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Can You Go to Canada if You Have a DUI?
Many Americans are surprised to learn that entering Canada with a DUI can be extremely difficult. This is because a DUI is a felony north of the border, and can consequently result in a visitor being considered “criminally inadmissible” and denied entry at the Canadian border. In December 2018, Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Government of […]
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just look on the sunny side of life
Posted October 5, 2020 by Anonymous
You have to be creative to stay in business during a pandemic. pic.twitter.com/cKmA1xXxrT— You Had One Job! (@_youhadonejob1) October 5, 2020 Lincolnshire Wildlife Park has recently been forced to remove five African grey parrots from the main p…
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Saturday Stories: How Pfizer’s Vaccine Works, School Closures And Life Expectancies, And Your Place In The Vaccination Line
Posted December 12, 2020 by Yoni Freedhoff
Jonathan Corum and Carl Zimmer, in The New York Times, explain how the Pfizer vaccine will work inside of your body.Melissa Davey, in The Guardian, digs past the alarmist headlines and breathless tweets and speaks with epidemiologist Gid MK to explore…
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Exclusive: Whistleblower Accuses Exxon of ‘Fraudulent’ Behavior for Overvaluing Fracking Assets For Years
Posted February 2, 2021 by Anonymous
Read time: 7 minsExxonMobil announced a $19.3 billion write-down on Tuesday, a big hit to a company reeling from depressed oil and gas prices and a rapidly changing global energy market.
The write-down reduces the value of the assets on Exxon’s books…
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Funny stuff
Posted November 16, 2020 by Anonymous
You know how when you’re going through an intersection and someone runs the red but luckily they just click your bumper on the way past, and you are shaken but OK and you just drive on?
That’s how I feel about Trump’s defeat.
America has avoided fascism by the merest click.— Cathie from Canada 🇨🇦 😷🏳️🌈 (@CathieCanada) November 8, 2020
Everyone needs to chill out please. They still have to count all of Hunter Biden’s laptops, Greenland, the lost city of Antifa and the hidden suburbs behind the revolving ObamaGate.
— Jesse Lifson (@DoYouEvenLif) November 13, 2020
Johnny Cash spent decades trying to warn us about this. https://t.co/EkqJhSUqdq
— Steve Reilly (@BySteveReilly) November 11, 2020
From the ‘Crap wildlife photography’ group on Facebook #womensart pic.twitter.com/pxMUG35LJT
— #WOMENSART (@womensart1) November 11, 2020
When you see your ex and try to play it cool.
📹: Imgur user anlyin pic.twitter.com/PSyXsmPZX3
— Paul Bronks (@SlenderSherbet) November 15, 2020
Ever since the owners got this trampoline, the dog spends more time on it than the kids
(viralhog) pic.twitter.com/ToBhFJM2ET— ༺❆ᗙ Martin 🏳️🌈 ᗛ❆༻ Party time🍷 (@KlatuBaradaNiko) November 10, 2020
Obstacle course skills… pic.twitter.com/modMjqwTqK
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) November 9, 2020
This good boy thinks the guys throwing darts on the TV are playing fetch with him… pic.twitter.com/tcLNrKpn0Q
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) November 15, 2020
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Thankful
Posted October 13, 2020 by Anonymous
This is the best public health messaging I’ve seen all year. #Covid19 pic.twitter.com/Oc5iMMJVx8— Gerald Butts 🇨🇦 😷🖐🧼🤚 (@gmbutts) October 9, 2020 Well, as a matter of fact I DO know what to do with a pencil and a cassette tape. But we survived our…
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End of August Doldrums
Posted August 30, 2020 by Anonymous
What a strange week! I’ve been trying to decide what to post here for this week, and haven’t really got anything organized.Down South, the Republican Convention came in like a lamb and left like a lamb too, and nobody seems to really remember anyt…
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Climate Deniers Backed Violence and Spread Pro-Insurrection Messages Before, During, and After January 6
Posted February 16, 2021 by Sharon Kelly
Read time: 12 minsOn the evening of January 6, 2021, the day of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, former coal mining executive Don Blankenship, who ran against Donald Trump as a third-party candidate in the 2020 election, began an all-caps Twitter …
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Back to normal
Posted January 27, 2021 by Anonymous
What a relief it is to just have normal politics-as-usual going on everywhere these days – blaming Trudeau for stuff that isn’t his fault, blaming O’Toole for stuff that IS his fault, watching Biden taking over the US government, its all good these day…
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Analysis: The Natural Gas Industry Is Trying To Deny How Affordable Renewable Energy Is
Posted February 17, 2021 by Anonymous
Read time: 10 minsFossil fuel industry supporters and climate deniers are pushing a new climate falsehood when it comes to renewable energy: that natural gas offers a more affordable future. And they’re focusing their misinformation campaign on New Jer…
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Saturday Stories: The Myths Of Pandemic Fatigue, COVID Is Absolutely Controllable, And On Being A Female Expert
Posted January 16, 2021 by Yoni Freedhoff
If you’re not already following Dr. Popescu, you should be.
