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  good. the entire strict setup of the school sounds like child abuse tbh. > A Saskatoon jury has found Duff Arthur Friesen, 68, guilty of assaulting three former students at a private Christian school with a wooden paddle. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/duff-friesen-christian-school-guilty-9.7350549

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  everyone should realize that e-scooters are a physically risky form of transport, especially when driven above about 20km/h. if you fall off, you're going to have facial trauma at a minimum. just ask my 50-something brother who got stuck with a big dental bill. ALWAYS wear a FULL FACE HELMET on these things - a bike helmet isn't enough. and NEVER EVER ride with MORE THAN ONE RIDER on board. https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/e-scooters-pediatrician-survey-9.7305210 #Physics #SafetyFirst

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  well this is super shitty. > The website WE NEWS has three northern Indigenous 'AI correspondents.' Their profiles say they are 'a member of Yukon First Nation,' 'of Dene heritage,' and 'an Inuk raised in the North.' Experts in the industry call the site disturbing and say it muddies the waters for readers trying to get authentic information. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/artificial-intelligence-indigenous-journalists-9.7345554 #AntiIndigenousNonsense...

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  one hundred per cent! > The Waitangi Tribunal says the conservative coalition government of New Zealand's rewrite of the school curriculum was ideological, aided by people hostile to Māori knowledge, and breached multiple Treaty principles. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/1437040/school-curriculum-rewrite-ideological-crown-breached-multiple-treaty-principles-waitangi-tribunal #ToituTeTiriti #HonourTheTreaty #NzPol

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  a really cool ingredient in the WildFire Control toolbox: goats! 🧰🐐 https://thenarwhal.ca/kanaka-mitigates-wildfire-bc/

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  don't expect me to read or boost substack links. that company platforms Nazis and is completely unapologetic about it. find a better goddamn platform already. 😡

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  yesterday i recertified in First Aid and CPR for adults kids and babies - yay! among other things, we got to rehearse using an AED. we also learned how to MacGyver a tourniquet out of a shoelace and a pencil/twig. 😁

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  many Canadians definitely need lessons in how to recognize fascism. nobody should be surprised that it has a foothold in this country. > Second Sons' leaders have welcomed neo-Nazis into their ranks, called for mass deportations "at gunpoint" of non-white people from Canada and said Canadian politicians should be executed as traitors. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/shell-shocked-residents-of-alberta-town-shaken-by-large-white-supremacist-training-meetup-9.7297070

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  Canada screws over temporary foreign workers (TFWs). How can it be legal to make farm workers labour in such conditions without being allowed water in the field?! > This summer, Ontarians were warned to stay inside as humidex values climbed to 48 C in parts of the province and wildfire smoke made for some of the worst air quality in the world. But many migrant farm workers were told to keep working. https://thenarwhal.ca/migrant-workers-rally/

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  > The wise path to energy superpower status is use of solar energy. There are many ways to do this: with more vegetation cover and photosynthesis, with solar panels that use the photovoltaic effect, with hydroelectric power enabled by solar-powered evapotranspiration, or with wind turbines powered by the differential solar heating of the Earth’s surface. https://rabble.ca/columnists/the-sun-is-our-energy-superpower/ #EnergyPolicy #SolarEnergy

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  > Indigenous communities around the world face mounting, and colliding, impacts from climate change, violence, rising threats from artificial intelligence and many other crises. Their leaders are demanding that the world take action, and they’ve given the United Nations a 12-point plan for what they say it must do. https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/08/04/news/indigenous-leaders-12-point-plan-un #Indigenous #UnitedNations

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  the Owls in Towels feed's Alt Text game is reliably absolutely superb: https://mas.to/@owlsintowels/117031070330361274

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  Ontario cabinet minister Stephen Lecce (who has made bad education decisions too!) is who decided to buy new nuclear reactors for Ontario that rely on foreign fabrication and foreign-enriched fuel - leaving 🇨🇦 open to the geopolitical whims of other nations including the U.S.. i thought the entire point of the CANDU reactor design was to avoid this bullshit! https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-nuclear-supply-chain-smr-darlington-uranium-enrichment-9.7289297 #EnergyPolicy #Nuclear #OnPoli

