access to timely care is critical.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Yesterday, I had the opportunity to ask the Government Representative in the Senate a question about the Liberal Government’s platform commitment to provide funding for IVF treatment, which significantly impacts those in the 2SLGBTQI+ community who would like to have children.
November 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Yesterday, I had the opportunity to ask the Government Representative in the Senate a question about the Liberal Government’s platform commitment to provide funding for IVF treatment, which significantly impacts those in the 2SLGBTQI+ community who would like to have children.
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I cannot emphasise how important it is to take some time out of your day to absorb presentation
This is a *direct* result of our refusal to stop burning coal, oil and methane gas
What is presented here are consequences at ~1.5°C
The current NDC trajectory is ~2.5°C
We are on a highway to hell
This is a *direct* result of our refusal to stop burning coal, oil and methane gas
What is presented here are consequences at ~1.5°C
The current NDC trajectory is ~2.5°C
We are on a highway to hell
Want a state-of-the-art explainer on the big changes occurring in the Antarctic?
Check out this recent briefing, delivered to COP30 @iccinet.bsky.social
Very much designed for the non-expert, so don't be afraid to dip in!
www.youtube.com/live/YjYkKvw... 1/2
Check out this recent briefing, delivered to COP30 @iccinet.bsky.social
Very much designed for the non-expert, so don't be afraid to dip in!
www.youtube.com/live/YjYkKvw... 1/2
Policy Briefing: Emerging Evidence of Abrupt Changes in the Antarctic Environment
YouTube video by International Cryosphere Climate Initiative
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:39 AM
I cannot emphasise how important it is to take some time out of your day to absorb presentation
This is a *direct* result of our refusal to stop burning coal, oil and methane gas
What is presented here are consequences at ~1.5°C
The current NDC trajectory is ~2.5°C
We are on a highway to hell
This is a *direct* result of our refusal to stop burning coal, oil and methane gas
What is presented here are consequences at ~1.5°C
The current NDC trajectory is ~2.5°C
We are on a highway to hell
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I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 AM
I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
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Bill 9 is unscientific and immoral. It does nothing to protect children. It is only designed to hurt them by denying doctor supported life saving care.
Kill Bill 9, not our children.
Kill Bill 9, not our children.
November 27, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Bill 9 is unscientific and immoral. It does nothing to protect children. It is only designed to hurt them by denying doctor supported life saving care.
Kill Bill 9, not our children.
Kill Bill 9, not our children.
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I hope the CPC holds onto Poilievre as leader for as long as possible.
Why stop at 4 consecutive general election losses? Let’s go for the historic FIVE, amirite?
Good holy Zeus. Nearly 8 months after the election, and Pierre’s favourability has only sunk to new depths.
#cdnpoli
Why stop at 4 consecutive general election losses? Let’s go for the historic FIVE, amirite?
Good holy Zeus. Nearly 8 months after the election, and Pierre’s favourability has only sunk to new depths.
#cdnpoli
November 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I hope the CPC holds onto Poilievre as leader for as long as possible.
Why stop at 4 consecutive general election losses? Let’s go for the historic FIVE, amirite?
Good holy Zeus. Nearly 8 months after the election, and Pierre’s favourability has only sunk to new depths.
#cdnpoli
Why stop at 4 consecutive general election losses? Let’s go for the historic FIVE, amirite?
Good holy Zeus. Nearly 8 months after the election, and Pierre’s favourability has only sunk to new depths.
#cdnpoli
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I predict this will not be enough to convince some people:
285 studies
132 million people in real-world data
157,414 in randomized trials
~80% reduction in cervical cancer when given before age 16
No increase in serious adverse events @drjengunter.bsky.social
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
285 studies
132 million people in real-world data
157,414 in randomized trials
~80% reduction in cervical cancer when given before age 16
No increase in serious adverse events @drjengunter.bsky.social
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
New research confirms HPV vaccination prevents cervical cancer
Two new Cochrane reviews show strong and consistent evidence that HPV vaccines are effective in preventing cervical cancer and pre-cancerous changes, especially when given to young people before they ...
www.eurekalert.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I predict this will not be enough to convince some people:
285 studies
132 million people in real-world data
157,414 in randomized trials
~80% reduction in cervical cancer when given before age 16
No increase in serious adverse events @drjengunter.bsky.social
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
285 studies
132 million people in real-world data
157,414 in randomized trials
~80% reduction in cervical cancer when given before age 16
No increase in serious adverse events @drjengunter.bsky.social
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
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Angry hosers cosplaying as stormtroopers before skulking back to their southwestern Ontario farms where migrant workers are working to make them money by bringing in their crops. #ONpoli #cdnpoli
“The organized white nationalist movement in Canada is the biggest it's been in modern history. A big part of that is Second Sons Canada, the Dominion Society, Diagolon, the Active Club movement.”
