Karen Markle
@skirri.bsky.social
😷, 💉x7, 🦠x2, 🐕x1, 🐔x25, 🐓x1
Skirri is a blue squirrel in a superhero costume. Currently, he's disguised as Frida Khalo.
Skirri is a blue squirrel in a superhero costume. Currently, he's disguised as Frida Khalo.
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Calling all DIYers! 📣
Today only! ⏰ Use the "CRFLASH" discount code to save 30% on Corsi-Rosenthal box kits. 🎉 Each kit includes everything you need to clean the air indoors. 💨
🛒 buymask.ca/cr-box
#DIY #CRBox #FlashSale #BlackFridaySale #CleanAir
Today only! ⏰ Use the "CRFLASH" discount code to save 30% on Corsi-Rosenthal box kits. 🎉 Each kit includes everything you need to clean the air indoors. 💨
🛒 buymask.ca/cr-box
#DIY #CRBox #FlashSale #BlackFridaySale #CleanAir
November 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Calling all DIYers! 📣
Today only! ⏰ Use the "CRFLASH" discount code to save 30% on Corsi-Rosenthal box kits. 🎉 Each kit includes everything you need to clean the air indoors. 💨
🛒 buymask.ca/cr-box
#DIY #CRBox #FlashSale #BlackFridaySale #CleanAir
Today only! ⏰ Use the "CRFLASH" discount code to save 30% on Corsi-Rosenthal box kits. 🎉 Each kit includes everything you need to clean the air indoors. 💨
🛒 buymask.ca/cr-box
#DIY #CRBox #FlashSale #BlackFridaySale #CleanAir
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Hey #Canada‼️❤️🇨🇦
Ever wonder how #legislation and #government works to pass #bills? What the process is? #cdnpoli
Ever wonder how #legislation and #government works to pass #bills? What the process is? #cdnpoli
November 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Hey #Canada‼️❤️🇨🇦
Ever wonder how #legislation and #government works to pass #bills? What the process is? #cdnpoli
Ever wonder how #legislation and #government works to pass #bills? What the process is? #cdnpoli
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Please enjoy my cartoon for Thursday's Toronto Star
November 26, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Please enjoy my cartoon for Thursday's Toronto Star
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Two men who occupy prominent positions in Canada’s media landscape just travelled to Israel, where they received a briefing from the Israeli government.
Yeah. What are journalism ethics anyway?
Those men were TVO’s Steve Paikin and Global News’ Ben Mulroney:
Yeah. What are journalism ethics anyway?
Those men were TVO’s Steve Paikin and Global News’ Ben Mulroney:
November 26, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Two men who occupy prominent positions in Canada’s media landscape just travelled to Israel, where they received a briefing from the Israeli government.
Yeah. What are journalism ethics anyway?
Those men were TVO’s Steve Paikin and Global News’ Ben Mulroney:
Yeah. What are journalism ethics anyway?
Those men were TVO’s Steve Paikin and Global News’ Ben Mulroney:
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Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
AI’s water problem is worse than we thought
A new investigation reveals how Amazon is amplifying Oregon’s nitrate pollution crisis.
heated.world
November 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
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Solid oped.
Canada’s ability to maintain independent digital and cultural policies isn’t a “nice to have” to be traded against US protectionist bullying. It’s *the* fundamental test of whether Canada can remain a sovereign country.
If you don’t stand up for those, you’re not standing up for Canada.
Canada’s ability to maintain independent digital and cultural policies isn’t a “nice to have” to be traded against US protectionist bullying. It’s *the* fundamental test of whether Canada can remain a sovereign country.
If you don’t stand up for those, you’re not standing up for Canada.
Opinion: Canada’s digital sovereignty is crumbling under aggressive U.S. lobbying
After years of insisting Big Tech has to support domestic content, Ottawa is in retreat
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Solid oped.
Canada’s ability to maintain independent digital and cultural policies isn’t a “nice to have” to be traded against US protectionist bullying. It’s *the* fundamental test of whether Canada can remain a sovereign country.
If you don’t stand up for those, you’re not standing up for Canada.
Canada’s ability to maintain independent digital and cultural policies isn’t a “nice to have” to be traded against US protectionist bullying. It’s *the* fundamental test of whether Canada can remain a sovereign country.
If you don’t stand up for those, you’re not standing up for Canada.
You can now search our database of 3.5 million U.S. political, election, and social issue ads on Facebook and Instagram, dating back to October 10, 2023. Discover who’s running these ads and who they’re targeting. app.polidashboard.org/meta_ads?cou...
