Fort Blunder: The Fort That America Mistakenly Built in Canada

Did you know, after the war of 1812–Canadians burnt down the White House, in 1816 the US decided to build a Fort to stop another invasion of the British in Canada, without realizing that they built it on Canadian soil 🤣 🤭🤪 earning the nickname Fort Blunder

www.amusingplanet.com/2018/04/fort...

canary pins on the lapel of a suit

The organizers of the UN event for healthy indoor air used a canary on all their materials and gave everyone canary pins.

Why? Canaries detect dangerous substances in the air of coal mines. We all need to be like canaries and warn about the dangers of unhealthy indoor air due to COVID and climate.

YouTube video by Rockway Mennonite Collegiate Running on Sunshine - Rockway Mennonite Collegiate 2025

"We used to consume fossil fuels
to make ourselves power
But now we just look to the sun
for each kilowatt hour"

This is the cutest and most encouraging video I've seen all week. Give it a watch - and share if you agree!

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3 COVID infections later...

The passivity of the Ontario voter is quite incredible.

Read news, op-eds, and analysis, not AI summaries. Create your own art (even if it's messy) or hire an artist to do it. Do your own homework. Talk to people, not chatbots. Keep your thinking and skills sharp and cherish our messy humanity. That's the new punk rock.

Canadian hockey brand pulls product line that faced criticism for demeaning women HockeyBenders, a company that tours arenas and shopping malls around Canada, sold $35 T-shirts with a slogan that came under fire for degrading women

Victory!

Read this carefully. This was a targeted, professional surveillance operation that likely followed @carrietait.bsky.social for some time, and a government-friendly right-wing podcaster appears to have helped. So the big question is: is Sam Mraiche behind this, or the UCP? Or both?

He's the key person behind the most notorious deepfake porn site in the world. And he's Canadian | CBC News A joint international investigation by CBC News, Bellingcat and Danish outlets Politiken and Tjekdet has linked a Canadian pharmacist to one of the biggest website in the world for non-consensual, AI-...

One of Carney's campaign promises was to finally criminalize the creation of deep fake nudes.

Let's hold the government to that.

Just read this remarkable graphic novel by @georgetakei.bsky.social (Captain Sulu)

At a time when so many people are being othered and dehumanized in the United States & globally, his book is a reminder that this has happened in the past, and must be resisted

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Elwy Yost brought classic films and unforgettable interviews into our homes every Saturday night.

Celebrate his 100th with Magic Shadows: Elwy Yost: A Life in Movies — July 10 at 8pm on TVO.

The largest privatization of core hospital services (orthopedic surgeries) is underway in #onpoli

Private facilities profit from your tax dollars

Their biz model is based on performing routine procedures & "cream skimming" most profitable, lowest acuity patients

Public hospitals serve everyone

It should be patently obvious by now that Canada cannot have a major news network owned by American interests, especially given ongoing US threats and American ownership of the major social media platforms. No other country would allow this.
@mark-carney.bsky.social

The zombie policy question that just won't die, but won't go away.
Asked over and over again. Answered over and over again.
The answer? NO
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Excellent article by @drgorfinkel.bsky.social in today’s Toronto Star:

Repeat­ing mis­takes in pub­lic health

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Aerosol transmission of SARSCoV2 virus is the dominant route for transmitting COVID-19.
👏'2025 Faraday Horizon Prize for advancing understanding of the physicochemical properties of exhaled aerosols, and their impact on transmissibility of respiratory pathogens.' @rsc.org
www.rsc.org/standards-an...

Today I wish to thank Dr. Theresa Tam, who is stepping down as Canada's chief public health officer. She maintained her grace despite facing overwhelming pandemic pressures, provincial resistance, repeated disinformation, and ongoing attacks, including conspiracy theories and racist slurs.

Millions of doses of breakthrough HIV jab at risk over Trump’s aid cuts The funding for 2 million people to receive the twice-yearly preventative treatment lenacapavir is ‘receding in the chaos’ of the US president’s decision, the doctor behind the trial of the drug tells...

Lencapavir is the nearest thing we have to an HIV vaccine. It's been described as pandemic-ending - and it could have been in people's arms by the end of the year. Now doses for millions of people are in question because of US cuts independent.co.uk/news/health/...

Snapshot of page one of an OSS masking resource that can be found in the link provided in the post.

Snapshot of page two of an OSS masking resource that can be found in the link provided in the post.

Want an easy way to explain masks to family, friends, kids’ teachers, bus drivers, neighbours or employers?

Use this infographic!

You don’t have to even say a word. Let @onschoolsafety.bsky.social do the work for you!

🔗: www.ontarioschoolsafety.com/_files/ugd/f...

For All That Is Good About Humankind, Ban Smartphones Smartphones are making us unhealthy, miserable, antisocial, and less free. If we can’t yet nationalize the attention economy, maybe it’s time to abolish its primary tool — before it finishes abolishin...

Ban smartphones.

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Help grow the conversation around universal basic income by boosting posts about it and doing your part to be and stay informed. I try to make it easier to do these things. Use my timeline. Use my pinned thread. Use my YT channel. Help get UBI mentioned more often and widely as a key policy demand!

Map showing where smoke from Canadian wildfires will spread into the U.S. on Monday June 2nd. Smoke is predicted to spread as far south as the coastal Southeast U.S.

Wildfires across Canada are causing smoke to spread across North America, as far as Florida. A reminder that particulates in wildfire smoke can cause short- and long-term health issues. An excellent way to protect yourself is to wear a well-fitting mask like an N95.

Deonandan: Cancelling funding for mRNA vaccine is both risky and foolish The current fear is that bird flu, H5N1, will become the next big pandemic. Only the mRNA platform is nimble enough to respond quickly.

My latest at the Citizen

"Cancelling funding for mRNA vaccine is both risky and foolish"

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Hey, 🌱 #gardening friends! The weather network states tonight and tomorrow night will "feel like" (due to wind) 1 degree celsius. Therefore, I covered all my tender annuals with frost cloth. You can use bed sheets if your area is at risk. If not planted yet, you might want to bring them inside.

Graph showing 6.3 billion funding deficit in Ontario schools

This is why your child is not getting Educational Assistant support.

This is why there is no Special Education Teacher to help your child catch up on basic math or literacy skills.

This is why the ventilation in your child’s classroom is not working.

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

A common clapback from measles minimizers is that, "Measles was no big deal when I was a kid. Everyone had it. So why are you so panicky now?"

Let's break it down with some national Canadian data...

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A grey and white cat with light green eyes lying on a white blanket and staring off into the distance.

Sunday night blues.

Five more until summer.
Hang in there, kitty cats.

Latest reported #Measles cases
US - 1,046
Canada - 2,161
Measles cases are largely a result of people choosing to not get themselves or their children vaccinated. Canada's major outbreak area remains SW Ontario but Alberta is on the rise.

I'm currently getting more emails and phone calls from constituents about #Bill5 than any other issue. They're angry & concerned about the threat to our environment & to democracy in the province. Bill 5 will erode government accountability & transparency. #onpoli

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