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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Seriously, watch and share this.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s remarkable how many people can move on a street when those people don’t feel the need to always take a massive car with them. Mobility in cities is about space.
Busy European street with buses filled with people in a long line of people on bikes, waiting for the light to change in a separated, protected bike lane. Imagine if all those people or each in a separate car.
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#climate impact on #nuclear oh oh - San Onofre nuclear station in California holds significant radioactive waste ... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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California rushes to prepare for massive ‘Kelvin’ wave and predicted sea level rise
Wave nearing southern California expected to reach San Francisco Bay Area by October as it crawls toward Alaska
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Former deans of medicine call on Ottawa to intervene in Alberta’s dual-practice health care model. In a letter to Carney, they assert the private-public model violates tge Canada Health Act, by @alannasmith.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com
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Former deans of medicine call on Ottawa to intervene in Alberta’s dual-practice health care model
In a letter to Carney, deans from the University of Calgary and the University of Alberta assert public-private model violates the Canada Health Act
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.
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Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just a reminder that you can go millions of miles between oil changes when you drive an EV www.wsj.com/business/ret...
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Iran War Is Driving Up the Cost of Your Next Oil Change
Higher gas prices were just the warm-up act for drivers, repair shops and retailers like Walmart and Costco.
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#Renewableenergy has broken through another key milestone on #Australia’s main grid, meeting more than 80% of demand for the first time, and could have met all of demand and more were it not for heavy curtailment of #wind and #solar. reneweconomy.com.au/renewables-h...
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Renewables hit more than 80 pct of grid demand for first time - despite heavy throttling of wind and solar
Updated: Renewables met more than 80 per cent of total grid demand for first time over a weekend that also saw record levels of rooftop PV and new demand lows.
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Bob Bell 🇨🇦 @thebirderbob.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I've posted before how happy I am that a pair of Red-headed Woodpeckers have chosen to nest near our camp in northern Ontario. Here are two more shots of these beautiful birds. #birds #birding #Algoma
A close up of a red-headed woodpecker perched at the top of a hydro pole. It is facing me, but looking to the right. This angle shows how its red hood becomes a bib on its upper chest.A red-headed woodpecker clinging to the left side of a hydro pole, leaning back and looking to the left. Behind it is clear, blue sky.
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Thermal batteries aren’t coming. They’re already here. janrosenow.substack.com/p/thermal-ba...
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Thermal batteries aren’t coming. They’re already here.
Half of all operating thermal batteries came online since 2025. Policy, not technology, is now the main constraint.
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Benedict Cumberbatch presents How to Live on Earth. “Living on Mars would be horrible. Let’s try to live on Earth.”
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How to Live on Earth | Feature Documentary | Presented by Benedict Cumberbatch
YouTube video by Open Planet
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Pissed-Off Scientist @rockney.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
VOTE !!!!!!!
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Abundance of rooftop #solar generation sets new record high for total share of renewables on #Australia’s main grid, reaching nearly 80%. reneweconomy.com.au/renewables-h...
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Renewables hit a new all-time high on Australia's main grid, nearly half of it from rooftop solar
An abundance of rooftop solar generation has helped set a new record high for the total share of renewables on Australia's main grid, reaching nearly 80 per cent on a sunny Friday afternoon in Spring.
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Fiji Declares a National Emergency as HIV Cases Skyrocket. Surging drug use has contributed to an epidemic in the Pacific island nation, where one in 60 adults is estimated to be living with the virus, by Zane Irwin www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/w... via @nytimes.com
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Fiji Declares a National Emergency as H.I.V. Cases Skyrocket
Surging drug use has contributed to an epidemic in the Pacific island nation, where one in 60 adults is estimated to be living with the virus.
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
UK home to one of the largest battery supply chains in Europe, generating £4.2bn in revenue and supporting 10,000 jobs. www.businessgreen.com/news/4535798...
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New AutoMotive: UK powers up £7bn battery industry
UK now home to one of the largest battery supply chains in Europe, generating £4.2bn in revenue and supporting 10,000 jobs
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We’re in an era where the fight against fascism and authoritarianism is on almost every ballot. Voting has always been important, but never more than now. Vote like your rights, your future, your vote itself, and even your life, are all on the line. Because there’s a very good chance they are.
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Millions of fish tested Canada's largest #nuclear plant. The incident points to a growing climate risk Newly obtained records reveal the 2025 event 'challenged reactor safety' when fish swamped plant defences. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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An enormous fish die-off tested Canada's largest nuclear plant. A changing climate could test many more | CBC News
A freak fish event that 'challenged reactor safety' at Canada's largest nuclear plant shows why the nuclear energy governments are relying on to fight climate change must also become more resilient to...
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Diverting intoxicated people from ER to a recovery program is 'transformative': study. It can help free up valuable health care resources while offering more suitable care, by Hannah Alberga www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/national/div... via @cdnpress.bsky.social @cjphrcsp.bsky.social
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Diverting intoxicated people from ER to recovery program 'transformative': study
TORONTO - A new study suggests diverting intoxicated people from emergency rooms to a safe recovery space can help free up valuable health care resources and offer more suitable care.
