Chris Sasaki
@tochrissasaki.bsky.social
Science/nature writer/author. Photographer, mostly of birds. Japanophile. Humanist. U of Toronto science writer, former McLaughlin Planetarium writer/producer. Blog: chrissasaki.wordpress.com. IG: @tochrissasaki @tyochrissasaki Photo of me: Eric Rorer
Including an Ebola outbreak stopped, a new anti-malaria treatment for children under five, renewal energy surpassing coal, the hole in the ozone layer continues to shrink, and more.
Seven feel-good science stories to restore your faith in 2025
Immense progress in gene-editing, drug discovery and conservation are just some of the reasons to be cheerful about 2025.
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December 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Including an Ebola outbreak stopped, a new anti-malaria treatment for children under five, renewal energy surpassing coal, the hole in the ozone layer continues to shrink, and more.
Including a tattooed tardigrade, a skydiver silhouetted against the Sun, a brilliant image of nebulas from the Vera Rubin Observatory, and more.
The best science images of 2025 — Nature’s picks
The Sun’s fiery surface, a tattooed tardigrade, rare red lightning and more.
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December 15, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Including a tattooed tardigrade, a skydiver silhouetted against the Sun, a brilliant image of nebulas from the Vera Rubin Observatory, and more.
Renowned #exoplanet astrophysicist Sara Seager speaking about returning home, to Toronto and @utoronto.ca, to continue her search for extraterrestrial life. #astronomy @artsci.utoronto.ca
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December 15, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Renowned #exoplanet astrophysicist Sara Seager speaking about returning home, to Toronto and @utoronto.ca, to continue her search for extraterrestrial life. #astronomy @artsci.utoronto.ca
“To not use one of the tools that’s worked in other regions really puts us behind in an area that we need to be leading.” #gridlock #topoli #dougford #trafficcams
Toronto axes traffic camera pilot to fight gridlock after Ford government's speed camera ban | CBC News
Toronto has cancelled an automated traffic enforcement pilot intended to help fight congestion in the wake of the provincial government’s ban on speed cameras in Ontario, CBC Toronto has learned.
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December 13, 2025 at 2:58 AM
“To not use one of the tools that’s worked in other regions really puts us behind in an area that we need to be leading.” #gridlock #topoli #dougford #trafficcams
Ontario premier Doug Ford has just outlawed #speedcameras, despite the fact they make roads safer, and reduce speeds, collisions and fatalities. The fact we put drivers' feelings over safety is shameful and absurd. One death or life altered is one too many. #ontariopolitics #visionzero #Toronto
Speed enforcement cameras officially banned across Ontario
Speed enforcement cameras across the province have officially turned off after more than five years of use and millions of dollars in fines.
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November 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Ontario premier Doug Ford has just outlawed #speedcameras, despite the fact they make roads safer, and reduce speeds, collisions and fatalities. The fact we put drivers' feelings over safety is shameful and absurd. One death or life altered is one too many. #ontariopolitics #visionzero #Toronto
“These were young men who gave their whole lives and no one remembers them.” #JapaneseCanadian #issei #nikkei
Japanese immigrants fought for Canada during WW I while denied the right to vote | CBC News
For the first time the faces of Japanese Canadian veterans who fought in the First and Second World War are on display on the streets of Vancouver after a century largely unrecognized and their storie...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:46 AM
“These were young men who gave their whole lives and no one remembers them.” #JapaneseCanadian #issei #nikkei
Last week, Reverend Maggie Helwig won the Toronto Book Award for her book about a Kensington Market homeless encampment. Less than 24 hours later, the city tore the encampment down. @maggiehelwig.bsky.social #Toronto
Toronto recognized a priest for her book on a church encampment. Then, it tore it down | CBC News
Dozens of people gathered outside a church in Toronto's Kensington Market neighbourhood on Thursday as city staff began clearing another homeless encampment, deemed to be a fire hazard.
