It’s jaw-dropping how, in the middle of an economic warfare campaign by the US, Cuba is still treated as a pariah by Canadian news media.

Remember when the government at least pretended to care about the environment?

This is such incredible bullshit. I am alive, thriving, and writing books on health policy/politics thanks to antidepressants. Antidepressants aren't for everyone, but they can be literal lifesavers. Attacking their prescribing & use is stigmatizing and dangerous. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/s...

Cartoon by Jesse Duquette @jesseduquette.bsky.social

This Canadian doctor and wellness podcaster always gets big numbers when he tweets xenophobia bait. Language barriers aren't responsible for health care wait times. This is so ridiculously and childishly ignorant about the system. But it hits exactly the right note for online attention-getting.

develop drug policy from this:

New privacy violation unlocked! It's not just about those (extremely obvious) "SMART" glasses invading your personal life and recording you while you're on the street, at work, or in class, it's also about THE PHARMACIST WEARING THEM AT WORK WHILE FILLING YOUR PRESCRIPTIONS AND LOOKING UP YOUR INFO

Bluesky gets a mention in NYT - “Bluesky, a social media platform popular among left-leaning users” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/u...

They said supervised consumption sites don’t work in The Washington Post. The researchers said: wrong. Supervised consumption sites save lives. Period. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

After reading this newest essay of mine, one of my readers said via email, "This is probably the best article I've ever read advocating for UBI. And one of the best you've ever written." If you haven't read it yet, please do. Maybe you will feel the same way. 🎲 www.scottsantens.com/the-angine-d...

homelessness CAUSES drug use and mental illness. homelessness IS CAUSED by a lack of affordable housing. 22% of people without homes in Vancouver (in last year's count) are over the age of 55 Mr Mah had bad luck. He was a teacher listen to him www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

It really isn't fair to expose Alex Jones to Tim Heidecker like this, the media equivalent of giving a medieval peasant Doritos.

People based in the Netherlands are behind several YouTube channels that promote Alberta separatism but are fronted by hired actors, according to an investigation by CBC News’s visual investigations team and Radio-Canada’s Décrypteurs. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The only good thing about Palantir is that they are too arrogant to hide what they are. They are insecure technofascists who want to control the world through surveillance and AI, and they are ready to harm anyone who stands in their way. Europeans cannot trust Palantir

B.C. nurses prepare for strike vote as negotiations reach impasse https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/bc-nurses-prepare-for-strike-vote-as-negotiations-reach-impasse/ ↷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁

This is enraging, but yay Nova Scotia at least drugdatadecoded.ca/alberta-pres...

I saw a cybertruck (painted blue) today with a box of tissues on the dash. My only guess is that they are for wiping the frequent tears that the driver cries in shame as they drive around town and everyone gives the finger, a dirty look, or laughs in ridicule.

“…frauds like that are commonly called “recovery scams,” when fraudsters approach someone who has already been victimized claiming they can help recover their stolen money.” Crypto nightmare: B.C. victim lost more than $23 million in series of scams: theijf.org/article/cryp...

My latest: Public funding for private schools growing faster than public schools When analyzed on inflation-adjusted per-pupil terms, from 1999-2000 and 2025-26 B.C. spending on public schools increased by 32% compared to 50% for private schools www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... #bcpoli

The systematic destruction of feminist spaces online is what inspired us to start  The Flytrap. Since last year, part of this work is archiving key Bitch Magazine articles that have disappeared from the internet. Here's some pieces we reprinted this year!

This isn’t a debate between “development”& “conservation.” It’s a war between short-term greed and long-term survival. Our forests aren’t luxury green spaces,they are life-support systems. Destroy them,& we destroy the air we breathe,the water we drink,& the climate that keeps us alive.

A Toronto hospital recognized that a huge returning percentage of their emergency services kept going out on the same marginalized folks. They created supportive housing for these people, including medical care, and they SAVED $1.66 million. They’re expanding the program.

A new report from the University of California shows that the state's decision to raise the minimum wage for fast food workers to $20/hr didn’t hurt jobs, or raise prices much. Data from over 2,000 restaurants shows that the $20/hr minimum wage didn’t reduce employment. /1

www.amazon.in/Tackling-Con... I just discovered that #Amazon is charging for a Kindle copy of my e-book, which the publishers and I published CC-licensed and free of cost. We didn't list it on Amazon, only on Archive .org, the publisher's site, and Google Play.

Don't want negative attention for selling slop? Don't sell slop.

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It's not just Calgary: We're seeing fear of "disorder" overtake fear of crime as crime rates drop. We see pushes for enforcement without interrogating root causes.

Exclusive: The acting director of the CDC has delayed publication of a report showing the covid-19 vaccine cut the likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations for healthy adults last winter by about half, according to two scientists.

“How lucky is the United States that everytime they look for democracy in other countries they find oil instead”- Spain Deputy Gabriel Rufián

I have a new base for “envision a place where you feel peaceful and safe”.

Just wait until these eyesore monstrosities want to come to your neighborhood. Goodbye trees. Expect to hear a constant, electrical humming, warmer temperatures and higher energy bills. Fight like hell to keep data centers out of your area.

Did Global Affairs Try To Scrub Record Of Israel Arms Transfer? www.readthemaple.com/did-global-a...

I spent so much time with this book, it was magic!

Who is pushing conspiracy theories in Canada? @jenstden.bsky.social (@thetyee.ca) explains who is creating and amplifying all the conspiracy slop on your social media feed. This is VANCOLOUR @cheknews.ca 📺 Full segment: youtu.be/cLcV83FRly8?...

A simple formula: underfund, complain about results, privatize. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Me threatening to cancel our family vacation when my kids act up.

Alright y’all this is a small thing but an easy one Stop buying books from Amazon Instead buy them from Bookshop.com which supports your local bookstores Here’s a 20% discount on your first order refer.bookshop.org/jen52349

Jeff Bezos is worth $220 billion. After building that fortune from overworking and exploiting his own workers, Bezos is now developing a fund to acquire manufacturing companies and automate them. Why do we always hear about immigrants taking jobs when the oligarchs are actually to blame?

Bumblebee Queens Can Breathe Underwater www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/s...

This is a great move by Toyota, I do not understand why its not done by more kiwi companies we have a lot of roof space unused evsandbeyond.co.nz/major-solar-...

Coming soon to B.C. too. Very very expensive “care” to cater to the “reopen the institutions” crowd. Imagine how many housing units this money could have funded, but nah. It’s more morally satisfying to lock them up for their failures.

HOLY SHIT. A dark money group, hidden behind a bunch of shell companies, is paying influencers thousands of dollars PER POST to attack @katmabu.bsky.social on social media a month before her election. Thank you to the people who declined the money and went forward with this. So who's behind this?

Remember guys, you can’t afford a gas rig, or a coal mine, or a nuclear power station, but you can afford to put some cheap solar panels on your roof. That’s why the fossil fuel industry has spent billions trying to kill renewable energy. The dealer needs to keep you addicted.

You will not convince me that this is not a plan to terrorize Americans. The regime wants terrorism on US soil to cancel the election.

More reason to never vote Conservative...what is wrong with these people?

It's amazing people will claim "Canada and the USA have the same culture" and then on something as fundamental as "do you trust your fellow citizens to be good" we are further apart than any other two countries