R Christie

Family, agriculture, food and animals.

[John Kowalchuk🧢 @kowalchukfarms1]

PSA:
I’m hearing of more victims of the podcast phishing scam

It’s where accounts get taken over and then the buggers send DM’s to their contacts to vote for a podcast(it’s a trap)

Regaining accounts is quite tough and time consuming

If you receive a DM like that delete it!

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

I’m a chemist. I need to say this - because it’s getting dangerous out there. The biggest health myth in the world isn’t about vaccines.

Or GMOs. Or fluoride.

It’s the root of all of them.
It’s called chemophobia - and it’s killing science.

Fear of “chemicals” now drives vaccine rejection, GMO bans, food hysteria, and entire political movements.

From tampons to tap water, people have been taught to fear chemistry - the very thing that keeps us alive.

Chemophobia tells us:
“Natural is good.”
“Synthetic is bad.”

That’s a lie.

Botulinum toxin is 100% natural and one of the deadliest molecules known.

Aspirin is synthetic and life-saving.

We’ve gone from banning harmful substances for good reason…to banning safe, well-tested molecules for emotional reasons.

You’ve seen the slogans:

“If you can’t pronounce it, don’t eat it.”
“Paraben-free.”
“Clean beauty.”

They sound empowering. But they’re not science - they’re marketing.

And they’re making the world dumber, poorer, and sicker.

Your body doesn’t care if a molecule comes from a plant or a lab.
Vitamin C is vitamin C.

Formaldehyde is formaldehyde and your body makes more of it every day than any vaccine ever could.

Dose matters. Source doesn’t.
This fear isn’t harmless.

It shapes public policy.
It blocks innovation.
It raises food prices.
It slows down cancer treatments.

Chemophobia is now mainstream and it’s costing lives.

Scientists aren’t losing because we’re wrong. We’re losing because fear spreads faster than facts.

Because influencers sell fear for clicks. Because lawyers monetize doubt.

And because scientists are too tired to fight back. So here’s my message, as a chemist and as a citizen:

Learn how toxicology works.
Call out chemical fear-mongering.
Support policies based on evidence, not emotion.

Chemistry isn’t the enemy.
It’s the reason you have clean water, safe food, and modern medicine.

If we let fear win, we lose all of it.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Breaking news for anyone who hasn't worked this out yet:

Cows are vegan.

No, stay with me.

The cow eats the grass. The clover. The herbs. The wildflowers. The diverse, mineral-rich, organically grown plant matter from the field.

The cow then, and this is where it gets interesting, converts all of that plant material into complete protein, bioavailable heme iron, zinc, B12, fat-soluble vitamins, omega-3 fatty acids, creatine, and carnosine.

Using its four stomachs. Which are considerably better at this than yours.

So technically, the most efficient way to eat a plant-based diet is to let a cow do it first.

The cow is the blender.

The cow is doing the processing you cannot do yourself.

When you eat beef, you are eating a hyperconcentrated, biologically optimised, grass-powered superfood that a vegan has been assembling for you in a field for eighteen months.

You're welcome.

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

The male agents kept dying in the shadows, so British intelligence disguised a 23-year-old woman as a village girl, trained her to kill, and dropped her into Nazi-occupied France — where she outwitted the Third Reich for 135 days.

May 1, 1944. Five days before D-Day would crack open Nazi Europe.

A dark bomber sliced through the sky over Normandy. At its open door stood Phyllis Latour — tiny, calm, and impossibly brave, staring at occupied France thousands of feet below her.

No rifle. No platoon. Just a parachute, a cover story, and a battered bicycle waiting to become her execution — or her legend. She was 23. And the Nazis had already eliminated every male spy sent in her place.

Churchill’s Special Operations Executive needed someone invisible. Someone the Gestapo would dismiss before they feared. They needed a ghost dressed as a child.

They chose her.

She had trained until her knuckles split on cold stone. Morse code until her fingertips bled. Silent killing. Disappearing. Climbing walls with a cat burglar. Resisting torture.

This wasn’t duty. This was vengeance — the Nazis had murdered her godfather.

Then she jumped into the darkness.

She buried her British gear. Brushed her hair into a little girl’s ribbon — codes hidden inside — and pedaled into occupied towns selling soap, giggling like someone too innocent to fear war.

“The men before me were caught and killed,” she later murmured, calm as a winter lake. “I would be less suspicious.”

For 135 days, that “harmless peasant girl” memorized troops, tanks, bunkers, fuel lines. Then she vanished into forests to send lifelines to London at a speed most wireless operators never reached.

She never transmitted twice from the same place. If she did, a German detection truck would find her, torture her, erase her. So she slept in barns, fields, empty rooms — hunger and death whispering beside her.

