Note Tracker is a searchable database & dashboard featuring over 1.8M X's Community Notes. It is the latest initiative in our ongoing research on the spread of mis- and disinformation. You can find our Reporter's Guide here. notetracker.socialmedialab.ca#reporter-guide

This will have a huge impact on public health in Canada & Carney’s gov’t needs to move quickly on travel vaccination requirements for kids going to the US.. We need to get out ahead of this before more Canadian kids die of preventable diseases…

Flu hospitalizations nearly double as H3N2 spreads across #Canada The rate of hospitalization from influenza in Canada has nearly doubled compared to the previous week of available data, with infections now up almost 30%, Health Canada’s latest figures show. /1 globalnews.ca/news/1158556...

Chile's next president, José Antonio Kast, is the son of a Nazi who fled Germany after World War II.

I remember writing years ago about a then-new initiative by Amazon to disrupt local government procurement of things like office and school supplies. Turns out Amazon's become very popular with school districts, and it's using dynamic pricing to rip those schools off. prospect.org/2025/12/17/a...

I am using Firefox to escape non-consensual AI… 😩😩😩

Can confirm.

People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!

EXCLUSIVE: We found that Instacart is using AI algorithms to charge customers different prices for the same items. It's not just online. It's in physical grocery stores too. Our months-long investigation with @consumerreports.org and @groundwork.bsky.social found it could cost families $1200/year.

On the first day of Christmas, Doug Ford gave to me: A Science Centre shut for “safety.”

The Narwhal has become a leading publication covering energy and environment issues in Canada — thanks to the nearly 10,000 extraordinary people who give each year. Help us keep proving the naysayers wrong. Donations make twice the difference through Dec. 31. thenarwhal.ca/double-up

100%. A good rule of thumb for AI-generated work is: “would the intended reader/receiver of this work be dismayed to know if was produced by AI?” if the answer is yes, then consider it plagiarism and deeply unethical.

#FluVaccine #GetVaccinated Confirmed flu cases jump nearly 61%: federal data #Canada www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

This is absolutely the *worst* idea that any Canadian town has ever had. It will have no impact on crime and vulnerable residents are likely to be assaulted at higher rates. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I have hoped to reach 1000 subscribers by the end of the year. Ambitious AND I admit since I started saying this aloud it's only shrunk slightly, not grown (grimmest of LOLs). If you follow me on here and don't follow my newsletter already, I hope you'll check it out: whats-helping-today.beehiiv.com

Every study about vaccines that comes out is like "this vaccine is 97% effective at preventing this disease & also 3 other diseases & it somehow helps you play the violin beautifully" and antivaxxers are doing their own research that's telling them they can cure measles by eating polar bear liver.

WHOA. Not much surprises me these days but this is a gruesome development in the war on truth…

Our special issue of Atlantis Journal “Liveable Futures: Radical Imagination as Method // Radical Imagination as Survival is LIVE! Check it out! Our authors are brilliant. atlantisjournal.ca/index.php/at...

Sale of #Canadian armoured vehicles to ICE agency ‘deeply troubling’: Kwan #RoshelArmouredVehicles Anti-armament advocates say Canadian firms shouldn’t be selling armoured military vehicles to United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, /1 thread www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/int...

"In an open letter [..], an international coalition of legal aid groups said Microsoft and its executives potentially face legal liability for 'aiding and abetting [..] [Israel's] atrocity crimes.'" #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #USA #EU #Norway #Surveillance #Technology #Protest #Policing #Genocide

'Britain becomes world’s largest economy to end new oil and gas exploration' Feels like this should have been bigger news... www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/britain...

The notwithstanding clause has been used almost exclusively to attack workers and LGBTQ+ people, enabling a form of state interventionism rooted in far-right politics. By invoking the clause, premiers including Danielle Smith masquerade as populists while serving only socially regressive interests.

😑

Our political scale has been distorted & propagandized by the corrupt elite to make basic empathy a radical political ideology. But it's not. Our barometer is off & a dangerous sociopathy has been the norm for way too long. That's how we got here: being conditioned into hyper individuality.