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ontario offers to reimburse medical school tuition retroactively to family doctor residents in exchange for practising comprehensive primary care anywhere in the province for at least five years, by @kellygrant1.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com
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Ontario launches medical school tuition grants worth $220-million for family doctors
Recipients must commit to spending five years practising family medicine in the province
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Japanese utility halts #nuclear reactor restart after data manipulation scandal. Independent committee found that pressure from senior management led workers to manipulate earthquake data submitted to the regulator. www.ft.com/content/e138...
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Japanese utility halts nuclear reactor restart after data manipulation scandal
Chubu Electric’s decision marks setback in country’s pivot back to atomic power 15 years after Fukushima disaster
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15/09/2026
How Britain's kings and queens powered the slave trade – video
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How Britain's kings and queens powered the slave trade – video
From Elizabeth I’s backing of early voyages to royal investment in trafficking companies, generations of monarchs were central to Britain’s slave trade
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Larry Neufeld @larryneufeldsk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Think of the parable of a frog in boiling water. That’s us dithering as the ‘unprecedented‘ weather becomes more extreme www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Think of the parable of a frog in boiling water. That’s us dithering as the ‘unprecedented‘ weather becomes more extreme | Helen Pilcher
The complacency is staggering: just another hot summer, a flooded street, a crop failure. We are accepting this extraordinary deterioration as normal, says science writer Helen Pilcher
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Larry Neufeld @larryneufeldsk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
EU needs to follow Spain's advice: Spain urges EU to create climate adaptation fund, set binding targets www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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Spain urges EU to create climate adaptation fund, set binding targets
Spain has urged ​the European Union to create a dedicated climate adaptation fund and establish binding adaptation targets as ‌costs mount from accelerating climate change, which this summer triggered...
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Doug Ford doesn’t know about or care about what works or doesn’t work in city-building. He’s fine with hurting the city (and by extension the provincial economy), killing people, wasting public money, and making congestion worse. It’s about ego, ideology & red meat wedge issues for suburban voters.
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
A nuclear summer. #nuclear intermittent #climate casualty ? renewextraweekly.blogspot.com/2026/09/a-nu...
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A nuclear summer
This summer has seen nuclear power facing some big climate problems. Six of the seventeen reactors that have been out of service due to the ...
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrianization pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.
The famous Copenhagen shopping street where it opens up into a triangular public place and gathering place, filled with people.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Anthony Howe is a kinetic sculptor who creates wind-driven sculptures resembling pulsing, alien creatures and vortices. This one is in downtown Montreal. Original post
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Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
WindWaterSolar continues to meet >100% of demand for part of 6th straight day (and 185th of 247 in 2026) in CA Solar up 53%, wind up 21%, batteries up 319%, gas down 49% 2026 v 2023 Gas meeting only 19.57% of demand, vs 38.75% in '23 57% of all demand met with WWS 2026 Avg 4.4 h/day with>100% WWS
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Larry Neufeld @larryneufeldsk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Proposed changes to endangered species law would 'stab it to death,' says scientist www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Proposed changes to endangered species law would 'stab it to death,' says scientist | CBC News
The former chairs of a panel that advises the federal government on endangered wildlife have published an open letter highlighting concerns over proposed changes to the Species At Risk Act, which they...
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Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is how fast oil use can disappear China's reduction in oil consumption during first half of 2026 due to replacement of fossil vehicles with EVs exceeded the UK’s entire oil consumption during that period China’s CO2 emis fall Q226 due to plummeting oil use carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
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Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions fall in Q2 2026 due to plummeting oil use - Carbon Brief
China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the second quarter of 2026, as oil consumption plummeted amid the strait of Hormuz crisis.
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Chris Fisher @fisherspeaks.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Dr Anne Innis Dagg was a pioneer in every sense. The first western biologist to study an African species in the wild and a leader in gender equality in academia. anneinnisdaggfoundation.org/zoologist
Dr Anne Innis Dagg smiles as she stands stands alongside a giraffe.
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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
US data centers directly consumed about 66 billion liters (17.4 billion gallons) of water in 2023, according to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, with indirect water use from electricity generation adding nearly 800 billion liters more. Source: gpusmith.com/articles/en/...
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Despite all the furious efforts of the right to reverse things, I think Gloria Steinem and her colleagues won the fight, and so we get to live our lives in a world where far more people count. An epic organizer, and a guide for us all in the current struggle.
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Heatwaves and secret emissions: Why #nuclear power may not be as ‘green’ as you think www.euronews.com/2026/09/01/h...
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Why nuclear power won’t magically fix Europe’s energy crisis
The war on Iran has triggered calls to double down on nuclear power. But is it really ‘clean’, can Europe’s energy grid cope and will it survive the wrath of climate change?
