Clinical Psychology - Neuropsychology. Supporter of human rights for all. Canadian.
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Brianna Ladapo, in addition to calling herself “doctor” based only on her informal self-study of naturopathy and claiming to receive messages from angels, claims during her first pregnancy she accurately predicted multiple “plane crashes, serial murders, & mass casualty events before they happened.”
Here are some western snowy plover chicks I helped to band while working as a WDFW SNPL Biologist! The chick here, BV:WW, is named Misty Day 🤍 All banding, marking, and sampling is being conducted under a federally authorized Bird Banding Permit issued by the U.S. Geological Survey’s BBL
In the early hours of August 30, unidentified perpetrators bombed the home of Job Sikhala, a prominent critic of Zimbabwe’s government. Zimbabwe authorities should take necessary steps to protect Job Sikhala, his family, and other government critics.
There is no good reason for this. Project 2025 is written down. Many of us have already read it. It has led to the authoritarianism in the US and loss of human rights for many.
How do people watch what is happening in the US and say, yeah, I want that? Only those who think they will not be the ones harmed.
Carney and the Liberals *vastly* overestimate the mandate and trust they received from (30% of) Canadian voters. They govern like they have a huge majority that will last forever. I'm increasingly convinced they won't make it 2 years before they are decimated and we're stuck with a Con government.
Self-care is overrated—helping others has the biggest benefits for everyone involved A new 2-week intervention finds that helping others improves well-being more than "self-kindness", with benefits for depressed mood, anxiety, and loneliness due to social connection psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
Don Davies seems to suggest that women, transfolk, and others are not working class; otherwise their concerns would be important.
The NDP leadership race’s supposed “limit” has led some to claim a focus on “identity politics” is why the NDP tanked in the last election. Interim NDP leader Don Davies seem to share that sentiment in an interview this week. It’s bullshit. In today’s video, I’ll tell you why.
Interested in doing a PhD with me and lacns.github.io? Or with any of the incredible fellows in the IMPRS School of Cognition www.maxplanckschools.org/cognition-en - apply before Dec 1st at cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/application
Going to share the good news too; I provide @canadastrong.bsky.social CanadaMasq Q100 ear loop respies at my hospital, b/c institutions and leadership have failed us and it is on the public to step in and provide PH. Anyway. Usually size M masks go 2-3x as fast as L. I get the 50 packs. /1 #nbpoli
Good morning to all my Canuck polinerd pals! That weird Caillou kid who cosplays as a journalist is in trouble. Just thought you’d all like to know. Have an awesome day. I know I will 😂 #ableg #cdnpoli
I am seeing social media posts that the HPV vaccine may be discussed at upcoming ACIP meetings. Not surprising, since that vaccine is frequently a target of misinformation. I wanted to put together resources for pre debunking - #IDSky + #MedSky + #OncSky.
“This is not the first time Danielle Smith has balked at the price tag of saving lives. She once implied to a podcast host that stage four cancer is a personal choice we just can’t afford.” @steveburgess53.bsky.social advises. #abpoli
Good night, lovely people and lovely dogs. I hope that you have a fantastic day tomorrow.
I cannot tell you how many capitalist climate people came after me when I warned against assuming we could reverse overshoot of 1.5C w carbon removal. Well. It turns out that the maximum possible temperature reversal might be as little as 0.7C. End fossil fuels now.
This is Delta. He just had his first bath. And you just had your last day of peace. 12/10 (IG: camphusky)
The National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Kiko is now a Category 4 cyclone. Forecasters say Kiko has maximum sustained winds of 130 mph on Wednesday.
This is really concerning.
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Fort Macleod emergency department temporarily closed lethbridgenewsnow.com/2025/09/03/f...
It sits in Carney’s government now. www.cbc.ca/news/science...
I'm diving deeper into our history, as told by the wonderful Heritage Minutes. In honour of Graham Greene, I'm looking at the Sitting Bull Heritage Minute he starred in.
My aunt married a dairy farmer whose family had a small farm for 100+ years and they kept it going until my uncle's retirement at like 70 something. They ALWAYS pasteurized/boiled their milk. Like it wasn't even discussed. This was a generational farmer, not a hobbyist.
An excellent, short video on boiling raw milk, women's unwaged household labor, and home economics! Regarding raw milk (that is to say unpasteurized), it was always dangerous, even when squirted directly from the teet. Cows have all kinds of diseases that they pass through their milk.
