Sonia Persaud
@soniapersaud.bsky.social
MD student ‘28 @queensuhealth.bsky.social ⭐ she/her
medialtemporal.github.io
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A huge chunk of corporations’ greenhouse gas output are arm’s-length emissions that Canadian reporting rules currently ignore. Here's a guide to Scope 3 emissions — which won't shrink even if all of our carbon capture dreams come true.
thenarwhal.ca/scope-3-emis...
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Why Scope 3 emissions are a big deal for Canada | The Narwhal
Greenhouse gases released indirectly through business activities, called Scope 3 emissions, can be massive — but Canadian companies don’t report them
thenarwhal.ca
October 30, 2025 at 12:17 PM
A huge chunk of corporations’ greenhouse gas output are arm’s-length emissions that Canadian reporting rules currently ignore. Here's a guide to Scope 3 emissions — which won't shrink even if all of our carbon capture dreams come true.
thenarwhal.ca/scope-3-emis...
thenarwhal.ca/scope-3-emis...
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Reposted by Sonia Persaud
Toronto hospital housing model 'a gift' to residents as ER visits reduced by half https://www.thestar.com/politics/toronto-hospital-housing-model-a-gift-to-residents-as-er-visits-reduced-by-half/article_a8f7e2a4-8e7d-566a-8642-ae420f2a8ae1.html
𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
October 3, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Toronto hospital housing model 'a gift' to residents as ER visits reduced by half https://www.thestar.com/politics/toronto-hospital-housing-model-a-gift-to-residents-as-er-visits-reduced-by-half/article_a8f7e2a4-8e7d-566a-8642-ae420f2a8ae1.html
𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
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Check your inbox: it’s City Hall Watcher #349!
OPEN DATA CHALLENGE returns with a look at where the city has seen the most bikes in 2025. Plus: intersections where the car is not king.
Also: fence cops, bad neighbours, bridge lighting, and more. toronto.cityhallwatcher.com/p/when-the-c...
OPEN DATA CHALLENGE returns with a look at where the city has seen the most bikes in 2025. Plus: intersections where the car is not king.
Also: fence cops, bad neighbours, bridge lighting, and more. toronto.cityhallwatcher.com/p/when-the-c...
When the car's not king
City Hall Watcher #349: OPEN DATA CHALLENGE returns to look at where Toronto might need bike lanes next — and finds 73 intersections where cars are outnumbered by bikes and pedestrians
toronto.cityhallwatcher.com
September 15, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Check your inbox: it’s City Hall Watcher #349!
OPEN DATA CHALLENGE returns with a look at where the city has seen the most bikes in 2025. Plus: intersections where the car is not king.
Also: fence cops, bad neighbours, bridge lighting, and more. toronto.cityhallwatcher.com/p/when-the-c...
OPEN DATA CHALLENGE returns with a look at where the city has seen the most bikes in 2025. Plus: intersections where the car is not king.
Also: fence cops, bad neighbours, bridge lighting, and more. toronto.cityhallwatcher.com/p/when-the-c...
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July 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Reposted by Sonia Persaud
INVESTIGATION: Toxic emissions from Sarnia's Chemical Valley have harmed Aamjiwnaang First Nation for years. First @emmamci.bsky.social looked at Ontario's lax regulations for industry (link in thread), now here's how the province abandoned plans that could have helped. thenarwhal.ca/chemical-val...
How Ontario failed to limit Chemical Valley pollution | The Narwhal
Toxic emissions from plants in Sarnia have harmed Aamjiwnaang First Nation for decades. Documents show how Ontario abandoned plans to cut it
thenarwhal.ca
June 26, 2025 at 10:56 AM
INVESTIGATION: Toxic emissions from Sarnia's Chemical Valley have harmed Aamjiwnaang First Nation for years. First @emmamci.bsky.social looked at Ontario's lax regulations for industry (link in thread), now here's how the province abandoned plans that could have helped. thenarwhal.ca/chemical-val...
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TORONTO’S NEW LANDLORDS: They’re ultra rich & over the next 8 years they’re bringing 21,000 units without rent control to a new building near you.
Meet the corporate firms that a growing number of Torontonians are paying their rent to.
www.westendphoenix.com/stories/toro...
Meet the corporate firms that a growing number of Torontonians are paying their rent to.
www.westendphoenix.com/stories/toro...
June 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM
TORONTO’S NEW LANDLORDS: They’re ultra rich & over the next 8 years they’re bringing 21,000 units without rent control to a new building near you.
Meet the corporate firms that a growing number of Torontonians are paying their rent to.
www.westendphoenix.com/stories/toro...
