Today's essential listen for all who care about patient and HCW safety.

Dr. Iris Gorfinkel talks about masking policies in health care settings as cases of COVID-19, flu and RSV rise
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“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.”

Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!

Thank you, Mary Gillis for perfectly expressing the shameful leadership failure we are witnessing in Canada (and elsewhere).

Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies.

For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!

As the world faces intensifying climate extremes, voices of compassion are speaking out. This week’s newsletter explores hope, heartbreak, and how each of us can help connect the dots.

Read the full edition of the newsletter below!

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

This is happening right now in Canada 🇨🇦, while you look at 🇺🇸 in disgust. Carney is on a march of upward wealth transfer while consolidating power in legislation. It’s arrived. It’s here. We have to fight it. #Canadasky

They are sending roving bands of masked thugs with the stated goal of kidnapping 20 million brown people to transport them to any country they can pay to take them. All this has been cleared by The Stolen Court.

This is not deportation.

This is ethnic cleansing.

Israel has turned into a terrorist state. They better not harm the children.
The youth stepped up because of the absolute failure of the west - Germany, UK, Canada, France to defend the international rule of law.

Happy Pride Month

Not even sure what to say anymore about all of this insane stuff.

Hard to find ways to counter the crazy evil gaslighting that lets this genocide (as named by so many global organizations) just keep on toward its intended obliteration of a people. I don't understand this. It feels silly to write another letter, but I will.

Still one of my favourites, Jon Hassell's 1977 debut, recorded at York University in Toronto. I needed this pacing today.

#breath #drone #trumpet #tabla #conga #nowplaying

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Come ON, Saanich! Don't do this.

Elizabeth May will represent you better as MP than a Con. Libs and NDP: your strategic vote is Green. The Con candidate won't even talk to media or do debates; they won't help you when you're in trouble either #bcpoli #cdnpoli

From 2015, a good summary of Pope Francis' excellent and pointed Laudato Si' on our shared environment, and connections between ecological destruction, poverty, and capitalism.

via @thetyee.ca
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Ah, okay, thanks.

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca

My Polish mother has been telling me about the period before Russian and German troops varyingly invaded her tiny Northern Polish village, and the activities leading up to her family finally being exported in cattle cars to a concentration camp.

So many parallels.

It's hard to teach a lot of economics in 60 second TV soundbites, so lemme slow down and explain what's going on in a 25 minute podcast.

Forgive me for engaging in international trade and weakening America, as the interview was with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Noticing quite a few new USA license plates in my hood, too.

“We (Canadians) have this possibility to head in one really amazing direction and continue to be a world leader."

"... these gains [women's rights, choice] can be lost and, as evidenced by the situation in the U.S., lost quickly.