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Storyteller, Volunteer, Crafter, Knitter, Website Designer, Shorthand enthusiast, Stay home mom, former Professional Engineer.

[CricketB @CricketB]

@JaneLebak @xthemasterand Telling to get someone into trouble, or out of trouble. In this case, to get the potential victims out of trouble.

[Sharif Haji @SharifHajiMLA]

Today’s announcement of private pay preventative services won't solve wait times. It will make them worse.

Danielle Smith & her UCP government have given up on fixing public health care.

They have thrown in the towel and are asking us to pay instead.
https://t.co/nQdTxf0fOp

[CricketB @CricketB]

@ScienceYael They can't even figure out how to display the hidden text.

[Tina Yazdani @TinaYazdani]

NEW: As Ontario barrels through what is projected to be its worst wildfire season on record, the union representing wildland firefighters says the province is 34 crews short of its approved wildfire crew complement.

The Ford government disputes the claim, saying there is no crew target to meet.
https://t.co/mAjCJb2ChQ

[CricketB @CricketB]

@BizSuperstar @Crazymoments01 How would a truck video show the dog's three trips to get different things to try?

[Assaad Razzouk @AssaadRazzouk]

In other news
1 23,000+ deaths in Europe due to relentless summer heatwaves
2 858 active wildfires in Canada, vast majority out of control, prompting US air quality alerts
3 Record-breaking heat dome expands across the western US and Alaska
4 Global sea surface temperatures break June records
5 Severe heatwave alarms Spain with interior temperatures soaring up to 45°C
6 Persistent atmospheric heat dome delivers Western Europe's hottest June on record
7 Severe monsoon flash floods and landslides submerge over 1.1m people in Bangladesh
8 Guadalupe River in Texas suffers a catastrophic 190-fold discharge spike in 3 hours
9 Over 800 snakes, including venomous cobras, escape flooded breeding farms in Hengzhou, China
10 Super Typhoon Bavi explodes into a Category 5-equivalent monster over boiling Pacific waters
11 India's southwest monsoon opens with a punishing 40% national rainfall deficit
12 Swollen rivers overflow in Northeast India, drowning dozens of villages across Assam
13 Historic Category 5 atmospheric river strikes Chile
14 Extreme heatwaves force environmental shutdown of critical French nuclear reactors
15 Record 37.7°C heatwave causes Cambridge University AI supercomputer crash
16 Potentially record-breaking super El Niño is brewing in the Pacific Ocean
17 Detroit has most polluted air in world right now due to wildfire smoke
18 Major new wildfire outbreak now underway across interior Pacific Northwest
19 France, Germany, and Denmark all see their highest temperatures ever
20 Extreme hear grips Japan

Physics doesn't negotiate with fossil fuel propaganda

[Nicolas Smit @PPEtoheros]

The Canadian government is making the wildfire crisis worse by spreading false information that N95s provide the best protections & that protections against the toxic gases do not exist. That combined with the failure to share info on respirators used by the RCMP & Canadian Armed Forced wildland firefighters with provinces, the firefighting community or public looking for whatever the best protections means we lack the tools to protect those that need it the most on days like today.

While @CBC @davidthurton released the news article & video below detailing the RCMP’s new wildfire smoke policies is from 2018, it is incredibly relevant today. It details how the federal government stopped using N95s & upgraded all its RCMP officers to elastomeric respirators equipped with multi gas filters after widespread lung damage & other occupational disease occurred among its officers using N95s at a single major wildfire event.

https://t.co/eqBCwv8hJy

It also acknowledges that while federal police officers will be effectively protected thanks to these enhanced protections going forward, many of the officers using N95s instead of elastomerics are expected to have shorted lifespans.

