Mike Bloxam 🇨🇦🍉
@bloxam.bsky.social
Making the best of an #ONterrible situation...
#LdnOnt parent, partner, entrepreneur, solar guy, food banker, environmentalist 🌳🏡☀️⏳ (Opinions mine; share/like ≠> endorsement)
#CovidConscious 😷
Mastodon: @[email protected]
#LdnOnt parent, partner, entrepreneur, solar guy, food banker, environmentalist 🌳🏡☀️⏳ (Opinions mine; share/like ≠> endorsement)
#CovidConscious 😷
Mastodon: @[email protected]
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This afternoon, I informed the Prime Minister of my decision to resign as Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, Minister responsible for Official Languages, Minister of Nature and Parks Canada, as well as his Lieutenant in Quebec.
You can find my full statement below.
You can find my full statement below.
November 27, 2025 at 10:32 PM
This afternoon, I informed the Prime Minister of my decision to resign as Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, Minister responsible for Official Languages, Minister of Nature and Parks Canada, as well as his Lieutenant in Quebec.
You can find my full statement below.
You can find my full statement below.
Reposted by Mike Bloxam 🇨🇦🍉
#Ontario #wastewater graph updated with November 16 data
- Kingston, Peel, Toronto updated: wwater.ca/Ontario
- Also updated: AB, BC, NL, NS, PEI, QC, YT
wwater.ca
Source: health-infobase.canada.ca/wastewater/
- Kingston, Peel, Toronto updated: wwater.ca/Ontario
- Also updated: AB, BC, NL, NS, PEI, QC, YT
wwater.ca
Source: health-infobase.canada.ca/wastewater/
November 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
#Ontario #wastewater graph updated with November 16 data
- Kingston, Peel, Toronto updated: wwater.ca/Ontario
- Also updated: AB, BC, NL, NS, PEI, QC, YT
wwater.ca
Source: health-infobase.canada.ca/wastewater/
- Kingston, Peel, Toronto updated: wwater.ca/Ontario
- Also updated: AB, BC, NL, NS, PEI, QC, YT
wwater.ca
Source: health-infobase.canada.ca/wastewater/
November 28, 2025 at 2:24 PM
This is bad journalism! The term "post-pandemic" is wrong when we are STILL in the #COVID19 #pandemic. Hearing the teaser on CBC Radio for this "report" this morning was quite enraging.
Maybe if we cared to know reasons for being absent we could have some authentic investigation into the causes. 🙄
Maybe if we cared to know reasons for being absent we could have some authentic investigation into the causes. 🙄
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Students in southwestern Ontario are absent from school more often post-pandemic, CBC numbers show
Data looks at school boards in Waterloo region, London and Windsor
Data looks at school boards in Waterloo region, London and Windsor
Students in southwestern Ontario are absent from school more often post-pandemic, CBC numbers show | CBC News
The number of students missing school post-pandemic has been on the rise. It's an issue that's impacting school boards, parents and teachers across the country. But the reasons why and the long-term i...
www.cbc.ca
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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#Ontario #wastewater graph updated with November 2 data
- Kingston, Peel updated: wwater.ca/Ontario
- Also updated: AB, NB, NL, PEI, QC
wwater.ca
Source: health-infobase.canada.ca/wastewater/
- Kingston, Peel updated: wwater.ca/Ontario
- Also updated: AB, NB, NL, PEI, QC
wwater.ca
Source: health-infobase.canada.ca/wastewater/
November 18, 2025 at 7:27 PM
#Ontario #wastewater graph updated with November 2 data
- Kingston, Peel updated: wwater.ca/Ontario
- Also updated: AB, NB, NL, PEI, QC
wwater.ca
Source: health-infobase.canada.ca/wastewater/
- Kingston, Peel updated: wwater.ca/Ontario
- Also updated: AB, NB, NL, PEI, QC
wwater.ca
Source: health-infobase.canada.ca/wastewater/
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i think i just got suspended from instagram for declaring a war on cars
November 18, 2025 at 10:52 PM
i think i just got suspended from instagram for declaring a war on cars
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You got your fantasy in my sci-fi!
