My IRL friends call me Chris
@christyceeck.bsky.social
Gardener. Current: flower mixologist. Former: flack. Fluent in spin. I media scan, therefore I am. Mister Rogers/Mary Oliver stan. Born at 326 ppm. Old married broad. Mom. Dogs' person. Canadian. Ferenge. she/her #BlackLivesMatter #LFC #ElbowsUp
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For the time-being, many of the political news stories I share will have comments closed. I want to continue to share the stories as a service and FYI to other news junkies here but don't want negative energy in my comments right now. Apologies and thanks for understanding.
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Seeing a major increase in flu cases. The south-west continues to be at extremely high levels.
November 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Seeing a major increase in flu cases. The south-west continues to be at extremely high levels.
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Here is me:
Fuck the pressure to be perfect -
wherever it comes from.
From cultural notions of "professionalism" from inner voices of inadequacy, from competitiveness, from envy, from academia and grading.
Claiming your human frailty is your greatest power and wholeness.
Fuck the pressure to be perfect -
wherever it comes from.
From cultural notions of "professionalism" from inner voices of inadequacy, from competitiveness, from envy, from academia and grading.
Claiming your human frailty is your greatest power and wholeness.
This is so soulless, I can't stand it. We have BRAINS. We can USE THEM.
November 25, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Here is me:
Fuck the pressure to be perfect -
wherever it comes from.
From cultural notions of "professionalism" from inner voices of inadequacy, from competitiveness, from envy, from academia and grading.
Claiming your human frailty is your greatest power and wholeness.
Fuck the pressure to be perfect -
wherever it comes from.
From cultural notions of "professionalism" from inner voices of inadequacy, from competitiveness, from envy, from academia and grading.
Claiming your human frailty is your greatest power and wholeness.
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I was lucky enough to meet Colleen Jones a couple times. What a thoroughly delightful woman: so smart, so vibrant, so funny, so alive. She was a spectacular curler and much more than that, and I am grateful that the country got to see it. Rest in peace to a Canadian treasure.
November 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I was lucky enough to meet Colleen Jones a couple times. What a thoroughly delightful woman: so smart, so vibrant, so funny, so alive. She was a spectacular curler and much more than that, and I am grateful that the country got to see it. Rest in peace to a Canadian treasure.
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So the PM intended to inform B.C.'s premier once the negotiations with Alberta have been finalized?
Nation-building promised, sausage-making delivered.
Regardless of whether this pipeline will ever be built, the process itself is profoundly damaging.
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
Nation-building promised, sausage-making delivered.
Regardless of whether this pipeline will ever be built, the process itself is profoundly damaging.
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
Carney and Smith to unveil energy deal in Calgary Thursday, source says
B.C. Premier says he spoke with Carney about concerns over potential oil pipeline
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:10 PM
So the PM intended to inform B.C.'s premier once the negotiations with Alberta have been finalized?
Nation-building promised, sausage-making delivered.
Regardless of whether this pipeline will ever be built, the process itself is profoundly damaging.
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
Nation-building promised, sausage-making delivered.
Regardless of whether this pipeline will ever be built, the process itself is profoundly damaging.
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
How has Piccini not been Steve Clarked yet?
She wants integrity commissioner to look at “sections pertaining to conflict of interest, improper use of influence, & the obligation to avoid actions that place private or partisan interests above the public good" of the Members’ Integrity Act" #OnPoli
She wants integrity commissioner to look at “sections pertaining to conflict of interest, improper use of influence, & the obligation to avoid actions that place private or partisan interests above the public good" of the Members’ Integrity Act" #OnPoli
November 25, 2025 at 12:04 PM
How has Piccini not been Steve Clarked yet?
She wants integrity commissioner to look at “sections pertaining to conflict of interest, improper use of influence, & the obligation to avoid actions that place private or partisan interests above the public good" of the Members’ Integrity Act" #OnPoli
She wants integrity commissioner to look at “sections pertaining to conflict of interest, improper use of influence, & the obligation to avoid actions that place private or partisan interests above the public good" of the Members’ Integrity Act" #OnPoli
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“Insurers increasingly view AI models’ outputs as too unpredictable and opaque to insure, … “It’s too much of a black box.””
Uncertainty and opacity are unavoidable features of generative AI. These are problems that you can’t engineer away.
No wonder insurers are taking a pass.
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Uncertainty and opacity are unavoidable features of generative AI. These are problems that you can’t engineer away.
No wonder insurers are taking a pass.
