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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 1h

For the late/west coast crowd, my @xtramagazine.com column: The premiers violating your Charter rights don't want the courts to weigh in #canqueer #cdnpoli

The premiers violating your Charter rights don’t want the courts to weigh in | Xtra Magazine

When it comes to the Notwithstanding Clause, premiers opposed to the federal government’s factum are showing their true colours

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 1h

as someone who worked at the CDC, the way they’ve targeted these illegal firings are pretty much what i would do to inflict maximum damage to what remains of our nation’s federal public health infrastructure. a hostile takeover of the agency

Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 2h

You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live.

And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Tara Haelle @tarahaelle.bsky.social · 1d

Don't count on the #CDC for evidence-based information about #vaccines these days. But there still remain plenty of other resources for getting that information. Here's where to start.

Where to find accurate vaccine information amidst the CDC’s ongoing collapse

With the CDC no longer a trustworthy source, use these resources to find reliable, accurate, evidence-based information about vaccines.

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Mike @brechinbrae220031.bsky.social · 10h

Renewables become biggest source of electricity globally for 1st time, beating coal. Report shows solar, wind booming worldwide, but fossil fuel generation rose in U.S., EU
www.cbc.ca/news/science...

Renewables become biggest source of electricity globally for 1st time, beating coal | CBC News

Worldwide solar and wind power generation has outpaced electricity demand this year, and for the first time on record, renewable energies combined generated more power than coal, according to a new an...

www.cbc.ca

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 1h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 1h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Dozens of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed

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Fae Johnstone @faejohnstone.bsky.social · 11d

Is PM Carney abandoning women, girls, and queer people in his austerity agenda? My latest in the Hill Times.

www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...

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Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 1d

Today in the party of “small government and local control”: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott declares war on the state's rainbow crosswalks.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott declares war on state's rainbow crosswalks

"Texans expect their taxpayer dollars to be used wisely, not advance political agendas on Texas roadways."

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 9h

Seeing Ms. Rachel say exactly what needs to be said to Obama is so damn refreshing

Dear President Obama,
I saw in your statement you said "Israeli families" & "the people of Gaza."
Palestinians have families, too.
This kind of language contributes to dehumanization. Dehumanization is part of what caused so many to stay silent as 20,000 children were killed in this genocide.
I've sat with wonderful Palestinian families from Gaza. They look at their children just like we look at ours - with all the love & hope in the world.
Love,
Ms Rachel

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Kai Cheng Thom @razorfemme.bsky.social · 21d

For the last edition of my column DANGEROUS SPACE with @xtramagazine.com I wrote about why it's time for queer communities to say goodbye to cancel culture as we resist the accelerating crackdown on our rights.

Xtra @xtramagazine.com · 21d

It has been gratifying to see the rise of genuine collective dialogue about cancel culture over the past few years, writes @razorfemme.bsky.social.

Cancel culture favours punishment over solidarity. It’s time to let it go | Xtra Magazine

Queer and social justice movements must reject cancel culture to meet the moment

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 8h

For the record, mockery is a perfectly effective form of resistance against ICE.

They want us to be violent so they can put pictures on Facebook and justify a forceful response with their base. They can't do that with an inflatable unicorn costume.

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Diane Galloway @adgwatches.bsky.social · 3h

Comrades, I’m inclined to tell you a story from my organizing days. In 2018, I was one of hundred of union organizers who had the privilege to assist with a nine-day, statewide, unauthorized teachers’ strike to save their schools from a critical staffing shortage. Buckle up, it’s a good one. 1/x

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Alison @alisonscott.bsky.social · 22h

Here's some more information on the overuse or abuse of one of our most precious resources.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas

Amazon, Google and Microsoft are building datacentres in water-scarce parts of five continents

www.theguardian.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

BlackRock is seeking to buy Aligned Data Centers, a data center construction company.

It’s also going to buy AES, one of the major power providers for Big Tech data centers.

While these data centers drive up your electricity costs, wealthy financiers are going to make a killing.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 8h

Great piece from @brucearthur.bsky.social @thestar.com about the bird flu ostrich circus.

