I wondered the same thing. But with #ElonMusk one must always consider that the most nefarious ulterior motive is the correct one. Whatever that may be. In 🇨🇦, there is an endless barrage of malign foreign influence ops. Sadly, 🇺🇸 is now on par with 🇷🇺 in that regard. #cdnpoli #ableg

Go on, make this viral

Once a safe and effective vaccine exists for a disease, it becomes unethical to give participants a placebo in a clinical trial because you will be denying the control group protection that we know already works.

I wasn't born in Canada. I'm still Canadian, and not an iota less so than a Canadian born in Canada. Racist MAGAs on both sides of the border can't grasp this concept because their view of the world is rigid & blinkered. My place of birth and my ethnicity are irrelevant to my identity as a Canadian.

Same here. I occasionally run into people who are intensely hostile to me over it. Men & women, young, middle-aged & seniors; there's no specific pattern that I can see. 99.9% of the problem with masking is other people's deeply irrational reactions to what you choose to wear to protect yourself.

Complacency has destroyed the constitutional order, rule of law, freedom of speech, and freedom of movement in my country. Please don’t let this happen in yours.

An action-packed day today. 1. I was officially granted French citizenship by marriage. I'm now a dual citizen (Canadian-French). 2. Got my flu shot. I strongly recommend that you get it too; this winter's flu wave looks like a whopper. 1/4

Our winter vegetable garden is coming along well here in #Bourgogne #France. Loads of lettuce, bok choy, gai lan, mustard, Hakurei turnips, and other greens.

Folks, let them out themselves. Let them & their supporters raise the red flags of who they are and what they stand for. And as a community we then need to act accordingly. They own a small business boycott it. You own a small business ban them from entering. Contact employers about content 1/👇🏻

Key word: "regular" www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/clinica...

This needs to be shared far and wide. White supremacists hiding in plain sight in #🇨🇦. Maybe you know one of them. #canadasky #Cdnpoli #BC #fascism #democracy #racism

This is the enemy we (Canadians) fought in WW2. The call is now coming from inside the house—our house. On this Remembrance Day, don't stop with wearing a poppy. Write to your MP as the post suggests, to make it clear that this ideology will not be tolerated by real Canadians.

4/ And the white nationalist network is a threat. It is larger than it has ever been in Canada, and it’s time to do everything ethical, legal, and reasonable to stop it. Call your MP. Organize. Rally.

3/ We got photos of all of them and got to work finding their names. CBC verified our identifications and added two. By bringing in the CBC, we were able to reach a much larger audience to talk about the threat of white nationalism in Canada. Read CBC's reporting here:

1/ NEW: We identified 20 people who attended a white nationalist conference and, despite their efforts to keep it secret, caught another 30 people on film to identify in the future. Several MMA/combat sports instructors were discovered and their gyms have cut ties. 🧵👇

Two American white supremacists attacked a British family...in Britain. They've become increasingly brazen, and the rise of white nationalism in the UK, Canada and the rest of the Anglosphere is emboldening them to act like the whole world is their oyster.

Attention Canadians! Link to article asking for help identifying individuals attending a white supremacy event in British Columbia 🇨🇦

This is sobering “the white nationalist movement in Canada has never been larger.”

You've all heard of Schrodinger's immigrant: They simultaneously take your job and live off of benefits. Maple MAGAs nattering away on FB are blaming both newcomers for introducing measles (completely false) while bashing vaccines and refusing to vaccinate their kids. There must be a term for that.

#NeverForget that brave Canadians of all ethnicities, races, religions and genders fought fascism. For all of us. Don't ignore the reality that fascism goes hand in hand with white supremacy and is rising again. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

It’s bizarre to me that we don’t all know by now that we are all immigrants. We all came from somewhere at sometime . 🇨🇦

We can have a sober national conversation about how much immigration is suitable to meet our social and economic goals. But scapegoating immigrants for the state of housing and health care obscures the real causes of these crises and stokes resentment against vulnerable members of our communities.

This is why I want the "Covid-cautious community" to stop sharing posts from the likes of Taylor Lorenz etc. that claim vaccines have no effect on transmission. You just discourage more people from vaccinating and create a self-fulfilling prophecy. Instead, encourage folks to vaccinate *regularly*.

I still remember when ppl keep passing me up for canadian questions bc im not white like the other Canadians in the discord. Its kinda annoying

#CanadaSky, why isn't the quoted post getting more engagement? It's the elephant in the room—our room. If we don't push back, we'll lose our nation to them exactly like the Americans. Don't underestimate the threat. Write to your MP & MLA. Make some noise. Anything is better than polite silence.

#CanadaSky, why isn't the quoted post getting more engagement? It's the elephant in the room—our room. If we don't push back, we'll lose our nation to them exactly like the Americans. Don't underestimate the threat. Write to your MP & MLA. Make some noise. Anything is better than polite silence.

