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naberu 🇨🇦 @naberu.bsky.social · 5h

Imagine! Meanwhile, here in Ontario, our provincial gov’t is nothing but a PR machine used to deflect responsibility & pander narrowly to the voters who will keep them in power so they can funnel more money to their friends. The bar is so low, we can’t even make roads safer outside schools!

Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 16h

Or, hear me out, the provinces need to step up and do their fucking jobs and fund their own services properly. They are not helpless. They can raise their own revenues.

The Hill Times @hilltimes.com · 17h

Canadians could be facing a “perfect storm” in mental health challenges due to insufficient supports and a trend of growing economic stressors—which will need to be addressed through greater federal funding.

www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

naberu 🇨🇦 @naberu.bsky.social · 6h

What I liked about this conversation is that it gave a much fuller sense than anything else I’ve come across of what nation building might actually look like if that was something we were serious about right now.

Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 1d

Take a listen to my conversation with @arshy.bsky.social about why politicians seem to be incapable of doing anything -- aside from enriching their friends. Enjoy!

hatchetmedia.substack.com/p/the-declin...

The Decline and Fall of the Canadian State (w/ Nora Loreto)

How austerity and privatization have killed state capacity

hatchetmedia.substack.com

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naberu 🇨🇦 @naberu.bsky.social · 13h

Just signed the petition.

Ontario Health Coalition @onthealthcoalition.bsky.social · 14h

Also, please don't forget to distribute & sign our petition to the federal government to enforce the Canada Health Act in Ontario where the Ford gov’t is violating it with their private clinics: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Petition e-6811 - Petitions

www.ourcommons.ca

naberu 🇨🇦 @naberu.bsky.social · 13h

Great to see people out protesting Ford’s healthcare privatization in Ontario ❤️

Ontario Health Coalition @onthealthcoalition.bsky.social · 14h

Thank you to all who came out to rallies in Kitchener-Waterloo, Embro & St. Thomas to show Ontarians visible opposition to #dougford's expanding hospital privatization plans.

Let's keep building the fightback in Oxford County & Niagara this weekend & next week 🧵👇

#onpoli

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 1d

It is okay to feel extremely uncomfortable watching our prime minister compliment a mass murderer of children.

One day what Trump, Musk and Rubio have done to millions of people will be held as a moral evil even though our leaders are silent now.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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naberu 🇨🇦 @naberu.bsky.social · 1d

Five and half years since we’ve known covid is transmitted by aerosols and a provicial health authority has released an AI chat bot that disseminates droplet disinformation.

NB COVID info @nbcovidinfo.bsky.social · 1d

Asking NS’s official health AI about airborne transmission, aerosols, etc #NSPoli

Screenshot of asking NS health AI if Covid is airborne. Is Covid airborne?
Wednesday, 10:02 a.m.
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Wednesday, 10:02 a.m.
The primary method of COVID-19 transmission is through droplets, which quickly settle on surfaces within two meters. However, airborne precautions are used during aerosol-generating medical procedures (AGMPs) to minimize the risk of transmission. More information on AGMPs can be found here.

Screenshot of asking NS health AI about aerosol transmission. Tell me about aerosol transmission
Nova
Wednesday, 10:02 a.m.
Airborne transmission occurs when airborne particles remain suspended in the air, travel on air currents, and are inhaled by others nearby or some distance away from the source. Control of airborne transmission requires control of airflow through special ventilation systems and the use of respiratory protection.
An aerosol-generating medical procedure (AGMP)
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roplet nuclei.
Examples of AGMPs include bronchoscopy

Screenshot of asking NS health AI if breathing generates aerosols You
Wednesday, 10:03 a.m.
Does breathing generate aerosols?
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Wednesday, 10:03 a.m.
While normal breathing does produce some droplets, activities like talking, screaming, coughing, or sneezing produce larger droplets.
Labour and delivery are also not considered aerosolized events. Aerosol Generating Medical Procedures (AGMPs) are specific medical procedures that generate aerosols.

The AI claimed that breathing generates fewer aerosols than AGMPs so I tried asking for more info. How many aerosols are generated by breathing compared to an AGMP?
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To best answer your question, could you clarify what context you're interested in? For example, are you concerned about a specific medical setting or a particular activity? #NSPoli

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naberu 🇨🇦 @naberu.bsky.social · 2d

I’m sure he does. They helped launch his leadership campaign.

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 2d

🫧

arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/d...

Deloitte will refund Australian government for AI hallucination-filled report

Consulting firm quietly admitted to GPT-4o use after fake citations were found in August.

arstechnica.com

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naberu 🇨🇦 @naberu.bsky.social · 3d

The work on rental minimum wage was fantastic. I bring it up in convos all the time.

Lots of other CCPA research on my to-read list. Well worth the donation.

Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 3d

It costs money to know that rent in Hamilton is now almost double the minimum wage. If you have a few dollars to spare, consider donating to the @policyalternatives.ca, whose researchers help us understand the crushing weight of capitalist exploitation!

wl.donorperfect.net/weblink/WebL...