Our latest paper is out in JAMA Pediatrics, discussing the upcoming Supreme Court case that aims to overturn conversion therapy bans. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
A major plot point of the 1915 drama THE ITALIAN is that an immigrant couple is too poor to buy pasteurized milk and their baby dies from contaminated raw milk. They knew back then.
Data Centers Could Threaten Wisconsin Water, Report Warns
9 Tips to Keep Your Garden Thriving Through a Drought, Gardeners Say https://www.allforgardening.com/1430260/9-tips-to-keep-your-garden-thriving-through-a-drought-gardeners-say/ Key Takeaways Using mulch, coir, and healthy soil can support a garden experiencing drought.Graywater and rainwater …
Still #SaltingTheVibes at the office! #MaskUp
Boiling milk before use was just what you did. They had dedicated cookware for it. (Specially shaped to contain boil-overs, which milk is really prone to.) Household hygiene had SERIOUSLY high stakes back before hot running water & pasteurization. That's… like… why they taught home economics.
"Dan Kelly, president & CEO of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, called Poilievre’s proposal “absolutely ridiculous.” ...Kelly said ending the program would “gut the labour pool” in many rural & remote communities & could shut down resort communities like Banff & Whistler" #CdnPoli
#Halifax kitchen and café gives food to people in need no matter what #NovaScotia The Upward Kitchen and Café was created to ensure everyone in Halifax’s north end has access to affordable and healthy food. www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nov...
Burkina Faso has passed a law banning homosexual acts. Capt. Ibrahim Traoré, the leader of the country’s transitional military government, should reject the law and ensure the rights to dignity, freedom, and equality are protected for all.
abcnews.go.com/US/epstein-f... The woman who provided critical evidence that allowed federal prosecutors to charge Jeffrey Epstein with sex trafficking of minors in 2019 is speaking out publicly for the first time, urging lawmakers to release records related to the convicted sex offender...
Democrat @raskin.house.gov excoriates Nigel Farage for banning journalists from Reform UK events: "I'm asking you a direct question. Why do you ban journalists who oppose your views from coming to your events? Why did you tell local government not to do interviews with your local newspaper?"
Are ultra-processed foods really so unhealthy? The science: nature.com/articles/d41... with @kevinh-phd.bsky.social "...some scientists are sceptical that the UPF category is useful for research or as the basis for dietary advice, arguing that it is too broad and ill-defined."
Preventing adolescents from reading about gender or sex does not prevent them from having a gender or sexual identity. Teaching them about sex does not make them have sex more. Giving information to them empowers them to make informed decisions.
As someone who works with children and adolescents, I know that there is not always safe spaces for them, including at home. Libraries have always been safe spaces and books have always been havens.
Don’t give in to #burnout. 👉Take the time off. 👉Be in the moment. 👉Enjoy your family. Because a job will be here tomorrow- but the life you placed on hold may not. #physicians #MedSky suckitupbuttercupfilm.com #nursesky #fpsky #mentalhealth #healthcare
This is not an easy process. The instant fear that this creates is a lot. I am really glad you are okay.
What an interesting world it would be if the super wealthy had the same level of discipline as the not wealthy?
Drug trafficking is not a capital crime; it doesn’t carry a death sentence. I genuinely cannot think of anything under U.S. law that would permit premeditated government assassination of people suspected of drug trafficking.
"Drill, baby, drill" may bring short-term jobs & revenue, but in the long run, It’s a death sentence for the planet. 🌏🥵
How to Request A Book at Your Library! (digital or print) gailcarriger.com/2018/09/05/h...
Oh, I know! Austerity for the working class and investment for extractive industry corporations?
"It's a budget of austerity and investment at the same time and that's possible if you have discipline," he said Wednesday. Austerity for whom, investment for whom, discipline from whom?
I zoomed in and teared up a bit at reading it.
Not knowing that we need stuffed animals with a pouch for the sound module, one of our @3wishesprogram.bsky.social families has requested the patient's heartbeat be placed in a very special vintage Pooh bear. Our music therapist has volunteered to do some sewing to make it possible. Oh my heart.
Fun Facts: Canada's second oldest company, Molson, merged with the American brewer Coors in 2004 and is headquartered in Chicago. Our oldest company, the Bay, folded this year after decades of American private equity ownership.
