Stylised painting featuring a figure in a dress with arms out on a red and black landscape with white trees under a dark sky

'Flower Girl' by contemporary painter Julie Collins #WomensArt

This is absolute corruption, in case anyone was wondering.

At no point should elected officials be involved designing their own electoral boundaries.

Especially in their own favour.

Win by doing a good job, not by stealing the voices of the electorate.

Many Albertans welcome daylight time but expert warns of serious health impacts | Globalnews.ca As more provinces and territories get rid of the twice-yearly time changes, a researcher from the University of Calgary has some warnings about the potential harm.

This! If we're gonna do a perma change, it should be for Standard Time yearround.
“A few places have tried it. Russia tried this...rates of depression, seasonal depression went up. After two years of that experiment, they switched to standard time year-round.”
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A simple 2 by 3 table of text and images. The left-side column says "THIS" over a an image of a large herd of reindeer forming a protective reindeer cyclone. The right-side column says "NOT This" over an image of a handful of reindeer running across the open snow in a loose column about 4 reindeer wide. There is a small reindeer trailing far behind the stragglers of the main group. The description under the left column reads: The Reindeer Cyclone What actual "herd immunity" looks like: The fittest save the whole herd. The description under the right column reads: Salvaging "most" of the herd... until there's no herd left. Image credits: Left-side, reindeer cyclone image by Lev Fedoseyev Right-side image by Vladimir Melnikov

Reminder:

When a herd of reindeer is threatened, the herd runs fast in a "cyclone" to confuse predators, keeping the most vulnerable in the center. The whole herd survives.

Trying to save "most" of the herd lets predators pick off the herd, most vulnerable first, until there's no herd left.

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The Health and Productivity Impacts of Time Changes in Different Populations | NeurologyLive - Clinical Neurology News and Neurology Expert Insights Experts discussed the negative health and societal effects of daylight saving time, advocating for a permanent switch to standard time to improve sleep, well-being, and productivity. [WATCH TIME: 6 mi...

Hi friends, sharing this short roundtable webinar on how permanent daylight saving time disproportionally impacts vulnerable groups

If you're supportive of DST - it's worth a listen, there are some important equity concerns

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This story was breaking just as our Senate Standing Committee on Transport and Communications was deep in our morning hearing on AI. So just as the committee testimony wrapped up, I snuck in this question. #ableg #abpoli #YouTube #AI #cdnpoli #SenateofCanada #TRCM #Alberta #ForeignInterference

Fascinating story by @charlesrusnell.bsky.social on intersection of AI and foreign interference in Alberta’s separation campaign. It raises many troubling questions. Who is paying for AI slop disinformation? And who is consuming it? And how on earth can those on the No side compete? #ableg #abpoli

Photograph featuring the top five storeys of a tall white apartment block with blue balconies on each flooe, against a grey blue sky

'Hidden Beauty', 2016 by photographer Sandra Jordan depicts buildings that often go unnoticed #WomensArt

A miniature posy of real spring flowers in a thimble

Thankyou *so* much for your support of my ko-fi in the last few days, it’s helped more than you know. Here’s a seasonal posy in a thimble (all real flowers from the garden), including forget me not, sorrel, geum & lily of the valley. Spot the cow parsley floret 🌿

Chatted with circadian rhythm expert Michael Antle about Alberta's move to permanent DST

He says he was the UCP's first call during their consultation process- but that they ultimately ignored the evidence that says permanent standard time is best for our bodies

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The Great Migration
Pavlo Buvdor
2025

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I really enjoy the textures in the paint when I pull the secondary ghost prints.

#monoprint Acrylic on Paper

#art #printmaking #abstractfigurative

Powerful testimony on #MECFS by Emma Shorter in the Scottish Parliament from 2018

“It turns fit and active people into ghosts… I know teachers who can’t teach, children who can’t play, and parents who can no longer hold their children.”

