Doris Audet

Winning post today 🤣🤣🤣

The Canadian Company Staffing ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ | The Tyee Carney’s government awarded GardaWorld millions in contracts and isn’t ruling out more.

“This wishy-washy stance when it comes to jaw-dropping cruelty tied to the U.S. is yet another stroke in an increasingly clear portrait: one of PM Mark Carney with his elbows firmly planted to his sides when it comes to big business.”

@rachelgilmore.bsky.social’s first column with The Tyee.

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Those mosquitoes are sure getting annoying 🦟

Those mosquitoes are getting annoying 🦟

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Entitled neighbour living up to the expectations!

pub-lick health

Citizen Initiative Application Approved, Notice of Initiative Petition Issued - Elections Alberta EDMONTON – Today, Alberta’s Chief Electoral Officer, Gordon McClure, issued a Notice of Initiative Petition. This confirms a Citizen Initiative application has been received and the Chief Electoral Of...

It isn’t customary to give Canada Day gifts, but today I received one.

Elections Alberta approved my Citizen Initiative application!

Stay tuned for further announcements from our Forever Canadian team.

Happy United Canada, everyone!!!

#ableg #cdnpoli

www.elections.ab.ca/citizen-init...

Burst mode with the headlamp… brilliant, low cost solution! Thanks for sharing the tip! 🦇

Leadership ❤️

What not to do 3 things to avoid in the event of a separation referendum in Alberta

« Most Albertans (over 80 percent) feel attached to both country and province. Asking them to choose between these identities is a losing strategy. »
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« For a while I thought the danger was greed.
But it’s disconnection from reality. »

Reposting for my American academics to share. Kingston is a beautiful town and Queen's is a solid institution. It is also handily near(ish) the Toronto area.

Disability claims skyrocket, raising new puzzle alongside 'excess mortality' Along with a baffling rise in post-pandemic mortality rates, the number of Americans claiming disabilities has skyrocketed since 2020.

It’s genuinely hard to believe these articles aren’t satire at this point.

It’s not a puzzle. It’s not a mystery.

Disability rates are skyrocketing because we’re still in a global pandemic. It’s a mass disabling event that society is ignoring because they wanted to go “back to normal”

“In a time of destruction, create something.

A poem. A parade. A community. A school. A vow. A moral principle. One peaceful moment.”

-Maxine Hong Kingston
(from the book she wrote from scratch after her home burnt down and she lost all her drafts in the Oakland forest fires of 1991)

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Flamingos Make Underwater Vortexes to Suck Up Prey

This is the coolest thing you will see today: Flamingos use head retractions, beak chattering, and webbed foot movements to create underwater vortices that capture prey and funnel it directly into their mouths. 🧪🪶

See also the figures and movies in their PNAS paper: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

Alberta First Nations have issued a "cease and desist" order to Danielle Smith's attempt to break up our country.
"If you or any Canadians are not happy living on treaty lands, they are free to seek citizenship elsewhere."

Let Danielle Smith know what you think about breaking up the country.

The Nation That Trump Could Never Break Canada didn’t just resist, they reminded the rest of us how to endure

Message from Ukraine:
Thank you, Canada.
For being yourselves when so many others are trying to be worse.
You reminded us that we are not alone.
Because of you, this morning felt a little less like the end of the world.
And more like something worth staying alive for.
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Alberta overhauls election laws to allow corporate donations, change referendum thresholds | CBC News The Alberta government wants to bring back corporate and union political donations, eliminate vouching for a voter’s identity at election polling stations, and lower the threshold for recalls and refe...

A government under seven (7) different investigations for corruption just introduced a bill that would bring more corporate money into politics.

This is not normal.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

YouTube video by The Breach Federal Election Night LIVE 2025

From CBC at first then switched to The Breach

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U-w...

Ecologists are spending less time in the field. That could be a problem. Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. There was a time when an ecologist’s education was not complete…

[FOUNDER'S BRIEF - Rhett A Butler]

"Across universities & research institutions, field-based studies are in retreat, giving way to remote-sensing technologies, laboratory analysis, & large-scale data synthesis. The consequences of this shift, while not yet fully understood, could be far-reaching."

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All humans can contribute to society. It is much more than being able to do paid work. Many make the world a nicer place simply by existing.

Small achievable goals

Opinion: Deafening silence on climate this election Climate has fallen off the electorate’s radar, now ranking sixth in a list of priority issues in a recent poll.

I got to write something with the amazing @sethdklein.bsky.social on the need for questions on climate to be asked at the debates tonight and tomorrow.
Please read and share.
edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...

The rise of end times fascism The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM

My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.

The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.

Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Good exam problem for first year bio! 😊

No, the dire wolf has not been brought back from extinction Colossal Biosciences claims three pups born recently are dire wolves, but they are actually grey wolves with genetic edits intended to make them resemble the lost species

Oh FFS, that company did not "bring back the dire wolf".

And furthermore... We must stop and reverse biodiversity loss *of >1 million existing species*, not go on a PR-driven wild goose chase to bring back a few extinct ones.

#DireWolf #Deextinction

www.newscientist.com/article/2475...