Reporter/Managing Editor @halifaxexaminer.ca
Health/research/social justice.
Nova Scotia, Canada 🇨🇦
Fuelled by lukewarm coffee and hope for a better world. Fan of forests, fireflies, dark skies and the sunrise.
Opinions are mine.
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A new study of 445 adolescents treated at pediatric gender clinics in Canada found that after a mean 2.4 years, 94.6% still identified as trns.
Of the 353 who started hormonal treatments, 1.1% discontinued them.
www.jahonline.org/article/S105...
To determine the proportions of adolescents continuing with their gender identity
after referral to specialized gender clinics, the proportion continuing with gender-affirming
hormones, and the propor...
www.jahonline.org
Jack Turban MD
“Berating Marines weeks after the third suicide in two years—that just sounds like the worst possible way to handle this. Your first instinct should be, pull those guys into your arms and go, ‘Hey, let’s take care of you.’”
This is deeply disturbing.
'Winnipeg police warn of nihilistic violent extremism targeting children'
"The end game, police say, is to ultimately push victims toward killing themselves or others," reports Scott Billeck.
The view from here on my Sunday evening stroll.
I always appreciate the ever changing forest light.
One of my friends is sporting these fantastic dumpster fire socks tonight as a nod to the current state of *gestures broadly at everything.*
That last line!
(She) has urged women to stick $66 jade eggs into their vaginas, & waxed lyrical about the powerful benefits of rectal ozone therapy.
"Now, however, it seems that Paltrow’s brand is pivoting from colon cleansing to ethnic cleansing."
By Arwa Mahdawi via @theguardian.com
Canaries in the coal mines of climate change: How severe storms are affecting migratory birds
Morning File by Suzanne Rent @suzannerent.bsky.social
“Sunday’s U.F.C. fight is not just a garish spectacle; it is an expression of the president’s contempt for the ritual and symbolism of American democracy — which is just another way to say, his contempt for democracy itself.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/13/o...
Some of the efforts being made in Belfast right now to protect people, because the government can't or won't, will be familiar to Minnesotans.
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Why are the rules different for MAID depending on what condition you have? Why are patients with physical ailments, but not those who have mental illness alone, allowed death with dignity? by Konia Trouton www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com
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Birder and retired social anthropologist John Kearney shares what he's learned about birds and climate change.
Hundreds of strangers in Belfast working together. Doing shopping, providing accommodation, driving kids to school, people to hospital appointments.
Have just been told of a woman close to us who hasn't left her house since Monday so we'll be sorting her out today and getting her anything she needs