November 1, 2025 at 12:26 PM
@aptnnews.bsky.social is covering the #Alaska typhoon.
One person is dead and two are missing after a typhoon off the western coast of Alaska flooded streets and washed away homes in native villages over the weekend.
One dead, two missing after typhoon floods native villages in Alaska | APTN News
YouTube video by APTN News
youtu.be
October 14, 2025 at 11:09 PM
@aptnnews.bsky.social is covering the #Alaska typhoon.
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Water-hungry data centres are planned for drought-stricken regions across Canada. What will the AI data centre boom mean for communities? By @savannahridley.bsky.social: thenarwhal.ca/ai-data-cent...
What will the AI data centre boom mean for Canada? | The Narwhal
Sprawling AI data centres — hungry for land, water and power — are coming. Plans the world’s largest, called Wonder Valley, are underway in Alberta
thenarwhal.ca
October 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Water-hungry data centres are planned for drought-stricken regions across Canada. What will the AI data centre boom mean for communities? By @savannahridley.bsky.social: thenarwhal.ca/ai-data-cent...
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We can kiss any vestige of autonomy or local representation goodbye.
#NoPrison #SaveFarmLand #BuildCommunitiesNotCages
@northgrenville @nancypeckford @leedsgrenville.bsky.social @cappkemptville @ontariondp.bsky.social @ontarioliberal.bsky.social
#NoPrison #SaveFarmLand #BuildCommunitiesNotCages
@northgrenville @nancypeckford @leedsgrenville.bsky.social @cappkemptville @ontariondp.bsky.social @ontarioliberal.bsky.social
Any Ontario minister in Doug Ford’s government could soon have the power to create law-free zones — and decide what gets built there.
Ontario reporter @fatimabsyed.bsky.social explains:
Ontario reporter @fatimabsyed.bsky.social explains:
October 3, 2025 at 8:58 PM
We can kiss any vestige of autonomy or local representation goodbye.
#NoPrison #SaveFarmLand #BuildCommunitiesNotCages
@northgrenville @nancypeckford @leedsgrenville.bsky.social @cappkemptville @ontariondp.bsky.social @ontarioliberal.bsky.social
#NoPrison #SaveFarmLand #BuildCommunitiesNotCages
@northgrenville @nancypeckford @leedsgrenville.bsky.social @cappkemptville @ontariondp.bsky.social @ontarioliberal.bsky.social
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www.canada.ca/en/canadian-...
“Each year, September 30 marks the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
“The day honours the children who never returned home and Survivors of residential schools, as well as their families and communities.”🪶
“Each year, September 30 marks the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
“The day honours the children who never returned home and Survivors of residential schools, as well as their families and communities.”🪶
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation - Canada.ca
The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation is observed September 30. The day honours First Nations, Inuit and Métis Survivors and their families and communities and ensures that public commemoratio...
www.canada.ca
September 30, 2025 at 4:20 AM
www.canada.ca/en/canadian-...
“Each year, September 30 marks the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
“The day honours the children who never returned home and Survivors of residential schools, as well as their families and communities.”🪶
“Each year, September 30 marks the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
“The day honours the children who never returned home and Survivors of residential schools, as well as their families and communities.”🪶
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To get clean air infrastructure everywhere, we need as many governments, states, cities, nonprofits, schools, businesses etc. to sign on as possible. Please read the pledge, share it, and push your local orgs to join!
Link to Global Pledge for Healthy Indoor Air: aas.eventsair.com/healthy-indo...
Link to Global Pledge for Healthy Indoor Air: aas.eventsair.com/healthy-indo...
Pledge
aas.eventsair.com
September 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
To get clean air infrastructure everywhere, we need as many governments, states, cities, nonprofits, schools, businesses etc. to sign on as possible. Please read the pledge, share it, and push your local orgs to join!
Link to Global Pledge for Healthy Indoor Air: aas.eventsair.com/healthy-indo...
Link to Global Pledge for Healthy Indoor Air: aas.eventsair.com/healthy-indo...
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Yesterday, history happened at the UN: For the first time hundreds of orgs signed a global pledge declaring that healthy indoor air is a human right.
Healthy indoor air is a key tool for preventing pandemics, building climate resilience, and increasing health equity. We need it everywhere!
Healthy indoor air is a key tool for preventing pandemics, building climate resilience, and increasing health equity. We need it everywhere!
