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.

Every provision in this bill is a reasonable first step. However it seems unlikely that any of this survives contact with the supreme court; and it doesn't address any of the issues with lack of court and prison capacity

Folks, it is the year 2025 and Word's grammar checker is suggesting that I should change "fewer" to "less few".

Ontario’s Ministry of Health has tasked hospitals struggling with deficits to come up with a three-year plan to balance their budgets, and service cuts and bed closures do not appear to be off the table for extreme cases. #Onpoli globalnews.ca/news/1148537...

I have an inert FB account (deleted my personal info, just keep it alive so I find people/event pages for work), but when I check, Reels is trying to get me back with videos of deformities and gore. The OutBrain-ization of everything - just get those eyeballs to focus!

More than 20% of chemists have deliberately added information they believe to be incorrect into their manuscripts during peer review, a new study has found. My latest for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/policy/publi... @nanoporous.net, @freddie2310.bsky.social #ChemSky

Anonymous accounts asking if you have security. Tweeting that your life is in danger. Warnings you could end up with a similar fate to a murdered journalist. Inside the shocking campaign to silence critics of Medical Properties Trust, the landlord gutting America’s hospitals. bit.ly/3WMeCG1

Literally anyone who commutes into Toronto's Union Station has gotten lost in these tunnels. Was fun to learn tons about them and the rare success they represent, in this article by @scp-hughes.bsky.social

Notably while many countries (like Canada) are reducing prison sentence length; they're also reducing the chance of receiving punishment at all AND experiencing severe delays in trials and sentencing We're functionally incentivizing crime; especially among youth

Don't worry; we can use the same argument that pundits make about crime to argue that lack of enforcement and charges means less offences So ESA and OHSA violations must be WAY down! /s

The thing about hospitals is that they actually meet the legal requirements to report, investigate, and track missing opioids. Long Term Care... does not (and they have way more opioids used per capita) www.thespec.com/news/hamilto...

But a nurse not properly signing why they accessed an Electronic Health Record can lead to termination

This is wild. Dozens of nurses and other healthcare workers had their personal information stolen in a data breach from their employer. But the publicly run Interior Health Authority in B.C denied it for 10 years, even as crimes were being committed using their info www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This is a new one for me, but in my area there's been a noticeable rise in retail storefronts with locked doors that require you to ring a doorbell to be let in. Not large grocery or drugstores (they all have security now), but for stores small enough to only have 1-2 employees working at a time

"Rae Days" became shorthand for a lot of disastrous decision making, even if the actual Rae Days themselves were pretty mild. Other govs have had similar policies and not had it stick, because they weren't doing things like gutting the healthcare system at the same time (And also it rhymes)

The only replies are dunking on the guy, and that's not completely unfair- Harris contributed A LOT to the current state of healthcare But in fairness almost no Canadian fully understands how much the system is struggling right now, because it really is hard to believe

"We calculate the aggregate economic cost of traffic noise at $110 billion nationwide. The economic burden is disproportionately borne by lower income and minority households, suggesting that the externality is regressive." www.nber.org/papers/w34298

Very good summary of the middle path that all governments are struggling to walk It's not compassionate to let people prey upon the homeless or the public, but we're mostly choosing not to enforce the law against predators in the name of compassion www.timescolonist.com/opinion/les-...

I'm an OG acetaminophen hater (as an easily available OTC med, for both suicide and liver damage reasons). It almost certainly does not cause autism! HOWEVER- the evidence showing it causes autism is stronger than 90% of all econ and social science research, and a good chunk of medical research

That is a dramatic drop. For the first time in a decade there might be more international students at universities in Canada than colleges

Separate middle schools are (probably) not the optimal model; but it's likely that a big piece of the discrepancy in results in Ontario is just correlational Middle schools are less common in the Catholic system, and the Catholic system performs better

I cannot tell you how grim the AI in higher ed situation is. Many of the students have completely surrendered to letting AI do their homework, badly, I might add. How do you fix this? Truly, what the hell do we do, beyond what grading can address, which isn't a solution?

