Today's essential listen for all who care about patient and HCW safety. Dr. Iris Gorfinkel talks about masking policies in health care settings as cases of COVID-19, flu and RSV rise www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.” Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!

Thank you, Mary Gillis for perfectly expressing the shameful leadership failure we are witnessing in Canada (and elsewhere).

Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies. For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!

As the world faces intensifying climate extremes, voices of compassion are speaking out. This week’s newsletter explores hope, heartbreak, and how each of us can help connect the dots. Read the full edition of the newsletter below!

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

This is happening right now in Canada 🇨🇦, while you look at 🇺🇸 in disgust. Carney is on a march of upward wealth transfer while consolidating power in legislation. It’s arrived. It’s here. We have to fight it. #Canadasky

They are sending roving bands of masked thugs with the stated goal of kidnapping 20 million brown people to transport them to any country they can pay to take them. All this has been cleared by The Stolen Court. This is not deportation. This is ethnic cleansing.

Israel has turned into a terrorist state. They better not harm the children. The youth stepped up because of the absolute failure of the west - Germany, UK, Canada, France to defend the international rule of law.

Happy Pride Month

Not even sure what to say anymore about all of this insane stuff.

Hard to find ways to counter the crazy evil gaslighting that lets this genocide (as named by so many global organizations) just keep on toward its intended obliteration of a people. I don't understand this. It feels silly to write another letter, but I will.

Still one of my favourites, Jon Hassell's 1977 debut, recorded at York University in Toronto. I needed this pacing today. #breath #drone #trumpet #tabla #conga #nowplaying jonhassell.bandcamp.com/album/vernal...

Come ON, Saanich! Don't do this. Elizabeth May will represent you better as MP than a Con. Libs and NDP: your strategic vote is Green. The Con candidate won't even talk to media or do debates; they won't help you when you're in trouble either #bcpoli #cdnpoli

From 2015, a good summary of Pope Francis' excellent and pointed Laudato Si' on our shared environment, and connections between ecological destruction, poverty, and capitalism. via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

My Polish mother has been telling me about the period before Russian and German troops varyingly invaded her tiny Northern Polish village, and the activities leading up to her family finally being exported in cattle cars to a concentration camp. So many parallels.

It's hard to teach a lot of economics in 60 second TV soundbites, so lemme slow down and explain what's going on in a 25 minute podcast. Forgive me for engaging in international trade and weakening America, as the interview was with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Noticing quite a few new USA license plates in my hood, too. “We (Canadians) have this possibility to head in one really amazing direction and continue to be a world leader." "... these gains [women's rights, choice] can be lost and, as evidenced by the situation in the U.S., lost quickly.

This is a free self-paced online course. Let minds expand all over the place.

Wow - Jody Wilson Raybould's piece on how to respond to Trump's "51st state" rhetoric is terrific, and wise, and -very- timely. @markjcarney.bsky.social @cathmckenna.bsky.social @chrystia-freeland.bsky.social @charlieangus104.bsky.social www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... via @thestar.com #Canada

Chilling, horrifying ...

Calling it like it is. The fantasy (I hope) Putin-Trump world order.

Remember when Bonnie Henry lied and said schools don’t drive transmission of Covid? Remember when Bonnie Henry lied and said rapid tests sitting unused in a B.C. warehouse was an “urban myth?” When in fact there were 1.3 million rapid tests stashed in that warehouse? www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Dangerous to promote this piece of PR b.s. without qualifying it as the last thing we need. Disappointed in you. People can contact the Privy Council & express their concerns: www.canada.ca/en/privy-cou...

Hard no. She has consistently denied the physics of airborne virus transmission and the effectiveness of masking with respirators. There are far better choices out there.

How denial of airborne #COVID19 transmission broke the world, by @blakemurdoch.bsky.social healthydebate.ca/2025/03/topi... via @healthydebate.bsky.social

Canada: let's not authorize cynical removals of environmental regulation against bad logging & mining etc. in the name of "response to tariffs." It is so easy to see this coming. The US isn't the only place prone to oligarchs creating disaster capitalism they can profit from. 🧵 #cdnpoli #bcpoli

Many people are still trying to act like things are sort of OK. Because that’s emotionally easier. But this is a fascist takeover, at least call it what it is

The Best Documentary Academy Award winner is a painfully real and objective register of the horrors Palestinians have to endure, and of the unhinged depravity of their oppressors Stream it now for free: dmovies.org/2025/03/06/n...

Well, this is inspiring. (We continue to wear N95s indoors.) #Covid #WearAMask

It's possible, really really, and can change one's life in surprisingly positive ways.

It is well worth reading this article, and this thread. (I found myself substituting Hitler's name for another one. It was remarkably and chillingly accurate.)

Canadian COVID Forecast: Mar 1-14, 2025 SEVERE: QC VERY HIGH: CAN, AB, North, NS, ON HIGH: BC, MB, NB, NL, PEI, SK MODERATE: none About 1 in 52 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

"[Orange man's] first 40 days haven’t been as chaotic as people think. He has been methodically kicking out the foundations underpinning the world’s strongest democracy. He is deliberately destroying Western alliances and leaving America dangerously alone in the world."

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This seems relevant today given the current events happening in the states! #Canadastrong #nevervoteconservative We can do this Canada 🇨🇦

"...Trump’s whole strategy: Trump is acting like a king because he is too weak to govern like a president. He is trying to substitute perception for reality. He is hoping that perception then becomes reality. That can only happen if we believe him." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...

Hey Canada, as we watch the Trump admin erase info from public websites, remember when the Harper government muzzled scientists, shut research libraries and labs and tossed irreplaceable documents into dumpsters. www.nationalobserver.com/2015/09/29/n...

This! 🔥

Feisty, no bs 🇨🇦 galvanizing politician, more of this.

Black musicians, composers, music scholars predated the Renaissance and, not surprisingly, existed outside of the Western world. Let’s stop pretending composition, musicology, and music theory only existed in Europe. silpayamanant.wordpress.com/bmc_505-1505/

If you haven’t watched this yet, please watch it. If you haven’t shared it yet, please share it. Especially if you’re in the United States or Canada. It’s REALLY important for AT LEAST two countries who are supposed to be allies. #Canada #USA #Tariffs

Ya. Read this for perspective.

Having never used Amazon, I can assure you that it is easy to shop online via local independent stores, ordering direct from merchants or other online companies, and to get things delivered without it. With, of course, some remote area exceptions. #BoycottAmazon.

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