The economic and scientific issues concern me a lot, but for me, it all comes back to this: the US is where it is now because public health was politicized & exploited to undermine democracy & the rule of law.

“I mean, the economic security issues that it would create in terms of potentially s——canning our entire poultry export market would be devastating for Canada. But the real underlying issue is this anti-government belief that these public health orders are optional, and we don’t want government regulation.

“That is why they have so much attention, and why Rebel News and this entire far-right media ecosystem is involved ... is to weaken, basically, government sovereignty. And this is exactly the kind of thing that happened in the U.S.”

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 2d

Let us recall what Palestinians have been demanding:

Ceasefire AND,
End the siege.
End the occupation.
A free Palestine.

We do not stop until Palestine is free.
We do not stop until everyone is free.

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 2d

May Palestinians have a moment to breathe, gather, mourn, rest, and live.

A reminder for the rest of us. Korea has been under ceasefire for 70 years, technically still at war, and still occupied by the U.S. Empire.
We are not yet free. I wish more for Korea.

I wish more for Palestine, too.

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 7h

Good. More of this. Less of cuts and pipelines and missile shields and appeasing Trump and undermining labour and going backwards on climate.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Carney announces long-awaited automatic tax filing, makes school food program permanent | CBC News

Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Friday that his government will begin rolling out an automatic tax filing system for low-income Canadians and will make the school food program permanent, in advan...

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Rev Barb @revbarb.bsky.social · 6h

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Moe blames drugs for homelessness rather than rising rents, and inadequate provincial social safety nets. Nice attempt at deflection of blame.

Confusion reigns over future of Moose Jaw shelter after province tries to retract announcement | CBC News

The Government of Saskatchewan has thrown into confusion the future of a shelter in downtown Moose Jaw by contradicting a relocation announcement initially confirmed by Premier Scott Moe and Justice M...

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Devin Heroux @devinheroux.bsky.social · 6h

Did you know Canadian short track speed skaters have won 37 Olympic medals — second only the long track speed skaters who have won 42.

A wildly successful program that intends on breaking record haul of six medals at one Games in Milano in February. Journey starts here tomorrow.

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 9h

"What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid. When they try to describe this situation as 'war-torn,' it becomes much harder to take them seriously."

Protest frog and Portland chicken. Love the phrases.

An Interview With the Portland Chicken

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

www.wweek.com

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11h

Wrote a thing. Again. Telling the truth is generally regarded as a matter of intention and moral character, but it's also a skill: the ability to delineate accurately what's going on out there and who exactly the parties are....

Categories Are Leaky (Over-Generalizations are Dangerous)

Many people seem to love sweeping generalizations. Not all people, but lots of people I come across trying to discuss the politics of our time fall back on pretending that a category of people is homo...

www.meditationsinanemergency.com

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Alexander Quon @alexanderquon.bsky.social · Dec 17

YWCA Canada apologizes for its involvement in residential schools and Indian hospitals
www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

YWCA Canada apologizes for its involvement in residential schools and Indian hospitals | CBC News

YWCA Canada has issued an apology to Indigenous communities for its involvement in programs offered at residential schools and Indian hospitals supporting colonial ideologies and promoting policies of...

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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 14h

Ontario has declared its measles outbreak over after a nearly year-long battle, but other parts of the country are still managing new cases of the highly-infectious disease, by @alannasmith.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com

Ontario declares end to measles outbreak after almost a year

Province’s top doctor says the decision is based on careful monitoring and analysis by public-health experts

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Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · 16h

This is an interesting project.
Thanks to a system developed University of Waterloo hikers can upload their pictures of specific locations so that regrowth can be accurately tracked.
One interesting point the article makes is that Aspen suckers/trees are the first
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Hikers can be citizen scientists in photo project documenting forest regrowth in Jasper | CBC News

Hikers in Jasper National Park are being urged to help with a research project on the Old Fort Point trail. Three posts were installed along the hike so visitors can log photos to track tree regenerat...

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