Stephen Reicher and John Drury, in the BMJ, on how adherence to COVID recommendations is reliant more on resources and less on motivation or energy.Gideon M-K, in Medium, with the plain truth …
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Cheaper Solar Power Means Low-income Families Can Also Benefit — With the Right Kind of Help
Posted January 21, 2021 by guest
Read time: 6 minsBy Galen Barbose Eric O’Shaughnessy, and Ryan Wiser of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Until recently, rooftop solar panels were a clean energy technology that only wealthy Americans could afford. But prices have dropped, thanks…
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Shell’s ‘Delusional’ Net Zero Strategy Commits $8 Billion to Fossil Fuels
Posted February 11, 2021 by Anonymous
Read time: 4 minsShell’s new net zero strategy is “grotesque” and includes an “impossible” reliance on tree-planting, campaigners have claimed.
The oil major today revealed an “accelerated” strategy to reduce oil production and decarbonise its product…
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Saturday Stories: Complacency’s Price, and Minks
Posted November 7, 2020 by Yoni Freedhoff
Andre Picard, in The Globe and Mail, on the price we’re paying for complacency with COVID.Helen Branswell, in STAT, with some reassurance on Danish COVID minks. Yes minks.
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Saturday Stories: Vaccines Alone Aren’t Enough, Women And Vaccines, Why Every Country Should Be Aiming At #COVIDZero, J&J And Novavax
Posted January 30, 2021 by Yoni Freedhoff
Angela Rasmussen, in Slate, on how we can’t rely on vaccines alone to end this pandemic (this is especially true right now in Canada where our vaccination program is barely off the ground)
Alice Lu-Culligan and Akiko Iwasaki, in the New York Times, on…
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Saturday Stories: Vitamin D, The New England Journal of Medicine, Toxic Masculinity, And Super-Spreading
Posted October 10, 2020 by Yoni Freedhoff
Gid M-K, in Medium, tells us what we do and don’t know about Vitamin D and COVIDThe Editors of and in The New England Journal of Medicine, on with paragraphs of fire regarding the coming American election.Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, on how toxic masculi…
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School Daze
Posted August 8, 2020 by Anonymous
From Reddit: pic.twitter.com/QNLRl937V8— Cathie from Canada 🇨🇦 😷🏳️🌈 (@CathieCanada) August 6, 2020 Oh dear, I think we’re in trouble now.The Sask school plan is based on wishful thinking – it imagines that COVID is symptomatic, that students with symp…
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Oh happy day
Posted November 8, 2020 by Anonymous
HEY, NEIGHBOUR
✌️❤️🇨🇦🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/9niMTfDPi8— Brittlestar (@brittlestar) November 7, 2020
#BestEpisode_EVER pic.twitter.com/n7oJx9BrhE
— Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) November 7, 2020
You may want to mute this account for a while because I feel I may have to individually insult every member of the outgoing administration in crude and personal ways
— Hari Kunzru (@harikunzru) November 7, 2020
I drew this thinking of Georgia and Arizona. #Election2020 #TrumpIsLosing #TrumpMeltdown pic.twitter.com/5zBKjyDHwk
— Michael de Adder (@deAdder) November 7, 2020
People were ecstatic when Obama won too, but the energy was really different. That was like we were all on the cusp of a bright new future. This is more like we just beat the Nazis.
