Mélodie B. Plourde

Carney raised Keystone XL pipeline revival in meeting with Trump | CBC News Relief for Canada from U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum may come thanks to renewed interest in a pipeline project first proposed more than 15 years ago.

As Canada blows way past its international GHG commitments, Carney offers up a massive new pipeline for the tar sands to Trump.
This is the - Let's not fight, we can burn the planet together approach to international relations.
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What a beautiful essay.

Paul raises his hand to teach women the correct term for "vulva" is "vagina."

Your Prime Day reminder that Amazon...

-Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine
-Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
-Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump
-Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump

950 out of 1000 would get smallpox
100 out of 1000 would get diphteria
700 out of 1000 would get pertussis
20 out of 1000 would get polio
600 out of 1000 would get mumps
200 out of 1000 would get rubella

With the anti-vaccine movement at its peak, it's a good time to remember what was like in pre-vaccine times. For example ~90% of kids would get measles: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

My number one tip for researchers that do a significant amount of non peer reviewed paper publication/outreach:

Create an excel table, every time you give an interview, talk, write an oped or white paper, etc. take 5 seconds to immediately note it in the excel.

fact-checking, il y aurait plus que jamais à intégrer ses notions dès le plus jeune âge dans les écoles. Et ce, partout en occident.

À part la Suède, ça ne semble pas être une évidence pour le reste de l'occident et pourtant!

De la lecture pour les Lisée et Drainville de ce monde

Sad evidence that academics do not run Universities.

Article reads: Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Great question. I'm am happy to share this article by my friend Claire Trottier. "Rich Canadians need to pay higher taxes on passive income" policyoptions.irpp.org/2024/05/tax-....

I like when big punkin.

“Scottie, I need more power.”

“I’m givin’ ya all she’s GOT, Captain.” ⚡️

@dkthomp.bsky.social

Beyond cervical cancer, HPV causes anal, penile, & oropharyngeal cancers. Vaccinating adolescents (girls & boys) creates long chains of protection across sexual networks. That’s how elimination is built: by stopping transmission before cancer risk ever takes root.

A young child in a diaper and orange tank top sits on a bathroom floor, surrounded by scattered toilet paper, towels, and toiletries. The child is reaching up toward an open toilet with one hand and holding a piece of paper with the other. The bathroom has blue walls with a floral pattern, a yellow towel with duck designs on a rack, and a sink in the background. The book title "LOVE YOU FOREVER" by Robert Munsch, illustrated by Sheila McGraw, is displayed at the top.

On Oct. 1, 1986, Canadian author Robert Munsch released his book Love You Forever.
It became one of the most successful children's books ever written, selling 38 million copies.
This is the story of how Munsch turned personal tragedy into a book beloved by generations.

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Again, I must ask, aside from not being a Convoy-supporting transphobe, how is Mark Carney not just 'Pierre Poilievre without the juvenile bluster'?

Le 28 septembre, c’est la Journée mondiale du droit à l’avortement. Au Canada, le droit à l’avortement est protégé (jusqu’à maintenant). Nous devons toutefois continuer d’exiger que l’accès soit amélioré au pays, et de nous battre avec nos sœurs vivant dans des pays où il est interdit.

#GEF25 the expansion microscopy community would benefit from high NA, long working distance water objectives. Who's working on these? What's out there?

Imagine comprendre ça.

Playmobil figure kitted out as prehistoric iceman Ötzi.

#OTD 19 September 1991, walkers in the high Ötztal alps on the Italian border, found a body melting out of the ice. It turned out to be the remains of a c.5200 year old man preserved with all his kit.
Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil.
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#PlaymobilÖtzi
#PlaymobilInfestation

In discussion with a computer scientist from the University of Cambridge last night:

Me: "you've described some of the things that AI is good at. How would you describe the category of things it's not good at?

**pause**

Him: "Anything where it has to be right".

« Sabrer 134 postes, c’est de la folie en pleine crise climatique», réagit Alexandre Leduc, de Québec solidaire. «La CAQ met en péril l’intégrité même de notre régime de protection de l’environnement.»

Here are my top 10 dog sneezes!

L’acidité des océans en zone dangereuse Elle a atteint un niveau tel qu'il dépasse le seuil sécuritaire, indique le rapport Planetary Health Check.

Un autre effet délétère de l'activité humaine: nous avons dépassé la 7e limite planétaire (sur 9), limites à l'intérieur desquelles nous devrions nous tenir pour ne pas enclencher des processus potentiellement irrémédiables et mortifères pour la vie telle que nous la connaissons (dont la nôtre).

Your reflexive both-sidesism is doing harm. NPR. The science IS clear that Tylenol does not cause autism. And that maternal fever can harm the fetus. Do better.

2/7- Les écoles/hôpitaux tombent en ruine, on a dilapidé les $ publics dans des éléphants blancs (Northvolt, SAAQclic, Kings à Qc), la planète brule pis l'autoritarisme s'installe aux USA... mais la #CAQ décide qu'il faut INTERDIRE l'écriture inclusive dans les coms publiques (universités incluses!)

We are standing with hundreds of other Canadian non-profits in denouncing the proposed cuts to Women and Gender Equality Canada (WAGE)