So knowing that the two main groups of problematic e-bike riders are food deliverers, and people who lost their drivers licenses for driving under the influence, is there a way to target mostly just those groups? I think so www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor...

This is a wild hack. a16z gave a million dollars to startup called Doublespeed. They use a phone farm to flood social media with AI generated influencers and ads. A hacker remotely broke into the phone farm, unmasking the AI influencers/fake accounts, gave us the data www.404media.co/hack-reveals...

THREAD: The FDA has made it difficult to find where medications are made. Today we're changing that with our latest tool. With Rx Inspector, it’s possible to see your drug’s manufacturing facility and what the FDA found during its inspections. Here's how you can use it. 1/

A university is so much more than its bricks and mortar facilities. It is also an eduroam network with intermittent access

Yes, the government should start seizing cars from people who park in bikelanes or on sidewalks AND seizing ebikes when people ride them through crowded sidewalks at high speeds

Apparently Prohibition was a turning point. Courts got overwhelmed with alcohol possession cases, and everyone figured out that if you just asked for a small fine in return for a guilty plea, you could clear hundreds of cases in a week. This taught the courts a Very Bad Lesson

While it hasn't ended the problems; there has been a big rise in awareness of the crisis of violence in hospitals, and attempts to address it It seems like we're close to recognizing the crisis of violence in schools (where I think addressing it is somewhat more realistic) cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

Oh so we might ACTUALLY get a "war on drugs" (But unlikely since its Trump)

Libertarians lose me on like "Driving drunk isn't that bad and also who has fentanyl hurt anyway?"

Spoiler for a piece coming out tomorrow. Ontario didn't forecast the big wave of immigration and non-permanent residents, which is totally understandable. They also didn't forecast a substantial decline in birth rates, which the housing crisis may have caused.

I'm glad that Ontario now has paid plasma donation- plasma donation is a pro-social activity with health benefits for the donor we should incentivize! But I hate that we used a loophole to ignore the ban; and that a for-profit company captures so much profit from it

It's frustrating when warnings are made from poorly done studies. E.g. The warning on antidepressants, claiming they carry a risk of suicide, is probably just the result of selection into treatment (people who get antidepressant prescriptions have higher suicide risks to begin with)

Weird framing in this article putting the focus on police for not using risk assessment tools. But in this case police DID complete the assessment, recommended against release, and despite the highest possible risk score the court released him on $500 bail! globalnews.ca/news/1157144...

A 15.8% increase in livestock antibiotic use is a MASSIVE backslide, especially given the vast majority of antibiotic use is in livestock Speedrunning antibiotic resistance to make meat a little bit cheaper is one of the stupidest things humanity has ever done www.vox.com/future-perfe...

again, ignition interlocks are one of those things where there basically *really is* a technological solution to the problem that greatly mitigates that tradeoffs, and it's a policy failure that they aren't mandatory for five years after your first DUI.

Keeping this at hand in case I need to point to it and tap

Fixing this (and other) asylum loopholes should be a really high priority for Canada globalnews.ca/news/1157231...

Read to the end. NPR asked why the Trump team ended a low-cost program that cured millions of tropical diseases w drugs donated by pharma. The spokesperson replied with an NPR headline—“Farewell to USAID”—and said: “What do you think farewell meant?” www.npr.org/sections/goa...

The Impacts of Guaranteed Basic Income on Crime Perpetration and Victimization www.nber.org/papers/w34547 "precise zero effects on criminal perpetration and victimization. Point estimates are small and statistically insignificant across all crime categories"

Waiting for Instacart's rebuttal: "Critics are wrong; we are not extracting consumer surplus via price discrimination. We are merely randomizing prices to estimate a demand elasticity so we can extract consumer surplus better through uniform pricing."

Good JMM post, and as a manual cyclist and pedestrian I'm glad to see an ebike evangelist push for regulations. But TBH a weight cap of 55kg and a speed cap of 32km/h both still seem too high for sharing bike lanes with normal cyclists! Let alone the problem of those riding them on sidewalks...

Legitimately impressive in our current environment to see these charges laid in less than a year from the original hospital shooting. Great work from many police departments across Ontario cities www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/loca...

Dr. Ma legitimately did incredible work getting people vaccinated quickly in the pandemic; and effectively fraudulently billed OHIP to the tune of $600k Just going after the money and not pursuing charges is a very fair way of balancing both facts imo www.thewhig.com/opinion/why-...

