Mike Bloxam 🇨🇦🍉
@bloxam.bsky.social
Making the best of an #ONterrible situation...
#LdnOnt parent, partner, entrepreneur, solar guy, food banker, environmentalist 🌳🏡☀️⏳ (Opinions mine; share/like ≠> endorsement)
#CovidConscious 😷
Mastodon: @mike_bloxam@climatejustice.social
#LdnOnt parent, partner, entrepreneur, solar guy, food banker, environmentalist 🌳🏡☀️⏳ (Opinions mine; share/like ≠> endorsement)
#CovidConscious 😷
Mastodon: @mike_bloxam@climatejustice.social
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Canadian COVID Forecast: Nov 8 - Nov 21, 2025
SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: CAN, MB, NB, NL, North, NS, QC, SK
HIGH: BC, ON, PEI
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 118 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: CAN, MB, NB, NL, North, NS, QC, SK
HIGH: BC, ON, PEI
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 118 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
November 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Canadian COVID Forecast: Nov 8 - Nov 21, 2025
SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: CAN, MB, NB, NL, North, NS, QC, SK
HIGH: BC, ON, PEI
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 118 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: CAN, MB, NB, NL, North, NS, QC, SK
HIGH: BC, ON, PEI
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 118 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
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After some finagling to get the assembly procedure just right we are finally releasing the aluminum bodied POLARIS air purifier, made-in-Canada and based on the open-source design by Zack Deis.
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#airpurifier #indoorairquality #covidisairborne
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#airpurifier #indoorairquality #covidisairborne
November 11, 2025 at 12:05 AM
After some finagling to get the assembly procedure just right we are finally releasing the aluminum bodied POLARIS air purifier, made-in-Canada and based on the open-source design by Zack Deis.
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#airpurifier #indoorairquality #covidisairborne
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#airpurifier #indoorairquality #covidisairborne
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You were against respirators.
You were against air cleaners in classrooms and daycares.
You refused to implement #airborne systems during COVID.
You cast aspersions on industrial hygienists, engineers, physicists & experts in PPE and clean air.
You said "vaxx and relax" & crossed your fingers.
You were against air cleaners in classrooms and daycares.
You refused to implement #airborne systems during COVID.
You cast aspersions on industrial hygienists, engineers, physicists & experts in PPE and clean air.
You said "vaxx and relax" & crossed your fingers.
November 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
You were against respirators.
You were against air cleaners in classrooms and daycares.
You refused to implement #airborne systems during COVID.
You cast aspersions on industrial hygienists, engineers, physicists & experts in PPE and clean air.
You said "vaxx and relax" & crossed your fingers.
You were against air cleaners in classrooms and daycares.
You refused to implement #airborne systems during COVID.
You cast aspersions on industrial hygienists, engineers, physicists & experts in PPE and clean air.
You said "vaxx and relax" & crossed your fingers.
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You had one job.
Just maintain the #measles status that your predecessors had established.
But you couldn't even do that.
This is what failure looks like.
It's time Public Health & the Infectious Disease communities to grow up and accept that they need help from experts outside their community.
Just maintain the #measles status that your predecessors had established.
But you couldn't even do that.
This is what failure looks like.
It's time Public Health & the Infectious Disease communities to grow up and accept that they need help from experts outside their community.
a poster showing the diseases can still spread through the population
Alt: a poster showing the diseases can still spread through the population
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
You had one job.
Just maintain the #measles status that your predecessors had established.
But you couldn't even do that.
This is what failure looks like.
It's time Public Health & the Infectious Disease communities to grow up and accept that they need help from experts outside their community.
Just maintain the #measles status that your predecessors had established.
But you couldn't even do that.
This is what failure looks like.
It's time Public Health & the Infectious Disease communities to grow up and accept that they need help from experts outside their community.
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#Canada could face ‘worst kind’ of flu season as experts warn evolving strain may be mismatch for vaccine
Alarm bells abroad, spread of a new form of H3N2 provide warnings as influenza cases start ticking up
/1 thread
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
Alarm bells abroad, spread of a new form of H3N2 provide warnings as influenza cases start ticking up
/1 thread
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
Canada could face ‘worst kind’ of flu season as experts warn evolving strain may be mismatch for vaccine | CBC News
With flu cases now rising in Canada, medical experts are bracing for a difficult influenza season linked to the global spread of an evolving H3N2 strain that could be a mismatch for this year’s vaccin...
www.cbc.ca
November 9, 2025 at 10:40 AM
#Canada could face ‘worst kind’ of flu season as experts warn evolving strain may be mismatch for vaccine
Alarm bells abroad, spread of a new form of H3N2 provide warnings as influenza cases start ticking up
/1 thread
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
Alarm bells abroad, spread of a new form of H3N2 provide warnings as influenza cases start ticking up
/1 thread
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
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"Pandemics are a choice"
Another article talking about COVID in the past tense. The pandemic didn’t end. Transmission continues, long COVID continues, and ignoring it doesn’t make it go away. The “tools to stop the next pandemic” are the same tools we should be using now.