Check out our #RetroReview of #Sliders season 3 episode "Dragonslide".
fandomentanglement.com/2025/sliders...
Co-hosts @suggie176.bsky.social & @bloxam.bsky.social welcome back authors @janarchy.bsky.social and @goforlauchcee.bsky.social.
#fantasy #scifi
Check out our #RetroReview of #Sliders season 3 episode "Dragonslide".
fandomentanglement.com/2025/sliders...
Co-hosts @suggie176.bsky.social & @bloxam.bsky.social welcome back authors @janarchy.bsky.social and @goforlauchcee.bsky.social.
#fantasy #scifi
Sliders review #30 - Dragonslide (3x08) - Fandom Entanglement
Retro Review #30: “You Got Your Fantasy in My Sci-Fi!” or “Narnia on Ice” FANDOM ENTANGLEMENT is back with another retro review of the 90s sci-fi series SLIDERS. This time, we’re taking a look at Seas...
fandomentanglement.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:00 AM
You got your fantasy in my sci-fi!
Check out our #RetroReview of #Sliders season 3 episode "Dragonslide".
fandomentanglement.com/2025/sliders...
Co-hosts @suggie176.bsky.social & @bloxam.bsky.social welcome back authors @janarchy.bsky.social and @goforlauchcee.bsky.social.
#fantasy #scifi
Check out our #RetroReview of #Sliders season 3 episode "Dragonslide".
fandomentanglement.com/2025/sliders...
Co-hosts @suggie176.bsky.social & @bloxam.bsky.social welcome back authors @janarchy.bsky.social and @goforlauchcee.bsky.social.
#fantasy #scifi
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BC ran a public consultation this year and invited submissions on electoral reform. The result was overwhelming. Ninety three percent supported proportional representation.
Our volunteers outside the BC NDP convention on Saturday heard the same. People want a better democracy.
Our volunteers outside the BC NDP convention on Saturday heard the same. People want a better democracy.
November 19, 2025 at 4:52 PM
BC ran a public consultation this year and invited submissions on electoral reform. The result was overwhelming. Ninety three percent supported proportional representation.
Our volunteers outside the BC NDP convention on Saturday heard the same. People want a better democracy.
Our volunteers outside the BC NDP convention on Saturday heard the same. People want a better democracy.
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The Doug Ford government is setting its sites on conservation authorities for the fifth time, merging the watershed protection agencies. Staff tell @fatimabsyed.bsky.social it may ‘slow approvals, create confusion’ — not to mention it's leaving them with ‘whiplash.’ thenarwhal.ca/ontario-cons...
Inside Ontario’s plan to merge 36 conservation authorities to 7 | The Narwhal
Doug Ford’s government is seeking public feedback on its plan to overhaul Ontario’s conservation authorities, reducing local agencies from 36 to 7
thenarwhal.ca
November 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The Doug Ford government is setting its sites on conservation authorities for the fifth time, merging the watershed protection agencies. Staff tell @fatimabsyed.bsky.social it may ‘slow approvals, create confusion’ — not to mention it's leaving them with ‘whiplash.’ thenarwhal.ca/ontario-cons...
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As the weather turns
there will be
nights you want
to stay home
and eat soup,
nights you want
to stay home
with a book,
and nights you want
to stay home
and drink tea,
but as the weather turns
on no nights will you want
to have to stay home
because you are sick.
there will be
nights you want
to stay home
and eat soup,
nights you want
to stay home
with a book,
and nights you want
to stay home
and drink tea,
but as the weather turns
on no nights will you want
to have to stay home
because you are sick.
November 14, 2025 at 10:53 PM
As the weather turns
there will be
nights you want
to stay home
and eat soup,
nights you want
to stay home
with a book,
and nights you want
to stay home
and drink tea,
but as the weather turns
on no nights will you want
to have to stay home
because you are sick.
there will be
nights you want
to stay home
and eat soup,
nights you want
to stay home
with a book,
and nights you want
to stay home
and drink tea,
but as the weather turns
on no nights will you want
to have to stay home
because you are sick.
