@rurulovesmetoo.bsky.social
Canadian, west coaster. Interests - science, education, politics, public health, microbiology, orchids, birding, running, always seeking to understand.
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1) This is blatantly unconstitutional
2) Withholding funding from which judicial appointments? Provincial? Because federally-appointed judges get paid from the federal budget. That's why new judicial spots end up in federal budget bills
3) Withholding any funding will make the justice system worse
2) Withholding funding from which judicial appointments? Provincial? Because federally-appointed judges get paid from the federal budget. That's why new judicial spots end up in federal budget bills
3) Withholding any funding will make the justice system worse
February 3, 2026 at 9:57 PM
1) This is blatantly unconstitutional
2) Withholding funding from which judicial appointments? Provincial? Because federally-appointed judges get paid from the federal budget. That's why new judicial spots end up in federal budget bills
3) Withholding any funding will make the justice system worse
2) Withholding funding from which judicial appointments? Provincial? Because federally-appointed judges get paid from the federal budget. That's why new judicial spots end up in federal budget bills
3) Withholding any funding will make the justice system worse
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To be clear: The Online News Act was not about paying for links.
It was about Google and Facebook using their monopoly power to consolidate the online advertising market for their own ends, and being made to compensate news organizations who were impacted by the loss of that advertising. #PnPCBC
It was about Google and Facebook using their monopoly power to consolidate the online advertising market for their own ends, and being made to compensate news organizations who were impacted by the loss of that advertising. #PnPCBC
February 3, 2026 at 11:22 PM
To be clear: The Online News Act was not about paying for links.
It was about Google and Facebook using their monopoly power to consolidate the online advertising market for their own ends, and being made to compensate news organizations who were impacted by the loss of that advertising. #PnPCBC
It was about Google and Facebook using their monopoly power to consolidate the online advertising market for their own ends, and being made to compensate news organizations who were impacted by the loss of that advertising. #PnPCBC
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I think we need this again today.
Noah Reid performs A Case of You | Noah Reid interprète A Case of You
YouTube video by GGAwards-PrixGG
youtu.be
January 31, 2026 at 7:34 PM
I think we need this again today.
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I want to share so many sections of the piece. Just read it. Read it all. #CDNPoli
Related to my previous post "As though life as we remember it is over..."
There's this, which is not good...
hartmannreport.com/p/the-most-d...
There's this, which is not good...
hartmannreport.com/p/the-most-d...
The Most Dangerous Moment Is When Authoritarians Seem to Compromise
Trump’s recalibration follows the same step-back, step-forward playbook used by Orbán, Putin, and every modern strongman…
hartmannreport.com
January 28, 2026 at 7:30 PM
I want to share so many sections of the piece. Just read it. Read it all. #CDNPoli
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Today, we remember the more than six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, and the millions of others murdered by the Nazi regime. As survivors grow fewer, our responsibility to remember and our resolve to act grows stronger. (1/3)
January 27, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Today, we remember the more than six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, and the millions of others murdered by the Nazi regime. As survivors grow fewer, our responsibility to remember and our resolve to act grows stronger. (1/3)
With climate change, changing international supply chains, and other global adjustments, this seems short sighted. Cuts to science have lead to long term consequences.
The union representing workers at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and some farming groups are firing back at Ottawa over abrupt job cuts and closures.
Union, farm groups say cuts at federal agriculture centres will set sector back
The union representing workers at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and some farming groups are firing back at Ottawa over abrupt job cuts and closures.
cheknews.ca
January 27, 2026 at 1:32 AM
With climate change, changing international supply chains, and other global adjustments, this seems short sighted. Cuts to science have lead to long term consequences.
Phalaenopsis lindenii, a species orchid endemic to the Philippines. I purchased this pair from my local orchid society in 2006. I mounted them in 2023. #Orchids
January 26, 2026 at 1:51 AM
Phalaenopsis lindenii, a species orchid endemic to the Philippines. I purchased this pair from my local orchid society in 2006. I mounted them in 2023. #Orchids
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Family members say the man killed by a U.S. Border Patrol officer in Minneapolis on Saturday was an intensive care nurse at a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital who cared deeply about people and was upset by President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown in his city.
