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Mike Bloxam 🇨🇦🍉
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Making the best of an #ONterrible situation...

#LdnOnt parent, partner, entrepreneur, solar guy, food banker, environmentalist 🌳🏡☀️⏳ (Opinions mine; share/like ≠> endorsement)

#CovidConscious 😷

Mastodon: @[email protected]
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www.cbc.ca/sports/olymp...

Canada blanks Finland 5-0 in Olympic women's hockey, faces Germany in quarterfinals | CBC Sports
Canada blanks Finland 5-0 in Olympic women's hockey, faces Germany in quarterfinals | CBC Sports
Emily Clark scored twice for Canada in a 5-0 win over Finland in Olympic women's hockey Thursday. Kristin O'Neill had a goal and an assist, and Jenn Gardiner and Darryl Watts added singles for Canada.
www.cbc.ca
February 12, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Our family were doing well avoiding infection until December 2023. It took me 9 weeks to get back to feeling normal, and that was with missing the first two weeks of work in the new year. 60 days sounds about right!

#COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver #WearAMask #CleanTheAir #VaccinesWork
Wow, average of 60 days to fully recover physiologically from a “moderate to severe” covid infection.

#LongCovid #MedSky #IDSky #CovidIsntOver #MaskUp
The CDC says it's fine to resume normal activities 24 hrs after Covid symptoms are improving. A new, large prospective study with digital tracking shows recovery takes much longer than that www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
February 8, 2026 at 1:24 AM
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Wow, average of 60 days to fully recover physiologically from a “moderate to severe” covid infection.

#LongCovid #MedSky #IDSky #CovidIsntOver #MaskUp
The CDC says it's fine to resume normal activities 24 hrs after Covid symptoms are improving. A new, large prospective study with digital tracking shows recovery takes much longer than that www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
February 7, 2026 at 7:43 PM
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If you have a LARGE follower count, pls know that Scott Horton is a chronic thief of posts. He also gets things very wrong and won't take posts down. No matter how nicely you ask.

Please unfollow him and do not repost.

Although he steals everything, Horton was recently verified by Bluesky.
Check the words. Check the time stamps.

Fucking clown shit.
February 8, 2026 at 12:32 AM
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Chances are, you’re paying too much for groceries. 💸

Let’s take a look at why— and why it doesn’t have to be this way.

Watch to the end for just one of the ways the Ontario NDP will rein in these outrageous prices.
February 6, 2026 at 2:07 PM
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Canada's plan to open a consulate in Greenland was announced in 2024 -- along with one in Alaska. It was based on concerns about Russia. Let's not pretend this is a Carney growing some elbows move.

www.nbcnews.com/world/greenl...
Canada and France open consulates in Greenland following tensions over U.S. push for control
"As Arctic nations, Canada and the Kingdom of Denmark are working together to strengthen stability, security, and cooperation," Canada's Foreign Minister said.
www.nbcnews.com
February 6, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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Following Ontario’s decision to increase funding for private #healthcare clinics, advocates warn that this is more likely to exacerbate an already dire situation than to improve it. #canlab #privatehealthcare

rabble.ca/labour/the-e...
The erosion of Ontario’s public healthcare system
Following Ontario’s decision to increase funding for private healthcare clinics, putting the public system at risk.
rabble.ca
February 6, 2026 at 4:52 PM
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An airborne virus is a virus that can infect other people through unseen particles in the air, sometimes for hours after the sick person has left the area! Masks and clean, ventilated air can reduce the risk of getting sick from airborne viruses or infecting others.
February 5, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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Excellent news. Push your elected leaders to make smart choices and sometimes we can make progress.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/new-brunswick-government-stop-using-x-9.7076199

#nbpoli
February 6, 2026 at 12:36 AM
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Good! Now if we can get the rest of Canada's branches of government to likewise. #cdnpoli #nbpoli
New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt's Liberal government will no longer use X for "routine" government communications:
February 5, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Reposted by Mike Bloxam 🇨🇦🍉
There’s lots to unpack here

A few reasons:

More public $ going to for-profit providers where there is poor value for money

Prov govs haven’t shifted away from the small business model of primary care that is failing us across the country— primary care must be the foundation of our health system
A new survey suggests Canadians feel the healthcare system has deteriorated over the last decade as they increasingly struggle to access family doctors and encounter hurdles to seeing specialists.
New survey suggests Canadians feel healthcare system has deteriorated
The latest results say half of respondents reported that they either don’t have a family doctor or struggle to see the one they do have.
canadianhealthcarenetwork.ca
February 5, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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"What exactly do you expect Carney to do / not do?"

