Sonja Wright

This image shows gauges with the Aug 16-Aug 29, 2025 COVID Forecast scores for Canada, the provinces, & territories. From left to right: Canada: 4.2 - MODERATE Alberta: 7.0 - HIGH British Columbia: 3.5 - MODERATE Manitoba: 3.7 - MODERATE New Brunswick: 3.5 - MODERATE Newfoundland and Labrador: 3.4 - MODERATE North: 4.2 - MODERATE Nova Scotia: 3.4 - MODERATE Ontario: 4.1 - MODERATE Prince Edward Island: 3.7 - MODERATE Quebec: 4.2 - MODERATE Saskatchewan: 3.6 - MODERATE 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).

Canadian COVID Forecast: Aug 16-Aug 29, 2025

SEVERE: none
VERY HIGH: none
HIGH: AB
MODERATE: CAN, BC, MB, NB, NL, North, NS, ON, PEI, QC, SK

About 1 in 121 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

“Just for fun, let’s give it to Obama again”

Onions cooking in a pot with a black spoon in the pot leaning against the side.

French onion soup on the menu

It’s such a weird season.

Well, they are growing…but not many tomatoes yet. There are a few on each plant, but I don’t think I’ll have enough for canning. We shall see. How are yours?

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My favorite Doctor and companion.

You’re old. 🤣

It certainly is!

Friends and Neighbours has a really cool opening title. (At least I think so:)

Last summer. Don’t really remember the exact day/month- but sometime around then.

Can confirm that you need basic math skills to pass first year music theory. Do not ask my about my grade.

A baby with red hair sitting in a bouncy seat.

If you see this, post a redhead. (My 26 year old as a baby:)

I bet!

You got that while thrifting?!?! Nice!

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I'm still processing the loss of Kylene Beers, a giant in our field. Here is an interview she did two years ago with me and Penny Kittle: www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9oo...

You’ve got a pretty good shot of being rescued!

She’s humid out. Holy.

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Finally planted my tomatoes. Is June 29th too late? We shall see. @simplesarahbear.bsky.social (tomato buddy)

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Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban

It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins

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GUEST WRITER THEWJAN WIJAYASUNDARA RECOMMENDS MURDER AT THE HOTEL HOPELESS  - Margin Notes “Charlie was not expecting to spend his summer trying to solve a murder.”   Murder at the Hotel Hopeless is a captivating mystery that follows Charlie Hope, a teenager spending his summer helping his ...

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Barchart from Statista showing the countries armed with nuclear weapons. It shows the US has 3708 warheads and Israel has 90 warheads. Iran is not on the chart because it has no nuclear warheads.

The US, with 3708 nuclear warheads, and Israel, with 90 nuclear warheads, want us to belive that #Iran, with zero nuclear warheads, are the nuclear threat.

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