Tara M
@taratrying.bsky.social
PhD, MBA. Health researcher. Mother of two mostly-charming daughters. Feels fortunate to have been a born a Canadian. Batman fan. Opinions my own.
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Alberta's government is engaged in something I can only describe as psychopathic politics.
What else do you call it when a government so set on pushing ahead with policies that WILL cause more trans youth to try to leave us?
When they'll trample on the charter to hurt these kids?
It's disturbing:
What else do you call it when a government so set on pushing ahead with policies that WILL cause more trans youth to try to leave us?
When they'll trample on the charter to hurt these kids?
It's disturbing:
November 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Alberta's government is engaged in something I can only describe as psychopathic politics.
What else do you call it when a government so set on pushing ahead with policies that WILL cause more trans youth to try to leave us?
When they'll trample on the charter to hurt these kids?
It's disturbing:
What else do you call it when a government so set on pushing ahead with policies that WILL cause more trans youth to try to leave us?
When they'll trample on the charter to hurt these kids?
It's disturbing:
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The facts are complicated, but here’s a summary of what appears to have happened based on the filings and today’s hearing:
NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court.
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
November 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The facts are complicated, but here’s a summary of what appears to have happened based on the filings and today’s hearing:
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"Whether it’s lies about the safety of puberty blockers or the competitive impact of allowing trans women to compete in women’s sports, the stances and statements Smith is repeatedly trotting out.... are at their best misleading and at their worst outright lies."
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The lies Danielle Smith is telling to overturn trans kids’ rights | Xtra Magazine
The Alberta government is invoking the Notwithstanding Clause to protect its three anti-trans laws from being challenged in the courts
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November 19, 2025 at 1:15 AM
"Whether it’s lies about the safety of puberty blockers or the competitive impact of allowing trans women to compete in women’s sports, the stances and statements Smith is repeatedly trotting out.... are at their best misleading and at their worst outright lies."
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Ontario’s final debate on Bill 33 saw the government defend fast-tracking powers to intervene in school boards. Opponents call it an undemocratic power grab that silences local communities.
Ontario fast-tracks controversial school board bill
Ontario’s final debate on Bill 33 saw the government defend fast-tracking powers to intervene in school boards. Opponents call it an undemocratic power grab.
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November 19, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Ontario’s final debate on Bill 33 saw the government defend fast-tracking powers to intervene in school boards. Opponents call it an undemocratic power grab that silences local communities.
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The concept of Andrew Scheer hiding behind the House chamber curtains during the entire budget vote yesterday is wildly funny. He was like the Wizard of Oz if the Wizard had been weirdly into milk products
November 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
The concept of Andrew Scheer hiding behind the House chamber curtains during the entire budget vote yesterday is wildly funny. He was like the Wizard of Oz if the Wizard had been weirdly into milk products
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“this is the Alberta government saying that the rights of trans kids to receive lifesaving healthcare, go by their own pronouns at school or play on sport teams, don’t matter as much as Smith’s government’s right to dictate their lives.”
I feel sick.
I feel sick.
"Whether it’s lies about the safety of puberty blockers or the competitive impact of allowing trans women to compete in women’s sports, the stances and statements Smith is repeatedly trotting out.... are at their best misleading and at their worst outright lies."
xtramagazine.com/power/politi...
xtramagazine.com/power/politi...
The lies Danielle Smith is telling to overturn trans kids’ rights | Xtra Magazine
The Alberta government is invoking the Notwithstanding Clause to protect its three anti-trans laws from being challenged in the courts
xtramagazine.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:51 AM
“this is the Alberta government saying that the rights of trans kids to receive lifesaving healthcare, go by their own pronouns at school or play on sport teams, don’t matter as much as Smith’s government’s right to dictate their lives.”
I feel sick.
I feel sick.
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Turns out they were *hiding behind the curtains* like a couple of rangy toddlers inside the clearance rack at Kresgie's while their mom shops for off-season bargains — ready to leap into their seats in case the vote went election-ish.
Y'know, the way alpha bro dudely macho men hide behind curtains.
Y'know, the way alpha bro dudely macho men hide behind curtains.
November 18, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Turns out they were *hiding behind the curtains* like a couple of rangy toddlers inside the clearance rack at Kresgie's while their mom shops for off-season bargains — ready to leap into their seats in case the vote went election-ish.
Y'know, the way alpha bro dudely macho men hide behind curtains.
Y'know, the way alpha bro dudely macho men hide behind curtains.
