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

very thorough coverage of the last week of the dulf trial - I wish I was in bc and could support from the courtroom, but michelle gamage's coverage is the next best thing. really thankful for all the experts testifying.

It's the season of giving at your local supermarket. A group of Santas and elves stole around $3000 of food from the Metro on rue Laurier Monday night, before redistributing it in a public square. www.24heures.ca/2025/12/17/d...

Synthetic drug manufacture can occur anywhere depending on human creativity and the availability of a few strategic chemicals. This is fentanyl, described by Hugh Lampkin of VANDU in 2016 when it entered the drug market here in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and overwhelmed us and we drowned

I’ve lost count of how many “What’s going around, we’re all sick over here?” posts. What’s going around is the “find out” phase of the pandemic, and it isn’t pretty. It’s bloody terrifying to see what widespread immune dysfunction looks like, and I fear this is but the tip of the iceberg.

Such a good article in Maisonneuve on how Canada Post is being dismantled, management is rolling out tech to try to emulate Amazon, and what Canadians collectively lose if they’re successful in gutting this public institution.

📽️ WATCH: After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, which led to 18 million hens being killed and a spike in egg prices, the Department of Agriculture didn’t investigate whether the virus was airborne. But ProPublica did. @natlash.bsky.social breaks it down: propub.li/4iVcYfD

We are experiencing a more severe than usual flu season and COVID rates are starting to rise. If you want to reduce your chances of getting sick, one of the most effective things you can do is wear a high quality mask. 🤫

Sinon, les ami•es je vous souhaite un superbe

I’ve posted this before but the light was perfect today- a little Victorian cat paw in a brick at the front of the old Norfolk & Norwich Hospital. As this is on the front-facing corner of the main gates, the bricklayer quite clearly put it there on purpose, at a height where children would spot it.

lapointe succinctly nails everything that is wrong with the eby approach to OD crisis - expert advice ignored (unless your name rhymes with ego) - govt writes blank cheque for unregulated recovery industry, ignores systemic abuse of patients - calls for nonmedical safe supply rejected out of hand

We've seen how putting a tech CEO in charge of the gov't turned out for the U.S. - now Carney is championing this idea for Canada "The public service is not a business. It is a democratic institution that serves Canadians"

I cannot believe reality has consistently out-onioned the onion but here I am just watching real news at this point

INFO | Cette année, le gouvernement de François Legault a adopté plusieurs lois controversées visant spécifiquement les travailleur·euses. Un article de @emmaarkell.bsky.social À lire en intégralité 👇

Holy cats I'm on CBC's Front Burner! Explaining drug laws, the toxic unregulated drug supply and how two locals stepped in to try and save lives with a compassion club for a national audience. This is so dang cool. Listen here, or on any podcasting app: www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...

Tubi is such a crazy streaming service. It’s like if the Criterion Closet was in a gas station

This morning, @thetyee.ca ‘s health reporter @michellegamage.bsky.social is on Front Burner talking about the DULF constitutional trial - which could change Canada’s drug laws. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/f...

The constitutional challenge will continue tomorrow at 9:45am, with Dr. Paxton Bach finishing his expert witness testimony, then Lisa Lapointe starting her testimony during the second half of the day.

"I just wanted to get out of there. I asked about crutches for the walk home, but he gave me a bunch of weight loss pamphlets and a prescription for an appetite suppressant."

Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department. One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone. When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?

Geneviève Bergeron Maryse Laganière Hélène Colgan Maryse Leclair Nathalie Croteau Anne-Marie Lemay Barbara Daigneault Sonia Pelletier Anne-Marie Edward Michèle Richard Maud Haviernick Annie StArneault Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz Annie Turcotte Never forgotten #Dec6 #EcolePolytechnique