Glass Half Empty 🇨🇦
@yulnative.bsky.social
Hate propaganda, injustice, dis- and mis-information;
devout atheist;
a very non-musical person trying to learn to play piano;
typos/mistakes in posts are my speciality.
🇨🇦OH, CANADA, I STAND ON GUARD FOR THEE🇨🇦
devout atheist;
a very non-musical person trying to learn to play piano;
typos/mistakes in posts are my speciality.
🇨🇦OH, CANADA, I STAND ON GUARD FOR THEE🇨🇦
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Gas stoves emit methane, nitrogen dioxide and fine particulates at levels known to contribute to asthma and cardiovascular disease.
🧪 NEW STUDY: The annual indoor health cost of a single gas stove = $5,258
A big part this is from childhood asthma.
www.zmescience.com/medicine/gas...
🧪 NEW STUDY: The annual indoor health cost of a single gas stove = $5,258
A big part this is from childhood asthma.
www.zmescience.com/medicine/gas...
Gas Stoves Are Slowly Poisoning Homes and Cost Families Over 5,000 Dollars a Year in Hidden Health Effects
That "clean" gas stove? It's costing you a fortune in health.
www.zmescience.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Gas stoves emit methane, nitrogen dioxide and fine particulates at levels known to contribute to asthma and cardiovascular disease.
🧪 NEW STUDY: The annual indoor health cost of a single gas stove = $5,258
A big part this is from childhood asthma.
www.zmescience.com/medicine/gas...
🧪 NEW STUDY: The annual indoor health cost of a single gas stove = $5,258
A big part this is from childhood asthma.
www.zmescience.com/medicine/gas...
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UPDATE: Canada has announced that it has lost its measles elimination status.
This is a direct result of the increase in anti-vax disinformation, which has caused large, sustained outbreaks in the country over the last year.
This is a direct result of the increase in anti-vax disinformation, which has caused large, sustained outbreaks in the country over the last year.
November 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
UPDATE: Canada has announced that it has lost its measles elimination status.
This is a direct result of the increase in anti-vax disinformation, which has caused large, sustained outbreaks in the country over the last year.
This is a direct result of the increase in anti-vax disinformation, which has caused large, sustained outbreaks in the country over the last year.
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This is a lesson in history for those talking #pipelines and #climate action. #Oil&Gas #cdnpoli #CanadaPipeline
Buyer beware. #NateErskineSmith #CatherineMcKenna
Buyer beware. #NateErskineSmith #CatherineMcKenna
November 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
This is a lesson in history for those talking #pipelines and #climate action. #Oil&Gas #cdnpoli #CanadaPipeline
Buyer beware. #NateErskineSmith #CatherineMcKenna
Buyer beware. #NateErskineSmith #CatherineMcKenna
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It's not amnesia. It's reality avoidance and, in many cases, willful ignorance
“I think there’s a collective amnesia right now about COVID-19”
SARS-CoV-2 infections have been rising in the past month, and limited surveillance is hampering health strategies
go.nature.com/3Lspwi0
SARS-CoV-2 infections have been rising in the past month, and limited surveillance is hampering health strategies
go.nature.com/3Lspwi0
COVID-19 is spreading again — how serious is it and what are the symptoms?
Nature - Limited COVID-19 surveillance data are hampering vaccination and health strategies, researchers say.
go.nature.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
It's not amnesia. It's reality avoidance and, in many cases, willful ignorance
This is absolutely chilling and sickening. I want to not believe this is happening but I know it's true. A big fat spotlight needs to shine on them to expose them for who they are.
MMA gym owners, coaches ID’d at secretive neo-Nazi event in B.C. | CBC News
This summer in Vancouver, dozens of people gathered to attend a conference organized and attended by some of Canada’s most prominent white supremacist organizations. CBC’s visual investigations team l...
www.cbc.ca
November 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
This is absolutely chilling and sickening. I want to not believe this is happening but I know it's true. A big fat spotlight needs to shine on them to expose them for who they are.
I really would lime to have a timeline that is exclusively Canadian 🇨🇦 these days. No matter how many filters I employ, US news just forces its way into my life. Even Canadian TV news is full of American shit. Just NO.