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CUPW @cupwsttp.bsky.social · 3d

Government Intervention Has Destroyed Bargaining

https://www.cupw.ca/en/government-intervention-has-destroyed-bargaining

#SupportCUPW #canlab #cdnpoli @CanadianLabour

Government Intervention Has Destroyed Bargaining

Postal workers aren’t just fighting for fair agreements. We’re also fighting a political battle against successive anti-labour governments that have shown zero respect for workers’ Charter-protected r...

www.cupw.ca

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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 3d

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Nobel prize in medicine awarded to scientists for immune system research

Mary E Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi win for work on preventing immune system harming body

www.theguardian.com

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naberu 🇨🇦 @naberu.bsky.social · 3d

The recent audit of the skills development program is important context for this article. Don’t understand why it’s not mentioned at all. Media should be informing citizens, not doing comms work for the government.

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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 6d

This is good to see.
The fact that the interim PBO thinks he needs to turn himself into a media star to get the job permanently is a sign the office is broken.

Federal budget watchdog's comments are 'just wrong,' says one of his predecessors | CBC News

A former parliamentary budget officer says it is “just wrong” to suggest that the federal finances are unsustainable and is publicly disagreeing with the current fiscal watchdog.

www.cbc.ca

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David Suzuki Foundation @davidsuzukifdn.bsky.social · 7d

📣We call on the federal government to reject Alberta's absurd pipeline proposal outright.
Hear what we have to say ➡️ dsfdn.org/3IStShe

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naberu 🇨🇦 @naberu.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you. She just lost her baby and people don’t know her situation. Let’s have a little compassion.

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naberu 🇨🇦 @naberu.bsky.social · 7d

I believe it. How about advocating “treating the root cause of disease” while also rejecting vaccines? Honestly, it makes me sad. Ppl are curious & smart, but their sense of reality has been warped by heavily polluted info environments where pieces of the truth are mixed up with so much garbage.

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Fatima Syed @fatimabsyed.bsky.social · 7d

First Nations asked the Doug Ford gov't for oversight measures over special economic zones (law-free areas for trusted proponents & designated projects). They asked for a public registry, an appeals process on cabinet decisions and time limits.

The government said no
thenarwhal.ca/ontario-bill...

Ontario’s draft rules for special economic zones limit oversight | The Narwhal

The Doug Ford government’s draft regulations for special economic zones under Bill 5 empower ministers and dismiss First Nations’ request for oversight

thenarwhal.ca

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Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment @cape-acme.bsky.social · 7d

CAPE Manitoba chair Dr. Ann Loewen urging her province to develop a climate plan that protects what's precious: "Our health is worth it. All that we are fighting for and advocating for is essential to a life well lived."

Climate Action Team Manitoba @climateactionmb.bsky.social · 16d

Dr. Ann Loewen is a family and emergency medicine physician. This spring and summer she saw the ways the wildfire smoke impacted people’s health and is worried about the long term impacts. Tell the MB gov't to act now to protect what’s precious: climateactionmb.ca/plan-to-prot...

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naberu 🇨🇦 @naberu.bsky.social · 7d

We have a responsibility to take in people who are fleeing this. The U.S. is not a safe country.

Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 7d

You are doing exactly what you would've done during the Holocaust. You're doing it right now.

Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 7d

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

naberu 🇨🇦 @naberu.bsky.social · 8d

Could have the same cartoon for alternative health.

“So what if my alt health treatment doesn’t work.” Etc.

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naberu 🇨🇦 @naberu.bsky.social · 8d

Realize it’s not the point, but this is when a whole bunch of people started saying “bog standard.” It always bothered me, knowing where it came from.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 8d

My favourite Jane Goodall quotes....so many, so to the point, so wise. How different the world would be if enough people listened to her.

"People think hope is wishful thinking, and actually hope is about action." Quote from the Wiser Than Me podcast with Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

"Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our true potential." Graphic by the Jane Goodall Institute of South Africa.

"You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." Graphic by Ariana Huffington on Instagram.

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naberu 🇨🇦 @naberu.bsky.social · 8d

Lots of rallies coming up. Stand up against healthcare privatization, Ontario!

Ontario Health Coalition @onthealthcoalition.bsky.social · 8d

Every one of us needs to make it visible that we oppose #dougford's plan to expand privatization. Come out in Kitchener-Waterloo & Oxford County this weekend to build the fightback to save public health care before we lose it.

Contact info here: ontariohealthcoalition.ca/index.php/ev...

#onpoli

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naberu 🇨🇦 @naberu.bsky.social · 8d

‘Ontario will miss 2030 emission reduction goal by even wider gap than it admits: auditor’

Though, I don’t think it can be called a goal anymore if the government isn’t making any effort to achieve it.

Ontario will miss 2030 emission reduction goal by even wider gap than it admits: auditor | CBC News

Ontario's environment ministry says it will miss its 2030 greenhouse gas emissions reduction target, but the auditor general says province will in fact likely miss that target by an even wider margin.

www.cbc.ca

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Danyaal Raza @danyaalraza.com · 8d

Let’s move from outsourcing care to these large corporate chains.

There are so many other great alternatives out there.

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

'Fragmenting care': How a pilot project in N.B. pharmacies fell apart | CBC News

In the summer of 2022, Higgs, New Brunswick’s Progressive Conservative premier, made sweeping changes to the senior management of the province’s health care system, vowing to find new ways to improve ...

www.cbc.ca

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