Megan Reiter
@vannutmeg
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Hanging out on the social media sidelines. xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) territory.
Vancouver
Joined June 2010
Paging @CityofVancouver
“Montreal is #redesigning 13 of its downtown streets to make the area #safer for pedestrians and cyclists. From street closures to reorienting traffic, the Ville-Marie makeover's main goal is to reduce the number of cars on the road”
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Gasoline versus electric cars? Here’s how their life cycle emissions compare in Canada | Canada's National Observer: News & Analysis
nationalobserver.com
Spoiler alert: Over the full life cycle of Canadian gasoline cars and electric cars, the 70 tonnes of CO2 from burning gasoline absolutely crushes everything else — including Canadian climate hopes....
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In 2022, we - reversed organ death in pigs - made the first embryo from stem cells - made a pan-influenza vaccine - saw the beginning of time - got best-ever results from cancer & obesity therapy trials - maybe cracked the case of multiple sclerosis https://t.co/U24emm7aoA
theatlantic.com
Pictures of the beginning of the universe, medicine that can (kind of) reverse death, and other leaps of human ingenuity
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For one residential-school survivor, making drums honours lost children - The Globe and Mail
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Norman Retasket on how in the wake of unmarked grave discoveries, he found meaning in making drums – and his own story of surviving the Kamloops Indian Residential School
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Patagonia’s founder, Yvon Chouinard, gave the $3 billion company to trusts and nonprofits to fight climate change. “Hopefully this will influence a new form of capitalism that doesn’t end up with a few rich people and a bunch of poor people,” he said.
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Indigenous cowboy, last of his kind, makes hard choices to save starving wild horses in B.C.’s Osoyoos desert https://t.co/NAozVeHQ1M
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A Moment of Grace in a Season of Pain
theatlantic.com
We can give second chances, and when we do, we can sometimes see that an enemy isn’t an enemy at all.
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The Rogers outage is an opportunity to change how we think about our digital infrastructure https://t.co/DG1JDEYfrL
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In Opinion “Johnson’s career is ending, at least for now, the way Trump’s should have ended — with public revulsion leading his own party to oust him," writes Michelle Goldberg of the British prime minister.
nytimes.com
His career is ending the way Donald Trump’s should have.
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When @MargaretAtwood was writing “The Handmaid’s Tale,” she sometimes wondered if her novel was too far-fetched. Justice Alito's leaked draft opinion on Roe, she argues, has made it take on a hideous new reality.
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THREAD: I’m going to try this thread to clearly state my perspective on electric vehicles, car dependency and better cities, to those who frequently ask me, including media, elected leaders and many others. Here goes. Please share if you think it helps. 🧵#EVS
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Canadian Amber Bracken wins World Press Photo of the Year for residential school memorial photo https://t.co/I896ZzxZvd
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The highway that disappeared: How the B.C. flood changed lives forever along Highway 8 - The Globe and Mail
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Highway 8, also known as the Nicola Highway, runs through a rural stretch of Interior B.C. Last year’s atmospheric river dealt enormous damage to the highway and changed the course of the river...
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Now that you know what your ludicrously huge vehicle can do to a human, what are you going to do about it? https://t.co/lSO9ApZPop via @slate
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What do you think happens when those 4,000 pounds strike someone?
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Opinion: There’s plenty of room for affordable housing in Canadian cities. We just need to legalize it - The Globe and Mail
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We desperately need more housing to catch up with demand, but where should those homes be built and what should they look like?
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re: Gassy Jack Statue Here is a statement from the @SquamishNation in response to the statue being torn down today. Please share.
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Heartening, in a very low-bar kind of way.
The speaker of the Republican-controlled Arizona House — who supported Donald Trump in 2020 — just torpedoed a bill that would have let lawmakers reject the results of an election.
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Parenting: The slow process of taking care of children until they start to take care of you.
slate.com
For the first time in my life I have a secretary. If I were a branch manager or assistant V.P. of sales in an honest profession, I might have gotten...
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