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Seems like a good day to re-post this. All public institutions in Canada, including CBC and every level of government, should ditch Xitter immediately - it’s a racist, fascist filth factory run by Nazi-loving Apartheid Clyde.
If we are serious about preserving Canada’s democracy and sovereignty, Canadian institutions need to stop tolerating the intolerant! 👇 Amongst other things, that means blocking X, Rebel and others making $$ from purposefully purveying disinformation and division.
Karl Popper’s sage advice for democracies - don’t tolerate the intolerant!
“If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.”
“If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.”
July 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Seems like a good day to re-post this. All public institutions in Canada, including CBC and every level of government, should ditch Xitter immediately - it’s a racist, fascist filth factory run by Nazi-loving Apartheid Clyde.
Reposted by Mike Bloxam 🇨🇦🍉
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
My office just uncovered that, buried in their Fall Economic Statement, Ford’s Conservatives are quietly seizing control of Exhibition Place.
#ONpoli
My office just uncovered that, buried in their Fall Economic Statement, Ford’s Conservatives are quietly seizing control of Exhibition Place.
#ONpoli
November 13, 2025 at 9:22 PM
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
My office just uncovered that, buried in their Fall Economic Statement, Ford’s Conservatives are quietly seizing control of Exhibition Place.
#ONpoli
My office just uncovered that, buried in their Fall Economic Statement, Ford’s Conservatives are quietly seizing control of Exhibition Place.
#ONpoli
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🏆 KUDOS
...to Toronto's University Health Network for bringing back masking in their facilities as of Nov 18, 2025
😷TGH
😷Toronto Western
😷Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
😷Toronto Rehab
😷Michener Institute
😷West Park
🏥 Hope others will follow...
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
...to Toronto's University Health Network for bringing back masking in their facilities as of Nov 18, 2025
😷TGH
😷Toronto Western
😷Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
😷Toronto Rehab
😷Michener Institute
😷West Park
🏥 Hope others will follow...
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Iris Gorfinkel: How politics, not science, is putting vulnerable patients and health care workers at risk
As a family doctor, I have seen first-hand the difference masking makes. Since my clinic adopted consistent masking, staff absences from colds, flus, and COVID‑19 have plummeted. Scaled across the
www.thestar.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM
🏆 KUDOS
...to Toronto's University Health Network for bringing back masking in their facilities as of Nov 18, 2025
😷TGH
😷Toronto Western
😷Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
😷Toronto Rehab
😷Michener Institute
😷West Park
🏥 Hope others will follow...
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
...to Toronto's University Health Network for bringing back masking in their facilities as of Nov 18, 2025
😷TGH
😷Toronto Western
😷Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
😷Toronto Rehab
😷Michener Institute
😷West Park
🏥 Hope others will follow...
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Reposted by Mike Bloxam 🇨🇦🍉
mine, pipeline, port, power generation, and a datacentre, 'cuz Canada exists to generate profit for big oil, big tech, big banks, and big assholes
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Carney to announce next tranche of major projects on Thursday | CBC News
The federal government will unveil the next round of major projects that will get fast-tracked approvals later this week, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Monday, as Canada tries to stimulate economic ...
www.cbc.ca
November 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
mine, pipeline, port, power generation, and a datacentre, 'cuz Canada exists to generate profit for big oil, big tech, big banks, and big assholes
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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#Ontario #wastewater graph updated with October 26 data
- London, Peel updated: wwater.ca/Ontario
- Also updated: AB, NL, QC, YT
wwater.ca
Source: health-infobase.canada.ca/wastewater/
- London, Peel updated: wwater.ca/Ontario
- Also updated: AB, NL, QC, YT
wwater.ca
Source: health-infobase.canada.ca/wastewater/
November 12, 2025 at 9:41 PM
#Ontario #wastewater graph updated with October 26 data
- London, Peel updated: wwater.ca/Ontario
- Also updated: AB, NL, QC, YT
wwater.ca
Source: health-infobase.canada.ca/wastewater/
- London, Peel updated: wwater.ca/Ontario
- Also updated: AB, NL, QC, YT
wwater.ca
Source: health-infobase.canada.ca/wastewater/
Reposted by Mike Bloxam 🇨🇦🍉
There were once dreams of eradicating measles - I remember discussion on it in my MSc epi class.
