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Struggling along. Introvert.
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My IRL friends call me Chris
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Thank you,
@jeffreybgray.bsky.social
. "Proposed amendments to Ontarioâs freedom of information law would make the province the most secretive in Canada, experts say, despite Premier Doug Fordâs assurances that they would be in line with legislation in the rest of the country."
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Tara Moriarty
2 days ago
Canadian COVID Forecast: Mar 28 - Apr 10, 2026 SEVERE: none VERY HIGH: PEI HIGH: CAN, AB, MB, NB, North, NS, ON, QC, SK MODERATE: BC, NL About 1 in 84 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
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The Beaverton
2 days ago
Editorial: Hereâs why Avi Lewis is the wrong choice to lead the NDP â by a centrist Liberal
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Editorial: Here's why Avi Lewis is the wrong choice to lead the NDP - by a centrist Liberal
By Martin Kearns, man who has never voted NDP once in his life This weekend the NDP chose Avi Lewis as their leader. And as much as it pains me, a Liberal commentator who loves Mark Carney and would n...
https://thebeaverton.com/2026/03/editorial-heres-why-avi-lewis-is-the-wrong-choice-to-lead-the-ndp-by-a-centrist-liberal/
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đ¨đŚJoe Vipondđ¨đŚ
3 days ago
from the UK Covid inquiry.
#covidisairborne
Stop ignoring airborne transmission of viruses, medical world. similar to the finding of the 2007 SARS Campbell Commission. If we fail this a third time, going forward, we are truly unable to learn.
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Steffani Cameron đ¨đŚ
3 days ago
The
@billytalent.com
accepted the Humanitarian Award at the Junos here in Canada tonight, and had some words to say about the state of the world and Canada.
www.tiktok.com/@cbcmusic/vi...
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@Billy Talent accepts the Humanitarian Award at the Juno Awards Gala. #JUNOS #BillyTalent
TikTok video by CBC Music
https://www.tiktok.com/@cbcmusic/video/7622491939098823956
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Timothy Caulfield
4 days ago
đ¨ So so so much "grey market peptides" noise! A legit "wellness" hack or unproven and potentially harmful? My take on CTV News: Red flags raised by influencers pushing unregulated peptides
youtu.be/89uXEKZ8apM?...
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Red flags raised by influencers pushing unregulated peptides | Deception Decoded
YouTube video by CTV News
https://youtu.be/89uXEKZ8apM?si=G4XzBZBg3H0GJMSS
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Kelly
4 days ago
No matter how much Covid mutates or what variant is prevalentâŚ. Respirators will still work! A good quality mask like an N95 gives you excellent protection against airborne viruses like Covid. Itâs never too late to mask up. Every infection delayed or prevented is a win.
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A New, Highly Mutated COVID Variant Called 'Cicada' Is Spreading in the US. Know These Symptoms
The heavily mutated new BA.3.2 COVID-19 variant, aka "cicada," is circulating in at least 25 U.S. states, the CDC said. What to know about its spread and symptoms.
https://www.today.com/health/coronavirus/new-covid-variant-ba32-cicada-symptoms-2026-rcna265088
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Sasha Fury
5 days ago
I can't think of another time in my life when a Canadian government could produce war-mongering propaganda and it would be widely tolerated or applauded. Even if Canadian peacekeeping was not exactly what it was sold as, people at least believed in peacekeeping.
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy
5 days ago
The Human Cost of Failing to Name COVID âAirborneâ "Itâs difficult to know why the word âairborneâ is avoided so consistently, but the impact is clear: without that word, occupational health and safety requirements can be evaded."
#COVIDisAirBorne
#COVIDisNotOver
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The Human Cost of Failing to Name COVID âAirborneâ | The Tyee
Safety laws are being sidestepped. One doctorâs nightmare shows how health-care workers pay the price.
