Or, at times, as climate change leads to habitat change and expansion. Hoist by our own petard, so to speak.
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Or, at times, as climate change leads to habitat change and expansion. Hoist by our own petard, so to speak.
The spread of Mpox in Sierra Leone is unlike anything we have ever seen - and we have been keeping an eye on this bug in the region for >15 years. Given geographical spread, 50/50 men vs women, this is no "sexual network". This could be the next one. clt.npha.gov.sl/outbreak.aspx
Today my co-editor @profsmithsask.bsky.social sent the revised page proofs to UBCPress. The index is done. "The New Politics of Western Canada: Contested Histories, Uncertain Futures" is officially "in press". It should be out in late August & we'll host a session w authors at PPSA in Banff in Sept.
See you in Saskatoon, Steve. I'm really looking forward to your show.
Great News: SPHERU's "Dementia Supports in Rural Saskatchewan" collective impact project will be given the 2025 Dementia Friendly Community Champion Award by the Alzheimer's Society of Saskatchewan. Congrats to our project leader, Dr. Bonnie Jeffery! Learn about the work here: www.ruraldementiask.ca
Following the US Navy's recent plane incidents, I'm honoured to be presenting their new corporate training video...
Haha, Jim was very kind to mention me.
Enjoy, Jessica, Jim's a friend of mine going back to grad school days. Great book.
Hence the fact that measles was a disease of childhood in larger communities prior to the vaccine era. This is the basis for crowd diseases and is very basic stuff.
People are losing their basic humanity, apparently. Can't say it's a good look on them.
They can start with Kristi Noem, who crossed the Canada-US border illegally, multiple times
In this timeline, she died of measles.
Well, as long as you vouch for them I guess it's okay.
Agreed. The responsibility ultimately falls with the parents, here. There is no excuse for exposing them to potential harm.
Taking Care of Business LOL
I understand completely. I don't like the man, what he stands for, and what he has done to this country. I'm not looking at him, though. I'm looking at the other Canadians who might even vote like I do, but who want to be petty. The man is wealthy and he will live well wherever he lands.
Many are crappy parents. I don't like it but I don't take it out on the kids. There is no case for me to ignore harm to kids to punish their parents. Just me but I will judge, silently in this case, those who ignore the impact on children in any context, esp. when the goal is merely to be petty.
Do people realize that this says everything about them, and nothing about him? If you [not you] think it is perfectly acceptable to make his kids suffer because you hate the man, then I'm not sure I want to know you, and I definitely don't see the world the same way as you [not you] do.
Option C: have all the leaders of all other parties, large and fringe, live in the house. Film it and eliminate one every so often. Sell the rights and pay off any national debt.
Reads better as "let him crook," but that's just me.
Sobs inconsolably
You need to watch more tv
It's come a very long way. As it happens, I am un Winnipeg for a conference and between this, the Jets, the food (Juniors, Marigolds, etc.) I am feeling nostalgic. Of course, it isn't flooding and the mosquitoes aren't out yet, so it could be the season!
The more I hear about what's going on in my former province, the more I am proud of it. Not perfect, but it is trying pretty darn hard. Congratulations!
"Preston Manning has a posse!" Think of the poster and t-shirt opportunities!
My feeling is that it is largely some very loud people in Alberta who have convinced some equally loud people in Saskatchewan that they are getting a raw deal. There is no thought behind it as far as I can see, only emotion (other than those who artificially incite to maintain power).
Sitting here in Winnipeg, temporarily away from Saskatoon. Do you mind defining "prairies?" Is it rural Alberta and Saskatchewan?
Inside of you are two Canadian classic rock songs
Did Jordan Peterson and Joe Rogan just drop the best Liberal ad ever?
Same
880 cases of measles in 🇨🇦, and 📈 health-infobase.canada.ca/measles-rube...
I don't know, "transgressive" seems to fit better here.
The promotion of mediocrity over genuine expertise that results from that approach is truly unfortunate. If anyone can make "art" through just a prompt, those who are truly artistic will quickly be devalued.
North American house hippo sighting confirmed?
TFR for Canada in 2023 was 1.33. Without immigration kiss your country goodbye. Cdn-born population is aging rapidly (in general). Kiss productivity and higher ed goodbye. The conversations that this country has to have, but won't, are fundamental (let alone those around climate change).
Notur51st
Thank you for the maps. I'd love to see these cases broken down temporally. Movements and social connections would be crucial.
You didn't offend me. You disappointed me.
Last word on this. They aren't eating your dogs and cats. They are working hard and contributing to many different societies. Being a socialist has never immunized against being xenophobic or racist.
Are you talking about when all those white European settlers came to the west in the late nineteenth century, or do you have a different flavour of immigrant in mind?
Someday I'm going to write a book entitled "On the Myth of 'Western Canada'" and that homunculus will be exhibit A. Alberta is a place apart.
Have you heard this one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYtv...
