Adam Boyd
@boydmath.bsky.social
Tweets ∈ {education} ∪ {mathematics} ∪ {politics}. I live in Mi’kma’ki. He/Him/His. boydmath@mstdn.ca & @boydmath “X” (Nova Scotia, Canada)
A reminder as we are in the midst of a peaking respiratory virus season that every school just crammed every student and staff member into one room for a 40min assembly and no one mentioned current public health advice to wear a mask in crowded settings. covid19resources.ca/covid-hazard...
November 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
A reminder as we are in the midst of a peaking respiratory virus season that every school just crammed every student and staff member into one room for a 40min assembly and no one mentioned current public health advice to wear a mask in crowded settings. covid19resources.ca/covid-hazard...
They deny it but it seems in character for the current crop of conservatives to yell & be violent. They lack emotional intelligence, self control. The fact they have turned to shunning & name-calling shows the Conservative Party is an immature & disrespectful workplace.
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Pushing, yelling from Conservative leadership ‘sealed the deal’ on defection: d’Entremont | CBC News
Nova Scotia MP Chris d’Entremont says pushing and yelling from Conservative Party leadership ‘sealed the deal’ on his choice to cross the floor to the Liberals earlier this week.
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November 9, 2025 at 5:19 PM
They deny it but it seems in character for the current crop of conservatives to yell & be violent. They lack emotional intelligence, self control. The fact they have turned to shunning & name-calling shows the Conservative Party is an immature & disrespectful workplace.
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“Permanent Standard Time gives your body a healthier rhythm. Energy, metabolism, and immune system stay more synchronized, lowering risks of chronic conditions.”
November 1, 2025 at 7:52 PM
“Permanent Standard Time gives your body a healthier rhythm. Energy, metabolism, and immune system stay more synchronized, lowering risks of chronic conditions.”
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Halloween Histogram 2025. The rain stopped this evening and we had the temperature stayed pleasant (13C-ish). 175 trick-or-treaters visited the house... about the same as last year. #HalloweenHistogram #MathOrTreat #StatsChat #ITeachMath
October 31, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Halloween Histogram 2025. The rain stopped this evening and we had the temperature stayed pleasant (13C-ish). 175 trick-or-treaters visited the house... about the same as last year. #HalloweenHistogram #MathOrTreat #StatsChat #ITeachMath
Hallowe'en Histogram 2025 #MathOrTreat #Halloween2025
Total of 51 (24% decrease over last year), cloudy skies, temperature 12°C after dark. Also notable: the earliest arrival since recording began, at 5:30pm.
Total of 51 (24% decrease over last year), cloudy skies, temperature 12°C after dark. Also notable: the earliest arrival since recording began, at 5:30pm.
November 1, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Hallowe'en Histogram 2025 #MathOrTreat #Halloween2025
Total of 51 (24% decrease over last year), cloudy skies, temperature 12°C after dark. Also notable: the earliest arrival since recording began, at 5:30pm.
Total of 51 (24% decrease over last year), cloudy skies, temperature 12°C after dark. Also notable: the earliest arrival since recording began, at 5:30pm.
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Nova Scotia’s vaccine rollout has been beat by SASKATCHEWAN. Opened booking yesterday. Honestly… what is going on?
Head of Sask. pharmacy association expects COVID-19 vaccine program to start Oct. 14 | CBC News
Saskatchewan residents should soon be able to roll up their sleeves to get the latest COVID-19 vaccine. Michael Fougere, CEO of the Pharmacy Association of Saskatchewan, says he expects the province’s...
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October 8, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Nova Scotia’s vaccine rollout has been beat by SASKATCHEWAN. Opened booking yesterday. Honestly… what is going on?
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Periodic reminder that public health in Canada, provincially and Federally, was explicitly told about long COVID in 2020. They knew quite a lot. They received frequent high-quality info. And they said nothing to workers or the public.
