Reposted by ドーん (she/her) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇳Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 4hBased on the things you hear in the news right now it is understandable if you are worried about pneumonic plague. And yet based on the coughs you hear around you right now you should understand that your bigger worry should be Covid pneumonia. 04311
Reposted by ドーん (she/her) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇳Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 3hThe Washington Sun reported last week that the White House has instructed the Justice Department to hold off on attacking abortion until after the midterms. After that, they’ve promised anti-abortion leaders, “the gloves will be off.” They are just getting started. But here’s the thing: so are we.jessica.substack.comThe White House’s Promise to Attack Abortion After the MidtermsThe White House has “instructed the Justice Department to move slowly on any abortion-related actions ahead of the midterm elections,” The Washington Sun reports. 112550
Reposted by ドーん (she/her) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇳Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 1hYeah again this is incorrect. Mainstreet gave the Conservatives a 2.7% vote lead, well within the margin of error, and were within 1 seat of their predictions for MLAs elected I get that lots of people only remember polls that are incorrect, but you're doing yourself a disservice with this stuff 2315
Reposted by ドーん (she/her) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇳The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 8hThe Conservative Party of BC says it won’t be co-operating with “splinter parties” like right-wing OneBC, headed by former Conservative MLA Dallas Brodie. @jenstden.bsky.social reports. #bcpolithetyee.caBC Conservatives Shun Dallas Brodie and OneBC | The TyeeBut CentreBC Leader Elenore Sturko still has questions. 4147
Reposted by ドーん (she/her) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇳The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 8hHow Canada can become a robust state developer of housing by adapting and evolving what we learned 85 years ago. Ernest Lang writes. #canpolithetyee.caWar Showed How to Respond to Canada’s Housing Crisis | The TyeeGovernment once built plentiful homes fast. Today is different, but there’s plenty to learn from Wartime Housing Ltd. 33312
Reposted by ドーん (she/her) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇳Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026never the wrong time for this classic 54117393472
Reposted by ドーん (she/her) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇳Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Please share this with every "send a message" Alberta voter in your life. #abpoli #cdnpoli www.readtheline.ca/p/jen-gerson...readtheline.caJen Gerson: Oh, so you want to send Ottawa a message, eh?Vote to stay and send Washington the right message. Namely, don’t fuck with us. 17274142
Reposted by ドーん (she/her) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇳André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026B.C. Premier David Eby has announced that, if re-elected, his government will fund the shingles vaccine for all adults 50+. mailchi.mp/bcndp/david-... See Sept 15 column: All Canadians should be eligible for a free shingles vaccine www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.comtheglobeandmail.comOpinion: All Canadians should be eligible for a free shingles vaccineCanada may not have a national health care system, but we should still have coherent national policies on essential issues like vaccination 26920
Reposted by ドーん (she/her) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇳Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 05/10/2026To whom it may concern: if in this moment you find yourself caring again about a deadly outbreak in a distant country, please remember: thar the Ebola outbreak in DR Congo is still ongoing. 06720
Reposted by ドーん (she/her) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇳The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 05/10/2026We need a slowdown with AI and we need to use this time to develop anticipatory thinking — a skill about letting more than one possible future shape what we do now. Simon Blanchette and Emmanuelle Vaast write.thetyee.caWith AI, ‘We Didn’t Expect This’ Won’t Cut It | The TyeeCompanies have a duty to anticipate all possible scenarios, including cyberattacks and bioterrorism. 22815
Reposted by ドーん (she/her) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇳The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 05/10/2026If you want a new school, that’s provincial. If you are unhappy with garbage collection, that’s the city. If you want to know why there is evil in the world, that falls under the jurisdiction of God. Address those with the Void. @steveburgess53.bsky.social advises. 🗳️🌌 #bcpoli #vanpolithetyee.caPlease Advise! Two Elections? How Do I Find My Way? | The TyeeDr. Steve’s guide to not getting lost in the municipal and provincial voting maze. 13013
Reposted by ドーん (she/her) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇳Andrea Woo @andreawoo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Statement from Connor Bildfell, president of the Canadian Bar Association's B.C. branch, on personal attacks on judges following last week's ruling re: the Drug User Liberation Front 24917