Once, soldiers stopped her. Searched everything. A Nazi officer reached for her ribbon — the one hiding silk codes.

She untied it playfully, hair falling, eyes wide and childish.

They laughed and let her pass. Life and death swayed by a smile.

135 messages.

135 blows against the Nazi war engine.

D-Day’s success carried her fingerprints.

When Paris was liberated, she didn’t stand on a parade truck or write a memoir. She went home. Married. Raised four children. Told none of them.

Her son only learned the truth 56 years later — from a book.

In 2014, France finally placed the Légion d'honneur around her neck. She accepted it like someone who’d simply done laundry, not saved lives.

Phyllis Latour Doyle lived to 102. Quiet. Gentle. Deadly when history needed her.

She didn't win the war with bullets.

She won it with innocence, courage, and a bicycle.

When every man they sent was killed —

she went anyway.

And the world changed because a young woman pretended to be a child and rode through hell with soap in her basket and fire in her heart.

May we never forget her name.

Phyllis Latour Doyle.

[Shaun Haney @shaunhaney]

B.C. court ruling on Aboriginal title sends shockwaves through B.C. farm & ranch sector
https://t.co/lXr9x9qzIi

[R Christie @MyFarmDesk]

https://t.co/ZANXEPMTJF

[R Christie @MyFarmDesk]

@taxpayerDOTcom As a volunteer for the Community Volunteer Income Tax Program, I applaud this program. It is not for the average tax paying Canadian. It is for low income Canadians who don't pay taxes but need to file tax returns in order to get benefits such as OAS.

[The Royal Canadian Legion @RoyalCdnLegion]

The Legion’s 2025 National Poppy Campaign is launching on October 31! And volunteers across the country are ramping up their efforts.

What can be expected for the 2025 Poppy Campaign? Traditional Poppy boxes will be available at thousands of locations around the country, as well at tap-enabled donation poppy boxes. Canadians will be able to donate online, as well as get their Poppies delivered directly to them via Amazon. And coming back again this year will be Poppy Stories. Through this wonderful initiative, people can scan a lapel Poppy with a smartphone at https://t.co/Jlxk8F0Mjv, and be taken to discover meaningful short stories about the everyday Canadians who dedicated their lives to serving our country.

And don’t forget, the National Remembrance Day Ceremony will be held on November 11th, 2025. If you would like to find the Remembrance Day Ceremony happening in your community, use our Ceremony Locator tool, by visiting: https://t.co/uoAsnDnR7S

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

Strange how people fear pesticides and GM crops, but not starvation.

[Tara Sawyer @TaraSawyer23]

Thank you to everyone who packed the house at our Three Hills town hall yesterday! I’m so grateful for the thoughtful questions and meaningful conversations. A big thank-you to Premier Danielle Smith for joining us and to MLA Angela Pitt for doing a fantastic job moderating this event.

I’m running to stand up for our kids, our communities, and the Alberta way of life. I’m looking forward to hearing from even more folks in Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills as the campaign continues!

[Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 @acoyne]

Carney is already steamrolling basic constraints on power | National Post https://t.co/e690vqeebc

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

Pesticides save lives.

They protect crops from pests and disease, ensuring food security.

They control deadly vectors like mosquitoes.

Without them: Lower yields, higher prices, more hunger and more disease.

Banning pesticides doesn’t make food safer. It makes it scarcer.

[Martin Pelletier @MPelletierCIO]

Wake the hell up Canada. As long as BillC69 exists, there will never be another pipeline built. Mark Carney knows this, that is why he is keeping it in place.

[R Christie @MyFarmDesk]

https://t.co/nlnl1yYiCs

[The Real Mr Bench @therealmrbench]

CTV actually aired a positive piece about Poilievre and the Conservatives.

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

5 Things you won't regret knowing.
1. Vaccines save lives.
2. Nuclear is low-carbon.
3. Everything is chemistry.
4. Correlation is not causation.
5. It’s the dose that makes the poison.

[Mike - Low Carb Dietitian @thelowcarb_rd]

A lot of nutrition science seems to be done this way.

[Canadian Beef @CanadianBeef]

Have you heard about our Information Gateway? If you're unfamiliar with this tool, watch this latest segment on The Good Stuff with Mary Berg through CTV News where our partners Parents Canada demonstrate how to use it.

https://t.co/1FFVJBTDVn

[R Christie @MyFarmDesk]

https://t.co/ILw0RUW2tS

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

Some misinformation in today's US presidential debate about who bears the cost of tariffs. So let's talk about how tariffs affect what you pay for a suit. 🧵