Meet the corporate firms that a growing number of Torontonians are paying their rent to.
www.westendphoenix.com/stories/toro...
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If sunshine is the best disinfectant, then this is a recipe for trouble.
Important piece from @drvivians.bsky.social & colleagues on protecting older adults in Ontario.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Important piece from @drvivians.bsky.social & colleagues on protecting older adults in Ontario.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Ford government to bury long-term care inspection reports: What are they hiding?
A new regulation hidden in the Ford government’s omnibus bill will make it harder for Ontarians to seek public information about the performance of LTC homes.
www.thestar.com
June 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
If sunshine is the best disinfectant, then this is a recipe for trouble.
Important piece from @drvivians.bsky.social & colleagues on protecting older adults in Ontario.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Important piece from @drvivians.bsky.social & colleagues on protecting older adults in Ontario.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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#ICYMI
The 'Safer Municipalities Act' “will not make the community safer; it’ll make it sicker, more traumatized, and more deadly,” Dr. Henry Swoboda, an emergency medicine and addictions expert, told those at the rally. #YGK #KFLA #Bill6
www.kingstonist.com/news/encampm...
The 'Safer Municipalities Act' “will not make the community safer; it’ll make it sicker, more traumatized, and more deadly,” Dr. Henry Swoboda, an emergency medicine and addictions expert, told those at the rally. #YGK #KFLA #Bill6
www.kingstonist.com/news/encampm...
Encampment Justice Coalition rallies to rescind Bill 6, 'Safer Municipalities Act' – Kingston News
(Kingston, Ontario) With membership from 112 civil society organizations working across Ontario, the newly formed Encampment Justice Coalition is rallying to rescind Bill 6.
www.kingstonist.com
May 30, 2025 at 9:13 PM
#ICYMI
The 'Safer Municipalities Act' “will not make the community safer; it’ll make it sicker, more traumatized, and more deadly,” Dr. Henry Swoboda, an emergency medicine and addictions expert, told those at the rally. #YGK #KFLA #Bill6
www.kingstonist.com/news/encampm...
The 'Safer Municipalities Act' “will not make the community safer; it’ll make it sicker, more traumatized, and more deadly,” Dr. Henry Swoboda, an emergency medicine and addictions expert, told those at the rally. #YGK #KFLA #Bill6
www.kingstonist.com/news/encampm...
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Join us for an evening with Dr. Naheed Dosani at the 2025 H. Garfield Kelly Visiting Lectureship. Through stories from the frontlines, he’ll explore the medical and ethical challenges of caring for unhoused patients. Register today ➡️ bit.ly/4m5XnuK
May 13, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Join us for an evening with Dr. Naheed Dosani at the 2025 H. Garfield Kelly Visiting Lectureship. Through stories from the frontlines, he’ll explore the medical and ethical challenges of caring for unhoused patients. Register today ➡️ bit.ly/4m5XnuK
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I am looking forward to defending my thesis next month and would like to invite anyone interested in learning about bird-window collisions to attend my public lecture on March 6 starting at 11 am EST.
If you sign up through this form, I’ll email you the zoom link later:
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If you sign up through this form, I’ll email you the zoom link later:
forms.gle/M31E3ECoDy4S...
February 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I am looking forward to defending my thesis next month and would like to invite anyone interested in learning about bird-window collisions to attend my public lecture on March 6 starting at 11 am EST.
If you sign up through this form, I’ll email you the zoom link later:
forms.gle/M31E3ECoDy4S...
If you sign up through this form, I’ll email you the zoom link later:
forms.gle/M31E3ECoDy4S...
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Chatted with some Toronto winter cyclists braving the recent deep freeze.
A 78-year-old retired school teacher, a mutual aid volunteer, a courier & a father – each have different reasons for biking year-round, but all rely on the city's bike lanes. #BikeTO
www.thestar.com/life/this-78...
A 78-year-old retired school teacher, a mutual aid volunteer, a courier & a father – each have different reasons for biking year-round, but all rely on the city's bike lanes. #BikeTO
www.thestar.com/life/this-78...
This 78-year-old retired school teacher is among the thousands of winter cyclists who brave Toronto’s coldest months
Snowstorm? 30 degrees below zero? Meet six members of Toronto's intrepid biking community who brave the city's snowy streets all through the cold winter months.
www.thestar.com
January 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Chatted with some Toronto winter cyclists braving the recent deep freeze.
A 78-year-old retired school teacher, a mutual aid volunteer, a courier & a father – each have different reasons for biking year-round, but all rely on the city's bike lanes. #BikeTO
www.thestar.com/life/this-78...
