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Collette Burjack

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Interested in writing, books, education, public health, and raging about *waves hands to encompass general terribleness* she/her

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Collette Burjack @collette.burjack.com · 30/08/2026
Calgary book people! Discovered a new bookstore in Marda Loop called Nocturne books, specializing in dark fiction! Here’s their display from the When Words Collide conference- shortly before I bought half their collection 😆 You should seriously check it out!!
Photo of bookshelves filled with books at a conference
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Collette Burjack @collette.burjack.com · 13/08/2026
So ready for When Words Collide to start tomorrow!!
Coffee mug with When Words Collide logo
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Collette Burjack @collette.burjack.com · 14/05/2026
Brilliant book
Photo of book cover- the Mars House by Natasha Pulley
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Nicholas Brendon’s is the sixth death of a major The WB cast member since 2024. These deaths come when there is also a measurable increase in mortality in the age cohort that made up much of Buffy’s original audience, and the WB era generally... But why? www.thecanary.co/global/world...
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Buffy’s Nicholas Brendon’s death is the sixth of The WB stars since 2024
Nicholas Brendon tragically joins a growing list of The WB stars dying young. But why is this happening post-pandemic?
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Collette Burjack @collette.burjack.com · 12/12/2025
She found a new toy!
 Brown horse playing with cone
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Collette Burjack @collette.burjack.com · 02/12/2025
Love this winter horse!
Brown Norwegian fjord cross quarter horse standing in snow
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Collette Burjack @collette.burjack.com · 24/09/2025
New mask chain!
Woman wearing white medical mask with pink chain
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Collette Burjack @collette.burjack.com · 02/09/2025
My clothing feeling oddly on point right now in Alberta #bookban #abpoli
Two shirts- one says ‘I read banned books’, one is Ray Bradbury’s book ‘Fahrenheit 451’
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Collette Burjack @collette.burjack.com · 31/08/2025
Well, that was a wild read! Thanks to Owl Nest Books for the recommendation!
Photo of Book cover of “Strange Pictures” by Uketso
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Collette Burjack @collette.burjack.com · 30/08/2025
Recommend! Very funny, and it’s been putting my own current failures on the career front into perspective!
Photo of book cover- “you deserve each other” by Sarah Hogle
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Collette Burjack @collette.burjack.com · 19/08/2025
Just finished 3 days at When Words Collide and I’m already missing it! But now I have a year to keep writing…
Three coffee mugs from various years that say When Words Collide
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Collette Burjack @collette.burjack.com · 17/01/2025
When everything’s terrible at least there’s horses.
Cute white pony standing against horizon
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 11/01/2025
Why are kids sick all the time? Experts weigh in canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/01/11/w... @tryangregory.bsky.social
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Why are kids sick all the time? Experts weigh in
Canada Healthwatch | The most important health news, in one place. 🍁
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Because our political leaders apparently won’t…. While a profoundly polarizing figure in Canadian politics, Justin Trudeau unquestionably served Canada for 9 years facing levels of toxicity that in many ways was unprecedented in Canadian politics, and he did so with a consistent dignity. /1
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tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Question: Does COVID-19 damage the brain? Answer: "We now know that, unfortunately, COVID can damage the brain in many ways." Harvard Health. And people keep ignoring the truth hoping it will go away. www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-moo...
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Does COVID-19 damage the brain? - Harvard Health
Most people who get COVID-19 don't suffer damage to the brain. But some do, and even people who initially get just mild COVID symptoms are vulnerable. COVID's potential to damage the brain is anoth...
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Guiness Pig @guinesspig.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Should this pandemic be forgot And never brought to mind? It’s normal now, to live with SARS And everything’s just fine For everything’s just fine Yes everything’s just fine We sold our souls so billionaires Could stay rich while we all die! #CovidCarols
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a man playing a bagpipe in front of a sign that says aux buttes chaud
Alt: a man with a bagpipe says you know the song, sing along
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Collette Burjack @collette.burjack.com · 31/12/2024
Happy New Year’s Eve! 🎊
Photo of a horse looking at the camera
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Did you ever go to one of the legendary Boxing Day sales at Sam the Record Man? Lines were often two hours long to get in. In this 1979 photo, one shopper said there was so little room inside the store that he could barely get his hand into his pocket to get his wallet.
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Jenny Yeremiy, P. Geoph 🪶🌿🇵🇸🇳🇬🇱🇧🇨🇦 @jennyyeremiy.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
If you are able please help protect honest media in Alberta. Savethebreakdownab.ca #abpoli gofund.me/e962c21a
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Donate to Legal Defense Fund, organized by Nate Pike
Hi, my name is Nate Pike and I host the Alberta Politics Podcast, The Breakdown. And I need your help… Nate Pike needs your support for Legal Defense Fund
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YYCCowboy @yyccowboy.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
More Closures being sent in via DMs today.. tonight's going to be another big ass bad thread.. and if you haven't yet, make sure to donate to @thebreakdownab.bsky.social legal fund.. Let's show these fucktards you can't silence the truth! See you tonight!
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
The 2024 Headline of the Year Nominees 🧵
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
2024 Headline of the Year nominee (January)
Britain has seen an alarming rise in poetry sales
--The Economist, 15 Jan 2024
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The Vertlartnic @thev.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
What Possible Reason Is There That Everyone Could Be So Sick Right After They’ve Had A Covid Infection That Didn’t Affect Them At All In Any Way Whatsoever?
Someone who is sick right after they had covid which didn't affect them at all.
Headline:
What Possible Reason Is There That Everyone Could Be So Sick Right After They’ve Had A Covid Infection That Didn’t Affect Them At All In Any Way Whatsoever?
Story by Jemima Pout and Lemmy Barff

