"If people have good internet options based in Canada, then they don’t need to rely on an American billionaire-owned company."

Today, we signed on to @friendsofmedicare.bsky.social's letter urging Prime Mark Carney & Health Minister Marjorie Michel to use their power to save Canada's public health care by enforcing the Canada Health Act against Alberta's Bill 11. Read more here: www.friendsofmedicare.org/50_orgs_cana...

Since the inception of public hospitals in #Ontario, no government has undertaken privatization like this. #Protest locations & contact info ⬇️ #onpoli #dougford #healthcare

As hospital deficits mount, @atulkapur.bsky.social (@uottawa.ca) says the issue isn’t a lack of solutions, but investing in what evidence shows works. Tonight at 8pm with Natalie Mehra (@onthealthcoalition.bsky.social) and @jeyantvo.bsky.social | Producer: @carrletta.bsky.social

Mark Carney has been in power for a year. His government's stated policy is to minimize regulation on AI. He rushed an AI consultation that privileged business interests, not Canadian values. Experts in its social effects were sidelined into a consultation that was summarized by AI.

In Dec. 2020 MP Marilyn Gladu submitted a petition opposing the Bill to ban conversion therapy in Canada.With only 169 signatures in hand and her assurance, she had the support of the majority of church's in her riding, she did not. Church leaders in Sarnia-Lambton Bkejwanong set the record strait.

Many words have been written and spoken about Stephen Lewis and his great achievements and battles. Not too many have noted that the last cause for which he took to the streets to demonstrate was the rights of the Palestinian people. #canpoli

How Does Canada's Level of Democracy Stack Up Globally? via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Ontario’s Endangered Species Act is officially dead. Here’s what that means: thenarwhal.ca/ontario-spec...

In 2022, a petition to ban EU trade with settlements fell short of reaching the 1M signatures threshold over 1 year A new one demanding full suspension of the 🇪🇺-🇮🇱 Association Agreement is nearing 700K - in less than 3 months: eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#...

When westerners talk about Buddhism as sacrosanct, I ask if they know anything about Buddhist extremist violence in Myanmar or Sri Lanka. "Rohingya have been called the most persecuted minority. They are stateless, denied citizenship in their own country despite living there for centuries"

"This is facilitated by a global diplomatic umbrella that perversely redefines the victim as the aggressor and the executioner as the victim."

Thank you to Jodine for catching the fact that my URL-shortening workaround for the Meta news ban in Canada is no longer working on Instagram. So much for my new promo post 😅 Sign up here if you haven’t already! pressprogress.ca/pulsecheck/

Any death sentences imposed under this law would constitute a violation of the right to life and, when imposed against Palestinians from the Occupied Palestinian Territory, may also amount to war crimes. 🔗amnesty.ca/human-rights-news/israel-opt-newly-adopted-death-penalty-law-must-be-repealed

Prime Minister Mark Carney jokingly says he ‘can outlast’ a mercury-affected Grassy woman calling for justice on decades of toxic dumping. Hear more on APTN News Brief:

The Financial Accountability Office estimates that $6.4b in new spending is required in 2026-27 just to maintain 2024-25 service levels But budget 2026 only adds $3.4b in additional spending, which leaves the health care system short by $3b #onpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

I'm late to sharing this excellent, good news story, based on a @cmaj.ca study. The key to cutting wait times, in half? Publicly-funded, team-based surgical care using centralized referral pathways. This is exactly what we need more of. www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

"the 1977 article had been written by cancer researcher Francis J.C. Roe. Roe, who died in 2007, worked for Royal Marsden Hospital and the Tobacco Research Council, but spent most of his career as an independent consultant."

The Ontario budget neglects health care by delivering real spending cuts An increase of 0.5% falls far below the minimum 4% that is needed to maintain current service levels Find our budget take attached #onpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Our @policyalternatives.ca analysis unfortunately sums up this budget “It’s a time of plenty for private health care while public hospitals starve,” said senior researcher Andrew Longhurst in a reference to Premier Ford’s plan to put more cataract surgeries, hip and knee replacements into clinics.

The budget includes money for infrastructure, highways, tax cuts — and on page 139, a plan to make government information harder to access.

My latest:

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

"Disney is pulling out of its billion-dollar investment in OpenAI entirely. Other efforts to slopify Hollywood look underwhelming, appear to have been quietly shelved, or have utterly failed to gather any audience whatsoever."