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Insurers retreat from AI cover as risk of multibillion-dollar claims mounts
AIG, Great American and WR Berkley seek permission to limit liability from AI agents and chatbots
on.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:50 AM
“Insurers increasingly view AI models’ outputs as too unpredictable and opaque to insure, … “It’s too much of a black box.””
Uncertainty and opacity are unavoidable features of generative AI. These are problems that you can’t engineer away.
No wonder insurers are taking a pass.
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Uncertainty and opacity are unavoidable features of generative AI. These are problems that you can’t engineer away.
No wonder insurers are taking a pass.
Gift link:
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Industry with over 330 years of experience in calculating risk: AI is too risky for us.
Canada’s technocrat-led federal government: AI regulation would just SLOW DOWN THE FUTURE.
As a mentor once noted: If you want to get a sense of where things are going, pay attention to the insurance industry.
Canada’s technocrat-led federal government: AI regulation would just SLOW DOWN THE FUTURE.
As a mentor once noted: If you want to get a sense of where things are going, pay attention to the insurance industry.
In more AI bubble news, major insurers are declining to insure risks from AI chatbots & agents, saying AI models are too unpredictable & error-prone with no one clearly liable when things go wrong. Firms & universities better consider this in their rush to adopt AI.
www.ft.com/content/abfe...
www.ft.com/content/abfe...
Insurers retreat from AI cover as risk of multibillion-dollar claims mounts
AIG, Great American and WR Berkley seek permission to limit liability from AI agents and chatbots
www.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Industry with over 330 years of experience in calculating risk: AI is too risky for us.
Canada’s technocrat-led federal government: AI regulation would just SLOW DOWN THE FUTURE.
As a mentor once noted: If you want to get a sense of where things are going, pay attention to the insurance industry.
Canada’s technocrat-led federal government: AI regulation would just SLOW DOWN THE FUTURE.
As a mentor once noted: If you want to get a sense of where things are going, pay attention to the insurance industry.
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ICE arrests, detains British woman with US husband and newborn when she shows up for her green card interview. She’s now in a detention center, separated from her 6-month-old. No criminal record. She had overstayed her visa.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...
www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...
British mum detained by ICE agents in California as six-month old baby and stunned husband watch on | LBC
Katie Paul, 33, was in the process of applying for a green card when she was ambushed by immigration agents
www.lbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 11:13 AM
ICE arrests, detains British woman with US husband and newborn when she shows up for her green card interview. She’s now in a detention center, separated from her 6-month-old. No criminal record. She had overstayed her visa.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...
www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...
"Inequality is a choice. There are policies that can reduce it. These include more progressive taxation, debt relief, rewriting global trade rules and curbing monopolies."
November 25, 2025 at 10:55 AM
"Inequality is a choice. There are policies that can reduce it. These include more progressive taxation, debt relief, rewriting global trade rules and curbing monopolies."
"Advocates for greater safeguards online say Ottawa should legislate to make tech giants stop artificial-intelligence chatbots from posing as real people and giving harmful advice, including to vulnerable adults."
November 25, 2025 at 10:47 AM
"Advocates for greater safeguards online say Ottawa should legislate to make tech giants stop artificial-intelligence chatbots from posing as real people and giving harmful advice, including to vulnerable adults."
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Hard to believe ignoring an issue made the issue worse. I mean when has that ever happened?
NEW: Months after many supervised injection sites were shut down, Toronto is reporting an increase in “visible substance use on the street" and “open use of substances in public spaces.” #ToPoli #ONpoli
globalnews.ca/news/1154127...
globalnews.ca/news/1154127...
Toronto reports more visible drug use after supervised injection sites closed down - Toronto | Globalnews.ca
The City of Toronto is reporting an increase in visible drug use in the wake of the Ford government's decision to pull funding for several safe-injection sites earlier this year.
globalnews.ca
November 25, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Hard to believe ignoring an issue made the issue worse. I mean when has that ever happened?
So Canadians in some provinces have free contraceptives & diabetes meds but most don't. Inequitable healthcare access isn't okay.
"Mark Carney and Michel have not publicly pledged to expand to a full national, universal pharmacare program. Both have spoken about “protecting” pharmacare."
"Mark Carney and Michel have not publicly pledged to expand to a full national, universal pharmacare program. Both have spoken about “protecting” pharmacare."
November 25, 2025 at 12:59 AM
So Canadians in some provinces have free contraceptives & diabetes meds but most don't. Inequitable healthcare access isn't okay.
