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Alison Kemper
@profalisonk.bsky.social
Org theory, bus & soc, indigenous rights, CO2, She/her. Asso. Prof at Toronto (Tkaronto) Metropolitan U.🏳️‍🌈 🇨🇦 Not into hate. I don’t follow back until you have posts. No DMs unless I follow you.
Ontario, take note.
The Discourse is about speed cameras and ignition interlocks. Neither of these are carceral, because they are alternatives to police and prisons. Speed cameras remove racist and violent cops from enforcement of speeding, and interlocks prevent multiple offenses - or crashes - that lead to jail time.
December 13, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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And the results are in! After carefully reviewing the results of a national poll the Board of Directors of the Society for Canadian English (SCE) has determined that this year’s Canadian Word of the Year (CWOTY), the first of its kind, will be “maplewashing.”
December 13, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Never, ever look to a physician for preventative advice.

Physicians do not do prevention. They do aftercare. "The vaccine I gave you will help, AFTER you've been infected!"

Don't want to get infected in the first place? Follow engineering advice. Wear an N95. Clean indoor public air. ASHRAE 241!
"There has been a lot of squabbling over masks in recent weeks. The reality is that yes they do help ... we are not at the stage where they should be mandatory. However if you are working with people who are vulnerable, or in a crowded space then you should wear a mask."
As mutant 'super flu' spreads, experts answer your questions
With concerns rising by the day, here's everything you need to know about the mutant flu-and how to protect yourself from the virus.
www.dailymail.co.uk
December 13, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Did Canada blow it by foregoing a CBDC? Likely yes, alas. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
Opinion: Government must enter the crypto game: a Canadian central bank digital currency
Abandoning the idea may be a missed opportunity that future generations will regret
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Why can’t Canadians have nice things, too?
The Albanese Labor Government will help more households, small businesses and community groups bring down their energy bills for good through sensible changes to expand and secure the sustainability of our Cheaper Home Batteries program. 👇
An important update on Cheaper Home Batteries. Excited to see this program continue to deliver for families across the country.
December 13, 2025 at 1:30 AM
New rule on Bluesky: in anything coming from the Epstein estate, the image of any person who is not >25 must not be labelled with the term woman or man. They are children.

We can all assume responsibility for correcting and commenting.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.
December 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Time for clean indoor air!

Let’s see if we can help get the word out!
December 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
This is profoundly obvious, much like the Emperor with No Clothes. substack.com/home/post/p-...
Mark Carney Is Wrong: Canada Cannot Become an Energy Superpower
Canada can produce more oil, more LNG, and more electricity—but production alone will never make us an energy superpower
substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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the stock market in 2025 officially prefers companies with no revenue to companies that actually have revenue.

#stockmarket #uspol #economics #mag7 #nvidia #msft #goog #aapl #siliconvalley
December 9, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Three arrests yesterday in the Walbran Valley on Vancouver Island, where RCMP have been enforcing an injunction against activists opposing #oldgrowth logging. This is happening despite the forestry season being over.

Context here in @brandimorin.bsky.social's latest:

ricochet.media/climate/clim...
Forest defenders vow to fight on after RCMP raid dismantles Vancouver Island protest camp
One activist was pulled from an 80-foot tree sit and another dug out of a cement-filled barrel — both say the fight to save the ancient forests is far from over
ricochet.media
December 9, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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While Canada’s residential school era has become a key piece of our national identity, there has been an eruption of late of what some academics call denialism.

That eruption & efforts to counter it, is the focus of the new episode of APTN Investigates:
Denialism close-up - an APTN Investigates
APTN Investigates Dismantling Denialism by correspondent Christopher Read delves into residential school denialism.
www.aptnnews.ca
December 8, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Fixing Canada's EV problem "requires an end to the radio silence and a package of policies to improve access to more affordable EVs, aligned with Canada’s long-term economic aspirations in critical minerals, innovation, and a more diversified auto sector."

www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
www.thestar.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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🫡🇬🇧
December 8, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Why the “immunity debt” narrative ultimately collapsed:

Over the past few months, the conversation has moved toward the conclusion the evidence has been pointing to for years.

Since 2022, immunity debt offered an easy explanation for the unusual patterns of illness we kept seeing.

1/7
December 8, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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December 7, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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On December 6th, 1989, 14 women were murdered at Polytechnique Montréal.

The number of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women continues to grow.

Doug Ford has yet to declare intimate partner violence an epidemic in Ontario.

If you need help in KW: wcswr.org
Women's Crisis Services of Waterloo Region
Shelter, outreach and education to keep women, children and families safe today and prevent domestic violence from happening tomorrow.
wcswr.org
December 6, 2025 at 1:04 PM
For those outside Québec, we are sad today. It's been 36 years since a mad man killed 14 women who were studying to become engineers in Montréal.

We all remember where we were. All women studying in science or engineering like I was felt the hate. We had felt it before and we have felt it since.
They died because they were women.
December 6, 1989.
National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. www.cbc.ca/montreal/fea...
December 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Found when sorting an old drive. I still, very occasionally, say 'not many badgers in the House of Lords' and this is why:
February 8, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
This is a very carefully designed study with significant results. I hope it will make it more difficult to maintain the fiction that clean indoor air doesn’t matter.
December 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
This seems like very bad news.
Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air.

After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed.

Vaccines could help, but the USDA hasn’t approved them.
What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic
Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vacci...
www.propublica.org
December 4, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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More prostate cancer cases diagnosed at Stage 4 in recent years, study finds. Researchers suggest this is linked with official recommendations discouraging the use of a hotly debated screening test, by @kellygrant1.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com
More prostate cancer cases diagnosed at Stage 4 in recent years, study finds
Official recommendations discouraging use of hotly debated screening test could be linked to increase, experts suggest
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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“We are facing a national emergency not only because the climate is changing, but because the living systems that protect the climate are breaking down.” # OxfordSmithSchool Nathalie Seddon said to @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Scientists warn of severe climate-related risks to UK economy and security
Experts lay out scale of changes needed in ‘first-of-its-kind national emergency briefing’ in Westminster
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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'Best-case scenario': Hudson's Bay charter to remain in public hands after joint $18M bid | CBC News

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/hbc-charter-joint-bid-sale-9.7000626
December 2, 2025 at 11:18 PM