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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 9h

People Say COVID Infections Are Worse This Year.

"Razor sore throat, fevers, chills. Some social media users are claiming that their current COVID-19 infections are more severe than previous COVID infections; some even claim it’s the worst they’ve ever felt."

Source: archive.md/DB2uM

People Say COVID Infections Are Worse This Year. Here's What Doctors Think.

By Jillian Wilson
Oct 12, 2025, 07:00 AM EDT

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Glass Half Empty 🇨🇦 @yulnative.bsky.social · 3h

We definitely will need protection from AI. I'm already sick of hearing about it.

Tim Ellis 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 3h

Fun fact, you can answer all of these questions by talking about how much you want the government to protect you *FROM* "AI" rather than how much you want them to fund it. Give it a try!

Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 4d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

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Glass Half Empty 🇨🇦 @yulnative.bsky.social · 3h

True.

Kari Raymer Bishop 🇨🇦 @kariraymerbishop.bsky.social · 5h

I feel like this is also true for CBC.

UK Politics @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · Apr 22

Gary Lineker: "This is the mistake the BBC makes. The BBC tries to appease the people that hate the BBC, rather than worrying about the people that love the BBC."

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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 12h

The emails from the former Manning Centre are getting increasingly unhinged.

CANADA STRONG & FREE NETWORK

Dale,

The Liberals are playing a DANGEROUS game with our country! They’re pushing the Supreme Court to SLASH the Notwithstanding Clause.

THIS IS THE GLUE THAT HOLDS OUR CONSTITUTION TOGETHER.

We’re really worried, Dale. This could spark a crisis and tear our nation apart!

Even the experts are warning this is a “SHOCKING” move that could lead to a full-blown CONSTITUTIONAL MELTDOWN!

Tell Us Where You Stand!
Should the Radicals mess with our Constitution?
No way! Protect Provincial Rights!
Yes, Let Ottawa Rule
I’m Concerned – Need More Info

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Glass Half Empty 🇨🇦 @yulnative.bsky.social · 14h

It will be a pipeline to nowhere. By the time it will be built, if ever, Asia will have long moved on from using oil. I am sure Dani knows this so the pipeline rhetoric is all a distraction from her dismal ability to govern.

Glass Half Empty 🇨🇦 @yulnative.bsky.social · 14h

Hopefully, the bubble will burst before much damage is done and it will take Evan Solomon along with it.

Glass Half Empty 🇨🇦 @yulnative.bsky.social · 15h

Hubbie and I may be crazy but we think Sleepers is the funniest movie ever made.

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Laura Babcock 🇨🇦 @laura-babcock.bsky.social · 16h

Here’s my new op ed in @thespec1846.bsky.social
about the insanity in America and why we have much to be thankful for in Canada 🇨🇦 Happy Thanksgiving 🍁

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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 16h

Anyone who's confident that mainstream medicine is too smart to buy into anti-vax pseudoscience needs to realize that a lot of mainstream medicine already bought into anti-respirator pseudoscience, and 👉that is absolutely no different👈.

Medical guidance is about authority. That's it.

Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · Aug 16

The error examined in this thread is laughably simple: forcing subjects to breathe through a small hole covered in N95 material does NOT mimic wearing an N95.

That's beyond wrong - it's *silly*.

It's also the source of mainstream medical claims that N95s interfere with breathing during pregnancy.

Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · Jan 28

Another example of the junk clinical studies celebrated in Evidence Based Medicine because of methodology alone. Beloved "gold standard" of opinion launderers and cherry pickers, often designed with little or no mechanistic understanding or subject-matter expertise.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Glass Half Empty 🇨🇦 @yulnative.bsky.social · 15h

I agree and it is partially because, with only a purely public system, it is designed to operate at nearly 100% capacity. No slack has ever been incorporated into it and I don't see that ever changing.

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Glass Half Empty 🇨🇦 @yulnative.bsky.social · 15h

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Glass Half Empty 🇨🇦 @yulnative.bsky.social · 15h

I had hoped more Canadians were smarter than this 👇 and not fall for the headlines. How depressing.

