““As far as Canada goes, I couldn’t imagine a worse animal being released into the environment. It eats crops, destroys fences, can attack and harass livestock, destroy water quality, eat almost anything and carry disease,” said Brook.” #WildPigs#Alberta#Saskatchewan#Canada
“The problem with the personal freedom argument was that there was nothing personal about getting a COVID vaccine. First, people who had been vaccinated shed less infectious virus when they get COVID compared with those who hadn’t been vaccinated. Second, people who had been vaccinated were less likely to transmit the virus to others. #Vaccination#Covid19#VaccinesWork
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“By mandating vaccines during the COVID pandemic, we inadvertently leaned into a libertarian left hook…“One day we’re going to have a really bad global crisis and a pandemic far worse than COVID, and we’ll look to the government to protect us, but it’ll have its hands behind its back and a blindfold on,” said Lawrence Gostin, director of Georgetown University’s O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. “We’ll die with our rights on—we want liberty, but we don’t want protection.”
Saskatoon currently experiencing blizzard like conditions with 30-40 cm forecast by Sunday night. What the heck are people doing when they shovel snow onto the street instead of their front or side lawns? Never can understand this strategy in a city that does not plow its streets other than major routes. #Saskatoon#Saskatchewan
Premier Moe blaming the federal government for penalizing #Saskatchewan families is a complete crock. The blame falls on him…period. Ideological nonsense from the #SaskGov
Canada's international student spike was blamed on private colleges. Here's what really happened | CBC News
“what has been framed as a nationwide explosion in international student numbers — prompting Ottawa to impose an immediate two-year cap — is disproportionately linked to a handful of schools, the vast bulk of them public institutions, predominantly in Ontario.” #Education#Students#Colleges#Universities#Canada
Canada almost wiped out syphilis. Now rates are skyrocketing — as more women, infants getting infected
“Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and the Northwest Territories are among the hardest hit regions in recent years, according to federal figures. In recent years the country's syphilis rates were also rising faster than in the United States or Europe” #Education#SexEd#Canada
How Ontario's most competitive university programs decide who makes the cut
The biggest concern for years now is that the processes used for selection are not transparent or at best opaque. It has led to accusations of quotas among other things. Universities need to wake up and open up the process as well as decrease subjectivity. The more layers students need to navigate (e.g. marks, interviews, Casper, MCAT, etc) the more subjective it becomes. #Education#Canada
“reported finding microplastics in all 62 of the placenta samples tested,”
“While microplastics are already present in our bodies, it is unclear what health effects they might have, if any. Traditionally, plastics have been assumed to be biologically inert, but some microplastics are so small they are measured in nanometers—a billionth of a meter—and are capable of crossing cell membranes”