Neither I nor the majority of the students would have any idea this was going on....
#Animalrights advocates urge Queen’s University in #Kingston to rehome research #dogsthewhig.com/news/animal-rights…
Animal rights advocates urge Queen's University in Kingston to rehome research dogs
Saturday's protest was focused on dogs involved in hemophilia research at Queen's.Bill Hall (Kingston Whig)
#Animalrights advocates urge Queen’s University in #Kingston to rehome research #dogs
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Saturday's protest was focused on dogs involved in hemophilia research at Queen's.Bill Hall (Kingston Whig)
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Some users may not know the host of our Friendica instance social.trom.tf/network also hosts a full suite of free software available here trom.tf/ There is a poll creator, video call, search engine, even a Linux-based operating system, almost anything you can think of. Everything a person would need to function in the digital world without feeding into big Tech. Not to mention a library of documentaries Tio has created and compiled analyzing how to build a better world based on the "trade-free" philosophy.
This is his offering to the cause, but as mainly a one-man show obviously he needs a little help and right now it is urgent to keep the servers running, so he's set up a donation campaign here donorbox.org/pay-for-our-trom-…
I really hope more people will check out and try out the services, and if you find it of value and can afford to, consider becoming a monthly donor. You can also read an overview of the TROM initiative and donate here tromsite.com/donate/
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Forward Weekly feature for September 6, 2026.forwardweekly.ca
Birding for Nature Birding for Nature is our annual fundraiser where anyone can join to collect pledges and go out birding with their loved ones and share their love of nature.Nature Alberta - A community connected by a love of nature.
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In the longer term, Nepal will need to have an effective strategy to deal with seismic and climate change-induced disasters that are almost certainly going to increase in future.Nepali Times (Global Voices)
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Earthjustice has defended bison in court for decades, and today we need your help to keep up the fight.Zarah Patriana (Earthjustice)
solid roundup on the way AI is making everything worse
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The political problem isn't the data centers — it's that AI is a turd mountain looming over daily life.Garrett Graff (Doomsday Scenario)
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I've gotten this far and already I'm lolsobbing in recognition:
"The ordinary Americans’ experience with AI is as if after the invention of electricity, every factory worker was assigned to start each workday by receiving an electric shock, and newly founded electrical companies went around to rural farms tasering farm children involuntarily and then dropping a dead electrocuted hog down the family water well."
Reporting from the front lines of a violence that never made the newsBrandi Morin (Indigenous Insider)
Join 350 Canada and people from across the country for a POWER HOUR to take concrete action together. We say NO to pipelines while Canada burns. Not on our dime, not on our watch.act.350.org
Undercover, unprotected, and closing in on the truth they killed a man to buryBrandi Morin (Indigenous Insider)
New paper thread! "Rings in the Sky: Orbital Data Centres and Potential Impacts to Astronomy and the Sky" by A. Boley, me, and @hannorein. Submitted, and posted to the arxiv preprint server.
What would the sky look like if companies actually launch the tens of thousands up to one million "AI data center" satellites that they have asked for? Well, the short answer is, horrifying. The long answer is... this paper! arxiv.org/pdf/2608.02757
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Meanwhile, oil companies posted record profits this quarter. They are not paying for this at all.
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"We have to protect what's left" - Brandi Morin
#forestfire #climatechange #indigenous
230 homes gone on the Okanagan Indian Band — and it’s not even the only First Nation to lose everything this summerBrandi Morin (Indigenous Insider)
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1/ As I received this news today here in British Columbia, the wildfire smoke blankets the sky, our eyes are burning and our kid is complaining of a sore throat from it. And we’re the lucky ones. Over the weekend, more than 5,000 British Columbians had to flee their homes in 24 hours, under evacuation from just two of the approximately 130 wildfires currently engulfing the province.
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Canada's Pacheedaht Elder Bill Jones is urging British Columbia to stop destroying this land. Sign here to stand with him and protect this ancient sanctuary.Avaaz
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Members of the ProPublica Guild, which represents more than 150 workers across the nonprofit investigative newsroom, overwhelmingly voted to ratify our first contract on Friday, exactly three years since we officially won recognition as a union.ProPublica Guild
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"Buried in this free trade agreement (between Canada and Ecuador) is an investor-state dispute settlement mechanism — a private arbitration system that lets Canadian corporations sue the Ecuadorian government, outside Ecuadorian courts, for passing laws that get in the way of their profits. Ecuador’s constitution bans this. Ecuadorians have voted to keep that ban in place twice, in 2024 and again in 2025"
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Write to the Minister of International Trade Maninder.Sidhu@parl.gc.ca
A trade deal that hands mining companies a private court, and communities no way to fight back.Brandi Morin (Indigenous Insider)
Kaitiakitanga (Māori) means guardianship. In a world on fire, it might be the most important word we’ve never used.Brandi Morin (Indigenous Insider)
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The increased tanker traffic would finish them off.
The story from the Tsleil-Waututh perspective.
#Canada #pipeline #orcas #indigenous
The orcas Tsleil-Waututh call family are down to 73. The tribe says Carney and Alberta’s new pipeline is the end of the line.Brandi Morin (Indigenous Insider)
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asking for my southern hemisphereians.
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