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Jenn B-R
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An organic gardener, somewhere on the ND spectrum, fighting to recover from burnout. Sounds fun, right?
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🚨 This is inexplicable news to share. If in Alberta and you want flu and covid shots for NEXT year (2026-2027), you have only until December 15 of THIS year to order them.

This is not incompetence. It’s a deliberate choice to prevent as many people ..

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October 18, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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climateinstitute.bsky.social
Climate change is making droughts longer, more frequent and more severe across 🇨🇦, especially in provinces already struggling with water shortages (Prairies, BC). But there’s a lot governments can do to protect Canadians.

Read more in our fact sheet ⬇️
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Climate change and drought in Canada
Climate change will increase the risk and severity of droughts in Canada that already struggle with water shortages, like the ...
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August 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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thoughtsnations.bsky.social
Read. Read. Again! Repost! Miigwich settlers! 🪶🙌🏽🇨🇦 #DanielleSmithMustResign #Treaties #Alberta
May 1, 2025 at 4:02 AM
jbrplant.bsky.social
Signed with enthusiasm!

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Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
Do Not Allow Trump to Visit Canada
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March 7, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social
In 1890, the Tariff Act came into place in the United States. It placed tariffs on imports of up to 50%.
While touted as a way to build American industry, there was also the hope it would force an annexation of Canada. It backfired.
Let's learn more.

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The image is a black-and-white political cartoon depicting a man in a suit standing behind a counter labeled "Republican Platform." He is holding a bottle labeled "Untaxed Whiskey, 20¢ Gal." in one hand and a piece of cloth labeled "War-Taxed Common Cloth, Tariff 84%" in the other. Above the counter, a sign reads, "If you don’t see what you want, ask for it." The cartoon, signed by W.A. Rogers, appears to satirize the Republican Party's economic policies, highlighting the disparity in taxation between luxury items like whiskey and essential goods like cloth.
March 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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lethalityjane.bsky.social
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.
February 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
jbrplant.bsky.social
Here Are the Real Reasons Smith Flip-Flopped on Rebuilding Jasper via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
Here Are the Real Reasons Smith Flip-Flopped on Rebuilding Jasper | The Tyee
The UCP is willing to leave people homeless to pursue its vendetta against Ottawa.
thetyee.ca
January 30, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Pierre Poilievre has been in politics for 20 years, he's written 0 legislation; has one of the highest pensions in government. He's voted against the environment & climate nearly 400 times, derailed legislation to benefit workers, and voted against affordable housing initiatives.
January 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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zoeschlanger.bsky.social
Hi pals. Today I wrote about the unsettling mismatches between what climate models say should be happening and what is actually happening. We're pushing the Earth past the limits of our physical understanding. This is a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
Climate Models Can’t Explain What’s Happening to Earth
Global warming is moving faster than the best models can keep a handle on.
www.theatlantic.com
January 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
jbrplant.bsky.social
I need to read positive stories now and again so I can keep going- so thanks for this, @climateinstitute.bsky.social
climateinstitute.bsky.social Canadian Climate Institute @climateinstitute.bsky.social · Jan 7
10 good news climate stories to start 2025 ⚡

Despite challenges along the way, Canada and the world made enormous strides addressing climate change and building a cleaner economy in 2024. Read more ⬇️ #cdnpoli
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Top 10 good news stories on climate and clean energy in 2024
2024 is drawing to a close. It’s worth a reminder of all the good news stories on climate and clean energy progress that happened in 2024.
climateinstitute.ca
January 7, 2025 at 8:32 PM
jbrplant.bsky.social
This is amazing!
January 5, 2025 at 7:22 PM
jbrplant.bsky.social
This is our “fixed” healthcare according to the UCP??
yyccowboy.bsky.social YYCCowboy @yyccowboy.bsky.social · Dec 31
*NEW* AHS v134.0!! AHS Weekly ICU Numbers 12/17 - Currently 199 Admitted (+9) w/ 224 (+2 SURGE Beds). Lets get this 'Unofficial CMOH Update on it's been **801** days since DS said '90 Days and fixed!" That was a fat lie' healthcare thread going! Buckle up Alberta! /1
December 31, 2024 at 5:00 PM
jbrplant.bsky.social
Very impressive!
December 31, 2024 at 4:37 PM
jbrplant.bsky.social
Exactly right.
December 31, 2024 at 4:31 PM
jbrplant.bsky.social
Exactly this. It’s hard to stay hopeful when you can see this happening around you.
ryankatzrosene.bsky.social Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · Dec 23
Here's my own rendition of 'The Doom Loop' - which
@james7jackson.bsky.social tipped me off about recently. As Labourn & Dyke write: "Climate change is making geopolitics less stable, which harms climate action. This will worsen climate change, meaning more geopolitical instability, and so on"
December 23, 2024 at 10:18 PM
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thierryaaron.bsky.social
"A lot of people assume that somewhere in Britain there are sheds full of food that we’d distribute in a disaster. Surely there is a grain or butter mountain somewhere? Surely the UK government has a plan for such a crisis?

Nope. No sheds. No stores. No mountains of food. No plan"
A food apocalypse is coming
unherd.com
December 22, 2024 at 11:18 AM