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❤️💧🌳🦉🐝🦍🐋🦌☮️ 🍉she/her settler on treaty 29 territory Respectfully Residing on Turtle Island
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Simon Evans
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NEW ANALYSIS: China's CO2 has now been 'flat or falling' for 21 months * Down in 2025 * Still below Mar 2024 * Clean energy wave a key factor If this is China's peak (TBC) it's the climate story of the century so far…
www.carbonbrief.org/...
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Being Left Behind Enjoyer
about 19 hours ago
🔭🧪 Are you interested in having a night sky? (Like at all?) File comments with the FCC telling them to deny permission to Starlink for “a million satellites” and to Reflect Orbital for their giant sunlight mirror in space. The American Astronomical Society has info on how 👇
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How to Submit Comments on Satellite Applications to the FCC
Step-by-step guide for submitting comments on satellite applications to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
https://aas.org/posts/advocacy/2026/02/how-submit-comments-satellite-applications-fcc
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Greenpeace Canada
1 day ago
Evaporate.
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Iris Gorfinkel, M.D.
1 day ago
Planning a PREGNANCY? Make sure you're IMMUNE to MEASELS BEFORE you conceive. OUTCOMES of maternal measles infections: 🏥 4 in 5 hospitalized 🧸 1 in 4 premature birth 😰 1 in 5 pregnancy loss / fetal death
www.cmaj.ca/content/197/...
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Pregnant and bearing the burden of measles outbreaks in Canada
[See related article at www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.250606][1] In this issue of CMAJ , Science and colleagues summarize the latest information on the management of measles exposures in pregna...
https://www.cmaj.ca/content/197/22/E627
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CAAD_Coalition
1 day ago
💡How is corporate lobbying reshaping EU rules on health, chemicals and deregulation? Learn more via
@corporateeurope.org
corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/r...
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REACHing out | Corporate Europe Observatory
Industry’s spin and privileged access to the highest levels of the Commission, alongside the current EU hostility to new green rules and mania for deregulation, appear to have fatally undermined a key...
https://corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/reaching-out
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Larry Neufeld
4 days ago
Our blindness to whiteness
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Our blindness to whiteness
David Andersson
https://open.substack.com/pub/thetransnational/p/our-blindness-to-whiteness?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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Michael Le Page
6 days ago
At a 2022 UN biodiversity meeting countries agreed to halve the "overall risks" of pesticides by 2030 but failed to say what this means 🧪 Now a measure of the risks of pesticides has been developed - and they are increasing in almost every country
www.newscientist.com/article/2514...
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The toxic burden of pesticides is growing all around the world
Pesticides are becoming more toxic and just about every country is using more of them year after year, despite a UN target to halve the overall risk by 2030
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2514439-the-toxic-burden-of-pesticides-is-growing-all-around-the-world/
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The Tyee
9 days ago
The purpose of Alberta’s Health Statutes Amendment Act is to destroy public health care as we know it. Not just in Alberta, but throughout Canada, by legislating two-tier health care.
@djclimenhaga.bsky.social
writes.
#abpoli
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How Alberta Plans to Kill Public Health Care Across Canada | The Tyee
A new law opens the door for two-tier care that would destroy medicare.
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/02/03/Albertas-Plan-To-Kill-Health-Care/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial
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Parksy
11 days ago
canadahealthwatch.ca...
Take a read. A national call to action. "Governments at every level can no longer ignore the consequences of inaction." ... "Failing to act is not neutrality. It is a decision."
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Deaths in ER waiting rooms are a policy choice
Sometimes they make the news. Most of the time, they don’t.
https://canadahealthwatch.ca/2026/02/01/deaths-in-er-waiting-rooms-are-a-policy-choice
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Nina Lakhani
9 days ago
Two @HRW employees who make up the organization’s entire Israel and Palestine team are stepping down from their positions after leadership blocked a report that deems Israel’s denial of Palestinian refugees the right of return a “crime against humanity”.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
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Human Rights Watch researchers resign after report on Palestinian right of return blocked
The organization claims the report, which finds Israel’s denial of the right of return is a crime against humanity, is ‘paused pending further analysis and research’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/03/human-rights-watch-researchers-resign-palestine?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Middle East Monitor
10 days ago
Hundreds of former EU officials call for stronger action against Israel
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Hundreds of former EU officials call for stronger action against Israel
Hundreds of former EU and member state ministers, ambassadors and senior officials have called on the European Union to take “robust and sustained action” to increase pressure on Israel…
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260202-hundreds-of-former-eu-officials-call-for-stronger-action-against-israel/
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Denise Balkissoon
13 days ago
Reminder: journalists get arrested in Canada too. In fact, The Narwhal is in court right now challenging the RCMP for arresting photojournalist Amber Bracken. Our editor-in-chief,Carol Linnitt, testifies today and Monday, and court is open to the public if you're in Vancouver.