"Mark Carney and Michel have not publicly pledged to expand to a full national, universal pharmacare program. Both have spoken about “protecting” pharmacare."
"Mark Carney and Michel have not publicly pledged to expand to a full national, universal pharmacare program. Both have spoken about “protecting” pharmacare."
"using microscopic bubbles, triggered by focused ultrasound to temporarily open the brain’s protective barrier, allowed chemotherapy to penetrate tumour regions effectively.
Patients lived nearly 40% longer...
"There are still patients on this trial, right now, who are alive four or five years in"
Patients lived nearly 40% longer...
"There are still patients on this trial, right now, who are alive four or five years in"
Canadian-U.S. study boosts survival in aggressive #glioblastona tumour treatment - using bubbles focused ultrasound and chemotherapy @ctvnews-mirror.bsky.social
@sunnybrookhsc.bsky.social
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@sunnybrookhsc.bsky.social
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Canadian-U.S. study makes breakthrough in aggressive brain tumour treatment
A new Canadian-U.S. study gives glioblastoma patients hope and doctors a new doorway to treat brain tumours.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 24, 2025 at 11:51 PM
"using microscopic bubbles, triggered by focused ultrasound to temporarily open the brain’s protective barrier, allowed chemotherapy to penetrate tumour regions effectively.
Patients lived nearly 40% longer...
"There are still patients on this trial, right now, who are alive four or five years in"
Patients lived nearly 40% longer...
"There are still patients on this trial, right now, who are alive four or five years in"
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“In Canada, the total burden on the healthcare system from long COVID was estimated to be between CAD 7.8 and CAD 50.6 billion up to spring 2023, with unvaccinated individuals having higher impacts.”
November 24, 2025 at 11:38 PM
“In Canada, the total burden on the healthcare system from long COVID was estimated to be between CAD 7.8 and CAD 50.6 billion up to spring 2023, with unvaccinated individuals having higher impacts.”
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Biden put a hedge fund manager in charge of Covid with a strategy of allowing Covid to spread out of control to please short term business interests. It was not a good long term plan as Long Covid is costing the global economy 1 trillion dollars a year.
#Medsky
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/lon...
#Medsky
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/lon...
Long COVID takes $1 trillion global economic toll each year, analysis suggests
www.cidrap.umn.edu
November 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Biden put a hedge fund manager in charge of Covid with a strategy of allowing Covid to spread out of control to please short term business interests. It was not a good long term plan as Long Covid is costing the global economy 1 trillion dollars a year.
#Medsky
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/lon...
#Medsky
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/lon...
November 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
PM Goldman Sachs excels at stepping on rakes.
Mona Fortier, parliamentary secretary for foreign affairs, tried to clean up for him -- as did Liberal MP Karina Gould, a young woman leader he shanked. Both women inadvertently made it sound like maybe Carney maybe just dislikes the word 'feminist'?
Mona Fortier, parliamentary secretary for foreign affairs, tried to clean up for him -- as did Liberal MP Karina Gould, a young woman leader he shanked. Both women inadvertently made it sound like maybe Carney maybe just dislikes the word 'feminist'?
November 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM
PM Goldman Sachs excels at stepping on rakes.
Mona Fortier, parliamentary secretary for foreign affairs, tried to clean up for him -- as did Liberal MP Karina Gould, a young woman leader he shanked. Both women inadvertently made it sound like maybe Carney maybe just dislikes the word 'feminist'?
Mona Fortier, parliamentary secretary for foreign affairs, tried to clean up for him -- as did Liberal MP Karina Gould, a young woman leader he shanked. Both women inadvertently made it sound like maybe Carney maybe just dislikes the word 'feminist'?
"clouds of thick smoke 14 kilometres into the sky and over the Red Sea.
Satellite imagery captured by NASA shows the Afar region of Ethiopia, where the Hayli Gubbi volcano is located, with a brownish plume of smoke hanging over the area after it erupted over several hours on Sunday."
Satellite imagery captured by NASA shows the Afar region of Ethiopia, where the Hayli Gubbi volcano is located, with a brownish plume of smoke hanging over the area after it erupted over several hours on Sunday."
November 24, 2025 at 10:21 PM
"clouds of thick smoke 14 kilometres into the sky and over the Red Sea.
Satellite imagery captured by NASA shows the Afar region of Ethiopia, where the Hayli Gubbi volcano is located, with a brownish plume of smoke hanging over the area after it erupted over several hours on Sunday."
