This is heartbreaking. Fuck ICE. Fuck hateful politics and policies. Free Palestine. Fuck weapons manufacturers. Fuck the oligarchs that create hatred and fear and cruelty to enrich their unspeakable wealth. This is all settler colonialism and capitalism.

It's the start of cold and flu season which means RSV cases will also soon start spiking. A new study found half of all Canadians hospitalized for RSV are under six months old. Immunization options are approved but not readily available. My latest for @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...

Supreme Court of Canada's "ruling clarified that people who make a potentially life-saving call — along with the people who are overdosing and others at the scene — are protected from being arrested or charged for drug possession, even if police [..] see drugs." #Canada #Courts #Drugs #Policing

If someone is overdosing call 911. The Supreme Court of Canada says saving a life is more important than policing small amounts of drugs, so you will be protected even if police show up and see you have, or have taken small amounts of drugs. My latest for @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...

Kids and teens eating cannabis edibles is a problem b/c weed hits them harder. This review article looked at 22,000 ER visits after kids were exposed to weed. Most kids were fine but around 7% of patients were admitted to the ICU for monitoring and less than 2% had seizures bcmj.org/articles/pre...

Big fan of videos of people yelling at ICE goons. Sorry, masked men who violate every right enshrined by law because the only law that matters is whateverthefuck illegal violence they feel like perpetrating that day. Fuck ICE. Thank you southern neighbours who share videos of people yelling at them.

I love my fatty and wet skeleton

Unregulated toxic drugs killed 158 BC-ers in Sept. More than 3/4 were male and more than 4/5 were poisoned by fentanyl and its analogues. Smoking isn't any safer than injecting: more than 2/3 of fatalities happened when people inhaled their drugs: BC Coroners Service news.gov.bc.ca/releases/202...

Quarantine your buns! Heads up to Vancouver Islanders who have pet rabbits. Several wild rabbits have been killed by a virus. Test are being run to determine what killed them but the rabbits show symptoms of rabbit hemorrhagic disease. Buns can be vaccinated. news.gov.bc.ca/releases/202...

Children aged 4-8 are ten times more likely to be hit and killed by a car on Halloween. A motion that would make it easier for neighbourhoods to apply for car-free permits for the night was kicked down the road. Because we all know how much ABC loves cars

Check your dog treats! There's a salmonella outbreak in Puppy Love and Puppy World treats across Canada. Check if your treats have been recalled here: www.canada.ca/en/public-he...

Delighted to be able to offer a "no news is good news" update when my editor was worried because they couldn't book a vaccine appointment. There's plenty of shots to go around and the fall campaign is going smoothly! Got my shots last week. Felt a bit crummy for a day but bounced back right away.

I was told recently that Canada's socialized health-care system was communist and I'm still trying to wrap my head around that. Like... no, it's existed in a democratic system for generations. Is this just ignorance and not knowing the difference between socialism, socialized HC and communism?

Disease thrives when humans are miserable. And we're building a world that supports unbelievable human misery. Climate change is making it worse. healthydebate.ca/2025/10/topi...

There's been a spike in heterosexual people getting HIV in Alberta, California, Idaho and Oregon. This could be linked to the epidemic of syphilis, a bacterial STI that can cause sores which makes a person more likely to catch HIV if they're exposed during sex. mailchi.mp/catie/a-rece...

The BC Nurses Union is meeting with MLAs today to talk violence prevention. Violence is horribly common in health care, especially for nurses who deal with patients all day every day. The union has come up with 10 steps it says will reduce violence www.bcnu.org/files/top-10...

After school club ideas for teens wherever politicians are trying to ban books www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/202...

GOOD NEWS! PACE, which supports street-based sex workers in Van, got their charitable status back. That means it can accept donations and issue tax receipts again. Likely a bit of time before they can re-start programming or drop-in services, but still an important step for a vital DTES resource.

Hey internet, are you a parent whose infant had RSV, or do you know anyone whose infant children had RSV? Looking to speak with them to hear about their experience for a Tyee article. HMU. Ideally you're in BC.

Nothing says 'on the right side of history' like sending out a bunch of cease-and-desist letters. It was a fair critique @guyfelicella.bsky.social. drugdatadecoded.ca/i-didnt-know...

Accurate representation of the anti-science movement

Amazing to see one of my favourite podcasts getting the recognition it deserves! Wahoooo, keep killing it Daniella!

Because now playing music and singing can be a crime in America, apparently. Looking forward to seeing the No Kings turnout over the weekend.

Hey prospective medical students: Simon Fraser University's new medical school is now taking applications for courses starting next summer. The new campus likely won't be built by then. But hey it's a shiny new medical school. What do you think? news.gov.bc.ca/releases/202...

Say it loud and say it proud: fuck the colonizers and fuck colonialism. Let's gather and eat and figure out how to de-colonize our extracitivst settler states.

