Jo in TO
@jointo.bsky.social
T1D. Intersectional feminist. Great cook. #insulin4all
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From 👆
"The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) reported unprecedented levels of HPAI A(H5N1) circulation in wild birds across Europe during the 2025 autumn migration, highlighting the need for strengthened preparedness and coordinated public health action."
"The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) reported unprecedented levels of HPAI A(H5N1) circulation in wild birds across Europe during the 2025 autumn migration, highlighting the need for strengthened preparedness and coordinated public health action."
December 6, 2025 at 2:47 AM
From 👆
"The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) reported unprecedented levels of HPAI A(H5N1) circulation in wild birds across Europe during the 2025 autumn migration, highlighting the need for strengthened preparedness and coordinated public health action."
"The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) reported unprecedented levels of HPAI A(H5N1) circulation in wild birds across Europe during the 2025 autumn migration, highlighting the need for strengthened preparedness and coordinated public health action."
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Although this issue concerns all Canadians, Alberta and Ontario, in particular, are witnessing their education & healthcare institutions being neglected and dismantled.
Please consider signing the petition for Federal government oversight of Federal $$ given to the provinces
Please share
#Canada
Please consider signing the petition for Federal government oversight of Federal $$ given to the provinces
Please share
#Canada
MY FELLOW CANADIANS
I humbly request you all go sign the petition for e-6982 which will help the federal government ensure funds provided to provincial governments for health and education are ACTUALLY being used appropriately.
(Alberta and Ontario especially)
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
I humbly request you all go sign the petition for e-6982 which will help the federal government ensure funds provided to provincial governments for health and education are ACTUALLY being used appropriately.
(Alberta and Ontario especially)
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Petition e-6982 - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
December 5, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Although this issue concerns all Canadians, Alberta and Ontario, in particular, are witnessing their education & healthcare institutions being neglected and dismantled.
Please consider signing the petition for Federal government oversight of Federal $$ given to the provinces
Please share
#Canada
Please consider signing the petition for Federal government oversight of Federal $$ given to the provinces
Please share
#Canada
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"What it means:
➡️ SARS-CoV-2 can cause serious lung disease even if the virus enters via the oral route, not just by inhalation.
➡️ Oral exposure might carry a risk of severe lung injury — underlining the importance of limiting virus exposure (mask, hygiene), not just inhalational risk."
"What it means:
➡️ SARS-CoV-2 can cause serious lung disease even if the virus enters via the oral route, not just by inhalation.
➡️ Oral exposure might carry a risk of severe lung injury — underlining the importance of limiting virus exposure (mask, hygiene), not just inhalational risk."
December 5, 2025 at 8:57 PM
From 👆
"What it means:
➡️ SARS-CoV-2 can cause serious lung disease even if the virus enters via the oral route, not just by inhalation.
➡️ Oral exposure might carry a risk of severe lung injury — underlining the importance of limiting virus exposure (mask, hygiene), not just inhalational risk."
"What it means:
➡️ SARS-CoV-2 can cause serious lung disease even if the virus enters via the oral route, not just by inhalation.
➡️ Oral exposure might carry a risk of severe lung injury — underlining the importance of limiting virus exposure (mask, hygiene), not just inhalational risk."
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New CHW Perspective:
an Alberta pediatrician describes how structural gaps in care are shaping families' lives, and argues that the province’s new “dual-practice” model risks making things worse.
Full analysis:
canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/12/05/a...
an Alberta pediatrician describes how structural gaps in care are shaping families' lives, and argues that the province’s new “dual-practice” model risks making things worse.
Full analysis:
canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/12/05/a...
Alberta isn’t fixing healthcare. It’s abandoning it.
“Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets.”
canadahealthwatch.ca
December 5, 2025 at 7:11 PM
New CHW Perspective:
an Alberta pediatrician describes how structural gaps in care are shaping families' lives, and argues that the province’s new “dual-practice” model risks making things worse.
Full analysis:
canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/12/05/a...
an Alberta pediatrician describes how structural gaps in care are shaping families' lives, and argues that the province’s new “dual-practice” model risks making things worse.
