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Join students, staff, faculty, and Waterloo community members for a silent walk @uwaterloo.ca on March 27th to support those with Long COVID and promote awareness. Learn more about the event and register to let us know you're coming at bit.ly/walk-register!

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"The burden of PCC [Long COVID] and the pandemic will shape the next half century, and it is in everyone’s interest that our postsecondary institutions start working now to limit these harms": theconversation.com/we-can-and-m...

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Many questions and concerns. Please read and understand what underfunding means now and for the future

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Doug’s answer about whether he’d build on the Greenbelt. “I was pretty clear. I said I wouldn’t. Then I said I would. Then I said I wouldn’t. Then I apologized.” I. Sh*T you. Not.

submitted 6 days ago • 56 comments

Doug Ford crowing about spending $1.3B on colleges and universities and $1.8B on healthcare. Oddly, he opts to not mention the $2.3B he’s spending on a private spa in Toronto.

submitted 6 days ago • 25 comments

If Doug has spent all these billions why does everything still suck???

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

blue shaded area is covid-attributable mortality in Ontario...deaths that wouldn't have occurred without covid. Around 3.5% of deaths in Ontario since 2019 (to March 2024) are covid-attributable (would not have happened without covid).

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

Doug ford is counting on you to stay home. Make a plan to vote in an advance poll in your riding! ADVANCE VOTING Thursday, Feb. 20, Friday, Feb. 21 and Saturday, Feb. 22 10am- 8 p.m. Find your voting location at www.elections.on.ca/en.html

submitted 7 days ago • 14 comments

Are you worried about Elon Musk using the X platform to interfere in our election? I need you to contact Elections Canada to keep the pressure on. All the information you need is in my latest piece for Substack. Contact info at the bottom: substack.com/home/post/p-...

submitted 11 days ago • 142 comments

Funding has dropped by $1500 per student in #OntEd under the Ford government. Our schools are literally crumbling, and supports for student needs have been stripped away. Ontario students deserve better. Please vote accordingly.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Our #Ontario public healthcare system is at the heart of who we are as Canadians. How much of it is Doug Ford selling off to US investors? #VoteFordOut #ONpoli

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

🍁 Participants Needed! 🍁 We’re looking for undergraduate students across Canada to complete a 30-minute anonymous survey about their perspectives and experiences with health-inclusive learning. 🔗: bit.ly/edu-ca-survey (Reposting again for visibility)

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

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Top 5 Disease Related Causes of Death in California. Heart Disease : 65,471 Cancer : 59,503 COVID-19 : 44,540 Stroke : 18,364 Alzheimer’s Disease : 16,911 One of these was at zero five years ago (as of date of this post). Source: www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressro...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Please share this post with undergraduate university students in Canada 🍁 Study Title: Student Perspectives on Health-Inclusive Learning in Response to Infectious Disease Transmission and Additional Health-Related Challenges Please see the poster and link for more details. 🔗: bit.ly/edu-ca-survey

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

The NIH announced it will slash billions of dollars of support to universities and research centers. This is one of the biggest attacks on science we have ever seen. It could dismantle the biomedical research system, shut down clinical trials, and halt development of treatments.

submitted 16 days ago • 107 comments

New study in Nature finds no such thing as natural immunity to covid after the arrival of omicron. Pre omicron, infection provided 80% protection against re-infection one year later. This falls to under 5% at one year with omicron

submitted 17 days ago • 23 comments

Hallway Medicine. Endless Wait Times. Overworked Staff. Ontario’s Healthcare System is Facing It’s ‘Worst Crisis’ Ever. ‘Healthcare in Ontario has never been in such disarray’, experts say pressprogress.ca/hallway-medi...

submitted 17 days ago • 25 comments

Please share this post with undergraduate university students in Canada 🍁 Study Title: Student Perspectives on Health-Inclusive Learning in Response to Infectious Disease Transmission and Additional Health-Related Challenges Please see the poster and link for more details. 🔗: bit.ly/edu-ca-survey