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David J.
12 days ago
Excellent read on the contagion of AI and how ”zombie citations“ are a form of ”epistemological pollution“.
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Danyaal Raza
16 days ago
No free passes. No matter who the PM is.
#BetterMedicare
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Emergency protection for
#Wasaga
beach’s
#PipingPlovers
#Ontario
ecojustice.ca/file/emergen...
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Emergency protection for Wasaga beach’s Piping Plovers
Petition calls for urgent action under Species at Risk Act to protect critical habitat of the Piping PLOVERS at Wasaga Beach
https://ecojustice.ca/file/emergency-protection-for-wasaga-beachs-piping-plovers/
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉
18 days ago
An emerging model is quietly turning Canadian patient medical records, and patients themselves, into lucrative commercial assets – often without patients’ explicit knowledge or consent.
healthydebate.ca/2026/01/topi...
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The quiet commercialization of primary care records - Healthy Debate
An emerging model is quietly turning Canadian patient medical records, and patients themselves, into lucrative commercial assets – often without patients' explicit knowledge or consent.
https://healthydebate.ca/2026/01/topic/the-quiet-commercialization-of-primary-care-records/
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Diana Chan McNally
29 days ago
I cannot stress enough that homelessness is caused by policy levers primarily at the provincial level. And AMO's new report shows it: homelessness in Ontario rose 8% last year, with 85,000 people becoming homeless. 20,000 were youth and children. Horrifying.
globalnews.ca/news/1161124...
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Nearly 85K people homeless in Ontario, up 8% in 1 year: report | Globalnews.ca
Homelessness is getting worse across Ontario with an estimated 85,000 people who were without a home in 2025, a new report from Ontario's municipalities shows.
https://globalnews.ca/news/11611244/ontario-homelessness-report/
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Winnipeg Free Press
19 days ago
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s passionate speech to global leaders last week was simply ironic.
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PM’s rallying cry exuded passion — and irony
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s passionate speech to global leaders last week was simply ironic.
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2026/01/24/pms-rallying-cry-exuded-passion-and-irony
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"Advocate now for better funding for staffing and supplies. This is on the provincial government and will only get worse with increased privatization."
#OnHealth
#HealthCare
#HealthCareForPeopleNotProfit
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Committee to Protect Journalists
21 days ago
🚨 CPJ condemns the harsh 12-18 year prison sentence handed down to Philippine journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio after she was found guilty of financing terrorism. We call on authorities to immediately free her and stop targeting journalists. Read more:
cpj.org/2026/01/cpj-...
#FreeFrenchieMaeCumpio
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Amnesty Canada
21 days ago
Join us for a meaningful evening of solidarity and creativity as we make Valentine cards to send to our Prime Minister and our Member of Parliament, calling for justice and equity for First Nations children 🗓 Jan 27th ⏰ 6:30–8:30 pm 📍 Amnesty International Toronto Office
amnesty.ca/event/cards-...
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Canadian Centre for Housing Rights (CCHR)
21 days ago
Thousands of people in Ontario are living in encampments, facing unsafe and unstable conditions every day. According to the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO)’s 2025 Homelessness Report Update, nearly 2,000 encampments now exist across Ontario, a 43% increase since 2023.
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Canadian Dimension
24 days ago
As anti-Indigenous politics intensify in Canada, the far-right is weaponizing residential school misinformation to undermine truth and reconciliation. What appear as isolated historical “debates” are part of a coordinated strategy to erode confidence in Indigenous testimony and survivor truth.
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Confronting the far-right’s war on reconciliation
As anti-Indigenous politics intensify in Canada, the far-right is weaponizing residential school misinformation to undermine truth and reconciliation. As professor and author Sean Carleton explains, w...
https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/confront-the-far-rights-war-on-reconciliation
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Leonard Verwey 🇨🇦🍁🌻 🇺🇦
26 days ago
I chipped in to the
@PressProgress.ca
legal defence so journalists can keep holding the powerful to account. This case could set a chilling precedent across Canada. If you can, please donate and share.
pressprogress.ca/journalism-defence/donate
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Defend Canadian Journalism – Donate Form
Support Our Journalism Defence Fund PressProgress is at the centre of what could be one of the biggest, longest and most expensive media trials in recent Canadian history. A former star candidate for ...
