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I’m a Bluenoser in Toronto doing what I can to breathe clean air, encourage good government and raise smart, healthy, empathetic kids. #Covidconscious

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DCapTO @dcapto.bsky.social · 8h
We have learned NOTHING in the last 7 years 🤬 It’s in the name, PNEUMONIC. The prefix pneum- (& pneumo- or pneumon-) comes from the Greek words pneúmōn (lung) & pneuma (breath, air, or gas) = pneumonic plague is AIRBORNE 😷 WHO is compromised, can’t be trusted—knew Covid is airborne from the start👇
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Dr. Tedros of the World Health Organization: CoVid is Airborne.
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David Elfstrom 🍁 @davidelfstrom.bsky.social · 10h
Yeah, that coughing and "something going around" discussions is COVID. That nice low summer is over. Toronto's wastewater viral load is showing a consistent upward trend in COVID-19 and nearly zero levels of influenza A & B and RSV. wwater.ca/Ontario/Toro...
Most recent wastewater virus levels for Toronto, with date ending week ending September 27, 2026, showing a clear upward trend in COVID-19 and minimal for influenza and RSV.
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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The planet is in climate crisis, with Canada facing escalating wildfire & flood damage, with tragic human & ecosystem losses... And your solution is to arm youth like climate vandals?! Just disgusting.🤬 What a waste of $$$, political capital, and our childrens' time and intelligence. And future 😱
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Jeff Gilchrist @jeffgilchrist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What is the #Nuvaxovid COVID vaccine and how is it different? @paulseaman.bsky.social and I have put together a comprehensive document summarizing the available information regarding the main differences between Nuvaxovid and the more common mRNA based #COVID vaccines. 🧪🧵1/ #Novavax #Vaccine
Nuvaxovid protein-based nanoparticles are made of engineered proteins that help trigger an immune response ( https://www.nature.com/articles/s41541-021-00330-7 ).
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James Andrew Smith @drsmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
So much this. If you truly care about kids you will give them (and the adults who are supposed to care for them) the tools to keep the kids safe.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The audacity to scoff at this question when a journalist on the hill just affirmed they were given access to this MORE THAN 200 PAGE bill less than 30 MINUTES before this press conference. How the fuck do you ask informed questions under those conditions? Spoiler: you can't.
Emilie Bergeron writes in french: "Les journalistes sur la colline, dont moi, ont reçu un projet de loi de plus de 200 pages moins de 30 min avant que les ministres répondent à des questions à ce sujet et en plein milieu d'un breffage avec des hauts fonctionnaires. un projet de loi dont l'intérêt public est majeur"
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We're arresting seniors wearing pictures of their grandchildren on behalf of the fossil fuel industry
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Malgorzata (Gosia) Gasperowicz @gosiagasperophd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Outdated health policies surrounding COVID still pose a danger today. Important interview with @mark-ungrin.bsky.social , @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social and Kerri Bowser 🙏 #AerosolTransmission #PrecautionaryPrinciple #LongCovid www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...
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‘Outdated’ health policies surrounding Covid still pose a danger today, says U of C researcher
University of Calgary professor Mark Ungrin has dedicated years of research highlighting what he believes is of significant concern to all Canadians’ health.
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Danielle Beckman @daniellebeckman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Covid is not over just because people got tired of hearing about it. #SARSCoV2 is still circulating, still being detected in the air, and still causing chronic diseases like #LongCovid Another reminder that the air we share is part of public health infrastructure. Clean air is public health.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.
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k40mac.bsky.social @k40mac.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I am purchasing an item to be delivered to a different province. I was prioritizing a Cdn company and/or a Cdn retailer. After over 2 hrs searching online, I found one made-in-Canada, that ships direct from the factory. This should be good news, except the delivery fee doubled the cost! 1/2
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Durham County Department of Public Health (DCoDPH) @durhamhealthnc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
As COVID-19 cases continue to increase, it's important to know accurate information about COVID-19 in order to protect yourself and others! Get the facts about common myths, and take steps to protect yourself and others.
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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 15/09/2026
I think holding a fire sale for foreign investors, including Americans, and selling off Canada’s critical infrastructure is a bad idea and inconsistent with shoring up our sovereignty. Just one man’s opinion!
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Privatization wasn’t on the ballot when Canadians voted for Mark Carney. Really foul the way he’s using the blind trust so many continue to have in him to make massive, fundamental changes to Canada (hurting normal Canadians) so big companies can profit. Please pay attention.