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2026/03/27/Human-Cost-Failing-Name-COVID-Airborne/
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Sasha Fury
5 days ago
Such sovereignty! Such elbows! âCanada loaning millions to proposed Nunavik rare earth mining project linked to Trump White Houseâ
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Canada backs rare earth mine in Nunavik with close ties to Trump White House â CBC News
Amid Prime Minister Mark Carneyâs calls that the Canada-U.S. relationship is ruptured, Ottawa has committed $175-million to a mining project in northern Quebec whose major U.S. investor is closely lin...
https://apple.news/AhP3yeUCNSG2H7sNZW4kYkQ
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Keith Muise
11 days ago
I kicked off fundraising around 18 months ago to... 1. Raise Awareness for Covid and Long Covid. 2. Provide education assistance to families. 3. Provide advocacy assistance. 4. Advocate for education, mitigation, and air filtration.
gofund.me/c4dae9171
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Clare Blackwood
6 days ago
Mark Carney is really going on social media and condemning Iran for its "unprovoked attacks on the region" with his whole chest, and I just think we should all mail him pictures of the bombed Iranian children's school until he gets the fucking picture.
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Kimiko Shibata
6 days ago
Wow⌠just wow.
www.pentictonherald.ca/spare_news/a...
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Orange âEvery Child Mattersâ shirts banned from Queenâs Park legislature
A northern Ontario MPP submitted a formal complaint to Queenâs Parkâs house speaker on Thursday after security wouldnât allow observers into the gallery wearing an âEvery Child Mattersâ t-shirt, and
https://www.pentictonherald.ca/spare_news/article_5aa2ef28-1918-55a2-8a5e-b4574b83a3f3.html
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Rachel Gilmore
6 days ago
Trans rights have been under attack, viciously, for a while now. I think we need to have a talk about just how intentional all of that is â how these narratives are being used to drive a wedge through our society, so specific actors can profit and fundraise off of our misplaced rage:
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My IRL friends call me Chris
6 days ago
WHEN is the Carney government going to issue a travel warning? This little girl is 7 years old and autistic. And she's in that hellish immigration jail in Texas. What is Mark Carney's red line that will result in any kind of warning to Canadians about the United States?
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Robyn Maynard
8 days ago
declassified RCMP files confirm Canada's domestic intelligence agency infiltrated and sought to disrupt legitimate political Indigenous organizations in the 1970s, in an extensive program of covert surveillance, informants and countersubversion
www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
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How RCMP spies infiltrated the 1970s Indigenous rights movement | CBC News
A CBC Indigenous investigation has found the Cold War-era RCMP Security Service had a widespread and intrusive surveillance operation targeting at least 30 legitimate Indigenous political organization...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/rcmp-spies-1970s-indigenous-rights-9.7134112
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Citizen.Coping
11 days ago
Thompson's hematologist at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Robert A. Brodsky, published a study revealing that the research now has an overall 94% disease-free survival rate. "[A cure is now] available to the majority, almost the entirety, of sickle cell patients.â
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#BlackSky
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Woman Diagnosed with Sickle Cell Disease at 2-Months-Old Wakes Up with No Pain for the First Time in Her Life After New Treatment
Tatyana Thompson, who was diagnosed with sickle cell disease when she was 2 months old, was successfully cured of the disease after she participated in Johns Hopkins research on sickle cell treatment.
https://people.com/woman-diagnosed-with-sickle-cell-disease-at-2-months-old-wakes-up-with-no-pain-for-the-first-time-in-her-life-after-new-treatment-11931453
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Tania J. Spencer
11 days ago
1/ "The pandemic has been deliberately erased from public consciousness by the political establishment, even as the virus continues to spread, disable and kill on a mass scale":
www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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The COVID-19 pandemic at 6 years: Mass death, debilitation and media silence
As the sixth anniversary of the WHO pandemic declaration passes with total media silence, wastewater data, excess death estimates and new research on Long COVID reveal an ongoing public health catastr...
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/03/11/umur-m11.html?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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Ms. Misanthrope đşđ¸
12 days ago
Over 1,000 people killed in Lebanon since March 2 including 118 children and 40 healthcare workers. More than 2,584 wounded. Over one million people displaced, with more than 130,000 sheltering in collective sites. The UN has warned the bombardment may constitute war crimes.
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Emmett Macfarlane đ¨đŚ
12 days ago
The Carney government brings us destruction. A full-frontal assault on Indigenous peoples, the integrity of the tax collection system, foreign aid, and, apparently, the country's rail system, among many other things.