The man killed by a US Border Patrol officer in Minneapolis was an ICU nurse, family says
Family members say the man killed by a U.S. Border Patrol officer in Minneapolis on Saturday was an intensive care nurse at a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital who cared deeply about people and was upset by President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown in his city.
cheknews.ca
January 24, 2026 at 10:53 PM
Family members say the man killed by a U.S. Border Patrol officer in Minneapolis on Saturday was an intensive care nurse at a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital who cared deeply about people and was upset by President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown in his city.
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CBC News, egregiously both-sidesing fascism once again.
At some point, you just need to call out Vance's lies, you guys.
At some point, you just need to call out Vance's lies, you guys.
January 23, 2026 at 3:53 AM
CBC News, egregiously both-sidesing fascism once again.
At some point, you just need to call out Vance's lies, you guys.
At some point, you just need to call out Vance's lies, you guys.
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Or, Heated Rivalry only exists because of CanCon requirements. Otherwise CTV/Bell/Crave would have just imported another American show.
Just because it's successful doesn't mean that it isn't a product of the ecosystem it was created in.
Just because it's successful doesn't mean that it isn't a product of the ecosystem it was created in.
Opinion: Heated Rivalry shows Canadian content doesn’t need the CRTC’s help
www.hilltimes.com/story/2026/0...
www.hilltimes.com/story/2026/0...
Heated Rivalry shows Canadian content doesn’t need the CRTC’s help
Streaming platforms already give Canadians the tools to seek out the content they want, in the language they want, and the success stories speak for themselves.
www.hilltimes.com
January 22, 2026 at 9:59 PM
Or, Heated Rivalry only exists because of CanCon requirements. Otherwise CTV/Bell/Crave would have just imported another American show.
Just because it's successful doesn't mean that it isn't a product of the ecosystem it was created in.
Just because it's successful doesn't mean that it isn't a product of the ecosystem it was created in.
Someone needed to say it.
The speech was delivered against a backdrop of rising geopolitical tensions between great powers like Russia, China and the United States.
globalnews.ca/news/1162087...
globalnews.ca/news/1162087...
Read the full transcript of Carney’s speech to World Economic Forum - National | Globalnews.ca
Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a forceful speech in Davos, Switzerland, on the 'new world order' and how middle powers like Canada can benefit by working together.
globalnews.ca
January 20, 2026 at 10:44 PM
Someone needed to say it.
It seems prudent to seek a ruling from the SCC on this. Go through the full process now and set the precedent for the future.
@djclimenhaga.bsky.social: Notwithstanding Friday’s Federal Court of Appeal ruling that Trudeau’s use of the Emergencies Act to end the convoy Ottawa occupation in 2022 was unreasonable, the most appropriate place for this matter to be settled once and for all remains the Supreme Court of Canada.
Why Trudeau’s Emergency Act Use Should Go to the Supreme Court | The Tyee
An Appeal Court has said the imposition was unjustified. But the ruling raises issues and risks.
thetyee.ca
January 20, 2026 at 2:49 PM
It seems prudent to seek a ruling from the SCC on this. Go through the full process now and set the precedent for the future.
The cynic in me thinks it’s all about money and wanting to avoid the additional cost of providing upgraded PPE to our healthcare staff. I think they avoid acknowledging the risk of aerosol transmission so employers won’t be forced to upgrade ventilation and filtration.
By Jim the hermit
Maybe they don’t want respirator masks in hospitals because patients suffering heart attacks, strokes, cancer, kidney failure etc might ask why people are wearing masks.
And someone might tell them.
And they’d figure out why they’re sick.
And they’d realise they’d been lied to.
