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Blythe McKay

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Work for @farmradio. Avid reader and love playing with words. Ostomate living with IBD and PSC/AIH.

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
An actual genuine story: Male ski jumpers are measured for their suits from the penis down Some are gaming the system by injecting their penises with acid to enlarge them, thus getting bigger jumpsuits www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...
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‘Penis injection’ claims in Winter Olympics ski jumping investigated by Wada
Wada is to investigate claims ski jumpers are injecting acid into their penises to game the suit-measuring system
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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
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Opinion | In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War
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Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Not good. Not good! (via @parismarx.com)
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Libraries say budget proposal to end shipping program would be 'catastrophic | CBC News
Libraries across Canada say a proposed change in the federal budget bill would end their ability to ship books at reduced rates, threatening interlibrary loan programs and possibly forcing the closure...
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 07/11/2025
@pressprogress.ca needs your solidarity and support right now more than ever We’re raising money to pay our legal bills – and to be blunt, we’re going to need a lot of help If you’re able, please help us out and support our Journalism Defence Fund: pressprogress.ca/journalism-d...
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PressProgress: Defend Canadian Journalism
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NPR @npr.org · 23/08/2025
To save the lives of infants and small kids in lower resource countries, there are a handful of tools: anti-malarial drugs, bed nets and vaccines. A massive experiment in rural Kenya suggests another.
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Researchers discover a secret weapon that saves babies' lives. And it's not medical
To save the lives of infants and small kids in lower resource countries, there are a handful of tools: anti-malarial drugs, bed nets and vaccines. A massive experiment in rural Kenya suggests another.
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Chandra Pasma @chandrapasma.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Here is my statement on the Ford government's decision to adjourn the Legislature until October 20. #onpoli
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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The rise of end times fascism
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
How neurosurgeon Teresa Purzner used her entrepreneurial background to revamp a hospital’s brain-tumor program, reducing delays for radiation treatment by 40% and doubling surgery volumes, by @hannay.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/business/eco... via @theglobeandmail.com
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How a neurosurgeon used her entrepreneurial background to revamp a hospital’s brain-tumor program
In the program’s first year, it has reduced delays for radiation treatment by 40 per cent and surgery volumes have more than doubled
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 09/04/2025
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Why the Tories are still wrong on foreign aid
In today’s destabilized world, Canada’s international assistance is more important than ever
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NPR @npr.org · 30/03/2025
The U.N. has identified Kabwe, a city of almost 300,000 people in Zambia, as one of the most polluted places on the planet. Who is to blame? And can justice be done?
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This may be the most lead polluted place on Earth. Is there any hope?
The U.N. has identified Kabwe, a city of almost 300,000 people in Zambia, as one of the most polluted places on the planet. Who is to blame? And can justice be done?
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Beyond #LongCOVID — how reinfections could be causing silent long-term organ damage. Even if you think you're done with COVID, COVID might not be done with you, by Sonya Buyting www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks... via @cbcnews.ca @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social #COVID19
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Beyond long COVID — how reinfections could be causing silent long-term organ damage | CBC Radio
Scientific evidence is painting an unsettling picture: COVID infections, even if mild or asymptomatic, may be causing long-term cellular and organ damage, as well as increasing your risk of developing...
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Charlotte Moore-Lambert @charlottereads.com · 22/03/2025
being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Madeleine Wulfahrt considers Garth Greenwell’s Small Rain, the future of post-pandemic illness literature, and writing about hospitalization.
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On Writing the Hospital
A nurse named Sylvia brought me into the operating room, where she introduced me to two more specialist nurses – I was too stressed to catch their names. They were going to thread a plastic line th…
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NPR @npr.org · 15/03/2025
JUST IN: Federal officials placed 1,000 employees at Voice of America on indefinite paid leave, while severing contracts with Radio Free Asia and other U.S.-funded networks.
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'Bloody Saturday' at Voice of America and other U.S.-funded networks
Federal officials placed 1,000 employees at Voice of America on indefinite paid leave, while severing contracts with Radio Free Asia and other U.S.-funded networks.
