Good news: The FDA has reversed its decision and will now review Moderna’s application for the first mRNA-based flu vaccine after initially declining to consider it last week in an attempt to undermine vaccine science and trust.

Thing is, even if basket-weaving courses were the problem (they are not), it still makes zero sense to make it way more expensive for poor students to take them, but leave net prices basically intact for wealthier students to do so. Zero sense, that is, until you remember Ford hates poor people.

From @thewalrus.ca ##HeatedRivalry thewalrus.ca/heated-rival...

Hearing that @ipaccanada.bsky.social once again deliberately has nothing about air quality and airborne transmission at their annual conference. Unconscionable.

This is such tedious bullshit. The 7.3% figure is driven by food at restaurants, because a year ago, there was the "GST holiday" and a year-over-year price comparison from that is skewed. Food at stores actually moderated last month. Also, Carney doesn't control Brazil's climate for coffee beans. 1/

Excellent response. #Covid open.substack.com/pub/matterso...

Our new Games in the @theglobeandmail.com app are legit a game changer. Prefer our daily mini crosswords to the NYT - more Tragically Hip/You Can’t Do That on Television clues for sure. I like the Headliner puzzle too.

Ford government approved more than 100 permits in the past 5 years allowing industry to take water... in Waterloo Region... per the province’s own data, some of these permits carried the highest risk of unacceptable environmental impact. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/13/a... #WatRegion #OnPoli

“Too many people have a view of the Nazis as rigorously empirical and scientific thinkers whose crime was that they applied this in service of their devout racism. But Nazism was also a mess of inconsistencies, irrationality, and bad science.” www.liberalcurrents.com/youre-not-cr...

Cannot stress enough how cost effective an intervention clean indoor air can be. Any rational cost/benefit analysis would make this a no-brainer in every school in the world. It's long past time to make this a priority here in Toronto.

By the way, the EU, which includes Denmark, agreed to review the vaccine.

Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier have won Bronze in Figure Skating Ice Dance. Since its introduction in 1976, Canada has won 2 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze (Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir Gold 2010, Silver 2014, Gold 2018 and Tracy Wilson/Robert McCall Bronze 1988)

Remarkable: Trump's deranged threat to block the bridge connecting Detroit to Canada is backfiring, giving Dems a big issue in 2026 races in Michigan, which could help decide control of Congress. Michigan Dems tell me they'll use this against Republicans big time: newrepublic.com/article/2064...

Canada has a long history of supporting Cuba. open.substack.com/pub/noralore...

We’re all ‘time thieves’ at work. Is that really such a bad thing? www.fastcompany.com/91486350/wer...

"If I was an American, ICE would be my number one problem. I wouldn’t sleep at night. It’s an undisciplined private army with frankly fascistic overtones. But as a Canadian, I can’t ignore ICE either."

"La prévention revient aux mains des politiques". @santepubliquefrance.fr qui a collaboré au "vivre avec" sans prévention, une stratégie libertarienne et d'extrême droite (vaccin/pas), qui fait n'importe quoi sur la prévention du Covid, se plaint de la destruction de la santé publique 🤦‍♀️ 1/🧶

#EpsteinFiles #ConradBlack open.substack.com/pub/dougaldl...

It's Black History Month! If you'd like to support a Black creator making critical public health content please support my work! There are so few Black podcasters and even fewer in science comms. Making "Public Health is Dead" is a lot of labour I do for free 💚💖💀 www.publichealthisdead.com/support

I really can’t watch any of these ice flip videos without thinking about how a white man is being rewarded for accomplishing what a Black woman was punished for doing 30 years ago Surya Bonaly was an incredible athlete and she was treated like shit for it

I don't think the Olympics and the Superbowl should happen at the same time. What if a parent had a kid in each? You know they're going to the football game and not the cross country skiing. And that makes me sad for that skier I just made up.

It's just objectively silly — and, I would argue, very counter-productive — that housing has come to be seen as a *federal* issue. Provincial and municipal governments increasingly only exist as rumours in Canada.

Well here's your problem.

I truly admire Bruce Fanjoy's desire to remain Poilievre's #1 troll

ICE now has an $85B annual budget—the highest-funded US law enforcement agency. Its agents operate in five Canadian cities. Constitutional law expert Kent Roach explains what this means for Canadian sovereignty and Charter rights. https://ow.ly/in6O50Yat2z

And yet the Ford government will take over multiple school boards on the premise that they have mismanaged their finances.

This is appalling (though unsurprising). #EpsteinFiles open.substack.com/pub/dougaldl...

Upping Canada's wastewater monitoring is more important now than ever. It will save money - and lives. Demand it from your politicians. macleans.ca/society/heal...

Hospitals continue to refuse to take #Covid seriously, even during an outbreak. 1/4 1) They are only testing symptomatic patients, even though a considerable number of Covid cases are asymptomatic. 2) They are only requiring surgical masks in the outbreak area. Respirators are needed.

This story is appalling. Canada let this man get terminally ill and now plans to put him on a plane to El Salavadore. The flight will likely kill him. Thought the death penalty was illegal here.

This is Canada, people. Not the U.S.

Turns out, in the age of #AI, good human writers are more important than ever in tech. www.businessinsider.com/hottest-job-...

Guelph General Hospital declares COVID-19 outbreak in inpatient unit

In hyper-local news, I see Toronto's transit commission still refuses to make riders aware of the most useful rapid-transit line in its system, the UP Express, because even though it's fully part of the system it's run by some other authority. So it's not even on the map www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Also www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

New review highlights growing evidence that diabetes drug metformin can prevent long COVID The low-cost drug may lower the risk of clinician-diagnosed long COVID by 40% to 60%. www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...

This Friday, the House of Commons will be debating our Standing Orders. I think this would be a great time to talk about whether Question Period is serving Canadians well as currently constructed (35 second questions, 35 second answers). Here's some ideas: 🧵 (1/6)

1/6 THE HYBRID WORK PARADOX Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom has the receipts: Hybrid work boosts satisfaction and cuts resignations by a third—with zero productivity loss. Yet, employers are doubling down on strict #Return-To-Office mandates. Why? #WorkLife #FutureOfWork #HybridWork

"As part of this push for relevance, xAI embraced making sexualized material, publicly releasing sexy AI companions, rolling back guardrails on sexual material and ignoring internal warnings about the potentially serious legal and ethical risks of such content." Canadian officials are still on X

A huge 89% majority of global people [56% even in the United States] want stronger action to fight the #ClimateCrisis, but mistakenly believe they’re in a minority. The “silent majority” for #ClimateAction needs to get loud. People want action. Smart cities need to go much further, much faster.

The Globe and Mail (Ontario Edition) Sat, 31 Jan 2026 The day Carney got fleeced #HeatedRivalry #CdnPoli globe2go.pressreader.com/article/2817...

readthecatch.ca/politicians-... #CdnPoli #OnPoli

The Globe and Mail (Ontario Edition) Sat, 24 Jan 2026 Heated Rivalry: In the show, consent isn’t only present, it drives the narrative forward globe2go.pressreader.com/article/2829...

Did the Empty Netters really love Heated Rivalry, or was it all an act? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

Due to all the amazing people buying tickets so quickly we have added two new shows -- May 8th in Toronto and May 17th in Guelph (all ages matinee!) Click here== > linktr.ee/lowestofthel... Our special guests will be Kingdom Of Birds. See you out there!

Heated Rivalry: Marc Miller watched it all.

Officially giving myself permission not to join the NDP. Just searched his posts and Avi Lewis has mentioned disability thrice on his entire timeline, COVID once (in the service of a tangentially related point), and air quality and long covid never.