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Many things are bad. I understand the urge to doomscroll right now because there's so much going on, in so many places. But sleep deprivation just makes everything harder, including taking care of yourself, the people you care about, and your community. You still deserve time to rest and recover.

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BC Privacy Office Forced to Obtain Court Order for FOI Request via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/06...

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As Ontario pumps millions into private health care, public health will continue to suffer www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... @alonghurst.bsky.social @drgorfinkel.bsky.social 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca

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“The use of for-profit staffing agencies [in #Ontario] is part of a vicious cycle that hollows out the public-sector workforce, thereby increasing hospitals’ dependence on private agencies,” said @policyalternatives.ca report author @alonghurst.bsky.social www.midnorthmonitor.com/news/local-n...

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AI Demands to Be Fed. We’re All Servers Now The energy appetite of data centres is boundless and ruinous. But Alberta and BC are eager to cater /via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

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Things are so bad that Newsom is making good points.

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So the English government is reducing the number of workers and telling the remaining ones to just figure it out using AI? What could possibly go wrong?

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11 years ago, my son Danny died. He was one of the early victims of the toxic drug crisis, one of over 50,000. This video, showing Danny as a young chef, gives you a glimpse into what we have lost. Keep fighting for #harmreduction. It would have saved him. youtu.be/DeivXb4QDJs?...

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ICYMI My op-ed with @drgorfinkel.bsky.social in @thestar.com As Ontario pumps millions into for-profit health care, public health care will suffer www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

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Privatisation is selling the car and only travelling by taxi. It's selling off the kitchen and dining out every day. It's selling the house and living in a hotel.

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No surprise here Alberta is not on Team Canada www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

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As Ontario pumps millions into private health care, public health will continue to suffer, by @drgorfinkel.bsky.social @andrewlonghurst.bsky.social www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... via @thestar.com

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"Decarbonized oil" sounds like a joke. Because it is. Even if you slap expensive CCS on the oil drilling/operation, one still releases massive amounts of carbon when you burn the oil in a tailpipe, chimney or smokestack. @mark-carney.bsky.social knows better. Right? www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

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Not (apparently) nation-building projects: Expanding pharmacare, expanding mental health coverage, building affordable housing www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

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We already have some of the lowest taxes & amounts of public spending on health & social care amongst our peers. For so many of the people I take care of & care about, this will not help us get ahead.

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We @cdnpress.bsky.social take great pride in our work; at the same time, we are asking for fair pay in light of significant inflation since our last general wage increase of 3% starting in 2020. #canlab #cdnpoli #cdnmedia

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A massive outbreak has made Ontario the #measles epicentre of the western hemisphere. Three-quarters of cases are in unvaccinated children, and this week saw the first fatality: a premature baby, by Olivia Bowden www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j... via @theguardian.com

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"...waits are about to get worse. But rather than focus limited resources on the public system, #Ontario plans to more than double the funding for private surgical and diagnostic facilities." @alonghurst.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca #onpoli www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

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My commentary with @drgorfinkel.bsky.social in today’s @thestar.com As Ontario pumps millions into private health care, public health will continue to suffer www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

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“Santa J. Ono, former president of the University of Michigan, learned that the world loves treason, but it does not love the traitor.” @silkyweineck.bsky.social

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Dear @HealthCanada & @OntarioHealthOH, ✈️ If someone sits within 2 ROWS of ONE infected passenger, they'll probably GET SICK Travel spreads viruses: flu, measles, COVID etc Why not offer MASKS for FREE in all airports? Signed... pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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NEW: There's no sugarcoating it. The Liberals' proposed Strong Borders Act represents a total betrayal of voters who elected Carney to stand up to Trump. www.readtheorchard.org/p/carney-ben...

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Hello Bluesky! We're Patriotic Millionaires Canada, a new group of wealthy Canadians who believe inequality is hurting our economy and democracy, and we should use the tax code to do something about it. Learn more here, and give us a follow! www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

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“While some provinces have been experimenting with for-profit delivery, our research shows that central intake referral models and team-based surgical care could reduce waits and improve inequities without incurring the risks of that approach.” www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

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I don’t know what to say anymore. As doctors, we can’t stop a genocide and we can’t end a famine. We provided a diagnosis - genocide. We provided a prescription to end the genocide - for Canada to end its complicity and direct involvement in Israel’s crimes now.

