Penny Haggarty 🇨🇦

Museums saw 15 per cent spike in attendance after Canada Strong Pass introduced OTTAWA — National galleries and museums across the country have seen a 15 per cent increase in attendance so far this summer, after the federal government introduced free or discounted admission throu...

Museums saw 15 per cent spike in attendance after Canada Strong Pass introduced #Canada

halifax.citynews.ca/2025/08/12/m...

Promoting disinformation about Canada's efforts to expand trade does not help Canada or Canadians. It helps damage Canada's trade efforts and supports Donald Trump's trade war.

It is egregious that RFK Jr requested @annalsofim.bsky.social retraction of this paper because he didn't like the data www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...
www.reuters.com/business/hea...

ItStopsWithUs

I wrote a thing, a roundup of some of the resistance going on.

Canadian writers, there are now a couple of AI class actions for Canadian authors. Please check out both links below.
If you have found your books in the Books3 or LibGen DBs, you are likely to be included in the class(es).
www.cfmlawyers.ca/class-action...

www.cfmlawyers.ca/class-action...

I'll say it again, as this is ramping up: if you gave access to the archives of goverment data and information, it is your moral responsibility to make sure that untouched versions get preserved, now. There are people worh archival expertise who can help you, if you don't have it yourself. Start now

"Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the track of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened."

– Dwight D. Eisenhower, Germany, 1945

When in the actual fuck are Americans going to DO SOMETHING about this effing regime?!

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered…Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”

- 1984, George Orwell

Very disturbing that AI is being used to spread misinformation about #wildfires

'Stumbled right into it': AI images trick wildfire expert during crisis - BC News This week, more than 200 firefighters joined air tankers and helicopters in an all-out attack on the Wesley Ridge fire on Vancouver Island.

'Stumbled right into it': AI images trick wildfire expert during crisis - BC News www.castanet.net/news/BC/5657...

Tonight, please spare a thought to all our scientists and public health workers who have dedicated their careers to saving millions of lives.

Despite their amazing work they are constantly threatened due to politicization and the unfettered spread of misinformation.

It should not be like this 💔

Wishing you all the best from BC!

Misinformation kills in so many ways 💔

Probably closer to 100%.

Thanks! In our retirement, we would really like to see more of the US Southwest and various other places, and hope that will be possible in future. Right now it’s hard to see how that would be possible.

For those who were hopeful that Trump “pivoted” on Ukraine, the meeting in Alaska will sell Ukraine down the river.

Trump is scared to death of Putin.

Taco

🧵 Dear Republican lawmakers,

Canada has the largest intact boreal forest on the planet.

An increasingly hotter world due to #ClimateChange makes longer dry seasons, far larger wildfires & yes, more smoke. No amount of "raking" fixes it. The scientists warned of exactly this for a very long time /1

Opinion: The trails of ‘leavers’ and ‘stayers’ alike have woven Alberta and Canada into one fabric To be a real Albertan, must you stay in the province? No. I am a ‘leaver,’ but I claim my heritage

My piece in the Globe this morning: Alberta's leavers and stayers. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

RFK Jr. pulls $500 million in funding for vaccine development The Department of Health and Human Services plans to cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu.

“I don’t think I’ve seen a more dangerous decision in public health in my 50 years in the business,” said Mike Osterholm, a University of Minnesota expert on infectious diseases and pandemic preparations.”

BC

I sure hope these folks aren't thinking Alberta is far better off?

If you think a golden ballroom is more important than childhood cancer research… I have nothing left to say to you. Please unfollow me.

#pediatriccancer #cancermom

EXCLUSIVE: B.C. paid private nursing agencies $508 million in just two years British Columbia’s health authorities have cut cheques to private staffing agencies totalling a little more than half a billion dollars in just the last two years, in order to have enough nurses to ke...

Patients aren’t paying for anything, but we’re increasingly seeing private companies involved in the delivery of public healthcare in BC

The biggest example is the increasing reliance on temp nurses from for-profit staffing agencies
My latest:
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

R.F.K. Jr. Cancels mRNA Vaccine Research

Completely horrifying.👇 Anti-science monster.

RFK Jr. Cancels mRNA Vaccine Research www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

Reality: Vaccine...
- saved millions of lives
- < hospitalization
- < long COVID
- > pregnancy outcomes
- < healthcare costs
- promising platform for other diseases!
- etc, etc!!!

Over the line: How border politics are testing a shared U.S.-Canada landmark canadiangeographic.ca/articles/ove...

The Haskell Free Library and Opera House was built as a symbol of friendship between Canada and the U.S. Now, that friendship is being tested.

Does pipeline fever mean missed opportunity elsewhere? | Pembina Institute Yet again this week, Premier Danielle Smith renewed her pitch for a new bitumen pipeline to be added to the federal government’s list of nation-building projects.The topic of pipelines has been…

“It’s time to kick wishful thinking on pipelines and shift the focus to other projects with real potential to bring us together and build a stronger Alberta,” writes our Executive Director Chris Severson-Baker in The Calgary Herald.

Read our op-ed 👇 3/3

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Okanagan College hires BC native to serve as trades and apprenticeship dean - Kelowna News Okanagan College has hired Caitlin Hartigan to be its new dean of trades and apprenticeship.

Okanagan College hires BC native to serve as trades and apprenticeship dean - Kelowna News www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna...

Oh Canada! 🇨🇦 💙

“We take vaccines so for granted in the United States” ...“Women in the developing world know the power of [vaccines]. They will walk 10 kilometers in the heat with their child and line up to get a vaccine because they have seen death.”

Melinda Gates