Canada Post “lost” 1 billion dollars last year? How about, “it cost Canadians 1 billion dollars to have a national postal service” which works out to costing about $25 a year per person (population of Canada in 2024 = 40 million). Seems like a pretty reasonable cost to me.

Happening this Sunday from 1-7pm - The 3rd Annual Clean Air Festival in Vancouver. How has it been three years already? This is a Covid safer hybrid event with respirator masks required 😷 & available free onsite. Lots of prizes & music too! 🎶 Register here 🔗 www.tickettailor.com/events/clean...

Other candidates' fundraising letters have mentioned the difficult process & Emily had to put out detailed information on how to navigate the difficult voter verification process. This is the process, believe it or not—& even people who followed it exactly still encountered glitches and problems:

Sign the letter from the Canadian Aerosol Transmission Coalition: We support the latest draft CSA Z94.4, Selection, Use and Care of Respirators – to protect ALL workers, especially healthcare. www.aerosoltransmissioncoalition.ca

Canadian Aerosol Transmission Association wants signatories to support the CSA proposal to make respirator use mandatory in healthcare settings. www.aerosoltransmissioncoalition.ca

Ever so proud of the good people of Syros www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Dr. Henry has barely acknowledged long COVID & continues to endorse policies based on droplet dogma. She has consistently minimized the risks of long COVID in kids - even though it's now the #1 chronic health condition affecting them www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

Oligarchs are again giving out a gold star to the one willing to sacrifice others for their gains.

This seems important. Especially in a time when cost benefit analyses are being made wrt vaccinating to public. When the benefit is indisputably worth the cost, where else are tax dollars being allocated? betterdwelling.com/canada-is-sp...

NEW post by me. The BC Govt has cut funding to an essential treatment for a disabled child with a very rare disease. Her name is Charleigh Pollock and time is running out. There is link to petition in post. Please sign, share. open.substack.com/pub/mssineno...

So the answer is yes. Meaning NACI may be making decisions on COVID vaccines using inaccurate data.

A brilliant deep dive into the ossified and dogmatic structures behind the widening gap between public health and scientific evidence. canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/04/18/t...

New: Our open letter to PM Mark Carney on the urgent need for COVID-19 mitigations 🍁 @mark-carney.bsky.social - We’re calling for action in 4 key areas to protect public health 📝 Read the full letter & share: protectbc.ca/open-letter-lettre-ouverte-pm-mark-carney 

A recent @jama.com article states Long COVID is the "most common chronic health problem in children," affecting the 10-20% with past infection They've asked us to accept this as normal jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Yesterday, at 87, my dad & former Ontario NDP leader Stephen Lewis, stood for an hour by the road in his old riding. As a Jewish elder, he stood against genocide embodying the values he has always championed. I am so proud to see him on the right side of history – as always. ❤️

New briefing alert: Long Covid in Kids! Millions of children globally now have Long Covid. We interviewed Dr. Peter Rowe, Professor of Pediatrics, at John Hopkins in Long Covid in kids Watch here👇🏼 youtu.be/QbUjM-Pb8Z8?...

What makes a good health leader? As soothing as "Be Kind, Be Calm, Be Safe" may sound, without action, it’s just another empty slogan. Canadians need someone who takes timely, decisive actions to truly protect us. Now, and when the next pandemic strikes. canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/04/13/w...

Public health needs to be independent. During COVID, I experienced firsthand how political pressure twisted science—and nearly destroyed reputations. A short thread on conflict-of-interest theatre, redacted emails, and lessons we still haven’t learned.

This alone is enough to put @altcdc.altgov.info well above most public health institutions everywhere in the Western world. If you can afford it, get some N95s and learn how to use them. Measles is here, COVID is here, and bird flu is coming. If it can't get inside you, it can't make you sick.

PLEASE EMAIL THE LIBERAL PARTY and tell them not to let Andrew Weaver run (likely in Esquimalt-Saanich-Sooke aka ESS). He endorsed the BC Cons in the BC election. Just one line is enough - and put same in the subject line *Thank you* [email protected] #bcpoli

I went digging for new actuarial data on COVID-19, and I found this recent post from March 20, 2025. I think this applies specifically to Australia, but patterns may be similar elsewhere. www.actuaries.digital/2025/03/20/c...