It's seriously fucked that we let fossil fuel companies take freshwater, poison it with heavy metals and shit, and then pump it below the water table, allegedly taking it out of the water table for hundreds to thousands of years. So not just stealing water for generations, but poisoning it as well.

AI art is just people who have never done art thinking a computer program makes them creative. It doesn't. It really, really doesn't. Art, like dance and music and food and sex and singing, is a human thing and will always be meaningful because of the humans involved in making it.

Hey fellow millennials in B.C. Did you ever get vaccinated for HPV? I did but got the Cervarix vaccine, which protects against the two cancer-causing HPV types. The standard vaccine is now Guardasil 9 which protects against nine types, so I'm paying out of pocket to update my vaccination status.

Trump making fake videos to post on his social media site claiming fake "med-beds" exist to cure everything while gutting public health and health care in the USA is just... Like, remember when it wasn't like this? It wasn't always like this. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"Vancouver city council approved a net budget of $423 million for the VPD in 2025 — their second-largest spend, after utilities — but the force expects to go about $8 million over that figure. In 2024, the force similarly advised of a $6.5-million overage for the year."

A single Vancouver police officer made $397,258 last year, making $239,258 in overtime on top of their base pay of up to $158,000. This is the wildest FOI I've seen in a long time. Well done Liam Britten for digging this up. #CBC www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

An infant has died in Alberta from measles. Infants less than six months can't be vaccinated against measles because their immune systems are still developing and they don't get lasting immunity. Measles is spreading because people aren't getting vaccinated. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

100 Mile House emergency department temporarily closing overnight - Kamloops News www.castanetkamloops.net/news/Kamloop...

Drug testing is coming back to Peace Point Overdose Prevention Site. Starting Friday, September 26, 2025, folks will be able to get their drugs tested every Friday (6 to 10 p.m.), Saturday and Sunday (11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.) at 15521 Russnell Ave, Whiterock. Tell your friends, check your drugs.

Also, helium won't transform into a solid even at absolute zero on Earth. We don't have enough pressure in our atmosphere. You'd need atmospheric pressure 25 times greater than Earth's to make it a solid.

The fact that oxygen melts at -218°C and boils at -183°C is scritching my brain very nicely this morning. Here to share the joy.

I was in a hospital looking at brain scans and a doc told me not to photograph one scan because you could kind of make out the skull shape of the patient and they worried that could identify them. IDK I just found that so cute. Like who can identify a patient from their skull shape except their doc

"For the fifth consecutive year, the rate of unintended harm experienced by patients in Canadian hospitals has remained stable at 6%. The latest data shows that in 2024–2025, patients experienced at least one instance of harm in 1 out of every 17 hospitalizations." www.cihi.ca/en/news/impr...

People who access their health records using MyChart might not be able to sue if their personal data is breached. Luckily, British Columbians are protected because of provincial legislation which overrides company policies like this www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

I'm sick of these god damn microplastics in my god damn bone marrow! Also, horrible update: oil pulled from the ground is turned into plastic and that ends up in your bone marrow. UGH. www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

Good news update: B.C. invests $6.7 million for the Community Action Initiative’s Community Counselling Fund to provide no- and low-cost counselling to people across the province. Hell yeah. Hell yeah! bc.cmha.ca/news/continu...

When youth get comprehensive sex ed they wait to have sex longer, have safer and healthier sex and face less sexual and physical violence in relationships. Which is why it's a problem that immigrant teenagers appear to be missing out on Canadian sex ed. Me for @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/09...

It can be hard to identify crisis pregnancy centres online, which work to counsel people against getting abortions. Even Fraser Health seems to have gotten fooled (at least temporarily). My latest for The Tyee thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

With everything else going on, the Tylenol “announcement” may seem minor. But it’s not. The Trump admin’s lies about acetaminophen are part of the same agenda: controlling women’s bodies, demonizing them, and making them suffer needlessly. A policy of intentional cruelty and othering.

Elenore Sturko, who stopped publicly supporting sexual orientation and gender identity learning after she defected from United BC last year, was kicked out of the Conservative Caucus yesterday. Our June report from @kehyslop.bsky.social on how candidates weigh identities, values and ambitions:

Incredible humanizing story on the harms caused by the Trump regime's claims that Tylenol taken during pregnancy causes autism. 1.) It doesn't. 2.) It opens the door for blaming parents for "causing" autism. www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

The 2025 Greater Vancouver Homeless Count identified 5,232 people experiencing homelessness. When people shelter in public spaces (because they have no where else to go) they can be caught up in a street sweep. This increases their risk of violence and overdose. thetyee.ca/News/2025/09...

Chimps eat boozy fruit, meaning they're consuming about two standard alcoholic drinks per day. I love science. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This seems like a very worthwhile goal to put government time and money towards. No, really. Poor people can wait. Climate change can wait. The takeover of tech and oil oligarchs of a crumbling empire can wait. This is more important. God forbid we see pleasure. www.404media.co/michigan-por...