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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 22h

Harper made Canada the worst climate performer among industrial nations, ranked 58th best by the international Climate Change Performance Index.

Trudeau made Canada an even worse climate arsonist than under Harper, dropping us to an even more dismal 62nd place.

Carney: "Hold my beer."

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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 18h

The fundamental disconnect is that the steps required by both science and patient safety are the steps hospital infection control leaders foolishly dismissed in 2020.

They have to choose between killing patients, and admitting a very big mistake.

Turns out their egos are worth more than your life.

Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 1d

How politics is putting patients and health care workers at risk www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... @drgorfinkel.bsky.social @thestar.com

𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

"Masks prevent the transmission of respiratory viruses. The science is clear," writes Iris Gorfinkel. "The standards are in place. A health policy that reacts to hospitalizations and deaths falls below the long-held standard of do-no-harm. Policies that are enacted only once hospitalizations are high do the opposite.

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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 18h

At what point does the media clue in that the people who said COVID wasn't airborne, the people who said #longCOVID wasn't a big deal to minimize that mistake, and the people who are lying by omission to the public to cover up both 👉are the same people👈?

This is a major corruption story - tell it!

Dealing with the fallout: Post-COVID Condition and its continued impact on individuals and society

science.gc.ca

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Jan Brown @writenrun.bsky.social · 12d

I’m glad the recommendations are unequivocal but vaccine rollouts by provinces are far too late. Many in my community have already fallen ill and nursing home outbreaks are well underway. Folks need Covid shots BEFORE schools start up each fall. #covidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsNotSeasonal

Cheryl C 🇨🇦 @carleysue.bsky.social · 12d

www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
The Public Health Agency of Canada's immunization guide says COVID vaccines have been shown to be effective at preventing severe disease, including hospitalization and death and can decrease the risk of post-COVID-19 condition, or long COVID.

COVID-19 vaccine campaigns launch across Canada for 2025-26 | CBC News

Provinces and territories are starting to roll out updated vaccines to protect people from COVID-19.

www.cbc.ca

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NB COVID info @nbcovidinfo.bsky.social · 18h

I have been quietly and steadily providing better masks at my expense for healthcare colleagues and they are really picking up in usage now. Every day either someone grabs a handful for their unit or a bunch of someones are taking one 💕

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Tom Radcliffe @tjradcliffe.bsky.social · 17h

Very on-brand for the BC government of today and yesterday.

Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 18h

This is wild. Dozens of nurses and other healthcare workers had their personal information stolen in a data breach from their employer. But the publicly run Interior Health Authority in B.C denied it for 10 years, even as crimes were being committed using their info

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

They were victims of a massive data breach in 2009. Their employer denied it for a decade | CBC News

For a decade, a B.C. government agency denied a data breach that affected 28,000 health-care workers, creating a situation that one privacy expert says opened the door for fraud artists to continue cr...

www.cbc.ca

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Mark214 @mark214.bsky.social · 19h

Qatar financed Hamas for years, to the tune of $1.8 BILLION. And now they will have their own air force base ON U.S. SOIL, thanks to Trump. Let that sink in.

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 18h

For studies about CO2 and disease transmission… plotting a graph that shows continuous readings per day as three lines would be better than using medians. Maximum recorded, minimum recorded and average.

Because a lot of transmission of COVID can happen in a very short time.

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Tom Radcliffe @tjradcliffe.bsky.social · 18h

Meanwhile, leftwing ideologues continue to insist that nothing was done about covid "because the economy". Err... no. Lots of biases and bullshit were involved, including in David Eby's True Left Wing NDP BC, but it was because the ignorance and idiocy. The economy is getting toasted.

Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 22h

The cost of doing nothing☠️‼️

@binitakane.bsky.social 🙏🏻

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Enduring Outcomes of COVID-19 Work Absences on the US Labor Market

This cohort study examines the extent to which COVID-19 continues to generate work absences and decrease labor force participation beyond the pandemic period in the US.

jamanetwork.com

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James Andrew Smith @drsmith.bsky.social · 20h

Epstein Epstein Epstein

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Post this everywhere‼️
-and-

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 20h

Attempting to “live with” (aka ignore) airborne viruses circulating at high levels *is a choice*.

We could do much better.

#MedSky

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Eric Rosen @erosen1.bsky.social · 1d

While we still have a semi-first amendment I’d like to say fuck you to Donald Trump, you pedophile, anti-American, seditionist, rapist, fascist.

