Crystal N. 🍁
@raeburn7.bsky.social
Nature based psychotherapy, with a niche in spiritual trauma. Also MA in conflict studies. Non-science brain with lots of science interests. Regeneration, sustainability, ethics and love for geography.
And .. this one is next week. Not brave enough to do both together.
Feeling for the kids here in Ontario. It’s an early and bad flu season already.
Feeling for the kids here in Ontario. It’s an early and bad flu season already.
Your weekly reminder to get the flu jab if eligible.
How an influenza virus infects a human cell [via ETH Zurich] 🧪🥼🦠😷⚕️
"Researchers were surprised by one thing: the cells are not passive, simply allowing themselves to be invaded by the influenza virus. Rather, they actively attempt to capture it."
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#flu #virus #human #cell
"Researchers were surprised by one thing: the cells are not passive, simply allowing themselves to be invaded by the influenza virus. Rather, they actively attempt to capture it."
ethz.ch/en/news-and-...
#flu #virus #human #cell
December 5, 2025 at 8:44 PM
And .. this one is next week. Not brave enough to do both together.
Feeling for the kids here in Ontario. It’s an early and bad flu season already.
Feeling for the kids here in Ontario. It’s an early and bad flu season already.
I got mine a few days ago. Hubby has become immunocompromised to a significant level.
Full disclosure, I am afraid of vaccines for various reasons; most of which aren’t valid. Also, I tend to hyper focus and feel everything. Which honestly, I did this time too.
Grateful to get it though..
Full disclosure, I am afraid of vaccines for various reasons; most of which aren’t valid. Also, I tend to hyper focus and feel everything. Which honestly, I did this time too.
Grateful to get it though..
One of largest COVID vax studies ever (28 MILLION people) recently published.
Results:
• 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19
• 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality
• No increase in 4-year mortality
• Jabbed had lower risk of death from any cause.
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Results:
• 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19
• 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality
• No increase in 4-year mortality
• Jabbed had lower risk of death from any cause.
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jamanetwork.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I got mine a few days ago. Hubby has become immunocompromised to a significant level.
Full disclosure, I am afraid of vaccines for various reasons; most of which aren’t valid. Also, I tend to hyper focus and feel everything. Which honestly, I did this time too.
Grateful to get it though..
Full disclosure, I am afraid of vaccines for various reasons; most of which aren’t valid. Also, I tend to hyper focus and feel everything. Which honestly, I did this time too.
Grateful to get it though..
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NEW RESEARCH: Indigenous housing inequality will drive up health impacts and costs in Canada unless policy changes are made to improve energy efficiency, increase climate resilience and support well-being. Read our latest report with Indigenous Clean Energy 🧵⬇️
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Housing inequality among Indigenous communities in Canada is an expensive problem, both in terms of dollar figures and—more importantly—lives.
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December 4, 2025 at 1:04 PM
NEW RESEARCH: Indigenous housing inequality will drive up health impacts and costs in Canada unless policy changes are made to improve energy efficiency, increase climate resilience and support well-being. Read our latest report with Indigenous Clean Energy 🧵⬇️
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As Canada builds an innovation economy around “defence” (to the aspirational tune of 5% of GDP) we’re going to be confronted with a lot of these awful transactions.
Revisiting a framework for assessing the social, political and ethical dimensions of defence spending and trade might be in order.
Revisiting a framework for assessing the social, political and ethical dimensions of defence spending and trade might be in order.
Ladies and gentlemen, make sure to keep your elbows firmly up while inside the vehicles bound for a country that's going to use them to illegally kidnap innocent men, women, and children share.google/ANhrgIX5WcIm...
ICE ordering fleet of 20 armoured vehicles from Canadian firm
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has earmarked millions of dollars for a bulk order for 20 armoured vehicles from Canadian defence manufacturer Roshel that are built to resist bullets and bomb...
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December 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
As Canada builds an innovation economy around “defence” (to the aspirational tune of 5% of GDP) we’re going to be confronted with a lot of these awful transactions.
Revisiting a framework for assessing the social, political and ethical dimensions of defence spending and trade might be in order.
Revisiting a framework for assessing the social, political and ethical dimensions of defence spending and trade might be in order.
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Pretty much every article about the Putin-Kushner-Witkoff summit in Moscow yesterday fails to mention that Kushner is simultaneously accepting tens of millions in annual payments from the Saudis and other foreign governments.
Seems like a key detail!
Seems like a key detail!
December 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Pretty much every article about the Putin-Kushner-Witkoff summit in Moscow yesterday fails to mention that Kushner is simultaneously accepting tens of millions in annual payments from the Saudis and other foreign governments.
Seems like a key detail!
Seems like a key detail!