https://pressprogress.ca/journalism-defence/donate
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Katherine Eban
27 days ago
EXCLUSIVE: In my 1st
@rollingstone.com
story, internal
@hhsofficial.bsky.social
emails show how 2 Danish scientists accused of "questionable research practices" got a $1.6 million grant aligned w/ Sec. Kennedy's theories to study HepB vaccine in Guinea-Bissau:
rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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HHS Gave a $1.6 Million Grant to a Controversial Vaccine Study. These Emails Show How That Happened
Two Danish researchers faced accusations of “questionable research practices” as RFK Jr.’s top appointees made their study a “funding priority”
https://rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/danish-vaccine-study-emails-hhs-rfk-jr-1235498456/
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The Narwhal
about 1 month ago
Amber Bracken "isn’t alone in experiencing this kind of censorship or interference at the hands of police ... The Canadian Association of Journalists has documented multiple examples of how law enforcement across Canada too often arrest or detain journalists."
caj.ca/caj-stands-w...
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CAJ stands with Amber Bracken as landmark press freedom trial begins - Canadian Association of Journalists
It’s been more than four years since Canadian photojournalist Amber Bracken was unjustly arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) while on assignment for The Narwhal in northern British Co...
https://caj.ca/caj-stands-with-amber-bracken-as-landmark-press-freedom-trial-begins/
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Middle East Monitor
about 1 month ago
Palestinian surgeon Ghassan Abu Sittah defeats pro-Israel lawfare in landmark GMC ruling
www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260112-pal...
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Poverty, Food Insecurity, and Housing Instability Among US Health Care Workers url:
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Poverty, Food Insecurity, and Housing Instability Among US Health Care Workers
This study examines rates of poverty, food insecurity, and housing instability among US health care workers.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2840461?utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=content-shareicons&utm_content=article_engagement&utm_medium=social&utm_term=011126
about 1 month ago
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
about 1 month ago
Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.
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Katharine Hayhoe
about 1 month ago
After the US admin cancelled the $B Climate + Weather Disaster dataset,
@climatecentral.org
hired the scientists who ran it and set it back up. Now the 2025 numbers are in: it's 3rd highest year on record and highest year w/o land-falling hurricanes. More:
www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial)
about 1 month ago
By standing up to Abu Dhabi, Riyadh is reshaping the Middle East -
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/standing-abu-dhabi-riyadh-reshaping-middle-east
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By standing up to Abu Dhabi, Riyadh is reshaping the Middle East
The UAE and Israel, backed by the US, have long sown the seeds of civil war and conflict across the region. Will they finally be held accountable?
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/standing-abu-dhabi-riyadh-reshaping-middle-east
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Avi Lewis
about 1 month ago
This Sunday! Join me, Gabor Maté, Bill McKibben, Anjali Appadurai, Libby Davies, El Jones, Judy Rebick, Nas Yadollahi, and other guests for an All Day Outreach Party. Together, we’ll invite thousands of new members into the NDP before the Jan 28 deadline. RSVP:
https://avilewis.link/january-11
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Mike Fainzilber
about 1 month ago
The great “enshittification” 🧪
theconversation.com/the-5-stages...
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The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing
Academic publishing now shows the same decline that has hit social media and online marketplaces.
https://theconversation.com/the-5-stages-of-the-enshittification-of-academic-publishing-269714?utm_medium=article_native_share&utm_source=theconversation.com
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Titus Seilheimer
about 1 month ago
Historical PFAS trends in the Great Lakes using four decades of archived fish.
#GreatLakes
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Peter Murphy
about 1 month ago
"I look for the day when there will be an investigation on the role of Western corporate media in this genocide. Because this is not a genocide that has been just overlooked. This is a genocide that has been justified and enabled by the media." — Francesca Albanese
#GazaGenocide
#media
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Katharine Hayhoe
about 1 month ago
And if you’re thinking, “I’m just one person, what difference can I make?” my pinned post has you covered:
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Larry Neufeld
about 1 month ago
Francesca Albanese and the Lonely Road of Defiance
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Francesca Albanese and the Lonely Road of Defiance
The U.N. special rapporteur is one of the most courageous crusaders against the genocide in Gaza. Because of this, she is blacklisted and treated as if she is a terrorist.
https://open.substack.com/pub/chrishedges/p/francesca-albanese-and-the-lonely?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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Ecojustice
about 2 months ago
One of the most cited
#cancer
studies defending the safety of the world’s most used pesticide has officially been retracted, 25yrs later. There should be 🚫 no renewals, registrations, or amendments of glyphosate-based products ✅ an expedited special review of its toxicity 👉
https://bit.ly/4s2k1au
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Davide Mastracci
about 1 month ago
🚨After The Maple’s most-impactful year by far, we may miss our fundraising goal by a significant margin. Consider becoming a member (
action.readthemaple.com/2025-fundrai...