Full analysis:
canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/12/05/a...
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"Importantly, the observed brain damage in Covid-19 patients with cognitive impairment differs from classic Alzheimer's dementia":
www.koreabiomed.com/news/article...
"Importantly, the observed brain damage in Covid-19 patients with cognitive impairment differs from classic Alzheimer's dementia":
www.koreabiomed.com/news/article...
Mild Covid-19 linked to structural brain changes and neuronal damage
Research shows that even mild cases of Covid-19 can lead to measurable brain damage and neurodegeneration, especially when cognitive symptoms such as memory decline persist after infection.Professors ...
www.koreabiomed.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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"Importantly, the observed brain damage in Covid-19 patients with cognitive impairment differs from classic Alzheimer's dementia":
www.koreabiomed.com/news/article...
"Importantly, the observed brain damage in Covid-19 patients with cognitive impairment differs from classic Alzheimer's dementia":
www.koreabiomed.com/news/article...
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"Canadian company is selling more than $10 million worth of armoured vehicles that can stop .50-calibre rounds."
"The buyer?" ICE.
"Moments like these call for moral clarity. Carney's government, however, refuses to provide it."
#Canada #USA #Deportation #EthnicCleansing #Weapons
"The buyer?" ICE.
"Moments like these call for moral clarity. Carney's government, however, refuses to provide it."
#Canada #USA #Deportation #EthnicCleansing #Weapons
A Canadian Company Is Supplying Armoured Cars to ICE
The Canadian government should consider companies' complicity in US human rights violations when sourcing contracts.
thetyee.ca
December 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM
"Canadian company is selling more than $10 million worth of armoured vehicles that can stop .50-calibre rounds."
"The buyer?" ICE.
"Moments like these call for moral clarity. Carney's government, however, refuses to provide it."
#Canada #USA #Deportation #EthnicCleansing #Weapons
"The buyer?" ICE.
"Moments like these call for moral clarity. Carney's government, however, refuses to provide it."
#Canada #USA #Deportation #EthnicCleansing #Weapons
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Today's meeting of #acip, the #cdc vaccine advisory committee now stacked with #rfkjr's #antivaxxer allies, was "an epidemiological crime scene." https://www.defendpublichealth.org/press-release/acip-meeting-turns-epidemiological-crime-scene-0
ACIP Meeting Turns into “Epidemiological Crime Scene” | Defend Public Health
Health experts with Defend Public Health expressed shock at the flood of antivaxxer disinformation that dominated the first day of the December meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. Epidemiologist Elizabeth Jacobs, a member of the Defend Public Health Coordinating Committee said, “The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is no longer a legitimate scientific body. This is an epidemiological crime scene."
www.defendpublichealth.org
December 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Today's meeting of #acip, the #cdc vaccine advisory committee now stacked with #rfkjr's #antivaxxer allies, was "an epidemiological crime scene." https://www.defendpublichealth.org/press-release/acip-meeting-turns-epidemiological-crime-scene-0
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"It does save lives, but saving those lives for what purpose?" asked Nanaimo Mayor Leonard Krog during a city council debate about overdose prevention sites and the province's approach to harm reduction in the toxic drug crisis on Monday night.
Nanaimo city council votes down proposed drug policy letter – The Discourse.
At the Dec. 1 Nanaimo City Council meeting, a motion to send a letter to the province asking it to reexamine its approach to "the ongoing addiction crisis" was voted down.
thediscourse.ca
December 4, 2025 at 4:21 AM
"It does save lives, but saving those lives for what purpose?" asked Nanaimo Mayor Leonard Krog during a city council debate about overdose prevention sites and the province's approach to harm reduction in the toxic drug crisis on Monday night.
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Follow thread.
Aerosol transmission of SARSCoV2 virus is the dominant route for transmitting COVID-19.
👏'2025 Faraday Horizon Prize for advancing understanding of the physicochemical properties of exhaled aerosols, and their impact on transmissibility of respiratory pathogens.' @rsc.org
www.rsc.org/standards-an...