— Jan in the Pan (@mswhatsit) November 8, 2020
No joke: I’m in rural Mexico and cheers just erupted throughout the town
— Justin C. Cohen (@juscohen) November 7, 2020
From church bells in Paris to fireworks in London, Europe & beyond, America’s allies across the world are celebrating Donald Trump’s defeat and the election of President Biden and VP Harris! ❤️🎉🍾 pic.twitter.com/SYtIEgLTQ8
— Minh Ngo (@minhtngo) November 7, 2020
And finally, this:
Reminder: Hillary Clinton gets to cast one of the electoral votes that throws him out of office. 🙃https://t.co/yPlwzCgaJU
— Dennis Mersereau (@wxdam) November 7, 2020
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Saturday Stories: Caring For Patients With COVID, Side Effects, And Science
Posted December 19, 2020 by Yoni Freedhoff
Olivia Veira and Joshua M. Sharfstein, in JAMA, with a roundup of healthcare workers’ candid thoughts on caring for patients with COVID.
Maryn McKenna, in Wired, on the importance of talking about the vaccines’ side effects.
Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, …
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From Capture to Culture: Aquaculture in the US
Posted February 24, 2021 by Anonymous
Read time: 7 minsAs the Biden administration turns to environmental concerns, one of its top priorities will be how to better protect the world’s oceans. With more than 80 percent of the world’s fish stocks at or near collapse, some marine conservation…
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Living With Natural Gas Pipelines: Appalachian Landowners Describe Fear, Anxiety and Loss
Posted February 5, 2021 by guest
Read time: 7 minsBy Erin Brock Carlson, West Virginia University and Martina Angela Caretta, Lund University
More than 2 million miles of natural gas pipelines run throughout the United States. In Appalachia, they spread like spaghetti across the regi…
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My favorite Christmas videos
Posted December 23, 2020 by Anonymous
Here are some of my favorite “Christmas” videos, the ones I listen to every year around this time: This one is from one of the oddest Christmas specials ever: Here’s my husband’s favorite – it reminds him of his own trips home at Chris…
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Why the US Rejoining the Paris Climate Accord Matters at Home and Abroad — 5 Scholars Explain
Posted February 20, 2021 by guest
Read time: 7 minsBy Morgan Bazilian, Colorado School of Mines; Deb Niemeier, University of Maryland; Edward R. Carr, Clark University; Kristie Ebi, University of Washington, and Walt Meier, NASA
The United States is formally back in the Paris climate …
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Evidence Shows Oil Industry Flaring in Texas Being Done Without Permits
Posted January 29, 2021 by Anonymous
Read time: 7 minsIn 2019 and 2020, the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) conducted three helicopter surveys over the oil fields of West Texas. Flying over flare stacks at more than three hundred oil and gas drilling sites, EDF staff used infrared camera…
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Saturday Stories: The Australian Response, The Brazilian Variant, And The Russian Vaccine
Posted February 6, 2021 by Yoni Freedhoff
Damien Cave, in The New York Times, on how Australia is maintaining near normalcy of life in the time of COVID19
James Hamblin, in the Atlantic, on the Brazilian variant that’s currently rampaging through a city that had been thought to be immune due …
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Saturday Stories: Antarctically Cold Vaccines, Cancelling Thanksgiving, And How Vermont Succeeded
Posted November 21, 2020 by Yoni Freedhoff
Selinia Simmons-Duffin, in NPR Shots, on why Pfizer’s vaccine needs to be kept at temperatures lower than an Antarctic winter.James Hamblin, in The Atlantic, on honouring the meaning of the Thanksgiving holiday by cancelling it this year.Julia Belluz,…
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Voting for delusion
Posted September 12, 2020 by Anonymous
As I read this short piece at No More Mister Nice Guy, I felt increasingly horrified:
It’s often said that Trump’s approach to everything is “transactional.” I think Trump’s approach to reality is transactional. The truth is the truth when it serves his purposes. In those moments, Trump believes in reality. But in other moments, not only does he walk out to a podium and contradict reality, he does so without necessarily believing that he’s lying. As I’ve said in the past, Trump doesn’t believe in truth. There are (as we see them) facts, lies, and true and false interpretations of reality, but to Trump they’re all equally valid. He’ll use any of them to shape reality, and he’ll believe whatever he’s saying at the time, even if it contradicts what he said six hours ago. In part this is because, as Yastreblyansky says, he believes in the Power of Positive Thinking and therefore thinks confidence can shape reality. In part it’s because it’s important to him to be his audience’s daddy, someone who dominates us the way his father dominated him.
