Alberta's flu season is now the deadliest in recent memory as experts call for action https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-s-flu-season-deadliest-in-recent-memory-as-experts-call-for-action-9.7109033 ↷ canadahealthwatch.ca 🍁

Something to ask John Tory if he runs for mayor again as he decided to dedicate a massive portion of Toronto's budget to this rebuild.

“It is an uncomfortable truth for tech giants: the AI revolution is to a large extent built on labor in low-income countries. What we call “machine learning” is often the result of human hands.”

“Milton is being eyed for something beyond housing development: two proposed data centres that together would require a city’s worth of electricity, the equivalent of a million homes.” Napanee, Hamilton, Cambridge mentioned as well.

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work. This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public. Please spread the word. 🧵 1/4

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”

canada is one of the world's largest suppliers of uranium, the mining of which has irrevocably affected nearby Indigenous communities canadians.org/analysis/rad...

“It is highly likely that members of the Canadian military, on exchange with the United States, were involved in the planning and co-ordinating of airstrikes on Iran, says a former senior Canadian general”

China’s energy emissions fell 0.3% in 2025, despite a 3.5% rise in energy consumption. The drop was attributed to its massive renewables buildout, driven primarily by solar power.

Feel like the last time I was blogging on a regular basis I was just complaining about The Last Guardian being delayed but since I've returned it's more like "The Pentagon has successfully replicated the conditions for Halo 5 Cortana to cleanse the world in fire."

"The system's power comes not from its truth, but from everyone's willingness to perform as if it were true, and its fragility comes from the same source. When even one person stops performing, when the greengrocer removes his sign, the illusion begins to crack" - Mark Carney

For Mark Carney, the leader of a democratic country, to back a war his counterpart Trump started without the approval of the United States government, should raise serious questions for Canadians about the value our own Prime Minister places on our democratic process.

This seems to be part of the broader trend that More Perfect Union highlighted in their Vegas video. With high income households driving economic activity, the market is catering to specific spending habits with the exclusion of others.

$7M of cocaine & they arrest a teen? The same pattern of low level arrests while letting the folks running things skate. “Police did not specify where the storage facility is located or what business operates from the building.”

A police officer who has worked 19 years with the Hamilton Police Service has been charged for allegedly possessing and transmitting material that shows child sexual abuse and exploitation. CBC #HamOnt reviewed publicly available sources showing he worked with teens. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

UHN pays to enter these awards, and rebranded itself "Canada's hospital", to establish an international brand and market share. Why? Because it will soon be for-profit, and it wants to be the hospital of choice when rich shits from all over the world need a transplant. MAID provides the organs.

I spoke to CBC about proposed regulations on Bill 6. Bluntly put, I am vehemently opposed to criminalizing people on the TTC suspected of using drugs. While the law is aimed at homeless people, what does someone who uses drugs look like? This is a recipe for profiling. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

It’s Survival of the Fittest in Ontario, you won’t even be a stat when it’s your turn.

“AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations” perfect ht @mordent.bsky.social

Ontario’s new Bill 60 was passed in November and is known for taking away tenants’ rights. What’s less well known is that the omnibus bill also strips municipal control over roads and pushes a pro-car agenda. Michael Koy reports.

“astrology for men” was too generous

I originally thought this was some kind of protest The NYPD were actually breaking up a “planned snowball fight” when they were… struck by snowballs?

OpenAI is a menace. Two recent stories make that clearer than ever. One day you have Sam Altman denigrating humanity to defend AI. The next, WSJ reveals OpenAI could have alerted Canadian police of a potential mass shooter, but refused pressure from employees. That person went on to kill 8 people.

“I don’t think anyone will be checking in today” is a fair assessment I’d say

It’s nice to bring the idea of a ban up, especially with the prevalence of gambling amidst a cost-of-living crisis. Would a ban happen with Ford? Doubtful. But any steps against gambling only helps prevent speculative wagering being integrated into every aspect of life like it’s become in the US.

A judge just allowed key antitrust claims against Live Nation and Ticketmaster to proceed, including allegations they pressured venues and shut out competitors. Fans deserve transparency — and this case should move forward. www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/live-nation-...

Great to see more contemporary animation offerings from Criterion, I got their release of Flow from last year. Also good to see Netflix providing a physical release for one of its most popular title and not just relegating it to “prestige” releases. Would definitely like to see this happen more.

Posting several links, this is madness: "An estimated 200,000 to half million U.S. firearms are smuggled into Mexico every year ... 'We have confiscated, in the time that I've been in government, 50,000 guns of high power, of high caliber ... Fifty thousand guns. And 75% of them from the U.S."

Well, at least this shouldn't trigger more tariffs.

We should be very concerned about public health moving from a ideology of "protecting" to one of "moving fast." These are neoliberal buzzwords that normalize wellness profiteering ("removing red tape") and distract from the harms of cutting public health protections/regulations.

Georgia was skating to MORTAL KOMBAT at the Olympics exhibition gala

OpenAI employees pushed for the company to inform Canadian police about a user they thought would engage in real-world violence months before the person did just that, killing eight people in a horrific attack in Tumbler Ridge. The company only reached out to police after the shooting had occurred.

Evan Solomon is not a serious man. This reply is barely a step above his Midnight Tweet saying that the government wasn't about to ban the CSAM platform. Canadians might one day get serious digital policy legislation, but it won't be from the Carney government.

The dissenting justices in the 6-3 tariffs decision write: "The United States may be required to refund billions of dollars to importers who paid the IEEPA tariffs, even though some importers may have already passed on costs to consumers or others." Majority opinion appears silent on the issue.

Just so we're clear, the Minister is announcing here that FINTRAC will do its job. There are no new positions, funding, or resources for this work. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Last week Donald Trump registered the trademark "Donald J. Trump International Airport." This week Florida Republicans voted to rename Palm Beach International Airport Donald J. Trump International Airport," putting taxpayers on the hook for licensing fees that go straight to him

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Journalism backed by the speculative insider-trading platform should be thrown in the trash.

Audit Metrolinx.

Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

New York Health and Hospitals has a 3-year contract with Palantir. For almost $4 million, Palantir works to “increase charges captured from missed opportunities,” from Medicaid and other public benefit patients. It also uses AI to review and deny insurance claims. theintercept.com/2026/02/15/p...

Oh no! I just found out that one of my favorite character actors died: Tom Noonan always brought such humanity to every role he played. A towering, unforgettable figure, he also gave us one of my most-used quotations on why film isn't really escapism. RIP

This is how authoritarian regimes dig themselves into the grave. They "discipline" people telling them the truth as they see it, instead of what they want to hear. It takes time, but eventually leads to military disaster and economic collapse.

They are so cooked in the US.

Someone had their drone out to capture the fog.

Public funds should go to building infrastructure that serves the public without the notion of turning a profit. Surpluses are great too, for reinvesting in infrastructure. It’s not complicated.

CHOOSE YOUR -FERATU! ... aka the most effort I've ever put into a stupid horror pun, lol.🦇

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.