Satellite imagery captured by NASA shows the Afar region of Ethiopia, where the Hayli Gubbi volcano is located, with a brownish plume of smoke hanging over the area after it erupted over several hours on Sunday."
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Many 🇨🇦 mining companies have awful human rights records. They operate in conflict & post-conflict contexts, often at great cost to civilians. Many are implicated in crimes against humanity.
There are fears this is now happening in #Tigray www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl... #bizhumanrights
There are fears this is now happening in #Tigray www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl... #bizhumanrights
When Tigray became a ‘Wild West’ of illegal gold mining, Canadian firms staked a claim
A postwar gold rush in Ethiopia razed the landscape and sowed seeds for conflict. The Globe looks into Canadian-licensed sites at the heart of it, and their ties to Beijing
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Many 🇨🇦 mining companies have awful human rights records. They operate in conflict & post-conflict contexts, often at great cost to civilians. Many are implicated in crimes against humanity.
There are fears this is now happening in #Tigray www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl... #bizhumanrights
There are fears this is now happening in #Tigray www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl... #bizhumanrights
"What really matters for federal Conservatives is that they aren’t winning as broad a set of supporters in Ontario as Mr. Ford’s party, which now hovers near the 50%-mark in most opinion polls. The federal Conservatives are at 41.7% in Ontario"
November 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
"What really matters for federal Conservatives is that they aren’t winning as broad a set of supporters in Ontario as Mr. Ford’s party, which now hovers near the 50%-mark in most opinion polls. The federal Conservatives are at 41.7% in Ontario"
"Canada's previous contributions to the Global Fund, including a sizeable increase...in 2022, had been world leading. Now, Canada has chosen not to lead, but to follow in the footsteps of other countries whose cuts to global health this year have already had deadly consequences."
Doctors Without Borders is deeply disappointed to see #Canada’s cuts to aid reflected in its reduced pledge to the #GlobalFund.
Such cuts will fuel the reversal of progress in the fight against HIV, TB and malaria.
Such cuts will fuel the reversal of progress in the fight against HIV, TB and malaria.
November 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
"Canada's previous contributions to the Global Fund, including a sizeable increase...in 2022, had been world leading. Now, Canada has chosen not to lead, but to follow in the footsteps of other countries whose cuts to global health this year have already had deadly consequences."
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Not pictured: mass murder and the haphazard destruction of state capacity
November 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Not pictured: mass murder and the haphazard destruction of state capacity
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I walked along a few kms of College St this morning before 9am. Day care drop then carried on. Watched the people push and cycle their kids around, some dad on a cargo bike waved & said hi to some tweens walking in front of me. All very Sesame Street.
And this gov't has contempt for it all.
And this gov't has contempt for it all.
November 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I walked along a few kms of College St this morning before 9am. Day care drop then carried on. Watched the people push and cycle their kids around, some dad on a cargo bike waved & said hi to some tweens walking in front of me. All very Sesame Street.
And this gov't has contempt for it all.
And this gov't has contempt for it all.
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3 studies: Nirsevimab highly effective against severe #RSV in infants; intervention boosts uptake
The analyses suggest 80% to 89% effectiveness in protecting infants against hospitalization and intensive care unit admission.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/r...
The analyses suggest 80% to 89% effectiveness in protecting infants against hospitalization and intensive care unit admission.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/r...
November 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM
3 studies: Nirsevimab highly effective against severe #RSV in infants; intervention boosts uptake
The analyses suggest 80% to 89% effectiveness in protecting infants against hospitalization and intensive care unit admission.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/r...
The analyses suggest 80% to 89% effectiveness in protecting infants against hospitalization and intensive care unit admission.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/r...
"When people develop dementia, they become the worst versions of themselves. Whatever personality issues or problems they have begin to deteriorate and they become even more crude, disorganized, aggressive, confused versions of that personality disorder."
- Dr. John Gartner
- Dr. John Gartner
We all know he’s a sick guy, but watch this to see just how bad it’s getting.
Clinical psychologist and former John’s Hopkins professor breaks it down.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpxA...
Clinical psychologist and former John’s Hopkins professor breaks it down.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpxA...
We Can See Trump Is In Gross Decline: Psychologist | The Daily Beast Podcast
YouTube video by The Daily Beast
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November 24, 2025 at 11:19 AM
"When people develop dementia, they become the worst versions of themselves. Whatever personality issues or problems they have begin to deteriorate and they become even more crude, disorganized, aggressive, confused versions of that personality disorder."
- Dr. John Gartner
- Dr. John Gartner