This is the man that millions of Americans voted for. And will vote for again.
I’m reading more stories now about Americans who don’t believe COVID is actually real – they think its all a Democratic plot, and that millions of Americans are just getting the flu, and hundreds of thousands are dying of something they already had like heart disease.
I don’t know what they think people are getting sick from in other countries around the world, but probably they aren’t even aware that other countries actually exist.
And I’m reading stories now about how people in small towns in Oregon and Washington and California think that Antifa, not campers or lightning, is the cause of the fires that are destroying their homes.
I hear from friends in Oregon that, per local media, some claims ‘antifa is starting forest fires’ have been traced to magabros hearing ‘blm’ on radio scanners and not realizing it means Bureau of Land Management
— David Burbach (@dburbach) September 11, 2020
Its absolutely crazy.
Anyone else make this mistake recently? 😳#climatechange #wildfires #apocalypse2020 #motordumb #yycbike pic.twitter.com/Gn1TljmSgu
— REWORKS (@ReWorksYYC) September 12, 2020
Apparently AP style now says you can use “less” even when “fewer” is correct and so 2020 continues to plumb new depths.
— Jonathan Gitlin (@drgitlin) September 11, 2020
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Saturday Stories: Year Two And The New Strain
Posted January 2, 2021 by Yoni Freedhoff
Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, with a typically phenomenal piece (and sadly the last he’ll be writing for a while as he finishes up a book) where he discusses the pandemic’s year two.Kai Kupferschmidt, in Science, with what you need to know, and why people…
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Alberta Inquiry Steps into a Past Era’s Dark Denial
Posted January 27, 2021 by David Suzuki
Read time: 4 minsThat anyone today could deny the overwhelming and incontrovertible evidence for human-caused climate disruption is shocking. You don’t even need a science background to see its worsening effects occurring worldwide, from record-high te…
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£335: The Price of Tullow Oil’s Environmental Failings — and a Boy’s Funeral
Posted February 4, 2021 by Anonymous
Read time: 8 minsFollowing a disputed presidential election at the end of 2007, violence broke out in Kenya that saw thousands of people displaced from their homes and left more than 1,000 dead.
Among the displaced was Joseph Loree, a 58-year-old fath…
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Saturday Stories: Anti-Vaxxer COVID Playbook, A Potentially Scarier Variant, And Ontario’s Abysmal Response To Date
Posted January 23, 2021 by Yoni Freedhoff
Scott Gavura, in Science Based Medicine, on the anti-vaxx campaign to erode confidence in COVID vaccines.Julia Belluz and Umair Irfan, in Vox, on the new South African COVID variant that may challenge current vaccines.André Picard and Adalsteinn Brown…
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Saturday Stories: Which Vaccine Should You Get, And Summertime
Posted February 20, 2021 by Yoni Freedhoff
Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, in The Guardian, discusses which vaccine you should get.James Hamblin, in The Atlantic, on what summer might look like (in the US mind you, here in Canada, given our exceedingly slow pace of vaccination, this might not apply)
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Scenes from a Locked-Down Washington D.C. as Biden Takes the Reins
Posted January 22, 2021 by Julie Dermansky
Read time: 11 minsA few hours before President Joe Biden was inaugurated, I talked to a supporter of President Donald Trump in Washington D.C. who was on her way to celebrate Trump’s inauguration at The Ellipse, a federal park near the White House. She…
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What happened on 1/6, and what will happen next
Posted January 14, 2021 by Anonymous
Here’s a map I found that illustrates the Jan 6 Trump Insurrection: The New York Times has an excellent interactive article which describes how the attack on the US Capital building went, and here’s an article from the Washington Post describing what W…
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Happy Valentine’s Day!