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NPR @npr.org · 14/03/2025
In 2019, Louisiana's fourth graders ranked 50th in the country for reading. Now, they're 16th. Here's how the state, and one rural district, pulled it off.
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Five years since COVID, Louisiana's readers are thriving. This is their secret.
In 2019, Louisiana's fourth graders ranked 50th in the country for reading. Now, they're 16th. Here's how the state, and one rural district, pulled it off.
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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
“Just as an oak tree crowds out its own saplings from the light, making them stunted dwarf trees, so too can humans shrink their children’s spirits if they overshadow them and deny them experiences that allow them to grow.” @herdyshepherd.bsky.social
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Passing On the Farm to My Daughter
A record-breaking bull showed that my eighteen-year-old is ready to start taking my place.
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
More than 90% of U.S. aid programs abruptly cancelled, jeopardizing lives, humanitarian groups say, by @geoffreyyork.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl... via @theglobeandmail.com #GlobalHealth
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More than 90 per cent of U.S. aid programs abruptly cancelled, jeopardizing lives, humanitarian groups say
In one country alone, South Africa, the cuts to HIV programs could trigger as many as 600,000 deaths over the next decade, say health groups
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Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Doug Ford needs to cancel Ontario’s contract with Starlink now. Absolutely solidarity with Ukraine but also to avoid it being used as a bargaining chip by Musk and Trump against Canada. Right now, Premier Ford.
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Global Voices @globalvoices.org · 18/02/2025
Beneath the promises of enhanced connectivity in Africa lies a complex narrative—a 21st-century iteration of colonial dynamics cloaked in the rhetoric of "connecting the unconnected"...
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At what cost are we bridging Africa’s digital divide?
Beneath the promises of enhanced connectivity in Africa lies a complex narrative—a 21st-century iteration of colonial dynamics cloaked in the rhetoric of "connecting the unconnected"...
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Kate Messner @katemessner.com · 17/02/2025
"How to Write While Deeply Distracted" from @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social is the post of the year (the decade, maybe?) full of helpful, specific strategies. I'm off to lock myself in a closet now. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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How to Write While Deeply Distracted
(from an ADHDer to the rest of you)
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Harley Rustad @harleyrustad.com · 13/02/2025
A Canadian endangered owl breeding program is fundraising by charging people $5 to name a rat after their ex. The rat is then fed to the owls. The fundraiser is called No regRATS. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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Love rats: Canadians get chance to feed rodents named after old flames to owls
Program is meant to help the endangered northern spotted owl – and it’s only C$5! – but rat lovers are not amused
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
"Stay sane, stay humane, and don't isolate... Staying connected, not isolating, and not allowing yourself to drown in fear or rage is not submitting in advance." This is a really good piece. 👇
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12/02/2025
This is just one of thousands of harrowing stories told about the U.S. Government abandoning Americans abroad in the USAID shutdown. This is Benghazi times a million. 1/
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GroundUp News @groundup.org.za · 10/02/2025
1,500 Lesotho health workers sent home after US aid suspended Read groundup.org.za/article/abou... by Sechaba Mokheti
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1,500 Lesotho health workers sent home after US aid suspended
Trump blocking aid threatens vital health services
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Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
SCOOP: AB Health Minister Adriana LaGrange stripped Alberta Health Services of power to negotiate after its then-CEO allegedly refused to sign pricey deals www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... #abpoli #ableg
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Alberta Minister stripped health agency of power to negotiate private surgical contracts, document shows
Letter alleges government eroded ex-CEO’s authority to negotiate deals
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 11/02/2025
“Forward obtained a document created by the Heritage Foundation called ’Wikipedia Editor Targeting‘, which set a goal to ’identify and target Wikipedia editors ... by analyzing text patterns, usernames, and technical data through data breach analysis, fingerprinting, HUMINT and technical targeting‘”
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Wikipedia Prepares for 'Increase in Threats' to US Editors From Musk and His Allies
The Wikimedia Foundation says it will likely roll out features previously used to protect editors in authoritarian countries more widely.
