Dr. Az Klymiuk

Pretendian season means it’s time to post genealogy again? I‘m descended of Cornelius Whitford, son of John Whitford & Mariah Bremner (Red River Métis, took scrip in MB), & Emilia Cardinal, daughter of Abraham Cardinal & Mary Nancy Shirt (Goodfish/Saddle Lake FN), prev married to Patrick Pruden Jr.

A few very important things to point out here The first is that this analysis tells me a huge, uncontrolled data centre build-out in the US still has huge climate impacts even if plugged into the grid Undeniably better w/ grid but it masks and disconnects the climate impacts from the data centre

1. Not sure when a new, on-the-record rape allegation against a sitting president isn’t considered news — especially considering Trump was found liable by a jury in a similar case — but it was ignored by most mainstream media outlets

🚨 Fake online reviews are distorting competition & endangering consumers, research www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/pe... "...fabricating reviews has morphed into a thriving business of its own." Every week I get offers to produce hundreds of authentic looking 5 star reviews for my books❗

The far right is international and they all organize together and raise money for each other. I'd argue it's critical to pay attention to elections in other countries.

Listening to a report about Google chopping down a quarter of a million trees in Finland to build a data centre while washing out yoghurt pots for the recycling

Democrats call for special counsel to probe Trump's ties to Epstein

Governments and industry have big plans for the Port of Churchill. First Nations are gathering to sort through what it means for their territories. Via @evawasney.bsky.social:

Watch the livestream at Vancouver Art Gallery, 9:30 AM–4:30 PM, or register to watch online: bit.ly/larose-zoomregister Climate Rally at 5:30 PM! RSVP: bit.ly/Climate-Rally or tune in on IG Live @youthvgov. Follow trial: https://bit.ly/4z89rSe

Well this is eleventy-million kinds of Fucked Up. @latimes.com (who once contracted with me as a freelance reviewer and whom I struggled to get paid by) asserts that *merely reading its website* constitutes a permanent waiver of your right to sue it under *any circumstances*.

This is literally right out of the Lord of the Rings

A new study has found a species of #jumpingspider experiences at least two sleep stages, including one resembling REM. 🥹🕷️ #entomology #arachnology www.abc.net.au/news/science...

El-Sayed on Trump's cognitive tests: "I went to medical school...In my neurology unit, I would have to give that MoCA exam...The only people that you give a MoCA test to are people who you worry may have cognitive deficits. By definition, if you're taking one of those tests, something's wrong."

we could have nice things too

In January, ActiveHistory.ca launched a special series examining the Indian Act and it history. I wrote a short piece, as an introduction, that lays out some of the basics and included a selected reference list: activehistory.ca/blog/2026/01...

I think the lesson from Lula is not never talk about the opposition; it's articulate a positive vision that's basically, We Can Just Do Things. That's why Mamdani-ism is so popular - voters have an intrinsic sense that their electeds have agency they're not using

It’s over

A huge congratulations to @mayoroliviachow.ca and the incredible slate of progressive councillors elected in Toronto tonight.

In addition to two fascists losing elections in Serbia and Brazil yesterday, Oxford Street in London was closed to vehicular traffic and transformed into a pedestrian zone. 🥳

"To run for President, Bolsonaro decided not to run for his Senate seat. Now, after losing the Presidential election, he no longer has legislative immunity when his Senate term expires in January 2027." There's a good chance he will abscond to the US to avoid prosecution.

So if these protests aren’t real, and you can’t prosecute a bot when it “goes rogue”…

Some unhinged comments and quote posts on this. Machine learning with artificial neural networks has transformed the environmental sciences, and rightly deserved the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics. This isn’t using a chatbot to predict hurricanes.

it feels truly insane that it’s not

But China…

From the DM’s… There’s reportedly been a massive cull of senior leadership at Acute Care Alberta with 8 senior leaders being shown the door suddenly! Just in time for flu season! #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

'Forever chemicals' found in Wisconsin wild rice for the first time. www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...

Toronto driver not sure where to park after city removes bike lanes

Glad to see this piece from Jonathan Judd. The attempted theft by Stanford of The Tulalip Tribes intellectual property is just what we know about because Tulalip has the financial and legal wearwithal to monitor the USPTO. pubs.acs.org/asbcd6/artic...

LIVE: First Nations leaders from across the country are in Ottawa to meet with Prime Minister Mark Carney and Canada's premier. Watch: youtube.com/live/XmRGArz...

The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca notes that in the early 1970s, funding for post-secondary education represented more than 3.5 per cent of all federal government spending. By 2024, it had fallen to just 1.9 per cent. #cdnpoli www.brandonsun.com/opinion/2026...

⚠️ AI orders more medical tests. A costly pressure‼️ Comparative Cost of Care Recommended by Large Language Models versus Treating Physicians ai.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... "The care these [AI] systems recommended cost substantially more than physicians’ documented care..."

A documentary series that tears down the myths of California history premieres Nov. 1 on FNX, the country’s only national TV network for Native programs. People of the West, from Pechanga Studios, tells 500 yrs of the state’s past through the eyes of its first people. redpopnews.com/fnx-opens-na...

Possibly the first time I've seen Anthropic publicly mention climate change and it's...arse-covering in their public filing 🫠 Also hand-wringing that they won't be able to gobble up enough fossil fuels because all the other AI and data centre companies are also trying to gobble up fossil fuels

'It's offensively cheap': How solar power is quietly becoming bigger than nuclear Too bad we don't have national leadership that is serious about renewable energy over fossil fuels. #cdnpoli #canada #neoliberal www.bbc.com/future/artic...

'Albanese warned that the mechanism deliberately strips Palestinians of self-determination, reducing a sovereign nation’s political right to statehood to a subordinated administrative oversight committee under US and Israeli control.' #BoardofPeace gazaherald.com/2026/10/23/a...

Reform and Tories have pledged to reverse ULEZ repeatedly.

Let's be super clear: this is not only an obvious lie, but an outright Trump-level lie. While not technically changing Canada's environmental standards on paper, multiple pieces of Carney legislation allow cabinet ministers to simply declare at will that those standards don't apply to new projects.

Blame government neglect for hospital wait times — not immigrants. Both Edmonton and Calgary need at least 1,000 new acute care beds. edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu... via @edmontonjournal.com

The achievement of Serbian students overthrowing Aleksandar Vučić can't be overstated. In 2024, they began protesting. In 2025, they transformed a protest movement into civil dissidence. In 2026, they became a political party — and two months later, crushed a corrupt state-entrenched authoritarian.

Which says something about the PM firing >1000 of our government scientists working on exactly these issues…

The loon isn't alone!