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You have to love that provinces that refuse to properly fund voluntary rehab are suddenly gung-ho on involuntary drug treatment (which will also be underfunded and will just lead to even more deaths).

submitted 10 hours ago • 5 comments

Bees in the US are emerging 10.4 days earlier in the spring than they did 130 years ago. A biologist explains how a timing mismatch with flowering plants is worsening pollinator decline and reducing food production. buff.ly/pG5fXgA #climatechange 🌎#climatesky

submitted 23 hours ago • 6 comments

"About half of B.C. and Ontario’s respective medical lab sectors are now U.S. owned." By @maddidellplain.bsky.social healthydebate.ca/2025/04/topi...

submitted 20 hours ago • 4 comments

Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called "equipoise." Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically why vaccine trials don't use placebo arms. Ethical violation as POLICY.

submitted 1 day ago • 383 comments

Elbows down, apparently. That was quick. "The decision appears to undercut Prime Minister Mark Carney's commitment to reduce the reliance on U.S. sources for Canadian military procurement." ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

There’s a measles outbreak in the Canadian province of Ontario that’s twice the size of the one in Texas. Over 1000 people are sick. Why isn’t this getting more media attention? People need to be informed of the risk & how to protect themselves. Vaccinate, wear a respirator, isolate when sick.

submitted 1 day ago • 60 comments

Corn ethanol is a bad idea. You could retire 97% of it back to nature, out the remaining 3% in solar, and come out even.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Electoral reform is essential for all sorts of reasons. Speaking from Ontario, Doug Ford getting a majority with votes from 19% of the electorate is another good motivation. That, and abysmal turnout. And vote splitting. And...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

submitted 1 day ago • 47 comments

We must normalize masks as a public health tool before it’s too late. If you care about social justice, disability rights, fighting fascism or your health… you should be wearing a mask. Ideally an N95 or better. The more of us wearing them, the harder they will be to ban.

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

Reminder, sunglasses hide your identity more than masks. As research in Scientific Reports shows, "Face masks are less effective than sunglasses in masking face identity." Will policymakers also ban sunglasses? hats? #NoNYMaskBan CC @govkathyhochul.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 39 days ago • 4 comments

I hope Elections Canada focuses on addressing these injustices before the next election. Things seem to be going smoothly elsewhere, it's important to make sure Northern communities aren't denied the right to vote.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Do I know anyone who is willing to play me the Godzilla 1954 theme on piano(or toy piano) at half speed for like $50 and credit on a very stupid puppet project? It is a silent puppet film where Godzilla fights Paul Bunyan.

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

Please call your electeds. The official vote for this will happen later this week. We need to stop this horrible charge that will put public health under greater threat and lead to more targeting of protestors. Take action:

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

My own Election Day reminders: 1) We don't elect the prime minister so there is no such thing as "PM-elect". If you must, say "PM-designate" or "presumptive PM" OR, if it's Mark Carney, just say "Prime Minister", because he's literally still PM even after the results tonight. 1/n

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

Canada -- it's election day. If you don't vote, you will still have the right to complain, but other people also will also have the right to complain about you.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Your immune system isn't a Tamagotchi that dies if you don't play with it. "Immunity debt" is a marketing term to make you blame yourself instead of bad policy. Getting sick constantly isn't normal — it’s a public health failure.

submitted 3 days ago • 27 comments

This isn't a new product. It's an updated vaccine to account for new strains and viral evolution. Are they going to do this for all COVID and influenza vaccines yearly? Because that effectively shuts them down. There isn't enough time between identification of strains included & release of vaccine.

submitted 4 days ago • 97 comments

Love this. In his “I Agree” installation Dima Yarovinsky-Yahel took the content from terms of service statements for companies like Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Tinder and printed them out on A4 paper with a standard font size for legal contracts to demonstrate the length of these agreements.

submitted 4 days ago • 22 comments

Just heard of the passing of Under the Umbrella Tree creator Noreen Young. We did a DefunctTV on the show and her puppetry a few years ago, and afterwards, she sent me a long and kind message about how well we did and how much she enjoyed reading the comments of people remembering her show.

