#OneOfTheTwo Jon Stewart mocked for masking. Because Covid destroyed my body & my life. There are ~half a billion people with #LongCovid around the world. Why would anyone assume they’re too special to become one of us?

Study in Helsinki indicating benefits of portable air cleaners on lowering infection risk in daycare centers, less absences & parent absences from work in intervention vs. reference (no air cleaner) groups. Cleaning indoor air is not difficult and it works. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Parenting books are just what worked for those parents. That's the asterisk.. It never works on your kids and by the time you get cocky enough to write a book, I doubt you remember three.

Children are dying of influenza in Canada and public health is mentioning maybe masking as an afterthought and saying nothing about clean indoor air as if we didn't know how to SAVE THESE CHILDREN'S LIVES. And it's beginning to get on my nerves.

3 children die from influenza A complications in Ontario 💔 Still no airborne virus mitigations in schools, hospitals, healthcare, LTC Even in this article, handwashing is the first bullet listed on how to prevent getting the flu 😡 www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...

Conservatives are so deranged. They just think all these governments popped up everywhere must not have been needed at all. Apparently reading Ayn Rand doesn't teach you about robber barons.

We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.

The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.

Why don't people ever suggest an Alberta to Manitoba pipeline and a new port in Churchill?

Great too see politicians defending 🇨🇦 healthcare. Repeat after me: we just need to fund the public system

Hard to believe ignoring an issue made the issue worse. I mean when has that ever happened?

This is a deeply sexist take, given that ~2/3 of minimum wage workers in the US are women.

Fun fact. Pigs are mandated to get clean air in Canada, while Canadian children are not.

Fund the scientists who are already here. Fund basic science. Fund the scientists who are already here. Fund basic science. Fund the scientists who are already here. Fund basic science. Fund the scientists who are already here. Fund basic science. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Yes, mental health and bullying play a role. Both issues are almost certainly made worse by a neuroinvasive virus which causes anxiety and affects executive functioning, leading to increased aggression and diminished resiliency. Oh, and then there’s good ol’ ILLNESS. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Incredible gas-lighting by CBC. No mention of covid and dismisses all increase in absences as some kind of generic school anxiety. Guess which virus causes an increase in anxiety? Takes guts to post this just 5 years from a novel virus pandemic. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

It's still wild to me how much we've memory holed Occupy Wallstreet.

It's complicated being a republican

40 years later… And the thing is, we already have mountains of data NOW that show what COVID does to brains. Why can’t we acknowledge it? Why can’t we face it? Why can’t we say it?

Long COVID is here to stay—even in children - The Lancet Infectious Diseases www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

So the oldest person ever to become president keeps falling asleep in his office during public events and there’s no big public discussion on how this is a coverup or how republicans are lying to us about how this government is running?

THIS IS AMAZING. ALSO WHAT, IF ANYTHING, DID WE FORGET TO RUIN?

HOLD. THE. FUCKING. PREMIERS. TO. ACCOUNT.

Oil and gas trumps climate action in brutal federal budget. Excellent climate analysis of today's federal budget from @hadrianmk.bsky.social... www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/04/o...

Out of budget lockup. I recently wrote: "Ottawa imposes a 10 percent luxury tax on yachts... yet a family buying a semi in Scarborough pays the equivalent of 15 percent in [DCs] and land transfer taxes." Today the gov't addressed this by eliminating the luxury tax on yachts.

Oil and gas trumps climate action in brutal federal budget. By senior @policyalternatives.ca researcher @hadrianmk.bsky.social #budget2025 #cdnpoli #ClimateCrisis www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/04/o...

Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

a trans girl in vermont was kicked off her swimming team and committed suicide and at the very same time, the discourse in d.c. today is about whether the democratic party should’ve abandoned her sooner in order to win votes a day in an american life

Today, in Question Period, an agitated Ford was pretending to protect Ontario as Ford awarded a $140-million hospital contract in Mississauga to an American company while 800,000 Ontarians are out of work. #cdnpoli

Because the *provinces* refuse to fund their justice systems properly, and the absolutely nobody will hold them to account for it.

Just a reminder… While Smith and Lagrange are talking about the biggest factors influencing health outcomes and why they’re profitizing Alberta’s healthcare… The #1 factor that determines health outcomes is made worse by the policy. It’s poverty. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Good advice for Canada as well. Canadians should note that Carney’s axing of the Digital Services Tax is exactly the type of action the article warns against as a fundamental surrender of national sovereignty in a key economic policy area.

Once again, a music magazine is doing a better job reporting on the state of public health than public health orgs

Let's be clear tho: Carney abandoned climate change policy as a cynical means to get elected, not because there are other crises.

What a scam. One third of all the fines collected from speed cameras is lost to administration costs. Rank corruption. #ottawa Memo from city staff raising questions on future of road safety plan ottawa.citynews.ca/2025/10/02/o...

Ontario's $10 a day daycare program is at risk because Doug Ford is underfunding it by $2bn. This is not a federal issue, only Ontario is failing here. #ontario #onpoli #cdnpoli #dougford #frankdomenic🍁

I am begging Canadians to understand that Canada Post, like public transit, should not be a business - it's a service. Canada Post is a lifeline for rural, remote and Northern communities and overall, we need to re-evaluate why people think they "need" random shit delivered ASAP.

Hi, if you're new here, my name is Julie S. Lalonde and I am very passionate about Canada Post because I'm a socialist and I believe we're all entitled to services like it. Mutual aid at scale is taxation and that taxation should serve the people. ✌️

Public services aren’t “bailouts”—they’re infrastructure. Rural mail and home delivery are services we depend on, not corporate handouts. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

It's interesting that we already have a surprise like this just a few months into a new government. Why wasn't this part of the liberal platform?

If Canadians, travelling domestically, want to use the "good" security line at the airport, they need a NEXUS card, even if they aren't going to the US. And they need the blessing of Donald Trump's Homeland Security apparatus to get one. I'm calling on Canada to end this absurdity. #Canada #NEXUS

Mayor cars still thinks that downtown should be for the people who drive through it. FML

“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.” Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

Yes, this would be *the* moment for Canada to go all-in on attracting foreign brainpower snubbed by the mad king to the south. But Canada suffers from a clutch of mad dukes and an apeshlt duchess who've been underfunding post-secondary institutions for years — they're ill-prepared to woo newcomers.

Imagine if Canadian taxpayer dollars were spent on improving access to quality healthcare and education services instead of paying for the campaign promises Doug made to guests at his kids’ stag n does.

Truly so embarrassing AND dangerous of Canadian MPs to "mourn" ding dong's death in the House of Commons. Y'all celebrated a literal Nazi in the House and were shamed within an inch of your lives for it (Justifiably!) and then mere months later, pull this stunt?

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