Source: archive.li/fLf7a
Another article talking about COVID in the past tense. The pandemic didn’t end. Transmission continues, long COVID continues, and ignoring it doesn’t make it go away. The “tools to stop the next pandemic” are the same tools we should be using now.
Source: archive.li/fLf7a
November 10, 2025 at 1:15 AM
"Pandemics are a choice"
Another article talking about COVID in the past tense. The pandemic didn’t end. Transmission continues, long COVID continues, and ignoring it doesn’t make it go away. The “tools to stop the next pandemic” are the same tools we should be using now.
Source: archive.li/fLf7a
Another article talking about COVID in the past tense. The pandemic didn’t end. Transmission continues, long COVID continues, and ignoring it doesn’t make it go away. The “tools to stop the next pandemic” are the same tools we should be using now.
Source: archive.li/fLf7a
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It’s really important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of ACTUAL EVIDENCE that they’re better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
November 8, 2025 at 3:51 AM
It’s really important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of ACTUAL EVIDENCE that they’re better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
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“The government is admitting they just don’t care about #Climate and they have no damn plan,” Ontario Greens Leader @mikeschreiner.bsky.social told @thenarwhal.ca “We knew all along they didn’t have a plan, and emissions are going up." #ClimateCrisis #OnPoli
thenarwhal.ca/ford-repeals...
thenarwhal.ca/ford-repeals...
Doug Ford’s government is abandoning climate targets | The Narwhal
Ontario is moving to repeal aspects of a law that require the government to create a climate plan and greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets
thenarwhal.ca
November 9, 2025 at 8:13 PM
“The government is admitting they just don’t care about #Climate and they have no damn plan,” Ontario Greens Leader @mikeschreiner.bsky.social told @thenarwhal.ca “We knew all along they didn’t have a plan, and emissions are going up." #ClimateCrisis #OnPoli
thenarwhal.ca/ford-repeals...
thenarwhal.ca/ford-repeals...
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November 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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It's the dawning of the age of Aquarius?
In our latest #RetroReview of #Sliders, we discuss "Desert Storm", which we compare to a cross of Mad Max and Waterworld.
fandomentanglement.com/2025/sliders...
Co-hosts @suggie176.bsky.social & @bloxam.bsky.social welcome special guest Wayne McCarty...
In our latest #RetroReview of #Sliders, we discuss "Desert Storm", which we compare to a cross of Mad Max and Waterworld.
fandomentanglement.com/2025/sliders...
Co-hosts @suggie176.bsky.social & @bloxam.bsky.social welcome special guest Wayne McCarty...
Sliders review #29 - Desert Storm (3x07) - Fandom Entanglement
Retro Review #29: “The Age of Aquarius” FANDOM ENTANGLEMENT is letting the sun shine in with another retro review of the 90s sci-fi series SLIDERS. This time, we’re taking a look at Season 3, Episode ...
fandomentanglement.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:55 AM
It's the dawning of the age of Aquarius?
In our latest #RetroReview of #Sliders, we discuss "Desert Storm", which we compare to a cross of Mad Max and Waterworld.
fandomentanglement.com/2025/sliders...
Co-hosts @suggie176.bsky.social & @bloxam.bsky.social welcome special guest Wayne McCarty...
In our latest #RetroReview of #Sliders, we discuss "Desert Storm", which we compare to a cross of Mad Max and Waterworld.
fandomentanglement.com/2025/sliders...
Co-hosts @suggie176.bsky.social & @bloxam.bsky.social welcome special guest Wayne McCarty...
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Have you heard of “The Populist Playbook?”
A few years ago, I posted what I still consider one of my most important messages.
It was about “The Populist Playbook” that I’ve watched play out often over my 33+ years of city planning.
Since then, it’s only gotten worse.
Do the steps sound familiar?
A few years ago, I posted what I still consider one of my most important messages.
It was about “The Populist Playbook” that I’ve watched play out often over my 33+ years of city planning.
Since then, it’s only gotten worse.
Do the steps sound familiar?
November 8, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Have you heard of “The Populist Playbook?”
A few years ago, I posted what I still consider one of my most important messages.
It was about “The Populist Playbook” that I’ve watched play out often over my 33+ years of city planning.
Since then, it’s only gotten worse.
Do the steps sound familiar?
A few years ago, I posted what I still consider one of my most important messages.
It was about “The Populist Playbook” that I’ve watched play out often over my 33+ years of city planning.
Since then, it’s only gotten worse.