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  still furious about this, all over again. we *knew* that cops and university administrators were surveilling encampment participants, and cooperating secretly with other universities in suppressing pro-Palestinian activism. i just didn't expect to see proof. this is what The Breach's brave reporters have uncovered. https://bird.makeup/users/thebreachmedia/statuses/2082900107373015288

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  i am tired of cis people (and organizations) who say they're trans allies - until TERFs do transmisogynistic rhetoric and actions - and then they hedge with civility platitudes. to paraphrase Angela Davis: it's not good enough to not be transmisogynistic; one should be actively anti-transmisogyny. #Transmisogyny #AntiTransNonsense

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  > Human-caused climate change made the hot and dry conditions responsible for Spain's record-sized inferno 20 times more likely to happen and it doubled the chances of extreme fire conditions for the flames in France, scientists at World Weather Attribution calculated in a rapid analysis Thursday, conducted while fires were still burning. https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/30/news/human-caused-climate-change-made-spanish-french-fires-much-more-likely-scientists #EnergyPolicy #Foss...

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  cartoon spotted in the Library of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics artist source: https://www.unshelved.com/2010-9-8

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  a lot of this carries over to theoretical physics, pretty much verbatim. **Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics** This declaration calls for action to address the challenges posed by the use of artificial intelligence within mathematics research. It is the result of a community initiative and is endorsed by the International Mathematical Union. https://leidendeclaration.ai/ #Mathematics #AI #TheoreticalPhysics

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  A huge fire in southwest France has generated the country's first recorded pyrocumulonimbus fire cloud, which are far more common in Canada. Here's why these clouds are special, how they form and how they make wildfires worse 🌩️🔥 https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/pyrocumulonimbus-explainer-9.7287545

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  thanks to the Barbaric Cultural Practices candidate Chris Alexander in the Toronto mayoral race, the vote on the right will get split between him and another racist by the name of Brad Bradford. whether that leaves room for Olivia Chow to win again, idk. #ToPoli

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  New York just imposed a moratorium on massive new data centres. Toronto should too. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/city-council-data-centre-moratorium-9.7289753 #NoAI #ClimateEmergency

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  well this is a wholesome wee story https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ttc-subway-announcements-uncle-crawfy-9.7288021

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  the Indonesian government is systematically silencing environmental activists in West Papua, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/pacific/836225/human-rights-watch-report-says-indonesia-is-silencing-environmental-activists-in-papua #FreeWestPapua #ColonialistNonsense

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  Nauru has officially changed its name to 'Naoero', the Micronesian Island nation's government announced in a statement on Wednesday night. Nauru is the world's smallest independent republic, with a population of approximately 12,000 and a land area of 21 square kilometres. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/pacific/836342/nauru-officially-changes-name-to-naoero-after-thoughtful-deliberation-bypassing-referendum #Pasifika #Naoero

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  fuck. the conservative coalition government of New Zealand is planning on cutting Jobseeker benefits from 2700 young people with a health condition, injury, or disability. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/829799/jobseeker-benefit-cuts-could-affect-2700-young-people-with-health-condition-injury-or-disability #NzPol #AbleistNonsense

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  i fucking hate how austerity policies of right-wing governments are causing so much carnage in public hospitals in New Zealand & elsewhere. > Christchurch Hospital has emergency plans to **pitch a tent outside** as corridors fill up with patients in beds, according to one doctor. & in some cases, beds are already being angled in corridors in order to fit more in. 🤦🏼‍♂️ https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/health/837114/patient-beds-angled-in-ed-corridors-hospital-makes-plans-to-pitch...

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  a great panning of NZ First's extremely foolish definition of women and men bill "If I don’t need protection from trans women, but I wouldn’t mind some help when it comes to cis men, what am I?" a decent cis woman? 😏 https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/29-07-2026/am-i-still-a-woman-nz-first-has-me-confused-as-all-hell #AntiTransNonsense #Transmisogyny #NzPol

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  Canada is on fire, underwater and overheating. Here's what we can do about it https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/29/opinion/canada-extreme-weather-disaster-planning #FossilFools #EnergyPolicy

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  the Allan Gardens plant conservatory in Toronto has been open to the public for free since 1860. the local city councillor and Friends of AG community group are proposing a doubling of its footprint https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/allan-gardens-expansion-city-funding-9.7288401

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  bored highway photo