In a world of Danielle Smiths, be a Margaret Atwood.
In Alberta, girls 12+ now have to prove their sex just to play sports. Cruel, invasive, discriminatory—brought to you by Danielle Smith. Hey Alberta, are you really cool with this? WTH are you guys doing? 🤦🏽♂️😡 This is Canada, not the south of the border. #DanielleSmith #JustLikeTrump #MAGA #Ableg
A new work written especially for Danielle Smith and the UCP. A true reflection of how Alberta is turning into an autocracy more and more each day.
This week, two of Alberta's three anti-trans laws officially went into effect. As of Sept. 1, trans women and girls are banned from women’s sports, and parents will be informed if a student chooses to go by a different name or pronoun at school.
If your political career depends on waging war on 12-year-olds, you should resign right now Danielle Smith! #TransRightsAreHumanRights #ABpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Message from an Alberta teacher: "I've been told that kids aren't allowed to bring books from home. No free choice reading. No silent reading time or listening to reading. No library time until books are catalogued and deemed appropriate. Please contact your MLA." @daniellesmithab.bsky.social
What happens when vaccine coverage collapses in Florida because they are ending vaccine requirements for school entry? 1. Disease outbreaks that end up hospitalizing and killing infants too young to be vaccinated by responsible parents, the elderly whose immunity wanes, and the immunocompromised.
Danielle Smith on Margaret Atwood's recent short story featuring the premier of Alberta... "I didn't read it!" Yet another thing this government hasn't read apparently. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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A Florida court detained a US Citizen for being an "illegal immigrant." He showed the court proof of citizenship. The court agreed—& held him anyway. I criticized the ruling online & a Florida judge responded by trying to strip me of my law license. I fought back www.qasimrashid.com/p/a-florida-...
In my research, what I found was that JP Morgan was paying for meetings at the Palace to discuss the financial fall out of the Epstein allegations. The public caught wind of this, and made him start to pay for them, that’s how attendees names were revealed. www.cnn.com/2023/06/12/i...
How bad is this budget going to be if Carney himself is already calling it an "austerity" budget? www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
NOW IN JERUSALEM: Jews and Palestinians protesting against this criminal government, demaning an end to this genocidal war, an end to the killing, and for the hostages to finally be brought home. We refuse to go on with life as normal as the annihilation rages on — this must end NOW!
The woman prosecutors dubbed the “Ketamine Queen” pleaded guilty to supplying the ketamine that resulted in actor Matthew Perry’s overdose death. She faces up to 65 years in prison. Details: www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
🚨 President Donald Trump is pressuring Israel to cancel Prime Minister Netanyahu’s corruption trial, igniting backlash over political interference. Netanyahu, also indicted for war crimes by the ICC, faces charges of bribery and fraud. open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
I don't think Lindsay Ellis was even considered part of "breadtube" but she's managed to produce a better video on the subject of genocide than any of the big names of that era are even willing to attempt. Incredible work here www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwpa...
About damn time. I remember her driving around with an unsecured shotgun in her RV with shells in the cupholder, and nothing was done. There's a whole list of reasons she should have been arrested a long time ago.
FYI, tomorrow in Silver Spring there is an opportunity for public comment on President Trump's executive orders to "Restore American Seafood Competitiveness," which includes attempts to remove protections from marine protected areas. www.fisheries.noaa.gov/s3/2025-08/E... 🧪🦑🌎
Poilievre is lying again on MSM No, temporary foreign workers (TFWs) in Canada are not allowed to be paid less than the minimum wage
Alberta's War on Kids and Classrooms The UCP’s policies read like dystopian fiction. And are a warning for BC. thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
Federal government begins to transfer Coast Guard to National Defence #Canada #cdnpoli halifax.citynews.ca/2025/09/02/f...
WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive GLOBAL study revealed COVID-19 vaccines utilizing mRNA technology PREVENTED OVER 2.5 MILLION deaths WORLDWIDE between 2020 and 2024. It reveals that vaccinations didn’t JUST protect against illness. They PRESERVED nearly 15 MILLION years of human life.
Our legal system is such a joke when it comes to men's violence against women, it's wild. When a *judge* says "this easily could've been a homicide trial if he had followed through on his threats" but then says "I'm sentencing him to only 4 yrs because he was so generous with his time on Twitter."
