Dr. Young-Leslie {use alt-text, humans} ElbowsUp! 🇨🇦🚲
@ethnographer.bsky.social
Anthropologist, feminist, fietsster, research whisperer; settler in Amiskwaciwâskahikan aka Yeg🇨🇦
My research focussed on cultural responses to public health messages (MCH, HIV, COVID)
Mostly skeet on bikes, climate∆, #FeministSky, just transition, urbanism
My research focussed on cultural responses to public health messages (MCH, HIV, COVID)
Mostly skeet on bikes, climate∆, #FeministSky, just transition, urbanism
Pinned
A feed of & for feminists & women academics:
"Feminist Scholars" AKA #FeministSky.
It collects skeets with keywords ie: feminism, patriarchy, suffrage, intersectional, LGBTQ, Trans... & some theorists ie:de Beauvoir, Cixious, Kristeva, Irigaray, Haraway... &♀️women scholars. 📌 or ask to be added!
"Feminist Scholars" AKA #FeministSky.
It collects skeets with keywords ie: feminism, patriarchy, suffrage, intersectional, LGBTQ, Trans... & some theorists ie:de Beauvoir, Cixious, Kristeva, Irigaray, Haraway... &♀️women scholars. 📌 or ask to be added!
I SO hope that Edmonton's new mayoral initiatives are not blocked, so @andrewknack.bsky.social's excellent ideas come into fruition!
(Maybe the regional collaboration could include bike tourism as well as regional bus routes?)
Thanks @taprootedmonton.ca
#yegbike
edmonton.taproot.news/news/2025/11...
(Maybe the regional collaboration could include bike tourism as well as regional bus routes?)
Thanks @taprootedmonton.ca
#yegbike
edmonton.taproot.news/news/2025/11...
Knack talks plans to include more voices, bikes, and regional collaboration
Mayor Andrew Knack told Taproot he plans to work with council to develop a strategic plan, hopes to re-establish regional collaboration, and aims to finish building out Edmonton's bike plan.
edmonton.taproot.news
November 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I SO hope that Edmonton's new mayoral initiatives are not blocked, so @andrewknack.bsky.social's excellent ideas come into fruition!
(Maybe the regional collaboration could include bike tourism as well as regional bus routes?)
Thanks @taprootedmonton.ca
#yegbike
edmonton.taproot.news/news/2025/11...
(Maybe the regional collaboration could include bike tourism as well as regional bus routes?)
Thanks @taprootedmonton.ca
#yegbike
edmonton.taproot.news/news/2025/11...
I have triple envy.
✓Bookstore
✓Powells Bookstore
✓Sarah,Doug+Aaron (TheWarOnCars)
Have fun, Portland❣️
✓Bookstore
✓Powells Bookstore
✓Sarah,Doug+Aaron (TheWarOnCars)
Have fun, Portland❣️
Hello, Portland! We are so excited to announce that we'll be at the famous @powells.bsky.social on November 13th in conversation with @opb.org's @anomalily.net about our new book, "Life After Cars."
Tickets, which include a copy of the book, are on sale now:
www.powells.com/events/sarah...
Tickets, which include a copy of the book, are on sale now:
www.powells.com/events/sarah...
November 13, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I have triple envy.
✓Bookstore
✓Powells Bookstore
✓Sarah,Doug+Aaron (TheWarOnCars)
Have fun, Portland❣️
✓Bookstore
✓Powells Bookstore
✓Sarah,Doug+Aaron (TheWarOnCars)
Have fun, Portland❣️
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Nice piece on ecargo bikes
(note the author specifies "smug" is under the more ambiguous British meaning).
"Convenience, more than, say, environmentalism, is driving the boom. " - this is the key to unlocking it at scale. As well as the option of the second car replacement
(note the author specifies "smug" is under the more ambiguous British meaning).
"Convenience, more than, say, environmentalism, is driving the boom. " - this is the key to unlocking it at scale. As well as the option of the second car replacement
This week I wrote about the rise of the e-bike dad - this piece was originally going to run alongside the story I did in September about the bike boom in general, and we didn't have space in print, but here it is:
www.economist.com/united-state...
www.economist.com/united-state...