This factored into my recent decision to apply for French/EU citizenship. I am (and will continue to be) a proud Canadian citizen, but I'm also pragmatic and recognize there are unique threats that visible-minority Canadians like me must factor into our long-term planning. History always rhymes.

Yes the framing used seems overly negative against vaccines. A recent paper showed even better protection than that, for LP.8.1 vaccines against XFG etc. Wider deployment and uptake of the latest vaccines would have a significant impact on infection levels. threadreaderapp.com/thread/19829...

I'm also still masking in all indoor public spaces. This includes Airbnbs where the owner gives us a tour (unwanted!) of the place. Some get miffed that we view them as sources of potential contagion. Our desire to avoid illness (not only Covid but everything) overrides our desire to not offend.

👇👇👇 Why I've been getting 3 vaccines a year, each year, and trying to diversify my exposures as much as possible (e.g. JN.1, KP.2 and most recently LP.8.1). The fact that Covid vaccines aren't near-perfect (the way a measles vax is) is *precisely* why staying regularly updated is so important.

(3/3) I tell this story not to get a cookie for being a decent human, but rather to remind my fellow white/settler Canadians that we have so much work to do and that work is *our* responsibility. All instances of bigotry and hate must be met with swift responses if we want to eradicate this blight.

Our winter crop of greens is coming along well here in Burgundy 🇫🇷. I've always been fascinated by 4-season gardening using unheated greenhouses and crop covers, but it was nigh-on impossible in Dec, Jan, & Feb in SK. Often in Nov & Mar as well. However, we experimented a lot. Here, it's a breeze.

Seeing the usual Novavax vs mRNA vaccine discussions pop up on my feed. A reminder that it's a very apples-to-oranges comparison this year because Novavax hasn't been updated (JN.1) and mRNA vaccines have (LP.8.1). I switched back to Moderna for this reason. Got a couple of Novavax JN.1 last year.

🇨🇦Canadians looking south can’t be smug: we’ve got lots of neo-Nazis too. And they come in all shapes and sizes: just look at the KuKluxKonvoy that was allowed to terrorise our capital city for weeks on end. 🙄

Lich and Barber are what happen when provincial governments underfund schools for decades

Again, that’s when every Canadian who does value our sovereignty in our country as it is needs to hunt down the employer of every single one of these fuckers and ask them do you agree with the statements of your employee? If you do stand with them, your company will be boycotted and bankrupt 1/

I saw this comment the other day. There is something seriously wrong with some Canadians. I checked her profile—not a bot or fake account.

Somebody we were cloistered with for an hour-long appointment in a stuffy office a month ago revealed she had Covid at that time. My spouse & I didn't get it 😷😷. This is not just a post about N95 efficacy. We've been in hundreds of such situations and have dodged infection each time. It's about 1/2

5 years on “Why good ventilation is key to stopping the spread of Covid-19 Clean air far more important than clean hands” We had all of the scientific knowledge & tools to stop the pandemic in 2020 without lockdowns.. & they weren’t used www.irishtimes.com/opinion/why-...

Protesters at Charlie Kirk Memorial (II) Canon 5D Mark IV EF 100–400 mm f/4.5–5.6L IS USM f/5 100 mm 1/200 sec ISO 10000

The most effective way to prevent these respiratory infections is to wear an N95 in public. That includes kids in schools. If that's not a workable solution, the next-best option is to install several HEPA filters at home, running 24/7. They greatly reduce the risk of household transmission.

We're in a wave b/c Covid is being mentioned in my 'normie' FB groups. I was bemused by an argument between a (mildly) sick teen's mom insisting he couldn't get time off from his boss and another insisting he ought to stay home. Just wear an N95—they're made for such situations. They work both ways.

"Human history is rife with contentions about the purity (and superiority) of the bloodlines of one group over another and claims over ancestral homelands. More than a decade of work on ancient human DNA has upended it all." news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Some of us have always known this. It's exhausting to address the misinformation out there about Covid vaccines and the all-too-common binary perspective on transmission: "prevent/does not prevent". Vaccination *reduces* it. The more regularly you vaccinate, the higher the degree of prevention. 1/3

I had yet another argument with some guy on here who interpreted a study that concluded Covid vaccines don't prevent all transmission (correct) as "Vaccines have no effect on transmission" (incorrect). It's an error in interpretation I see repeatedly, even from scientists. This isn't a binary. 1/3

I’ve advised Helsinki, Finland a few times in the past, and among the many conversations I’ve had with the Finns, we’ve talked about what it’s like to live right next to an aggressive dictatorship like Russia. I’m not the first one to say it, but Canada needs to be vigorously learning from Finland.

A friendly request to Americans: Please stop pretending to be Canadians when traveling. Find other ways to display that you're not MAGA. A 🌈 sticker, an "I didn't vote for 🍊" tag, anything. Be creative, but also be honest about who you are. As a Canadian living in Europe, it's already 1/2