Maybe they don’t want respirator masks in hospitals because patients suffering heart attacks, strokes, cancer, kidney failure etc might ask why people are wearing masks.
And someone might tell them.
And they’d figure out why they’re sick.
And they’d realise they’d been lied to.
January 20, 2026 at 12:58 PM
The cynic in me thinks it’s all about money and wanting to avoid the additional cost of providing upgraded PPE to our healthcare staff. I think they avoid acknowledging the risk of aerosol transmission so employers won’t be forced to upgrade ventilation and filtration.
Study: Development and Validation of Two Real-Time PCR Assays for the Detection of ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma pruni’ Strains Causing X-Disease in Stone Fruits
Published: 18 January 2026 bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#Phytoplasma #Microbiology #StoneFruit #XDisease
Published: 18 January 2026 bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#Phytoplasma #Microbiology #StoneFruit #XDisease
Development and Validation of Two Real‐Time PCR Assays for the Detection of ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma pruni’ Strains Causing X‐Disease in Stone Fruits
Development and validation of two real-time PCR assays for the detection of ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma pruni’ strains causing X-disease in stone fruits.
bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 19, 2026 at 2:54 AM
Study: Development and Validation of Two Real-Time PCR Assays for the Detection of ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma pruni’ Strains Causing X-Disease in Stone Fruits
Published: 18 January 2026 bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#Phytoplasma #Microbiology #StoneFruit #XDisease
Published: 18 January 2026 bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#Phytoplasma #Microbiology #StoneFruit #XDisease
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📺 OMG—who made this?! Noah Wyle has a message for all you—vaccine skeptics…
Share with a friend who needs to hear it.
Share with a friend who needs to hear it.
January 15, 2026 at 8:06 PM
📺 OMG—who made this?! Noah Wyle has a message for all you—vaccine skeptics…
Share with a friend who needs to hear it.
Share with a friend who needs to hear it.
It takes them awhile but eventually they do say it:
“While Adams’ career fall seemed swift, careful readers of Dilbert saw a gradual darkening of the strip’s tone and its creator’s descent into misogyny, anti-immigration and racism.”
“While Adams’ career fall seemed swift, careful readers of Dilbert saw a gradual darkening of the strip’s tone and its creator’s descent into misogyny, anti-immigration and racism.”
“I had an amazing life, I gave it everything I had, ” Adams said in a statement shared by his ex-wife.
globalnews.ca/news/1161121...
globalnews.ca/news/1161121...
Scott Adams dead: ‘Dilbert’ creator and cartoonist dies at 68 - National | Globalnews.ca
At its height, 'Dilbert' appeared in 2,000 newspapers worldwide in at least 70 countries and 25 languages.
globalnews.ca
January 13, 2026 at 6:06 PM
It takes them awhile but eventually they do say it:
“While Adams’ career fall seemed swift, careful readers of Dilbert saw a gradual darkening of the strip’s tone and its creator’s descent into misogyny, anti-immigration and racism.”
“While Adams’ career fall seemed swift, careful readers of Dilbert saw a gradual darkening of the strip’s tone and its creator’s descent into misogyny, anti-immigration and racism.”
Patient care decisions must be patient centred regardless of the circumstances.
A trial set to begin Monday in British Columbia's Supreme Court questions whether publicly funded faith-based hospitals should be allowed to prevent patients from receiving medical assistance in dying in their facilities.
B.C. court to hear Charter challenge over religious exemptions to assisted dying law
A trial set to begin Monday in British Columbia's Supreme Court questions whether publicly funded faith-based hospitals should be allowed to prevent patients from receiving medical assistance in dying in their facilities.
cheknews.ca
January 11, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Patient care decisions must be patient centred regardless of the circumstances.
@bydonmartin.bsky.social and his followers may have #JustOneTown suggestions.
Project 2025 took something from all of us. This month, we start taking it back.
THE PLAN: We pick one town on the other side of the border, and flood it with kindness.