Reposted by ドーん (she/her) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇳Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026AI data centers are sucking up water and power. Industry PACs are spending millions to buy our elections. And AI is already being used to facilitate online scams, deny insurance claims, and price-gouge consumers. Sam Altman's response? We should "accept some bad things happening." Hello? 931948781
Reposted by ドーん (she/her) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇳Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada @abortionrightscan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Check out ARCC's piece in Canadian Dimension! The government must act now to ensure that unregulated pregnancy centres are not allowed to continue harming people who need prompt and reliable reproductive health care. @canadiandimension.bsky.socialcanadiandimension.comUnregulated pregnancy centres cause lasting harms—we need transparencyShould organizations serving pregnant people be allowed to use disinformation and pressure to prevent them from accessing abortion care? About 160 unregulated pregnancy centres (UPCs) operate across C... 0106
Reposted by ドーん (she/her) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇳Iris Gorfinkel, M.D. @drgorfinkel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Where else is Novavax funded? British Columbia Alberta Saskatchewan Manitoba ...while New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, & Yukon are considering - or looking into - purchasing doses. For updates, check out stillcoviding.ca/en/resources...stillcoviding.caCOVID-19 vaccines 192
ドーん (she/her) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇳 @westcoastdawn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026👀 Goes to look this up www.mode.tu-darmstadt.de/forschung_ma...mode.tu-darmstadt.deUnruly HairLecture Series – Unruly Hair – From Disobedience to Agency. Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Children's Media 010
Reposted by ドーん (she/her) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇳Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Stabs this whole interview with a copy of The Caliban and The Witch. 131073213
Reposted by ドーん (she/her) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇳Iris Gorfinkel, M.D. @drgorfinkel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026🚨 BIG COVID-19 NEWS Ontario is funding NOVOVAVAX this year! 💉Non-mRNA vaccine, protein-based 💉For 12 yrs of age & up 💉Limited availability in PHARMACIES ONLY Moderna & Pfizer's mRNA vaccines are still available. https://www.ontario.ca/page/covid-19-vaccines#section-2 83112
Reposted by ドーん (she/her) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇳Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"You're living right next to people you're writing about. You're at the grocery store with someone who you just wrote about the worst day of their life. It's very tough business, and it makes people mad, but it is a vitally important part of our society..." nofilmschool.com/kill-bury-pr...nofilmschool.comWhen Officials Talked About Killing Reporters, Ben Klein Made a Movie About ItThe director spent months earning a newspaper family's trust, then put the first shoot on credit cards. 26911282
Reposted by ドーん (she/her) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇳Serendipity @serendipityinfl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Power to the People Music concert..Joan Biaz, Jack Black,Bruce Springsteen, Tom Morello,Foo Fighters,Dave Mathews,Dave Grohl and tons of others promoting Voter registration and take back our country! 542899864
Reposted by ドーん (she/her) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇳Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"Among the first to appear before the judge was Angel, a 13-year-old. He had no attorney. “Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?” the judge asked “I don’t know,” Angel said, bursting into tears: “I have no one. I have nothing.” www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...cnn.comInside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN PoliticsMigrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation. 44837361873
Reposted by ドーん (she/her) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇳Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 04/10/2026‼️ Alberta separatists are clearly MAGA north ‼️ Same hate. Same rage. Same lies. Same ignoring of facts, science, and morality. Same lack of shame...👇 "...separatists have gone to D.C. offering fresh water and oil in exchange for American support..." www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...,theglobeandmail.comThe elephant in the roomAlberta separatists have gone to D.C. offering fresh water and oil in exchange for American support – and Republican operatives have provided tactical assistance inside the province 23269116
Reposted by ドーん (she/her) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇳T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Remember this when our leaders talk about valuing international law. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...cbc.caANALYSIS | Netanyahu is flying freely over Canada as his international arrest warrant remains in place | CBC NewsA review of two years of flights by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shows that the Israeli leader is once again routinely taking a more direct path — through Canadian airspace — when travell... 39847