The loss of progress on measles is not only a health loss for kids (measles can be disabling & deadly), it’s also a massive economic loss.
We save billions/yr not having to vaccinate & treat smallpox.
The loss of progress on measles is not only a health loss for kids (measles can be disabling & deadly), it’s also a massive economic loss.
We save billions/yr not having to vaccinate & treat smallpox.
November 13, 2025 at 12:45 AM
There were once dreams of eradicating measles - I remember discussion on it in my MSc epi class.
The loss of progress on measles is not only a health loss for kids (measles can be disabling & deadly), it’s also a massive economic loss.
We save billions/yr not having to vaccinate & treat smallpox.
The loss of progress on measles is not only a health loss for kids (measles can be disabling & deadly), it’s also a massive economic loss.
We save billions/yr not having to vaccinate & treat smallpox.
Reposted by Mike Bloxam 🇨🇦🍉
"Different strains of the COVID-19 virus sometimes come with symptoms that are specific to them"
Two new SARS-CoV-2 strains circulated in 2025:
“Nimbus” (NB.1.8.1) causing a “razor blade throat,” and “Stratus” (XFG) causing a “persistent dry cough” and spreading much faster due to immune evasion.
Two new SARS-CoV-2 strains circulated in 2025:
“Nimbus” (NB.1.8.1) causing a “razor blade throat,” and “Stratus” (XFG) causing a “persistent dry cough” and spreading much faster due to immune evasion.
November 12, 2025 at 1:33 AM
"Different strains of the COVID-19 virus sometimes come with symptoms that are specific to them"
Two new SARS-CoV-2 strains circulated in 2025:
“Nimbus” (NB.1.8.1) causing a “razor blade throat,” and “Stratus” (XFG) causing a “persistent dry cough” and spreading much faster due to immune evasion.
Two new SARS-CoV-2 strains circulated in 2025:
“Nimbus” (NB.1.8.1) causing a “razor blade throat,” and “Stratus” (XFG) causing a “persistent dry cough” and spreading much faster due to immune evasion.
Reposted by Mike Bloxam 🇨🇦🍉
Reposted by Mike Bloxam 🇨🇦🍉
On CBC: the governor general is in hospital recovering from a “respiratory virus”.
November 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
On CBC: the governor general is in hospital recovering from a “respiratory virus”.
Reposted by Mike Bloxam 🇨🇦🍉
At 10:57 a.m. on Nov. 11, 1918, George Lawrence Price stepped out into a village street in Belgium.
As he did, a German sniper shot him in the chest.
He died one minute later and became the last Canadian soldier to die in the First World War.
This is his story.
🧵 1/8
As he did, a German sniper shot him in the chest.
He died one minute later and became the last Canadian soldier to die in the First World War.
This is his story.
🧵 1/8
November 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
At 10:57 a.m. on Nov. 11, 1918, George Lawrence Price stepped out into a village street in Belgium.
As he did, a German sniper shot him in the chest.
He died one minute later and became the last Canadian soldier to die in the First World War.
This is his story.
🧵 1/8
As he did, a German sniper shot him in the chest.
He died one minute later and became the last Canadian soldier to die in the First World War.
This is his story.
🧵 1/8
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Canadian COVID Forecast: Nov 8 - Nov 21, 2025
SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: CAN, MB, NB, NL, North, NS, QC, SK
HIGH: BC, ON, PEI
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 118 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: CAN, MB, NB, NL, North, NS, QC, SK
HIGH: BC, ON, PEI
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 118 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
November 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Canadian COVID Forecast: Nov 8 - Nov 21, 2025
SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: CAN, MB, NB, NL, North, NS, QC, SK
HIGH: BC, ON, PEI
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 118 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: CAN, MB, NB, NL, North, NS, QC, SK
HIGH: BC, ON, PEI
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 118 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
Reposted by Mike Bloxam 🇨🇦🍉
After some finagling to get the assembly procedure just right we are finally releasing the aluminum bodied POLARIS air purifier, made-in-Canada and based on the open-source design by Zack Deis.
