Richard Larouche
@drrichardlarouche.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Public Health (University of Lethbridge); advocate for physical activity, active transportation, sustainability and social justice; runner, cyclist, hiker, etc.
Shameful! Gaining it back is not rocket science, but it requires that the government stops undermining #publichealth
Alberta's role in Canada's loss of measles elimination status embarrassing, former chief medical officer says | CBC News
The latest federal data shows Alberta accounts for 38 per cent of Canada’s cases.
www.cbc.ca
November 11, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Shameful! Gaining it back is not rocket science, but it requires that the government stops undermining #publichealth
Reposted by Richard Larouche
You don’t have to ban cars everywhere to transform your city centre. But you do have to seriously rethink and redefine the car’s role. There are many ways to do that, from #completestreets to #sharedstreets, pedestrian priority streets & Dutch #woonerfs, that prioritize streets for people, not cars.
November 11, 2025 at 1:10 AM
You don’t have to ban cars everywhere to transform your city centre. But you do have to seriously rethink and redefine the car’s role. There are many ways to do that, from #completestreets to #sharedstreets, pedestrian priority streets & Dutch #woonerfs, that prioritize streets for people, not cars.
Very disgusting! 🤮
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 2:24 PM
Very disgusting! 🤮
Reposted by Richard Larouche
We just published a report that serves as a warning to humanity that we are hurtling towards climate chaos. More info here: doi.org/10.1093/bios... and here www.nationthailand.com/blogs/sustai...
Earth hits hottest level in 125,000 years
A global study finds 2024 was hotter than the peak of the last Ice Age, with record-breaking heat, ocean warming, and ice loss driving Earth toward irreversible tipping points.
www.nationthailand.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
We just published a report that serves as a warning to humanity that we are hurtling towards climate chaos. More info here: doi.org/10.1093/bios... and here www.nationthailand.com/blogs/sustai...
Reposted by Richard Larouche
The perfect placement of The Ask sticker - directly on top of crossing flag instructions🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
📸 Rich Jones
📸 Rich Jones
August 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
The perfect placement of The Ask sticker - directly on top of crossing flag instructions🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
📸 Rich Jones
📸 Rich Jones
Reposted by Richard Larouche
He was just mad because someone else was getting the attention due to him.
The Sociopath-In-Chief couldn't be bothered to even turn his head in the direction of a man in the midst of a medical emergency who collapsed in his office. Completely incapable of empathy, the EPSTEIN Files can't be released soon enough.
25/47
25/47
November 8, 2025 at 10:54 AM
He was just mad because someone else was getting the attention due to him.
Petition of the day...✍️
Using a catchy slogan against the "Make Alberta Great Again" (MAGA) conservatives who love to use catchy slogans! 🤔🪃
Using a catchy slogan against the "Make Alberta Great Again" (MAGA) conservatives who love to use catchy slogans! 🤔🪃
Axe the Vax Tax: Health Shouldn’t Come With a Price Tag
Charging for vaccines means fewer people get protected. Families living paycheck to paycheck will skip vaccines. Workers will get sick, especially health care and education workers.
axethevaxtax.ca
November 7, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Petition of the day...✍️
Using a catchy slogan against the "Make Alberta Great Again" (MAGA) conservatives who love to use catchy slogans! 🤔🪃
Using a catchy slogan against the "Make Alberta Great Again" (MAGA) conservatives who love to use catchy slogans! 🤔🪃
November "super moon" 🌙 on my walk back from work today...
November 7, 2025 at 2:35 AM
November "super moon" 🌙 on my walk back from work today...
Draconian cuts to immigration are a huge problem for universities and colleges, especially when combined with excessive cuts to postsecondary education funding by provinces.
U of C already out $34.7 million this year as Ottawa proposes further immigration cuts | CBC News
Immigration was on the chopping block in Tuesday’s federal budget, leaving post-secondary institutions, settlement organizations and lawyers in Calgary worried about what the future holds.
www.cbc.ca
November 6, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Draconian cuts to immigration are a huge problem for universities and colleges, especially when combined with excessive cuts to postsecondary education funding by provinces.
A so called "generational" budget that almost completely ignores the most important crisis facing young and future generation: climate change. 👎
ANALYSIS | Are Canadians going to get behind Mark Carney's 'generational' budget? | CBC News
"Generational" is the Carney government's adjective of choice at this moment of consequence. The word appeared 11 times in the prepared text of François Philippe-Champagne's budget speech and another ...
www.cbc.ca
November 5, 2025 at 2:42 PM
A so called "generational" budget that almost completely ignores the most important crisis facing young and future generation: climate change. 👎
"Adopting the Idaho stop rule would not give cyclists a free pass, but it would recognize their realities and legitimize cycling as a mode of transport, with traffic regulations adapted to its risks and benefits."
