Ok, bear with me; working through an idea.
The @CityofEdmonton has identified that to institute the #biketransportation infrastructure needed to meet climate crisis, human well-being & municipal tax affordability goals, will cost ~ $200M. But only $100M was budgeted. /1st So we have a shortfall of $100M over the next budget cycle (2023-26).
Car-dedicated infrastructure (lanes, parking, parking lots) is pricey to the municipal budget, & is always inadequate: it induces demand & increases risk, noise, pollution rather than easing congestion, etc. /2

@pitaTofua Sending a plea for help from #Kotu (Home of the Taufatofua chiefly title). Professor Perminow, author of the book about Kotu's response to the March 2011 #tsunami warning, reports: "the situation is quite a bit worse than the air photos indicated"
#TongaVolcanoTsunami Cont'd: "Dear friends, finally received a first hand eye witness account on the ground from Kotu... Sitiveni Fehoko... returned from Lulunga yesterday after having brought relief supplies & this is what he reports: /2
#TongaVolcanoTsunami #Haapai #Kotu

ANTICIPATION....
At the @GoAHealth immunization clinic at 12:35, for a 13:10 appointment. Parking lot full. Queue around the building. I join the queue, take the fresh medical mask & wait. "We are serving 12:40 appointments says the announcer". At 13:10, she invites 12:50 people. The queue is calm, orderly. But it's hot & there's not much shade. People all around the parking lot, in shade puddles, waiting for their time's announcement. @ 13:17, she invites 13:00 (1pm) appointments.

A screed, re: #StopPSEcuts & #ProtectOurFuture:

The video is brilliant. It captures most of what I would have said, if I'd been able to carve out the time to make a video by deadline. What I would add is how angry I feel.
via @YouTube I'm angry that so many colleagues have been laid off. I'm angry that they've been laid off and disappeared by our senior administrators, and that those of us still here are not permitted to grieve. /2
#StopPSEcuts & #ProtectOurFuture:

#BikeTheft #yegbike @BikeIndex @edmontonpolice
Vintage Dutch Bike Stolen. Please help rescue Rosa Luxembike from the nasty bike thieves! bikeindex.org/bikes/1056905
Constable K.Hurd, @edmontonpolice is on the case 🤞🚲🤞🚲🤞🚲

Mayor @doniveson warns Albertans not to flout Covid19 precautions just because the @Alberta_UCP MLAs & staff did. We refer to the impact from politicians' bad modelling of public health advisories as the #DominicCummingsEffect. It's measurable. It's dangerous.

https://twitter.com/doniveson/status/1346163224069111810

#CummingsEffect happens when the public stop adhering to public health messages after learning that a political figure personally flouted the same advice. It is a measurable danger during an epidemic. *This* is the real danger from the #UCPvacations. (2)
thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Allies 4 UofA, follow @davidkahane @BukolaKSalami @Timphon @sueannmok @dickson_clayton @PhillipChoi16 @k_blizz @drsiobhanbyrne @brianfauteux @drmarples @thanec @laharrin @ArtsSquared @RussellSCobb @TrelaniChapman @DrDFuller @rak_dr @whitesummer22 @Lauren_Sulz @nat_hurley /1 Allies4UofA, follow @Linda_Laidlaw @NatalieLoveless @nvandeusen @commodityfikshn @christyLraymond @WAndyKnight1 @DrAndyHolt @HistoryOfRights @LaurieAdkin @djcdiem @ArchaeoMapper @DunchinYEG @TerriTomsky @MathKyle @DinicolaNicola @Sleepisthenews1 @ParadisPatricia @cpeck3 /2

FUCK!! Shame on you, @mec board, for betraying the core mission, and the cooperative members. #shame #MECbetrayed

theglobeandmail.com/business/artic… There are 2, linked, petitions against the privatization of our co-op:
1)
change.org/p/members-of-m…
Use this hashtag to share:
#savemec

Reading the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board's 2019 report. Remember #GroHarlemBrundtland (PM Norway, then Director-General @WHO)? She had vital advice that could have prevented #COVID19. Yet, not seeing more attn to the @TheGPMB's 7 recommendations: apps.who.int/gpmb/assets/an… 1] Each nation must implement binding obligations under the International Health Regulations of 2005, prioritize & dedicate resources & recurrent $$ for preparedness; integral to national & global security; universal health coverage. Progress indicators due Sept 2020.

Imaging #Police The root of #policing

The UCP are choosing to gut Alberta's post-secondary institutions {'cept the religious 1s} #UofA is being targeted disproportionately {could it be b/c #yeg voted NDP?🤔}.
It's students at Alberta's biggest university (1 of the best in the world) who'll suffer. See how: #PSE

https://twitter.com/DunchinYEG/status/1247313939618119681

What can students do about the #UCP attack on Alberta's universities?
Yes, budget sit'n is dire. But budget choices are being made based on: 1]ideologies of small gov't via downloaded (not lower) costs, 2]failed austerity models, 3]pork-barrel politics #PSE
@cafaab @ualbertaGSA

A mini-autoethnography re: #LifeInTheTimeOfCovid
Started #selfisolating Mar16, d/t travel followed by respiratory symptoms; tested -ve for #Covid19 {WhooHoo!}
Now #workingfromhome, #physicaldistancing & #socialconnecting via Zoom, Hangouts, etc. Earworm: Yst'day was rough. Mood swings, easily demoralized by small things: colleagues not getting a strategy; more wafer-thin slices from my autonomy in my work. Saved by a long walk. I could handle #PlankTheCurve if Ab's attack on universities wasn't co-occuring. #LifeInTheTimeOfCovid

Prelim research on China's pandemic MDs & RNs indicates what Canadian frontline health workers are facing: "Anxiety & Depression Symptoms" #InTheTimeOfCovid disq.us/t/3mvutb0 Prevalence rate of (self-reported) anxiety & depression symptoms for Chinese MDs working in the #covid19 #pandemic was 11.4% & 45.6% respectively.
#InTheTimeOfCovid disq.us/t/3mvutb0 @drdagly @kandrusky @RajBhardwajMD

I just spent a giddy hour cycling around #Aveiro, #Portugal. Soooo nice to ride again after a week of baltering around Porto. Get this: the bike was free! Hooray for #Buga & Bik&Vento for storing my pack & telling me about Buga! (bikvento.pt) #yegbike #opobike So, @bestqualitycrab asked me to fetch her a little something from #Aveiro, whilst I'm in Portugal.

Much truth in @AlexUsherHESA's blog post today, but he's missing the big point that academic workloads have increased as support staff have been cut & TT colleagues not replaced. So ....(1)

myemail.constantcontact.com/One-Thought-to… Profs now are still researchers, authors, teachers, thesis supervisors, mentors, truth finders, but d/t cuts, are ALSO secretaries, complaints managers, career coaches, knowledge mobilizers, travel agents, accounting clerks & overall administrivia sherpas (2) @AlexUsherHESA