I have tried and tried, and cannot beat @its.small.patatas.ca high score on this game. This game. This game that I myself made

I've got an op-ed in the Globe today with @nicktsergas.ca. We're thinking about how Hamilton's movement towards a data centre moratorium could snowball across Canada and help reset the way data centres + cities interface in the future. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

Hamilton council voted 15–1 to stop datacentre development while the city writes regulations for the facilities. @apasek.bsky.social and I think it isn't really a Hamilton story. Hamilton is the first domino in an urgent national conversation. gift: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/1c12514... #HamOnt

Hamilton is poised to become the first Canadian city to write the rules for AI datacentres. Good projects aren't afraid of good rules. www.thespec.com/opinion/cont... #HamOnt

This is why a one-year pause on datacentre builds in the city of Hamilton makes sense. Without loopholes or exceptions. A snippet from my comments to #HamOnt city council earlier this week.

Hear me now quote me later: It's datacentre. Not data centre. Not data-centre. I know you think it's not datacentre. But it is. Remember when everyone used to say "corona virus?" Or worse.. "CoronaVirus." Yes. That feeling you have. That's how I feel when I see you write "data centre."

Datacentre moratorium passes #HamOnt committee vote unanimously. Final vote next week.

As of this week, I am no longer responsible for the editorial direction or day-to-day publication of Canada Healthwatch. I'll have more to say about what's next in due course. I'm incredibly grateful to everyone who has supported the project over the past three years.

As of this week, I am no longer responsible for the editorial direction or day-to-day publication of Canada Healthwatch. I'll have more to say about what's next in due course. I'm incredibly grateful to everyone who has supported the project over the past three years.

Gonna spam this one a little, sorry! VERY important that #HamOnt residents get in touch with their councillors and/or speak & write to the Planning Committee about this.

Hamilton's datacentre debate is now a key election issue. We've launched an Election Tracker documenting where candidates stand on proposed hyperscale datacentres and on the need for stronger municipal regulation. Some have responded. Some have not. stopthedatacentre.ca/election-tra...

AI datacentre builds are being proposed all over Canada with unprecedented speed.

Canadian cities are increasingly resistant to datacentre builds being fastracked by the Carney government. It's worth asking what we know of the health effects of these facilities on surrounding populations. Maybe someone will write up a comprehensive analysis, as a treat. #HamOnt

Canadian cities are increasingly resistant to datacentre builds being fastracked by the Carney government. It's worth asking what we know of the health effects of these facilities on surrounding populations. Maybe someone will write up a comprehensive analysis, as a treat. #HamOnt

Private health care keeps getting sold as “innovation.” So why does it keep making things worse? Every few years, Canadian health care rediscovers privatization, and and it is touted as the next great solution, by Braden Manns bradenmanns.substack.com/p/private-he...

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The Pentagon is buying “unprecedented” ownership stakes in Canadian mining companies. Nessie Nankivell tracks how Canada’s critical minerals are being extracted to build weapons for the U.S. military—all while the Canadian government is helping fund these projects. breachmedia.ca/elbows-up-ca...

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French woman was told by doctors hantavirus symptoms were just anxiety https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/11/french-womandoctors-hantavirus-symptoms-hv-hondius ↷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁

Public-private health care model coming to Alberta breaches Canada Health Act, legal expert argues https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-public-private-health-care-model-coming-to-alberta-breaches-canada/ ⦸ @alannasmith.bsky.social @theglobeandmail.com ↷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁

Traditional polling economy: Pay to manipulate public perception New "betting" economy: Manipulate public perception. Get paid 😎

Our team received a report of intermittent app outages at about 11:40pm PDT on April 15, 2026. They worked through the night to mitigate a sophisticated Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, which intensified throughout the day.

France is switching from Microsoft to Linux "We must become less reliant on American tools and regain control of our digital destiny. We can no longer accept that our data, our infrastructure, our strategic decisions depend on solutions whose rules, pricing, evolution, and risks we do not control."

