Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦

So the only thing that differentiates publicly funded “private” schools in Alberta is the requirement to wear a tie?

AI results: How to prevent catching COVID on a plane?
1 Wear a mask.
2 Keep your distance from others, especially when indoors.
3 Clean your hands regularly.
4 Keep the air flowing by turning on fans or opening windows when you can.

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Two sets of deer ears in long grasses.

Found a project for after I retire. Snooze and relax with these deer.

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They thought it was “required” and therefore couldn’t be any good.

In my observation, conservatives can’t detect irony.

@PierrePoilievre Tamara Lich and Chris Barber peacefully protested the imposition of emergency measures that the Federal Court found to be unlawful and unconstitutional. Instead of pursuing rapists, drug dealers and other monsters, the Crown sought lengthy prison sentences. Justice Perkins-McVey rightly rejected the Crown's request, and sent Tamara and Chris home to their families. We must get to a justice system that ensures the security and freedom of all Canadians. I wish Chris and Tamara a peaceful and happy life.

Mr. Tough-on-Crime wishes the convoy leaders a peaceful and happy life.

Just encountered a woman on the the walking path wearing a black T-shirt with white letters that read “I hate everything about you.” 😐

Guy who never attended university knows everything about it.

#AB pals, I think we should take all the disastrous and terrifying stuff going down in American cities as a reminder why municipal elections really do matter and why we should research candidates at every level...school board trustees and city councillors too, not just mayoral candidates.

The agenda seems to be to steal people's lives.

Our department at UBC is hiring for a professor of forest ecophysiology, including "tree ecophysiology; plant abiotic or biotic stress physiology; forest mortality and climate change responses; forest carbon balance; tree water relations; or nutrient use." Learn more at: tinyurl.com/5da56f5c

The reviews are coming in on the UCP's American lesson plans they're offering parents while teachers are on strike...

From this Grade 1 teacher, not only do they not align with the UCP's curriculum...

They aren't even based in what most Grade 1 kids can do.

#abpoli #cdnpoli

All ears. Deer lying in tall grasses.

Deer ears.

This is an amazing thing. Follow a #river, your natal stream.

Very painterly sky.

They're probably asking him because he has his head in the sand.

Today, for what is I think only my second time I heard a deer vocalize.

Wow. It looks very different geologically. Thx for these pictures. Now I want to go there.

Job-creating. Workers don’t have to live in camps. Family-friendly. Community-focussed. Low carbon. Cute. Won’t destroy marine life. Better for the Great Barrier Reef. Far fewer wildfires and far less smoke. Less asthma. Less fucked-up weather. A whole new ontology.

Forward-thinking. Future-oriented. Light-hearted. Positive. Freeing. Economy-stimulating instead of the big suck on taxpayers for cleanup and the expensive gimmickry of CCS. And Trump can’t come for our sunshine or geothermal.

Renewables are exciting, promising, innovative, clean, quiet, appeal to young voters, interesting (who doesn’t want to learn a bit about solar?), trendy, money-saving, sexy.

Ports on B.C. coast belong to the country from which Smith is separating???

Right on schedule, Moe, five days after AB, as always, and without even three fingers of irony.

No more pipelines, as I mentioned to the fundraising person who called a couple days ago. Thank you. None. No more. Nope. 👎

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‘This Is Where You Belong’ | The Tyee Learning Ojibway offered a new way of understanding myself and my place in the world.

This. Essay.

It's by the late wonderful fiction and nonfiction writer Richard Wagamese. There's a new book of his selected essays, including the one below.

thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...

"Strength [in surviving residential school] was not about individual toughness but about kinship, collective responsibility and ancestral knowledge." -- Crystal Gail Fraser, author of the article above. Read the article. A single out-of-context sentence, however powerful, does not do it justice.

Gwich’in Lessons for Truth and Reconciliation | The Tyee The same strength that sustained our families a century ago can guide us in facing the current assault on truth.

I'm sure non-Indigenous Canadians can, if we wish, hold two truths in our minds at once. This good article gives us permission to do so -- rather than to 'choose up sides' as if our country was nothing more than a pickup softball game.

thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Four or five students from my Block Week course in late August came by to drop off papers and visit a bit. One lent me a poetry book that looks very interesting. Three were exuberant about working on their reading/experiential journals. And another from three years ago stopped by too. Exhilarating.

That’s the spirit!!