Swim Guide

❤️Kingston. You'll Be Amazed At What You See #ygk

While historic schools like Yale fiercely document and preserve their history in brick and stone, Queen's is defining its legacy by how it choosing to reconnect with and restore a living ecosystem. open.substack.com/pub/waterkeepe… #yale #queens @swimdrinkfish

Swimmable Cities Conference coming to Canada. linkedin.com/posts/worldlak… @swimdrinkfish @Waterkeeper @IJCsharedwaters

Every time it rains in Toronto our sewers overflow into Lake Ontario. We are drifting toward a dangerous future, but art might just be the thing that saves us. Here is why the Swim Drink Fish Art for Water gala matters now more than ever: open.substack.com/pub/waterkeepe…

Swimmable Cities Conference coming to Canada. linkedin.com/posts/worldlak…

Blue Flag status isn't just an award it’s a promise - the water is clean, the beach is safe, & management is sustainable. Huge congrats to the 23 Canadian locations leading the way for 2026. See if your local beach made the list: swimdrinkfish.ca/blog/blue-flag…] @swimdrinkfish #BlueFlag

Why does it feel so incredible to have a swimming pier in the middle of your city? open.substack.com/pub/waterkeepe…

Polluters pay. ArcelorMittal Exploitation Minière Canada hit with a record-breaking $100 MILLION fine for illegally dumping toxic, acidic & high-metal effluents into Quebec waterways. The historic fine will help fund environmental restoration projects. canada.ca/en/environment…

Swimmable water isn't a "nice-to-have" luxury; it’s the democratic baseline for a functioning society. It’s time we stop treating clean water as an optional perk. open.substack.com/pub/waterkeepe… @swimdrinkfish @swimguide @LOWaterkeeper

54 years today since Pierre Trudeau & Richard Nixon launched the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. Despite home to voters who decide elections, have not seen this level of bilateral leadership on watershed since. Need to bring that same energy back to the water. @LOWaterkeeper

A couple billion. That’s the price tag on the massive effort to fix a century of nuclear waste in on Lake Ontario’s North Shore. But the cost of silencing a debate about the future is much higher. open.substack.com/pub/waterkeepe…

@Fortgoose @CanadianWater @ONgov @porthopeontario @waterkeepermark You’re right. Years ago, I did share a visualization that turned out to be inaccurate. I wasn't as diligent with fact-checking, as I am now. That is why I value transparency & public trust so much today—I've learned firsthand how easy it is to get it wrong.

@swimguide @CanadianWater @ONgov @porthopeontario @waterkeepermark OK. Since you cite "Transparency" and "Public Trust" as concerns going forward... I'll dig up the screen shots of the accusation. The proper thing to do mark is acknowledge the falsehood and apologize.

.@ONgov is looking to build one of the biggest nuclear power stations in Canadian history near @porthopeontario but water expert @waterkeepermark warns the province’s largest source of freshwater could be at risk. watercanada.net/under-the-micr…

Considering deep history of Great Lakes/St Lawrence, mixed with modern science, the proposals for Great Lakes nuclear expansion & lake-filling for airports, are steps backward. Biinaagami suggests prosperity isn’t possible when sacrificing clean water. @waterkeepermark/note/p-192787168?r=1w2090&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@waterkeeperma…

@Fortgoose @CanadianWater @ONgov @porthopeontario @waterkeepermark open.substack.com/pub/waterkeepe…

@CanadianWater @swimguide @ONgov @porthopeontario @waterkeepermark Reminder re. Mark. He took a wave height map of the Pacific ocean that was falsely manipulated to look like a radiologic map during the Fukushima incident. He shared it widely. When this error was flagged to him, he blocks the person sharing the information. Not to be trusted.

In this room, for this moment, the Great Lakes took precedence over everything else. And it felt great. open.substack.com/pub/waterkeepe… @swimdrinkfish @CanGeo

Hamilton — so much potential. open.substack.com/pub/waterkeepe…

Troubled Lake Erie is being transformed into a vast water research facility - For long a dumping ground for pollutants, the Great Lake is being seeded with sensor buoys to make it the world’s largest digitally connected body of freshwater theguardian.com/environment/20…