#IPCC opens its 64th Session in Bangkok, Thailand Nearly 300 delegates representing IPCC member governments & observer organisations from around the world have gathered at UNESCAP this week to advance IPCC’s work in the seventh assessment cycle. 🔗 bit.ly/IPCC64

New in Perspectives: Emma-Lou Caressa explains how Canada has been outpaced on achieving equal representation for women in political life, and shows how to fix Canada's underrepresentation problem without creating a new one. 🔗 perspectivesjournal.ca/fix-canada-representation/

Four young Canadians are suing CPPIB over its alleged mismanagement of the climate risks threatening their retirement. Wet'suwet'en Hereditary Chief Na'Moks stands with them ❤️ Learn more about the case 👉 https://bit.ly/47eOHg1

Against the backdrop of the war in the Middle East, there is escalation on so many fronts. This from UN human rights experts about spiraling human rights violations in the West Bank.

Institutional medicine's widespread culture of dishonesty has been one of the most shocking takeaways from the pandemic. I knew there was a problem with bullying and authoritarianism, but the sheer scale and normalization of manipulation of science is breathtaking. #medsky #scisky #polisky

Join me in support of a strong Global #PlasticsTreaty that cuts plastic production and use so that we can finally turn off the tap and end the age of plastic - for our communities, our country, and our planet. #BreakFreeFromPlastic act.gp/3G0t34p

I did my best to not yell about how ridiculous everything is right now and how hard it is to take anything seriously when we're all supposed to bet our future on magic beans rabble.ca/podcast/the-...

“In the United States, a system where you have private health insurance, you have entire billing departments dedicated to billing multiple insurance plans” he said. “We have none of that [in Canada] and that makes our [health] system efficient.” @alonghurst.bsky.social www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

London, San Francisco and Beijing achieve ‘remarkable reductions’ in #airpollution - Cycle lanes, electric cars and other interventions have helped 19 global cities slash levels of pollutants by more than 20% www.theguardian.com/environment/...

NEW: Carney Government Outsourced Consultation To Big Business Lobby Group “We think it’s a bit strange that this labour-focused consultation is being run by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce.” Latest from @emmapaling.bsky.social www.readthemaple.com/carney-gover...

“They tell us they have 880 tons of melted fuel, and, so far, they have managed to remove a piece the size of a grain of rice. I estimate it will take 100 years or more. Future generations will be cleaning up Fukushima long after we’re dead.” #NoNukes thebulletin.org/2026/03/fuku...

As modern warfare weaponizes the very air we breathe, chemists should leverage their skills and knowledge to detect, neutralize, and reclaim toxic atmospheres in the world’s most devastated conflict zones. #chemsky 🧪

PC riding association pays for ad criticizing TCDSB trustee

“Doctors across Canada are deeply concerned about the Alberta government’s proposal to expand private health care” www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...

‘We have survived too much:’ UN presses Canada to explain discrimination in Indian Act’s second-generation cut-off www.aptnnews.ca?p=284718

I don't care if a poll shows the entire working class is against trans people (they aren't) I will never ever ever not support the bodily autonomy and human rights of trans people and any politician who is swayed by polling over their own conscience is a coward who should fuck off

"Both Smith and Koren were charismatic physicians whose charisma seemed to overshadow the fact that they were out of their depth when it came to doing forensic work" #MedSky

The opposition was loud when the Canadian government announced Bill C-5 and Ontario announced Bill 5. Scott McLeod, the Lake Huron regional chief for the Anishinabek Nation, has been a vocal critic of the legislation from the onset.

This is not just cursed, its monstrous. The digital resurrection of a historian who died in January of this year, all so Grammarly can get some more clicks and engagement from students and/or scholars and/or others. It feels so wrong on so many levels, these ghosts enslaved to AI forever

QTWTAI...it was a crap idea and always was. Electricity is so much more efficient than hydrogen. It's where buses are headed globally "If you look at the commercial and technical framework around hydrogen buses, they just don't work'.. It was a house built on sand" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The government wouldn't give us a list of data centres seeking power in Ontario. So, we built one ourselves. What @rorywh.bsky.social and I found: at least 15 projects drawing a combined 2,202 MW: more electricity than 2 million homes. #OnPoli for @nationalobserver.com 🧵

A parallel private-pay system will worsen access to publicly funded surgery /via @cmaj.ca www.cmaj.ca/content/198/...

This week Pierre Poilievre made a bunch of sketchy claims about people claiming refugee status in Canada. So we fact- checked him using research from the Migrant Rights Network. Please watch and share our latest @breachmedia.ca www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS2F...

#AlgomaCentral to aquire #LowerLakesTowing fleet. #GreatLakes #ShippingNews maritimemag.com/en/algoma-ce...

Do you know why this is dangerous? Because this law states that you can be jailed for six months, fined $10K, or both if you are merely *suspected* of having or using drugs. People will absolutely be profiled — and not just homeless people. www.thestar.com/news/gta/dou...