American students are getting dumber, the trend started before Covid and has only gotten worse since the pandemic ended

More thinking from Australia on international student caps. Note the difference with Canada, where because the government has "done something" the problem is "solved" and therefore does not require more government attention.

I've been reporting in East Africa on the impact of President Trump's USAID cuts, and I find that not only are children dying in large numbers but the pace is accelerating as stockpiles run out and people grow weaker. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

I'm not really a fan of Lewis, but this is a really well produced video with a potentially winning message for the NDP leadership race (and maybe for winning back seats?)

I'd be a lot more in favour of expanded scope of practice for non-physicians if Ontario hadn't spent the last 5 years aggressively dismantling standards and flooding the market with unqualified practitioners in every non-physician health discipline www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Yeah, but the Canadian gang is our money laundering banking sector (More seriously, yes, Canadian transnational gangs involved with drug and human trafficking do operate in Mexico, and its good and generates goodwill to acknowledge this even if they are a relatively small piece of the problem)

Canadian institutions whine about having lost so many intl students yet few are doing anything to get them back even when visas are way below cap. It just shows: Canada's success at intl education was about visas than recruitment skill. We're the kid born on third base who thought they hit a triple.

In the first year alone, covid vaccines are estimated to have delivered between $5 trillion and $38 trillion in global benefits in terms of averted sick days, avoided hospitalisations and prevented deaths 🧪 They cost $69 billion to develop and deliver www.newscientist.com/article/2496...

I've heard drug users here in Canada relay similar stories of "paramedics/police/the hospital gave me Narcan when I wasn't ODing to steal my high". The stories should be taken with a grain of salt I've also seen a trend of pro-drug activists calling healthcare workers giving Narcan an assault...

"France built 40 nuclear reactors in a decade. Here’s how they did it, and how the world can follow their lead today." https://worksinprogress.co/issue/liberte-egalite-radioactivite/

Just learned about a violent carjacking and attempted home invasion that happened in my grandparents neighbourhood; a VERY safe area. Thankfully the perpetrators were caught (They're now in a care facility, but they lived there for 50+ years and I spent most of my childhood there)

Wow. Police strongly, publicly, pushing back at a plea deal the Crown is offering- downgrading charges from murder (of an 8 year old girl) to manslaughter. And threatening to release details of the case to the public if the plea stays on the table

The criminal justice system exists not just to protect the public from criminals, but to protect criminals from the public A system that can't protect the public and dispense justice is a bad state for the public (directly) and for criminals too (second order effect)

😱 “A researcher recalled wondering about the level of 6 LIN tanks used to maintain samples “going back to the 80s” and checked on them to find that “all of them were bone dry. Then they checked with their business office and learned that “our lab hadn’t purchased any liquid nitrogen since 2016.”

“mandated treatment, if properly carried out, can help addicted people and the communities where they live” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...

The reason the Lindsay home invasion case has captured so much attention is because an increasing number of Canadians feel the justice system is failing to protect them from violent criminals, so they'll eventually be in a position of needing to defend themselves lindsayadvocate.ca/self-defence...

"Another mother in the area told National Post the suspect is the same man who sexually attacked her young son in 2021... he was arrested, charged and after two years of court hearings was sentenced to 18 months in jail, but was released six months early, in early March."

Reminder that there are multiple vaccines already out there that reduce your kids' chances of multiple types of cancers (and some people want you to believe this is bad!) www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/6-vaccines...

The long term data on hepatitis B vaccination shows it reduces the incidence of liver cancer by 84% and death from liver disease by 70%. This comes from a large cluster RCT in which entire towns were randomly selected to give the hepatitis B vaccine to all newborns.

The reason penicillin revolutionised medicine is because people worked on finding cheaper, more efficient ways to produce it at scale. Not because it was already a cheap solution to use against deadly diseases. press.stripe.com/origins-of-e...

Suing for damages for lost income, where the income is proceeds from prolific theft, caused by being beaten while trying to steal a car. Certainly an interesting legal strategy, though I'd be shocked if this was the first time someone had attempted it? www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...