Sara McPhee-Knowles
@saramcknowles.bsky.social
PhD in public policy, prof, parent, podcaster (Dear Dual Perspective). Active transportation and eBike enthusiast. Yukoner. Opinions are my own. She/her
I was just typing "Saskatchewan" in an email and Outlook's autofill suggestion was "Saskatchester."
May 30, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I was just typing "Saskatchewan" in an email and Outlook's autofill suggestion was "Saskatchester."
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Unity Garden seed kits will be available for FREE, pick up starting on May 12.
Pick up locations and times are:
Yukon Food Bank - M & F, 9-4pm
Yukon Literacy Coalition, Horwood's Mall - M-F 8:30am-6:30pm
AFTER June 2:
Yukon Literacy Coalition Learning Garden, Shipyards Park - M-F 8:30am-6:30pm
Pick up locations and times are:
Yukon Food Bank - M & F, 9-4pm
Yukon Literacy Coalition, Horwood's Mall - M-F 8:30am-6:30pm
AFTER June 2:
Yukon Literacy Coalition Learning Garden, Shipyards Park - M-F 8:30am-6:30pm
May 6, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Unity Garden seed kits will be available for FREE, pick up starting on May 12.
Pick up locations and times are:
Yukon Food Bank - M & F, 9-4pm
Yukon Literacy Coalition, Horwood's Mall - M-F 8:30am-6:30pm
AFTER June 2:
Yukon Literacy Coalition Learning Garden, Shipyards Park - M-F 8:30am-6:30pm
Pick up locations and times are:
Yukon Food Bank - M & F, 9-4pm
Yukon Literacy Coalition, Horwood's Mall - M-F 8:30am-6:30pm
AFTER June 2:
Yukon Literacy Coalition Learning Garden, Shipyards Park - M-F 8:30am-6:30pm
My office is literally vibrating from construction next door. Any pointers for working from home as someone who hates working from home?
May 14, 2025 at 10:33 PM
My office is literally vibrating from construction next door. Any pointers for working from home as someone who hates working from home?
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I think the number 1 rule of riding a road bike fast is to give pedestrians the right of way. But if you live in a huge city and there are only a few places cyclists can ride and there are points of friction between riders and park users, this primarily is a policy and infrastructure failure.
May 12, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I think the number 1 rule of riding a road bike fast is to give pedestrians the right of way. But if you live in a huge city and there are only a few places cyclists can ride and there are points of friction between riders and park users, this primarily is a policy and infrastructure failure.
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The fact that a standard Dutch bike almost always comes with fenders and, quite often, lights and even a wheel lock goes a long way toward normalizing cycling as a form of transportation for everyone.
Has anyone ever thought of selling bikes that have what's needed to ride in normal conditions like in the rain, in the dark, with your stuff
May 9, 2025 at 2:33 AM
The fact that a standard Dutch bike almost always comes with fenders and, quite often, lights and even a wheel lock goes a long way toward normalizing cycling as a form of transportation for everyone.
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Here is an otter snoot to start your day.
May 5, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Here is an otter snoot to start your day.
Yesterday, I spoke with David Common on CBC's Cross Country Checkup about the Yukon Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform. You can listen here (I'm at about the 40 min mark): www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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May 5, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Yesterday, I spoke with David Common on CBC's Cross Country Checkup about the Yukon Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform. You can listen here (I'm at about the 40 min mark): www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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Exactly! Cyclists are taking a car out of your way, and bike infrastructure is much cheaper than building roads.
You don’t have to be a “cyclist” to support safe bike infrastructure in your city. You don’t have to ride bikes at all. You just have to understand the FACT that bike infrastructure makes getting around easier & safer for EVERYONE, saves us all public money, & makes cities generally more successful.
May 2, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Exactly! Cyclists are taking a car out of your way, and bike infrastructure is much cheaper than building roads.
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Sometimes I think about silk worms, and can you imagine forming like a half mile long string out of your butt. Because I thought maybe they had spinnerets like spiders.
I looked it up.
Nope.
They form raw silk from their salivary glands.
Half a mile of spit. Smooth, watery, high class spit.
I looked it up.
Nope.
They form raw silk from their salivary glands.
Half a mile of spit. Smooth, watery, high class spit.
April 27, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Sometimes I think about silk worms, and can you imagine forming like a half mile long string out of your butt. Because I thought maybe they had spinnerets like spiders.
I looked it up.
Nope.
They form raw silk from their salivary glands.
Half a mile of spit. Smooth, watery, high class spit.
