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🚨 This is inexplicable news to share. If in Alberta and you want flu and covid shots for NEXT year (2026-2027), you have only until December 15 of THIS year to order them.

This is not incompetence. It’s a deliberate choice to prevent as many people ..

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So not only do they want to force women into pregnancy, they want to make it as miserable as possible. That’s a lot of misogyny to unpack…

Any chance it will be available via Zoom or similar? I’m in Canada but I would love to listen in.

Climate change and drought in Canada Climate change will increase the risk and severity of droughts in Canada that already struggle with water shortages, like the ...

Climate change is making droughts longer, more frequent and more severe across 🇨🇦, especially in provinces already struggling with water shortages (Prairies, BC). But there’s a lot governments can do to protect Canadians.

Read more in our fact sheet ⬇️
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Have they published the results of the 80,000 people survey? He says they got that many respondents but not the stats on their answers. I’m having a hard time believing that a majority wanted books banned.

Read. Read. Again! Repost! Miigwich settlers! 🪶🙌🏽🇨🇦 #DanielleSmithMustResign #Treaties #Alberta

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign? Do Not Allow Trump to Visit Canada

Signed with enthusiasm!

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The image is a black-and-white political cartoon depicting a man in a suit standing behind a counter labeled "Republican Platform." He is holding a bottle labeled "Untaxed Whiskey, 20¢ Gal." in one hand and a piece of cloth labeled "War-Taxed Common Cloth, Tariff 84%" in the other. Above the counter, a sign reads, "If you don’t see what you want, ask for it." The cartoon, signed by W.A. Rogers, appears to satirize the Republican Party's economic policies, highlighting the disparity in taxation between luxury items like whiskey and essential goods like cloth.

In 1890, the Tariff Act came into place in the United States. It placed tariffs on imports of up to 50%.
While touted as a way to build American industry, there was also the hope it would force an annexation of Canada. It backfired.
Let's learn more.

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Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

Here Are the Real Reasons Smith Flip-Flopped on Rebuilding Jasper | The Tyee The UCP is willing to leave people homeless to pursue its vendetta against Ottawa.

Here Are the Real Reasons Smith Flip-Flopped on Rebuilding Jasper via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

That is beautiful corn! What is its name? Seeds are powerful, and I feel honoured to be able to grow them and preserve the generations.

Pierre Poilievre has been in politics for 20 years, he's written 0 legislation; has one of the highest pensions in government. He's voted against the environment & climate nearly 400 times, derailed legislation to benefit workers, and voted against affordable housing initiatives.

Climate Models Can’t Explain What’s Happening to Earth Global warming is moving faster than the best models can keep a handle on.

Hi pals. Today I wrote about the unsettling mismatches between what climate models say should be happening and what is actually happening. We're pushing the Earth past the limits of our physical understanding. This is a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

I need to read positive stories now and again so I can keep going- so thanks for this, @climateinstitute.bsky.social

This is amazing!

This is our “fixed” healthcare according to the UCP??

Very impressive!

Exactly right.

Exactly this. It’s hard to stay hopeful when you can see this happening around you.

A food apocalypse is coming

"A lot of people assume that somewhere in Britain there are sheds full of food that we’d distribute in a disaster. Surely there is a grain or butter mountain somewhere? Surely the UK government has a plan for such a crisis?

Nope. No sheds. No stores. No mountains of food. No plan"

I’m in Canada, but I am very interested to read this. Thank you for posting it.