Parents on e-bikes are transforming the school run
They’re smug, snug and often faster than drivers
www.economist.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Nice piece on ecargo bikes
(note the author specifies "smug" is under the more ambiguous British meaning).
"Convenience, more than, say, environmentalism, is driving the boom. " - this is the key to unlocking it at scale. As well as the option of the second car replacement
(note the author specifies "smug" is under the more ambiguous British meaning).
"Convenience, more than, say, environmentalism, is driving the boom. " - this is the key to unlocking it at scale. As well as the option of the second car replacement
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If Sarah Kendzior is indeed blocked on @bsky.app, this is a completely unjustified and highly questionable move. Sarah Kendzior is among the best voices of knowledge-based critical journalism in the US. See to it that this is corrected immediately and with an apology, @pfrazee.com!
Bluesky
Social media as it should be. Find your community among millions of users, unleash your creativity, and have some fun again.
bsky.app
November 11, 2025 at 7:16 AM
If Sarah Kendzior is indeed blocked on @bsky.app, this is a completely unjustified and highly questionable move. Sarah Kendzior is among the best voices of knowledge-based critical journalism in the US. See to it that this is corrected immediately and with an apology, @pfrazee.com!
Pedals up, chains oiled, #bikesky in Ontario!
Our family is getting bigger and bigger. Join our community groups tomorrow to voice your opposition to Bill 60.
🖐️ Hands off our City!
🛣️ Stick to your lane, Doug!
⛑️ Safe streets for people walking, biking, rolling
Why should you care about this? Here’s why. 👇
bikeottawa.ca/2025/11/09/w...
🖐️ Hands off our City!
🛣️ Stick to your lane, Doug!
⛑️ Safe streets for people walking, biking, rolling
Why should you care about this? Here’s why. 👇
bikeottawa.ca/2025/11/09/w...
November 13, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Pedals up, chains oiled, #bikesky in Ontario!
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I feel like the business community in Canada is just not getting the message - there is no miracle deal with Trump and any arrangement we make will be immediately upended when he somehow takes offence at some trivial thing.
November 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I feel like the business community in Canada is just not getting the message - there is no miracle deal with Trump and any arrangement we make will be immediately upended when he somehow takes offence at some trivial thing.
It's pleasing to see unedited press scrums, instead of teensy news clips. That's why I've started watching the Daily Recaps on CPAC. Eg: today, Anita Anand showed much patience as she tried to speak on _foreign affairs_ issues discussed by the G7 foreign ministers: www.cpac.ca/en #CDNpoli
CPAC - Watch for Democracy
CPAC.ca is your destination for Politics and Public Affairs in Canada.
www.cpac.ca
November 13, 2025 at 1:30 AM
It's pleasing to see unedited press scrums, instead of teensy news clips. That's why I've started watching the Daily Recaps on CPAC. Eg: today, Anita Anand showed much patience as she tried to speak on _foreign affairs_ issues discussed by the G7 foreign ministers: www.cpac.ca/en #CDNpoli
This looks like a photo I tool last winter, of 106 St in Old Strathcona. Except my photo included the plow moving car lane snow into the elevated bike lane....
#winterbiking #yegbike #bikesky
#winterbiking #yegbike #bikesky
"A city's priorities become as clear as the spaces they choose to maintain in the winter."
Creative done with @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social
Creative done with @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 6:04 PM
This looks like a photo I tool last winter, of 106 St in Old Strathcona. Except my photo included the plow moving car lane snow into the elevated bike lane....
#winterbiking #yegbike #bikesky
#winterbiking #yegbike #bikesky
Remembrance Day at Yeg's Prince of Wales Armouries, with friends performing in the Heritage Concert Band was lovely; so many families, veterans of all ages. Of course, I wept through Oh Canada. The annual #LestWeForget seems futile but what else can we do? open.substack.com/pub/research...? #CDNpoli
Futility of “Lest We Forget”
Remembering the great-uncle I never knew, Donald Young-Leslie, who enlisted Dec 30, 1914, survived the Battle of Vimy Ridge, and died, May 18, 1917 (2023 original updated in 2025).
open.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Remembrance Day at Yeg's Prince of Wales Armouries, with friends performing in the Heritage Concert Band was lovely; so many families, veterans of all ages. Of course, I wept through Oh Canada. The annual #LestWeForget seems futile but what else can we do? open.substack.com/pub/research...? #CDNpoli
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This @sarahkendzior ???