One last point: When governments talk about "age verification," they also mean "identity verification" So even if you're 55 years old, you will be virtually carded and all your social media activity will be linked to your identity. That means no online anonymity and raises privacy issues for adults

TOH is the latest in a growing list of urban Ontario hospitals to aggressively cut staff. As the aging boom continues to accelerate.

Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI. AI is starting a death spiral for human knowledge. We won't know what is fake and what is trust worth. This will lead us to make wrong decisions and cause substantial harm. AI risk centuries of progress.

Wild theory - PP is the next floor crosser.

In BC, millions of taxpayer dollars are being poured into "innovative" programs with no transparency and little accountability How is that ok? What are the metrics for success? Crickets www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

From the archive: An emergency physician unpacks Canada's severe shortage of doctors and its roots in U.S policy-contagion.

US moving pregnant immigrant girls to Texas to avoid providing abortions, critics say https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/01/pregnant-immigrant-children-texas-abortion @melodyschreiber.com @theguardian.com ↷ canadahealthwatch.ca 🍁

An American physician, now practising medicine in Canada has some useful reflections "In Canada, where people don’t fear bankruptcy for seeking care, patients come in and they just talk to you, about doctor things. That’s a profound relief, for them and me" canadahealthwatch.ca/2026/02/15/i...

This is a pretty strong policy signal. I wonder if we're going to start seeing Ottawa take up the torch on this. abacusdata.ca/canadians-ar...

From the archive: Dr. Paul Parks on how Alberta's plans for two-tiered healthcare will delay lifesaving care. canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/28/t... @pfparks.bsky.social

Good words of warning here. AI models are generally designed to read and incorporate (and, in a sense, believe) virtually everything they find online, with very few guardrails. The information can get divorced from its original source, context, & rebuttals or retractions. That's a really big problem

MAHA-aligned research is entering the training data of AI models that millions of people (and increasingly governments) rely on.

MAHA-aligned research is entering the training data of AI models that millions of people (and increasingly governments) rely on.

Obvious but confirmed: people now read less news, more AI summaries of news.

"The posture of Health Canada was always protecting, protecting ... we added a lot of layers.” “This is why I am pushing my department … moving fast, removing the red tapes.”

The Canadian government intends to increase Health Canada's reliance on foreign regulators for drug approvals. The Health Minister has acknowledged that US institutions are no longer reliable, but it is not known if US regulators will be included in Canada's incoming regulatory schema.

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These numbers speak for themselves. Over a three-year span, a surgical device (without AI) was reported to the FDA seven times for malfunctioning and once for causing injury (unconfirmed). Since AI was added in 2021 there have been at least 100 reports of malfunctions and adverse patient events.

These numbers speak for themselves. Over a three-year span, a surgical device (without AI) was reported to the FDA seven times for malfunctioning and once for causing injury (unconfirmed). Since AI was added in 2021 there have been at least 100 reports of malfunctions and adverse patient events.

New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt's Liberal government will no longer use X for "routine" government communications:

Key context on the American Medical Association's endorsement of restrictions on gender-related surgery for minors:

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

Unsafe care delays are now routine across the country, and waiting room deaths have crossed the line from being tragic anomalies into policy outcomes. Dr. Paul Parks writes:

ICE halts 'all movement' at Texas 'detention facility' due to measles https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-dilley-center-texas-measles-cases/ ⤷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁

How a B.C. court case could change medical assistance in dying across Canada https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/how-a-b-c-court-case-could-change-medical-assistance-in-dying-across-canada-9.7067052 ⤷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁

Food-borne pathogen outbreaks have been rising in Canada in recent years. That trend predates the US' dismantlement of its food-safety regulations. This is a bad idea.

Food-borne pathogen outbreaks have been rising in Canada in recent years. That trend predates the US' dismantlement of its food-safety regulations. This is a bad idea.