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This year, 25 years after 9/11, was one of the first years I've seen a concerted media focus on the long term harms of 9/11 toxic air pollution. In time, knowledge of the long term harms of COVID will be mainstream too
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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
They killed the building, and now they are killing the institution. Senseless. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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Ontario Science Centre lays off entire science department as part of restructuring
Government is building a new $1-billion science centre at Ontario Place
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Mark Carney doesn't care about your children. He doesn't even care about his own. "The analysis, published by the Canadian Climate Institute, suggests recent climate policy rollbacks by the federal government have put Canada more than 20 years behind schedule on reducing emissions." #CdnPoli
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"These really contentious plans will give free rein to large polluters, put nature and species at risk, limit public participation and keep Canadians in the dark about the impacts to their health and safety. It's a huge abdication of responsibility from the feds."
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Feds quietly exempt oilsands and gas power plants from environmental impact assessments
The change comes as part of a suite of amendments to Canada's impact assessment laws passed by the Carney government early Wednesday morning.
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"The federal government has quietly stopped evaluating whether new gas power plants and oilsand facilities will damage Canada's rivers and lakes, air quality and species on the edge of extinction." #CdnPoli
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Doug Ford knew that banning speed cameras in Ontario would cost lives. He did it anyway. He also knows that banning and removing protected bike-lanes in Ontario will cost lives. He did it anyway. Every resulting life stupidly cut short is on him.
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Ontario School Safety @onschoolsafety.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
What happens outside impacts what happens inside classrooms and on the school bus. On International Day for Clean Air for blue skies, let's talk about indoor air. It can be far more polluted than outdoor air and speed up the transmission of airborne viruses. #OntEd #IAQ www.cleanairblueskies.org
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International Day of Clean Air for blue skies
7 September is the International Day of Clean Air for blue skies as designated by the UN General Assembly. Visit the official site for more.
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CleanAirKits @cleanairkits.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
By NEXT WEEK you can do something that results in less sickness for everyone in a classroom. Improving air quality = less illness spread. Adding 1-2 purifiers in classrooms can drastically reduce how many students (teachers & their families) become sick this school year. CleanAirKits.com
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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The institutional medical culture of hiding deaths, medical errors and potential misconduct behind closed doors is a national scandal. From SARS to Motherrisk to COVID, medicine's management class routinely closes ranks against the public interest, burying their failures alongside their victims. 🧵:
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/09/2026
This is demonstrably, measurably improving the health of the people who live there. Most notably, it increases the respiratory *& cognitive* health of children. They literally do better in school. If this country really gave a shit about children, this would be at the top of the public-policy list.
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Damn tired 🍁 @ohcarolinian.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
What are we doing here? Like really?
CBC news website.  One headline on top says "Climate change past the point of no return, UN says, as worst impacts are now unavoidable."  Headline beliw says "Federal government will extend gas and diesel tax holiday into 2027."
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Jenny Lee Shee @jennyleeshee.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"Trump is a bully and a loser!" said the man who has spent 8 years getting revenge on the city that didn't choose him to be the mayor in 2014.
Doug Ford looms like Dougzilla above Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto.
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James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 01/09/2026
For the Toronto Star, I wrote about the trade war, digital sovereignty, and Lake Ontario. We are already dominated by American tech giants. If Canada fights this trade war and we don't renegotiate the terms of digital trade, we will lose. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Google changing Lake Ontario to Lake America isn’t just frustrating. It points to a deeper problem for Mark Carney
Canada’s digital infrastructure is too tied to companies like Google, Microsoft and Amazon.
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Jenny Lee Shee @jennyleeshee.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Thanks to Doug Ford and Paul Calandra, 80,000 elementary educators have to order classroom supplies from Staples this year instead of from their school boards. I decided to do a little comparison shopping for school supplies many of us will have to order over the course of a school year. 🧵 #OntEd
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 21/08/2026
We should have just refused to negotiate AT ALL until they dropped all threats and tariffs and adhered to the previous trade deal.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This is BAD NEWS for public safety & mobility in Ontario. Make no mistake what this ruling means—the lower court decision established that ripping out protected bike-lanes WILL cost lives & that was unconstitutional. This Appeal decision says Doug Ford is constitutionally allowed to ENDANGER LIVES.
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Ontario appeal court says Ford can rip out Toronto bike lanes | CBC News
Premier Doug Ford’s government can rip out 19 kilometres of protected bike lanes in Toronto, the Court of Appeal for Ontario has ruled in a decision released Friday, reversing a lower court decision m...
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k40mac.bsky.social @k40mac.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I haven’t used the bike lanes on Danforth or University, but I can attest that the infrastructure of the bike lanes on Bloor, between the Kingsway and High Park, is crap. And I still think they are a terrific addition to local transportation options.
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k40mac.bsky.social @k40mac.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Ontario Gov’t Cares (about destroying) Public Education!
