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"Captain Canada" now means to blame us for the whims of a delusional fascist who wants to annex our country. Ontario, who have we elected?

Canadian COVID Forecast: Mar 1-14, 2025 SEVERE: QC VERY HIGH: CAN, AB, North, NS, ON HIGH: BC, MB, NB, NL, PEI, SK MODERATE: none About 1 in 52 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

The Canadian "measles outbreak continues" on CBC radio hourly news. Every Canadian Public School program needs to update its teaching material to show how measles has been reborn. This is a failure on an epic scale. #Measles

"Free speech is their right to say what they want and your right to say what they want." This is particularly worrying ahead of the Stand Up For Science Marches planned for this Friday in the US.

On the first day of MAGA tariffs… Ensure your hair care and skincare products aren’t made in the USA. If possible, choose Canadian brands and brands manufactured in Canada. Canadian cosmetics madeinca.ca/category/per... Canadian personal care products madeinca.ca/category/per...

Easy to lose this in the noise of the day, but the prime minister of Canada just said the US president, leader of the global hegemon, wants to soften us up economically so he can annex us. That is one of the most remarkable statements, and realities, in our history.

It's worth watching all 15 minutes of Justin Trudeau's speech from this morning, whether you're Canadian or not. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

I've just canceled all our monthly subscriptions for auto-delivery of household goods from Amazon. Weird that they don't offer BOYCOTT TOXIC OLIGARCHS as a reason for cancelation. 🤔

🚨I promised I'd say more on the Royal Society and Elon Musk, so here it is. 🚨 I've resigned my position as Associate Editor at Royal Society's journal Open Science in protest at their lack of action over Elon Musk. My op-ed in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Elbows up, Canada. Here we go.

Crowds are massive in Silver Spring, Maryland…the home of NOAA. People chanting, “Save NOAA Now!” and “We will not weather the storm.” Make your voices heard and keep it up. #NOAA #NWS Severe Weather is on its Way. And so is hurricane season. 🌀 🧪

Dr. Jeremy Faust: CDC scientists freed to publish again—under new Trump-appointed CDC Chief of Staff, a lawyer with no science background. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

this is yet another way to crack down universities in the US. and a classic authoritarian play

@mindfullyillustrated 🫶

#NeverVoteConservative #NeverPoilievre #cdnpoli #WomenAgainstPoilievre #CanadaSky #TeamCarney

If you’re having trouble getting non-🇺🇸 greens, tomatoes and other produce in grocery stores near you, there are local producers available in many cities via delivery. In Ottawa we have many like: goodfood2u.ca small producers with greenhouse veggies banding together to make their farms viable.

More of this please Guelph. @camguthrie.bsky.social #Ontario #Housing #trades #employment

Americans may not get Myers’ “elbows up” gesture but Canadians and Gordie Howe fans sure do.

President Trump has directed federal agencies to examine ways to bypass endangered species protections and other environmental regulations to ramp up logging across 280 million acres of national forests and other public lands.

FYI Guelph - Just saw this posted to the @wdgpublichealth.bsky.social Instagram account. Full media release can be found on their website: wdgpublichealth.ca/news/media-r...

www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/ima... @eddavey.libdems.org.uk

Doug Ford plans to end MPP’s 16-year pay freeze In his first news conference since his Progressive Conservatives were re-elected Thursday, Premier Doug Ford says he will keep the largest cabinet in Ontario history and lift a 16-year pay freeze for MPPs.

We're doing this again, I see. Good exercise and nutrition are absolutely part of a healthy immune system. Yet. No diet will generate antigen-specific immune responses to Measles. No cardio regime will generate neutralizing antibodies to SARS-CoV-2. But vaccines will.

This feels desperate. Why would you want to disconnect the part of the internet used as a basic resource by medics across the globe? It’s not burning ‘a library’ it’s burning the library of libraries and will really damage medical research for all

"Five years on from March 2020, millions of people still face debilitating symptoms, with huge repercussions on public health and productivity. But politicians are starting to pretend the pandemic never happened." #Covid www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

This is a ticking timebomb in Ontario. Measles vaccination rate must be above ~95% to prevent serious outbreaks. As predicted, the RFK effect is making its way north.

Officials at the FAA have directed staff to identify tens of millions of dollars to fund a Starlink deal for upgrading air traffic control communications. Staff has been instructed to find the funds while minimizing documentation and avoiding a paper trail.

Doug Ford will most likely reintroduce legislation that will make being homeless in public criminal. At the same time, we are facing myriad impacts from tariffs that could destroy people's livelihoods. Homelessness is set to get worse; it shouldn't be criminalized. www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

As Rubio announces $4B in EMERGENCY military aid to Israel: Newborns die of hypothermia in Gaza as Israel blocks entry of tents, mobile homes Six out of 8 newborns admitted over past 2 weeks have died of hypothermia amid freezing temperatures in the Gaza Strip. www.newarab.com/news/six-gaz...

The amount of corruption is staggering, approaching Russian levels. Then again, this is "convergence", just unlike what anyone ever imagined in the Cold War.

NEW: The Minerva Research Initiative, established by the Pentagon to fund social science relevant to national security, is being gutted. Dozens of researchers studying threats from extremist groups, misinformation or climate change have received notices that their grants are being terminated. 🧪

The long-term, multi-system complications after Covid hospitalization among ~64,000 cases and 310,000 matched controls. Excess of Type 2 diabetes, kidney, lung and neurological disorders. Replicates prior work by @zalaly.bsky.social and colleagues www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Photo of the Day. Allies.

Do you need a measles booster? (Talk to your health care provider - chart is a general guideline) www.npr.org/sections/sho...

This is why @kityates.bsky.social post is so relevant today kityates.substack.com/p/science-is... and why my dystopian piece is perfectly plausible. christinapagel.substack.com/p/a-dystopia...

The greater the number of citizens gathering at these events, the louder the condemnation of DOGE’s wanton & indefensible slash & burn destruction is highlighted. Lives are at stake. Mid-terms are coming. We are NOT a Kingdom, NOT a dictatorship. We are a Republic by the people and FOR the people.

🇨🇦 Calling Canadians whose provinces have Starlink contracts. Here is a copy of the text message I just sent to my premier, Doug Ford. Please feel free to use it as a template for contacting your own premier. 1/6 #cdnpoli #cancelStarlink #resistTrump #CanadaSky #CanadaStrong

No one wants a paper trail because spending funds Congress has not appropriated is colloquially known as “stealing from the US Treasury.”

🔥🔥🔥👍👍👍South America has just cancelled all Elon Musk's Starlink contracts. That's a $29bn loss to Elon Musk. Now Ontario make your Premier you voted for do the same. #cdnpoli #peipoli

Shifting polls can do wondrous things. Take the case of Poilievre who now claims he fully supports Ukraine. We know two facts about Pierre: he was the only Canadian leader to oppose Ukraine aid a year ago and polls show almost all Canadian Trump support is in his CPC voter base. Trust him? Nyet.

Measles detected on flight from Seoul that landed in Toronto February 22nd. Potential exposure locations and times in article. Note that measles symptoms may not appear until a week later (around today March 1). www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...

DOGE recommends cuts to the FAA. Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps. Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems. See how this works?

I don’t even know how this could be presented as being in service of anything other than hindering scientific progress.