In case you were hesitating: "Ongoing peer-reviewed evidence supports the safety and effectiveness of immunizations against Covid-19, RSV, and influenza during the 2025–2026 season."

1/ "Children born to mothers infected with #COVID during pregnancy faced a higher risk of autism, along with other neurological differences such as delays in speech & motor development" - Via @joffirphd.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

🧬 New Lancet Infectious Diseases study: children face >2x higher risk of Long COVID after reinfection. Even mild reinfections matter — prevention & monitoring remain key. At ERINHA, we support research that strengthens global preparedness. 🌍 https://thelancet.pulse.ly/ys4eabkfp0

Covid-19 roughly doubled the risk of vascular dementia in adults 50+ and for those with pre-existing mental illness the risk rose ~5x. A similar signal appears after other viral infections - a reminder that viruses aren’t "mild" when it comes to brain health 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

September 2020, JAMA: ‘As Their Numbers Grow, COVID-19 “Long Haulers” Stump Experts’ ‘Lockman and many other long haulers describe their most debilitating persistent symptom as impaired memory and concentration, often with extreme fatigue.’ jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

2022 Nachweis chronischer Lungen Schäden, jetzt: MRT STUDIE: "COVID-19 Kinder, können strukturelle Hirnveränderungen & Störungen der Netzwerkkonnektivität aufweisen, von denen einige ...FORTBESTEHEN." Betroffen: Exekutivfunktion Gedächtnis Emotion

Israel has violated ceasefire 47 times and killed 38 Palestinians, says Gaza media office

Alberta’s education system has become the latest front in a growing political and ideological struggle. Journalist @melwoods.me investigates how far-right movements mirroring those found in the US have made their way into classrooms north of the border: thewalrus.ca/the-battle-brewi...

Alberta schools are at the centre of the growing culture war, and the book bans and school pronoun policies can be traced back to far-right activist groups.

Just walked by a pharmacy & spur of moment went in and asked about the new Covid vax - got it & the flu shot - too get - so fast so free. Get vaxed & live your life. 💉

Lyra’s last story – exclusive extract from Philip Pullman’s final instalment in The Book of Dust trilogy

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... "While SARS-CoV-2 does not cause HIV/AIDS, its ability to induce immune dysfunction—including T cell depletion and dysfunction, increased susceptibility to infection... and systemic damage provide parallels..." #COVID

University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, 61 adults about 8 months after COVID were scanned by MRI. Those with persistent smell loss showed structural changes in the amygdala linked to smell and emotion, along with higher anxiety and depression scores. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This was a known risk about the original SARS-CoV-1 virus, from a medical study in 2010. Everyone just chose to ignore it a decade later. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20337995/

"While SARS-CoV-2 does not cause HIV/AIDS, its ability to induce immune dysfunction—including T cell depletion and dysfunction, increased susceptibility to infection including opportunistic, accelerated biological aging, neurological, and systemic damage provide parallels in terms of AIDS."

Dormant cancers can be reawakened by flu, Covid Findings indicate that increased risk of cancer death is greatest in the first few months after a Covid infection. "Together, the data indicate a markedly increased risk of death from cancer for cancer survivors who contract a SARS-CoV-2 infection."

From lawsuits against shelters to growing encampments, Toronto’s housing crisis exposes deep cracks in public empathy. #housingcrisis rabble.ca/political-ac...

CO2 from wildfires increases by 9% as climate crisis supercharges infernos

The other word for objections to diversity, equity, and inclusion is "racism"

Here's the link www.nature.com/articles/s41... Get your COVID-19 booster or at least mask up. Get the shingles vaccine too if you can.

From cancelling the carbon tax to pausing the electric vehicle mandate, Prime Minister Mark Carney is making sweeping changes to Canada’s environmental rules — and complicating Canada’s progress on climate change. thenarwhal.ca/mark-carney-...

40% of TRC Calls to Action remain untouched a decade later. #NDTR, #TruthAndReconciliation #OrangeShirtDay rabble.ca/indigenous/a...

It has been ten years since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its final report and some feel the initiative is losing momentum.

A rare October 2025 harvest moon will rise over Ontario skies soon. Here’s when to catch it — and why it will look massive

My petty gripe: not only am I losing my livelihood to AI – now it’s stealing my em dashes too

Count down to “Young men keep writing things on ammo and shooting people, are women not making enough room for men in the crafting space?”

