Dr. Young-Leslie {use alt-text, humans} ElbowsUp! 🇨🇦🚲
Dr. Young-Leslie {use alt-text, humans} ElbowsUp! 🇨🇦🚲
@ethnographer.bsky.social
Anthropologist, feminist, fietsster, research whisperer; settler in Amiskwaciwâskahikan aka Yeg🇨🇦
My research focussed on cultural responses to public health messages (MCH, HIV, COVID)
Mostly skeet on bikes, climate∆, #FeministSky, just transition, urbanism
Solar has overtaken nuclear. A decade ago it supplied 1% of the world's power. In 2025 it met three quarters of global demand growth.
Almost nobody saw it coming. I spoke to Jocelyn Timperley at BBC Future about why.
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
Let’s be clear. Healthcare is a human right. It is a foundation, like education that builds and sustains society. It should never be about profit and it never generates revenue. It’s about a patient’s needs & not a shareholder’s return. Anyone who tells you otherwise is stealing.
@andrewmueller.bsky.social
Any chance you're in Bishkek for the Shanghai Cooperation Summit meetings? Seems like everyone *not* in the NATO ambit are coming....
(Video: Xi Jinping's motorcade being welcomed by a cohort of flag-wavers)
turkey.news-pravda.com/en/world/202...
Time to wean from:
Adobe
Amazon
American Airlines
Berkshire Hathaway
Coca-Cola
Delta
Ford
General Motors
Google
Microsoft
Merck
Meta
Nestle
PepsiCo
Pfizer
Proctor & Gamble
Tesla
Unilever
UPS
Westinghouse
And *anything else* owned or made in USA
#ElbowsUp
For over a year, Canada has worked intensively and in good faith with the United States to negotiate a new comprehensive trade deal. We have been pragmatic, patient, and persistent. Our goal has always been to get the best deal for Canadians, never a deal at any price or on any time frame.
"We were attacked [ergo] we are at war"
Canada rejected Trump’s bad deal. Good!
Now Canada must stand firm, use our leverage to support our workers, & act urgently to protect the people, communities & ecosystem impacted by Trump’s war against Canadians.
#ElbowsUp🇨🇦share.canadianlabour.ca/s/68SZY8jN
I feel like the way of dealing with such behaviour is to look these people right in the eye and say, very gently, "You think your right to park matters more than homes these children?" Then when they reply just repeat it with slightly different emphasis.
Somber day today: riding honour escort for a new ghost bike. Alfred Reisdorf, 65, was killed last Nov, while riding his bike. The family has been trying to get a 'Fatality sign placed, but the city bureaucracy is baffling. They contacted Bike Edmonton. 1 week later:
www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...
Other people are mere counters in their game. Oh whoops, you fell off the board. Never mind. Yet somehow these sick-minded people, who don't in any way reflect the attitude of the general population, come to dominate our politics and our media. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
🇺🇦🙏 Zelensky: Damage has been recorded in more than 10 locations in Kyiv, including residential buildings.
So far, 64 people have been rescued, including two children. As of now, it is known that, unfortunately, 11 people died as a result of this attack. About 60 more people were injured.
🇨🇦HAPPY CANADA DAY Edmonton!!🇨🇦
{*where *not one* #UCP politician has shown up --as is normal for politicians of all levels-- to serve at the traditional pancake breakfast.
So far I've seen municipal, provincial, and federal political representatives, but no one from any conservative party}
When a book launch on the heavy topic of GBV, trauma, public memory, justice & media-activism is simultaneously a celebratory reunion of community; @nicolettelittle.bsky.social 's fabulous new book, enabled that. 👏🏼 to @ubcpress.bsky.social for this important book.
www.instagram.com/reel/DZaICH5...
The WA government made a tourism ad for the Kimberley, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative!
👉 Write to Environment Minister Murray Watt 🥧 www.environskimberley.org.au/minister_watt
“Gazan says on July 24th last year, after thousands of wildfire evacuees had taken refuge in Winnipeg, she had sent a letter to Minister Gull-Masty with an urgent request for action to uphold the safety and dignity of those displaced." (1/2)
3/ Prime Minister Carney ran on a promise to protect Canadians from Donald Trump and stand up for Canadian sovereignty. He cannot sit on the fence while Doug Ford hands more power to Wall Street.
To every volunteer, donor, organizer and NDP member who helped power this history-making movement: thank you.
We are building a new foundation for our party, and we are ready to come roaring back on the Canadian political stage. Let’s get to work!
🇨🇦 When Canadians vacation in Canada, the money stays closer to home. Hotels, restaurants, tour guides, gas stations, small shops, airports, museums, and local workers all benefit. Choosing Canada is not only about scenery — it is also about supporting communities during a tough economy.
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Canada is quickly being welcomed into the EU orbit. Oil, Aluminum, Critical minerals, Potash, Uranium, cheap steel, lumber, will be redirected away from US supply lines.
Trumps statement "We need nothing from Canada" will be tested. But don't worry what are the odds of Trump getting it wrong?
Dr. Young-Leslie {use alt-text, humans} ElbowsUp! 🇨🇦🚲 reposted
The tourists will not be returning we have found better and more welcoming places to go. That ship has sailed. Next mistake will be the USA not committing to revising CUSMA. Canada is quickly aligning away from the US and Americans have no concept of the economic pain this will cause.
"Why a bicycle is a the key to your city"
Toronto's wonderful Yvonne Bambrick's TEDx talk (2016).Yvonne is a visual artist, social innovator, author of The Urban Cycling Survival Guide & helped found Toronto Cyclists Union (now Cycle Toronto). Enjoy!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D72G...#WomenRideBikes
It's that time of year again! Time to #Fancy up your bike, oil your chain, polish your fenders, fancy up your hat, choose your heels, and be ready to bring the whimsy and glamour to your second Sunday in June!!
Meet @ Louise McKinney Park, 11: 30am, by the café. We ride at high noon
#bikesky#yeg
At the #FightBackRally in #Edmonton. The crowd is huge, the signs clever, the mood unified:
•no authoritarianism
•no 2-tier health care
•no book-banning
•no separatists
✓Yes public education
✓Yes living wage
✓Yes municipal autonomy
"citizens work is never done; the fight goes on for what was won"
“With our treaty partners, we can make the case to the federal government that because our population does not want to separate from Canada, there can be some special status afforded to municipalities who don’t want to participate,” said Paquette. #yegcc#abpoliedmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...
“With our treaty partners, we can make the case to the federal government that because our population does not want to separate from Canada, there can be some special status afforded to municipalities who don’t want to participate,” said Paquette. #yegcc#abpoliedmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...
He is 💯 correct.
Danielle Smith is no patriot. She’s a self interested, Machiavellian politico who is married to a twisted & absurd ideology (that has proven to be entirely destructive in practice), & panders to seppies because without them, she would’ve never won the leadership.
#ableg#cdnpoli
Un patient cancéreux et sa femme jetés à la rue par ce propriétaire de Hudson
Fausto Sabatino a été condamné à verser plus de 62 500 $ pour avoir fait subir une « rénoviction » au couple.
Après l'éviction, il a vendu la demeure rénovée pour 1,2M$ #polqcwww.journaldemontreal.com/2026/05/21/p...