Boy, retraction is the thing these days. After years of critique, a foundational 25-year old paper on the safety of glyphosate herbicide has been pulled. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/2

This is a good policy change (and already the norm in safe supply programs that actually work). But there will absolutely be pressure- both from activists and from operational/funding constraints- to water it down in practice www.timescolonist.com/local-news/b...

I hate how every news article uses the framing of "experts"; but yes, its a bad idea because people who steal bikes are disproportionately likely to be willing to use violence But its becoming increasingly common because what else are you going to do? www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...

Got a long drive coming up? Why not listen to our recent 2-hour episode about how to invent a vaccine, why it took 90 years after Jenner's discovery to make the 2nd vaccine, and how we owe the measles vaccine to a chance career change. Plus: scientific rivalries, live demos, and secret notebooks.

Thread: this is the opposite of transparency, and it is the opposite of actual scientific and epidemiological investigation:

In fairness the big consulting firm reports are typically useless in healthcare regardless of whether AI is used. Healthcare as a system is frankly too complicated for outsiders to have enough of a grasp to be useful; and I include health economists and policy experts as outsiders

Reasonably solid article about the rising transit violence in Canadian cities (minus Vancouver; which had by far the highest base rate, didn't really see an increase like most cities) www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The headline is obviously true, but the piece itself is a terrible take. It is BAD when judges let murderers walk free, no matter how bad prison conditions are. And the fault for releasing them lies on the judges; not on Ford or the prison system www.thestar.com/politics/pol...

Tfw you're reading about Maurice Hilleman, who developed 40 vaccines in his lifetime, and his work ethic

This is a really good overview of asteroid-impact risk (and what we as humans have been doing to mitigate it).

No. Arguably the real problem is that most cities don't have enough public garbage cans. But their absence doesn't mean the nearest private can becomes a public receptacle. Also, it's just weird to imply that the alternatives to dumping are littering or not picking up www.thestar.com/life/can-you...

Math education situation in California seems dire www.theargumentmag.com/p/when-grade...

Ahead of the upcoming ACIP meeting on the child immunization schedule, it’s important to remember immunizations are about more than individual decisions — immunizations affect communities, including babies too young to be vaccinated

While I'm not optimistic for change, its good to see both Eby and Kinew pushing the NDP in the direction of supporting incarceration for criminals Crime disproportionately hurts marginalized groups, and public safety SHOULD be a progressive issue globalnews.ca/news/1152553...

I get that the government is quite limited in being able to incarcerate even repeat sex offenders; by both SCOTUS and prison capacity. But inadequate consequences from the criminal-justice system isn't something you should rely on the general public to "fix" www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/poli...

I was one of the few people who registered as as a LPC supporter in 2013 to vote Martha Hall Findlay over Trudeau. She obviously wasn't going to win; but it would have been very interesting to see how things could have gone differently if she had become leader and(/or) PM

I did not know that the Sacklers still had another pharma company they're using to push the opioid crisis to other countries :( Like many criminals; lack of consequences proportional to the harm they've done incentivizes them to keep harming others

Whatever else you can say about the Ford government's handling of healthcare, he has launched a lot of extremely ambitious projects. Often without proper funding, planning, or oversight- and results have been mixed at best- but definitely ambitious www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

Generic drug manufacturing is going to be difficult to (re)establish in the US:

There is no political issue more important than child welfare and protection. There is no political scandal as bad as our disastrous dismantling and defunding of the systems and institutions meant to protect children www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Debates about crime (whether its rising or falling, and what is the appropriate way to measure this) often miss that there are vastly different experiences of witnessing or being victimized by crime (largely driven by socio-economic status) Rates aside, distribution changes can shape perceptions

“Some former employees speak of the company like refugees of a once-great city, grief-stricken and a little bewildered by how it all came undone. They point to moments — a clinical trial result, an election outcome, the selection of a presidential Cabinet member — that could have changed everything”

Spoiler for an upcoming piece. The GTA is increasingly a place Ontarians move from, rather than to, and that's not just a pre-pandemic-era thing. Yet Ontario municipal planning is based on the idea that the future will be like the present.

I've never been to a Wawa; but very interesting that they are 40% employee owned I'd guess part of the story here is declining value of fast food (lower quality, higher price) opened up some space for Wawa to enter the market

It's not just the newspapers. "While declines to print readership are almost a foregone conclusion, 'digital traffic to local news sites is experiencing a cratering similar to that of print,' State of Local News Project director Zach Metzger writes in the report. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/in-m...

Have heard from two people in last 24 hours that Mark Carney has banned cabinet ministers from wearing brown shoes at work. Black only. Surprised more outlets aren't on this one.