I love that "Wow!" Moment when I pull a print off the plate and it's so much better than I expected 🙂

Grounded, Unraveling

#monoprint Acrylic on Paper

#art #printmaking #abstractfigurative

Scene lookibg down on two figures walking on a woodland track between uniform trees with long trunks

Artwork by contemporary artist Katja Lang #Womensart

"How to make a single filter Corsi Rosenthal box" a cartoon showing how the shroud, box fan , cardboard spacer & filter fits together "furnace filter in correct direction" "dirty air in , clean air out"

#Earthday is coming up & #science students are building single filter #corsirosenthalbox filters for #wildfire smoke. Here are my quick white board instructions. I am so grateful for #community donations

COVID-19 drove recent leap in preventable respiratory hospitalizations, report says Hospital admission rates for such diseases more than doubled in 2024-2025 compared with prepandemic levels

COVID-19 drove recent leap in preventable respiratory hospitalizations, CIHI report says. Admissions for COVID, flu and RSV have doubled in recent years, by @kkirkup.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com

Hospitalization rates for illnesses like COVID, flu have doubled since pre-pandemic, report finds | CBC News Striking new data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) shows hospitalization rates for vaccine-preventable respiratory diseases more than doubled in 2024, compared to pre-pandemic...

Seriously people, get your vaccines! They work at minimizing the damage flu, RSV and COVID can do to your body. All of these diseases are now endemic in our society which means you need a yearly vaccine to minimize your risks (if available). #onpoli #cdnpoli
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Hospitalization rates for illnesses like COVID, flu have doubled since pre-pandemic, report finds | CBC News Striking new data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) shows hospitalization rates for vaccine-preventable respiratory diseases more than doubled in 2024, compared to pre-pandemic...

Vaccine uptake, respiratory illnesses, and hospital burden are issues I have attempted to share through charts and advice. A population that vaccinates less is going to face more serious illness risks more often and impact our healthcare system. Vaccines work.

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Hospitalization rates for illnesses like COVID, flu have doubled since pre-pandemic, report finds | CBC News Striking new data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) shows hospitalization rates for vaccine-preventable respiratory diseases more than doubled in 2024, compared to pre-pandemic...

“People assume that COVID-19 is done … but what our data is showing is that it’s still having a big impact on our hospitals,” said Mélanie Josée Davidson, director of CIHI’s health system performance division.” www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

A floral snapshot of garden and hedgerow flowers in April

Purple, blue and maybe garden flowers in April

Autistic burnout* & depression burgle much of my mental energy at the moment, hence my absence around here, but it's the loveliest time for garden & hedgerow flowers-cowslips, forget me nots, apple blossom, the emergence of brimstone & orange tip butterflies & my favourite floral firework…1/2

Four images, three of fabric pages with different abstract designs and one image of a fabric book with the title on the white front cover in red font

In 2002, at the age of 91 years, artist Louise Bourgeois created 'Ode a L'Oubli' (Ode to Forgetting),  a book of 35 fabric pages made from her own cloth saved from different eras of her life #Womensart

The Minority Report on Electoral Districts: Will the Law Protect Alberta from UCP Gerrymandering? By: Shaun Fluker Report Commented On: Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission Final Report (March 2026) PDF Version: The Minority Report on Electoral Districts: Will the Law Protect Alberta from UC…

Here's an ABlawg post from my colleague Shaun Fluker in which he questions the minority's gerrymandering report on electoral districts in Alberta. 1/
#ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli
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🇨🇦 Canadian artist

Description: A stand of birch trees, background of a clear blue sky and lake with the sun at a low angle from behind the viewpoint, giving a warm glow to the upper part of the trunks with the lower portion in blue shadow. Colours pop as if viewed through a polarization filter

It’s interesting. Because since decades measles *is* classified as an airborne disease.
So the current Public Health attempts of “de-airbornisation” of measles (by info-omission) are super weird.

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Print in grey shades featuring an interior with a black cat sitting on a patterned sofa and light streaming in through a large window by large pot plants

"Morning Light" by Grace Gillespie, UK-based artist specialising in reduction linocuts, hand-crafted in her home-studio in Bristol #WomensArt

April Bouquet
Alexandrya Eaton
2023

Photo of two tea cups and two plates painted with a floral design of orange and gold flowers on a white background

Helen Paxton Brown (1876 - 1956), artist associated with the 'Glasgow Girls' who worked in a range of mediums, including hand painting on china #womensart

Toilet Paper
Holly Farrell
2024

Gathering Spring Bouquets
Regina Seiden
n.d.