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Bob Bell 🇨🇦 @thebirderbob.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Young Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers #birds #birding #Algoma
A yellow-bellied sapsucker on the left side of a weathered hydro pole, in profile view looking upwards, with blue sky behindA yellow-bellied sapsucker on the left side of a weathered hydro pole, in profile view looking over its shoulder upwards, with blue sky behindTwo hatch year yellow-bellied sapsuckers on the right side of a weathered hydro pole, with blue sky behind
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Dr. Emily S Choy (she/her), FRCGS @emilyschoy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Thank you for creating such a beautiful poster @thelonglab.bsky.social! I am looking to sharing my research with @laurierbiology.bsky.social!
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McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We've got a book for that! Interested in reading the real story of Lake Ontario? Daniel Macfarlane, professor at Western Michigan University, has written the authoritative history of the use and abuse of Lake Ontario. Read it now! #LakeOntario #researchthatmatters buff.ly/woiwybh
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Does replacing parking with bike-lanes hurt restaurant business? Of course not, as this new peer-reviewed STUDY of 15 years of Montreal data showed. ACTUALLY, downtown experienced significant restaurant growth after bike lanes were installed. @momentummag.bsky.social momentummag.com/do-bike-lane...
Separated bike-lane with people riding in Montreal.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Remember, there’s infrastructure, and then there’s Dutch infrastructure.
Image from the air of a Dutch water passageway between bodies of water with a sailboat sailing in between, and a 4-lane highway running underneath with separated/protected bike-lanes.
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Armine Yalnizyan @armineyalnizyan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Has too much time on his hands. The "trade war" is not about trade. The Iran war is about war. He's losing both. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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Trump signs executive order to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America
U.S. President says change will take effect immediately
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Bob Bell 🇨🇦 @thebirderbob.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I didn't see this American Mink up at camp in the Algoma district of northern Ontario, it was right here in Ancaster at a local stormwater retention pond. #notabird #mammals #mink
A mink in profile view, running from the left towards the right side of the image, on a gravel road
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
People can "just adapt" to a changing climate, a thousand rightwing voices keep telling us. Either they lack imagination or they don't care. Try "adapting" to this. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Nepal flash flood: more than 1,500 missing, mostly tourists, after disaster kills at least 165 at Tibet border
Entire populated areas swept away after glacial collapse causes catastrophic flood in mountainous region popular with trekkers and pilgrims
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Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
How do people not get it that this is climate change? Bigger, Hotter Fires Are Slowly Erasing America’s Great Forests www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/c...
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Wildfires Are Turning Forests in the American West Into Shrubland
Towering woodlands in the West are being permanently replaced by tracts of spiky shrubs. Conditions “just aren’t normal anymore,” one researcher said.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
“Since 2008, when the Housing First principle was introduced as the foundation of all homelessness policies in Finland, the country has achieved remarkable results. Between 2012 & 2023, homelessness rose across Europe, but in Finland, the # of homeless people dropped by more than half.” But then…
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Finland tried to end homelessness. What can we learn from its runaway success – and recent failures?
The Housing First policy led to the number of homeless people in Finland dropping by half. Those with firsthand experience explain why it worked
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Wind and solar now dominate global electricity generation. 2025 renewables = 85.6% of new global power capacity additions. Each year nuclear adds only as much net global power capacity as renewables add every two days.
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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I finally got round to watching the whole video. I'm glad I did. A realist's refreshing take on climate change, energy and genuine sustainability in their proper sociological and sociopolitical context. @kevinclimate.bsky.social in conversation with @aaronjbastani.bsky.social 1hr 47min
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Ex-Oil Engineer Turned Climate Whistleblower: We Face COLLAPSE | Aaron Bastani Meets Kevin Anderson
YouTube video by Novara Media
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Federal health minister Marjorie Michel warns Alberta’s plan to expand private care may violate federal law. Bill 11 allows some physicians to provide publicly covered care while offering some privately paid services, by @raisapatel.bsky.social www.thestar.com/politics/hea... via @thestar.com
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Health minister warns Alberta’s plan to expand private care may violate federal law
Alberta’s controversial Bill 11 allows some physicians to provide publicly covered care while offering some privately paid services.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Don’t forget this. “Foreign actors are attempting to undermine Canadian interests by interfering in Alberta's separatist debate…” “Actors from Russia and the US are attempting to promote separatist ideas in what researchers behind the report described as a threat to Canada's democratic integrity.”
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US and Russia fuelling separatist debate in Canada, new report says
Researchers warn that foreign actors are meddling in the Alberta separatist movement in ways that threaten Canada’s "democratic integrity".
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
After Alex Pretti was shot while peacefully witnessing during the immigration crackdown in Minnesota, the US government did not investigate his murder; they investigated groups that were supporting efforts to witness and document, calling them agitators. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/u...
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U.S. Investigated Left-Leaning Groups During Minnesota Immigration Crackdown (Gift Article)
The government conducted expansive surveillance, infiltrated group chats and obtained financial records of organizations never accused of crimes.
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
41 years ago, Carl Sagan gave a clear and elegant explanation of the science behind global warming.
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