Thoughts’n’such 🇨🇦
@annesthoughts.bsky.social
A lifelong public advocate and policy wonk. Pro universal healthcare. Pro environment. Pro human rights. Pro inclusivity🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈, diversity and social justice. Always a grateful settler.
May post random things as I transition into being a crone 😏
May post random things as I transition into being a crone 😏
#climatechange isn’t weather, but worsening storms is.
December 11, 2025 at 5:12 AM
#climatechange isn’t weather, but worsening storms is.
Not that I was intending to cross the border anytime soon…
@clareblackwood.bsky.social nails it again with her take in the new border rules. 😏
@clareblackwood.bsky.social nails it again with her take in the new border rules. 😏
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Addresses Trump’s Mandatory Social Media Checks For Tourists
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Karoline Leavitt Addresses Trump’s Mandatory Social Media Checks For Tourists
YouTube video by Clare Blackwood
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December 11, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Not that I was intending to cross the border anytime soon…
@clareblackwood.bsky.social nails it again with her take in the new border rules. 😏
@clareblackwood.bsky.social nails it again with her take in the new border rules. 😏
Privatizing public utilities inevitably leads to very expensive government bailouts that benefit no-one except shareholders. It is *never* the cost cutting solution that public is told it is. And it is *never* in the public’s interest.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Thames Water faces collapse as crisis talks take ‘longer than expected’
Debt-ridden utility company warns of ‘material uncertainty’ despite seeing profits rise to more than £400m
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Privatizing public utilities inevitably leads to very expensive government bailouts that benefit no-one except shareholders. It is *never* the cost cutting solution that public is told it is. And it is *never* in the public’s interest.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
A hard truth.
“The inevitable end of fossil fuels means a future with much less energy and consumption. But if humanity can downsize gradually, …disruption can be minimized. If we can’t do that, Mother Nature will take care of our excesses via a chaotic collapse.”
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
“The inevitable end of fossil fuels means a future with much less energy and consumption. But if humanity can downsize gradually, …disruption can be minimized. If we can’t do that, Mother Nature will take care of our excesses via a chaotic collapse.”
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
A New Oilsands Pipeline? What Politicians Won’t Admit | The Tyee
An energy expert lays out the risks and fallacies as Canada and the world fail to face the climate crisis.
thetyee.ca
December 2, 2025 at 3:41 PM
A hard truth.
“The inevitable end of fossil fuels means a future with much less energy and consumption. But if humanity can downsize gradually, …disruption can be minimized. If we can’t do that, Mother Nature will take care of our excesses via a chaotic collapse.”
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
“The inevitable end of fossil fuels means a future with much less energy and consumption. But if humanity can downsize gradually, …disruption can be minimized. If we can’t do that, Mother Nature will take care of our excesses via a chaotic collapse.”
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
A simple yet powerful point.
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:16 PM
A simple yet powerful point.
Hoot!! #whitecaps !!
Congratulations 😁🎉
Congratulations 😁🎉
November 30, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Hoot!! #whitecaps !!
Congratulations 😁🎉
Congratulations 😁🎉
Good news. Hoping this becomes readily available for those who need it soon!
Developed initially to target and kill tumors, they are now being engineered to target cells that are contributing to autoimmune diseases, like antibody-producing B cells.
#Science 🧪
#Science 🧪
‘They don’t have symptoms’: CAR-T therapies send autoimmune diseases into remission
Engineered T cells that have been used to treat ulcerative colitis, rheumatoid arthritis and lupus show promising results.
www.nature.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Good news. Hoping this becomes readily available for those who need it soon!
… and then what? As article says, it would be very difficult to reskill those workers so we condemn them and their families to poverty? What are we doing here, folks? Destroying our environment and destroying society, for what? That’s not intelligent, is it?
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
AI could replace 3m low-skilled jobs in the UK by 2035, research finds
Trades, machine operations and administrative roles are most at-risk, says leading educational research charity
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM
… and then what? As article says, it would be very difficult to reskill those workers so we condemn them and their families to poverty? What are we doing here, folks? Destroying our environment and destroying society, for what? That’s not intelligent, is it?
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
I don’t know how to say this more strongly: #nomorepipelines !!
@mark-carney.bsky.social
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@mark-carney.bsky.social
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Ottawa, Alberta agree to broad outlines of energy deal, including path to pipeline | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith have agreed to the broad outlines of a memorandum of understanding that would give Alberta special exemptions from federal environmental l...
www.cbc.ca
November 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I don’t know how to say this more strongly: #nomorepipelines !!
@mark-carney.bsky.social
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@mark-carney.bsky.social
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“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
It costs a lot less to house people.
It costs a lot less to house people.
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
thebetter.news
November 24, 2025 at 8:01 AM
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
It costs a lot less to house people.
It costs a lot less to house people.
Eby: “This project is not being advanced by anyone other than a politician that frankly is in political trouble at home”
🎥 Credit CBC News
❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️
❤️🍁🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA 🇨🇦🍁❤️
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❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️
❤️🍁🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA 🇨🇦🍁❤️
November 21, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Exactly. #nomorepipelines !!
Premier Eby is dead set against this. He is not alone. Oil & gas are fuels of the past, along with colonialis. Renewables & reconciliation are the path to a better future.
Carney, Smith moving closer to...
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Carney, Smith moving closer to...
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Carney, Smith moving closer to a deal that could include B.C. oil pipeline: source | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith are moving closer to reaching a deal on the future of Alberta's energy sector, according to a senior government official, and that memoran...
www.cbc.ca
November 20, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Exactly. #nomorepipelines !!
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“The rise in high-fronted SUVs poses a clear and growing threat to public safety, especially for children,” states the report. “With no benefit to society, it’s time for lawmakers at all levels to act.” Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com.