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Tom Radcliffe @tjradcliffe.bsky.social · 19h

The belief "If people only knew X they would do Y" is false, and its falsity is self-demonstrable: everyone knows people know stuff that does not change their behaviour.

People act on feelings, not knowledge, so a disconnect between knowledge and actions is normal.

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Tom Radcliffe @tjradcliffe.bsky.social · 19h

It's just perfectly ordinary cognitive dissonance, easily resolved by ignoring what you know. Every person walking around in indoor public places without an N95 on--including the person decrying Carney's dissonance--knows *exactly* what Carney is doing, because they are doing it themselves... /

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 21h

We have truly not yet figured out how to cope with a person or institution that is "aware" of climate change, "accepts the science", but then decides to continue actively worsening it anyway

We don't even have a word or a phrase for this!

theconversation.com/mark-carneys...

Mark Carney’s climate inaction is at odds with his awareness of climate change’s existential threat

Climate action no longer seems to be a priority for Prime Minister Mark Carney, despite his previous activism. This is bad news for Canadians and the climate.

theconversation.com

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 20h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 23h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 19h

I think this guy is actually president imo

Trump is a doddering old man, barely aware of his own surroundings, getting worked over by underlings.

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 21h

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Corey Matthews (Hardeman) @cjhardeman.bsky.social · 22h

Little Cold Night
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Here: www.coreyhardeman.ca/product-page...
#artforeverybody #paintwhiletheworldburns #canadianartist

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Moebius Stripper @moebiusstripper.bsky.social · 22h

If you're medically vulnerable and live in "anti-vaxx" Alberta, you can get your COVID shot now. If you're medically vulnerable and live in "pro-vaxx" BC, you have to wait a week or more.

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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 21h

Canada’s new government is starting Automatic Federal Benefits. We’re going to pre-file taxes for up to 5.5 million low-income Canadians, so they get the benefits they are entitled to — money that would otherwise be left unclaimed.

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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 21h

Dawn Farrell, the former CEO of Trans Mountain who now leads the federal government's Major Projects Office was asked whether the oil pipeline contributes to the fight against climate change.

“The answer is yes,” she replied.

Head of Carney’s Major Projects Office thinks Trans Mountain is good for climate

Dawn Farrell, the former CEO of Trans Mountain who now leads the federal government's Major Projects Office told the House of Commons environment committee that the oil pipeline helps fight climate ch...

www.nationalobserver.com

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 20h

RFK Jr. is HARKing in human form.

“hypothesizing after results are known,” is a tactic to “fit” a narrative to data.

It’s how he’s going to “make proof” for false health claims.

RFK Jr isn’t a scientist. He doesn’t know how to do science. He HAS profited off health disinformation for decades.

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Christophe Veltsos @drinfosec.bsky.social · 20h

🎯🧵 by Dr. Dr Asad Khan FRCP FRACP pwLC:

"It is not a few months of lockdown or masking that has damaged the health of our children. It is the recurrent exposure to a deadly vascular virus which continues to kill & disable millions."

Full🧵
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19762...

H/t @VSicaKasabach

It is not a few months of lockdown or masking that has damaged the health of our children. It is the recurrent exposure to a deadly vascular virus which continues to kill & disable millions.

Covid never went away; we know that the risk of Long Covid is cumulative (5% with each infection). The risk of acquiring it can be dramatically reduced by cleaning the air in indoor spaces; yet there is zero investment into this area, and children continued to be forced back to unsafe classrooms. This is despite the evidence that apart from reducing the risk of respiratory infections, ventilation improves academic performance and attendance.

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Sarah Faber @sciencebanshee.bsky.social · 23h

Where I think Canada could lead the world in is developing laws to protect the environment, workers, artists, and citizens from AI-driven exploitation.

Do I think they're going to do it?

No

But you have to try.

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Tom Radcliffe @tjradcliffe.bsky.social · 21h

Three of my repeated points: 1) Data privacy, access, and deletion laws at least as strong as the EU's, 2) Make it illegal for an AI to imitate or present as a human being and 3) The best way to have an agile, capable, "AI-aware" workforce is to strengthen our social democracy!

Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 3d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

ised-isde.canada.ca

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Sarah Faber @sciencebanshee.bsky.social · 23h

I really gave this the business, and so can you!

A lot of the questions are VERY "hey, person who *loves* AI, how can we, a government who *loves* AI, make sure companies who *also love* AI come to Canada to do trickledown economics?"

Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 3d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

ised-isde.canada.ca

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