megganbouvet.bsky.social
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That learning never stops and we can expect to experience wonder.
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The only petition I'm signing is to remove her from the legislature permanently. Her ideas become more and more delusional by the day. The UCP are the ones destroying Alberta all by themselves, the federal government has done very little because she blocks programs would help Albertans.
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Feel like this needs a very Canadian response, " Sorry,
not coming."
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That is why the work you do to explain the science behind the health issues is so important. Thank-you!
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I was also thinking people's understanding about the 1998 "eradication" announcement might have been misinterpreted as you don't need to get vaccinated anymore. Not realizing it just meant in Canada there weren't cases, and you still needed to be vaccinated for active virus risk of imported measles.
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A vote for PP is like giving Canada to Trump.
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We can't even do proper recycling of plastic bottles, so I am a bit more skeptical of our ability to scale up in time to avoid massive wastage.
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But there are VERY few recycling facilities available, so when you don't have the costly infrastructure or ability to transport the old panels great distances....it's landfill. We need to grow this recycling capacity as much as the renewables are expanding.
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Wait...did a bot hijack this account? Usually it's based in fact, supported by subject matter experts, and peer reviewed research. Going to to leave this account reading these factual errors and unsupported single source statements from AltYellowstoneNatPar. 🙄
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I think you don't fully understand the finer points of how nuclear energy works. Accidents at the modern plants are rare, and the saftey protocols are very strict. A nuclear plant has to run all the time, they have to do special procedures to shut down and do revalidation to ensure continued saftey.
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Does anyone ever ask what the impact of old discarded solar panels is? Yes some can be recycled and the technology is improving, but the current generation and early adapted panels are all headed to dumps. I'm all for renewables but modern nuclear technology does not look like Chernobyl era plants.
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We're trying to get one of the crosswalks better marked on the school route. In what should be a safe area for kids to be, drivers tend to fly through the neighbourhood to cut off a few minutes between bigger roads. Good to see more people/kid powered initiatives in the city.
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We would have the same risk in Calgary, the land of giant pick-up trucks. Crosswalk collisions and getting run into parked cars still happens. My friend's husband ended up in the hospital last week after he was hit on the morning commute, and he's an experienced bike commuter.
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Except that we actually would rather bike and have our kid come back without an ambulance. In 30km/h kid zones, that means we are going like 15 because someone has to be the speed bump to keep the other kids safe. After school saner heads prevail and he gets to cycle home independently.
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Yup agree. We have to drop our kid and his bike at school in the mornings because it's too dangerous to bike at that time. It's only a 10 minute ride through school areas, but the parents drive like animals after they unload their own kiddos.
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If the Liberal and Conservative platforms are similar, believe the one that uses real money. In a construction bid, the guy who gives the unrealistic promise for cheap doesn't know what he's doing. Carney is an experienced economist, what exactly is the other guys background...name calling?
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It's not just coal being brought back but other terrible water heavy polluting industries like steel production.😔 We have to take a stand for the Albertans of the future. I want my grandchildren's grandchildren to know the beauty of this place.
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Down here in Calgary you can live in an illegal suite, well more like old dirty tiny basement room in a rooming house for as much as $1500/month. It can be a fire hazard and the city of Calgary will do nothing to enforce or make sure people have a safe legal space to live in. Slumlord's paradise.
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Heinz was bought out by American investors. It's now Kraft Heinz group, a multinational. Being Canadian we've all been doing a bit of digging into who owns what now.
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Can we add turn on your headlights, clean the snow off your car, and don't speed through residential neighbourhoods? Easy things that keep kids and pedestrians safe.
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The first AI Google result listed is often incorrect. If you have specialized knowledge, ask Google something. In my husband's field it is wrong every single time,even about basic questions like "when was the first____ in Canada?", where it was off by 40 years with easily found published sources.
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I read somewhere that those little typos and imperfect phrases are where we show our humanity in this new world of AI. So if one slips by that I initially missed I feel it's kind of like a little fingerprint to mark my place in the perfectly ordered digital realm.
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Support your local coffee shop! Those local entrepreneurs are investing in your community, building a place for people to meet and connect.
FYI... the Tim's coffee is brewed "always fresh" because they can only keep the coffee for less than 20 minutes before it's unpaletable.
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This is why he was in the front row at the inauguration with who I now refer to as the "four horsemen". I wish this all was some movie, at least in many movies AI follows the First Law of Robotics: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm-Asimov
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Thrifting and buying second hand from local businesses and Canadian companies. Value Village is for profit US owned, vs Goodwill which is a charity benefiting the community. Keeps it local and out of the landfill.
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This site has quite a few brands, but not all. I am sure it will grow.
madeincanadadirectory.ca
Some I would add are -Mernini Outerwear NL
- Alinker walking bikes BC
- TuffHill Electric Bikes AB
- Nelson Lumber AB
Or thrifting is an amazing opinion (at local thrifters)
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Yes, only Canadian made or non US based products from Canadian owned businesses. This also means that you quit shopping Costco, Walmart, Amazon, and Home Depot to name a few major American cooperations that take profits south.
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Kind of feel like we are either in Minority Report or a far less fun Judge Dredd future scenario, but stuck with crappy graphics of original Star Fox 93 looking cyber trucks.
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It has to be done in an equitable way. If there is no money for scientists already here, where does this new money come from? This would be a detriment to Canadian scientists, many of whom had to get citizenship and fight through the Harper years to both do amazing research and stay unassisted.