This afternoon, I informed the Prime Minister of my decision to resign as Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, Minister responsible for Official Languages, Minister of Nature and Parks Canada, as well as his Lieutenant in Quebec. You can find my full statement below.

#Ontario #wastewater graph updated with November 16 data - Kingston, Peel, Toronto updated: wwater.ca/Ontario - Also updated: AB, BC, NL, NS, PEI, QC, YT wwater.ca Source: health-infobase.canada.ca/wastewater/

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Meanwhile in #LdnOnt

This is bad journalism! The term "post-pandemic" is wrong when we are STILL in the #COVID19 #pandemic. Hearing the teaser on CBC Radio for this "report" this morning was quite enraging. Maybe if we cared to know reasons for being absent we could have some authentic investigation into the causes. 🙄

#Ontario #wastewater graph updated with November 2 data - Kingston, Peel updated: wwater.ca/Ontario - Also updated: AB, NB, NL, PEI, QC wwater.ca Source: health-infobase.canada.ca/wastewater/

i think i just got suspended from instagram for declaring a war on cars

You got your fantasy in my sci-fi! Check out our #RetroReview of #Sliders season 3 episode "Dragonslide". fandomentanglement.com/2025/sliders... Co-hosts @suggie176.bsky.social & @bloxam.bsky.social welcome back authors @janarchy.bsky.social and @goforlauchcee.bsky.social. #fantasy #scifi

BC ran a public consultation this year and invited submissions on electoral reform. The result was overwhelming. Ninety three percent supported proportional representation. Our volunteers outside the BC NDP convention on Saturday heard the same. People want a better democracy.

The Doug Ford government is setting its sites on conservation authorities for the fifth time, merging the watershed protection agencies. Staff tell @fatimabsyed.bsky.social it may ‘slow approvals, create confusion’ — not to mention it's leaving them with ‘whiplash.’ thenarwhal.ca/ontario-cons...

As the weather turns there will be nights you want to stay home and eat soup, nights you want to stay home with a book, and nights you want to stay home and drink tea, but as the weather turns on no nights will you want to have to stay home because you are sick.

Seems like a good day to re-post this. All public institutions in Canada, including CBC and every level of government, should ditch Xitter immediately - it’s a racist, fascist filth factory run by Nazi-loving Apartheid Clyde.

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 My office just uncovered that, buried in their Fall Economic Statement, Ford’s Conservatives are quietly seizing control of Exhibition Place. #ONpoli

🏆 KUDOS ...to Toronto's University Health Network for bringing back masking in their facilities as of Nov 18, 2025 😷TGH 😷Toronto Western 😷Princess Margaret Cancer Centre 😷Toronto Rehab 😷Michener Institute 😷West Park 🏥 Hope others will follow... www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

mine, pipeline, port, power generation, and a datacentre, 'cuz Canada exists to generate profit for big oil, big tech, big banks, and big assholes www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

#Ontario #wastewater graph updated with October 26 data - London, Peel updated: wwater.ca/Ontario - Also updated: AB, NL, QC, YT wwater.ca Source: health-infobase.canada.ca/wastewater/

There were once dreams of eradicating measles - I remember discussion on it in my MSc epi class. The loss of progress on measles is not only a health loss for kids (measles can be disabling & deadly), it’s also a massive economic loss. We save billions/yr not having to vaccinate & treat smallpox.

"Different strains of the COVID-19 virus sometimes come with symptoms that are specific to them" Two new SARS-CoV-2 strains circulated in 2025: “Nimbus” (NB.1.8.1) causing a “razor blade throat,” and “Stratus” (XFG) causing a “persistent dry cough” and spreading much faster due to immune evasion.

On CBC: the governor general is in hospital recovering from a “respiratory virus”.

At 10:57 a.m. on Nov. 11, 1918, George Lawrence Price stepped out into a village street in Belgium. As he did, a German sniper shot him in the chest. He died one minute later and became the last Canadian soldier to die in the First World War. This is his story. 🧵 1/8

Canadian COVID Forecast: Nov 8 - Nov 21, 2025 SEVERE: AB VERY HIGH: CAN, MB, NB, NL, North, NS, QC, SK HIGH: BC, ON, PEI MODERATE: none About 1 in 118 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

After some finagling to get the assembly procedure just right we are finally releasing the aluminum bodied POLARIS air purifier, made-in-Canada and based on the open-source design by Zack Deis. 1/3 #airpurifier #indoorairquality #covidisairborne

You were against respirators. You were against air cleaners in classrooms and daycares. You refused to implement #airborne systems during COVID. You cast aspersions on industrial hygienists, engineers, physicists & experts in PPE and clean air. You said "vaxx and relax" & crossed your fingers.

You had one job. Just maintain the #measles status that your predecessors had established. But you couldn't even do that. This is what failure looks like. It's time Public Health & the Infectious Disease communities to grow up and accept that they need help from experts outside their community.