I have to get up and start my day now so maybe I’ll continue this later, but in Nov 2022 we found out that PHAC and CADTH (now CDA) had been keeping a few hundred people total across every province and territory in Canada, including CMOHs, informed on LC since JULY 2020.
September 30, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Periodic reminder that public health in Canada, provincially and Federally, was explicitly told about long COVID in 2020. They knew quite a lot. They received frequent high-quality info. And they said nothing to workers or the public.
Canada Post faces two futures—a revitalized public service or a billionaire cash machine breachmedia.ca/canada-post-...
Canada Post faces two futures—a revitalized public service or a billionaire cash machine ⋆ The Breach
The Liberal government is dismantling Canada Post for the billionaire class, while ignoring bold proposals from postal workers to reinvent the public service
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October 3, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Canada Post faces two futures—a revitalized public service or a billionaire cash machine breachmedia.ca/canada-post-...
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Canadian COVID Forecast: Sep 13 - Sep 26, 2025
Severe: NL, PEI, SK
Very high: CAN, AB, BC, MB, NB, North, NS, ON
High: QC
Moderate: none
About 1 in 81 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
Severe: NL, PEI, SK
Very high: CAN, AB, BC, MB, NB, North, NS, ON
High: QC
Moderate: none
About 1 in 81 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
September 16, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Canadian COVID Forecast: Sep 13 - Sep 26, 2025
Severe: NL, PEI, SK
Very high: CAN, AB, BC, MB, NB, North, NS, ON
High: QC
Moderate: none
About 1 in 81 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
Severe: NL, PEI, SK
Very high: CAN, AB, BC, MB, NB, North, NS, ON
High: QC
Moderate: none
About 1 in 81 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
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So we heard about people not singing the national anthem in schools this week and made a swift policy change. More O Canada, faster! Moreover, we’re bringing back other old classics like praying and chalkboards and lead pencils and stuff.
September 19, 2025 at 2:18 AM
So we heard about people not singing the national anthem in schools this week and made a swift policy change. More O Canada, faster! Moreover, we’re bringing back other old classics like praying and chalkboards and lead pencils and stuff.
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Why is NACI allowing only 1 COVID vaccine per year for most Canadians, making many ineligible for the fall vaccine?
Everyone should be eligible:
1. It’s an UPDATED vaccine.
2. COVID vaccines begin to wane at 4 months - it’s NOT a yearly vaccine.
#Canada
#COVID
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Everyone should be eligible:
1. It’s an UPDATED vaccine.
2. COVID vaccines begin to wane at 4 months - it’s NOT a yearly vaccine.
#Canada
#COVID
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September 7, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Why is NACI allowing only 1 COVID vaccine per year for most Canadians, making many ineligible for the fall vaccine?
Everyone should be eligible:
1. It’s an UPDATED vaccine.
2. COVID vaccines begin to wane at 4 months - it’s NOT a yearly vaccine.
#Canada
#COVID
www.canada.ca/en/public-he...
Everyone should be eligible:
1. It’s an UPDATED vaccine.
2. COVID vaccines begin to wane at 4 months - it’s NOT a yearly vaccine.
#Canada
#COVID
www.canada.ca/en/public-he...
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Airlines aren't the only sector where women work unpaid hours
Healthcare, education and other woman-dominated fields are often underfunded, experts say #Canada
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Healthcare, education and other woman-dominated fields are often underfunded, experts say #Canada
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Airlines aren't the only sector where women work unpaid hours | CBC Radio
Experts say fields where the majority of employees are women — particularly in healthcare, caregiving and education — tend to be undervalued, and that expectations of unpaid labour are based on longst...
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August 30, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Airlines aren't the only sector where women work unpaid hours
Healthcare, education and other woman-dominated fields are often underfunded, experts say #Canada
www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/a...