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Alex Freeman @northernnerd.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
That's Brad Bradford you're thinking of, the current news is about Brad Brad Ford.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026
That's when things get dangerous: when aristocrats grow bored with leisure and mobilize their inherited capital to change the way we all live. Billionaire dilettantes are weapons of mass destruction, and their special projects have a wide blast radius and inflict a *lot* of collateral damage. 33/
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 07/08/2026
Fuuuuuck this capitulating, weak-ass, Neville Chamberlain-level bullshit. Our line should be either Trump drops ALL of his tariffs and his attacks on Canada's sovereignty or we start banning even more American shit. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Canada prepared to halt booze bans, meet other U.S. demands in exchange for tariff relief: sources | CBC News
The Canadian government is preparing to meet some U.S. demands — including ending bans on American alcohol sales — as trade talks heat up ahead of the latest tariff deadline, according to sources.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 08/08/2026
Sometimes I see something in nature and then spend the next several years waiting for the shot. Sometimes I never get it. Sometimes you see it and a week later you land it: I give you tonight's murder of crows in front of the sunset. 🪶
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Mike @brechinbrae220031.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
HOC Petition e-7522 - Canadians call on Government of Canada to stop fast-tracking environmentally catastrophic fossil fuel projects, protect health & wellbeing of all impacted by climate change & invest in worker, community & Indigenous-led green energy transition www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
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Petition e-7522 - Petitions
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Tom Radcliffe @tjradcliffe.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Clean indoor air is helpful against disease all the time, not just episodicly "in a pandemic". We treat drinking water *all the time*, not just during cholera outbreaks. Until we get over this medical/reactive mindset, airborne pandemics will continue. Put engineers in charge of public health!
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 30/07/2026
With "surveillance pricing," businesses have finally found something AI can do way, way, *way* better than people: price gouging. 1/
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Dick Zoutman @dickzoutman.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
This 👇🏽 is terrific news! Now we need to replicate this across all of Ontario and Canada!!
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A Major Win for Indoor Air Quality: Toronto's Board of Health Moves to Adopt Stronger Ventilation Standards
The Ontario Society of Professional Engineers celebrates a major win for indoor air quality with stronger ventilation standards in Toronto.
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Louise Hidinger, PhD @theingredientslist.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Pleased & proud to share this news! Taking action on #IndoorAirQuality will put @toronto.ca at the forefront of cities taking action. #IAQ is essential for climate resilience! #cleanair #cleanindoorairto ospe.on.ca/advocacy/a-m...
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A Major Win for Indoor Air Quality: Toronto's Board of Health Moves to Adopt Stronger Ventilation Standards
The Ontario Society of Professional Engineers celebrates a major win for indoor air quality with stronger ventilation standards in Toronto.
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Sara @sarablue.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Parents, caregivers, and community memebers are demanding accountability from the provincial appointees running the TDSB regarding the 2026-2027 Budget. Add your name! #onted #onpoli
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Open Letter to TDSB Leadership Requesting Critical Information Regarding the 2026-2027 Budget
This year, under Provincial Supervision, the TDSB budget process represented a significant departure from previous years. Parents, caregivers, and members of the public were provided with no opportuni...
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David Keegan @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
A critical element of maximizing everyone’s health is to keep & strengthen our publicly-funded health care system, ensuring zero private healthcare. Cheaper for everyone, short and long-term. Best for Canada. There is no case to be made that private is good if public is properly funded. #canpoli
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Kelly B @kellyblack.ca · 16/07/2026
Drake meme. First panel has Mark Carney’s face in place of Drake’s, he puts his hand up at orcas. Second panel has Carney’s face and he is smiling and pointing at wildfire
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Joshua Hind @joshuahind.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
What I am arguing is that this is a critical moment for Canadians to reflect on two decades of flaccid climate change policy when our country is burning and the current PM wants to shitcan everything for a buck. And please, don’t let the moment go simply because Americans are calling us out.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I try not to overdo this bit but ... my man is begging for it. Let's go.
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Ontario School Safety @onschoolsafety.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
“Teaching is one of the most vulnerable jobs for COVID and Long COVID. If people are sick more often, it’s best not to force them into sick buildings more often.” @teachrprecarity.bsky.social
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It’s no surprise more workers and students are calling in sick
Countries are witnessing record sick leave as Long COVID affects millions, leading to renewed discussions on workplace safety and workers’ rights.
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GLIA-Leadership @glia-leadership.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
What if the next "promotion" isn't actually up? @fromphdtolife.com  makes the case that job security and career security are not the same thing. Day 4 of The Faculty Uplift, free, July 16. stefanie.krtra.com/t/uz0pmEI1PnXc
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H. Bell @grudgingcloud.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
UK. Good news. But what of those about to become vulnerable through infections etc, or who don’t have advocates, or don’t even know they’re vulnerable? Clean indoor air needs to be treated like the human right it is. Clean Indoor Air for ALL! Costs less than ongoing cycles of illness!! Fund it!
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