Do the steps sound familiar?
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OMG - Boycott everything Musk is associated with. Let's take it all down. We have the power. If anyone has a list of all the companies please post it.
Elon Musk awarded nearly $1 trillion pay package by Tesla shareholders (ABC News)
Tesla shareholders awarded CEO Elon Musk a pay package on Thursday that could grant the tech entrepreneur nearly $1 trillion in compensation over the next de...
l.smartnews.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:01 AM
OMG - Boycott everything Musk is associated with. Let's take it all down. We have the power. If anyone has a list of all the companies please post it.
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Conservative MP Matt Jeneroux has resigned from the House of Commons!!
This is going to trigger a by-election that, if they win, could see the Liberals just one seat short of a majority.
Jeneroux won the seat over his Liberal opponent by roughly 5 percentage points in April’s election.
This is going to trigger a by-election that, if they win, could see the Liberals just one seat short of a majority.
Jeneroux won the seat over his Liberal opponent by roughly 5 percentage points in April’s election.
November 7, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Conservative MP Matt Jeneroux has resigned from the House of Commons!!
This is going to trigger a by-election that, if they win, could see the Liberals just one seat short of a majority.
Jeneroux won the seat over his Liberal opponent by roughly 5 percentage points in April’s election.
This is going to trigger a by-election that, if they win, could see the Liberals just one seat short of a majority.
Jeneroux won the seat over his Liberal opponent by roughly 5 percentage points in April’s election.
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A young Tory MP's name gets mentioned as someone ready to cross the floor. He goes to ground and then suddenly announces he is stepping down.
Young MPs just don't quit politics unless someone dumped a political horse head in the bed.
#cutthroatontherideau
#carneyneedsjust1
Young MPs just don't quit politics unless someone dumped a political horse head in the bed.
#cutthroatontherideau
#carneyneedsjust1
November 7, 2025 at 12:53 AM
A young Tory MP's name gets mentioned as someone ready to cross the floor. He goes to ground and then suddenly announces he is stepping down.
Young MPs just don't quit politics unless someone dumped a political horse head in the bed.
#cutthroatontherideau
#carneyneedsjust1
Young MPs just don't quit politics unless someone dumped a political horse head in the bed.
#cutthroatontherideau
#carneyneedsjust1
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So the Ford appointed supervisors will make more than all School Board Trustees combined, and that money will come out of the education budget that’s supposed to go to student needs. Shame! globalnews.ca/news/1151063... #topoli #onpoli #onted
Ford government supervisors can charge $350K per year to school boards | Globalnews.ca
Several school boards in Ontario, including Toronto public, Toronto Catholic and Ottawa-Carleton, have been under the management of supervisors for months.
globalnews.ca
November 4, 2025 at 10:13 PM
So the Ford appointed supervisors will make more than all School Board Trustees combined, and that money will come out of the education budget that’s supposed to go to student needs. Shame! globalnews.ca/news/1151063... #topoli #onpoli #onted
This is Lula's last chance to protect nature and climate: action.eko.org/a/lula-s-las...
#ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Amazon
#ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Amazon
Lula: Protect nature and climate
When Lula took office, he promised zero deforestation in the Amazon and zero greenhouse gas emissions.Yet he’s caved into lobbying from oil companies, opening up the Amazon basin for drilling and allo
action.eko.org
November 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
This is Lula's last chance to protect nature and climate: action.eko.org/a/lula-s-las...
#ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Amazon
#ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Amazon
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New awareness campaign
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
New awareness campaign
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montreal’s new mayor wants to rip up bike lanes and create a more permissive regulatory structure for airbnbs. grim result.
Ensemble Montréal proposes year-round short-term rentals for residents — not companies | CBC News
Ensemble Montréal’s mayoral candidate Soraya Martinez Ferrada says her party would ban companies from operating short-term rentals like Airbnbs, but allow residents to rent out their primary home for ...
www.cbc.ca
November 3, 2025 at 3:14 AM
montreal’s new mayor wants to rip up bike lanes and create a more permissive regulatory structure for airbnbs. grim result.
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It's a Nightmare on Fandom Street! In our spooky #RetroReview of #Sliders, we discuss "The Dream Masters", AKA Revenge of the Nerds on Elm Street.
fandomentanglement.com/2025/sliders...
Co-hosts @suggie176.bsky.social & @bloxam.bsky.social welcome back @headcast.bsky.social.
Happy Hallowe'en!
fandomentanglement.com/2025/sliders...
Co-hosts @suggie176.bsky.social & @bloxam.bsky.social welcome back @headcast.bsky.social.
Happy Hallowe'en!