I looked it up.
Nope.
They form raw silk from their salivary glands.
Half a mile of spit. Smooth, watery, high class spit.
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“We found there’s this perfect one-to-one relationship. If a city increased its road capacity by 10% then driving in that city went up by 10%.” Still one of the best articles on why building bigger roads leads to more driving. Understanding #InducedDemand Via @wired.com
What's Up With That: Building Bigger Roads Actually Makes Traffic Worse
The concept is called induced demand, which is economist-speak for when increasing the supply of something (like roads) makes people want that thing even more. Though some traffic engineers made note ...
www.wired.com
April 26, 2025 at 11:40 AM
“We found there’s this perfect one-to-one relationship. If a city increased its road capacity by 10% then driving in that city went up by 10%.” Still one of the best articles on why building bigger roads leads to more driving. Understanding #InducedDemand Via @wired.com
This further supports my position that everyone should work at least one election.
Someone on Facebook is telling Canadians to "never vote in pencil" and to bring a pen or permanent marker with them to vote.
As someone who's worked like five provincial and federal elections, here's why you don't have to worry about that. 🧵
As someone who's worked like five provincial and federal elections, here's why you don't have to worry about that. 🧵
April 23, 2025 at 1:33 PM
This further supports my position that everyone should work at least one election.
I wrote a short essay about the Yukon Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform process in this issue: www.nationalcivicleague.org/national-civ...
NCR: Summer Edition
The National Civic Review's cases studies, reports, interviews and essays help communities learn about the latest developments in collaborative problems-solving, civic engagement, local government inn...
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April 18, 2025 at 3:42 AM
I wrote a short essay about the Yukon Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform process in this issue: www.nationalcivicleague.org/national-civ...
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Hate to be millennial about it all but it is just mental that my whole working life has just been a series of recessions and “economic shocks”, underpinned by stagnant wages
April 3, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Hate to be millennial about it all but it is just mental that my whole working life has just been a series of recessions and “economic shocks”, underpinned by stagnant wages
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Pete Buttigieg has entered the chat.
March 25, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Pete Buttigieg has entered the chat.
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Small men always grow angry when they are confronted with the type of man they wish people saw them as, but can never be.
February 28, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Small men always grow angry when they are confronted with the type of man they wish people saw them as, but can never be.
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misinformation on this topic kills children. journalists always have a responsibility to Don't Print Lies In The Newspaper but it's especially true for childhood vaccinations.
Tonight, ABC World News with David Muir played a clip of RFK Jr saying “We have measles outbreaks every year” with zero correction. They just broadcasted his lie with no added context or fact check. It’s journalistic malpractice.
March 1, 2025 at 5:23 AM
misinformation on this topic kills children. journalists always have a responsibility to Don't Print Lies In The Newspaper but it's especially true for childhood vaccinations.
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Umberto Eco put together a now-famous list of 14 attributes of fascistic states. I'm going to discuss each of them in hopes this helps ppl understand that fascism is not just a buzzword. We're going to go through these by theme, so strap in. 🧵
February 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Umberto Eco put together a now-famous list of 14 attributes of fascistic states. I'm going to discuss each of them in hopes this helps ppl understand that fascism is not just a buzzword. We're going to go through these by theme, so strap in. 🧵
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Update: 15 confirmed cases. Health officials are racing to offer vaccines to unvaccinated children, they're operating a mobile unit to screen for cases, pre-treating exposed infants. Schools & hospitals are on alert.
Measles outbreaks are v hard to contain. A totally preventable situation.
Measles outbreaks are v hard to contain. A totally preventable situation.
🚨Measles mounts in an undervaccinated Texas county. Hospitalizations & 9 cases. Many more expected.
This may be the first big outbreak of 2025 but probably not the last, with vaccine misinformation espoused at the highest levels of government.
My latest:
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
This may be the first big outbreak of 2025 but probably not the last, with vaccine misinformation espoused at the highest levels of government.
My latest:
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Measles Outbreak Mounts Among Children in One of Texas’ Least Vaccinated Counties - KFF Health News
With hospitalizations and at least a dozen cases, health officials race to contain a growing outbreak in a community with low vaccination.
kffhealthnews.org
February 11, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Update: 15 confirmed cases. Health officials are racing to offer vaccines to unvaccinated children, they're operating a mobile unit to screen for cases, pre-treating exposed infants. Schools & hospitals are on alert.
Measles outbreaks are v hard to contain. A totally preventable situation.
