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THEY RATTED HER OUT. SHE WAS ILLEGAL Yesterday was her birthday. She was born on 12 June 1929, in Frankfurt Germany. She died in the Holocaust sometime in February or March 1945, while imprisoned in Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp.

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Oh. LET THEM IN, FAST.

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My grandmother was a young pregnant Jewish woman alone on a train in Poland during WWII when a German soldier told her to get off at the next stop because there wouldn't be any soldiers waiting at the station. She survived because, in that moment, a soldier chose the right thing over obeying orders.

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Now that RFK Jr has destroyed ACIP at the US CDC, #NACI in Canada is the place to go for non grift vaccine recommendations.

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"The role of protest is to publicize grievances from people who typically exist outside of traditional power structures. It’s why freedom of assembly is written into the Constitution, along with freedom of the press."

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And one way to reduce such exposure ..... #CRBox w/ Clean Air Delivery rates greater than nearly all commercial HEPA air cleaners (both at high flow) for wildfire particles @ 1/3rd to 1/7th the initial cost and generally lower filter replacement cost. IT;s not rocket science, folks, and it works!

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Found art along the #OttawaRiver. Turns out the artist, who came up to me to take credit with a giant smile — “I MADE THAT!” — was a darling 9 year old girl. The future is in good hands — if we let it grow and flourish.

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#booksky

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#Medsky graduate researchers Canada wants you. Way to go Queens (ps grad school at Queens is fabulous! I loved it).

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Good news CanCon 🇨🇦 story A rapid diagnostic test for sepsis is in clinical trial. Sepsis is scary: it can kill quickly, it can present diagnostic puzzles. A fast, reliable test will save lives. Devised by university, govt, and hospital physician-researchers in TO and Vancouver Gift link

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

Amazing! The @ncc-ccn.bsky.social does a great job of making #OttCity livable and welcoming, from Kiweki Point to the River House and cafes, pathways and landscapes. Amazing stuff!

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Ukraine still holds some cards. An innovative use of Special Ops, uncrewed systems (drones) & fiber optic to counter Russian EW appears to have decimated much of the Russian air fleet over 4000 km from the front line. Seems Ukraine has many aces in the hole. www.reuters.com/business/aer...

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Russia has stolen tens of thousands Ukrainian children, changed their identities, indoctrinated them, and now is training them to kill their own countrymen on the battlefield. There can be no peace, brokered deal, or end that does not mandate the return of every stolen child.

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I always look at these children’s faces — the spirit, the sass, the mirth — and wonder what they could have been

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June 1, 1996 — Ukraine returned its last nukes to Russia — making Ukraine pretty much the only signer of its piece of the Budapest memorandum to uphold its part of the deal 29 years later, well, today is an interesting day

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Pretty dramatic day in Russia: Ukrainian drones have reportedly attacked four Russia air bases, destroying a significant number of strategic bombers and radar planes. (Tu-95s, Tu-22, A-50) Russian milbloggers are furious. One calls it a "black day," another says they need to nuke Kyiv.

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Medical innovations by a Canadian team. Great read, thank you CBC and best wishes to baby Maryam www.theglobeandmail.com/life/article...

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Trump's ambassador to Canada is still on stage in Detroit, and the CBC broadcast cut away to host and guest expressing disbelief at his comment that Canada's main political parties ran an "anti-American" election campaign

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“Climate change is causing the glaciers - frozen rivers of ice - to melt faster and faster, and the permafrost, often described as the glue that holds the high mountains together, is also thawing.”

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BREAKING: In a serious blow to US pandemic flu preparedness, HHS has cancelled a contract with Moderna to test and license prototype vaccines for #H5N1 #birdflu and other potential pandemic viruses. In a pandemic, mRNA is the fastest way to vaccine doses. www.statnews.com/2025/05/28/m...

submitted 19 days ago • 126 comments

The number of times I see "waning immunity" without including "evolution of virus over time" to describe why we need a new flu shot or a vaccine booster saddens me. We just went through the best practical example of this, showing how new & better-evolved variants escape immunity, yet the media >>>🤷‍♂️

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Please… I know everyone is excited for the unofficial start of summer & outdoor activities, but for the love of all things holy, make your kid wear a helmet while on a scooter or bicycle. I just had to send a 2nd kid to the ER today w/a head injury after falling off a bike or scooter w/o a helmet.🚴🛴

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Something just seems slightly wrong with this one

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This ⤵️

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Not sure we realize the role education played in vaccination and pandemic outcomes. Canada's high education level helped us weather vax disinformation. "education was the strongest area-level predictor of vaccination and booster uptake after controlling for age" pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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This contrast offers a good illustration of why the term "sanewashing" was introduced.

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It’s another horrendous night in Kyiv. A ballistic earlier. Shahed drones over the city for hours. Cruise missiles launched and heading to Ukrainian airspace now. We had a few weeks of relative calm; the immediate intensification of Russian attacks after the end of Istanbul talks is sure noted.

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In case you were wondering how long we’ve known that mobility in cities is fundamentally a space problem, this was from Wichita Falls, Texas in 1927. The streetcar was electric. And they would need more cars today because of fewer average people in each car. HT Peter Norton

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never change apple notification summaries

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What works to reduce surgical wait times? New study from CMAJ reinforces that its publicly funded ✅ single-entry referral models and ✅ team-based care at a regional level. 🎁 BONUS - this approach also improves equitable access www.cmaj.ca/content/197/... via @cmaj.ca @ritamc.bsky.social

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Albertans should be paying attention and be VERY concerned: Govt is marching forward with privatizing all of our HC system. Many many concerns w selling off hospitals to private for-profits: 🧵 1/12 buff.ly/NHDveGp

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Your seasonal allergies are getting worse. A thread on why. 1/n

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We saw a beautiful Great Gray Owl up Anarchist Mountain today. 🪶

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6 May 1933 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Debora Bobbe, was born in The Hague. In October 1942 she was deported from Westerbork to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

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This is incredible.

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