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đ¨đŚJoe Vipondđ¨đŚ
13 days ago
Will any of Canadaâs medical leaders read this? And then act? From the UK COVID inquiry released today
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Kelly
13 days ago
The ICE camps are not safe for any child⌠but theyâre particularly hard on kids with autism or disabilities. The noise. The over crowding. The lack of food, water & medical care. Theyâre holding a 7 year old autistic Canadian without due process. Boycott America. Itâs not safe for anyone:
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Seven-year-old Canadian girl with autism and mother detained by ICE in Texas
Mother and child held in notorious Rio Grande Valley detention centre despite presenting visa, family says
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/20/seven-year-old-canadian-girl-with-autism-and-mother-detained-by-ice-in-texas
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FuzzyWuzzy in Torontođ¨đŚ
13 days ago
Itâs the only one:
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VassB
15 days ago
Holy sh*t. Wab Kinew's government just made using data to increase prices an unfair business practice. This is historic for Canada. *Proposed bill bans suppliers from charging higher prices to certain consumers based on personalized or algorithmically determined information.
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Charles Keener
16 days ago
Iranian media says that a U.S.-Israeli strike killed 15 people at a factory in Isfahan. Iranâs Cultural Heritage and Tourism Ministry said Saturday that at least 56 museums and historic sites have been damaged. At least 1,348 civilians in Iran have been killed since the start of the war
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The Intercept
17 days ago
The group has been blocked twice from leaving the territory, with Israelâs border security officials citing a âsecurity assessmentâ without further explanation.
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T. Ryan Gregory đ¨đŚ
17 days ago
I'm old enough to remember when an E. coli outbreak in Walkerton (not an Indigenous community) led to an inquiry and province-wide changes in water safety standards. Meanwhile, many Indigenous communities *still* have boil water advisories after years or even decades.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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đŚ krisđťâââ
19 days ago
Meanwhile, in Florida⌠DeSantis ordered books about Native American history and Black history to be destroyed. đĄđ¤đ¤Ź
#Florida
#Desantis
#Fascism
#History
#BlackHistory
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LA Legault âď¸âđť
18 days ago
đ¨ Doug Ford amalgamating the conservation authorities will endanger Ontarioâs drinking water đ§, this is serious.
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Dr Noor Bari
18 days ago
#LongCOVIDAwarenessDay
Learning to wear a
#respie
when out and about seems like a big ask⌠but once you get in the habit, you hardly think about it at all. Prevention is still the best option. Youâll not miss your energy, tastebuds, ability to concentrate etc⌠until it is gone.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis
19 days ago
Did a story on what RFK Jr. believes and how it ties into what some are describing as "soft eugenics." We also interviewed
@bethmariem.bsky.social
who did a piece last year digging into his beliefs. You can listen here or wherever you get your podcasts
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How RFK, Jr.âs controversial beliefs are shaping Americansâ health
How Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.âs ideas about public healthâfrom vaccines to seed oilsâare shaping Americansâ health
https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/how-rfk-jr-s-controversial-ideas-are-shaping-americans-health/
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Elizabeth
19 days ago
"On March 15, supporters of people with long COVID, along with those raising awareness, will gather at Queenâs Park at 2 p.m., showing itâs never too late to care about COVID."
@teachrprecarity.bsky.social
www.thespec.com/opinion/cont...
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Why do progressives and justice advocates seem to not care about COVID?
Itâs still important to warn people about the dangers of COVID and make schools and workplaces safe, Andrew Wilkin says.
https://www.thespec.com/opinion/contributors/covid-health-equity/article_99897284-b9e6-5f12-ad0f-8e74aa814b04.html
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Julie S. Lalonde
19 days ago
I am begging my fellow Canadians to take a break for a second from obsessing about American corruption to focus on our home grown versions. Ford is a corrupt crony goon who has done countless shady backroom deals. He wants to remove one of our most powerful tools to hold him accountable. Fuck that!
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Ontario to introduce bill exempting Premier, cabinet from FOI requests
Governmentâs proposed changes follow its loss of court battle over call logs for Fordâs personal cellphone
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-ontario-freedom-of-information-requests-premier-cabinet/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky
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Jen St. Denis
20 days ago
A Canadian journalist documents a group of white nationalists whoâve been meeting at a gym in MontrĂŠal, unbeknownst to the owner of the business. What happens after the story comes out?
thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...