#equity #cycling
#equity #cycling
November 5, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I couldn't agree more. 💯
UCP’s Motion 5 is a threat to democracy in Alberta
Editor, Regardless of how one feels about Alberta’s ongoing teachers’ dispute, Motion 5 should concern every Albertan. The government’s decision to grant
lethbridgeherald.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:41 AM
I couldn't agree more. 💯
Reposted by Richard Larouche
Time to stop using the word accident when talking about crashes!
November 3, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Time to stop using the word accident when talking about crashes!
In part due to bad policy that the far right provincial government forced upon cities...
Alberta city saw huge line-ups, four of five voters took a pass | CBC News
Alberta city opened just three polling stations for 110,000 residents in order to save money and comply with new provincial election rules.
www.cbc.ca
November 2, 2025 at 2:35 PM
In part due to bad policy that the far right provincial government forced upon cities...
In solidarity with Alberta teachers... ✊
Opinion: If the UCP can take away teachers' rights, no one is safe
But Bill 2 does far more than end a strike. It turns fifty-thousand Albertan teachers into second-class citizens.
edmontonjournal.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:02 AM
In solidarity with Alberta teachers... ✊
Our 77-page systematic review on the psychometric properties of #physicalactivity questionnaires is now published in print in Sports Medicine. Yes, 77 pages!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
October 31, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Our 77-page systematic review on the psychometric properties of #physicalactivity questionnaires is now published in print in Sports Medicine. Yes, 77 pages!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Ou premier ministre...
C'est troublant!
Et c'est sans compter les impacts environnementaux de l'IA qu'on balaie trop facilement sous le tapis...
C'est troublant!
Et c'est sans compter les impacts environnementaux de l'IA qu'on balaie trop facilement sous le tapis...
ChatGPT sera-t-il votre prochain maire?
Des candidats aux élections municipales au Québec se servent de l'intelligence artificielle pour faire campagne, mais ne le disent pas ouvertement.
ici.radio-canada.ca
October 31, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Ou premier ministre...
C'est troublant!
Et c'est sans compter les impacts environnementaux de l'IA qu'on balaie trop facilement sous le tapis...
C'est troublant!
Et c'est sans compter les impacts environnementaux de l'IA qu'on balaie trop facilement sous le tapis...
What an appalling bill! 🤮
“The Ford Govt in Ontario has passed a controversial omnibus bill banning municipalities from installing speed cameras.
Ford says it will make the province more efficient & reduce red tape.
It won’t do either, and he knows it.
It might get him “speeder votes” though.
This will kill more people.
Ford says it will make the province more efficient & reduce red tape.
It won’t do either, and he knows it.
It might get him “speeder votes” though.
This will kill more people.
Ford government passes bill banning municipal speed cameras in Ontario
The Ford government has passed a controversial omnibus bill banning municipalities from installing speed cameras.
www.ctvnews.ca
October 31, 2025 at 12:23 AM
What an appalling bill! 🤮
"The Alberta government’s actions are reprehensible, heavy-handed and undemocratic,” said CAUT executive director David Robinson. “The UCP government had other options to resolve the dispute, but instead chose to declare all-out war on the fundamental rights of Albertans and all Canadians." 💯
CAUT condemns Alberta government’s attack on democratic rights - CAUT
The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) condemns the Alberta government for overriding constitutionally protected rights and imposing a rejected contract offer on members of the Alberta...
www.caut.ca
October 30, 2025 at 11:33 PM
"The Alberta government’s actions are reprehensible, heavy-handed and undemocratic,” said CAUT executive director David Robinson. “The UCP government had other options to resolve the dispute, but instead chose to declare all-out war on the fundamental rights of Albertans and all Canadians." 💯
"I don’t think Trump’s excessive response at the weekend was down to a political disagreement about tariffs. Instead it was about a man suffering a brief, piercing and clearly quite painful collapse in his self-delusion."
Trump is often angry but rarely hurt – yet Canada has managed to pull it off | Emma Brockes
Why has an ad quoting Ronald Reagan’s criticism of tariffs triggered such a reaction from the president, asks Guardian columnist Emma Brockes
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:04 AM
"I don’t think Trump’s excessive response at the weekend was down to a political disagreement about tariffs. Instead it was about a man suffering a brief, piercing and clearly quite painful collapse in his self-delusion."
“The climate crisis is an inequality crisis,” said Amitabh Behar, the executive director of Oxfam International. “The very richest individuals in the world are funding and profiting from climate destruction, leaving the global majority to bear the fatal consequences of their unchecked power.”
America’s super-rich are running down the planet’s safe climate spaces, says Oxfam
Data shows wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the world’s poorest 10%
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:50 AM
“The climate crisis is an inequality crisis,” said Amitabh Behar, the executive director of Oxfam International. “The very richest individuals in the world are funding and profiting from climate destruction, leaving the global majority to bear the fatal consequences of their unchecked power.”