The Heckler's Veto at play.
Perhaps our American friends could benefit from considering the house hippo: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvPw...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrRL...
My wife's cousin's kid worked on that film!
Agreed, Cohn was despicable. Other names should all sound familiar at this point. They recycle more than the most conscientious green supporter. Gorsuch's mother tried to gut the EPA, there's a stench of the Brooks Brother Riot in the Supreme Court, and Roger Stone never seems to go out of style.
And worth every penny!
I have to explain to people that they have (had?) a thing with a half a pineapple! And the mosquitoes aren't as bad as they used to be, though the wasps are awful depending on the season
Yeah, about the ghost of Roy Cohn ...
The only time in my life when I make sure to have cash. In all my years, I have never ordered anything but the Goog Special. It is perfection.
Mandatory visit for my brother and me when we go to Winnipeg. Also BDI, though that's more seasonal.
Eh, consider British Columbia Strong
2 VIP tickets in Saskatoon. We don't often get good things in S'Toon (unless you like Country, I suppose). We are looking forward to the show!
The posters are amazing!
Oh, trust me, that happened a long time ago.
Check out The Punch-up in Piestany if you want to see how Canadians respond
It seems simple enough to me. They do not believe in society. Evergreen Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: "I like to pay taxes-- with them I buy civilization."
Yeah, but it's more than three words. Could you workshop some contractions?
Thanks, now I had to get a sandwich.
Yes
The difference is between individuals and populations. While any individual may contract TB if exposed, the likelihood is very dependent on their preexisting health. At the level of the population, it is not close
As per Sir William Osler: "Tuberculosis is a social disease with a medical aspect."
This is entirely untrue. A smaller percentage of people who are exposed will be infected. A smaller percentage of those infected will develop active disease. The difference is their ability to fight off infection/disease
Given current policy trends in the US, we may see its return there with a vengeance.
Where social deprivation exists, TB will follow.
Excellent work, thank you. The hill I will die on is that the word inequality is often used when inequity is meant. It is clinical, passive, and does not capture the depravity of systems that sacrifice entire cohorts of people to the benefits of others.
Sorry, it should be Thurl Ravenscroft.
I read this in Boris Karloff's voice in my head.
I'm not sure about how many academic conferences Canadians attend, but it must be substantial. There will be echoes of this reverberating down throughout the US economy.
I really like that design!
There's a Devo song for every instance, these days: see Race of Doom. "Is it on, is it off, reply"
And he's been paid very well to do it.
I mean, we did exactly that beginning in 1945.
Moe in SK: "Hold my American beer"
Do it and provide an alternative. Ripping up one contract does not preclude signing an identical contract in the near future.
Then I apologize and you are correct. This is an opportunity to engage countries with smaller economies in an equitable fashion. Their exclusion from trade agreements in the past may have left them open to exploitation
China isn't a colonizer? How do you figure that?
“The conflict in the Falkland Islands was thrust on us by naked aggression and we are naturally proud of the way our fighting men are serving their country”. Somebody
Paint is placebo
Oh, you gotta be American. Not too many people forget the contributions made by Canadians but the Americans do.
Even so, there are more bald eagles in Canada than the US, I believe.
I have long thought that if AI is legitimately capable of replacing anyone's labour, it is the CEO class.
And thanks for fighting the good fight. There is a strain of anti-intellectualism that is as old as formalised science itself that is now threatening humans on a global scale.
"THE Truth (tm)" is out there, somewhere!
Yuuuup!
Me too!
For those who are following this conversation, ask yourself where this person found this "data," what they are attempting to do with it, and why they might be trying to impugn public health in an era when new diseases are emerging regularly.
To say nothing about that moron who was inexplicably put in charge of public health in the US. MY colleagues work to undo the disaster that you and yours are trying to create.
20 years is the blink of an eye for me. I come from an era when smallpox was still extant, and when diseases such as measles and polio still maimed and killed. This was an era that we SHOULD have left behind we're it not for you and your unvaxxed colleagues.
The irony here is ... delicious! Tylenol was developed by (wait for it, folks!) Johnson &Johnson, perhaps the quintessential example of BigPharma. Way to shill for them!
So you are denying that people died of measles prior to vaccination, or suffered significant complications? Are you also denying that measles (note spelling) is also one of the most infective of all self-limiting viral diseases, actually making it the poster disease for vaccine prevention?
At least spell it right, FFS. Folks, don't get your epidemiological advice from clowns like this.
I wrote my M.A. thesis on measles. Stop spreading nonsense. Rubeola (unless you somehow are referring to rubella, a disease that has its own issues) is a disease that had profound complications for many people prior to the creation of a viable vaccine. Be vigilant and get vaccinated.
A well-placed puck over the glass might also work.
Perhaps something from "That Smell" would work, too?
So you're saying it's a diplomatic corpse?
Does that mean Ben Johnson was clean?