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Insiders Detail Ways #Alberta’s For-Profit Surgery Push Is Failing
The shift strong-arms doctors but hasn’t saved money or shortened waits for critical operations, sources say. A Tyee investigation. #NoToPrivateForProfit
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
The shift strong-arms doctors but hasn’t saved money or shortened waits for critical operations, sources say. A Tyee investigation. #NoToPrivateForProfit
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
Insiders Detail Ways Alberta’s For-Profit Surgery Push Is Failing | The Tyee
The shift strong-arms doctors but hasn’t saved money or shortened waits for critical operations, sources say. A Tyee investigation.
thetyee.ca
November 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Insiders Detail Ways #Alberta’s For-Profit Surgery Push Is Failing
The shift strong-arms doctors but hasn’t saved money or shortened waits for critical operations, sources say. A Tyee investigation. #NoToPrivateForProfit
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
The shift strong-arms doctors but hasn’t saved money or shortened waits for critical operations, sources say. A Tyee investigation. #NoToPrivateForProfit
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
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Doctor shortage forces 48-hour closure of maternity ward in Saint-Eustache, Que. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/maternity-ward-saint-eustache-9.6980872
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November 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Doctor shortage forces 48-hour closure of maternity ward in Saint-Eustache, Que. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/maternity-ward-saint-eustache-9.6980872
𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
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Canadians, if you bought bread ever between 2001 and 2021, you too are eligible for a $25 bread price–fixing settlement. It takes one minute and in 6-12 months, Big Bread will pay you $25 to apologise for all the price gouging.
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November 19, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Canadians, if you bought bread ever between 2001 and 2021, you too are eligible for a $25 bread price–fixing settlement. It takes one minute and in 6-12 months, Big Bread will pay you $25 to apologise for all the price gouging.
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Research shows online gambling is more harmful than other types yet the Ford govt wants more.
Globe editorial:
"A government’s job is to protect citizens from harm. Instead Ontario is allowing businesses to profit by harming the most vulnerable – and the government itself is profiting too" #OnPoli
Globe editorial:
"A government’s job is to protect citizens from harm. Instead Ontario is allowing businesses to profit by harming the most vulnerable – and the government itself is profiting too" #OnPoli
November 18, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Research shows online gambling is more harmful than other types yet the Ford govt wants more.
Globe editorial:
"A government’s job is to protect citizens from harm. Instead Ontario is allowing businesses to profit by harming the most vulnerable – and the government itself is profiting too" #OnPoli
Globe editorial:
"A government’s job is to protect citizens from harm. Instead Ontario is allowing businesses to profit by harming the most vulnerable – and the government itself is profiting too" #OnPoli
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Alberta's justice minister has tabled a bill to invoke the notwithstanding clause to shield a suite of legislation from legal challenges. The laws in question restrict the rights of transgender people in access to health care and sports, and affect K-12 education of all students.
#AbLeg #Abed
#AbLeg #Abed
Alberta to invoke notwithstanding clause to shield 3 transgender bills from court challenges | CBC News
The Alberta government has tabled legislation that seeks to invoke the notwithstanding clause to shield a suite of bills that affects transgender youth and adults from legal challenges.
www.cbc.ca
November 18, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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we have to do something about the you-can-trample-on-human-rights clause in the document that promises human rights and freedom
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Alberta to invoke notwithstanding clause to shield 3 transgender bills from court challenges | CBC News
The Alberta government has tabled legislation that seeks to invoke the notwithstanding clause to shield a suite of bills that affects transgender youth and adults from legal challenges.
www.cbc.ca
November 18, 2025 at 10:12 PM
we have to do something about the you-can-trample-on-human-rights clause in the document that promises human rights and freedom
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Um so that is very bad. For many reasons, but perhaps the most obvious end-game of this new development is if you people are just reading AI summaries of original content, but that kills how we fund original content... eventually you won't have original content for AI summaries to draw on.
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November 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Um so that is very bad. For many reasons, but perhaps the most obvious end-game of this new development is if you people are just reading AI summaries of original content, but that kills how we fund original content... eventually you won't have original content for AI summaries to draw on.
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Peanut allergies are plummeting in children, and you can thank science www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... @picardonhealth.bsky.social
𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
November 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Peanut allergies are plummeting in children, and you can thank science www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... @picardonhealth.bsky.social
𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
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I would have missed this if it weren’t for @dralandrummond.bsky.social
#Clinton #Ontario ER was closed this past Sunday. Its ’normal’ hours are daily 8am-8pm so this meant Clinton’s ER was closed for 36 hours straight.