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I really would lime to have a timeline that is exclusively Canadian 🇨🇦 these days. No matter how many filters I employ, US news just forces its way into my life. Even Canadian TV news is full of American shit. Just NO.
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I always think of the beautiful art of Québec’s Claude Théberge in November, a grey time of rainy, windy scarf weather, but his bright colours help lift the gloom. Merci Claude. 💖
November 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I always think of the beautiful art of Québec’s Claude Théberge in November, a grey time of rainy, windy scarf weather, but his bright colours help lift the gloom. Merci Claude. 💖
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Canada has just lost measles elimination status. The U.S. will undoubtedly follow shortly.
Elimination means that there is no continuous spreading of measles within the country for a year or longer.
Canada and the U.S. have blown it, and it’s largely the fault of the anti-vaccination movement.
Elimination means that there is no continuous spreading of measles within the country for a year or longer.
Canada and the U.S. have blown it, and it’s largely the fault of the anti-vaccination movement.
Canada loses measles elimination status after three decades, health agency says
Canada has lost its measles elimination status after nearly three decades due to its failure to curb a year-long outbreak, the country's public health agency said on Monday.
www.reuters.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Canada has just lost measles elimination status. The U.S. will undoubtedly follow shortly.
Elimination means that there is no continuous spreading of measles within the country for a year or longer.
Canada and the U.S. have blown it, and it’s largely the fault of the anti-vaccination movement.
Elimination means that there is no continuous spreading of measles within the country for a year or longer.
Canada and the U.S. have blown it, and it’s largely the fault of the anti-vaccination movement.
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Canada loses Measles elimination status, as does the entire Americas region.
Clinics here have signs warning about Measles but no masks in healthcare
www.statnews.com/2025/11/10/m...
Clinics here have signs warning about Measles but no masks in healthcare
www.statnews.com/2025/11/10/m...
Canada loses measles elimination status — as does the entire Americas region
Canada has formally lost its measles elimination status, the country’s public health agency announced, triggering the loss of that status throughout all of the Americas.
www.statnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Canada loses Measles elimination status, as does the entire Americas region.
Clinics here have signs warning about Measles but no masks in healthcare
www.statnews.com/2025/11/10/m...
Clinics here have signs warning about Measles but no masks in healthcare
www.statnews.com/2025/11/10/m...
What a stupid game.
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The irony is strong with @abdaniellesmith, folks.
Why does Alberta need a 1MM b/d pipeline to the West Coast when it will soon have another 400k b/d to the south?
And another 300k if TMX ever optimizes?
Don't forget the additional 250k available if other southbound pipelines optimize.
Why does Alberta need a 1MM b/d pipeline to the West Coast when it will soon have another 400k b/d to the south?
And another 300k if TMX ever optimizes?
Don't forget the additional 250k available if other southbound pipelines optimize.
November 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The irony is strong with @abdaniellesmith, folks.
Why does Alberta need a 1MM b/d pipeline to the West Coast when it will soon have another 400k b/d to the south?
And another 300k if TMX ever optimizes?
Don't forget the additional 250k available if other southbound pipelines optimize.
Why does Alberta need a 1MM b/d pipeline to the West Coast when it will soon have another 400k b/d to the south?
And another 300k if TMX ever optimizes?
Don't forget the additional 250k available if other southbound pipelines optimize.
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Primary-care doctors’ improved pay model ‘a game-changer’
www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
Primary-care doctors’ improved pay model ‘a game-changer’
A new payment model for family doctors in Manitoba has proven effective at retaining and recruiting physicians to the province, with more than 100,000 new patients connected to ongoing care providers....
www.winnipegfreepress.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Primary-care doctors’ improved pay model ‘a game-changer’
www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
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Sharan Kaur: Inside the Conservative Party’s culture of fear
“Its institutional decay disguised as discipline”
“Its institutional decay disguised as discipline”
Sharan Kaur: Inside the Conservative Party’s culture of fear
Canadian politics has never been for the faint of heart. Every party has its fractures, leadership wars, and moments of chaos. But what’s happening inside the Conservative Party under Pierre Poilievre...
www.ctvnews.ca
November 9, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Hell, from the 1980s all the way through the Harper years, support for relatively *high* immigration enjoyed a bipartisan, cross-ideological consensus in Canada. Only now, with this fucked up right-wing populist bullshit happening, have we started turning against it.