September 24, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Yesterday, history happened at the UN: For the first time hundreds of orgs signed a global pledge declaring that healthy indoor air is a human right.
Healthy indoor air is a key tool for preventing pandemics, building climate resilience, and increasing health equity. We need it everywhere!
Healthy indoor air is a key tool for preventing pandemics, building climate resilience, and increasing health equity. We need it everywhere!
This piece is phenomenally well written and horrifying.
"In the case of extreme warming, the niche moves sharply toward Canada, leaving much of the lower half of the U.S. too hot or dry for the type of climate humans historically have lived in."
"In the case of extreme warming, the niche moves sharply toward Canada, leaving much of the lower half of the U.S. too hot or dry for the type of climate humans historically have lived in."
New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States
According to new data analyzed by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, warming temperatures, rising seas and changing rainfall will profoundly reshape the way people have lived in North America...
projects.propublica.org
September 25, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Trump: “Come back, South Korea!”
South Korea:
South Korea:
a man in a brown jacket and white shorts is holding a piece of paper in his hand .
ALT: a man in a brown jacket and white shorts is holding a piece of paper in his hand .
media.tenor.com
September 15, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Trump: “Come back, South Korea!”
South Korea:
South Korea:
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Area man who dropped out of community college after two months to go work as VP at father’s company tell local kids to try harder.
September 10, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Area man who dropped out of community college after two months to go work as VP at father’s company tell local kids to try harder.
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Now you understand why TikTok isn’t being shut down. 🫣
NEW: Tonight, this is all that remains of Nepal's seat of government in Kathmandu.
Singha Durbar was the largest palace in Asia; home to the Prime Minister & government offices.
A 48-hour revolution, led by Gen Z protestors, has toppled the government & left large parts of the capital in flames.
Singha Durbar was the largest palace in Asia; home to the Prime Minister & government offices.
A 48-hour revolution, led by Gen Z protestors, has toppled the government & left large parts of the capital in flames.
September 9, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Now you understand why TikTok isn’t being shut down. 🫣
*sigh*
It's not a tax grab unless it applies to everyone.
A speed ticket only affects people who break the law.
Ford is announcing that he's broken the law (surprise, surprise) and has actually had to pay for it.
It's not a tax grab unless it applies to everyone.
A speed ticket only affects people who break the law.
Ford is announcing that he's broken the law (surprise, surprise) and has actually had to pay for it.
"Law and order for thee and not for me (and people like me.)"
Doug Ford is a mob boss. He really does function like one, but as Premier of this province.
www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
Doug Ford is a mob boss. He really does function like one, but as Premier of this province.
www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
‘Get rid of the speed cameras,’ Doug Ford warns municipalities after several cut down in Toronto overnight
Toronto police are investigating after several speed cameras were cut down across the city overnight.
www.ctvnews.ca
September 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
*sigh*
It's not a tax grab unless it applies to everyone.
A speed ticket only affects people who break the law.
Ford is announcing that he's broken the law (surprise, surprise) and has actually had to pay for it.
It's not a tax grab unless it applies to everyone.
A speed ticket only affects people who break the law.
Ford is announcing that he's broken the law (surprise, surprise) and has actually had to pay for it.
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After a disappointing first 100 days of Canada’s 45th Parliament, the federal government under Prime Minister Mark Carney must change course and reverse the declining state of human rights protection in Canada.
amnesty.ca/human-rights...
amnesty.ca/human-rights...
September 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
After a disappointing first 100 days of Canada’s 45th Parliament, the federal government under Prime Minister Mark Carney must change course and reverse the declining state of human rights protection in Canada.
amnesty.ca/human-rights...
amnesty.ca/human-rights...
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The City of Atlanta is opening its first municipal grocery store today.
The city is spending $3.5 million in partnership with a neighborhood grocery chain in an effort to eliminate a downtown food desert.
www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...
The city is spending $3.5 million in partnership with a neighborhood grocery chain in an effort to eliminate a downtown food desert.
www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...
City of Atlanta opening grocery store to clear up downtown food desert
The Azalea Fresh Market opens on Friday.
www.wsbtv.com
August 29, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The City of Atlanta is opening its first municipal grocery store today.
The city is spending $3.5 million in partnership with a neighborhood grocery chain in an effort to eliminate a downtown food desert.
www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...
The city is spending $3.5 million in partnership with a neighborhood grocery chain in an effort to eliminate a downtown food desert.
www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...
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August 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM