Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦

What if Americans were to give that guy a few glass jars, a couple boxes of dried macaroni, a bottle of glue, and a can of gold spray paint and see if he’ll be quiet for a couple of weeks?

He’s (?) probably developing his bluebird pride at the same time as his feathers. So cute.

I only have a couple of bushes but the yield this summer is the highest they’ve ever produced.

Do they harm the saskatoon bushes or the berries?

Mickey Amery literally has government lawyers in court arguing against the a law he passed 3 months ago in order to better clear the path for Alberta separatists.

That’s not the behaviour of a competent or principled Minister of Justice.

He can’t be trusted. #abpoli

As part of Canadians boycotting US products and services this monopoly could utterly destroy Jasper’s post-fire economy.

Alberta “has a distinct culture that emphasizes personal freedom, and Danielle Smith, its Conservative premier, has said that vaccinations are a personal choice.”

Libertarianism has no way of accounting for contagion. Diseases are trans-personal and they only believe in the solitary individual.

This is a lush and beautiful journal.

@juneflanagan.bsky.social

That’s because Alberta is getting it all. It’s as if I moved to the coast without any packing or house selling. Enjoying it so far.

U of T job ad: We would love to hear from people who [are] … imagining and steering futures of #AI away from #AIhype and #AIslop to genuinely interesting places oriented beyond #LLMs ….
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

Premier’s Office spent nearly $20K on PragerU fundraiser gala Disclosures show that the Premier's Office spent nearly $20,000 to support a fundraiser by far-right American organization PragerU

SCOOP: Alberta taxpayers paid almost $20K for Premier Danielle Smith to speak alongside Ben Shapiro at a PragerU fundraiser in March, according to travel expense disclosures.

www.theprogressreport.ca/premier-prag...

Is this what Smith is doing in AB?

If Smith and the UCP MLAs want to separate, they should start by resigning en masse. They’re collecting big salaries at citizens’ expense in order to dissolve the province. Dissolve your government, UCP!

😏 this is what it means when a Canadian says, “yeah no”

😁

+22, overcast but bright, a gentle warm breeze, mountains visible but looking pretty coastal courtesy of the moist clean air (33 AQI). Beautiful.

Volume 17 Issue 1 | Environmental Humanities | Duke University Press

If you are interested in the philosophical question of the #face, particularly "Wild Faces," particularly those of #bears, I have the article for you, just published: read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...

There are also juicy-looking articles on energy matters and one on the musicality of species.

Canada’s the only country having over 60% with a tertiary education.

This isn’t a numbers competition: it explains Canada’s values, “Education can promote gender equality, reduce child marriage, promote peace”

Education promotes decency.

#CanadaNice

worldpopulationreview.com/country-rank...

Shame on Minister of Justice Amery For political interference and unprofessional conduct around Elections Alberta oversight of the Seperatist's Referendum question.

Ken Chapman writes to #Alberta MINISTER OF JUSTICE AMERY #abpoli #Cdnpoli

Share widely. Canadians must stand against this type of interference as we are seeing in populist politics play out.

open.substack.com/pub/kenchapm...

I think my tamarack, a swampy tree, is living its best life since 2005.

We’re going to have to ditch and replace those old metaphors for quantity of rainfall. It no longer rains “buckets” or “cats and dogs.”

Hard rain and minor hailstones hitting the windows so loudly for a while it sounded as if I was in a popcorn bag in the microwave.

That very thought is going through my mind. She’s may be emulating RFK Jr’s bizarre policies.

@katharinehayhoe.com For your cli-sci list:

Alberta’s Perverse New Barriers to COVID Vaccines | The Tyee The virus hits the old and poor hardest. The province is erecting hurdles for granting them protection.

Attn: Albertans. “Perverse” is not hyperbole.

“In other words, the Smith government is now fiercely working against the health of its citizens and health-care system.”

Alberta's Perverse New Barriers to COVID Vaccines via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Thinkinge of askinge Chat GPT a questioun about your plannes, thoughtes, ideas? Trye a tarot deck ynstead. Cheaper, bettir for the environment, bettir resultes, not evil.

Unmasking the Sea Star Killer After a decade of carnage, we finally know what’s devastating sea stars along North America’s West Coast. Does that mean scientists can save them?

Scientists have identified the sea star killer in the Pacific Ocean. In this behind-the-scenes story, @craigwelch.bsky.social takes readers on a journey that began over 10 years ago when sea star wasting disease first surfaced. www.biographic.com/unmasking-th...

I’m baking a Canadian cherry, Canadian blueberry and front yard saskatoon clafoutis.

Orange sunset.

Orange creamsicle rain now.

Yummy. I want to make a galette. I’m doing house stuff — washed all the windows — but I did make saskatoon scones and parsley pesto to freeze.