Posted February 13, 2021 by Anonymous
Sort of a lousy day, really — stupid cold, and Trump is found GUILTY but he skates away without any penalties so far. Well, anyway, here’s some funny tweets just to lighten the mood for Valentine’s Day:
Just fit in to some of my old clothes from 20 years ago. Feeling pretty proud.
It’s a scarf by the way but its a start.— mariana Z (@mariana057) January 29, 2021
Just gonna leave this here… pic.twitter.com/VZ8wXkOOVS
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) February 10, 2021
— Mystery Solvent (@MysterySolvent) February 11, 2021
Cats, y’all…pic.twitter.com/cmIhWmeGmJ
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) February 10, 2021
Well well, how the turntables…
📹: Imgur user Chingelmarie pic.twitter.com/kHWvi0OkxO
— Paul Bronks (@SlenderSherbet) February 11, 2021
Life goals: Find someone who loves you even half as much as this dog loves opera. 🔊 🆙
📹: Imgur user MonStar1203 pic.twitter.com/neVHObBNzc
— Paul Bronks (@SlenderSherbet) February 1, 2021
Cute.🐯🐾⛄️ pic.twitter.com/XAl5hQ1EAJ
— Andrei (@AndreiAndrei63) January 24, 2021
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Appalachian Fracking Boom Was a Jobs Bust, Finds New Report
Posted February 11, 2021 by Anonymous
Read time: 7 minsThe decade-long fracking boom in Appalachia has not led to significant job growth, and despite the region’s extraordinary levels of natural gas production, the industry’s promise of prosperity has “turned into almost nothing,” accordin…
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RDs! We’re Hiring! Looking To Fill A Full-Time Permanent Position With My New Venture Constant Health (Telecommuters Welcome!)
Posted October 22, 2020 by Yoni Freedhoff
Since 2004, Constant Health’s expert team has been at the forefront behavioural weight management, and now, by leveraging the best that technology has to offer, the goal is to share that expertise while eliminating geographic boundaries. Our headquart…
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Environmental Groups Fight Back Against Alberta’s ‘Anti-Energy’ Inquiry
Posted February 17, 2021 by Anonymous
Read time: 6 minsAn 18-month inquiry led by the province of Alberta into environmental groups opposed to Canadian tar sands is nearing completion, but a Canadian NGO wants the CA$3.5 million inquiry disbanded, alleging that it was improperly establishe…
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Dogs! Lots of dogs!
Posted November 29, 2020 by Anonymous
For a delightful change of pace, here’s some of the best dog videos now on the web:
Crazy agility by Pink the border collie..
Come for the speed – stay for flying hug…pic.twitter.com/ReL9buvhyi
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) November 27, 2020
Gm tweeties, happy hump day! Enjoy your day everyone.
pic.twitter.com/QdlH6vwcNn— ༺🦋༻ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ༺🦋༻ (@LepapillonBlu) November 25, 2020
His favorite toy pic.twitter.com/gFO2N7Q5tp
— The Feel Good Page ❤️ (@akkitwts) November 23, 2020
ok it is time to remember when three dogs thought it was just another day and it turned out to be a great day they are so happy tbh pic.twitter.com/UlhK5MJZbu
— darth™ (@darth) November 11, 2016
These two are Branch Managers.. pic.twitter.com/m23hJhf5QL
— Land of cuteness (@landpsychology) November 27, 2020
Don’t mind him. He’s just trying to fit in.. pic.twitter.com/k2MRNq7gDz
— Land of cuteness (@landpsychology) November 27, 2020
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How U.S. Crude Oil Exports Are Hastening the Demise of the Oil Industry
Posted January 28, 2021 by Anonymous
Read time: 12 minsWhen Congress lifted the export ban on U.S. crude oil in December of 2015 to allow for exports beginning in 2016, the oil industry celebrated. However, looking back at the impact of lifting the 40-year-old ban, it appears the move has…
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Environmental Activists in Louisiana Call on Senator Cassidy to ‘Do No Harm’
Posted February 16, 2021 by Julie Dermansky
Read time: 8 mins“It took courage for Senator Cassidy to vote against Trump,” Sharon Lavigne, the founder of the faith-based grassroots organization RISE St. James, said about the Louisiana Republican after the impeachment hearing of the former preside…
