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Brooke Carter

@upthedownspouts.bsky.social
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Official gravity tester. Kelpie-like thing. Goonie. Life outside; lab inside; labour always.

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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Canadians of a certain age will understand.
Barnett Newman
Voice of Fire, 1967
As displayed in the National Gallery of Canada
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
+ I keep noticing the same people who are acting like we have to Peace and Love™️ this story are the same ones referring to rape and sexual assault as 🍇 Which tells me you prefer to appease the algorithm to go viral than actually standing by survivors and naming our horrors with your full chest.
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Brooke Carter @upthedownspouts.bsky.social · 20h
The premium I’m willing to pay to avoid ever having an Amazon account is significant. Shout out to the little shop in Halifax sending me stationery inks for *whatever* in shipping.
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Brooke Carter @upthedownspouts.bsky.social · 21h
Maybe y’all should screen your God for testosterone.
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Stephanie C. @stepc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Everything’s fine.
A white and red sticker on a brown envelope. The text says “This is your Vote by Mail package for the 2026 Vancouver Local Election, NOT the Provincial General Election.”
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Matt Simon @crawlycreepy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Cats get balance right: live to the fullest 4 to 6 hours a day and sleep through the rest
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Promising Young Woman" was much maligned when it came out but judging by how many people are shocked by the Cornell 7 story, I think some of y'all should settle in and watch it.
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Alt: carey mulligan blush smiling
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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 29/09/2026
ICYMI: New report shows how patients are waiting longer for surgery in Ontario. @alonghurst.bsky.social #onpoli @policyalternatives.ca www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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© CBC/Radio-Canada 2026. All rights reserved.
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
👇 HUGE issue ‼️ Is AI Flooding Medical Journals With 'Meaningless' Research? www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo... @elisabethbik.bsky.social: "We are at a point now that we cannot distinguish fake from real." @gidmk.bsky.social: Stop the "incentive[s] to publish a lot of crap."
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Is AI Flooding Medical Journals With 'Meaningless' Research?
'It's not fraudulent, and it's not really slop,' one expert says
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Brooke Carter @upthedownspouts.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Switched to a flip phone for a week. Recommend.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.
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Brooke Carter @upthedownspouts.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Imagine still being homophobic
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Brooke Carter @upthedownspouts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I am certainly quite sorry about this
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Brooke Carter @upthedownspouts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
October looks fun.
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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 19/09/2026
The feds will roll out the “special mediator” and then say it’s not them doing the dirty work. This bill will be an attack on the fundamental right to strike and bargain collectively. Don’t trust Hajdu.
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Brooke Carter @upthedownspouts.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Tough rounds of collective bargaining over two years. No one unscathed. Just barely out of Mordor Season™️. Going into municipal elections… I think a provincial election would be terrific fun right now let’s do it
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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Carney's not *selling* our airports, he's just offering concessions to *run* them" translated: Private capital controls them & enjoys all the profits for generations, but infrastructure or cleanup costs are still the public's problem & the door stays open for more public capital flowing into them.
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Brooke Carter @upthedownspouts.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Could have paid better attention to my first rodeo
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A reminder of why Ottawa Public Health is the undisputed world leader in good social media public health communication.
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Brooke Carter @upthedownspouts.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The feminine urge to put every candidate’s lawn sign on my lawn just for the chaos of it.
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Brooke Carter @upthedownspouts.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“We have enough pickleball space. What our communities need right now is a roller rink.” Said no council/mayoral candidate so far. And yet here I am with oh so many spots still open on my ballot.
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Carney: "Europe and Canada are stronger together … The objective is not self-sufficiency, it’s collective resilience.” I really wish he felt that way about public health
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Brooke Carter @upthedownspouts.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Guys, there’s merch.
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 18/09/2026
Another big shoutout to the MapQuest developers! A very small team that scaled to 10x the output in 3 weeks making the app better everyday. Questies, thank you all for riding with us as we continue to improve the user experience.
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Hillary Hillarious @hhillarious.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Cases of rabies is up. Vaccination of dogs and cats are down. I'm sure there is no connection.
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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 27/07/2026
If there was ever any doubt, the Gordie Howe Bridge fiasco proves it: You can't trust Trump's America, or any deal within this administration's orbit. thewalrus.ca/the-gordie-h...
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The Gordie Howe Bridge Is What American Betrayal Looks Like | The Walrus
Canada spent billions on the crossing. Trump turned it into a shakedown
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Brooke Carter @upthedownspouts.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I see that the term “single family mansion” is already hot out of the gate this municipal election
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Katherine Scott @kjscott.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s Equal Pay Day in Canada coming in the midst of a trade war. Deep divisions in the labour market are set to get worse including the gender pay gap. A report from the CCPA looks at recent trends and the fight for equal pay over the last 75 years. A recap👇 www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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Dismantling gender pay discrimination in Canada: Current trends and policy responses | CCPA
The gender pay gap has narrowed but remains unacceptably wide, with the average woman earning only 72% of what men earn
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
No. No. No. Nooooo! 🛑 Full-body MRI a good idea? No! nationalpost.com/modern-life/... "Professional organizations such as the Canadian Association of Radiologists, among others, strongly oppose whole-body MRI screening in symptom-free people." > cost > anxiety > iatrogenic injury > system strain
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Am I rich enough to pay for my own full-body MRI scan for peace of mind?
MRI scans are marketed by private clinics as a tool to detect diseases lurking inside asymptomatic bodies and cost upwards of around $3,000.
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A Health Canada inspection of a Grifols facility in Regina found multiple plasma donors with punctures and bruising on their arms & sexual contact with someone with HIV who were allowed to donate without proper medical assessments #cdnpoli #skpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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Grifols permitted donors to give plasma despite punctures, bruising on arms, Health Canada finds
The safety of drugs made from plasma has not been compromised, says Canadian Blood Services
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Brooke Carter @upthedownspouts.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Have we all forgotten our Snickers bars today?
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My latest analysis: 350 private lab workers make less than their hospital co-workers for the same work. Their strike was broken The Manitoba government should stand up to U.S. corporate greed—and stand up for our health care sovereignty #mbpoli #cdnpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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Dynacare workers are standing up to U.S. health care in Manitoba | CCPA
The private lab—owned by a U.S. corporation—oversaw a relative drop in workers’ wages. Manitoba stepped in on the side of the company.
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Tara Moriarty @moriartylab.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Canadian COVID Forecast: Sep 12 - Sep 25, 2026 SEVERE: none VERY HIGH: none HIGH: BC MODERATE: CAN, AB, MB, NL, North, NS, ON, PEI, QC, SK About 1 in 158 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
This image shows gauges with the Sep 12 - Sep 25, 2026 COVID Forecast scores for Canada, the provinces, and territories. From left to right:

