Leah

Two Princes

#yegbike commute: the temperature is above zero, with a brutal northwest gusty wind. Surfaces are just an icy nightmare. I will say my neighborhood of Old Strathcona on the 87th Ave MUP is particularly bad.
Unless you have full studded tires, I would recommend not biking todsy. I can’t even say […]

Covid really broke some people’s brains.

Shocking (and so very sad) that the vaccine story coming out of Covid is one of hesitancy and anger rather than amazement and gratitude for what is now increasingly possible.

This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough | The Tyee We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought.

If you think the #COVID19 pandemic is done and ever-evolving variants pose no significant threat, consider these two realities, writes contributing editor Andrew Nikiforuk.

‘Pure Chaos’: Warnings of an Alberta Health-Care Crisis | The Tyee Experts say AHS data obtained by The Tyee further indicate the system faces being overwhelmed.

Medicine Hat emergency room physician Dr. Paul Parks is warning the public about what he asserts is a looming crisis in Alberta’s health-care system that will overwhelm the province’s already over-capacity and understaffed hospitals and lead to unnecessary deaths. #abpoli

Breaking the Waves

three female athletes wearing blue jerseys with a rooster on them ALT: three female athletes wearing blue jerseys with a rooster on them

Hey #yeg friends - does anyone know of any pubs in the city that will be open for the Women’s Rugby final next weekend?

Any pubs planning a breakfast and cheering kind of event?

Ballin’ bishes need to know!

Pretty sure Happy Beer Street is happening

Cranberries

If you see this, post something RED (music edition)

Local man hoping for Christmas miracle of Canada Post employees surrendering collective bargaining rights Jones is hopeful that this year, the Christmas spirit will overpower the legal right of the postal workers to strike.

Local man hoping for Christmas miracle of Canada Post employees surrendering collective bargaining rights

I was not. But perhaps I should have been. Edmonton, late 1980s.

"Stay home, read books!" For real.

Alberta is being run by the worst university student politicians you ever saw

Canadian Forces need to recruit warriors, not DEI hires: retired major 'For 20-30 years, we didn't get the job because we were women and now we're getting it just because we're women. This is not progress'

It's so great that the National Post is gung-ho for a return to sexual violence, misogyny, racism and the abuse of power at the top ranks in the Canadian Forces.

canlii.ca/t/k7vrz

This time around, the Kennedys are assassinating us.

Well I guess I'm doing another fundraiser for Skipping Stone to help with this campaign.

Skipping Stone helps Trans youth in a bunch of ways & this is a worthy cause.

I'll donate 100% of paper print sales up to $1000.

Https://earthskyart.ca/shop

Stand up for Trans youth.

a poster for the "Enough is Enough" protest at the Alberta Legislature on Sunday, October 27 at 2pm

yellow sidewalk stencil with black text that reads "do not panic. organize" and small fish being chased by a large fish and then a second image of many small fish chasing the big fish away

It's going to be one hell of a week in #Alberta.
The #ableg is back in session with hateful anti-trans and harmful anti-vaxx legislation expected. And the chemtrail cons have their party convention next weekend. Expect it to be bonkers on bonkers.

Here's a starter pack of all the Canadian journalists I'm currently following on BlueSky.

I'm sure I've missed many. Let me know of any others and I'll add them! 📰🤓

go.bsky.app/KF3HUUX

Good riddance to Blaine Higgs, the (soon-to-be former) Premier of New Brunswick, whose legacy is importing American-style transphobic school policies to Canada.

If you're new here, I got this helpful starter pack of quality accounts to follow. go.bsky.app/KkRR1om

Screenshot which includes a tweet from @RifeTechnology quote tweeting my post about my recent booster vaccinations which reads “taking yourself out just like Ukrainians is very noble of you.” A reply from @nhvwguy reads “We should probably follow up with this lad down the road always. You know he’s probably going to need a Rife Machine to recover from his vaccine injuries. Some one [sic] will have to donate it to him since all his money will be in Ukraine.”

Meanwhile at the Nazi bar, individuals I have never met publicly hope I experience a fatal adverse event after my recent boosters.

I wish there were a polite way to say, “I can see clearly that you are sick, and it would obviously be better for everyone if you were at home recovering, but since you’re here, I would greatly appreciate it if you took any kind of precaution to protect the people around you from your pathogens” 😷

‘I do have Covid’: Noah Lyles reveals positive test after taking 200m bronze Noah Lyles revealed he tested positive for Covid on Tuesday morning, after a men’s 200m final where the American was removed from the track in a wheelchair

And how many people Lyles was around over the past couple of days risk having THEIR olympic dreams shattered by being infected? This isn't brave, as with Adam Peaty and a bunch of Australian swimmers, it's deeply antisocial behaviour. For fuck's sake.

www.theguardian.com/sport/articl...

This survey is fast to do, and if you can take 3 minutes to fill it out, you can help continue the awesome Canadian covid reporting our governments all seem to have done away with.

Take care of yourself and take care of your family, friends, and neighbours too!

Wow, the UCP is making policies that financially benefit their friends (and harming the world). I’m shocked.

This is fine.

If you want safer cities but oppose healthcare (including harm reduction) and housing for all, I don’t know what to tell you.

Malkmus voice, right?