A thread of 50 specific items (with links, and not in any particular order), a large fraction of which are in line with warning signs we pointed out early on and were told to be quiet, wait and see, or trust his 4D chess acumen.

1/??
January 22, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star
February 4, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Please, especially in #LdnOnt, wear a mask in public! #COVID19 is not gone and not "mild". 😷 #RSV on the rise, too...

#WearAMask #MaskUp #CleanTheAir #CovidIsNotOver
Ontario wastewater levels were just updated. The graph for London Ontario is below. So, “during COVID” was when, exactly?! Today, during COVID is today. 😷

wwater.ca/Ontario
January 31, 2026 at 3:11 AM
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Ontario wastewater levels were just updated. The graph for London Ontario is below. So, “during COVID” was when, exactly?! Today, during COVID is today. 😷

wwater.ca/Ontario
January 30, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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#Ontario #wastewater graph updated with January 18 data
- London updated: wwater.ca/Ontario
- Also updated: AB, NB, SK, YT

wwater.ca

Source: health-infobase.canada.ca/wastewater/
January 30, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Reposted by Mike Bloxam 🇨🇦🍉
What could possibly explain the trend line in this chart?

#LongCOVID
#COVID
#medsky

digital.nhs.uk/data-and-inf...

NHS Sickness Absence Rates, October 2025
January 31, 2026 at 12:30 AM
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If you ever see my byline next to a headline like this, you have my permission to stage an intervention
January 30, 2026 at 11:48 PM
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Derek Ruttan, who died Monday, chronicled London's good, bad and ordinary for The Free Press for 28 years tinyurl.com/mw5rv6p5 #ldnont
Free Press photographer Derek Ruttan leaves 'remarkable legacy'
Derek Ruttan, who died Monday, chronicled London's good, bad and ordinary for The Free Press for 28 years
tinyurl.com
January 29, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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See how the media position Ford as saviour of Canada … all while he destroys public healthcare and education and ripping off the taxpayer at every turn.
January 29, 2026 at 12:03 AM
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A new report from Ontario's largest healthcare union shows Doug Ford is planning cuts that will eliminate over 10,000 healthcare workers from hospitals.

10,000 nurses, PSWs, and frontline staff – gone.
January 27, 2026 at 11:41 PM
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My newest article for @ricochetmedia.bsky.social

"the Liberals would rather risk a Conservative false majority than a build a system where they would have to share power with the NDP consistently. They...only scaremonger to keep Canadians in line."

ricochet.media/politics/you...
You can’t beat Canada's far-right with a broken electoral system
Learn why electoral reform is crucial for Canada, as leaders like Avi Lewis prioritize proportional representation in politics.
ricochet.media
January 26, 2026 at 10:09 PM
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European countries including U.K. lose measles elimination status

CTV News / Reuters
January 26, 2026

stillcoviding.ca/en/news/euro...

#health #measles #antivaxxers
European countries including U.K. lose measles elimination status
stillcoviding.ca
January 27, 2026 at 2:44 AM
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Hi Canadian Bluesky, did you know Save On grocery, auto, etc oligarch Jim Pattison is selling his Hanover Virginia property to ICE for a detention facility?

Here's the report, next post in thread is his businesses you may wish to consider boycotting FOREVER
www.wric.com/news/local-n...
ICE to turn Hanover warehouse into processing center, here’s what we know about the facility
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has confirmed its plans to turn a warehouse into a processing facility in Hanover County.
www.wric.com
January 23, 2026 at 11:51 PM
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It's a snitch app
January 23, 2026 at 10:28 PM