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

My daughter and I spoke with @flannerydean.bsky.social about our concerns about poor air quality in schools and on school buses for her piece in @thenarwhal.ca. Such an excellent read for anyone interested in a deep dive! PS Hey @aranethome.bsky.social you're welcome for the free publicity 😉

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

H5N1 strain that had B.C. teen on life-support found in Nevada cows www.cbc.ca/news/health/... 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁

submitted 18 days ago • 7 comments

This is a very concerning development: H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b, genotype D1.1 detected in dairy cattle. The D1.1 genotype may be connected to more severe disease in humans. www.aphis.usda.gov/news/program...

submitted 19 days ago • 149 comments

Covid associated with acceleration of coronary atherosclerosis and developing high-risk plague, adverse cardiovascular events, by serial CCTA in over 800 participants and controls. pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/...

submitted 20 days ago • 23 comments

Could Bird Flu Become Airborne? Scientists were slow to recognize COVID's airborne spread. Some are trying to get ahead of bird flu. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/h... @carlzimmer.com 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

His PR ppl would be unhappy if we start calling him 'long-time Trump supporter Doug Ford' "Ford had been supportive of Trump in past public comments before he was elected Ontario premier, but maintained during the 2024 presidential election he would be happy with whichever candidate won." #OnPoli

submitted 20 days ago • 12 comments

Canadian COVID Forecast: Feb 1-14, 2025 SEVERE: ON VERY HIGH: CAN, AB, MB, North, QC HIGH: BC, NB, NL, NS, PEI, SK MODERATE: none About 1 in 42 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

submitted 21 days ago • 25 comments

Now ban Cybertrucks and all Tesla sales.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Excellent. BREAKING NEWS: Ontario rips up $100M Starlink contract ahead of U.S. tariffs

submitted 21 days ago • 7 comments

'COVID-19 Had Worst Disease Outcomes Among Respiratory Viruses' 'With COVID-19 joining the flu and RSV in the respiratory virus season collective, researchers have since put a greater focus on how these viruses impact patients...' www.drugtopics.com/view/covid-1...

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“Product of Canada” vs “Made in Canada” claims: 🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦 Product of Canada: - 98% threshold of Canadian content. Made in Canada: - 51% threshold of Canadian content; must indicate imported content. For both, the last substantial transformation of the product must be in Canada.

submitted 22 days ago • 8 comments

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals. Take a look. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

submitted 23 days ago • 604 comments

“Metformin reduces the risk of Long COVID or Death over 6 months in an Emulated Target Trial of Primarily Omicron-infected Adults without Diabetes or Prediabetes: a New-User, Active-Comparator Analysis Using the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) Electronic Health Record Database.”

submitted 22 days ago • 12 comments

Great stuff from @nicktsergas.ca on Alberta’s terrible, horrible, very bad Covid report www.importantcontext.news/p/a-canadian...

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

By now you've seen a dozen headlines about a dubious COVID report from the Alberta government that's full of junk science. If you click on any of them, let it be this one. My latest: substack.com/home/post/p-...

submitted 23 days ago • 30 comments

A snap election has been called by Doug Ford, causing a lot of confusion. Election Day is Feb 27. You can vote now with a write-in ballot at your local election office: voterinformationservice.elections.on.ca/en/election/.... You can also register to mail in your ballot at votebymail.elections.on.ca

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

#Ontario #wastewater graph updated with Jan 19 data - London data updated: wwater.ca/Ontario (Kingston, Peel, Toronto updated 2 days ago) - Also updated: BC, MB, NB, NS, PEI, SK, YT wwater.ca Source: health-infobase.canada.ca/wastewater/

submitted 24 days ago • 5 comments

The plague has hit r/kitchener www.reddit.com/r/kitchener/...

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

Victorian Department of Health advice - 31.1.25 1/6

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

Bird flu is a big problem here but isn't affecting our egg prices (yet). Our farms are smaller and more decentralized than in the US, meaning we have more of them, per-capita. The scale of factory farms in the US is incomprehensible. 1/4 🧵

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