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

You don't necessarily need to say "image of" in your alt text for users to know it's an image. Screen readers will announce that it's an image. But it can help readers to specify if it's a hand-drawn image, Polaroid, infographic, screenshot, chart, map, diagram, or so on.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

“We found there’s this perfect one-to-one relationship. If a city increased its road capacity by 10% then driving in that city went up by 10%.” Still one of the best articles on why building bigger roads leads to more driving. Understanding #InducedDemand Via @wired.com

submitted 6 days ago • 15 comments

Your worth is not defined by your health, job, how much money you make or how many children you have. You are valuable, just as you are. We have instrinsic value & must not allow those in power to convince us that certain groups are “less than”. When we debate someone’s worth, we’ve already lost.

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

I’m not going to retweet that NOAA propaganda post about deep sea mining. Instead, I’ll tell you that I don’t know a single NOAA scientist who would promote deep sea mining in this way, because the available science we have does not justify exploitation of deep sea habitats for minerals.

submitted 6 days ago • 18 comments

“The three individuals who ran that DEI office in the medical faculty — all of whom are members of racialized minorities — are being replaced by a single person who does not come from such a minority background” Why are Canadian institutions bending a knee and complying in advance?

submitted 6 days ago • 25 comments

Last thing because I am tired of talking about AI, but I really need people to engage critically with “no ethical consumption under capitalism”. That doesn’t mean “so just go ahead and do it.” I have had to purchase stuff on Amazon recently. Unavoidable. That doesn’t mean I didn’t look elsewhere.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Sometimes the most important questions are the ones you didn’t think to ask.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

This is a story about deep sea mining, beautifully told. Mining something that takes millions of years to form. What could go wrong? Ehm…🛢️👀 Letting an industry with a terrible record on land do the same in the ocean where there’s way less oversight. What could go wrong? 🤔

submitted 534 days ago • 7 comments

It's wild that all my colleagues who are funded by a deep sea mining company to research the topic ultimately conclude that we shouldn't mine the deep sea. We should stop seeing the ocean as a place to exploit instead of a place of wonder and beauty and an essential part of our life support system.

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

listen up, climate policies have resulted in the avoidance of greenhouse gases and global emissions would be way higher had we done nothing here is a wall of text from the IPCC report with evidence www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/w... IPCC AR6 WG3 Chapter 14 Cross Chapter box 10 (14-43, line 39)

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

Suddenly feel like starting the day by doing this would fix things somehow.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

#Ontario peeps! Wld appreciate any amplification to your local media about our open letter to the ON govt/Kieran Moore urging them to use a #VaccinePLUS strategy to tackle measles. press release - www.ontarioschoolsafety.com/updates/onta... open letter - www.ontarioschoolsafety.com/updates/open...

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

Ottawa Public Health (OPH) is asking for input on what respiratory virus info is important, how you use it, and if they should keep funding wastewater monitoring. Please help let OPH know this information is important ( opinion.ottawapublichealth.ca?e=446587&d=e... ). 🧵1/

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

CO2 levels haven’t been consistently this high in 14 MILLION YEARS! But luckily, it’s EARTH DAY! So presumably we’re dismantling fossil fuel corporations, seizing profits & arresting the CEOs & everyone else who’s been deliberately accelerating us to extinction for 50 years…?

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Massively important report. #CanadianSky #Covid #LongCovid #Health #PublicHealth #CdnPoli

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Hey folks: it appears there is mass outcry over this new dress code but we need more. I’m asking people to contact Starbucks’ customer service and tell them that banning masks or requiring a doctor’s note for staff is unacceptable stories.starbucks.ca/contact-us/

submitted 10 days ago • 8 comments

“Long COVID is not "just fatigue." It’s organ damage, immune dysfunction, and neurological injury—even when tests look “normal.” Consensus: routine labs often miss it. We need biomarker access. We need real diagnostics. Now.”

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Sign of the day…

submitted 12 days ago • 184 comments

Dear colleagues. If you won't test for C19/Flu/RSV for your patient's sake, be selfish and do it for yourself. Test, then suspected cases will be isolated so they don't infect staff, preventing you from having to do extra overtime when they all call in sick. Enlightened selfishness!

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

I’m demonstrating virtually outside the 🇩🇪 @bundestag.de. Day 1️⃣9️⃣5️⃣ 📢 #CallForPublicHealthAction 📢 Demonstration for the right to #CleanAir, vaccines, evidence-based infection control, scientifically sound public education, adequate care & biomedical research for #LongCovid / #MECFS

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment