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Carolyn Peters

@amaitj.bsky.social
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Nerdette of many things health, science, urban affairs, international affairs. Share what smarter or funnier people than me have to say.

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John Lorinc @johnlorinc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Today on @spacing.bsky.social: former Ontario cabinet minister Eleanor McMahon on the need to extricate bike lanes from Doug Ford’s culture war. spacing.ca/toronto/2026...
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Election 2026: Culture wars are warping cycling policy - Spacing Toronto
In 2014, I did something I never imagined I would do — especially after years spent as a political staffer watching campaigns from the inside. I put my name on a ballot. The invitation came from Kathl...
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Technically, they’re Remains now.
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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
“Public consultation” on Billy Bishop expansion. These survey questions suggest to me that this is a done deal. tc.canada.ca/en/corporate...
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Public consultation on the future of Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport
Consultation collecting feedback on the future of Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport
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Carolyn Peters @amaitj.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
@thebeaverton.com suggested new property - Beaverton Life. Pointing out the absurdity of priveldged Torontonians showcasing their lives and sometimes woes. Wait, has Toronto Life already accomplished that?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
If you want to FINALLY watch Scott Bessent get pinned down on specifics about the illegal money laundering operation being conducted by the Trump admin from someone who knows WTF he’s talking about, this clip is your chance. Bessent gets destroyed.
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INTREPID Lab - CAMH @intrepidlab.ca · 22/01/2026
This week, our Intrepid staff were boots on the ground, handing out support prizes to raise awareness for STOP on the Net during National Non-Smoking Week! 🚭💙 #QuitSupport #NationalNonSmokingWeek”
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 09/10/2025
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 05/10/2025
ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn't a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division
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Carolyn Peters @amaitj.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Would be great to see something similar from Cherry St to Humber or Mimico to bypass the east west traffic. Stops at Straughan Spadina Yonge.. #toronto www.hamburg.com/visitors/ham...
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The HADAG public transport ferries in Hamburg
Hamburg’s HADAG ferry lines are not only important for managing everyday urban traffic but also an inexpensive way to experience the port.
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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
This is a VERY big step for Germany — a recognition that the existential and foundational German obligation to Israel is not an obligation to an authoritarian-minded leader who has captured Israel and defied its people and basic humanitarian values
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Carolyn Peters @amaitj.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
More international media, should be expressing their outrage at this dog whistle to white supremicists. No international leader should ever step foot in that office again.
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Trump’s ambush of South Africa’s president shows how low the US has fallen | Justice Malala
Instead of embarrassing Cyril Ramaphosa, the US president’s ‘gotcha’ moment illuminates the fact-free reality show that is Trump’s America
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Carolyn Peters @amaitj.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Thank you Charlie for your service and thoughtful words. And let's hope that rage politics gets addressed before a next election as it is truly dividing our country and people are not necessarily making decisions based on facts.
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Carolyn Peters @amaitj.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
No surprise to these findings. Unfortunately Infrastructure Ontario is still doubling down on their shady dealings with Therme www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/w...
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European Spa Company Therme Misrepresented Itself in an Effort to Expand Into Canada
A Times investigation shows Therme, a European firm, exaggerated its track record in securing a deal with Ontario, and government auditors found that the process had been unfair and opaque.
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Carolyn Peters @amaitj.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Remember that PP didn't want to encourage youth to vote youtu.be/EqpW2Wnjcpg?...
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RMR: Fair Elections Act
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Brittlestar @brittlestar.com · 05/04/2025
BETRAYAL SEASON 🇨🇦
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
An excellent clip from the 1986 Hollywood film “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” explains why raising tariffs on Chinese goods will hurt the U.S. economy. In 1930 Republicans raised tariffs. As a consequence the U.S. economy suffered an even worse Great Depression. Tariffs are taxes paid by consumers.
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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 29/03/2025
If you're watching what's happening at US universities, it's on our doorstep here. Pollievre is promising to end federal funding for research deemed to be "woke" www.montrealgazette.com/news/canada/...
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Carolyn Peters @amaitj.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
🚨On Adolescence, toxic men and Trump: If YOU, yes YOU, would like to understand why we are where we are, I strongly recommend learning about Aggrieved Entitlement and how it functions. 🧵
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The Aggrieved Entitlement Scale: A New Measure for an Old Problem - Vasileia Karasavva, Jayme Stewart, Jaimie Reynolds, Adelle Forth, 2024
Aggrieved entitlement (AE) refers to the defensiveness and hostility majority-group members feel toward the outgroup in response to a perceived threat of lost p...
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Unofficial CP24 Mirror @cp24-mirror.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Fact check: What Trump doesn’t mention about Canada’s dairy tariffs
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What Trump doesn’t mention about Canada’s dairy tariffs
U.S. President Donald Trump correctly noted Friday, as he has before, that Canada has tariffs above 200% on dairy products imported from the U.S.. But Trump again failed to mention a critical fact.