👏'2025 Faraday Horizon Prize for advancing understanding of the physicochemical properties of exhaled aerosols, and their impact on transmissibility of respiratory pathogens.' @rsc.org
www.rsc.org/standards-an...
December 4, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Follow thread.
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“our study shows that, while time in close proximity increases the risk of respiratory virus
transmission, prolonged exposure to contaminated air in confined spaces overall emerges as the dominant
driver of viral spread in indoor environments such as educational settings.
transmission, prolonged exposure to contaminated air in confined spaces overall emerges as the dominant
driver of viral spread in indoor environments such as educational settings.
December 4, 2025 at 3:23 PM
“our study shows that, while time in close proximity increases the risk of respiratory virus
transmission, prolonged exposure to contaminated air in confined spaces overall emerges as the dominant
driver of viral spread in indoor environments such as educational settings.
transmission, prolonged exposure to contaminated air in confined spaces overall emerges as the dominant
driver of viral spread in indoor environments such as educational settings.
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“Indoor air quality was
associated with intraclass transmission, highlighting how inadequate ventilation creates ideal conditions for
virus transmission. Our findings also have important implications for public settings other than schools,
such as workplaces, transportation, & healthcare facilities.
associated with intraclass transmission, highlighting how inadequate ventilation creates ideal conditions for
virus transmission. Our findings also have important implications for public settings other than schools,
such as workplaces, transportation, & healthcare facilities.
December 4, 2025 at 3:24 PM
“Indoor air quality was
associated with intraclass transmission, highlighting how inadequate ventilation creates ideal conditions for
virus transmission. Our findings also have important implications for public settings other than schools,
such as workplaces, transportation, & healthcare facilities.
associated with intraclass transmission, highlighting how inadequate ventilation creates ideal conditions for
virus transmission. Our findings also have important implications for public settings other than schools,
such as workplaces, transportation, & healthcare facilities.
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The government says its doing cooperative federalism with the Alberta MOU. It's chasing a fantasy.
www.davidmoscrop.com/p/co-operati...
www.davidmoscrop.com/p/co-operati...
Co-Operative Federalism, Prime Minister CEO, And Other Canadian Fantasies
Mark Carney is trying to run Canada like a business while looking for harmonious relationships with the provinces and territories. That won't work.
www.davidmoscrop.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The government says its doing cooperative federalism with the Alberta MOU. It's chasing a fantasy.
www.davidmoscrop.com/p/co-operati...
www.davidmoscrop.com/p/co-operati...
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As #ICE ramps up its harassment of U.S. communities while implementing President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda, Canadian armoured vehicle manufacturer Roshel has also been stepping up its lobbying efforts to get Canadian federal government contracts.
@rachelgilmore.bsky.social writes.
@rachelgilmore.bsky.social writes.
A Canadian Company Is Supplying Armoured Cars to ICE | The Tyee
The Canadian government should consider companies’ complicity in US human rights violations when sourcing contracts.
thetyee.ca
December 4, 2025 at 3:32 PM
As #ICE ramps up its harassment of U.S. communities while implementing President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda, Canadian armoured vehicle manufacturer Roshel has also been stepping up its lobbying efforts to get Canadian federal government contracts.
@rachelgilmore.bsky.social writes.
@rachelgilmore.bsky.social writes.
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Part 3: Decoding healthcare delivery, for-profit vs not-for-profit.
December 2, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Part 3: Decoding healthcare delivery, for-profit vs not-for-profit.
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This is important. Please share.
"What do Ontario NDP, Liberal and Green MPPs have in common? Pharmacare...
...This morning, we sent a letter to the Premier and Minister Jones calling on our province to join the national plan for birth control and diabetes."
#OnPoli #OnHealth
"What do Ontario NDP, Liberal and Green MPPs have in common? Pharmacare...
...This morning, we sent a letter to the Premier and Minister Jones calling on our province to join the national plan for birth control and diabetes."
#OnPoli #OnHealth
This morning, @cdndrsformedicare.bsky.social convened a multi-party & collaborative coalition of Ontario MPPs, calling on the province to join the national program for Pharmacare.