@support.bsky.team what are you thinking? She is an internationally renowned author and American anthropologist.
This is a very bad direction to go in.
@support.bsky.team what are you thinking? She is an internationally renowned author and American anthropologist.
This is a very bad direction to go in.
November 11, 2025 at 5:29 AM
This @sarahkendzior ???
@support.bsky.team what are you thinking? She is an internationally renowned author and American anthropologist.
This is a very bad direction to go in.
@support.bsky.team what are you thinking? She is an internationally renowned author and American anthropologist.
This is a very bad direction to go in.
AI based Spyware. The new gold rush.
Field tested on activists, journalists, politicians, WhatsApp users++ in Palestine, India, Hungary, Saudi Arabia, Mexico++
🤮
www.bbc.com/news/technol...
Field tested on activists, journalists, politicians, WhatsApp users++ in Palestine, India, Hungary, Saudi Arabia, Mexico++
🤮
www.bbc.com/news/technol...
November 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
AI based Spyware. The new gold rush.
Field tested on activists, journalists, politicians, WhatsApp users++ in Palestine, India, Hungary, Saudi Arabia, Mexico++
🤮
www.bbc.com/news/technol...
Field tested on activists, journalists, politicians, WhatsApp users++ in Palestine, India, Hungary, Saudi Arabia, Mexico++
🤮
www.bbc.com/news/technol...
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Bad news for human rights and national security, no matter how you spin it
NSO Group has a new executive chairman, David Friedman, who's a former U.S. ambassador to Israel and onetime bankruptcy lawyer for President Trump.
www.wsj.com/tech/israeli... via @WSJ
NSO Group has a new executive chairman, David Friedman, who's a former U.S. ambassador to Israel and onetime bankruptcy lawyer for President Trump.
www.wsj.com/tech/israeli... via @WSJ
Israeli Spyware Maker NSO Gets New Owners, Leadership and Seeks to Mend Reputation
Investors led by Hollywood producer Robert Simonds have taken a controlling stake in the company behind Pegasus, and former Trump official David Friedman has been named executive chairman.
www.wsj.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Bad news for human rights and national security, no matter how you spin it
NSO Group has a new executive chairman, David Friedman, who's a former U.S. ambassador to Israel and onetime bankruptcy lawyer for President Trump.
www.wsj.com/tech/israeli... via @WSJ
NSO Group has a new executive chairman, David Friedman, who's a former U.S. ambassador to Israel and onetime bankruptcy lawyer for President Trump.
www.wsj.com/tech/israeli... via @WSJ
Signed!!
If you live in Alberta, please sign:
If you live in Alberta, please sign:
“Should the Government of Alberta end its current practice of allocating public funds to accredited independent (private) schools?”
Given Smith's use of the Notwithstanding clause, I want a referendum on this
Go to the link below to find a location & time to sign
#ableg #abpoli
Given Smith's use of the Notwithstanding clause, I want a referendum on this
Go to the link below to find a location & time to sign
#ableg #abpoli
Have you signed the Alberta Funds Public Schools Petition yet?
More signing locations up all the time at abfundspublicschools.ca/cgi-bin/publ...
#ableg #abpoli
More signing locations up all the time at abfundspublicschools.ca/cgi-bin/publ...
#ableg #abpoli
November 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Signed!!
If you live in Alberta, please sign:
If you live in Alberta, please sign:
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Lest We Forget
November 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Lest We Forget
I am SO EMBARRASSED by the Alberta provincial government. F#ck they are incompetent.