Measles outbreaks are v hard to contain. A totally preventable situation.
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"No president in history has unilaterally shuttered an agency formally enshrined in law — let alone deputized his wealthiest donor, Elon Musk, to carry out that task in his name with little oversight or accountability."
In Breaking USAID, the Trump Administration May Have Broken the Law
ProPublica’s reporting provides new details about what legal risk officials were prepared to take and what laws they may have violated on their way to creating a “constitutional crisis.”
www.propublica.org
February 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
"No president in history has unilaterally shuttered an agency formally enshrined in law — let alone deputized his wealthiest donor, Elon Musk, to carry out that task in his name with little oversight or accountability."
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"Gaza development plan" is such an Orwellian turn of phrase, such an abuse of language to normalize a proposed ethnic cleansing
February 11, 2025 at 3:12 AM
"Gaza development plan" is such an Orwellian turn of phrase, such an abuse of language to normalize a proposed ethnic cleansing
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“Believe it or not, electric bikes offer more exercise than pedal bikes on average. That might sound strange, but the science is clear.”
Why e-bikes give more exercise than “acoustic” bikes. (but both are excellent for better cities, and both are a LOT cheaper than cars, especially after tariffs!)
Why e-bikes give more exercise than “acoustic” bikes. (but both are excellent for better cities, and both are a LOT cheaper than cars, especially after tariffs!)
Why electric bikes actually give more exercise than pedal bikes
Believe it or not, electric bikes offer more exercise than pedal bikes on average. That fact might sound strange (and...
electrek.co
February 3, 2025 at 4:52 AM
“Believe it or not, electric bikes offer more exercise than pedal bikes on average. That might sound strange, but the science is clear.”
Why e-bikes give more exercise than “acoustic” bikes. (but both are excellent for better cities, and both are a LOT cheaper than cars, especially after tariffs!)
Why e-bikes give more exercise than “acoustic” bikes. (but both are excellent for better cities, and both are a LOT cheaper than cars, especially after tariffs!)
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Yup.
This is your call to action reminder from your ally, good neighbour, business partner, friends & family. Expressing contrition or wishing to move to 🇨🇦 is insufficient.
_Sharing examples of letters sent to your *federal reps* will be a start_
#BoycottTrumplandia
This is your call to action reminder from your ally, good neighbour, business partner, friends & family. Expressing contrition or wishing to move to 🇨🇦 is insufficient.
_Sharing examples of letters sent to your *federal reps* will be a start_
#BoycottTrumplandia
Hey Americans apologizing for your countries' actions.
I get it, but at the same time, this isn't a "oopsie" thing. This will destroy the Canadian economy. The action is to call and write your reps and demand better from your electeds. This is economic war on your closest ally, act like it.
I get it, but at the same time, this isn't a "oopsie" thing. This will destroy the Canadian economy. The action is to call and write your reps and demand better from your electeds. This is economic war on your closest ally, act like it.
February 3, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Yup.
This is your call to action reminder from your ally, good neighbour, business partner, friends & family. Expressing contrition or wishing to move to 🇨🇦 is insufficient.
_Sharing examples of letters sent to your *federal reps* will be a start_
#BoycottTrumplandia
This is your call to action reminder from your ally, good neighbour, business partner, friends & family. Expressing contrition or wishing to move to 🇨🇦 is insufficient.
_Sharing examples of letters sent to your *federal reps* will be a start_
#BoycottTrumplandia
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Finally, argues that the bigger looming threat is disinformation. I don't think she is wrong here. It's just a lot harder to fix than, say, how intelligence flows up and down the chain.
January 29, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Finally, argues that the bigger looming threat is disinformation. I don't think she is wrong here. It's just a lot harder to fix than, say, how intelligence flows up and down the chain.
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How in this global environment could you aspire to be Prime Minister and refuse security briefings? Absolutely absurd. Politics isn’t a game especially in this case. On this basis alone, Poilievre is not up to the job of PM.
And he’d get eaten alive by Trump. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
And he’d get eaten alive by Trump. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
Pierre Poilievre will no longer receive security briefing from top spy agency
The Conservative leader has argued that he won't be muzzled by secrecy constraints that accompany security clearances.
www.thestar.com
January 29, 2025 at 4:01 AM
How in this global environment could you aspire to be Prime Minister and refuse security briefings? Absolutely absurd. Politics isn’t a game especially in this case. On this basis alone, Poilievre is not up to the job of PM.
And he’d get eaten alive by Trump. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
And he’d get eaten alive by Trump. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...