December 4, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Time travelling doctors who billed over 24 hrs in 1-day. Some doctors billed 366 days, 500 patients in 1 day. Ripping off taxpayers. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #ONpoli #Ontario #healthcare #medicine #fraud #scam
Ontario auditor general finds province not properly overseeing doctor billings | CBC News
Ontario is not properly overseeing doctors' billings, including cases of physicians billing for more than 24 hours in a day — money that could be going toward adding more family doctors, the auditor g...
www.cbc.ca
December 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Time travelling doctors who billed over 24 hrs in 1-day. Some doctors billed 366 days, 500 patients in 1 day. Ripping off taxpayers. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #ONpoli #Ontario #healthcare #medicine #fraud #scam
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“the fact is Northback’s Grassy Mountain coal mine will be an open pit mine, even though Smith promised Albertans it won’t be.”
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
open.substack.com/pub/bradlafo...
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
open.substack.com/pub/bradlafo...
BREAKING: Big Aussie Coal *is* Going to Strip Mine the Alberta Rockies After All
“When it comes to coal mining, people do not want to see mountaintop removal,” she said.
open.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:05 PM
“the fact is Northback’s Grassy Mountain coal mine will be an open pit mine, even though Smith promised Albertans it won’t be.”
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
open.substack.com/pub/bradlafo...
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
open.substack.com/pub/bradlafo...
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Bad actors and bad faith. Totally unacceptable position. Grateful to @supriya.bsky.social for calling this out
December 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Bad actors and bad faith. Totally unacceptable position. Grateful to @supriya.bsky.social for calling this out
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The MOU’s provisions read like a photocopy of the list of demands she had nailed to the fed’s door in the spring. In fact, the only policy that she was not able to quash or otherwise “amend” is the federal mandate for zero-emission vehicles — because the feds had already thrown that one into limbo.
A love tap to launch a million barrels
The MOU’s provisions read like a photocopy of the list of demands Danielle Smith and the oil industry nailed to the federal government’s door in the spring. In fact, the only policy on Smith’s target ...
www.nationalobserver.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The MOU’s provisions read like a photocopy of the list of demands she had nailed to the fed’s door in the spring. In fact, the only policy that she was not able to quash or otherwise “amend” is the federal mandate for zero-emission vehicles — because the feds had already thrown that one into limbo.
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🦠COVID-19 hasn’t gone,🌀it continues:
🌬️It spreads
🫁🫀It disables
💔It disrupts lives
🏥It's overwhelming
🛡️It weakens resilience
📉It drives absenteeism
💸It causes economic loss
🔥Crisis becomes disaster
🤦Yet national strategies fail to acknowledge its impact and persistence. #COVID19 #InfectionPrevention💉
🌬️It spreads
🫁🫀It disables
💔It disrupts lives
🏥It's overwhelming
🛡️It weakens resilience
📉It drives absenteeism
💸It causes economic loss
🔥Crisis becomes disaster
🤦Yet national strategies fail to acknowledge its impact and persistence. #COVID19 #InfectionPrevention💉
December 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
🦠COVID-19 hasn’t gone,🌀it continues:
🌬️It spreads
🫁🫀It disables
💔It disrupts lives
🏥It's overwhelming
🛡️It weakens resilience
📉It drives absenteeism
💸It causes economic loss
🔥Crisis becomes disaster
🤦Yet national strategies fail to acknowledge its impact and persistence. #COVID19 #InfectionPrevention💉
🌬️It spreads
🫁🫀It disables
💔It disrupts lives
🏥It's overwhelming
🛡️It weakens resilience
📉It drives absenteeism
💸It causes economic loss
🔥Crisis becomes disaster
🤦Yet national strategies fail to acknowledge its impact and persistence. #COVID19 #InfectionPrevention💉
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They honestly have been celebrating infection for years. And I'll say it again, being PRO-infection undermines vaccines.
The gang is here - Bonnie Henry, Isaac Bogoch, Danuta Skowronski.
Sep 14, 2022. More than THREE effing years ago.
