If you are in Alberta or in US States where the MMR vaccine is discredited by bogus science, please read this article by a bereaved family whose daughter died 11 years after being infected with measles as a young baby. Know how dire & longlasting the risks are.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...
Professor targets record for running marathon in academic dress. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/profess...
Perhaps Alex (formerly of @wadhamcollege.bsky.social) is cheating a tiny bit because he's not wearing his academic hood - at least in training! Exercise in my fake bunny fur is impossible
More collateral damage from Trump's folly and inability to think ahead: hundreds of stranded sailors abandoned and hungry.
observer.co.uk/news/interna...
Robert Arnold is a US poet and podcaster who actually understands Canada: we're an immense nation of people from all parts of the earth w/ an endless capacity for focussing on the small things that make the day worth living. Like digging strangers' cars out of snowdrifts.
youtu.be/d16SzzVAk0Y?...
Progress indeed.
This is the way to conduct international diplomacy. Not bombs blockades invasions and kidnappings.
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A message from Bruce Springsteen to the president
Can't the two exist together in the same person?
Surreal.Trump attacks Iran when Hormuz is open. Then he attacks when Iran closes it (which it owns). Then T demands Iran open the Strait as the price of peace. Now T closes it. ???
apnews.com/article/iran... threatens Strait of Hormuz blockade after US-Iran ceasefire talks end without agreement
When will the US House of Representatives impeach Trump, and the Senate hold a trial? Trump's insanity is costing lives. The rest of the world must no longer be victimised by him and his cowardly ignorant "advisers". We have no choice. American politicians do.
observer.co.uk/news/interna...
Two US former advocates: “As former uniformed military lawyers who advised targeting operations, we know the president’s words run counter to decades of legal training of military personnel and risk placing our warfighters on a path of no return.” www.theguardian.com/law/2026/apr...
It's extremely important not to turn away from powerful evidence of complainants' changes in other relationships eg isolation from family as indicative of CCB. If police don't look for that evidence under Soteria it can't be called. This strategy works www.counselmagazine.co.uk/articles/pro...
"The rule of law starts from the simple principle that wherever communities exist there must be rules, and those rules must apply to everyone."
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For me it's exhaustion and bewilderment at the world into which we were thrust by a few million voters in a nation I've long refused to visit. It's one of the countries I belong to being threatened w/ annihilation. But I mustn't forget the support to be found here. Thanks Adam for the reminder.
Am I part of the coterie of good people too, Adam?
Trump claims only the US is stupid enough to award citizenship to anyone "Born in the USA". He's wrong as usual. Canada does & so do at least 21 other nations. It's called building a country & communities. In the Canadian Constitution multiculturalism is celebrated.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/u...
The meaning of "oblitted"
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Yes, that'll do.
I am speechless. The current occupant of the White House is utterly lacking in grace. And brains.
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What Going High means.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I'm Anglican.The Archbishop of Canterbury & other religious leaders have no place in the HL. If we must have an unelected House their sole role is to improve Bills passed by the Commons not torpedo them. Esp the assisted dying Bill. @kimleadbeatermp.bsky.social
When the Japanese live translation goes silent because the translators are too stunned to repeat your Pearl Harbor “joke” to the Japanese PM, you’ve officially reached a new level of diplomatic failure.
Those seconds of silence were the most honest reaction of the day.
The Trump Administration attempted to make an example of Minnesota during Operation Metro Surge.
Instead, Minnesotans set an example for the rest of the country that decency and compassion will always triumph over fear and division.
www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
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The passing of a true heroine of the skies, aged 103. Please read the remarkable story of a woman aviator during World War II.
Ever had a weird mags court result that seems to fly in the face of the evidence? Maybe this piece in the New Law Journal explains why - 12% of magistrates will convict if they are less than 80% sure of guilt while 31% need there to be absolutely no doubt whatsoever. Maybe training needs reviewing?!
Trump on Venezuela: "The president has done a very good job. I get along with him really well." (The president of Venezuela is a woman.)
Europeans when asked to help unblock the Strait of Hormuz:
NEW: Oxford and Serum Institute of India sign agreement to advance NipahB vaccine candidate.
Nipah virus is a zoonotic pathogen associated with severe disease and high mortality. There are currently no approved vaccines available to prevent Nipah virus infection.
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