Michele v
@mshellv.bsky.social
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More than half of Toronto drivers in a Universtiy of Toronto study didn't look for people walking or on bikes before turning right. Study used eye-tracking tech.
Increasingly deadly vehicles, dumb laws, and irresponsible driving equal people being injured and killed.
www.utoronto.ca/news/more-ha...
Increasingly deadly vehicles, dumb laws, and irresponsible driving equal people being injured and killed.
www.utoronto.ca/news/more-ha...
December 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
More than half of Toronto drivers in a Universtiy of Toronto study didn't look for people walking or on bikes before turning right. Study used eye-tracking tech.
Increasingly deadly vehicles, dumb laws, and irresponsible driving equal people being injured and killed.
www.utoronto.ca/news/more-ha...
Increasingly deadly vehicles, dumb laws, and irresponsible driving equal people being injured and killed.
www.utoronto.ca/news/more-ha...
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Let's see if any politicians post about International Day of Persons with Disabilities & mentions the long COVID crisis. I'll wait
December 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Let's see if any politicians post about International Day of Persons with Disabilities & mentions the long COVID crisis. I'll wait
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everytime B.C. does a test of its emergency system I'm brought back to 2021 when the government hadn't used it for years
and didn't use it for the deadly heat dome or deadly flooding
and then the government had a tantrum when they were called out on it
and then immediately started using it
and didn't use it for the deadly heat dome or deadly flooding
and then the government had a tantrum when they were called out on it
and then immediately started using it
November 19, 2025 at 10:01 PM
everytime B.C. does a test of its emergency system I'm brought back to 2021 when the government hadn't used it for years
and didn't use it for the deadly heat dome or deadly flooding
and then the government had a tantrum when they were called out on it
and then immediately started using it
and didn't use it for the deadly heat dome or deadly flooding
and then the government had a tantrum when they were called out on it
and then immediately started using it
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#ImNotADisneyFigureButICan lead the resistance
princess leia from star wars is making a funny face while standing in a dark room .
ALT: princess leia from star wars is making a funny face while standing in a dark room .
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November 18, 2025 at 12:26 PM
#ImNotADisneyFigureButICan lead the resistance
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Racialized workers and women are disproportionately affected by low wages, this year’s living wage report shows.
Closing the gap between Metro Vancouver’s living wage, $27.85/hour, and BC’s min wage, $17.85/hour, would greatly aid these workers' families.
bcpolicy.ca/living-wage
Closing the gap between Metro Vancouver’s living wage, $27.85/hour, and BC’s min wage, $17.85/hour, would greatly aid these workers' families.
bcpolicy.ca/living-wage
November 14, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Racialized workers and women are disproportionately affected by low wages, this year’s living wage report shows.
Closing the gap between Metro Vancouver’s living wage, $27.85/hour, and BC’s min wage, $17.85/hour, would greatly aid these workers' families.
bcpolicy.ca/living-wage
Closing the gap between Metro Vancouver’s living wage, $27.85/hour, and BC’s min wage, $17.85/hour, would greatly aid these workers' families.
bcpolicy.ca/living-wage
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Maybe the thing that gives me a pulse-pounding throbbing headache is when I think of how techbros sold ChatGPT to universities as ‘revolutionizing’ higher education and our institutions just forked over money without even asking for actual evidence
When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
October 28, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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October 18, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Los Angeles representing for No Kings Day!
October 18, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Los Angeles representing for No Kings Day!
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MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally:
October 18, 2025 at 6:49 PM
MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally:
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Given the deterioration of the US public health system it is necessary that Canada significantly up its capabilities and capacities in public health and pandemic/ epidemic preparedness. Including our capacity to develop and produce vaccines and new antiviral/ antibacterial drugs.
October 7, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Given the deterioration of the US public health system it is necessary that Canada significantly up its capabilities and capacities in public health and pandemic/ epidemic preparedness. Including our capacity to develop and produce vaccines and new antiviral/ antibacterial drugs.
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NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).
An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸
(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)
An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸
(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)
October 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).
An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸
(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)
An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸
(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)
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Trump hates to be the object of humor. He understands that humor can be a more powerful antidote to tyranny than any other form of criticism.
I'm sure he'd hate it if you shared this cartoon. [Cartoon by Jon Adams/The New Yorker]
I'm sure he'd hate it if you shared this cartoon. [Cartoon by Jon Adams/The New Yorker]
October 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Trump hates to be the object of humor. He understands that humor can be a more powerful antidote to tyranny than any other form of criticism.