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Massive cuts to social sciences research funding and training programs in the US. A generation of scholars lost.

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“Making yourself into a pawn for the most anti-intellectual forces in American politics and not even getting the bag is dark comedy even the late David Lodge couldn’t have conceived.” C: @alexusherhesa.bsky.social

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More than 30,000 people have been displaced by wildfires in Saskatchewan and Manitoba alone – and it’s not even summer yet www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

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Good idea

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For anyone still under the illusion that Canadian universities are safe from neo-fascist trends, ladies and gentlemens here's past #UBC president on the record stating "I am here to ensure that DEI never returns to the University of Florida,” to land a new job. www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

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The problem that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney may have while working with Canada’s provincial premiers is that the more Alberta Premier Danielle Smith speaks positively about his approach, the less many Canadians will be willing to assume he’s proposing the right things.

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King Charles’ speech from the throne is a harbinger of a rightward shift www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

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Karl Polanyi’s double movement

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The vast majority of these surgeons are also enrolled in provincial health insurance plans, likely engaged in unlawful extra-billing This is a great resource for Health Canada and provincial governments to use for audits of illegal activity

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Last year, former cabinet minister Chris Alexander made the absurd claim (behind parliamentary privilege) that David Pugliese was a Russian spy. Tonight, Pugliese shared the CAJ’s top award from president Brent Jolly. “If David is guilty of anything, it is being a thorn in the side of power.”

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Congratulations to Bethany Lindsay for winning the Silver CAJ Award for Scoop for "One third of B.C.’s ‘publicly funded substance-use treatment beds’ don’t provide any treatment" Félicitations à Bethany Lindsay pour avoir remporté le Prix ACJ « Scoop » argent https://loom.ly/zcuxRGY

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Another day, more geneocide At least 31 Palestinians are killed while heading to a Gaza aid hub, health officials and witnesses say www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

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Saskatchewan is battling the worst wildfire it's seen in decades — including the 300,000-hectare Shoe Fire in northern Saskatchewan — and experts say it's largely caused by climate change. #SKwx #SKfires www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/weat...

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If the US stops fluoridating water, in 5 yrs American children would suffer an additional 25.4 million cavities, with an added cost of $9.8B, and loss of 2.9 million quality-adjusted life years, disproportionately borne by children currently on public health insurance or who lack insurance entirely.

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CBC’s The National coverage of my new @policyalternatives.ca report on Ontario hospital finances and contracted for-profit staffing youtu.be/jWNVe58jQ5k?...

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ICYMI, my recent report “Ontario’s hospitals are facing a serious staffing shortage due to years of underfunding, that's according to a new report from @policyalternatives.ca. It shows there's been an increase in the use of pricey for-profit staffing agencies.” www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

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Gaza is ‘hungriest place on Earth’ with all its people at risk of famine, says UN Mission to deliver help is ‘one of most obstructed aid operations in recent history’, humanitarian agency says www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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Yesterday, at 87, my dad & former Ontario NDP leader Stephen Lewis, stood for an hour by the road in his old riding. As a Jewish elder, he stood against genocide embodying the values he has always championed. I am so proud to see him on the right side of history – as always. ❤️

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President Donald Trump today fleshed out his vision for a previously proposed 56% cut in the $9 billion budget of the National Science Foundation, and it’s not a pretty sight. scim.ag/3HhGa1D

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Prest said the passage of the bills "fragments" Eby's coalition, mobilizing groups that had broadly supported his government to instead act against it in a "significant" way. www.timescolonist.com/bc-news/as-a...

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If you couldn’t read it in Haaretz, you can read it in The Guardian

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Memo to Alberta's federalists and anti-separatists: stop accepting Danielle Smith's premise that the province has been screwed over by Ottawa. It's time for more facts and fewer feelings. #cdnpoli #abpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2025/05/29/o...

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