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dmacphee

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Reproductive Scientist. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Interested in science education, books of all sorts, science communication, and reproductive biology. Opinions my own. Boosts may not be endorsements but for stimulating discussions. #ReproSci #Science #ReproMed #HigherEd #Reproduction #Scicomm #fedi22 #PretermBirth #Curiosity

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dmacphee, to Futurology
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As severe Alberta drought looms, fracking consumes huge volumes of water — forever
“Although the oilsands consume the vast majority of all water used by the oil and gas industry in Alberta, fracking has grown ever-thirstier over the past decade — and the water it uses is gone from the water cycle for good.”

https://thenarwhal.ca/alberta-drought-fracking/

dmacphee, to Canada
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Red Deer Catholic directive would restrict LGBTQ+ conversations in schools

“teachers at Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools were given a directive that would require them to out students to administrators, remove Pride materials and force teachers to only refer to students by their legal names”

For crying out loud, this is dangerous and disgusting.

https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/red-deer-catholic-directive-would-require-teachers-to-out-students-remove-pride-material-ata

dmacphee, to Canada
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A great tournament and well deserved win for Team Gushue (Canada). McEwen’s Saskatchewan team has a bright future.

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/winter/curling/brier-semifinal-final-regina-march-10-1.7139488

dmacphee, to Canada
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Canadians need to know how much money Big Pharma gives health-careproviders, but this information is far too difficult to find

Agreed. Transparency is sorely lacking.

https://theconversation.com/canadians-need-to-know-how-much-money-big-pharma-gives-health-care-providers-but-this-information-is-far-too-difficult-to-find-225066

dmacphee, to science
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What the heck is “creative nonfiction” – and do I write it?

https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2024/03/05/what-the-heck-is-creative-nonfiction-and-do-i-write-it/

dmacphee, to Alberta
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Massive, destructive wild boars have U.S.…

““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.”

https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/us-alberta-immigrunts-destructive-wild-boars?utm_source=newsshowcase&utm_medium=gnews&utm_campaign=CDAQwpPl0r2o1uZEGP2I6JCWgLrlrwEqDwgAKgcICjCp1o4IMPP7dQ&utm_content=related&gaa_at=la&gaa_n=AZsHK_nDbeEh-1cf9hBV9vphltBEXT3ALEDykLQM4kYpN10KAapSh995Z2uyr4UbElvWS4t_ZMz5icAhuqd0NkEwkASo&gaa_ts=65e725d6&gaa_sig=Jvxxb1VMGshM7GOlCL0YLZJOh7FkXQbd41ZxsRCnvreNgmqsPwg_s5WMd1vqGSfRUG5EFdhkVSR_KNqvljg01w%3D%3D

dmacphee, to random
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COVID vaccination mandates and personal freedoms.

“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.

1/3

https://pauloffit.substack.com/p/was-it-a-mistake-to-mandate-covid

dmacphee,
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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.”

3/3

dmacphee, to Saskatoon
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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.

dmacphee, to Canada
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Carbon levy spat.

Premier Moe blaming the federal government for penalizing families is a complete crock. The blame falls on him…period. Ideological nonsense from the

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/saskatchewan-remit-carbon-levy-1.7129559

dmacphee, to Canada
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Opposition to vaccination among parents grows, poll suggests

Still a lot of work to do to convince some parents of the importance and safety of Vaccination.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/canada-poll-vaccination-angus-reid-measles-1.7128145

dmacphee, to ukteachers
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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.”

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/international-student-study-permits-data-1.7125827

gemelliz, to Alberta
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intends to opt out of Canada's national pharmacare plan.

"Business as usual. Refusing to do what is best for Albertans in order to stick it to the feds and score some cheap political points."

@Lorian

https://globalnews.ca/news/10316372/alberta-intends-to-opt-out-of-national-pharmacare-plan/

dmacphee,
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@gemelliz @Lorian They just want the full per capita share of the funding. They will then spend it on whatever they want.

dmacphee, to ukteachers
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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”

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/syphilis-canada-skyrocketing-1.7123968

dmacphee, to ukteachers
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New Brunswick's teen pregnancy rate almost twice the national average
Oh and New Brunswick wants opt-out for . That is going to work out really well.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nb-fertility-skews-young-1.7123668

dmacphee, to Canada
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Canada needs a wealth tax | Canada's National Observer

Long overdue.


https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/02/22/opinion/canada-needs-wealth-tax

dmacphee, to ukteachers
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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.

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/he-had-99-5-but-still-couldnt-get-in-how-ontarios-most-competitive-university-programs/article_526ad72e-ae4e-11ee-9454-8f9bee33ab92.html

dmacphee, to science
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Microplastics in human placenta.

“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”

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-02-microplastics-human-placenta-samples.html

AskPippa, (edited ) to ontario
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The Council of Canadians has a petition relating to massive amounts of groundwater water to be extracted on Ontario by a bottle water company. A pledge, actually.

"Blue Triton Waters — the corporation that bought out ’s North American bottled water business in 2021 — will take a total of more than 8 billion litres of groundwater from two wells in over five years.
Permits issued by the Government of Ontario grant Triton enough groundwater to fill 14 billion more bottles. Laid end to end, those bottles would circle the globe 70 times.
This deeply unjust deal is just one among many across Canada that undermine our human right to water, and our global responsibility to reduce single-use plastics.
Sign the pledge today to boycott commercial bottled water."

https://canadians.org/nowatertowaste/#action

dmacphee,
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@AskPippa This type of business just rapes the country in the name of profit. Awful decision by Ontario government.

auscandoc, to random
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Paul Offit says CDC, FDA lost public trust in new book about COVID-19 https://www.inquirer.com/health/paul-offit-tell-me-when-over-covid-vaccine-misinformation-20240218.html “Offit also wants to see agencies more aggressively responding to claims and other . When misinformation is spread, public health agencies should spend resources on campaigns disputing the claims with science.”

dmacphee,
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@auscandoc also particularly agree with
“Science and knowledge are always evolving, which means the best advice experts can offer may change. Public health agencies shouldn’t shy away from that fact and should do more to explain the scientific process, Offit said.”

dmacphee, to Canada
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Pandemic Revisionism.

“this false allocation of culpability, in hand with misremembering of the past, continues to erode a principle of solidarity at the heart of public health. It is the voices of those lost to the pandemic,… most vulnerable to the virus, …of those most affected by the debilitating effects of long COVID…, that are written out of this increasingly popular, populist and revisionist picture”

https://theconversation.com/covid-theres-a-strong-current-of-pandemic-revisionism-in-the-mainstream-media-and-its-dangerous-222934

dmacphee, to Futurology
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The right decision

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/02/16/news/manitoba-chooses-safe-drinking-water-over-sand-extraction-project

dmacphee, to Alberta
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How hormone blockers put puberty on pause

“Before an adolescent can consent to treatment, mental health providers confirm their understanding of the pros and cons of treatment and how puberty will resume if they stop taking the blockers. “

“The critical time for puberty blockers is the onset of puberty," Donaldson said in an interview with CBC's Canada Tonight. "If you introduce it after that, it's too late."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/hormone-blockers-puberty-1.7113626

dmacphee, to Alberta
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Backlash to transgender health care isn’t new − but the faulty science used to justify it has changed to meet the times

https://theconversation.com/backlash-to-transgender-health-care-isnt-new-but-the-faulty-science-used-to-justify-it-has-changed-to-meet-the-times-220831

dmacphee, to Canada
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Loblaws tries to take down Canadian-made parody merch calling out prices.

Keep it up Mr Lam. Hilarious.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/loblaws-parody-merch-high-prices

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