I'm sure he'd hate it if you shared this cartoon. [Cartoon by Jon Adams/The New Yorker]
I'm sure he'd hate it if you shared this cartoon. [Cartoon by Jon Adams/The New Yorker]
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it's not good that the default mood on social media is constant doomscrolling but I will continue to post reminders to drink water, stop slouching, do offline activities and charge your phone away from your bed; as well as photos of my dog
October 3, 2025 at 8:53 PM
it's not good that the default mood on social media is constant doomscrolling but I will continue to post reminders to drink water, stop slouching, do offline activities and charge your phone away from your bed; as well as photos of my dog
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Smith grotesquely calls a new pipeline a "moral imperative." Nonsense. To approve new fossil fuel infrastructure of this scale in the year 2025 – in the wake of three consecutive summers of the worst wildfires on record – is a willful act of arson...
October 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Smith grotesquely calls a new pipeline a "moral imperative." Nonsense. To approve new fossil fuel infrastructure of this scale in the year 2025 – in the wake of three consecutive summers of the worst wildfires on record – is a willful act of arson...
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Everyone's talking about BC's "spending problem" but here's what they're not telling you: we're spending the SAME share of GDP as 1998, but collecting far less revenue. BC's deficit isn't about overspending. My analysis: vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...
#bcpoli
#bcpoli
Opinion: B.C. has a revenue problem, not a spending problem
Experience from early 2000s shows that underfunding public services and failing to address poverty leads to higher economic and social costs
vancouversun.com
September 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Everyone's talking about BC's "spending problem" but here's what they're not telling you: we're spending the SAME share of GDP as 1998, but collecting far less revenue. BC's deficit isn't about overspending. My analysis: vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...
#bcpoli
#bcpoli
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Public services aren’t “bailouts”—they’re infrastructure. Rural mail and home delivery are services we depend on, not corporate handouts.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Liberal government frees Canada Post to end home delivery, close some post offices | CBC News
With Canada Post on track to lose $1.5 billion in 2025 and contract discussions between the union and the corporation stalled, the federal government is embarking on a modernization plan it says will ...
www.cbc.ca
September 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Public services aren’t “bailouts”—they’re infrastructure. Rural mail and home delivery are services we depend on, not corporate handouts.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
September 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
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Fabulous video compilation of Draw the Line actions across the country last Saturday. Enjoy 👇
Tens of thousands in 70+ communities across Canada took to the streets in an unprecedented & historic cross-movement mobilisation to #DrawtheLine and demand Mark Carney & the federal government pick a side: injustice, violence, and climate destruction — or a just and safe future for all of us.✊
September 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Fabulous video compilation of Draw the Line actions across the country last Saturday. Enjoy 👇
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I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.
September 13, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.
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- you clean up that banksy?
- sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked
- sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked
They erased the new Banksy mural in London. But the stain remains.
September 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
- you clean up that banksy?
- sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked
- sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked
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We're Going to REPEAT These
Instructions Everyday ! BELIEVE
THE WOMEN ! Chump Lies, while
Ruining Women's Lives.......
Instructions Everyday ! BELIEVE
THE WOMEN ! Chump Lies, while
Ruining Women's Lives.......
September 7, 2025 at 9:17 AM
We're Going to REPEAT These
Instructions Everyday ! BELIEVE
THE WOMEN ! Chump Lies, while
Ruining Women's Lives.......
Instructions Everyday ! BELIEVE
THE WOMEN ! Chump Lies, while
Ruining Women's Lives.......
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As a family doc, I’m recommending the updated COVID and flu vaccines to all my patients when they become available this autumn, including pregnant patients, young children, and seniors (to whom I will also recommend the RSV vaccine). Elbows and sleeves up for important public health measures 🇨🇦💉
September 7, 2025 at 4:56 PM
As a family doc, I’m recommending the updated COVID and flu vaccines to all my patients when they become available this autumn, including pregnant patients, young children, and seniors (to whom I will also recommend the RSV vaccine). Elbows and sleeves up for important public health measures 🇨🇦💉
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"What was the point of electing Mark Carney when we get Pierre Poilievre's climate policy," said [me]. "We should be aligning with Europe, which is doubling down on renewable energy and electric vehicles, rather than bowing before Trump's attack on people and planet."
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Canada delaying plan to force automakers to hit minimum sales levels for electric vehicles next year: sources | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney is delaying a plan to force automakers to hit minimum sales levels for electric vehicles next year, according to sources knowledgeable of the plans.
www.cbc.ca
September 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM
"What was the point of electing Mark Carney when we get Pierre Poilievre's climate policy," said [me]. "We should be aligning with Europe, which is doubling down on renewable energy and electric vehicles, rather than bowing before Trump's attack on people and planet."
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...