Sliders review #28 - The Dream Masters (3x05) - Fandom Entanglement
Retro Review #28: “A Nightmare on Fandom Street” The Halloween season is upon us, fellow Slide-heads! And FANDOM ENTANGLEMENT is celebrating the spooky holiday with another retro review of the 90s sci...
fandomentanglement.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:04 AM
It's a Nightmare on Fandom Street! In our spooky #RetroReview of #Sliders, we discuss "The Dream Masters", AKA Revenge of the Nerds on Elm Street.
fandomentanglement.com/2025/sliders...
Co-hosts @suggie176.bsky.social & @bloxam.bsky.social welcome back @headcast.bsky.social.
Happy Hallowe'en!
fandomentanglement.com/2025/sliders...
Co-hosts @suggie176.bsky.social & @bloxam.bsky.social welcome back @headcast.bsky.social.
Happy Hallowe'en!
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"New report shows 7,200 nurses could be cut in Ontario due to underfunding, on the heels of 13 layoffs announced in North Bay."
“The Ford government must stop gutting our public health care."
BTW, Ring of Fire ads cost up to $150,000 per spot.
#ONpoli
#Healthcare
#nurses
ona.org/news/2025102...
“The Ford government must stop gutting our public health care."
BTW, Ring of Fire ads cost up to $150,000 per spot.
#ONpoli
#Healthcare
#nurses
ona.org/news/2025102...
New report shows 7,200 nurses could be cut in Ontario due to underfunding, on the heels of 13 layoffs announced in North Bay • Ontario Nurses' Association
TORONTO, ON, October 28, 2025 – A sobering new report from Ontario’s Financial Accountability Office (FAO) released last week reveals that if the Ford government fails to improve health-care funding, ...
ona.org
November 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM
"New report shows 7,200 nurses could be cut in Ontario due to underfunding, on the heels of 13 layoffs announced in North Bay."
“The Ford government must stop gutting our public health care."
BTW, Ring of Fire ads cost up to $150,000 per spot.
#ONpoli
#Healthcare
#nurses
ona.org/news/2025102...
“The Ford government must stop gutting our public health care."
BTW, Ring of Fire ads cost up to $150,000 per spot.
#ONpoli
#Healthcare
#nurses
ona.org/news/2025102...
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Many of our grads work in newsrooms across the country and around the globe. We appreciate their support...!
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Student-run radio station 106.9 The X on the chopping block by Fanshawe College | CBC News
Nearly 50 years after it made history as Canada's first licensed, instructional campus radio station, London's 106.9 The X now faces an uncertain future.
www.cbc.ca
October 31, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Many of our grads work in newsrooms across the country and around the globe. We appreciate their support...!
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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The winds of change are blowing through the halls of campus this autumn... We awoke today to find our very radio station in the crosshairs of the news headlines. It is a developing story, and we will keep you posted. In the interim, we appreciate your unwavering support at this challenging time.
The winds of change are blowing through the halls of campus this autumn... We awoke today to find our very radio station in the crosshairs of the news headlines. It is a developing story, and we will keep you posted. In the interim, we appreciate your unwavering support at this challenging time.
October 31, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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The winds of change are blowing through the halls of campus this autumn... We awoke today to find our very radio station in the crosshairs of the news headlines. It is a developing story, and we will keep you posted. In the interim, we appreciate your unwavering support at this challenging time.
The winds of change are blowing through the halls of campus this autumn... We awoke today to find our very radio station in the crosshairs of the news headlines. It is a developing story, and we will keep you posted. In the interim, we appreciate your unwavering support at this challenging time.
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🎈Happy Birthday... to US! 🎂 47 candles on our cake today!
On this day in 1978, '6X FM' (as it was branded then) launched on Hallowe'en!🎃
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On this day in 1978, '6X FM' (as it was branded then) launched on Hallowe'en!🎃
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October 31, 2025 at 4:12 PM
🎈Happy Birthday... to US! 🎂 47 candles on our cake today!
On this day in 1978, '6X FM' (as it was branded then) launched on Hallowe'en!🎃
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On this day in 1978, '6X FM' (as it was branded then) launched on Hallowe'en!🎃
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Canadian COVID Forecast: Oct 25 - Nov 7, 2025
SEVERE: NB, NS, SK
VERY HIGH: CAN, AB, BC, MB, NL, North, ON, PEI
HIGH: QC
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 126 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
SEVERE: NB, NS, SK
VERY HIGH: CAN, AB, BC, MB, NL, North, ON, PEI
HIGH: QC
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 126 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
October 27, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Canadian COVID Forecast: Oct 25 - Nov 7, 2025
SEVERE: NB, NS, SK
VERY HIGH: CAN, AB, BC, MB, NL, North, ON, PEI
HIGH: QC
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 126 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
SEVERE: NB, NS, SK
VERY HIGH: CAN, AB, BC, MB, NL, North, ON, PEI
HIGH: QC
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 126 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.