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The Fallout from Reporting on White Nationalism in Canada | The Tyee
Journalist Rachel Gilmore published an investigation in The Tyee. The men she unmasked showed up to intimidate her in person.
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/03/12/Fallout-Reporting-White-Nationalism-Canada/
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T. Ryan Gregory đ¨đŚ
22 days ago
Carney fans, rationalize away! "Though high rates of the disease persist among the nearby Indigenous communities, the Canadian government is weighing rules that may allow energy giants to release treated mining waste into the river system."
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/h...
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Cancer Haunts Neighbors of Canadaâs Oil Sands Wastelands
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/health/canada-oil-sands-fort-chipewyan-alberta.html
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My IRL friends call me Chris
23 days ago
Almost 90 people being cut. Canadian historian Adam Chapnick, a professor of defence studies at the Royal Military College of Canada: âI donât know how you justify this decision if you have any sort of commitment to history."
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J. Offir, PhD
23 days ago
More reporting on a multi-virus nasal vaccine: âImagine getting a nasal spray in the fall months that protects you from all respiratory viruses, including COVID-19, influenza, respiratory syncytial virus, and the common cold, as well as bacterial pneumonia and early spring allergens....That... 1/4
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv)
23 days ago
Over 1200 Iranians have been killed so far and 12000 are injured. 30% are children
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Christy Somos
23 days ago
Grateful that
@cstarnino.bsky.social
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@thewalrus.ca
approached me this weekend to re-print my original reporting and exclusive regarding Canadian involvement in Op. Southern Spear
thewalrus.ca/how-canada-i...
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How Canada Is Being Pulled into Americaâs War on âNarco-Terroristsâ | The Walrus
Military exchanges and intelligence links mean Ottawa may be closer to the lethal strikes than it admits
https://thewalrus.ca/how-canada-is-being-pulled-into-americas-war-on-narco-terrorists/
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Doctors Without Borders / MÊdecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
23 days ago
Did you see our segnent on Global News this weekend? Hear from our colleagues on how weâre responding in #Lebanon:
https://globalnews.ca/video/11719793/evacuations-in-lebanon-focus-for-humanitarian-organization-doctors-without-borders
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My IRL friends call me Chris
24 days ago
WHO is lobbying for this? âTundra swans pair for life and when one mate dies, the survivor can take years to find a new mate. Juveniles also stay with and depend on their parents for much of their first year of life, and during their first migration."
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Paris Marx
24 days ago
âEven masks are becoming difficult to find. This is a huge mistake. I ask those who have the ability, especially foreign media, to reflect on this situation. What are people supposed to do under these conditions? This is truly a crime against humanity.â
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âDark, like our futureâ: Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehranâs oil depots bombed
Residents report terror of smoke-filled city, from potentially toxic rain, air and water to food scarcity and difficulty of escape
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/08/dark-like-our-future-iranians-describe-scenes-of-catastrophe-after-tehrans-oil-depots-bombed
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Jen the Feisty Librarian
24 days ago
Anyone supporting the U.S. and Israel in this war is supporting ecological destruction, along with bombing of schools and hospitals. You donât get to pick and choose what parts of war you support.
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Fared Al Mahlool | ŮŘąŮŘŻ اŮŮ ŘŮŮŮ
24 days ago
March 8, 2026 - Tehran at sunrise today. But the sun is hidden behind a sky filled with smoke. After a night of intensive strikes on oil facilities, thick black clouds now hang over the city, turning morning into something that feels like night.
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CPAC TV
26 days ago
PM Mark Carney, speaking with media in Tokyo, Japan, responds to a reporterâs question about the possibility of Canadian military involvement in the Middle East.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia đ¨đŚđđ
26 days ago
A product sold at Canadian Costco locations is being recalled due to the presence of undeclared allergensâlayered mousse labelled âDelici Dubai Style Chocolate Dessert,â
#RECALL
#Canada
Affected items recalled listed in this article.
www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
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Chocolate product sold at Costco recalled in Canada
A chocolate mousse product sold at Canadian Costco locations is being recalled, a post on the store's customer service website says.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/chocolate-product-sold-at-costco-recalled-in-canada/
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Rachel Gilmore
27 days ago
Two white nationalists I exposed in a recent article showed up to try to intimidate me in person last night. This is a press freedom issue. Hereâs what happened:
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