Climate advocates say it's time to move to accountability for climate change, as people in Asia are living the evidence.

In June, I learned from Jim Payne (legendary Newfoundland musician) that decade ago in St. John's, people used to crash the Christmas parties of the wealthy by mummering their way in.

My former student has been missing for a month from Kitchener, with police suspicion of foul play and there are multipleTERFs making transphobic comments on ‘missing persons’ posts about them. I truly despise transphobes and I can’t understand how they can be so truly cruel and hateful.

Don’t think for a second that Canadian Conservatives aren’t planning similar attacks on higher ed. Poilievre was very public about his plan to ‘attack woke ideology in universities’ (which = attack on inconvenient evidence that disrupts Conservative policy).

We did it! Just re-certified through our annual therapy dog exam with The Lifeline Canada. So proud of the fluff dragon.

So the most ridiculous thing just happened at Point Pleasant Park. The Conservative who ran in my federal riding is walking his dog in a bright blue CPC logo jacket. Ho’s making deals on his phone and tries to scurry away after seeing his dog take a dump in the middle of the walkway…

#Mentalhealth experts urge parents to think twice before buying #AI-powered toys - Yahoo News Canada ca.news.yahoo.com/mental-healt... #MedSky #AImedicine #AI #HealthAI #AIinHealthcare #MedTech

Bluesky doesn’t have a central algorithm that’s forced on everybody, and allows users to create their own feeds. I think that is the *only* ethical model for social media going forward: english.elpais.com/technology/2...

We need more harm reduction, overdose prevention sites and SAFE SUPPLY. Anything else is reckless disregard for human life. This is a public health crisis in NB. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

'Small changes to the tone of posts fed to users of X can increase feelings of political polarisation as much in a week as would have historically taken at least three years, research has found.' 1/3

"Fractured Facts: How Generative AI Fuels Anti-Immigrant Misinformation" socialmedialab.ca/2025/11/25/f...

Canada’s super expensive plan to pipe an ecologically devastating fuel through sensitive ecosystems even though most of the world will likely not be using oil (and 18th century combustion technology) by the time pipeline construction is finished is a really bad idea.

My daughter just asked me if Beyoncé lived in Halifax near our house (because presumably she wants to hang with her).

Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving HRT by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Aid organisations say that at least 300,000 mobile homes and tents are needed to house displaced people.

“examines how eugenics has resurfaced as a blueprint for contemporary ‘tech-utopian’ & nationalist projects in the West….tech capitalists & conservative elites deploy eugenic logic as ‘common sense’ solutions to social challenges such as climate change, ‘gender ideology’ & fears of depopulation”

The EU Court of Justice ruled that all countries must recognize same-sex marriages granted in other member states, effectively legalizing gay marriage across the EU. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

80 years after the Nazis were tried for war crimes, the documents are online for all to see The Nuremberg Trials Project is a free and searchable database from Harvard Law School www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...

Child poverty has reached a record high in the United Kingdom as the country’s cost of living soars and its social security safety net falters following years of government austerity.

AI chatbots are encouraging conspiracy theories – new research theconversation.com/ai-chatbots-... via @qutdmrc.bsky.social et al. "Every chatbot engaged in 'bothsidesing' rhetoric – that is, each presented false conspiratorial claims side by side with legitimate information..."

"‘Which is the best university in the world?’ is not a useful question. ‘Which university might be best for me, given that I care about X and Y?’ is a better question — but one for which current measures are unlikely to provide a good answer" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I’m giving a free webinar on occupational mental health injury for frontline workers this Thursday! I’ll be joined by a colleague who is much smarter than me. You should listen in, just to hear from her. us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

From South African divestment to today’s Palestine solidarity movements, universities use neutrality to justify inaction while students push for accountability. It’s time to confront the contradiction and defend open debate over institutionalized silence.

Congratulations to Aslı Zengin, whose book "Violent Intimacies" has won the Middle East Section Book Prize sponsored by @americananthro.bsky.social. #Anthropology buff.ly/heV7d75

Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...