Healthcare, education and other woman-dominated fields are often underfunded, experts say #Canada
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Pay attention, Canada. If Alberta is successful in this book banning, this will spread. Look around you, b/c this is how it starts. We're on the same ledge the US was on. And we either start fighting this right-wing rise now, or we follow the Americans over the edge.
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The Handmaid's Tale among more than 200 books to be pulled at Edmonton public schools | CBC News
A list confirmed by CBC News shows titles like The Handmaid's Tale and Brave New World are among books to be pulled. The development comes after a policy from Alberta's education minister outlines new...
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August 29, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Pay attention, Canada. If Alberta is successful in this book banning, this will spread. Look around you, b/c this is how it starts. We're on the same ledge the US was on. And we either start fighting this right-wing rise now, or we follow the Americans over the edge.
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Most Canadians oppose book bans.
Most Canadians want their kids to have access to a wide range of books.
Most Canadians trust teachers and librarians to build library collections.
The government should not be telling teens what they can and can't read. Now is an important time to speak up.
Most Canadians want their kids to have access to a wide range of books.
Most Canadians trust teachers and librarians to build library collections.
The government should not be telling teens what they can and can't read. Now is an important time to speak up.
Pay attention, Canada. If Alberta is successful in this book banning, this will spread. Look around you, b/c this is how it starts. We're on the same ledge the US was on. And we either start fighting this right-wing rise now, or we follow the Americans over the edge.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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The Handmaid's Tale among more than 200 books to be pulled at Edmonton public schools | CBC News
A list confirmed by CBC News shows titles like The Handmaid's Tale and Brave New World are among books to be pulled. The development comes after a policy from Alberta's education minister outlines new...
www.cbc.ca
August 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Most Canadians oppose book bans.
Most Canadians want their kids to have access to a wide range of books.
Most Canadians trust teachers and librarians to build library collections.
The government should not be telling teens what they can and can't read. Now is an important time to speak up.
Most Canadians want their kids to have access to a wide range of books.
Most Canadians trust teachers and librarians to build library collections.
The government should not be telling teens what they can and can't read. Now is an important time to speak up.
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The @dalhousieu.bsky.social Board of Governors' "offer" for interest arbitration won't resolve this. It's just creating further delays. Bargaining on the issues important to our members is required. Stop with the stunts, let's get back to the table and talk. It's the only way to #KeepDalStrong
August 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The @dalhousieu.bsky.social Board of Governors' "offer" for interest arbitration won't resolve this. It's just creating further delays. Bargaining on the issues important to our members is required. Stop with the stunts, let's get back to the table and talk. It's the only way to #KeepDalStrong
The absolute irony of banning dystopian novels like Brave New World and A Handmaid’s Tale
Well, the list of books being banned from EPSB is appalling. And it's very likely that an author on this list will get their other works pulled too, especially in the absence of teacher librarians.
There are books on this list that changed my life. This is what the UCP is taking away from kids.
There are books on this list that changed my life. This is what the UCP is taking away from kids.
August 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The absolute irony of banning dystopian novels like Brave New World and A Handmaid’s Tale
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Ok sure it’s killing kids and making professionals stupider and ruining art and destroying the environment AND still hasn’t made a profit, but by gum, investors love it!
Bessent claims that we'll see an economic boom from AI "as soon as the first quarter of next year."
August 27, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Ok sure it’s killing kids and making professionals stupider and ruining art and destroying the environment AND still hasn’t made a profit, but by gum, investors love it!