Reposted by ドーん (she/her) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇳Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I'm holding a Banned Books Week Pop-Up event on Friday October 9th at @countwaylibrary.bsky.social! Swing by to make a bookmark, send a note to legislators, make a zine, or just chat with us about the right to read! 📚 03011
Reposted by ドーん (she/her) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇳Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The Paramount-Warner Bros. merger was officially approved this past week. Corporate concentration means more power for CEOs — and less freedom for everyone else. Former FTC Chair Lina Khan explains.youtu.beThe Illusion of Choice: How Big Business Controls Your Life (ft. Lina Khan)From your grocery bill to your paycheck, monopolies are making you less financially secure and ultimately less free. For 14134811561
Reposted by ドーん (she/her) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇳Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 03/10/2026Canada is not actually 'battling for survival' in the context of secession, because in both Alberta and Quebec secession has relatively small amounts of public support. What we're battling is dipshit far-right populist politicians enabling/pushing for this destructive bullshit. 13394124
Reposted by ドーん (she/her) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇳Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Automatic transcription can be much faster than manual transcription, but it's not as accurate. Humans can catch errors that software may miss because of background noise or poor audio quality. Always review and edit transcripts before publishing. 083
Reposted by ドーん (she/her) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇳Iris Gorfinkel, M.D. @drgorfinkel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Shifting tax dollars to PRIVATE CLINICS is a PROVEN POLICY FAILURE that- Costs more Poaches scarce healthcare workers Increases wait times ...& threatens patient safety Time to STAND on GUARD for the Canada Health Act @thestar.com @dralandrummond.bsky.social @cdndrsformedicare.bsky.social 02210
Reposted by ドーん (she/her) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇳Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Maybe more than a whiff of treason. Alberta separatists are flat-out traitors to the nation. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... 13264133
Reposted by ドーん (she/her) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇳Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026“There are always people who profit from war or government policies. The difference is that the people profiting should not be the people making the decisions to make that policy. And that is what is happening here...” www.cnn.com/2026/10/01/u...cnn.comJared Kushner’s company has large stake in firm with Israeli military links | CNNAt the same time Jared Kushner has negotiated in the war in Gaza, his company has held the largest stake in a firm backing businesses involved in Israel’s military campaigns. 9824721101
Reposted by ドーん (she/her) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇳TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 03/10/2026OpenAI safety employee resigns, claiming the company’s ‘culture is broken’techcrunch.comOpenAI safety employee resigns, claiming the company’s ‘culture is broken’By his own admission, David Robinson is “something of a cliché”: an employee at a leading AI company who issues a dire warning while resigning from their job. 66421
Reposted by ドーん (she/her) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇳Ricochet Media @ricochetmedia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The National Post recently crossed a dangerous line by publishing call for violence against Canada's federal NDP leader. "Avi Lewis is not the threat that needs to be dealt with, Postmedia is." NEW from @smohyeddin.bsky.social who breaks it all down: ricochet.media/media/nation...ricochet.mediaNational Post crosses dangerous line by publishing call for violence against NDP leaderAvi Lewis is not the threat that needs to be ‘dealt with’ — Postmedia is 116197
ドーん (she/her) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇳 @westcoastdawn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I'm not in Vancouver, but these ABC election commercials are SO SO annoying! Never Cons or cons, but also no more bros! 010
Reposted by ドーん (she/her) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇳Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 02/10/2026New zine dropping next week at #JCLC2026 (the Joint Conference of Librarians of Color) in Spokane. If you'll be there, stop by the Program for Cooperative Cataloging booth in the exhibit hall to pick up a copy! #critcat 🎵📚😎 34220
Reposted by ドーん (she/her) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇳CJSF 90.1 FM @cjsfradio.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Did you know that CJSF’s 2026 Fundrive is next month? Here’s a peek behind the scenes as we get ready for another week of community support for our station during the first week of November! 101
Reposted by ドーん (she/her) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇳Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 02/10/2026Their mission is the pursuit of human rights for their technology designed to deprive you of human rights. 38881314