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Carolyn Peters @amaitj.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Searched Bluesky to install on my mom's phone and this showed up on search results.
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Carolyn Peters @amaitj.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Not the first of this talk. Trump's mentioned before a 1908 treaty as if it were invalid.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
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Carolyn Peters @amaitj.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
www.bbc.com/news/article... last night would have been an opportune time to test flickering on and off the televisions
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Ontario's Doug Ford says he could cut electricity to US over tariffs
Ford announced retaliatory plans shortly after Trump implemented tariffs against Canada.
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The Dangerous Ones @thedangerousones.com · 01/03/2025
WATCH: Tina Martini from PA has the most BRUTAL REACTION to the Trump/ Zelensky chaos! ABSOLUTE FIRE 🔥
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Dana Milbank @danamilbank.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I don't know what Jeff Bezos means by "personal liberties and free markets." But I do know this: The biggest threat to personal liberties and free markets in America today is Donald Trump. My @postopinions.bsky.social column on this week's trauma at the Post. wapo.st/3DaSKxX
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Opinion | Here’s the real threat to ‘personal liberties and free markets’
The rapidly spreading authoritarianism coming from this administration threatens all of our freedoms.
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INTREPID Lab - CAMH @intrepidlab.ca · 26/02/2025
📣INTREPID Lab is excited to be on BlueSky! We're leading the instrumental work on smoking & vaping research, treatment, and education at @camhnews.bsky.social Follow us for insights, evidence-based strategies, and the latest breakthroughs in nicotine dependence. Learn more here: intrepidlab.ca
Logo of BlueSky with announcement that INTREPID Lab is now on BlueSky and request to follow at intrepidlab.ca
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Anonymous ⩜ @youranona.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Words alone cannot capture the depth of emotion in this testimony. A voice from the past, once fighting against extremism and fascism, now speaks with heartbreak as history threatens to repeat itself. Watch, listen, and reflect.
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Carolyn Peters @amaitj.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Enjoy my Canada Day Playlist to celebrate some great and many lesser known Canadian musicians #canada
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Canada Day - alternate edition
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Carolyn Peters @amaitj.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Proud that our INTREPID Lab team at CAMH is recognized for a third time as a recipient of the 2024-2025 I.D.E.A.L. Bioscience Employer Recognition Program for our team’s efforts in implementing inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility (IDEA) best practices into our workplace.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Every week, I check the CDC's Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report. This week for the first time in its 60 years it was not published on schedule. American healthcare workers all over the country are less informed about health crises that affect their patients. CDC led reports matter a 🧵
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Carolyn Peters @amaitj.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
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Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring
Researchers facing “a lot of uncertainty, fear, and panic”
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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
In just thirteen days, the villains will have the run of the place, and there’s a non-zero chance that the MAGA Gestapo will bar me from compiling such a list for 2026. But egg prices, amirite?
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25 Villains for '25
As we try to, ahem, *project* 2025, here are some of the worst people in America, ranked by how much harm they have done and/or are poised to do to the people of this country and the world
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Josh Kaplan @josh-kaplan.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
THREAD: In 2023, I received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of 1000s of secret files. It came from a vigilante with a tumultuous past, who'd conducted a years-long undercover operation. He didn’t tell the FBI or his family. He only told me.
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Carolyn Peters @amaitj.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
All for MFA but when travelling in another country not using cell phone service from home it is impossible. Only some services are offering email to send pin. 🤦🏼‍♀️
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
King Liberty Station must be built. The promise, if there is any, of Toronto’s exclusionary zoning regime is false. My @thestar.com this week. www.thestar.com/opinion/if-t...
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Shawn Micallef: If Toronto fails to deliver this one piece of infrastructure, it will reveal an ugly truth
Toronto is routinely slammed as an unplanned city and, at the same time, as a place over-planned to the point of suffocation.
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
The World's Best Cities Are Putting People (and Bicycles) First, Not Cars momentummag.com/cities-on-th... via @momentummag.bsky.social @brenttoderian.bsky.social
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Cities on the World's Best List are Putting People First Not Cars
According to the latest report, these cities stand out for their approach to urban development with innovative mobility solutions
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Superb by newly free @pkrugman.bsky.social
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Carolyn Peters @amaitj.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Now more than ever it will be important to stop the spread of misinformation around public health. This is a good list of both scientists and reporters of science.. and The Onion. They bought InfoWars so deserve a seat at the table.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 16/11/2024
Pierre Poilievre is running a petition opposing Justin Trudeau’s “woke agenda” to force Canadians to “eat bugs”
“We won’t eat bugs”: Pierre Poilievre’s petition opposing Justin Trudeau’s “woke agenda” to force Canadians to “eat bugs”
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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Story of how 2 accidental nursing errors led anti-vax RFK Jr to end up killing 80 people in Samoa.
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Carolyn Peters @amaitj.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
If looking for who's on here, here's some folks/media that I follow.
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