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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 2h

Miss the @thewhn.bsky.social panel on clean air?
Watch it here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXaP...

The Power of Clean Air: The World Health Network | Clean Air Panel Discussion

YouTube video by World Health Network

www.youtube.com

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 3h

Quite a day.

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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 5h

excellent news:
ospe.on.ca/advocacy/pol...

Policy Win: Health Canada Releases New IAQ Guidance

Health Canada announces new IAQ guidance, providing essential insights for improving indoor air quality and safety in buildings.

ospe.on.ca

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5h

Old enough to remember when kids being anti-semitic was the basis for a federal government assault on higher education

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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 7h

metaphor for covid mitigations

c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 8h

University administration:
"We need you to complete 26 hours of lab safety training 🧪 each year so that everyone is safe and responsible."

Also university administration:

Stolen from the Internet, a sign that says "If Elevator does not move do a small jump it should move after", and a dirty-white freight elevator wall and aged elevator controls with only floors 1 and 2."

I have no idea where this really is, I just stole it off Wikimedia.

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Dr. Jen Irwin @drjenirwin.bsky.social · 8h

“The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) reaffirmed its support for COVID-19 vaccination in pregnant people”

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

ACOG Continues Recommending COVID-19 Vaccine During Pregnancy

This JAMA Medical News article discusses updated guidance on COVID-19 vaccination in pregnant people from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

jamanetwork.com

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

Holy shit he literally did it NO FUCKING WAY LMAO

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump opens the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "This is the first time we've been at the new and improved Rose Garden. And people are loving it. They are loving it like they have not loved a lot of things."

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · Sep 12

Yesterday: Charlie Kirk will lay in state in the Rotunda. He is New Jesus.

Today: Ballroom looks great doesn't it

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 12

Q: My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. How are you holding up?

TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get for about 150 years.

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Alex Sundermann, DrPH @sundermannaj.bsky.social · 1d

My new piece in @medpagetoday.com

We Can Stop Deadly Hospital Outbreaks - So Why Aren't We?

Genomic surveillance can prevent outbreaks from spreading, save lives, and costs.

So what’s holding it back from being implemented in hospitals?

#IDSky

www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

Opinion | We Can Stop Deadly Hospital Outbreaks -- So Why Aren't We?

Genomic surveillance can help contain local and nationwide threats

www.medpagetoday.com

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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 1d

LIVE: Israel shoots dead at least 9 Palestinians in Gaza despite ceasefire

Israeli soldiers kill at least nine Palestinians trying to return to their homes in northern Gaza City and southern Khan Younis

‘You cease, I fire’: Israel kills 9 Palestinians despite Gaza truce

Israeli army confirmed it opened fire saying a group of people approached soldiers before being targeted.

www.aljazeera.com

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Darin Self @darinself.com · 1d

I love that markets are like "WOOOO RATE CUTSSS" as the head of the Fed is saying "The economy is flashing critical signs of distress"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Powell on Trump's immigration policies: "Stronger policy than most people had expected. We've seen a very sharp decline in growth of the labor force and in and people entering the country ... new people that come into the workforce create supply but they also create their own demand."

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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 1d

addendum: www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/18/o...

Carney must deliver both economic growth and climate action

With all eyes on Canada-US relations, we are neglecting our own climate commitments and still don’t have a clear pathway to implement the steps necessary to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.

www.nationalobserver.com

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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 1d

there's a lot of ways this could go wrong.
Wish I had more faith that the end-game was improving the chances of survivability for our kids, or our economy.
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/b49fedf...

Carney’s climate vision to deprioritize emissions targets, focus on economic advantages

‘Climate competitiveness strategy’ expected this month as Prime Minister seeks to reframe Canada’s approach to environment, energy

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 1d

I am utterly unqualified to comment on the substance, but “mature asset” seems like a darkly ironic euphemism for what we are dealing with here.

