Geoff Salomons 🚴🏼♂️
@geoffsal
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Public Servant by day, political scientist by night. Threads @iam.groof; Bluesky https://t.co/8k9a6vWWQ9
Victoria, British Columbia
Joined October 2010
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NEW FIRE NORTH OF KELOWNA Looks like the towns of Scotch Creek, Celista and Squilax are gone. 😢 #Kelowna #BCWildfires
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Paint is not enough #paintisnotenough
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Very strategically planned @bcshaffer !
Fair warning to all the journalists seeking comment from me on this tomorrow… I’ll be in a minivan travelling 7 hours with 5 kids between the ages of 4 and 15 tomorrow so I’m unlikely to take your interview request 😰
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This was an excellent book and a breath of fresh air. I always enjoy reading @theturner! If you haven’t yet, go give this a read this summer!
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Just sent a PDF final draft of a certain very long document off to my supervisor in prep for the defence...
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Then multiply this 👇 by the 10X larger US population that was exposed to the early June 🇨🇦 wild fires. “Mitigation is too expensive”, they said.
We looked at the health costs of the June 4 to 8 wildfires. We linked changes in air quality in Ontario to health outcomes. Costs were an estimated $1.28 billion in one province alone, over a single week. @sstiebert
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@ClimateInstit
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Mankind has always yearned to seek out new worlds without labor laws.
theonion.com
“I would like to ruin space for everyone.”
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Part of the Nova Kakhovka Dam destroyed/failed. Flooding down the Dnieper/Dnipro River to the Black Sea also affecting the Bug & Inhulet Rivers. Flooding will affect both RU defensive belt & potential UAF river crossing, supply lines and upcoming offensive in Kherson. 1/
A multi-hundred foot chunk of the Nova Kakhovka dam is gone, the Kakhovka Reservoir is quickly emptying out into the Dnipro.
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has anyone seen any recent polling out there on support for the Heritage Fund? Last decade will do. @planetjanetyyc @DavidColetto @quito_maggi
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Wordle 715 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 My starter word was finally chosen!
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Joe Albertan: "Look, I want all of the things. I don't want to pay for it, and I call myself a Conservative."
Joe Albertan: "We should SAVE all our oil revenues like Norway!" Me: "Well we could, if we had a sales tax." Joe: "What are you? A communist?" Me: "Or we can close all the hospitals" Joe: "What! Wait times at emergency are already too long." Me: (bangs head on brick wall)
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India is set to surpass China for population this year. What does climate refugees/migration world look like in 2050? ‘In a hot oven’: India heatwaves take a toll on most vulnerable | Climate Crisis News | Al Jazeera
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Impoverished labourers say despite record-breaking temperatures they have little choice but to work outdoors.
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