We all matter or none of us do.
#Clinton #Ontario ER was closed this past Sunday. Its ’normal’ hours are daily 8am-8pm so this meant Clinton’s ER was closed for 36 hours straight.
We all matter or none of us do.
November 18, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I would have missed this if it weren’t for @dralandrummond.bsky.social
#Clinton #Ontario ER was closed this past Sunday. Its ’normal’ hours are daily 8am-8pm so this meant Clinton’s ER was closed for 36 hours straight.
We all matter or none of us do.
#Clinton #Ontario ER was closed this past Sunday. Its ’normal’ hours are daily 8am-8pm so this meant Clinton’s ER was closed for 36 hours straight.
We all matter or none of us do.
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The federal government should withhold federal health transfers to AB.
Doctors request vaccinations be given to children at hospitals (when parents are willing to do so); province says no.
Bananas.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Bananas.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Alberta doctors call for regular access to vaccines in children's hospitals to combat low immunization rates | CBC News
Some Alberta pediatricians say they've got an idea to help improve routine childhood vaccination rates, but they're facing roadblocks. The doctors want the shots, including measles and whooping cough ...
www.cbc.ca
November 18, 2025 at 2:21 AM
The federal government should withhold federal health transfers to AB.
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Ford crony/TDSB supervisor Rohit Gupta probably doesn’t know (or care) that teachers have to spend their classroom budget (if they have one) or their own $$ on tissues, table wipes, and bandaids.
Your child’s teacher or local school might appreciate a donation of these items if you’re able to help.
Your child’s teacher or local school might appreciate a donation of these items if you’re able to help.
November 18, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Ford crony/TDSB supervisor Rohit Gupta probably doesn’t know (or care) that teachers have to spend their classroom budget (if they have one) or their own $$ on tissues, table wipes, and bandaids.
Your child’s teacher or local school might appreciate a donation of these items if you’re able to help.
Your child’s teacher or local school might appreciate a donation of these items if you’re able to help.
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Today RFK Jr. both suggested that aluminum adjuvants in vaccines cause peanut allergies *and* admitted there are no data to support this hypothesis, so he wants to find some.
Like if you took the scientific method, turned it backward and inside out and made it puke, you’d get RFK Jr.’s thoughts.
Like if you took the scientific method, turned it backward and inside out and made it puke, you’d get RFK Jr.’s thoughts.
November 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Today RFK Jr. both suggested that aluminum adjuvants in vaccines cause peanut allergies *and* admitted there are no data to support this hypothesis, so he wants to find some.
Like if you took the scientific method, turned it backward and inside out and made it puke, you’d get RFK Jr.’s thoughts.
Like if you took the scientific method, turned it backward and inside out and made it puke, you’d get RFK Jr.’s thoughts.
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One academic study showed that “the average number of gambling references per broadcast minute was 2.8” in Ontario during sporting events.
Opinion: Our governments are willfully blind to the financial fentanyl that is online gambling
Insolvencies are up sharply, and there’s growing evidence that gambling is partly to blame
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:37 AM
One academic study showed that “the average number of gambling references per broadcast minute was 2.8” in Ontario during sporting events.
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Infuriating to think that in just two months, Conde Nast's Vanity Fair hired Nuzzi while Conde Nast's Vogue absorbed and neutered Teen Vogue, laying off a number of talented writers who can write, and think, circles around Nuzzi.
November 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Infuriating to think that in just two months, Conde Nast's Vanity Fair hired Nuzzi while Conde Nast's Vogue absorbed and neutered Teen Vogue, laying off a number of talented writers who can write, and think, circles around Nuzzi.
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I’m not sure I see the logic in continuing to teach but stepping back from, like, making public appearances? The issue is with behavior while teaching. Why would it do anything to, like, step off the lecture circuit or whatever? That’s emphatically not the problem.
Larry Summers steps back from public commitments, ‘deeply ashamed’ by Epstein revelations
Larry Summers steps back from public commitments, ‘deeply ashamed’ by Epstein revelations
Emails revealed that Summers sought advice from Epstein on romantically pursuing a woman he referred to as his mentee.
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November 18, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I’m not sure I see the logic in continuing to teach but stepping back from, like, making public appearances? The issue is with behavior while teaching. Why would it do anything to, like, step off the lecture circuit or whatever? That’s emphatically not the problem.