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From Nunavut to Big Berta
Still river this morning
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Because people think it's super cool to post what they think is a "gotcha" about the likely Kamloops burial sites:
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We fact-checked residential school denialists and debunked their ‘mass grave hoax’ theory
Contrary to what some ‘denialists’ believe, research shows that Canadian media outlets did not help circulate a ‘mass grave hoax’ regarding unmarked graves at former Indian Residential Schools.
https://theconversation.com/we-fact-checked-residential-school-denialists-and-debunked-their-mass-grave-hoax-theory-213435#:~:text=Although%20many%20have%20called%20for,by%20First%20Nations%20across%20Canada
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Timothy Caulfield
16 days ago
Great resource for all! How to gauge the quality of a research study: 13 questions journalists should ask
journalistsresource.org/media/good-r...
Eg: - peer reviewed? - top-tier academic journal? - other scholars trust this work? - funding? - credentials? - COI? - sample size? - methods?
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13 questions journalists should ask to gauge research quality
Asking these 13 questions can help journalists spot red flags in research, including studies that policymakers cite to defend their stances.
https://journalistsresource.org/media/good-research-bad-quality-journalism-tips/
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I want to just announce to the world I hated Elon Musk before it was cool.
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Stephen King
4 months ago
ICE looking more and more like the American Gestpo.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD
4 months ago
You know what’s 💯 preventable? This 👇🏾
www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
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Six infants born with congenital measles in Ontario from unvaccinated mothers
Ontario’s chief medical officer of health says six infants have been born with congenital measles since an outbreak began last fall, adding they were infected in the womb through mothers who were not ...
https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/six-infants-born-with-congenital-measles-in-ontario-from-unvaccinated-mothers/
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1 month countdown to my wedding 😮
4 months ago
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Eric Reinhart
6 months ago
The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.
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Dan Farbman
7 months ago
Gonna keep saying this: In the 1840s, Southerners insisted that they could kidnap any person they alleged was a slave without any state or federal process. This turned even minimal process into resistance and raised the salience of the issue, which radicalized a bunch of people against slavery.
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Robson Fletcher
7 months ago
"Three prominent critics of President Donald Trump are leaving Yale’s faculty — and the United States — amid attacks on higher education to take up positions at the University of Toronto in fall 2025."
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Three prominent Yale professors depart for Canadian university, citing Trump fears
History department power couple Timothy Snyder and Marci Shore and philosophy professor Jason Stanley will begin teaching at the University of Toronto’s renowned Munk School in fall 2025.
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/03/27/three-prominent-yale-professors-depart-for-canadian-university-citing-trump-fears/
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7 months ago
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André Picard @picardonhealth
7 months ago
#Measles
Can Damage the Immune System for Years. An infection can also leave children and adults with other long-term health problems.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/w...
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Measles Can Damage the Immune System for Years
An infection can also leave children and adults with other long-term health problems.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/well/measles-outbreaks-effects-complications.html
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Tell me about your problems
7 months ago
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My cat just sits in front of the door and screams until someone lets her outside to go bully the neighbour cat through its basement window
7 months ago
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Raywat Deonandan
7 months ago
If tariffs persist, Canadian economy will shrink permanently by 3%. Enormous pain. But Northern US states will feel extraordinary pain, too. Asymmetric retaliation options include not respecting US copyrights, including around things like drug licensing. Options are on the table.
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Joe Beda
8 months ago
I was trying not to doom scroll today but HOLY SHIT.
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Watching agape and aghast.
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8 months ago
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Robson Fletcher
8 months ago
Here's a short list of communicable diseases that were once devastating but we rarely think of anymore in Canada, thanks to public health victories of the past. ⚠️ Warning: Some gross images in the thread below.⚠️ Thread ⤵️
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Timothy Caulfield
8 months ago
Heartbreaking. The rising anti-science death cult is doing real & immediate harm. A child dies of measles in West Texas outbreak
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
"...the first death from the disease in a decade in the United States. The child had not been vaccinated against measles..."
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A child dies of measles in West Texas outbreak
At least 124 cases have been reported in Texas, with at least 18 hospitalizations. Most are children.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/person-dies-measles-west-texas-outbreak-rcna193812
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It feels wrong but it's true
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8 months ago
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Yeah this is another reason to not buy USA produced food.
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8 months ago
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Infectious disease knows no borders. This will have major impacts on us in Canada.
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8 months ago
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Raywat Deonandan
8 months ago
Safe to say over the next 4 years, the US government will attempt to kill all academic research that is not geared toward technological development or wealth creation. US universities need to tighten their belts and weather the storm. Also, it will bleed over into Canada, too.
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Naheed Nenshi
8 months ago
This is shocking. Stop everything and read this:
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...
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Alberta ousted health services CEO amid probe into medical contracts, document alleges
Athana Mentzelopoulos was dismissed two days before a meeting with province’s auditor on her investigation, according to letter
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alberta/article-alberta-ousted-health-services-ceo-amid-probe-into-medical-contracts/
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Screw Trump and screw every brain dead idiot that voted for him
9 months ago
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Musk has a paid subscription to a pro-apartheid Twitter account and people are still saying that wasn't a Nazi salute
9 months ago
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Billionaires are standing with Trump at the inauguration and Elon just did a Nazi salute...but yeah, nothing to see here
9 months ago
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What they don't tell you about planning a wedding is you'll wake up in the middle of the night after the most bizarre stress dreams. Last night I was calling my matron of honour to duty BC my makeup and hair stylists didn't show up
9 months ago
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6 months to go, let the wedding stress dreams begin
10 months ago
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Justin Ling
10 months ago
So today, in Canada: -Finance Minister Freeland abruptly resigned -Roughly 60 of Justin Trudeau's MPs have reportedly signed a letter calling him to go -Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc, who has been handling relations with Trump, is now also finance *and* public safety minister.
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Doing my first proposal review of something very obviously written by an AI LLM...what a mishmash of gobbledygook. My fav part is the sentence that starts with "The document you uploaded..."
11 months ago
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Jane George
11 months ago
Wow! More TB outbreaks in
#Nunavut
. TB was to be eradicated, right? as Trudeau vowed in Iqaluit in 2019…But there’s still been a lot of secrecy and inaction. Often people haven’t even known where outbreaks are taking place. Add to that poverty, food insecurity, overcrowded housing etc etc
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Robson Fletcher
11 months ago
Sometimes Canadian news lives up to the stereotypes of Canadian news. 🔗:
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Aaron Rupar
11 months ago
Gaetz nomination lasted less than a Scaramucci
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Summertime harvest...I got big tomato plans for next year.
11 months ago
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I don't think people understand the global impact on scientific advancements in human health that will happen if NIH is targeted by RFK Jr. Grants targeted at vaccine development (e.g. cancer vaccines)? Good luck.
11 months ago
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ChrisO_wiki
11 months ago
1/ X's algorithm was changed in mid-July 2024 to systematically boost Republican-leaning accounts and Elon Musk's own account following his endorsement of Donald Trump, according to a newly released computational study of engagement from the Queensland University of Technology.⬇️
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The inmates are truly running the asylum.
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11 months ago
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I heard the internet likes cats
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