Cap SUV/truck hood heights. And ban unsafe designs.
Cap SUV/truck hood heights. And ban unsafe designs.
EU Must Cap SUV Hood Heights Urges Report. Crash Test Body Says Not As Simple As That
Higher fronts on cars significantly increase the death rate when pedestrians and cyclists are struck, says new report. EuroNCAP says more complex than that.
www.forbes.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:18 AM
“The rise in high-fronted SUVs poses a clear and growing threat to public safety, especially for children,” states the report. “With no benefit to society, it’s time for lawmakers at all levels to act.” Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com.
Cap SUV/truck hood heights. And ban unsafe designs.
Cap SUV/truck hood heights. And ban unsafe designs.
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Flu season is here: What you need to know. Experts are warning the global spread of an evolving H3N2 strain could mean a difficult influenza season at home, with flu cases now on the rise in Canada. Q+A w/ Allison McGeer, @jossreimer.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... via @cbcnews.ca
November 13, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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New column from me at @xtramagazine.com: Provinces' cavalier use of Notwithstanding Clause a dangerous sign #canqueer #cdnpoli
Provinces’ cavalier use of Notwithstanding Clause a dangerous sign | Xtra Magazine
There should be a political cost for using the clause; unfortunately, there isn’t
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November 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
New column from me at @xtramagazine.com: Provinces' cavalier use of Notwithstanding Clause a dangerous sign #canqueer #cdnpoli
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We're witnessing the greatest sustained attack on the human spirit in history. Big Tech seeks to destroy the arts. They're destroying the school system. They want to make us lobotomized people who can't read, write or create. They've turned dystopian fiction into a manual.
November 13, 2025 at 9:54 PM
We're witnessing the greatest sustained attack on the human spirit in history. Big Tech seeks to destroy the arts. They're destroying the school system. They want to make us lobotomized people who can't read, write or create. They've turned dystopian fiction into a manual.
#nomorepipelines
We need more investment in renewable energy not gifts to fossil fuel. Otherwise…
“That all means the end of agriculture in the UK and across Europe, drought and monsoon failure in Asia and Africa, lethal heat and humidity,”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We need more investment in renewable energy not gifts to fossil fuel. Otherwise…
“That all means the end of agriculture in the UK and across Europe, drought and monsoon failure in Asia and Africa, lethal heat and humidity,”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
#nomorepipelines
We need more investment in renewable energy not gifts to fossil fuel. Otherwise…
“That all means the end of agriculture in the UK and across Europe, drought and monsoon failure in Asia and Africa, lethal heat and humidity,”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We need more investment in renewable energy not gifts to fossil fuel. Otherwise…
“That all means the end of agriculture in the UK and across Europe, drought and monsoon failure in Asia and Africa, lethal heat and humidity,”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
so sad and so unnecessary
It's official: Canada has lost its measles elimination status because of an outbreak that has persisted for more than 12 months. Country can regain status only if on-going spread is of measles interrupted for more than a year. www.cbc.ca/news/health/... via @cbcnews.ca
November 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
so sad and so unnecessary
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Carl Sagan, writing in 1995, warned that soon America would be ruled by illiterate elites wielding “awesome technological powers,” and that most people, their brains broken by screens, would be unable to resist. We are living in the nightmare that Sagan foresaw.
November 8, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Carl Sagan, writing in 1995, warned that soon America would be ruled by illiterate elites wielding “awesome technological powers,” and that most people, their brains broken by screens, would be unable to resist. We are living in the nightmare that Sagan foresaw.
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Today is National Indigenous Veterans Day.
This day honours the contributions of the First Nations, Inuit and Metis who served in the Canadian Armed Forces.
They fought for Canada despite being denied rights by the country.
This is the story of some of those veterans.
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This day honours the contributions of the First Nations, Inuit and Metis who served in the Canadian Armed Forces.
They fought for Canada despite being denied rights by the country.
This is the story of some of those veterans.
🧵 1/12
November 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Today is National Indigenous Veterans Day.
This day honours the contributions of the First Nations, Inuit and Metis who served in the Canadian Armed Forces.
They fought for Canada despite being denied rights by the country.
This is the story of some of those veterans.
🧵 1/12
This day honours the contributions of the First Nations, Inuit and Metis who served in the Canadian Armed Forces.
They fought for Canada despite being denied rights by the country.
This is the story of some of those veterans.
🧵 1/12
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Sidewalks shouldn’t stop for side streets, pass it on
November 5, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Sidewalks shouldn’t stop for side streets, pass it on
Interesting long read re LLMs and ownership
thewalrus.ca/suing-ai-com...
thewalrus.ca/suing-ai-com...
My Book Was Stolen by an AI Company. Why Does Suing Them Feel Wrong? | The Walrus
The courtroom isn’t where this fight belongs—each lawsuit legitimizes the very system artists oppose
thewalrus.ca
November 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Interesting long read re LLMs and ownership
thewalrus.ca/suing-ai-com...
thewalrus.ca/suing-ai-com...
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“Recent studies show that between 80% — 89% of the world’s population wants to see climate action. Many would even contribute 1% of their income to make that happen, even tho people vastly underestimate their peers’ desire for change. Members of this “silent majority” come from all walks of life…”’
‘I worry about the future of my daughter’: the ‘silent majority’ who care about the climate crisis
Readers who are part of the 80-89% of the population who want to see climate action tell us their ideas on how to make their voices heard
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:32 PM
“Recent studies show that between 80% — 89% of the world’s population wants to see climate action. Many would even contribute 1% of their income to make that happen, even tho people vastly underestimate their peers’ desire for change. Members of this “silent majority” come from all walks of life…”’