Watch the video, and let's try to reverse some of the damage. Even just a fraction. #JustOneTown
youtube.com/shorts/9lY5x...
THE PLAN: We pick one town on the other side of the border, and flood it with kindness.
Watch the video, and let's try to reverse some of the damage. Even just a fraction. #JustOneTown
youtube.com/shorts/9lY5x...
Just One Town: THE PLAN
What if Canadians and Americans stopped being angry at each other for one day? Not for a country. For one small town. How it works, why it matters, and how you take part, it’s all in this…
youtube.com
January 10, 2026 at 3:16 PM
@bydonmartin.bsky.social and his followers may have #JustOneTown suggestions.
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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has issued a notification that avian flu has been detected at a non-commercial poultry farm in the Capital Regional District.
Avian flu detected in Capital Regional District non-commercial poulty farm: CFIA
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has issued a notification that avian flu has been detected at a non-commercial poultry farm in the Capital Regional District.
cheknews.ca
January 9, 2026 at 9:03 PM
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has issued a notification that avian flu has been detected at a non-commercial poultry farm in the Capital Regional District.
Has 🍊’s pursuit of a new world order increased your resolve to avoid/boycott USA products/travel?
#CDNPoli
If you have travelled to the USA for pleasure in the past year, will you continue to do so? I want to understand.
#CDNPoli
If you have travelled to the USA for pleasure in the past year, will you continue to do so? I want to understand.
January 7, 2026 at 8:11 PM
Has 🍊’s pursuit of a new world order increased your resolve to avoid/boycott USA products/travel?
#CDNPoli
If you have travelled to the USA for pleasure in the past year, will you continue to do so? I want to understand.
#CDNPoli
If you have travelled to the USA for pleasure in the past year, will you continue to do so? I want to understand.
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𝗧𝘄𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘆!
There are now 20 Healthcare Infusion chapters across #Canada!
Twenty communities where people stopped asking when help would come, and became the help.
Want to move to Canada? Check out healthcareinfusion.org
And uh... Newfoundland, PEI, and the northern territories?... I mean... 🤔
There are now 20 Healthcare Infusion chapters across #Canada!
Twenty communities where people stopped asking when help would come, and became the help.
Want to move to Canada? Check out healthcareinfusion.org
And uh... Newfoundland, PEI, and the northern territories?... I mean... 🤔
January 6, 2026 at 12:22 AM
𝗧𝘄𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘆!
There are now 20 Healthcare Infusion chapters across #Canada!
Twenty communities where people stopped asking when help would come, and became the help.
Want to move to Canada? Check out healthcareinfusion.org
And uh... Newfoundland, PEI, and the northern territories?... I mean... 🤔
There are now 20 Healthcare Infusion chapters across #Canada!
Twenty communities where people stopped asking when help would come, and became the help.
Want to move to Canada? Check out healthcareinfusion.org
And uh... Newfoundland, PEI, and the northern territories?... I mean... 🤔
Venezuela ✅
Greenland
Panama
Canada
Mexico
Anyone else he’s mentioned in the past?
Greenland
Panama
Canada
Mexico
Anyone else he’s mentioned in the past?
January 3, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Venezuela ✅
Greenland
Panama
Canada
Mexico
Anyone else he’s mentioned in the past?
Greenland
Panama
Canada
Mexico
Anyone else he’s mentioned in the past?
There are so many stories we need to hear. Sharing this one and hoping you’ll read it #BCHistory #SupportLocal #JapaneseCanadian #Canadian #Internment #Fujiya
www.fujiya.ca/rememberings...
www.fujiya.ca/rememberings...
Remembering Shig | Fujiya
www.fujiya.ca
January 3, 2026 at 2:37 AM
There are so many stories we need to hear. Sharing this one and hoping you’ll read it #BCHistory #SupportLocal #JapaneseCanadian #Canadian #Internment #Fujiya
www.fujiya.ca/rememberings...
www.fujiya.ca/rememberings...