We are taking the fight for our country to the streets. The American consulate in Toronto weren't happy. They called the cops. They don't think we have a right to march on our own city sidewalks. #elbowsup

I had moments of sadness this week. I spoke at a press freedom conference about the corporate capture of the Observer. This is one of my last pieces. I'll miss my brilliant colleagues. But I'm rebuilding from the ground up, truly independent media. Please join me 🙏 broligarchy.substack.com

I'm guest lecturing in an ethics course at U of T next fall. We'll be talking about ethical issues and randomized trials. This year we will talk about Tuskegee, the Thai perinatal HIV trial, and this more recent Canadian trial: linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii...

“Arguably we should be back to something close to normal,” Stirling said. “But if you look at it by age group what you see is that it's really quite substantially elevated for younger ages. That’s what jumped out at me.” insurancenewsnet.com/innarticle/w...

Vancouver, BC today 🍁 Long COVID is real. These pillow cases tell the heartbreaking stories of some of the over 3.5 million Canadians who were previously healthy now suffering from this debilitating disease with over 100, 000 people unable to work. Governments need to help them now.

“It’s an escalation of a kind that is unheard of,” said Joan Scott, a historian and member of the academic freedom committee of the American Association of University Professors. “Even during the McCarthy period in the United States, this was not done.” apnews.com/article/colu...

1 in 8 #COVID survivors still have symptoms 2 years after infection, researchers say From 2021 to 2023, 23% of participants developed long-COVID symptoms, with 56% of those infected in 2021 reporting symptoms for 2 years. www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...

She may have been calm and decisive but she made poor decisions and gave dangerously inaccurate advice.

Have you received renumeration for this article?

This new work from @blakemurdoch.bsky.social is spot on. Denial of airborne transmission was the great crime (yes, crime) of the pandemic. It changed, and broke, everything healthydebate.ca/2025/03/topi...

This journalist predicted what Trump would do with NATO, Ukraine and breaking up the western alliance in this interview 6 yrs ago. Trump was 4 billion in debt until some wealthy Russians bought real estate from him through shell companies, making Trump rich again: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVHR...

I ended up in the ER due to Covid causing inability to breathe, and like others with asthma in BC I'm still not eligible for Paxlovid. Its restriction here is ridiculous. (And it should be a 10 not 5 day course acc to doctors I've talked to)

‘We’re losing decades of our life to this illness’: long Covid patients on the fear of being forgotten www.theguardian.com/society/2025... @kathryn42.bsky.social @theguardian.com 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁

In BC, kids were thrown back to school with no meaningful protection from airborne viruses+the mask mandate was dropped before <12 yo could get vaccinated with a booster. Caregivers were assured of safety. Those who were harmed should get compensation. There was no alternative for formal education.

A reminder that under no circumstances is Dr Henry an acceptable choice for Canada's Chief Medical Officer of Health. One of the few people in the world to have botched two different SARS-CoV outbreaks, the fact that people like her constantly fail upwards is what gives extremists credibility. 🧵:

Total #IDUPlaybook. Harper loves to muzzle scientists.

Some other examples of reframing: “Attacks on DEI”=Resegregation “Trans issues”=Human rights “Waste, fraud, and abuse”=Elon and Trump’s business model.

"We’re witnessing the self-sabotage of the United States" from @davidfrum.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The petition is here: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

We kicked holocaust denier Ernst Zündel out of Canada. Why the hell would we let Elon Musk have any claim on Canada? He is a fascist threatening the people of Ukraine. I am proud to be helping drive this asshole from our shores. www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

Democracy dimmed a little bit today "Burnaby Now, New Westminster Record, Tri-City News to close" @BurnabyNOW_News @TheRecord @TriCityNews #bcpoli #vanpoli #vanre www.newwestrecord.ca/local-news/b...

Some personal news, as they say: Introducing Debrief Communications! A collective of journalists making our skills available for hire in the communications market. Website: debriefcomms.ca Full announcement ⬇️

We are still in an airborne disabling pandemic. Every effort should be made to clean the air. fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNU01...

Losing moral authority, trust and respect. What could go wrong? paulkrugman.substack.com/p/sabotaging...

Here is a list of Canadian companies that Canadians should add to their boycott list: Shopify Wealthsimple Koho Wind mobile Globalive Cohere SRTX Borrowell Helcim Neo Financial Skillful Notes newsletter We should support having elected officials not an oligarchy.

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