Indeed.
Yes it is.
Yes it is.
As Chantal Hébert said, folks are missing the climate forest for the pipeline trees.
Carney rolled back major climate policies for Alberta, now! In exchange for a lil industrial carbon price increase and the BS that is carbon capture!
Forgetting the pipeline, this is BAD for the climate crisis!
Carney rolled back major climate policies for Alberta, now! In exchange for a lil industrial carbon price increase and the BS that is carbon capture!
Forgetting the pipeline, this is BAD for the climate crisis!
I'm not convinced that wasn't Carney's plan all along. It isn't Ottawa that said no to Alberta. "Now you run along, Danielle, and make friends and get it done." Oh wait, you can't? Oh well then, at least you tried.
December 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Indeed.
Yes it is.
Yes it is.
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I am glad to be part of such an outstanding and ambitious project! 🌊
#climatechange #carboncycle #postdoc with @thelifeaquatic.xyz
Op-ed: Drs. Tyler Eddy and Maxime Geoffroy gazette.mun.ca/campus-and-c...
#climatechange #carboncycle #postdoc with @thelifeaquatic.xyz
Op-ed: Drs. Tyler Eddy and Maxime Geoffroy gazette.mun.ca/campus-and-c...
Op-ed: Drs. Tyler Eddy and Maxime Geoffroy
The ocean has absorbed 90 per cent of the heat from human-induced global warming through the carbon pump.
gazette.mun.ca
December 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I am glad to be part of such an outstanding and ambitious project! 🌊
#climatechange #carboncycle #postdoc with @thelifeaquatic.xyz
Op-ed: Drs. Tyler Eddy and Maxime Geoffroy gazette.mun.ca/campus-and-c...
#climatechange #carboncycle #postdoc with @thelifeaquatic.xyz
Op-ed: Drs. Tyler Eddy and Maxime Geoffroy gazette.mun.ca/campus-and-c...
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Youth First Nations leaders in B.C. are ready to take up the battle against pipelines. They're speaking out against the memorandum of understanding between Ottawa and Alberta on getting oil to the west coast.
First Nation leaders young and old brace for new pipeline battle
Opposition reawakens after Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith signed an MOU on a pipeline to B.C.'s coast.
www.aptnnews.ca
December 1, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Youth First Nations leaders in B.C. are ready to take up the battle against pipelines. They're speaking out against the memorandum of understanding between Ottawa and Alberta on getting oil to the west coast.
Letter of concern to #Carney has been sent. Why are we going down this route. If Guilbeault is resigning, there are other valid options not being listened to.
November 27, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Letter of concern to #Carney has been sent. Why are we going down this route. If Guilbeault is resigning, there are other valid options not being listened to.
This is a terrific, informed analysis by Charlie Angus. The puzzle of how "the smartest guy in the room" could do something so seemingly....dumb.
There is no political, economic or environmental case for even pretending to consider Northern Gateway pipeline.
Mark Carney has given a huge with to Danielle Smith while reviving the environmental conflicts of Stephen Harper.
This is a huge mistake.
My latest.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Mark Carney has given a huge with to Danielle Smith while reviving the environmental conflicts of Stephen Harper.
This is a huge mistake.
My latest.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
November 26, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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We are losing so much time fighting fights that should have been put to bed years ago.
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November 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
We are losing so much time fighting fights that should have been put to bed years ago.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
So ok, an earlier repost mentioned the CEO of Blackstone, who is a major Trump supporter, involved in one of the big nation building projects.
Mr. PM, you wrote a book about values. We need to do better here. We need full disclosure about who is involved in CANADIAN nation building.
#Carney
Mr. PM, you wrote a book about values. We need to do better here. We need full disclosure about who is involved in CANADIAN nation building.
#Carney
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.
www.thestar.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:36 PM
So ok, an earlier repost mentioned the CEO of Blackstone, who is a major Trump supporter, involved in one of the big nation building projects.
Mr. PM, you wrote a book about values. We need to do better here. We need full disclosure about who is involved in CANADIAN nation building.
#Carney
Mr. PM, you wrote a book about values. We need to do better here. We need full disclosure about who is involved in CANADIAN nation building.
#Carney
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Great piece by my colleague @watershedlab.bsky.social on the risk of landslide tsunamis on BC’s Northwest Coast and what it means for pipelines in the area
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New northwest pipeline risks hazard of landslide tsunamis
Major Projects Office needs to be wary in its planning for pipeline projects to tidewater
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Great piece by my colleague @watershedlab.bsky.social on the risk of landslide tsunamis on BC’s Northwest Coast and what it means for pipelines in the area
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I had some issues with LNG fracking aspect of things, and noted the “indigenous” language being used. To find out that a huge Trump supporter is leading the Blackstone corp … aka American, funding and drive behind any nation building project …
I thought better of Carney.