1/3
#airpurifier #indoorairquality #covidisairborne
1/3
#airpurifier #indoorairquality #covidisairborne
November 11, 2025 at 12:05 AM
After some finagling to get the assembly procedure just right we are finally releasing the aluminum bodied POLARIS air purifier, made-in-Canada and based on the open-source design by Zack Deis.
1/3
#airpurifier #indoorairquality #covidisairborne
1/3
#airpurifier #indoorairquality #covidisairborne
Reposted by Mike Bloxam 🇨🇦🍉
You were against respirators.
You were against air cleaners in classrooms and daycares.
You refused to implement #airborne systems during COVID.
You cast aspersions on industrial hygienists, engineers, physicists & experts in PPE and clean air.
You said "vaxx and relax" & crossed your fingers.
You were against air cleaners in classrooms and daycares.
You refused to implement #airborne systems during COVID.
You cast aspersions on industrial hygienists, engineers, physicists & experts in PPE and clean air.
You said "vaxx and relax" & crossed your fingers.
November 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
You were against respirators.
You were against air cleaners in classrooms and daycares.
You refused to implement #airborne systems during COVID.
You cast aspersions on industrial hygienists, engineers, physicists & experts in PPE and clean air.
You said "vaxx and relax" & crossed your fingers.
You were against air cleaners in classrooms and daycares.
You refused to implement #airborne systems during COVID.
You cast aspersions on industrial hygienists, engineers, physicists & experts in PPE and clean air.
You said "vaxx and relax" & crossed your fingers.
Reposted by Mike Bloxam 🇨🇦🍉
You had one job.
Just maintain the #measles status that your predecessors had established.
But you couldn't even do that.
This is what failure looks like.
It's time Public Health & the Infectious Disease communities to grow up and accept that they need help from experts outside their community.
Just maintain the #measles status that your predecessors had established.
But you couldn't even do that.
This is what failure looks like.
It's time Public Health & the Infectious Disease communities to grow up and accept that they need help from experts outside their community.
a poster showing the diseases can still spread through the population
Alt: a poster showing the diseases can still spread through the population
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
You had one job.
Just maintain the #measles status that your predecessors had established.
But you couldn't even do that.
This is what failure looks like.
It's time Public Health & the Infectious Disease communities to grow up and accept that they need help from experts outside their community.
Just maintain the #measles status that your predecessors had established.
But you couldn't even do that.
This is what failure looks like.
It's time Public Health & the Infectious Disease communities to grow up and accept that they need help from experts outside their community.
Reposted by Mike Bloxam 🇨🇦🍉
#Canada could face ‘worst kind’ of flu season as experts warn evolving strain may be mismatch for vaccine
Alarm bells abroad, spread of a new form of H3N2 provide warnings as influenza cases start ticking up
/1 thread
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
Alarm bells abroad, spread of a new form of H3N2 provide warnings as influenza cases start ticking up
/1 thread
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
Canada could face ‘worst kind’ of flu season as experts warn evolving strain may be mismatch for vaccine | CBC News
With flu cases now rising in Canada, medical experts are bracing for a difficult influenza season linked to the global spread of an evolving H3N2 strain that could be a mismatch for this year’s vaccin...
www.cbc.ca
November 9, 2025 at 10:40 AM
#Canada could face ‘worst kind’ of flu season as experts warn evolving strain may be mismatch for vaccine
Alarm bells abroad, spread of a new form of H3N2 provide warnings as influenza cases start ticking up
/1 thread
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
Alarm bells abroad, spread of a new form of H3N2 provide warnings as influenza cases start ticking up
/1 thread
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...