ドーん (she/her) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇳 @westcoastdawn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026So important to know what BC parties plan if they get in www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.caWhere do B.C.'s provincial political parties stand on SOGI in schools? | CBC NewsAs another provincial election gears up in B.C., sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) in schools is back in the political spotlight. 120
Reposted by ドーん (she/her) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇳The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 03/10/2026In the heat of election season, Canadian auteur Matthew Rankin’s celebratory evisceration of electoral politics is exactly what we need to watch right now. Lucky for us, it’s screening at @viffest.bsky.social. @dorothywoodend.bsky.social writes. 🗳️🎬 thetyee.ca/Culture/2026...thetyee.caMatthew Rankin Made a Mulroney Movie | The TyeeA top Canadian director delivers a delicious evisceration of electoral politics. Don’t miss it at VIFF. 12310
Reposted by ドーん (she/her) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇳Ian Linkletter @linkletter.org · 03/10/2026The entire BC public post-secondary sector relies on this PIA. BCNET provides Turnitin as a shared service and oversees the master provincial contract (which I have). My FOI confirmed that BCNET did not notify institutions of Turnitin's proposed EULA changes before they were to go into effect. 133
Reposted by ドーん (she/her) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇳TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 02/10/2026Medical records giant Epic pauses product development to fix security bugs that risk patients’ datatechcrunch.comMedical records giant Epic pauses product development to fix security bugs that risk patients’ dataThe healthtech software giant, which makes the widely used MyChart system for accessing medical data, will focus on fixing security bugs for the next few weeks. 3167
Reposted by ドーん (she/her) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇳Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 02/10/2026This is the dodgiest and most-desperate thing I’ve seen in the bubble so far. Amazon selling their chips to a group of investors and leasing them back - an off balance sheet arrangement done in plain sight. Really scraping the bottom of the barrel here. And they’ll probably buy more! 611112264
Reposted by ドーん (she/her) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇳Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 02/10/2026Ok sorry but Tim Hodgson's interview on Power and Politics really gives the game away. He's asked, isn't there language in Bill C-5 that all projects listed as in the national interest should be considered for how they *contribute to Canada's clean growth and climate goals*? Oh! There it is 👇 55828
Reposted by ドーん (she/her) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇳Melek Ortabasi @mortabasi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Are you a member of the #SFU community + a U.S. citizen? Did you know you can vote in the US elections regardless of where you live? Make a difference and vote! Please share this info with any US citizens you know. @demsabroad.bsky.social @demsabroadcanada.bsky.social @votefromabroad.bsky.social 033
Reposted by ドーん (she/her) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇳Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Dear Alberta UCP, It is becoming increasingly clear that the MAGA movement will be remembered as an incredibly dark, dysfunctional, destructive, corrupt and unjust period in history. Why are you tethering your legacy – and our province – to this rotten and sinking ship? 311333
Reposted by ドーん (she/her) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇳Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 01/10/2026Throwing billions in public money behind a pipeline at a time of climate breakdown – while sweeping aside environmental protections, meaningful Indigenous consultation and workers’ right to strike – is absolutely not in the national interest. 6600202
Reposted by ドーん (she/her) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇳Kim Siever @kimsiever.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Switzerland has lost 20% of its glaciers over the last 5 years. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.com‘Explosion of melt rates’: 20% of Swiss glaciers lost in five yearsAlpine regions in Europe experiencing extreme glacier collapse due to heat-trapping effects of fossil fuel pollution 11110
Reposted by ドーん (she/her) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇳Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 02/10/2026Looks like residential school denial movement spokesperson Frances Widdowson hasn't bothered distancing herself from *literal Hitler lover* Simon Hergott since we revealed his repeated statements in favour of Naziism. Huh! www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/23/n... 2266
Reposted by ドーん (she/her) 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇳Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"As AI becomes more deeply embedded in research, scientific education should emphasize deliberate, staged use of these tools so trainees can benefit from AI without compromising the cognitive skills required to become independent scientists" ai.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.socialai.nejm.orgWhere Are the Prepared Minds? The Impact of AI on Scientific ThinkingPreserving opportunities for independent thought is particularly important because scientific writing and interpretation are themselves mechanisms for organizing knowledge and developing judgment. ... 0137