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October 20, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Last week, Reverend Maggie Helwig won the Toronto Book Award for her book about a Kensington Market homeless encampment. Less than 24 hours later, the city tore the encampment down. @maggiehelwig.bsky.social #Toronto
Maggie Helwig wins Toronto Book Award for nonfiction work, Encampment, an in-depth look at the lives of the unhoused in Toronto. @maggiehelwig.bsky.social
Maggie Helwig wins $20K Toronto Book Award for nonfiction work Encampment | CBC Books
The prize is awarded annually to a book that tells the stories of Ontario's capital city.
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October 18, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Maggie Helwig wins Toronto Book Award for nonfiction work, Encampment, an in-depth look at the lives of the unhoused in Toronto. @maggiehelwig.bsky.social
“The top speeds recorded were more than 100 km/h, while the top five speeds were all more than 120 km/h. The highest recorded speed was 154 km/h. The posted speed limit is 40 km/h.” #speedcams #toronto #parkside
Toronto's most cut-down speedcam recorded drivers going more than 100 km/h, data shows | CBC News
A speed camera caught a driver going 154 km/h on a busy west-end Toronto street earlier this year, nearly four times the posted speed limit, according to new data released by a community advocacy grou...
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October 16, 2025 at 3:29 AM
“The top speeds recorded were more than 100 km/h, while the top five speeds were all more than 120 km/h. The highest recorded speed was 154 km/h. The posted speed limit is 40 km/h.” #speedcams #toronto #parkside
Auto ball-and-strike tech can't come soon enough--and not just on appeals, the FULL #ABS. Case in point: #SeattleMariiners leadoff hitter, Arozarena, takes third strike, heads to dugout, but ump calls it a ball. Two pitches later Aroz' is on first, HBP. 🤦 #mlb #alcs #bluejays
October 13, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Auto ball-and-strike tech can't come soon enough--and not just on appeals, the FULL #ABS. Case in point: #SeattleMariiners leadoff hitter, Arozarena, takes third strike, heads to dugout, but ump calls it a ball. Two pitches later Aroz' is on first, HBP. 🤦 #mlb #alcs #bluejays
“In Namibia, a group of desert lions have left their traditional hunting grounds for the Atlantic coast, to become the world's only maritime lions. One photographer captured this dramatic change in behaviour.” @grietvanm.bsky.social #naturephotography
'Their resilience is a lesson to us all': The maritime lions hunting seals on the beach
In Namibia, a group of desert lions have left their traditional hunting grounds for the Atlantic coast and are now thriving as the world's only maritime lions.
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October 12, 2025 at 7:23 PM
“In Namibia, a group of desert lions have left their traditional hunting grounds for the Atlantic coast, to become the world's only maritime lions. One photographer captured this dramatic change in behaviour.” @grietvanm.bsky.social #naturephotography
The #enshittification of the internet – and #Amazon - and what we can do about it, by Cory Doctorow.
Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?
Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...
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October 5, 2025 at 11:25 AM
The #enshittification of the internet – and #Amazon - and what we can do about it, by Cory Doctorow.
She humanized primates, inspired women scientists, and communicated research in a way that "connected the science to things that people worry and care about." #JaneGoodal #JaneGoodallInstitute
Jane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed science
The primatologist challenged what it meant to be a scientist.