) and/or making a one-time donation (
readthemaple.com/donate/
) now to help ensure we can hire a new journalist next year.
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Support The Maple With A One-Time Donation
One-time donations help power our reporting, investigations, and the journalists behind them.
https://readthemaple.com/donate/
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Calgary Climate Hub
about 1 month ago
"Shifting public funds towards climate losers like
#LNG
, aka
#FossilGas
& of course the great
#CarbonCapture
boondoggle are policies that largely serve Alberta's FOREIGN OWNED
#BigOil
businesses, many of which are American & there's nothing very
#ElbowsUp
about that, is there?"
#cdnpoli
#MarkCarney
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Leila Belkora PhD, astrophysics
about 2 months ago
Great journalism with real-world implications. And it ends with a simple but accurate quote: “Many people are unaware of the true nature of lead. They don’t understand the danger.” 🧪 gift article
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/w...
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Nigeria Closes Factories Linked to U.S. Auto Industry Amid Poisoning Inquiry
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/world/africa/nigeria-lead-factory-closings.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-U8.Rqv3.IHDJOIzGo_VV&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Ben Williamson
about 2 months ago
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
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Mike Fainzilber
about 2 months ago
“I’m imagining an instructor somewhere making a syllabus with ChatGPT, assigning reading from books that don’t exist. But the students don’t notice, because they are asking ChatGPT to summarize the book or write the essay.” 🧪
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-chatbot-journal-research-fake-citations-1235485484/
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Scott McGrath
about 2 months ago
🧪 Over half of researchers now use AI for peer review, often violating confidentiality protocols. As third-party tools risk data security, publishers are moving toward closed internal systems to safely integrate AI assistance.
#AcademicSky
#PeerReview
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More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review — often against guidance
A survey of 1,600 academics found that more than 50% have used artificial-intelligence tools while peer reviewing manuscripts.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04066-5
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Steve Valeika DVM PhD
2 months ago
Tragic report of rabies via organ transplantation. From an epi perspective, this event features two very infrequent transmission events. Aside from the incredible rarity of human to human transmission, the initial human infection also had some uncommon features regarding acquisition. 🧵
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Human-to-Human Rabies Transmission via Solid Organ...
This report describes the public health response to a patient who died after transplantation with an organ from a donor with undiagnosed rabies.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/74/wr/mm7439a1.htm
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Michael Coyle
2 months ago
it's hard to explain how important this document is for Canadian history. The Charter made the Hudson's Bay Company the actual government of the land. It's equivalent to the foundation of the early American colonies
news.westernu.ca/2025/04/impo...
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Mother Jones
2 months ago
Already this year, anti-vaccine activists have downplayed the risks of measles and polio. Now, they’re adding whooping cough to the list, even as cases of the disease surge, killing at least ten babies over the past two years.
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The new CDC leader’s whooping cough scandal
“It continues to be appalling, the type of people RFK Jr. is putting into high-level positions in CDC.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/12/cdc-rfk-whooping-cough-louisiana-ralph-abraham/
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Middle East Monitor
2 months ago
Microsoft faces legal action over role in Israel's genocide in Gaza
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Microsoft faces legal action over role in Israel’s genocide in Gaza
Microsoft is facing mounting legal and ethical scrutiny for its alleged complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza. A coalition of legal and human rights organisations has issued a formal notice…
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251211-microsoft-faces-legal-action-over-role-in-israels-genocide-in-gaza/
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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
2 months ago
Bill C-9 is not actually about preventing hate crimes—it is likely to be used to target the Palestine solidarity movement, leading civil liberties experts say. By Changiz Varzi
#cdnpoli
@policyalternatives.ca
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The “Combatting Hate Act” is part of a wave of anti-protest legislation in Canada - CCPA
On September 19, amidst a flurry of other new federal legislation, Justice Minister Sean Fraser introduced Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act. The act, according to the press release announcing its int...
https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/the-combatting-hate-act-is-part-of-a-wave-of-anti-protest-legislation-in-canada/
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Desperate farmers whose livelihoods depend on subsides protest. "Greece’s farming sector has also been hit this year by an outbreak of goat and sheep pox that led to a mass cull of livestock."
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