A 78-year-old retired school teacher, a mutual aid volunteer, a courier & a father – each have different reasons for biking year-round, but all rely on the city's bike lanes. #BikeTO
www.thestar.com/life/this-78...
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From Chinatown to Little Italy, every ethnic enclave in Toronto began with a single newcomer setting up shop. For @thelocal.to I wrote about how that works in 2025 (can it?!) and TO's first Ivorian restaurant that's just the latest in this long lineage
thelocal.to/ivory-coast-...
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The First Business in ‘Little Côte d’Ivoire’? | The Local
From Chinatown to Little Italy, every historic ethnic enclave in Toronto began with a single newcomer setting up shop. Can that process still work in 2025?
thelocal.to
January 22, 2025 at 4:36 PM
From Chinatown to Little Italy, every ethnic enclave in Toronto began with a single newcomer setting up shop. For @thelocal.to I wrote about how that works in 2025 (can it?!) and TO's first Ivorian restaurant that's just the latest in this long lineage
thelocal.to/ivory-coast-...
thelocal.to/ivory-coast-...
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NEW: Premier Doug Ford's government has lost a two-year battle to block the release of government calls from his personal phone, after the IPC sided with Global News and ruled he was using his personal phone for work and must make those calls public.
#OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1095293...
#OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1095293...
Doug Ford loses transparency fight to block release of personal cell phone records | Globalnews.ca
The IPC determined Ford had used his personal phone for government work and, as a result, said his phone records constitute public documents that could be published.
globalnews.ca
January 13, 2025 at 1:32 PM
NEW: Premier Doug Ford's government has lost a two-year battle to block the release of government calls from his personal phone, after the IPC sided with Global News and ruled he was using his personal phone for work and must make those calls public.
#OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1095293...
#OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1095293...
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According to Jordan's Principle case workers, children who were flown to Winnipeg for health services were forced to find their own accommodations and food after the federal government cut services | @karynpugliese.bsky.social
Is Jordan's Principle program in Manitoba in budget trouble?
Chiefs and case workers in Manitoba say they're being told by Indigenous services that there may be budget issues coming.
www.aptnnews.ca
December 19, 2024 at 8:48 PM
According to Jordan's Principle case workers, children who were flown to Winnipeg for health services were forced to find their own accommodations and food after the federal government cut services | @karynpugliese.bsky.social
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The Doug Ford government paid experts $1.5M to tell them how to reach net-zero emissions. Experts came up with 18 scenarios; each one urged the government to phase out natural gas. The Ford government isn't doing that and hasn't released the report.
An exclusive by me
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An exclusive by me
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Ontario was advised to ease off gas. Doug Ford is doing the opposite | The Narwhal
The Doug Ford government commissioned a report for up to $1.5 million to identify pathways to net-zero emissions, but continues to procure natural gas despite it
thenarwhal.ca
December 13, 2024 at 2:42 PM
The Doug Ford government paid experts $1.5M to tell them how to reach net-zero emissions. Experts came up with 18 scenarios; each one urged the government to phase out natural gas. The Ford government isn't doing that and hasn't released the report.
An exclusive by me
thenarwhal.ca/ontario-ener...
An exclusive by me
thenarwhal.ca/ontario-ener...
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2024 worst year for Ontario ER closures, CBC analysis finds. 1 out of every 5 hospitals with an ER or urgent care centre had unplanned shutdowns, by Julie Ireton, Valérie Ouellet www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... via @cbcnews.ca
2024 worst year for Ontario ER closures, CBC analysis finds | CBC News
Over the past three years, at least 38 hospitals with emergency rooms or urgent care centres in Ontario have experienced closures — about one in five of the province's 176 publicly funded facilities. Most are in rural areas.
www.cbc.ca
December 3, 2024 at 3:16 AM
2024 worst year for Ontario ER closures, CBC analysis finds. 1 out of every 5 hospitals with an ER or urgent care centre had unplanned shutdowns, by Julie Ireton, Valérie Ouellet www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... via @cbcnews.ca
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The closure of the Ontario Science Centre, Alison Motluk writes, was a murder. Then devastated staff were given four months to dispose of the body. A former Science Centre employee takes readers inside the final days of a beloved institution. thelocal.to/ontario-scie...
The Killing of the Science Centre | The Local
The 55-year old museum shuttered without warning one Friday in June. Then devastated staff were given four months to dismantle it. A former employee on the last days of a beloved institution.
thelocal.to
November 25, 2024 at 12:53 PM
The closure of the Ontario Science Centre, Alison Motluk writes, was a murder. Then devastated staff were given four months to dispose of the body. A former Science Centre employee takes readers inside the final days of a beloved institution. thelocal.to/ontario-scie...