I kind of feel this way too. Conservatives used to be all about fiscal responsibility and low taxes and low immigration and all. Now they’re just cuckoo bananas.
November 9, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Hell, from the 1980s all the way through the Harper years, support for relatively *high* immigration enjoyed a bipartisan, cross-ideological consensus in Canada. Only now, with this fucked up right-wing populist bullshit happening, have we started turning against it.
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November 9, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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The totally real history of “elbows up,” I promise. (Please don’t fact check.)
November 9, 2025 at 5:45 AM
The totally real history of “elbows up,” I promise. (Please don’t fact check.)
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COVID is over increasing and XFG (Stratus) is dominating. Get vaccinated!
Wear your N95 in indoor public spaces.
Wear your N95 in indoor public spaces.
November 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
COVID is over increasing and XFG (Stratus) is dominating. Get vaccinated!
Wear your N95 in indoor public spaces.
Wear your N95 in indoor public spaces.
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visual abstract of the trial and results
November 9, 2025 at 3:49 PM
visual abstract of the trial and results
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Get this: Coffee suppressed atrial fibrillation!
Unexpected results for recurrence from a randomized trial in participants after cardioversion from AF
#AHA25 @jama.com
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Unexpected results for recurrence from a randomized trial in participants after cardioversion from AF
#AHA25 @jama.com
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
November 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Get this: Coffee suppressed atrial fibrillation!
Unexpected results for recurrence from a randomized trial in participants after cardioversion from AF
#AHA25 @jama.com
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Unexpected results for recurrence from a randomized trial in participants after cardioversion from AF
#AHA25 @jama.com
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Gee, maybe some of the billionaire tech bros could find some pocket change to help out?
www.cbc.ca/news/science...
www.cbc.ca/news/science...
Bold new fund to protect tropical forests takes shape at UN climate summit in Brazil | CBC News
A bold new plan to protect tropical forests, which aims to raise $125 billion US and directly pay developing countries to halt deforestation, is taking shape at the COP30 UN climate conference in Braz...
www.cbc.ca
November 9, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Gee, maybe some of the billionaire tech bros could find some pocket change to help out?
www.cbc.ca/news/science...
www.cbc.ca/news/science...
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Those animals were culled quickly because that ground zero for radicals could have blown up into a dangerous incident. An elderly neighbour was already assaulted, threats made, they probably had weapons on the property. It could have become convoy 2.0.
DON’T GIVE THOSE GRIFTERS A DIME. #MapleMAGA
DON’T GIVE THOSE GRIFTERS A DIME. #MapleMAGA
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
They are ‘reeling’. B**lsh*t.
Zero biosecurity, those poor animals raised for meat might never have become infected with proper care.
Then the animals suffered while the owners covered up the outbreak. Next came the grift & quackerie as every wingnut 1/ #MapleMAGA
They are ‘reeling’. B**lsh*t.
Zero biosecurity, those poor animals raised for meat might never have become infected with proper care.
Then the animals suffered while the owners covered up the outbreak. Next came the grift & quackerie as every wingnut 1/ #MapleMAGA
B.C. ostrich farm is ‘ground-zero for change’ as family reels from shooting cull
Katie Pasitney, whose mother co-owns the British Columbia ostrich farm where hundreds of the birds were shot dead in a cull ordered by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, says she is focused on creat...
www.ctvnews.ca
November 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Those animals were culled quickly because that ground zero for radicals could have blown up into a dangerous incident. An elderly neighbour was already assaulted, threats made, they probably had weapons on the property. It could have become convoy 2.0.
DON’T GIVE THOSE GRIFTERS A DIME. #MapleMAGA
DON’T GIVE THOSE GRIFTERS A DIME. #MapleMAGA
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Ali Velshi is among very few broadcast journalists in the US who understands what it's like to be a Muslim person of Indian descent, be born in an African country, and then the family immigrates to another city where one of the parents becomes a role model despite a lot of racism.