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October 2, 2025 at 5:16 PM
She humanized primates, inspired women scientists, and communicated research in a way that "connected the science to things that people worry and care about." #JaneGoodal #JaneGoodallInstitute
Doug Ford's $90-100B #401tunnel is a boondoggle that won't even solve the problem of traffic congestion, according to director of #UofT Infrastructure Institute, Matti Siemiatycki. #onpoli
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September 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Doug Ford's $90-100B #401tunnel is a boondoggle that won't even solve the problem of traffic congestion, according to director of #UofT Infrastructure Institute, Matti Siemiatycki. #onpoli
When #dougford calls #speedcameras a tax grab, it’s not just wrong, it’s dangerous. #visionzero #toronto
As a former traffic cop, I see the evidence first-hand – speed cameras aren’t a tax grab, they make cities safer
When Ontario Premier Doug Ford called automated speed enforcement cameras a tax grab and said municipalities should get rid of them, I was shocked, write Sean Shapiro
www.theglobeandmail.com
September 16, 2025 at 1:41 AM
When #dougford calls #speedcameras a tax grab, it’s not just wrong, it’s dangerous. #visionzero #toronto
Are speed cameras a "cash grab"? No. As the director of U of T's Infrastructure Institute told CTV, the goal is to make streets safer and the ultimate goal is for drivers to obey speed limits and have the cameras bring in ZERO dollars! #speedcameras #toronto #mayoroliviachow #dougford
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September 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Are speed cameras a "cash grab"? No. As the director of U of T's Infrastructure Institute told CTV, the goal is to make streets safer and the ultimate goal is for drivers to obey speed limits and have the cameras bring in ZERO dollars! #speedcameras #toronto #mayoroliviachow #dougford
“Doug Ford is a tough-on-crime guy” until it comes to stopping vandals cutting down #speedcameras and saving pedestrian’s and cyclists’ lives in Toronto.
Opinion: Why Doug Ford is wrong about speed cameras
The cameras help make city streets calmer and safer. A premier who really believes in law and order should be doing all he can to stop it
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September 13, 2025 at 9:20 PM
“Doug Ford is a tough-on-crime guy” until it comes to stopping vandals cutting down #speedcameras and saving pedestrian’s and cyclists’ lives in Toronto.
The Trump administration “…is rejecting basic medical knowledge and turning back the clock to an era when people were sicker and died sooner.”
Opinion | Trump’s Policies Are Endangering Your Health
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September 12, 2025 at 10:39 AM
The Trump administration “…is rejecting basic medical knowledge and turning back the clock to an era when people were sicker and died sooner.”
Another of my @canadiens.com heroes bids adieu. In his short NHL career, Hall of Famer Ken Dryden won 6 Cups, 5 Vezinas, a Conn Smythe, a Calder and was in net for the '72 Summit Series. What's more, he was a lawyer, MP, Leafs pres, and author. #Habs fans will miss this towering figure.
Dryden dies at 78, Hall of Fame goalie won Stanley Cup 6 times | NHL.com
Canadiens legend also was author, lawyer, Maple Leafs president, member of Canada's Parliament
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September 6, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Another of my @canadiens.com heroes bids adieu. In his short NHL career, Hall of Famer Ken Dryden won 6 Cups, 5 Vezinas, a Conn Smythe, a Calder and was in net for the '72 Summit Series. What's more, he was a lawyer, MP, Leafs pres, and author. #Habs fans will miss this towering figure.
So tired of seeing missed ball/strike calls, and players, mgrs, umps bickering over the calls. @mlb.com, bring on the automatic ball-strike system. #roboump #strikezone #umpires #baseball
September 6, 2025 at 10:01 PM
So tired of seeing missed ball/strike calls, and players, mgrs, umps bickering over the calls. @mlb.com, bring on the automatic ball-strike system. #roboump #strikezone #umpires #baseball
It is more than sad that we are so car-centric, "...the possibility of injuring children isn't a sufficient deterrent against speeding." #speedcameras #toronto #mayoroliviachow #UofTPoliticalScience #UofTPoliSci
Smile! You're on "Speeding in a School Zone" Camera! - Research2Reality
Sadly, for some, the possibility of injuring children isn't a sufficient deterrent against speeding. But speed cameras? Those might do it.
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September 2, 2025 at 12:59 PM
It is more than sad that we are so car-centric, "...the possibility of injuring children isn't a sufficient deterrent against speeding." #speedcameras #toronto #mayoroliviachow #UofTPoliticalScience #UofTPoliSci
C’mon, #TorontoBlueJays, please fix your #pitchcom. Way too many interruptions during play. @mlb.com
September 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
C’mon, #TorontoBlueJays, please fix your #pitchcom. Way too many interruptions during play. @mlb.com
Opinion | Bernie Sanders: Kennedy Must Resign
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August 30, 2025 at 4:16 PM