Lots of Alberta health news these days; here's one from me: First Nations leaders and advocates have been telling feds and provincial govts that Alberta UCP's $100 COVID vaccine fee is a treaty violation. Neither will step in to remove this access barrier. pressprogress.ca/alberta-char...

NEW: Analysis from Marilou Gagnon on Health Canada's rejection of compassion club models in the context of the DULF case themainlander.com/2026/03/09/c... #drugsky

My latest for @thestar.com. Increasing surveillance and extending police powers doesn’t solve homelessness or drug use on transit — it merely opens up the broader public to arbitrary punishment, including the potential for jail time and $10,000 fines. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

this is about stripping away people's basic rights.

Long COVID isn’t rare. According to the WHO, about 15 in 100 people still have symptoms 12 months after COVID-19 infection. Prevent infection. Prevent reinfection. Protect your health. #LongCOVID #LongCOVIDAwarenessMonth #PublicHealth #CleanAir

The archivist preserving decaying floppy disks It's a race against time (and magnetic decay) to preserve decades of cultural history stored on obsolete hardware. www.popsci.com/technology/f...

These are examples of cigarette certificates, more commonly known today as cigarette cards. Like back then they are highly collectible today, only you don’t have to risk lung cancer to get them lol.

The headline does not convey how completely batshit this story is. The Archive Today (archive.ph etc) admin weaponized the site's captcha to attack a blogger who wrote about them and *altered archived screenshots* as part of the attack. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

BC knew that just 0.3% of drugs seized in Vancouver by weight were hydromorphone. "Rather than publicize the evidence to correct loud claims of diversion flooding communities, the BC government opted to sit on the information and retreat from safe supply." @godfrey.bsky.social reports:

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

I want to go on a mental health walk but it it's -27 with windchill so I'll just emotionally crumble to pj harvey music alone in my room as self-care

I just want to learn about the history of yugoslavia without being fed it all fell apart because COMMUNISM BAD propaganda... like the red scare bs is so deeply ingrained, it takes hours to find info on the complex dynamics that actually let to situations happening

An airborne virus is a virus that can infect other people through unseen particles in the air, sometimes for hours after the sick person has left the area! Masks and clean, ventilated air can reduce the risk of getting sick from airborne viruses or infecting others.

No. The government isn’t addressing the emergency at all the UNREGULATED DRUG SUPPLY is the cause of thousands of people’s deaths and unnumbered catastrophic injuries they have lied to you from the get they talk about Addiction so you don’t give a shit about this

Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control. “It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.

“Did you do anything to refresh your memory in order to testify meaningfully today?” asked the judge. At a hearing re DULF's constitutional challenge, a senior Health Canada official struggled to reconcile government claims with past statements on safe supply, reports @godfrey.bsky.social:

How do you create a regulatory pathway so Canada can implement a non-medical model of safer supply to save lives in the middle of a public health crisis? Not even the guy who was No. 2 at Health Canada could think of a way. The fed gov makes drug laws, and can’t think of a way to get around them.

On Monday Eric Costen, who used to be No.2 at Health Canada, testified in the DULF trial. He says HC was open to a non-medical model of safer supply, but couldn’t point to any proof of that openess. DULF lawyers presented a list of experts suporting a non-med model. thetyee.ca/News/2026/01...

Reminder that flu deaths are a policy choice. In the 2020/21 flu season, deaths were remarkably low due to Covid mitigations such as masks, social distancing, reduced crowding. No one should lose a child to a disease we've already shown we can control

I’m old enough to remember people making the same argument for not using condoms at the height of the AIDS crisis. Replace Covid with HIV and mask with condom and it’s scarily on point.

Participants in an Ontario safe supply program experienced huge reduction in overdose risk, in line with other research. But the program was discontinued due to lack of funds—amid national rollback that study author attributes to moral panic. Sydney Sauer reports:

a used bookstore near me has some kind of 6th sense... in a movie I watched last night, mark ruffolo reads a passage of a book to sarah polley. today, that same book was in the used bookstore. I read the first few pages in the snow because it felt like a sign I had to read it.

Dulf’s constitutional challenge continues tomorrow (Jan 21) at 9am. Fairly certain Dan Werb will be testifying. thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...

i dont need larger tits for your stupid gender reasons i need them to kill other people at parties by simply seeing them in non-baggy clothing

We're suing the RCMP and it's finally going to trial this month. Here's a great video explaining why we're doing it. #cdnpoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=stDm...

B.C. health authorities tried for four years to create a heroin compassion club whose members could purchase a regulated version of the drug without a prescription, an effort to reduce toxic-drug deaths that was ultimately derailed by political blowback www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/e0c398c...

lately my brain keeps saying "I'm the worst person in the world" everytime I think I'm minorly inconviencing a friend - I can barely sent a "hru?" text without feeling incredibly guilty for being nosey. asking for anything makes me want to burrow and sleep forever. yet I have to built community...

I watch the bulk of ashleythebaroness videos, despite rarely sharing them. But this one hit today. And she's right! We're not dealing with some foreign ideology. We're dealing with a uniquely American phenomenon. fascism wrapped in our own flag

Legault resigns to spend more time privately hounding minorities

legault le gone

the province’s lying-based approach to the public health emergency is at least consistent

I'm a literal drug expert and when I try to post educational videos they get taken down half the time by social media platforms, but the environment-destroying robot can just say whatever to children. Cool system we've got here. Maybe it should change

we asked Galen Weston, Jimmy Pattison and the Food Professor and they all said that the status quo is perfect and will not change

The real danger that Mamdani poses to the establishment is showing that government can actually do things for the collective good, something they've been avoiding for decades

another way people who use drugs are de-humanized

"Drug users are being scapegoated for all the failures of our broken system" - DULF compassion club members. "We’re low hanging fruit. It’s easy, you can always blame the drug user. Vilify, criminalize, stigmatize: Makes it so you want to crawl away and hide. These are lies."

Congress is about to make a huge push into online ID verification, entrenching the power of big tech and mandating that they collect even MORE data on users. Mass surveillance/censorship laws are being framed as “child safety” but they’re really abt at removing LGBTQ ppl, repro justice info, etc.

you mean to tell me that "clit", "cum", "cunt", and "shit" aren't real words but "qua" is?

letterboxd wrapped just dropped!

the full movie is now watchable on wikipedia 🥰

public domaine day is bringing me so much joy this year since my favourite era of movies - the early 1930s - is starting to enter the public domain

I got an ipod dupe and went to put songs on it and had to face what a mess my computer's music library is... I used to work in radio and I spent so much time organizing metadata and collecting mp3s to make shows... I knew so much about what I'd play too, I feel like I lost that.

heated rivalry becoming a mass cultural phenomenon seems to give some strong evidence for the thesis that it's not that contemporary audiences are anti-sex in media, it's that they're mostly tired of or bored of heterosexuality

*receives sext* *must wait 4 minutes to spit out disgusting immunotherapy drugs that taste like birch bark and irritate my entire mouth while responding*

friendly reminder youtu.be/nWEpW6KOZDs

What a rollercoaster of a year. Huge thank you to all the candidates and supporters who made 2025's longest ballot campaigns possible❤️❤️❤️ It's been incredible watching what a ragtag group of amateurs can pull off✊ Looking forward to 2026 😀 #electoralreform #recordbreaking #funtimes

the caq has been enshittifying us since they got elected: rising rents, healthcare access, out-of-province tuition hikes, hijab bans... soraya will definitely make things worse, but I find it frustrating how long people have been accepting this shit instead of doing prientemps érable 2.0