Growing white nationalist group behind broad daylight demonstration in London on Sunday | CBC News
An apparent white nationalist demonstration on a busy overpass near London, Ont.'s downtown on Sunday afternoon is concerning for witnesses and experts who track extremist behaviour.
www.cbc.ca
November 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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An 18yo US citizen, surrounded by eight masked, armed agents of the state, taken into custody, not read his rights, not offered a chance to contact a lawyer, proof of citizenship ignored, handcuffed so tightly he later required medical attention.
Profoundly, profoundly anti-American shit.
Profoundly, profoundly anti-American shit.
ICE Detained an 18-Year-Old U.S. Citizen. This Is His Story.
YouTube video by The Hometown Holler
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
An 18yo US citizen, surrounded by eight masked, armed agents of the state, taken into custody, not read his rights, not offered a chance to contact a lawyer, proof of citizenship ignored, handcuffed so tightly he later required medical attention.
Profoundly, profoundly anti-American shit.
Profoundly, profoundly anti-American shit.
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Truly, friends.
If this is you, I hope you do something kind for yourself tomorrow. Doesn’t have to be profound. Just you taking your needs seriously, ok? And your need for peace or joy or safety or affirmation—those are as serious as it gets. You deserve those things, and I hope you get them.
If this is you, I hope you do something kind for yourself tomorrow. Doesn’t have to be profound. Just you taking your needs seriously, ok? And your need for peace or joy or safety or affirmation—those are as serious as it gets. You deserve those things, and I hope you get them.
An annual reminder:
The cognitive & emotional toll of staying in contact with abusive family can be both significant & difficult to recognize.
There's a kind of social contract that abusive parents have violated. You owe them nothing. Nothing.
Thanksgiving doesn't change that.
The cognitive & emotional toll of staying in contact with abusive family can be both significant & difficult to recognize.
There's a kind of social contract that abusive parents have violated. You owe them nothing. Nothing.
Thanksgiving doesn't change that.
November 27, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Truly, friends.
If this is you, I hope you do something kind for yourself tomorrow. Doesn’t have to be profound. Just you taking your needs seriously, ok? And your need for peace or joy or safety or affirmation—those are as serious as it gets. You deserve those things, and I hope you get them.
If this is you, I hope you do something kind for yourself tomorrow. Doesn’t have to be profound. Just you taking your needs seriously, ok? And your need for peace or joy or safety or affirmation—those are as serious as it gets. You deserve those things, and I hope you get them.
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This is an excellent read that goes far beyond food security and touches on broader questions of Inuit self-determination and what we actually need to mean when we talk about Arctic Sovereignty.
“Some of them will say they never ate for how many days? I try not to get emotional. I get very sad, but I just try to keep my sadness in and try to help them in every way we can. I try to give leftovers to everyone.”
www.aptnnews.ca/featured/peo...
www.aptnnews.ca/featured/peo...
‘Having a hard time getting food’: Nunavut hunger crisis continues
‘People are having a hard time now getting food’: Nunavut hunger crisis continues as Indigenous Services Canada refuses to answer questions
www.aptnnews.ca
November 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
This is an excellent read that goes far beyond food security and touches on broader questions of Inuit self-determination and what we actually need to mean when we talk about Arctic Sovereignty.
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Substitute out “gender affirming care” with cancer care.
Or congenital organ defect repair.
Or mental health care.
This isn’t about providing fully informed consequence free care, because that simply doesn’t exist.
It’s about believing trans kids shouldn’t exist.
#abpoli
Or congenital organ defect repair.
Or mental health care.
This isn’t about providing fully informed consequence free care, because that simply doesn’t exist.
It’s about believing trans kids shouldn’t exist.
#abpoli
November 27, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Substitute out “gender affirming care” with cancer care.
Or congenital organ defect repair.
Or mental health care.
This isn’t about providing fully informed consequence free care, because that simply doesn’t exist.
It’s about believing trans kids shouldn’t exist.
#abpoli
Or congenital organ defect repair.
Or mental health care.
This isn’t about providing fully informed consequence free care, because that simply doesn’t exist.
It’s about believing trans kids shouldn’t exist.
#abpoli
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Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.
November 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.
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Fossil fuel enthusiasts keep arguing that we need to increase our exports of LNG and oil to address energy poverty in the developing world.
I call bullshit — and I bring my receipts. #abpoli #cdnpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/25/o...
I call bullshit — and I bring my receipts. #abpoli #cdnpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/25/o...
The energy poverty trap
Will more oil and gas production in Canada help alleviate energy poverty in the developing world? Of course not — but that hasn't prevented Danielle Smith and other industry champions from pretending ...
www.nationalobserver.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Fossil fuel enthusiasts keep arguing that we need to increase our exports of LNG and oil to address energy poverty in the developing world.
I call bullshit — and I bring my receipts. #abpoli #cdnpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/25/o...
I call bullshit — and I bring my receipts. #abpoli #cdnpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/25/o...