Canada: MODERATE - 4.0
Alberta: MODERATE - 4.2
British Columbia: HIGH - 8.9
Manitoba: MODERATE - 3.1
New Brunswick: MODERATE - 3.2
Newfoundland & Labrador: MODERATE - 3.5
North: MODERATE - 4.3
Nova Scotia: MODERATE - 3.3
Ontario: MODERATE - 3.8
Prince Edward Island: MODERATE - 3.8
Quebec: MODERATE - 3.1
Saskatchewan: MODERATE - 3.0

A text box reads: 'The COVID Forecast is calculated from 3 equally weighted categories: 1) Current infections and spread; 2) Healthcare system impact; 3) Mortality. Within each category there is one sub-category for trends over the most recent week (Trends) and one sub-category for current parameter values relative to a specified baseline (Current values). Trends and current values are weighted equally when determining the final score for a category. All Forecast input data and sources are available here (https://datastudio.google.com/embed/u/0/reporting/42b886cf-d661-488e-b7d8-5c5836b55ab6/page/p_2yqs028mwc). Past Forecast scores are available in the table below. Forecast scores are grouped into 4 ranges: MODERATE (1 to <5, white), HIGH (6 to <10, yellow), VERY HIGH (10 to <15, orange), SEVERE (>15 red).'
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Air travel in Canada is about to get more expensive The impacts of airport privatization on travellers and workers #cdnpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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Air travel in Canada is about to get more expensive | CCPA
The impacts of airport privatization on travellers and workers
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"A recent @policyalternatives.ca analysis of data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information found that from 2021 to 2023, private health-care spending per person grew by 8.1 per cent — almost twice as fast as public spending." #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
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Food and shelter have driven Canada's affordability crisis. Health care isn't far behind | CBC News
Food and shelter grab headlines, but out-of-pocket health-care expenses have climbed at a nearly identical rate since 2022, Statistics Canada data shows. Economists and policy experts break down the s...
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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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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Might fuck around and try to pull an all-dayer today idk
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Brooke Carter @upthedownspouts.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Northern flicker is starting shit while the ravens are away
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Brooke Carter @upthedownspouts.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Hey not all the t-shirts need to be boxy just like not all of you need to own a dog.
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Unifor @unifor.org · 11/09/2026
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Brooke Carter @upthedownspouts.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Oh well whatever nevermind
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Every night I go to bed thinking I have seen the dumbest shit I’ll ever see in my life and every morning I am wrong before I’ve even finished my coffee
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Brooke Carter @upthedownspouts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Imagine having those kinda of stats for an actual public good, like literally anything in public healthcare.
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Brooke Carter @upthedownspouts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The haiku no one asked for: Launch the long weekend Find an earwig in the shower Much naked shenans
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 05/09/2026
Canada confirms defence strategy against invasion mainly waiting for Americans to die from preventable illnesses
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Canada confirms defence strategy against invasion mainly waiting for Americans to die from preventable illnesses
OTTAWA - Last weekend, Canada's Ministry of National Defence confirmed their main strategy to fend off a potential invasion from the United States is to wait for American forces to be killed off by th...
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Brooke Carter @upthedownspouts.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The concept of all of these tremendous women dying lately with fewer rights than they fought for all of their lives is an anguish to which I can’t find any clear margins. Only that we are those women now. We have to be. It has to be us. Every one of us. Fierce and fun and feral and free. Courage.
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Brooke Carter @upthedownspouts.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Of all of the USA that I miss, the PNW in the fall is the hurtiest
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