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This image shows gauges with the Jan 31 - Feb 13, 2026 COVID Forecast scores for Canada, the provinces, and territories. From left to right: Canada: VERY HIGH - 13.1 Alberta: SEVERE - 18.6 British Columbia: HIGH - 6.3 Manitoba: SEVERE - 18.4 New Brunswick: SEVERE - 19.2 Newfoundland & Labrador: HIGH - 7.7 North: VERY HIGH - 13.9 Nova Scotia: VERY HIGH - 10.4 Ontario: VERY HIGH - 14.5 Prince Edward Island: SEVERE - 18.9 Quebec: VERY HIGH - 10.0 Saskatchewan: SEVERE - 18.7 A text box reads: 'The COVID Forecast is calculated from 3 equally weighted categories: 1) Current infections and spread; 2) Healthcare system impact; 3) Mortality. Within each category there is one sub-category for trends over the most recent week (Trends) and one sub-category for current parameter values relative to a specified baseline (Current values). Trends and current values are weighted equally when determining the final score for a category. All Forecast input data and sources are available here (https://datastudio.google.com/embed/u/0/reporting/42b886cf-d661-488e-b7d8-5c5836b55ab6/page/p_2yqs028mwc). Past Forecast scores are available in the table below. Forecast scores are grouped into 4 ranges: MODERATE (1 to <5, white), HIGH (6 to <10, yellow), VERY HIGH (10 to <15, orange), SEVERE (>15 red).'

Canadian COVID Forecast: Jan 31 - Feb 13, 2026

SEVERE: AB, MB, NB, PEI, SK
VERY HIGH: CAN, North, NS, ON, QC
HIGH: BC, NL
MODERATE: none

About 1 in 122 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

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Petition e-6821 to pass legislation requiring majority Canadian ownership of news media.

It is still hilarious to me that @bsky.app let's people add you to their garbage moderation lists after you have blocked them. What a useless and regularly abused feature.

Advocacy opportunity 📣 BCCDC is assessing BC’s wastewater surveillance program. Survey here: ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Wastewater testing is an “early warning system” to monitor community illness levels, including surges & new variants. It’s a crucial tool for pandemic preparedness.

A few dozen bushels of bad apples.

If the Canadian govt had any sense of innovation, there are so many ways that Canada Post could be used to aid in this service delivery. I would love to see Canada Post involved in online marketplace services.

100%. “Let’s not jump to conclusions“ is sensible but it’s a very, very conspicuous thing to say about, say, the class of people JK Rowling belongs to, and never about the groups of people she has poured her resources into demonizing.

How shocking.

The Sunday Herald, 21 May 2000:

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From:Shanson900 Sent: October 18,2014 To: Jeffrey Epstein NYT mag Men of Wellesley - Can women's colleges survive the transgender movement You spoke about it only 6+ mos ago. Now the cover story. Dam!!

don't mind me, just finding lots of bread crumbs showing Epstein and the League of Pederasts were a driving force in pushing transphobic hate.

This email was sent in October 2014, at the start of the current anti trans political campaign and astroturphing.

Self-care is essential. ❤️‍🩹
I hope you rediscover joy.💖

Hundreds of people stand on a frozen lake in Minneapolis in a formation that spells out “SOS” in protest of ICE.
(Credit: David Guttenfelder/NYT)

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#moon #sky #clouds #trees #snow #nightsky #winter #nature #hudsonvalley #newyork #photography

I *sincerely* thank you for your attention to this matter!

Sir, could you please Expand on that explanation For Those Of Us who aren't afraid to Admit we don't Know, or even perhaps, do'nt Recall perfectly everything which we might have known once, as I hear Happens to Some People at some times, Everything? Such as an example?

Asking with Tears in my Eyes!

My 30 minute painting sketch!. Still learning speed.

right like it seriously needs to be reiterated a billion times that the incidents here aren't conspiratorially unique but a machinic form of patriarchal violence and violation that occurs in fractals and scales at all levels of society. sexual abuse is the glue of structures of exploitation

The way this works is that, even if men DON'T have the power to subjugate other men or hoard vast wealth, they can console themselves by sexually violating women and children. That's what patriarchy is. It's the promise that even if a man doesn't rule the world, he's the oppressor at home.

Look: Capitalism allows a few people to concentrate power and wealth to the extent that even ONE of them hating his trans kid has the potential to ruin millions of lives. That's terrifying. But patriarchy, which teaches sexual violence as an expression of power, is not exclusive to billionaires.

Elites have been doing sex crimes while forcing the rest of us to say "grape" and "unalive" to avoid having our posts taken down

Not being able to accurately describe abuse makes people (especially children) vulnerable to it

A white spider flower in spider web.

Spider flower

Come on now. We know who our heroes are.

SO EXCITED for this footage. I've been watching thousands of crows roost at sunset for awhile, but I've struggled to get quality flying in front of moon footage.

Last night I captured 8 of the 10,000+ crows take the path I've wanted.

More, better, to come in the future! But super jazzed for now 🪶

From The Crimson Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 1903.

Arthur Hacker - By the Waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered thee, o Aion

Part hotel, part new international HQ of The Bored of Peace.

95% of outstanding dues to UN are owed by Trump's govt.

This tracks given that Team Trump's full intentions for the "Board of Peace" is actually to replace UN, with POTUS having total authority over other member nations.

UN may have to shut headquarters and other offices/programs as early as June:

To clarify, as the part in parentheses seems to imply the cost would be at least a little bit justified:

By barely enough, I mean even in a best case scenario, there will be so little market demand for those piped fuels that the financial cost won't be remotely justified, much less the other costs.

Corrine Loperfido

Expert consensus is that there's already enough pipelines in Canada for what the waning market will support.

By the time any new pipelines are built, there will be no market for it at all (or barely enough to justify the cost). There is also the massive detrimental environmental impact to consider.