#markcarney
I thought better of Carney.
#markcarney
Mark Carney is about to announce more of his “elbows up” major projects.
But under the surface, one that’s being sold as an Indigenous-led LNG project is actually — spoiler — American as hell.
That’s not even the worst part!
@emilylowan.bsky.social joined me to discuss:
But under the surface, one that’s being sold as an Indigenous-led LNG project is actually — spoiler — American as hell.
That’s not even the worst part!
@emilylowan.bsky.social joined me to discuss:
November 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I had some issues with LNG fracking aspect of things, and noted the “indigenous” language being used. To find out that a huge Trump supporter is leading the Blackstone corp … aka American, funding and drive behind any nation building project …
I thought better of Carney.
#markcarney
I thought better of Carney.
#markcarney
If this is true … it’s a profound breach of ethical integrity. The ultimate gaslighting.
Mind you WaPo wouldn’t release its actual diversity numbers
When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”
October 31, 2025 at 2:29 PM
If this is true … it’s a profound breach of ethical integrity. The ultimate gaslighting.
Oh My God.
What are they thinking????
What are they thinking????
Alberta First Nations denounce plans to ‘treat and release’ oil sands tailings ricochet.media/indigenous/a...
Alberta First Nations denounce plans to ‘treat and release’ oil sands tailings
Oil sands pollution has been kept in ponds for decades — Now the government wants to release it into the Athabaska River watershed
ricochet.media
October 31, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Oh My God.
What are they thinking????
What are they thinking????
THIS. POST.
So, let's bring back the rebate on EVs
Let's invest in mass transit and safer active transportation routes
Let's fund real green energy projects
Let's stop subsidizing fossil fuel
Let's invest in mass transit and safer active transportation routes
Let's fund real green energy projects
Let's stop subsidizing fossil fuel
October 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
THIS. POST.
I love this post.
Limiting social media so that you only log on for an hour at 9pm each day is probably the funniest way to live. So they're bulldozing the whole East Wing. Okay well what about the guy with the nazi tattoo? Oh, he's got 3 now. Ok well surely Cuomo didn't do anything insane. Ah. Okay, see ya tomorrow
October 23, 2025 at 11:01 AM
I love this post.
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A beautiful autumn walk in the park in Minnesota🍁🍂
#Photography
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#BlueSkyArt
#EastCoastKin
#Natute
#Autumn
#Minnesota
#Photography
#Photographers
#BlueSkyArt
#EastCoastKin
#Natute
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#Minnesota
October 19, 2025 at 10:56 AM
A beautiful autumn walk in the park in Minnesota🍁🍂
#Photography
#Photographers
#BlueSkyArt
#EastCoastKin
#Natute
#Autumn
#Minnesota
#Photography
#Photographers
#BlueSkyArt
#EastCoastKin
#Natute
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#Minnesota
Well … amen.
🔥 COUNTRY SINGER @bryanandrewsmusic.bsky.social : "You don't get to call yourself a Christian and laugh when families are torn apart — and think it's okay that the highest court in the land just gave a green light to ICE agents to target people because they’re brown or speaking Spanish.”
October 15, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Well … amen.
THIS!
Why do I say 'more qualified'? Because maybe we should have fewer wealthy people involved in politics. Maybe people who aren't willing to do public service for less than $300,000/year should fuck off, and hard-working, public service-oriented people can do the job better!
October 13, 2025 at 11:09 AM
THIS!
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You know how local media is getting decimated as disinformation floods in?
Well, my friends at @nationalobserver.com have created an incredibly cool new tool for keeping an eye on local politics.
Check it out:
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Check it out:
October 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
You know how local media is getting decimated as disinformation floods in?
Well, my friends at @nationalobserver.com have created an incredibly cool new tool for keeping an eye on local politics.
Check it out:
Well, my friends at @nationalobserver.com have created an incredibly cool new tool for keeping an eye on local politics.
Check it out:
Sigh …
Interesting how the Indigenous woman kidnapped from the Conscious flotilla isn't getting a fraction of the attention as white participants. Even articles aren't naming her! Her name is Mskwaasin Agnew.
October 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Sigh …
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And did it ever hit me hard today, just seeing it everywhere you look. Mainly because every single one of those people, especially the young and disabled folks have been failed on such a monumental level and the cruetly hasn't ceased, it's just been ramped up.
October 2, 2025 at 8:45 PM
And did it ever hit me hard today, just seeing it everywhere you look. Mainly because every single one of those people, especially the young and disabled folks have been failed on such a monumental level and the cruetly hasn't ceased, it's just been ramped up.