Good News! Canadian Standards Association (CSA) has called for universal respirator use in healthcare settings & when performing patient care outside of healthcare settings (eg – in the home) in the latest edition of CSA Z94.4, Selection, use and care of filtering respirators.

very little in the way of “Win Butler has yet to face any consequences for the multiple allegations of sexual misconduct” in here beyond briefly mentioning the TERRIBLE fact that AF also have an app called Circle of Trust, which is a wildly disgusting thing for someone w sexual allegations to make.

The Region of Waterloo is buying up farmland and threatening some farmers with expropriation, following the Doug Ford government's push for industrial land. The Narwhal, in collaboration with The Waterloo Record, has learned the site is for a future Toyota plant. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-wilm...

#CanadaSky #Canada #Montreal #Massacre #ViolenceAgainstWomen

I remember Geneviève Bergeron Hélène Colgan Nathalie Croteau Barbara Daigneault Anne-Marie Edward Maud Haviernick Maryse Laganière Maryse Leclair Anne-Marie Lemay Sonia Pelletier Michèle Richard Annie St-Arneault Annie Turcotte Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz #December6 💔

Hey KW! Call-out for meat in the seats. If you’re able, please attend Waterloo Region council this Wednesday night in support of our community members who use, work at, and live near the SCS (yes, many neighbours, including me, want it kept open).

Our first Starter Pack has arrived! Follow FIYAH fam here: go.bsky.app/VSHmC2p #BlackSky #Booksky

remember that weird little Titan submersible that imploded, killing some billionaires last year? well, the US Coast Guard released more documentation, including photos, so let's take a look! 🧵

Ugh, if you're on LinkedIn, head over there now and turn off the new AI training setting they quietly opted everyone into. Here's the direct link if it works for you, if not, follow the instructions below. www.linkedin.com/mypreference...

Sad to say I'm cancelling my trip to World Fantasy. They asked me to be on disability panels, but ignored months of my pleading with them to have a real COVID policy. Every recent major con has been a spreader. Many disabled attendees wrote to WFC with concern. The result? This non-policy.

The #WRcouncil Community & Health Services Committee meets today (Sept 10, 2024) to discuss several items including a motion in support of #CTS The agenda is here but follow this thread for more details. pub-regionofwaterloo.escribemeetings.com/Meeting.aspx...

#Ontario (#Toronto) #wastewater graph updated with data up to Aug 25 wwater.ca

In 1994 the Pet Shop Boys were invited to perform 'Go West' at the Brit Awards. They agreed and brought with them 3 separate choirs of miners. Some of those miners had marched with the gay and lesbian members of LGSM in the 1980s. It is one of the great, near-lost music moments vimeo.com/293437684

Alongside "who built Hadrian's wall?", another great example of knowledge falling foul of 'common understanding' is scurvy. The Royal Navy discovered the cure for scurvy, won the Napoleonic War, humanity then lost that knowledge without realising, then got saved by two Norwegian guinea pigs 🧵 /1

Thunder Bay has the highest opioid-related mortality rate in Ontario (77 per 100,000 vs 17 per 100,000 province wide). The Ford government is forcing the closure of its only safe drug consumption site.

The Toronto Board of Health denounced the province’s plans to close 5 supervised consumption sites across the city, saying it will lead to more drug deaths and public drug use while putting a greater strain on emergency services as they race to more overdose calls. “People will die." #OnPoli

Politicians playing politics with peoples lives: Shutting down Ontario's drug consumption sites is a death sentence #harmreduction #Ontario #safeconsumption #healthcare #addictions www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Today's episode of The Decibel is a super important one looking at the lack of pain management in Canada for IUD insertion. It is downright barbaric how IUDs are treated in this country and as patients, we deserve so much better!

Every time I see folks discussing "unfair advantages" among female athletes, it takes everything in my soul not screech "There Are No Athletic Testosterone Regulations For Men!" Just... take a moment to unpack that. None. If a male athlete benefits from natural excess testosterone... Oh well.🤷🏾‍♂️

Remember, if you write about this or talk about it: the UK government (and multiple US states, and and and) are not banning the use of puberty blockers in children. They're banning the use of puberty blockers for *trans* children. It's perfectly acceptable to delay puberty in *cis* children.

Piss them off! Read and share the paper!

Bizarre decision-making. No facts have changed about the eclipse. Reasonable options were 1) Keep the schools open, give all kids safe eclipse glasses 2) Close the schools, make it the parents’ problem But “decide to keep schools open then change a few days prior”? Not great.

@daanis.ca thx! Been meaning to leave twitter for a while...