1981: My immigrant father lost an election. He taught me that running for office, giving voters a choice, losing, & trying again are all critical parts of democracy.
1987: He wins, making history as Ontario’s first Muslim legislator.
Show up. Build coalitions. Expand the definition of who belongs.
1987: He wins, making history as Ontario’s first Muslim legislator.
Show up. Build coalitions. Expand the definition of who belongs.
Ali Velshi: Democracy is built by people who show up even when the odds say they shouldn’t
In 1981, Murad Velshi was running to represent his district in the Ontario Legislature. He never stood a chance, but he taught his 11-year-old son that running, losing, and trying again is what democracy is about. Six years later, Murad ran again— and won — becoming the first Muslim immigrant elected to Ontario’s Legislature, proving that democracy is often built at the margins long before it reaches the center. Decades later, in another major city, another Muslim immigrant has achieved the improbable: Zohran Mamdani, now the first Muslim and first South Asian immigrant elected Mayor of New York City— a reminder that democracy is sustained through courage, coalition-building, and showing up, especially when the odds say you shouldn’t.
www.msnbc.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Ali Velshi is among very few broadcast journalists in the US who understands what it's like to be a Muslim person of Indian descent, be born in an African country, and then the family immigrates to another city where one of the parents becomes a role model despite a lot of racism.
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Important research from the University of Alberta about why women are disproportionately affected by Long Covid.
Implications: do everything you can to not get COVID and to not spread it to others.
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Implications: do everything you can to not get COVID and to not spread it to others.
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Integrated immune, hormonal, and transcriptomic profiling reveals sex-specific dysregulation in long COVID patients with ME/CFS
Shahbaz et al. find that female long COVID patients with ME/CFS exhibit heightened
inflammation, altered hematopoiesis, disrupted hormone levels, and neuroinflammatory
gene signatures. In parallel, ou...
www.cell.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Important research from the University of Alberta about why women are disproportionately affected by Long Covid.
Implications: do everything you can to not get COVID and to not spread it to others.
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Implications: do everything you can to not get COVID and to not spread it to others.
www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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#Sudan was described by the UN & helpers:
💀 To be entering “an even darker hell”
💀 Seeing widespread executions in el-Fasher; RSF attacked hospitals, killing infants & mothers.
💀Killing at a scale & a velocity not seen since Rwanda.
💀 A #Genocidal slaughter.
#ItCouldBeYou #Warlords #WriteYourGov
💀 To be entering “an even darker hell”
💀 Seeing widespread executions in el-Fasher; RSF attacked hospitals, killing infants & mothers.
💀Killing at a scale & a velocity not seen since Rwanda.
💀 A #Genocidal slaughter.
#ItCouldBeYou #Warlords #WriteYourGov
My latest report highlights the work of Sudan's Emergency Response Rooms. And the multiple crises they face. And the mental health impact on first responders.
www.yorku.ca/dighr/civili...
www.yorku.ca/dighr/civili...
Civilians trapped by massacres in Sudan - Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research
Sudan is experiencing “the biggest and worst humanitarian crisis in the world,” Hanin Ahmed told Dahdaleh Community Fellow Chris Houston on November 2. Ahmed is a communication officer for Sudan’s gra...
www.yorku.ca
November 8, 2025 at 8:12 PM
#Sudan was described by the UN & helpers:
💀 To be entering “an even darker hell”
💀 Seeing widespread executions in el-Fasher; RSF attacked hospitals, killing infants & mothers.
💀Killing at a scale & a velocity not seen since Rwanda.
💀 A #Genocidal slaughter.
#ItCouldBeYou #Warlords #WriteYourGov
💀 To be entering “an even darker hell”
💀 Seeing widespread executions in el-Fasher; RSF attacked hospitals, killing infants & mothers.
💀Killing at a scale & a velocity not seen since Rwanda.
💀 A #Genocidal slaughter.
#ItCouldBeYou #Warlords #WriteYourGov