Maybe a pollster should ask if Canadians would be in favour if we each had to pay $2000 for it. Clearly, a majority polled have no real idea how ridiculous it would be to invest in fossil fuels now.

Majority of Canadians — including B.C. residents — support Alberta’s pipeline push, poll finds | CBC News

A new poll from the Angus Reid Institute suggests a majority of Canadians — including British Columbians — support the idea of a northern Alberta-B.C. pipeline, but fewer agree the project should be f...

www.cbc.ca

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 1d

I am once again asking Canadian journalists to ask the most basic-ass question of "on whose land will these be built?" How is it that every other major industry must consider Indigenous rights but with tech it's like "meh".
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

ANALYSIS | Why OpenAI wants to help Canada build homegrown artificial intelligence | CBC News

OpenAI wants to help Canada build a sovereign digital infrastructure for artificial intelligence, putting the country in a tough spot as it tries to distance itself from overreliance on U.S. tech comp...

www.cbc.ca

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Glass Half Empty 🇨🇦 @yulnative.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, @mark-carney.bsky.social kind of important if Canada hopes to stand a chance.

Laurie Prange @prangemartin.bsky.social · 1d

We’re no better in Canada. Post-secondary institutions have been defunded so much that in the last 10 months, 12,000 permanent faculty members have lost their jobs, plus countless, unreported adjunct and non-permanent faculty members.

www.linkedin.com/posts/kenste...

#cdnpse | Ken Steele

Over the past month, #CdnPSE has reported more than 1,000 more jobs lost (through attrition, layoff, or early retirement), bringing my total to 12,034. I'm trying to capture all full-time or part-time...

www.linkedin.com

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Heather e^-1/x^2 @heathermoandco.bsky.social · 2d

The political right has chosen blatant lying as a political strategy.

"..constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore.
A people that can no
longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong...With such a people, you can do whatever you want."

-Hannah Arendt, (Oct, 1906 - Dec, 1975)
German historian and philosopher

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 1d

I did this, took like 30 min.
Points I kept hammering: domestic cloud, regulations around copyright and likeness rights, focusing on machine learning with concrete, real world uses (creating new drugs, etc), the damage done by slop, the need to listen to AI experts who are realists, not boosters.

Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 4d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

ised-isde.canada.ca

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Sandra Kelly @2020willbelit.bsky.social · 1d

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 1d

stop thinking right now

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Glass Half Empty 🇨🇦 @yulnative.bsky.social · 1d

For quite awhile now, whenever I meet someone new, eg. new neighbour, new acquaintance, etc. I always ask myself if they would be willing to hide me. At my time of life, what the French like to call le troisième âge, I decided that I don't have time for them if the answer is "no".

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consbegone.bsky.social @consbegone.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds like Canada with Pollievre and the cons

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

NYT piece calls these MAGA types "provocateurs." It describes "dueling versions of reality." Both are common MSM tropes.

But these are not provocateurs. They're propagandists. Only one side is employing deliberate deceptions on a vast scale for instrumental ends. 3/

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Tom Chapman @realtomchapman.bsky.social · 1d

If a woman is flashing this hand signal, she needs help escaping from a domestic violence situation.

Note identifying information about the man and call 911 immediately. Acknowledge her plight verbally or non-verbally if it can be done safely, so she knows help is on the way.

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David Hamer @davidhamer1951.bsky.social · 1d

In today’s @theglobeandmail.com, Mr. Coyne calls out the techno-oligarchs to a ‘T’.
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Glass Half Empty 🇨🇦 @yulnative.bsky.social · 1d

Sadly that is true for me yet I have not been to every province. Shame on me.

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Glass Half Empty 🇨🇦 @yulnative.bsky.social · 1d

We are just ahead of our time 😀

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Glass Half Empty 🇨🇦 @yulnative.bsky.social · 1d

Funny how public service doesn't seem to be part of these already very well to do people's vocabulary.

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Glass Half Empty 🇨🇦 @yulnative.bsky.social · 1d

I am all for this. Let's see how well the Chinese EV cars do here. I know the NA car manufacturers will moan their heads off but they are all going to head south soon anyway once the free trade deal is blown up by you know who.

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