Phillip Meintzer @phillipmeintzer.bsky.social · 1d

Meintzer said he’s especially concerned that the mature asset strategy’s report, in his view, may violate the polluter pays principle... “It's just going to be used as a way to offload company cleanup obligations onto the public,” he said. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #ABLeg #ABPoli #CleanUpYourMess

Groups push back on Alberta’s strategy to deal with inactive oil and gas wells as plan moves forward | CBC Accessibility

A band of advocate groups are pushing back on the province's current plan to manage its inactive and aging oil and gas infrastructure.

www.cbc.ca

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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 2d

Need a good news story this Thanksgiving?

“In true Hollywood fashion,” says McKibben, “our liberation and our destruction are arriving at precisely the same time, offering us a remarkable choice. Our species, at what feels like a very dark moment, can take a giant leap into the light. Of the sun.”

Our friendly neighbourhood fireball

Solar and wind are growing so quickly that they outpaced all the growth in electricity demand this year. Which means they started eating into fossil fuelled power, leading to a modest but significant ...

www.nationalobserver.com

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Ross Macfarlane @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social · 1d

Top executive from JP Morgan warns that US needs renewables to meet soaring energy demand from tech sector. @bloomberg.com

JPMorgan Says US Needs Renewables to Meet Rising Energy Demand

JPMorgan says the US needs renewables to power growth in its tech industry. In an interview with Bloomberg Television this morning, the bank’s global head of sustainable solutions Chuka Umunna said it...

www.bloomberg.com

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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 1d

totally "streisand effect". Now I need to see the offending pic.

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 2d

A record 29% — nearly a third! — of all new cars purchased in California during July, August, and September were zero-emission vehicles.

DC may be fine with selling out American innovation to China, but California will keep charging ahead toward cleaner air for our communities.

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A Dave you know you know @notjustdave.bsky.social · 1d

"Olszynski said he believes this could be rewarding neglect. He said many tools to hold the industry accountable and to fund closures still exist, and the government needs to ensure those mechanisms are properly funded and enforced."

The people who created the problem are not going to clean it up.

Phillip Meintzer @phillipmeintzer.bsky.social · 1d

Meintzer said he’s especially concerned that the mature asset strategy’s report, in his view, may violate the polluter pays principle... “It's just going to be used as a way to offload company cleanup obligations onto the public,” he said. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #ABLeg #ABPoli #CleanUpYourMess

Groups push back on Alberta’s strategy to deal with inactive oil and gas wells as plan moves forward | CBC Accessibility

A band of advocate groups are pushing back on the province's current plan to manage its inactive and aging oil and gas infrastructure.

www.cbc.ca

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Ross Macfarlane @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social · 5d

Waiting for oil and gas majors to lead the "pivot" to clean energy? Don't hold your breath. New @nature.com study shows that fossil fuel companies have only accounted for marginal share of renewable energy generation, decades after promising to lead. 1/

www.exxonknews.org/p/study-oil-...

Study: Oil companies are not ‘part of the solution’

New research in the journal Nature reveals oil and gas companies own a “marginal” share of global renewable capacity, years after claiming they would lead the energy transition.

www.exxonknews.org

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Charles Rusnell @charlesrusnell.bsky.social · 2d

Must read here for all Albertans via @ximenaka.bsky.social.
Inside the Right-Wing Attack on Alberta's Public Education via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Inside the Right-Wing Attack on Alberta's Public Education | The Tyee

MAGA’s Project 2025 has become a blueprint for undermining Canada’s schools in the name of profit and privilege.

thetyee.ca

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Martin Z. Olszynski @molszyns.bsky.social · 1d

Bit of a deeper dive on the growing push back to #Ableg’s so-called Mature Asset Strategy: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Groups push back on Alberta’s strategy to deal with inactive oil and gas wells as plan moves forward | CBC Accessibility

A band of advocate groups are pushing back on the province's current plan to manage its inactive and aging oil and gas infrastructure.

www.cbc.ca

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Comms Declare @commsdeclare.bsky.social · 1d

The role of PR agencies in delaying climate action is increasingly being recognised by academics.

theconversation.com/pr-firms-are...

PR firms are spreading climate misinformation on behalf of fossil fuel companies. Could Australia stop them?

This week, Australian policymakers heard about the real and growing problem of climate misinformation. Stopping it would mean regulating the PR industry.

theconversation.com

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