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GreyBruceInfo- Part Owner of Canada 🇨🇦 @brucegreyinfo.bsky.social · 1d

Emily Kewageshig
"I haven't made an art piece for fun in a while. Blue Jays heading to the ALCS was enough to get my creativity flowing!!"

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davidbowman17.bsky.social @davidbowman17.bsky.social · 1d

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jcannuck.medsky.social @jcannuck.medsky.social · 2d

Oh good. Now when you buy a lung medication, the rebate goes towards your insurance rate that just went up 600%.

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Iris Gorfinkel, M.D. @drgorfinkel.bsky.social · 2d

Clinics are the one place patients should be SAFE

Colds, flus & coughs are the #1 reason why Canadians see a doctor

…so where did masking in healthcare go?

It’s political.

Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 3d

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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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 5d

ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long.
There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Scientists develop first ‘accurate blood test’ to detect chronic fatigue syndrome

Research could offer hope for ME patients – but some experts urge caution and say more studies needed

www.theguardian.com

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 4d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

nyti.ms

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4d

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 4d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Heather Campbell @thatheatherc.bsky.social · 4d

No, not today Satan.

Do me a favour, @mark-carney.bsky.social? Just hold the line on the notwithstanding clause, okay.

I'm just saying François, Scott, Doug, Tim, and Danielle shouldn't get a easy button for their racism, homophobic, transphobic, and Islamophobic hate, ideology, and legislation.

The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 5d

Conservative premiers call on Ottawa to back down in Supreme Court case on notwithstanding clause

Ottawa’s proposal threatens national unity by seeking to undermine provincial sovereignty, premiers say in letter

www.theglobeandmail.com

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jcannuck.medsky.social @jcannuck.medsky.social · 4d

Devastating. #transrightsarehumanrights

We all deserved to be accepted for who we are ❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 4d

❤️ The world needs more Dolly. ❤️

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Dolly Parton posts 'I ain't dead yet' after sister sparks health concerns

The singer's sister had asked fans to pray for her after the star postponed gigs due to health issues.

www.bbc.com

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 5d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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Dr Kathryn Mannix @drkathrynmannix.bsky.social · 4d

Great to hear video genius @drjrubenstein.bsky.social chatting to @clarefuller.bsky.social about dignity therapy, using videos as intros to tricky topics, & helping colleagues to make more timely referrals.
This video is one of my faves:
'Don't Make It Wierd'
youtu.be/nkWrJeBq0hI?...
#MedSky

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jcannuck.medsky.social @jcannuck.medsky.social · 4d

We all need to ask ourselves: Is our response to this unthinkable tragedy different because of where it is occurring? What if this were California, or Ontario, or Milan? How would we respond? Why does where these children are from diminish our response to their tragic deaths? 💔

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jcannuck.medsky.social @jcannuck.medsky.social · 4d

Unfathomable. So important to humanize the pain and suffering through these names.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 5d

Discovery of cells that keep immune responses in check wins medicine Nobel Prize https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/10/discovery-of-cells-that-keep-immune-responses-in-check-wins-medicine-nobel-prize/

𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter

Announcement of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 awarded by the Nobel Assembly to scientists Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi at the Nobel Forum of Karolinska Institute, Stockholm City, Sweden, October 6, 2025.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 6d

I posted this one week after the election in 2024. Holds up.

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · Nov 15

Billionaire grifters are about to dismantle your government. So instead of your tax dollars going to your Medicare or your Medicaid or your affordable care act or to veterans benefits or your social security - it will go to THEM in the form of tax cuts for the wealthy.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 5d

A new day & there’s more shit for Ontario to eat.

Isaac Callan @isaaccallan.bsky.social · 5d

NEW: A vehicle assigned to a Ford cabinet minister has been recorded at stunt driving speeds 12 times.

The premier's office suggested it was the same driver each time, and implied they still work for the government. #OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1146702...

Ford government vehicle recorded at stunt driving speeds on Ontario highways | Globalnews.ca

At least one cabinet-assigned vehicle was recorded driving more than 50 km/h over the speed limit multiple times in the past three years, according to documents.

globalnews.ca

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 10d

You might think that the mayor of Yellowknife, the capital of Canada's vast Northwest Territories, would be a fan of giant pickups.

Nope. He's disgusted by car bloat.

www.linkedin.com/posts/benjam...

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 8d

“That which is hateful to you, do not do unto your fellow. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn."

— Rabbi Hillel

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Barry Hunt @barryhunt008.bsky.social · 8d

It sounds like Canadians should avoid the Super Bowl this year

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 9d

Kristi Noem tells Bad Bunny that ICE will be at the Super Bowl and the event should only be for Americans who “love this country”

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 9d

Woman Reading
John Hansen
2025

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 9d

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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 9d

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Article reads:
Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.

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jcannuck.medsky.social @jcannuck.medsky.social · 9d

Classic. Women are best defined by the men they are attached to…NOT!
(Always remembering a meeting about a potential job where the first statement was: “Don’t think I’m going to hire you just because your husband just got a job here.” Yes, the interviewer was a man…)

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jcannuck.medsky.social @jcannuck.medsky.social · 11d

And toques. We have toques.

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