Watch this, knowing that Banting and Best never wanted to commercialize insulin, and it'll make you cry to see how far the prevaling logic of capitlist greed has dragged us from the light. www.facebook.com/watch/?v=798...

Carney’s Liberals are cowards. But we knew that already.

👀 Just put this on my TBR list! “weaving together a classic North American noir detective story, Irish mythology, gothic-style horror and frontier-town adventure, all against the backdrop of an early-20th-century mining town.“

A Palestinian film about a little boy won an award and Israel cut off the funds immediately. Meanwhile we are subjected to whiny articles about how unfair it is to boycott Israeli films, academics, artists. This is about standing up to genocide. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

"Records produced by the government in this litigation show that the internal advice prior to passing Bill 212 was that protected bike lanes can have a positive impact on congestion and that removing them would do little, if anything, to alleviate gridlock, and may worsen congestion” buff.ly/HiMOMBs

Global press freedom suffers sharpest fall in 50 years, report finds

Reem Hamadaqa is among 70 Palestinian students accepted into Canadian graduate programs who are unable to leave Gaza due to the Israeli siege and genocide. The students are calling on the Canadian government to defend their right to education. mondoweiss.net/2025/08/70-p...

There is genuine mismanagement, and then there is Ford underfunding school boards and then blaming the trustees for not balancing their books (on the backs of special needs children primarily), and he doesn't differentiate between the two while he centralises authority over education.

“ #covid-19 may somehow impair the immune system’s “memory” of past infections, potentially making even healthy people more vulnerable to future #pathogens.” www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Researchers told me that, compared with pre-pandemic times, people are living with more inflammation and immune disruption now, whether they have long COVID or not. Months later, Akiko Iwasaki's final line still echoes in my head: “the entire world is pretty much the convalescent control.” (2/5)

The CARTESIAN study makes the case that COVID has aged our arteries, especially in women. Even mild cases. Even me. — Accelerated vascular aging not proportional to severity — Mechanisms mapped out — Strong link to #LongCovid academic.oup.com/eurheartj/ad...

Incidence of Long COVID Following Reinfection with COVID-19 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... RECOVER study. "We found that COVID-19 reinfection resulted in a roughly 35% increase in the incidence of #longCOVID in a matched cohort using observational electronic health records” #novid #PASC

🚨 COVID & vascular aging 🚨 CARTESIAN trial (2,300 people, 16 countries) shows: • ↑ arterial stiffness months after infection—even if mild • Effects strongest in women & long COVID • Adds ~5 yrs of vascular aging • Vaccination helps COVID isn’t a cold. The heart & vessels remember #MedSky #Covid

Netanyahu is moving into his final solution phase in Gaza - the forced expulsion of a starving population. The west makes statements but makes no steps to impose sanctions or charge Canadians serving in the IDF death machine. Meanwhile the grandmothers are refusing to be silent.

Canada: “We are prepared to issue as many empty statements as necessary to stop this genocide”

Canadian journalists are finally speaking out about how the Israel lobby group HonestReporting targets newsrooms to silence Palestinian voices and perspectives. mondoweiss.net/2025/08/how-... #Palestine #Israel

📢 Did you hear about CCDH's latest research? TW: Suicide, self-harm, substance abuse & eating disorders ChatGPT is giving dangerous advice to vulnerable teens within minutes of interacting with it - with weak safeguards. Read our new report to learn more ⤵️ buff.ly/bXWObgC

But no retaliatory measures, apparently.

!!!! More Ontario taxpayer money down the drain on Doug Ford court costs & obsession w Toronto.

OMG OMG OMG WE WON!!!!! Power to the people! ❤✊❤✊❤✊❤

As @annabowness.bsky.social, one of the cofounders of @spacing.bsky.social magazine, said 20ish years ago: Sesame Street taught us everything we needed to know about urbanism by the time we were 5.

🚨 42,000 Palestinians have been forced from their homes in the West Bank — expelled at gunpoint, living in buses, mosques, and rubble. Israel is carrying out mass displacement in Jenin and Tulkarem.📍Read the full report on @mondoweiss.net. mondoweiss.net/2025/07/the-...

The New York Times has helped to enable and sustain Israel’s ongoing genocide. A new dossier reveals the close ties of 20 top editors, executives, and journalists at the Times who have covered Gaza and their connection to Israel and Zionism. mondoweiss.net/2025/07/the-...