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
The gang is here - Bonnie Henry, Isaac Bogoch, Danuta Skowronski.
Sep 14, 2022. More than THREE effing years ago.
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
Majority of Canadians have now caught COVID — so what does that mean for the future? | CBC News
The majority of Canadians have caught COVID-19 since Omicron and its highly contagious subvariants triggered enormous waves of infection this year — with new estimates suggesting almost two-thirds of ...
www.cbc.ca
December 3, 2025 at 4:33 AM
They honestly have been celebrating infection for years. And I'll say it again, being PRO-infection undermines vaccines.
The gang is here - Bonnie Henry, Isaac Bogoch, Danuta Skowronski.
Sep 14, 2022. More than THREE effing years ago.
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
The gang is here - Bonnie Henry, Isaac Bogoch, Danuta Skowronski.
Sep 14, 2022. More than THREE effing years ago.
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
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We are very concerned about Premier Smith's draft legislation to introduce dual practice care into Alberta. This would lead to significant consequences to our health care system and to patients' ability to access care.
See our press release below.
www.canadiandoctorsformedicare.ca/canadian_doc...
See our press release below.
www.canadiandoctorsformedicare.ca/canadian_doc...
Canadian Doctors for Medicare Warns Albertans of Premier’s Plan to Undermine Public Health Care
Seeking to strengthen and improve Canada's universal publicly-funded health care system. Evidence-based, values driven.
www.canadiandoctorsformedicare.ca
November 19, 2025 at 4:33 PM
We are very concerned about Premier Smith's draft legislation to introduce dual practice care into Alberta. This would lead to significant consequences to our health care system and to patients' ability to access care.
See our press release below.
www.canadiandoctorsformedicare.ca/canadian_doc...
See our press release below.
www.canadiandoctorsformedicare.ca/canadian_doc...
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University of Birmingham: 'Therapies for Long COVID in non-hospitalised individuals: the TLC Study'
'A major £2.2m government-funded research project to improve the treatment, causes and symptoms of Long COVID in non-hospitalised patients.'
www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/pro...
'A major £2.2m government-funded research project to improve the treatment, causes and symptoms of Long COVID in non-hospitalised patients.'
www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/pro...
Therapies for Long COVID in non-hospitalised individuals: the TLC Study - University of Birmingham
The TLC study was a £2.2m government-funded research project to improve the treatment, causes and symptoms of Long COVID in non-hospitalised patients.
www.birmingham.ac.uk
December 3, 2025 at 2:22 AM
University of Birmingham: 'Therapies for Long COVID in non-hospitalised individuals: the TLC Study'
'A major £2.2m government-funded research project to improve the treatment, causes and symptoms of Long COVID in non-hospitalised patients.'
www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/pro...
'A major £2.2m government-funded research project to improve the treatment, causes and symptoms of Long COVID in non-hospitalised patients.'
www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/pro...
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Spain hits back: Masks are mandatory again
Spain’s Health Ministry warns of rising flu and COVID this winter and mandates masks in hospitals, primary care, long term care, and elderly facilities in high-risk areas to protect at risk people, prioritizing nursing homes and immunocompromised patients.
Spain’s Health Ministry warns of rising flu and COVID this winter and mandates masks in hospitals, primary care, long term care, and elderly facilities in high-risk areas to protect at risk people, prioritizing nursing homes and immunocompromised patients.
Spain hits back: Masks are mandatory again
Spain’s Ministry of Health has issued a warning over rising flu cases as winter approaches, preparing to require masks in hospitals, health centres, and elderly-care facilities…
euroweeklynews.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Spain hits back: Masks are mandatory again
Spain’s Health Ministry warns of rising flu and COVID this winter and mandates masks in hospitals, primary care, long term care, and elderly facilities in high-risk areas to protect at risk people, prioritizing nursing homes and immunocompromised patients.
Spain’s Health Ministry warns of rising flu and COVID this winter and mandates masks in hospitals, primary care, long term care, and elderly facilities in high-risk areas to protect at risk people, prioritizing nursing homes and immunocompromised patients.