thompsonlg.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

If you care about health in Saskatchewan or reconciliation or children, this is an important thread to read. I have noticed TB cases rising anecdotally in my work in an inner city emergency department. #yxe #saskatoon

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

High case activity of tuberculosis in Saskatoon. Please read this entire thread.

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Fort San was the Fort Qu’appelle, SK, TB sanatorium. It closed in 1971.

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

The #tradewar is on. Real-time electricity prices doubled few minutes after midnight EST in New England. 🔌💡

submitted 10 hours ago • 83 comments

Largest wildfire in decades rages in Japan as authorities warn it could spread

submitted 11 hours ago • 10 comments

To switch to a completely different topic tonight: Saskatchewan has a tuberculosis (TB) problem. A 🧵 on how a once deadly, then well controlled, disease is creeping back through the cracks in Saskatchewan’s community health system. 1/

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

The previously-announced staged counter-tariffs on US imports to Canada are to go in place tomorrow. A sentence that caught my eye: "We are in active and ongoing discussions with provinces and territories to pursue several non-tariff measures." I do hope they do something that grabs attention.

submitted 14 hours ago • 17 comments

This explains why #Canada should concede exactly nothing There is no justification for this at all Canadian politicians shouldn’t even be trying to be conciliatory on this—he made up a bogus reason to provoke a reaction It should be “fuck Trump” for the next four years. Nothing else. #cdnpoli

submitted 14 hours ago • 3 comments

Time for an export tax. Potash demand is relatively inelastic (means customer pays!)

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

It was, in fact, much easier for russia to take over the US than to occupy 20% of Ukraine

submitted 18 hours ago • 17 comments

Excellent, readable 🧵 on why 🇨🇦 & the 🌎 are in trouble with the chainsaw taken to the US Centre for Disease Control, re flu:

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

I have insomnia a lot lately so may as well share what’s literally keeping me up at night. It’s a long list but tonight it’s flu. Yes, H5N1, but also seasonal flu. Firing federal scientists brings a flu-filled future. Have you ever wondered how flu vaccine strains are chosen?

submitted 13 days ago • 16 comments

It’s now exactly 18 months since I started arguing in @theatlantic.com , that Trump was set on abandoning Ukraine and possibly NATO) and European states needed to get ready. As my Substack has now grown to over 85000 subscribers… open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Wild boars now reported on this map as far north as Weyakwin, Jan Lake, & north of Big River.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I was just on American flight 3083, for LaGuardia. As we touched ground, the plane suddenly sped up and climbed back up. The plane strained to quickly gain altitude. After something like five harrowing minutes, the pilot finally announced, “there was a plane in the ground that was too close to us.”

submitted 1 day ago • 205 comments

It is exhilarating to see Canada engaged as one of the “European Leaders”. This is where future of peace and commerce is🇨🇦 Zadawalające jest widzieć Kanadę zaangażowaną jako jeden z „Europejskich Liderów”. To tutaj jest przyszłość pokoju i handlu🇵🇱 #cdnpoli #Polska #Europe

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau 🇨🇦 as he meets Zelenskyy 🇺🇦 This is how World Leaders show respect and dignity. So proud of our Prime Mimister! #cdnpoli #peipoli

submitted 1 day ago • 711 comments

“What happened on Friday in the Oval Office is thus not only deeply meaningful for Ukraine & Europe, but should also set off loud alarm bells here in Canada.”

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

On this day in 1920, Hockey Hall of Famer Max Bentley was born in Delisle, Saskatchewan. In his 14-year career in the NHL, he emerged as one of the greatest players in league history and a legend of the Maple Leafs. Let's learn more about him! 🧵1/12

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Mr. Angus is absolutely right👇👇

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

This is how you meet with an ally and support them, not belittling them and threatening a third world war. 💙💛🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine #StandWithZelenskyy

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

🧵:

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I am almost relieved that this happened in front of cameras for the whole world to witness. No more backrooms, no more facades of reasonableness or bargaining. We now know what side the United States is on, and in whose interests they’re acting. It isn’t their people’s, and it isn’t ours

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

This is the bigger strategic issue: is Trump going for a grand deal where US gets Russian rare earth minerals, in exchange for US buying 🇷🇺 potash & oil, freezing out 🇨🇦?

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Saskatchewan provides a key lever for 🇨🇦 in dealing with US bullying: potash. Unlike oil, demand is relatively price in elastic, meaning US tariffs or 🇨🇦 export taxes will all be passed on to US farmers. (P.S.: corn doesn’t sell for $US470/ bushel. Perhaps /tonne or a misplaced decimal point!)

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Relics of a Pandemic: Five years after #COVID19 arrived in Canada, faded reminders of how the start of the pandemic suddenly changed our lives still remain, by @meltait.bsky.social @clairecameron.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Dominic Grieve is one of the most measured and polite people out there. Not exactly known for hyperbole or click bait. Which is why I would read this.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

Trump’s vision of the world: divided among three great powers: theconversation.com/ukraine-war-...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments