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Matt Stickland, bearded election elf
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Political reporter for The Coast, co-host of Grand Parade and Wander Grounds. Previously: Founding editor of Committee Trawler, an NDP Candidate, Submariner, and Theater tech. DMs open, he/him. matt@thecoast.ca
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Biking in Ottawa's outlying burrows is either a 1/10 death trap paint lane on a stroad or 10/10 protected, separated bike infrastructure, and nothing in between.

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gas stoves are poisonous to children Yascha www.persuasion.community/p/where-envi...

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During Pam Lovelace's Ask Me Anything on Reddit she said that my reporting about the cease and desist was wildly inaccurate because I never spoke to her for the story. Here the thing about that...

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These district profiles are a lot of fun but also a lot of work.

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Ugh they took the fluoride out of the water in Calgary in 2011 and now they're trying to put it back because...

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"We are concerned about avoidable and potentially life-threatening disease, pain, suffering, misery and expense experienced especially by very young children and their families due to dental decay," Dickinson said in an emailed statement.

"In just eight years after fluoridation ended in 2011, the need for intravenous antibiotic therapy by children to avoid death by infection rose 700 per cent at the Alberta Children's Hospital."

According to Dickinson, a recent University of Alberta study shows that for children under five years old, the rate of dental treatments under anesthesia doubled from 22 per 100,000 in 2010-11 to 45 per 100,000 in 2018-19.

For kids aged six to 11, the rates rose from 14 per 100,000 to 19 per 100,000.
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If I was reading a history book about a nation that executed innocent people, allowed serious corruption within its judiciary to go unpunished, banned books on sexual autonomy, and featured a ranting autocrat promising to punish his political enemies, which nation am I reading about?

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Matt Stickland, bearded election elf
@landofsticks.bsky.social
Political reporter for The Coast, co-host of Grand Parade and Wander Grounds. Previously: Founding editor of Committee Trawler, an NDP Candidate, Submariner, and Theater tech. DMs open, he/him. matt@thecoast.ca
298 followers142 following797 posts