Current demand at the Edmonton Public Library for the four graphic novels at the centre of Alberta's new (and fluctuating) school library rules: #AbEd #Ableg #EPL #bannedbooks
New gun law protections target domestic violence, but real prevention must start earlier Without comprehensive legislative and societal reforms to address IPV, the measures in Bill C-21 risk being little more than a bandage on a gaping wound. theconversation.com/new-gun-law-...
B.C. Supreme Court’s recognition of Cowichan title is an invitation to enact transformative change “Shying away from truth because it is uncomfortable only fuels greater uncertainty and conflict for all parties in the long run.” #LandBack #IndigenousRights theconversation.com/the-b-c-supr...
The 35-square-meter (376-square-foot) pods are built by a company called Blade-Made that uses decommissioned wind turbine parts that are impossible to recycle as materials to build new structures like benches, highway barriers, playgrounds, and even housing. www.goodnewsnetwork.org/dutch-design...
Elon Musk and his company have tweaked Grok, the A.I. powered chatbot, to make its answers more conservative on many issues, according to a New York Times analysis of thousands of its responses. nyti.ms/462hBye
For the past three years, the city has been giving cash to some struggling renters, no strings attached. The first-in-the-nation experiment has been even more successful than researchers studying its impact expected.
A cautionary tale of what happens when this Carney-initiated approach is left to the voluntary goodwill of the financial sector. This is no way to prosecute the fight of our lives. Net-Zero Banking Alliance Pauses as Future Hangs on Upcoming Vote www.theenergymix.com/net-zero-ban...
Let's break down the reasons that this is a very bad idea. 1) School mandates ensure high coverage (>90%), necessary to block outbreaks of highly contagious diseases. Even small declines in coverage can break herd immunity, leaving vulnerable populations at risk. Thread [1/10]
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“I’m demanding justice,” Lisa Phillips, a model who was brought to Epstein’s island in 2000, said. “Congress must choose. Will you continue to protect predators? Or will you finally protect survivors?” Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
As long as I live, I’ll never understand how “it should be easier for multi-billion dollar corporations to poison the water my family drinks and the air we breathe” became a politically popular position with half of my country.
I would guess it could be around 50 +hours for these people shacked the entire trip. Such inhumanity.
Surrogate pregnancies are increasingly popular in tech circles, and the practice is expected to explode globally in the coming decade. It’s also shockingly unregulated. This is a story about what happens when it goes horribly wrong.
Raskin: "The dictators of the world have got nothing to fear from this hearing. Republicans called it to attack our democratic allies in Europe. The star witness is not a human rights leader like Navalny, but a far-right pro-Putin politician who leads the UK Reform Party."
It turns out that the heavily polluted Tijuana River also pollutes air in the surrounding neighborhoods. In the latest @science.org podcast @kprather.bsky.social talks about ways to clean the air and water w/ Nazeefa Ahmed Listen here 🎧: www.science.org/content/podc...
All of Donald Trump's claims against Brazil are false & misleading. It's about Donald's support of another anti-democracy wannbe strongman like himself. "Fact check: 'Witch-hunt' against Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro?" www.dw.com/en/fact-chec...
Finally posted a video about something I’ve been thinking about for a while: how Stockton Rush’s arc, ultimately killing five people with his submersible, is paralleled by “leaders” in our current government. Take RFK Jr as an example. Like Rush, he has no expertise in the field…
This is going to massively increase rates of #measles and other infectious diseases in the state (and because of travel and tourism, the country at large). Mandates are what allowed us to eliminate endemic measles in the US. The 2020s have been such a step backwards for public health.
Surveillance state.
Local man embraces fascism.
Putin and Xi in Beijing talking about organ transplants to achieve immortality isn’t a joke. The oligarchy wants a sacrificial slave class. They think they are gods.
I mask when I see all my patients; not sure what “cost” this guy sees. A few patients who are hard of hearing need to read my lips so I remove it for them. If anyone else objects I cheerfully tell them my day is spent seeing people with known or suspected infections and I like being healthy 🤷🏻♂️
Trump on what he's doing stop Russia's war on Ukraine: "We have stopped the money. We send weapons to NATO. They pay full price." (In other words he's trying to compel Ukraine to surrender but not Russia to stop the violence.)