#Canada could face ‘worst kind’ of flu season as experts warn evolving strain may be mismatch for vaccine Alarm bells abroad, spread of a new form of H3N2 provide warnings as influenza cases start ticking up /1 thread www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

This—along with the denial, propaganda, and potential frontal lobe/risk assessment damage—might explain a thing or two. #COVID

"Pandemics are a choice" Another article talking about COVID in the past tense. The pandemic didn’t end. Transmission continues, long COVID continues, and ignoring it doesn’t make it go away. The “tools to stop the next pandemic” are the same tools we should be using now. Source: archive.li/fLf7a

It’s really important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of ACTUAL EVIDENCE that they’re better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced. Safe bike-lanes mean business.

“The government is admitting they just don’t care about #Climate and they have no damn plan,” Ontario Greens Leader @mikeschreiner.bsky.social told @thenarwhal.ca “We knew all along they didn’t have a plan, and emissions are going up." #ClimateCrisis #OnPoli thenarwhal.ca/ford-repeals...

Doug Ford is Corrupt. #onpoli

It's the dawning of the age of Aquarius? In our latest #RetroReview of #Sliders, we discuss "Desert Storm", which we compare to a cross of Mad Max and Waterworld. fandomentanglement.com/2025/sliders... Co-hosts @suggie176.bsky.social & @bloxam.bsky.social welcome special guest Wayne McCarty...

Have you heard of “The Populist Playbook?” A few years ago, I posted what I still consider one of my most important messages. It was about “The Populist Playbook” that I’ve watched play out often over my 33+ years of city planning. Since then, it’s only gotten worse. Do the steps sound familiar?

OMG - Boycott everything Musk is associated with. Let's take it all down. We have the power. If anyone has a list of all the companies please post it.

Conservative MP Matt Jeneroux has resigned from the House of Commons!! This is going to trigger a by-election that, if they win, could see the Liberals just one seat short of a majority. Jeneroux won the seat over his Liberal opponent by roughly 5 percentage points in April’s election.

A young Tory MP's name gets mentioned as someone ready to cross the floor. He goes to ground and then suddenly announces he is stepping down. Young MPs just don't quit politics unless someone dumped a political horse head in the bed. #cutthroatontherideau #carneyneedsjust1

So the Ford appointed supervisors will make more than all School Board Trustees combined, and that money will come out of the education budget that’s supposed to go to student needs. Shame! globalnews.ca/news/1151063... #topoli #onpoli #onted

This is Lula's last chance to protect nature and climate: action.eko.org/a/lula-s-las... #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Amazon

New awareness campaign

montreal’s new mayor wants to rip up bike lanes and create a more permissive regulatory structure for airbnbs. grim result.

It's a Nightmare on Fandom Street! In our spooky #RetroReview of #Sliders, we discuss "The Dream Masters", AKA Revenge of the Nerds on Elm Street. fandomentanglement.com/2025/sliders... Co-hosts @suggie176.bsky.social & @bloxam.bsky.social welcome back @headcast.bsky.social. Happy Hallowe'en!

"New report shows 7,200 nurses could be cut in Ontario due to underfunding, on the heels of 13 layoffs announced in North Bay." “The Ford government must stop gutting our public health care." BTW, Ring of Fire ads cost up to $150,000 per spot. #ONpoli #Healthcare #nurses ona.org/news/2025102...

Many of our grads work in newsrooms across the country and around the globe. We appreciate their support...! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

3/3 The winds of change are blowing through the halls of campus this autumn... We awoke today to find our very radio station in the crosshairs of the news headlines. It is a developing story, and we will keep you posted. In the interim, we appreciate your unwavering support at this challenging time.

🎈Happy Birthday... to US! 🎂 47 candles on our cake today! On this day in 1978, '6X FM' (as it was branded then) launched on Hallowe'en!🎃 1/3

Canadian COVID Forecast: Oct 25 - Nov 7, 2025 SEVERE: NB, NS, SK VERY HIGH: CAN, AB, BC, MB, NL, North, ON, PEI HIGH: QC MODERATE: none About 1 in 126 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

#COVID19 & #Influenza A are both on the rise in #LdnOnt wastewater. Make a plan to get your #vaccines ASAP & #WearAMask to help stop the spread. Tell indoor places to get an air purifier if they don't have, esp. schools and healthcare. #MaskUp #CovidIsNotOver #CleanTheAir Graph courtesy @young.me

I know I’ve said this more than once, and I know it’s really obvious, but taking the train between cities in Europe is just fantastic. So easy. One of the dumbest mistakes North America ever made, and continues to make, is doing so relatively little with trains. Train networks are nation-building.

@ctvnewslondon.bsky.social What the fresh hell is this? Highbury and Hamilton are already 4-lane highways (stroads). Expanding roads only makes traffic worse! City council needs to put a stop to this senseless and expensive plan. www.ctvnews.ca/london/artic... #LdnOnt #CarCulture

Meanwhile in #ONterrible... #ONpoli #corruption

I guess they've made commitments to Ford's friends to pay them millions even though they're not the best choice, even under the glare of media and the Opposition, even though we know it's corrupt. Ford's government works for Ford's friends, not for Ontario.