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It's now a week since @dalfaculty.bsky.social members were locked out by Dal's board. No access to our physical & virtual workspaces. My students & TAs are left stressed about what will happen next week & I am so angry for them. Do better @dalhousie.bsky.social Get back to the table & #KeepDalStrong
August 27, 2025 at 9:18 AM
It's now a week since @dalfaculty.bsky.social members were locked out by Dal's board. No access to our physical & virtual workspaces. My students & TAs are left stressed about what will happen next week & I am so angry for them. Do better @dalhousie.bsky.social Get back to the table & #KeepDalStrong
As students return classrooms in the next few weeks (elementary up to university) with wildfire smoke filling the air in this province please remember that people have advocated for clean air standards, ventilation, air filtration in every public place since at least 2020. #nspoli
August 26, 2025 at 6:09 PM
As students return classrooms in the next few weeks (elementary up to university) with wildfire smoke filling the air in this province please remember that people have advocated for clean air standards, ventilation, air filtration in every public place since at least 2020. #nspoli
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Tenant turnover means they can raise the rent more than the cap allows
Because they only made 34 million squeezing extracting wealth from working class people
The article really spells it all out without offering even a whisper of critique of the financialized housing market
Because they only made 34 million squeezing extracting wealth from working class people
The article really spells it all out without offering even a whisper of critique of the financialized housing market
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Amid signs of a slowing rental market, Halifax-based landlord Killam Apartment REIT is expecting increased turnover of apartments to new tenants will help offset slower rent growth in Atlantic Canada.
Amid signs of a slowing rental market, Halifax-based landlord Killam Apartment REIT is expecting increased turnover of apartments to new tenants will help offset slower rent growth in Atlantic Canada.
Large landlord expects tenant turnover will offset slower rent growth in Atlantic Canada | CBC News
Amid signs of a slowing rental market, Halifax-based landlord Killam Apartment REIT is expecting higher future turnover of apartments to new tenants will help offset slower rent growth in Atlantic Can...
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August 25, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Tenant turnover means they can raise the rent more than the cap allows
Because they only made 34 million squeezing extracting wealth from working class people
The article really spells it all out without offering even a whisper of critique of the financialized housing market
Because they only made 34 million squeezing extracting wealth from working class people
The article really spells it all out without offering even a whisper of critique of the financialized housing market
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In 25 years, every business school in the country will be doing case studies about how a long defunct company known as “Google” once had an unbeatable lock on online information retrieval and then started doing shit like this.
August 23, 2025 at 6:16 PM
In 25 years, every business school in the country will be doing case studies about how a long defunct company known as “Google” once had an unbeatable lock on online information retrieval and then started doing shit like this.
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Masked raids are tools of fear, not freedom. Despite what this administration wants you to believe, they are not about “safety.” They are about letting ICE agents hide from accountability while carrying out inhumane acts.
August 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Masked raids are tools of fear, not freedom. Despite what this administration wants you to believe, they are not about “safety.” They are about letting ICE agents hide from accountability while carrying out inhumane acts.
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Dalhousie University faculty and staff rally amid lockout, failed negotiations
By @mmughees.bsky.social
By @mmughees.bsky.social
Dalhousie University faculty and staff rally amid lockout, failed negotiations - Halifax Examiner
Hundreds of Dalhousie University faculty and staff members rallied in Halifax Friday to demand fair wages and an end to the lockout.
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August 22, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Dalhousie University faculty and staff rally amid lockout, failed negotiations
By @mmughees.bsky.social
By @mmughees.bsky.social
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Nova Scotia Power doesn’t want the public to know the details about the theft of personal data of hundreds of thousands of its customers
Morning File by me
Morning File by me
Nova Scotia Power doesn't want the public to know the details about the theft of personal data of hundreds of thousands of its customers - Halifax Examiner
There's a reason — lots of reasons — for public distrust of Nova Scotia Power, and for the regulatory process that continually approves rate hikes that leave Nova Scotians paying the highest power bil...
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August 22, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Nova Scotia Power doesn’t want the public to know the details about the theft of personal data of hundreds of thousands of its customers
Morning File by me
Morning File by me
Shrinkflation has come for the dentist office: Crest Oral-B no longer provides the little sample dental floss to go with the toothbrush and toothpaste.
August 21, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Shrinkflation has come for the dentist office: Crest Oral-B no longer provides the little sample dental floss to go with the toothbrush and toothpaste.