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Today is #InternationalDayfortheEliminationofViolenceAgainstWomen.
It's a day that requires us to acknowledge all the #women & girls who have been hurt, or killed by violence.
Alberta's New Democrats stands with #survivors & their loved ones, always.
#abpoli #yyc #ableg
It's a day that requires us to acknowledge all the #women & girls who have been hurt, or killed by violence.
Alberta's New Democrats stands with #survivors & their loved ones, always.
#abpoli #yyc #ableg
November 25, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Today is #InternationalDayfortheEliminationofViolenceAgainstWomen.
It's a day that requires us to acknowledge all the #women & girls who have been hurt, or killed by violence.
Alberta's New Democrats stands with #survivors & their loved ones, always.
#abpoli #yyc #ableg
It's a day that requires us to acknowledge all the #women & girls who have been hurt, or killed by violence.
Alberta's New Democrats stands with #survivors & their loved ones, always.
#abpoli #yyc #ableg
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Germany uses the excuse of the ’ceasefire’ which Israel routinely violates to sell weapons to Israel again. Israel is being rewarded for committing genocide by the country that pretends to have learned from the holocaust.
November 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Germany uses the excuse of the ’ceasefire’ which Israel routinely violates to sell weapons to Israel again. Israel is being rewarded for committing genocide by the country that pretends to have learned from the holocaust.
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I had #pertussis in my early 30s, after being vaccinated as a child. Waking up in the middle of the night gasping for air - thinking you’re dying of suffocation is incredibly terrifying. I can’t imagine people doing this to their babies - on purpose to “own the libs”.
3 infant #pertussis deaths this year in Kentucky. "Of the three infant deaths reported over the past 12 months, all three were not vaccinated, nor were their mothers."
We first tested maternal vaccination for whooping cough over 80 years ago. It's safe & effective & might have saved these babies.
We first tested maternal vaccination for whooping cough over 80 years ago. It's safe & effective & might have saved these babies.
www.wowktv.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I had #pertussis in my early 30s, after being vaccinated as a child. Waking up in the middle of the night gasping for air - thinking you’re dying of suffocation is incredibly terrifying. I can’t imagine people doing this to their babies - on purpose to “own the libs”.
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Mark Kelly: "I said something that was pretty simple and non-controversial, and that was that members of the military should follow the law. In response to that, Trump said I should be executed, I should be hanged ... it says a lot more about him than it says about me. I'm not going to be silenced."
November 25, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Mark Kelly: "I said something that was pretty simple and non-controversial, and that was that members of the military should follow the law. In response to that, Trump said I should be executed, I should be hanged ... it says a lot more about him than it says about me. I'm not going to be silenced."
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Great conversation with @ToyotaCanada on Canada’s transition to a clean economy and their commitment to advancing EV and hybrid technologies. Encouraged by their dedication to maintaining and growing high-quality manufacturing jobs in Ontario.
November 25, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Great conversation with @ToyotaCanada on Canada’s transition to a clean economy and their commitment to advancing EV and hybrid technologies. Encouraged by their dedication to maintaining and growing high-quality manufacturing jobs in Ontario.
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I would decline to voluntarily cooperate. No way. Issue a subpoena and fight it out in court.
MS NOW confirms: The FBI is working with Capitol Police to schedule interviews with the six Democratic lawmakers who urged service members to refuse to comply with illegal orders.
November 25, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I would decline to voluntarily cooperate. No way. Issue a subpoena and fight it out in court.
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Trump loves a paralipsis.
November 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Trump loves a paralipsis.
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Jair Bolsonaro ordered to start 27-year prison term for plotting Brazil coup
Jair Bolsonaro ordered to start 27-year prison term for plotting Brazil coup
Ex-president to start serving term in 12 sq metre bedroom in police base in Brasília after time for appeals elapses
Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been ordered to start serving his 27-year sentence in a 12 sq metre bedroom in a police base in the capital, Brasília, after his conviction for plotting a coup.
The far-right populist, who governed Latin America’s largest democracy from 2019 until 2022, was handed the punishment in September after the supreme court found him guilty of leading a criminal conspiracy to stop his leftwing rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, taking power. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Jair Bolsonaro ordered to start 27-year prison term for plotting Brazil coup
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Nearly 1 in 3 women – estimated 840 million globally – have experienced partner or sexual violence during their lifetime, a figure that has barely changed since 2000.
#16DaysOfActivism
#16DaysOfActivism
Lifetime toll: 840 million women faced partner or sexual violence
Violence against women remains one of the world’s most persistent and under-addressed human rights crises, with very little progress in two decades, according to a landmark report released today by th...
www.who.int
November 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Nearly 1 in 3 women – estimated 840 million globally – have experienced partner or sexual violence during their lifetime, a figure that has barely changed since 2000.
#16DaysOfActivism
#16DaysOfActivism