This 2023 RCMp video on wildfire logistics repeatedly promotes the importance of their officers using elastomeric respirators.

https://t.co/G5KjnkZ4Gx

@KatieNicholson CBC covered the federal government’s use of elastomeric respirators in 2023 when discussing the need to provide better respiratory protection than N95s to provincial wildland firefighters yet nothing has effectively changed.

https://t.co/HbUOONuT32

https://t.co/6G04WOnz6T

This problem is so misunderstood that @CBCManitoba released this article in April detailing how the Manitoba government & the wildland firefighter union had been working together for years to find something better than an N95 but had yet to find it.

https://t.co/b8DBNCBUxc

In comparison, Australian news organizations have long reported on how elastomeric respirators are so popular among its wildland firefighters at preventing cancers & other occupational diseases that the few firefighters still being given an N95 are often choosing to buy their own elastomeric respirator.

https://t.co/sZfP0UBwC9

In the U.S., @hannahdreier @nytimes reported on how the U.S. government’s failure to follow Australia, Greece, and even Canada’s decisions in providing it wildland firefighters with elastomeric respirators resulted in widespread cancers among wildland firefighters in their 20s & widespread cardiovascular disease deaths in their 30s.

https://t.co/62gXWvBhcv

https://t.co/dx7etRtPUl

https://t.co/EQX09Mb93c

While @CanadianPM @MarkJCarney promotes that the Canadian government is working to reduce cancers among wildland firefighters, these failures have likely been a major contributor to a higher rate of cancer. Widespread accumulative exposure from the urban interface fires along with more frequent & larger fires while wearing an N95s or bandanas instead of an elastomeric respirator is to be expected as this U.S. government guide details.

https://t.co/od7UsbwCvi

Ontario has had 100,000 elastomeric respirators sitting in warehouses since June 2020 yet its wildland firefighters using bandanas as respiratory protection.

The @redcrosscanada & other organizations helping with evacuations could use this stockpile to protect everyone in these communities including first responders. @canlung could use it to protect vulnerable individuals in communities with toxic air to help reduce the strain on the health care system by using these.

@OPP officers helping communities evacuate deserve to be know that a respirator they can find at their local hardware could save their life.

The federal government’s top experts have made it clear that the solution to wildfires is elastomeric respirators & here is what they’ve said for the record.

https://t.co/3wcyevUcTo

@Safety_Canada @DFisman @Peter_Tabuns @SudburyStar @OHCOWclinics @JPHornick.

[Ghost Gurney @ghost_gurney]

From @Thetrilliumca

[tern @1goodtern]

Oh ffs.

[tern @1goodtern]

I am totally ok with that.

[tern @1goodtern]

Old people here bang on about how hot '76 was even though it was just a tiny pocket of intense heat hovering just over England, and the rest of the world was colder.

In 1976, London had 14 days over 30°C.

This year, 2026, we've had *at least* 22 days over 30°C in London, *so far*, and it's only mid July,

[Laura Babcock 🇨🇦 @LauraBabcock]

Yesterday Toronto had worst air quality in the world. Ford has cut 184 M from forest fire budget and spent 452 M on advertising! Don’t buy that he’ll ‘spare no expense’ fighting these fires his track record shows his true priorities! More on tonight’s OShow Scandal Panel #Onpoli

[tern @1goodtern]

You'll have noticed a lot of "It's great now that we all have immunity to Covid" posts recently.

That's normally a sign that we're about to have a wave.

[Steffan Watkins  @steffanwatkins]

@NoLore They have 28 aircraft in the entire Ontario MNR fleet, I wonder if the Ontario press will let them just pitch numbers unchecked, or if anyone will ask for where the extra planes came from and who is paying for them.

[CricketB @CricketB]

@ColinDMello What are they doing in the hotel that they can't do at home or in their offices?

[James Clear @JamesClear]

The recipe for frustration is taking on something that requires a whole person, but only giving it half your time.

Look at what you're trying to do. What is required? Some things can only be done well when they are pursued with full effort.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

The FDA has just recalled over 735,000 Pillsbury bread roll packages due to glass contamination.

[Jeremy @jeremyct]

My wife and I got into it last night about the grocery bill.

I pulled up an old Target order from February 2020.

28 items. $64.50.

Added every single one back to the cart just to see.

$158.30.
Same 28 items. Same store. Same cart.
$93.80 more.

In five years.
We didn’t buy more.
Didn’t upgrade anything.
Didn’t add a single extra item.

Just needed the same things we always needed.

They told us inflation was transitory. They told us it was under control. They told us the economy was strong.

Our cart didn’t get any of those memos.
145% increase in five years.

Not one member of Congress has looked at a grocery receipt in decades.

And it shows.

[tern @1goodtern]

We're gonna need a bigger chart.

[Naheed Nenshi @nenshi]

A message from Naheed Nenshi