#SHAME
#UCP
#ABpoli
#SHAME
#UCP
#ABpoli
It truly didn’t have to be this way. www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
Canada loses measles elimination status | CBC
www.cbc.ca
November 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Remembering Arch, who survived WWII to become my grandfather d/t a medical discharge, his sister Dora, who supported the war effort as a nurse, their brother PTE Donald Young Leslie who died age 23, in the battle for Vimy Ridge, France, and his twin Arthur, who served in the US army. #LestWeForget🇨🇦
November 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Remembering Arch, who survived WWII to become my grandfather d/t a medical discharge, his sister Dora, who supported the war effort as a nurse, their brother PTE Donald Young Leslie who died age 23, in the battle for Vimy Ridge, France, and his twin Arthur, who served in the US army. #LestWeForget🇨🇦
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#OnThisDay, 10 Nov 1917, 41 suffragists are arrested outside the White House in Washington DC.
This was the largest number of women arrested on the same day.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #AmericanHistory 🗃️
1/4
This was the largest number of women arrested on the same day.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #AmericanHistory 🗃️
1/4
November 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
#OnThisDay, 10 Nov 1917, 41 suffragists are arrested outside the White House in Washington DC.
This was the largest number of women arrested on the same day.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #AmericanHistory 🗃️
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This was the largest number of women arrested on the same day.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #AmericanHistory 🗃️
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This right here.
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
This right here.
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This morning's Low of around 2.9°C will be very close to November 10th's warmest Low on record, at 3.3°C from way back in 1895.
Today is supposed to be pretty warm, but to get to the record High we would need to get way up to 17°C, from 2005.
#yegwx #yeg
public.tableau.com/shared/X4HZ4...
Today is supposed to be pretty warm, but to get to the record High we would need to get way up to 17°C, from 2005.
#yegwx #yeg
public.tableau.com/shared/X4HZ4...
November 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
This morning's Low of around 2.9°C will be very close to November 10th's warmest Low on record, at 3.3°C from way back in 1895.
Today is supposed to be pretty warm, but to get to the record High we would need to get way up to 17°C, from 2005.
#yegwx #yeg
public.tableau.com/shared/X4HZ4...
Today is supposed to be pretty warm, but to get to the record High we would need to get way up to 17°C, from 2005.
#yegwx #yeg
public.tableau.com/shared/X4HZ4...
First snow ride of the season
Snow in my lashes. Ice in my brows.
Nothing makes me feel more alive…except my ride home tonight without studs.
#yegbike #wintercycling
Snow in my lashes. Ice in my brows.
Nothing makes me feel more alive…except my ride home tonight without studs.
#yegbike #wintercycling
November 10, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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#yegbike As they work on the 111 ave MUP from 109 to 121 st, I see some things I like, and some big concerns. 109 st to 113 st is good - except for the signal pole location (in the path when so easy to go around it). The ramp up to it from the west needs to be bigger to the north though.
October 30, 2025 at 2:49 AM
#yegbike As they work on the 111 ave MUP from 109 to 121 st, I see some things I like, and some big concerns. 109 st to 113 st is good - except for the signal pole location (in the path when so easy to go around it). The ramp up to it from the west needs to be bigger to the north though.
Encountered five illegally parked vehicles along about 500m of bike lane. If only there was someone nearby to enforce the laws.
November 10, 2025 at 12:20 AM
“Unlike the car, the e-cargo bike afforded a unique sensitivity to the natural world and local environment [that] enabled parents to train their children in local geography and responsible mobility.”
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RW2MT...
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RW2MT...
November 10, 2025 at 12:19 AM
This is why we need fines based on citizen reporting of bike lane infractions
#yegbike
#yegbike
Guy covered his licence plate with a cloth grocery bag when I moved to take a picture of the back of the car. Guess he actually knew driving the wrong way down a big lane then parking isn’t allowed
November 10, 2025 at 12:18 AM
This is why we need fines based on citizen reporting of bike lane infractions
#yegbike
#yegbike
For anyone keeping track, the City of Edmonton updated the GIS data for the active transportation network acceleration. 107Ave is coloured as if it'll be built in 2027 but the attribute data still say 2026.
www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/v...
www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/v...
2024-2026 Active Transportation Implementation Acceleration - year of construction - Google My Maps
2024-2026 Active Transportation Implementation Acceleration - year of construction
www.google.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:06 AM