Photo: Adobe File #:  231036103
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Collette Burjack @collette.burjack.com · 12/12/2024
New love!
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I like how Julie tried to sneak one request to Santa in near the end.
Dear Santa,
My name is Julie, I am in the 3rd grade at Patterson Road School. I have tried to be good, sometimes I get mad at my sisters. This is what I want for Christmas -- Sweet Duet, Whiskers, Fresh 'n Fancy, Barbie Perfume Maker, Electronic Cash Register, a different sister, Jenny doll and Hamster.
--Santa Maria Times, 18 Dec 1980
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Prof Brendan Crabb AC @brendancrabb.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
No, not a study by me, I just talk about it. Amazing work by Ali Erturk and a very large team. thewest.com.au/business/hea...
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COVID virus finds a home in your brain
A landmark study has found the virus that causes COVID-19 accumulates and persists in the body - especially the brain - for years after infection.
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
I imposed martial law because i wanted to and which you were probably not delighted by Forgive me i really wanted to it seemed like a good idea at the time
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 05/12/2024
Almost a third of preteens, teens with long COVID still not recovered at 2 years, study shows www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/alm... @cidrap.bsky.social Get weekly updates: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁
teenager wearing a surgical mask leaning against a wall in a medical setting. Arms crossed. Seems upset.
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
today's essential read for all Canadians. "Canada is living next door to America’s Nero again, and it will be worse this time, and Trump isn’t even president yet and he’s already got us scrambling with a half-formed burp. " www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
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Bruce Arthur: Canada’s weak-kneed politicians are showing Donald Trump exactly how to exploit us
Too many Canadian politicians didn’t just accept Trump’s bark-at-the-waiter framing, but hopped to attention, ready to serve.
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Black Friday has become too commercial.
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Podcast alert!! Essential listen for those who care about covid and public health. PUBLIC HEALTH IS DEAD! First two episodes dropped today. more to come! first episode here: podcastaddict.com/public-healt... 1/2
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
this Week's COVID stats update for Alberta: Deaths: up 24 (last week up 22). (many weeks of 20+ deaths/wk now)!!!! Positivity: stable to 11.5% from 11.1% Inpts: down 6 to 280(last week up 8). ICU Down 3 to 6 (from 9). Source: www.alberta.ca/stats/dashbo...
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
For the love of God, COVID isn’t over – so can people please wear masks? Why people don’t mask: "The biggest reason, I believe, is a failure of public health communication over wearing a mask. The government declared Covid “over,” and most people still trust what they’re told." archive.md/PzUTV
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Amanda Hu @amandalhu.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Wow that’s a pretty dirty move from Canada Post. Rather than negotiate with the workers, it’s violating the Canada Labour Code and laying people off during the strike. The strike going on longer is going to be at their feet. www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
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Canada Post says it has been temporarily laying off striking workers | CBC News
The union representing Canada Post workers says the Crown corporation has been laying striking employees off as the labour action by more than 55,000 workers approaches the two-week mark.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
"Lockdown skeptic" who argued explicitly that kids should get infected. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Jay Bhattacharya: Trump picks Covid lockdown sceptic to lead top health agency
Bhattacharya was the face of the Great Barrington Declaration, which argued shutdowns were causing more harm than good.
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Janet Emson @janetemson.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Authors receive a payment every time you borrow a book, audiobook or ebook from libraries in 35 countries. Those countries include the UK, Canada, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Germany to name but a few. Borrowing a book helps the author’s pocket as well as yours.
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Tara Moriarty @moriartylab.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Canadian COVID Forecast Nov 24-Dec 6, 2024 We haven't started cross-posting from Twitter to BlueSky yet, and won't be done the transition until January. For now, here's the ScreenReader link: threadreader.770703d5ded79dbd0e5d977b1c4b85e6.r2.cloudflarestorage.com/pdfs/0/moria...
Screenshot of tweet at top of Twitter thread with text:

Canadian COVID Forecast: Nov 23-Dec 6, 2024

SEVERE: all provinces, regions

About 1 in 43 people in Canada are currently infected.

Below the tweet is a dashboard showing dials with the Forecast score and rating for all provinces (SEVERE for all).

Forecast scores range from 16.1 in British Columbia to 30.0 in Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia.

A score of 15 or more means that COVID infections this week are expected to cause at least 830 untimely (excess) weekly deaths in Canada.
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Glenn Moore @thenewsatglenn.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Did…did a minotaur write this
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Tara Moriarty @moriartylab.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
All these people whose kids are now going to get cavities requiring expensive treatment, and complications of those cavities, including serious, sometimes life-threatening infections. Plus a lifetime of problems with teeth that were not protected in childhood.
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
New research shows younger and middle-aged adults have worse long COVID symptoms than older adults "On an average of 10 months after COVID-19 onset, younger (ages 18-44) and middle-aged (ages 45-64) adults had worse neurologic symptoms of long COVID than adults 65 and older." #LongCOVID
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New research shows younger and middle-aged adults have worse long COVID symptoms than older adults
New study from Northwestern Medicine finds symptoms occurred regardless of mild or severe COVID-19 infection
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Don't limit the political perspectives you read, instead have an open mind and read the political perspectives served to you by the algorithm controlled by the billionaire right-hand man of the billionaire president-elect of the United States of America
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Being Reese @beingreese.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Octavia Butler being a time traveler or seer, will forever be a hill I'm willing to die on, because there's just no way. Parable of The Sower was published in 1993. Look at this date. #BlackBookSky #BookSky
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Naheed Nenshi @naheednenshi.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The Nathan Fillion Civilian Pavilion is one in a million!
Naheed Nenshi sitting at Nathan Fillion Civilian Pavilion
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Reminder:
More infections increases multiple mechanisms that lead to the evolution of more variants, including more viral replication adding more mutations to the gene pool, more persistent infections, more coinfections and recombination, stronger natural selection in a larger viral population, and more chances of ping-pong zoonosis.
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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Give yourself a break from recurrent infections. 😷 🪟 Via @damesa.bsky.social on X. “COVID-19 participants also self-reported more bacterial, influenza and mycoplasma infections, and 8%–10% of patients felt SARS-CoV-2-induced chronic diseases.” www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Long COVID facts and findings: a large-scale online survey in 74,075 Chinese participants
This survey provides valuable insights into long COVID situation among Chinese residents, with 10%–30% (including repeated infection) reporting symptoms. Monitoring at-risk individuals based on identi...
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JPWeiland @jpweiland.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Flu pandemics can be weird. The last big one in 1918 mainly killed young, healthy adults (avg age 28 vs. 75 for Covid). IFR in the 30-40 year old age range was ~30x higher than during covid. It would be a rude wake up call for young adults if they're on the block this time.
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Dr. Jen Irwin @drjenirwin.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
WHO is here (a statement not a question) 😊 @who-global.bsky.social
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cm 🍁 @cmcalgary.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
#Bluesky adding 10 new accounts *per second* at the moment. bcounter.nat.vg
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YYCCowboy @yyccowboy.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Going through the beginning of this EMS FOIP is mind-blowing.. The number of communities without EMS coverage on a daily basis.. The lack of EMS units working in Calgary & Edmonton due to no staff... No wonder Lagrange is hiding so much!
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