Sara McPhee-Knowles

I was just typing "Saskatchewan" in an email and Outlook's autofill suggestion was "Saskatchester."

Unity Garden seed kits will be available for FREE, pick up starting on May 12.

Pick up locations and times are:
Yukon Food Bank - M & F, 9-4pm
Yukon Literacy Coalition, Horwood's Mall - M-F 8:30am-6:30pm

AFTER June 2:
Yukon Literacy Coalition Learning Garden, Shipyards Park - M-F 8:30am-6:30pm

My office is literally vibrating from construction next door. Any pointers for working from home as someone who hates working from home?

I think the number 1 rule of riding a road bike fast is to give pedestrians the right of way. But if you live in a huge city and there are only a few places cyclists can ride and there are points of friction between riders and park users, this primarily is a policy and infrastructure failure.

The fact that a standard Dutch bike almost always comes with fenders and, quite often, lights and even a wheel lock goes a long way toward normalizing cycling as a form of transportation for everyone.

Here is an otter snoot to start your day.

Yesterday, I spoke with David Common on CBC's Cross Country Checkup about the Yukon Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform. You can listen here (I'm at about the 40 min mark): www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

Exactly! Cyclists are taking a car out of your way, and bike infrastructure is much cheaper than building roads.

Sometimes I think about silk worms, and can you imagine forming like a half mile long string out of your butt. Because I thought maybe they had spinnerets like spiders.

I looked it up.

Nope.

They form raw silk from their salivary glands.

Half a mile of spit. Smooth, watery, high class spit.

What's Up With That: Building Bigger Roads Actually Makes Traffic Worse The concept is called induced demand, which is economist-speak for when increasing the supply of something (like roads) makes people want that thing even more. Though some traffic engineers made note ...

“We found there’s this perfect one-to-one relationship. If a city increased its road capacity by 10% then driving in that city went up by 10%.” Still one of the best articles on why building bigger roads leads to more driving. Understanding #InducedDemand Via @wired.com

This further supports my position that everyone should work at least one election.

The Alaskan one's license plate is CYBER. Peak cringe.

NCR: Summer Edition The National Civic Review's cases studies, reports, interviews and essays help communities learn about the latest developments in collaborative problems-solving, civic engagement, local government inn...

I wrote a short essay about the Yukon Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform process in this issue: www.nationalcivicleague.org/national-civ...

Hate to be millennial about it all but it is just mental that my whole working life has just been a series of recessions and “economic shocks”, underpinned by stagnant wages

Pete Buttigieg has entered the chat.

Small men always grow angry when they are confronted with the type of man they wish people saw them as, but can never be.

misinformation on this topic kills children. journalists always have a responsibility to Don't Print Lies In The Newspaper but it's especially true for childhood vaccinations.

Umberto Eco put together a now-famous list of 14 attributes of fascistic states. I'm going to discuss each of them in hopes this helps ppl understand that fascism is not just a buzzword. We're going to go through these by theme, so strap in. 🧵

Update: 15 confirmed cases. Health officials are racing to offer vaccines to unvaccinated children, they're operating a mobile unit to screen for cases, pre-treating exposed infants. Schools & hospitals are on alert.

Measles outbreaks are v hard to contain. A totally preventable situation.

In Breaking USAID, the Trump Administration May Have Broken the Law ProPublica’s reporting provides new details about what legal risk officials were prepared to take and what laws they may have violated on their way to creating a “constitutional crisis.”

"No president in history has unilaterally shuttered an agency formally enshrined in law — let alone deputized his wealthiest donor, Elon Musk, to carry out that task in his name with little oversight or accountability."

Trump Says He Could Cut Aid to Jordan and Egypt Over Gaza Development Plan

"Gaza development plan" is such an Orwellian turn of phrase, such an abuse of language to normalize a proposed ethnic cleansing

Why electric bikes actually give more exercise than pedal bikes Believe it or not, electric bikes offer more exercise than pedal bikes on average. That fact might sound strange (and...

“Believe it or not, electric bikes offer more exercise than pedal bikes on average. That might sound strange, but the science is clear.”

Why e-bikes give more exercise than “acoustic” bikes. (but both are excellent for better cities, and both are a LOT cheaper than cars, especially after tariffs!)

Yup.
This is your call to action reminder from your ally, good neighbour, business partner, friends & family. Expressing contrition or wishing to move to 🇨🇦 is insufficient.
_Sharing examples of letters sent to your *federal reps* will be a start_

#BoycottTrumplandia

Disinformation is difficult to detect and, above all, to counter since the technological means available evolve at breakneck speed. It is noxious, and it is powerful, it poses a major risk to Canadian democracy. If we do not find ways of addressing it, misinformation and disinformation have the ability to distort our discourse, change our views, and shape our society. In my view it is no exaggeration to say that at this juncture, information manipulation (whether foreign or not) poses the single biggest risk to our democracy. It is an existential threat.

Finally, argues that the bigger looming threat is disinformation. I don't think she is wrong here. It's just a lot harder to fix than, say, how intelligence flows up and down the chain.

Pierre Poilievre will no longer receive security briefing from top spy agency The Conservative leader has argued that he won't be muzzled by secrecy constraints that accompany security clearances.

How in this global environment could you aspire to be Prime Minister and refuse security briefings? Absolutely absurd. Politics isn’t a game especially in this case. On this basis alone, Poilievre is not up to the job of PM.

And he’d get eaten alive by Trump. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

You know Poe's Law and Murphy's Law? We need a new one for "the likelihood your children will be too sick to attend school/daycare exponentially increases with the number of immoveable meetings in your calendar." 😭

Interestingly, I asked a few family members from SK what they'd call this phenomenon and they didn't report back a specific word.

Last year, we embarked on Pasta Quest 2024, my favourite New Year's resolution ever. We tried 41 distinct pasta shapes and it was a really fun way to break out of a recipe rut. This year will be Cheese Quest 2025, with 3 cheese already on the list.

Agreed, we definitely said soaker.b