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Dear sceptics of #PatientEngagement in research....by @dawnrichards.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/388/... via @bmj.com
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Dear sceptics of patient engagement in research
Dawn P Richards challenges some of the common objections to patient engagement in research I have been in a lot of spaces over the years where people were not convinced about patient engagement in re...
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Roz Scourse @rozscourse.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
One of the many horrific examples in this article: “Without regular injections… participants will not have enough cabotegravir to stop a new [HIV] infection, but there will be enough in their systems that, if they were to contract the virus, it could easily mutate to become drug-resistant”
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 08/02/2025
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Judge delays Trump’s USAID furlough, while aid organizations warn of catastrophe
Aid agencies around the world depend on more than US$40-billion of annual USAID funding
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Stephanie Nolen @stephanienolen.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
The Trump administration's stop-work order on USAID left thousands of volunteers around the world w/ experimental drugs + medical devices in their bodies – cut off from care by researchers running clinical trials, in violation of the fundamental principles of research www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
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Dozens of Clinical Trials Have Been Frozen in Response to Trump’s USAID Order
The stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to monitoring or care.
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PressProgress @pressprogress.ca · 07/02/2025
Hallway Medicine. Endless Wait Times. Overworked Staff. Ontario’s Healthcare System is Facing It’s ‘Worst Crisis’ Ever. ‘Healthcare in Ontario has never been in such disarray’, experts say pressprogress.ca/hallway-medi...
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Hallway Medicine. Endless Wait Times. Overworked Staff. Ontario’s Healthcare System is Facing It’s ‘Worst Crisis’ Ever.
‘Healthcare in Ontario has never been in such disarray’, experts say
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 06/02/2025
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U.S. to boycott G20 meeting because of South Africa’s diversity push
U.S. decision is a blow to Ottawa’s hopes of bolstering links during Canada’s presidency of G7 this year
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Stephanie Nolen @stephanienolen.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
I hated having to write this, but I'm grateful to the many people who risked their ability to do critically important work they love, by talking to me. (And I will continue to cover it, so if you want to talk to me, DM for my Signal.) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...
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Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid (Gift Article)
Lifesaving treatment and prevention programs for tuberculosis, malaria, H.I.V. and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work.
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
One man is responsible for getting 100s of books (including mine!) banned in Clay County, FL. One sad dude! Sitting there filling out form after form with false claims about books he hasn't even read! The loudest voices have an outsize impact. We need to be loud--and persistent--too. 5calls.org
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5 Calls
Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Crucial piece by @astra.bsky.social on how MAGA deployed the tactics of basic community organizing to base build, which beats a lot of knocks on doors from strangers and endless texts... www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Democrats should stop mocking Trump’s ground game and start learning from it
Cable ads and bussed-in volunteers don’t cut it any more. If the party wants to win, it must engage voters in a collective push for change
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Tammy @ Books, Bones & Buffy @booksbonesbuffy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Want to add a few science fiction titles to your TBR? Check out my BIG list of 2025 releases: @eirencaffall.bsky.social @erikaswyler.bsky.social @edashtonwriting.bsky.social @garethlpowell.bsky.social @aptshadow.bsky.social @lailalalami.bsky.social @pfracassi.bsky.social @oliviawaite.com
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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Hey everyone - I am looking for a researcher who can work in the Ottawa area from January-June 2025 on a project that tries to understand how online narratives impacts gender based violence (or not!). Experience conducting interviews a plus! www.linkedin.com/posts/stepha...
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Stephanie Carvin on LinkedIn: Hello I am hiring! Research Assistant – Gender-Based Violence and…
Hello I am hiring! Research Assistant – Gender-Based Violence and Online/Offline Extremism   Description:    Research Assistant (RA) position available for…
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 14/11/2024
A new TV series takes viewers into the lives of people waiting for a miracle, and the doctors who try to make it happen. 🫀
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Inside the Life-and-Death World of BC Organ Transplants | The Tyee
A new TV series takes viewers into the lives of people waiting for a miracle and the doctors who try to make it happen.
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