45 years ago today. Buried on page 20 on a holiday Friday just like this one, news that changed the world. www.nytimes.com/1981/07/03/u...

“It is absurd that a federally funded Museum of Human Rights would focus on this one alleged Human Rights Violation, instead of all the other ones it also covers.”

When people talk about taking kids' devices away w/o addressing how they have fuck all else to do, I think about the insane shit all the bored suburban kids I knew got up to before cell phones You can't just take their phones away or they're gonna get into making homemade napalm & burn a field down

"Before I started working at The Sick Times as your friendly neighborhood engagement editor, I let every medical professional I met bulldoze me." Read more from our engagement editor @heatherhogan.bsky.social about fighting Long COVID denial at work and in her personal life. shorturl.at/ZCoBe

People don’t understand that Covid can continue to cause damage after the infection starts because the term “recovered” is used in media releases instead of “survivor”. #COVID19

Last month, Canada imposed a new round of sanctions on Israeli groups connected to extremist settler violence. One of them has received thousands of dollars from a Toronto-area charity. zurl.co/x9iUG

The location of Nora’s lump is a bit awkward (back of head/high neck) and a cone/donut situation might not work for keeping the wound protected, so we may need to improvise.

How many people have to die before we reject the lie of climate change denial and hold those responsible to account?

Wow I feel so good after walking in the forest with Nora for an hour. Unfortunately I will not remember this next time I am depressed

Just what we needed. Rain

I have some bad news for anyone who loves Nora, which I assume is everyone. The suspicious lump she had looked at on Friday is a mast cell tumour, which I suspected. MCTs are very common and unfortunately malignant. However, it is low grade.

Old enough to recognize this as a data center

Instead of an enforcement operation targeting Winnipeg’s most vulnerable and confiscating their harm reduction supplies, maybe the cops could actually be useful and conduct an enforcement operation on people who ride motorcycles with no mufflers and rev the shit out of them every chance they get.

It seems like CBC talks about GLP-1s a *lot*

Blaming sex workers for society's ills is as old as the profession itself. Never mind that men are the primary consumers! Even before the Montreal shooting, I saw so many posts about "Girls! Don't be Bonnie Blue!" when there's only 1 Bonnie Blue but 1,000 men who signed up to have sex with her.

Alongside HonestReporting Canada, HR Canada Charitable Organization claims to fight anti-Israel bias in news reporting. Now it’s battling the CRA to keep its charitable registration. zurl.co/boEMK

I am browsing a bookstore and I just heard someone, having asked specifically for books by a specific author, and having had the clerk hand her a book and say "this is my favorite of hers," ask "So do I have to buy it or can I just rent it?" Madam, what you are looking for is called a library.

Lucky doesn’t know what news is.

There's a type of journalism that once existed in actuality, and still exists in theory, in which journalists explicitly refuse to act as stenographers for power when the instruments of power are unambiguously acting deceptively. It's factual, not partisan, to call the MoU a *scam* that is invalid.

I am once again bringing you important Canadian cultural news in The Beaverton

Nora had a suspicious lump checked out today. Vet was unable to diagnose in house and sent it to a path lab. His demeanour when examining it didn’t exactly inspire confidence. Please keep her in your thoughts!

I don't want to be able to say "I told you so". I want to live on a habitable planet.

Compassion cannot be defined by "well, at least we're not treating you worse, even though we could"

"I commend the compassionate approach they are taking." - Mayor Scott Gillingham

"Workers from multiple organizations reported observing police removing people's harm-reduction supplies — smashing pipes — detaining people who are actually not harming anyone," www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I happened to find myself riding in a line of about 10 cyclists (just regular rush-hour bike traffic in the Garry St. bike lane) and heard a little child exclaim from their stroller: “It’s a bike parade!” 🥰

Since nobody asked, what I want is political leaders who can not only imagine a better future with people free to live better lives with less desperation and precarity, but who will fight tooth and nail for it. If your imagination is limited to the past, get out of the way.

Older lady peeped the rainbow flag on my bike, asked in a thick Russian accent “It’s your Pride?” She told me her youngest grandchild is “not she berry or he berry but no berry.” I said “Nonbinary?” She got so excited. Yes! Yes! And “Is a secret, but they are my“ *looks around, whispers* “favorite.”

Winnipeg police have launched a 10-day initiative targeting open drug use and drug trafficking as scores of people were detained Thursday.

The federal government increasing the Canada Disability Benefit by a measly $4.20 is so outrageously insulting

I know this is not the biggest concern going these days, but it stresses me out that basically every artist/writer/critic is now expected to create their own tiny empire instead of getting paid by any existing entity to perform a job they've worked to get good at!!!!

LOL

its been a year and the world didnt implode because its just a friggen intersection. #winnipeg portage and main this was so overblown and dragged out for a big nothing burger

Data centre proponents say facility will run on solar power and all of Lake Superior

this ‘why don’t Europeans have aircon’ discourse is the other side of the coin of the ‘why don’t people just evacuate from hurricanes’ discourse

everything is shit right now, but look. my hoya bloomed 💕

The crisis continues. My partner had to administer nakoxone to someone unconscious & unresponsive on our front porch today. It was the 2nd person that had to be dosed this afternoon on our block. Yes, #wpgpoli, this is a community crisis. #winnipeg #manitoba #drugcrisis

i hate that everything is a subscription now. it's like we don't own anything anymore.

Just heard someone describe people who can never find any humor or joy in a moment as "recreationally miserable" and I will be using that going forward

The literature on harms to kids from online platforms is complex and nuanced, rife with people citing small, ambiguous studies as iron-clad evidence that kids are being destroyed by the internet: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ype6... 1/

"You are completely right — Canada isn't currently launching a nuclear warhead towards us. I apologize for that embarrassing hallucination. If you'd like, I can suggest ways to apologize to their Prime Minister for our completely unnecessary retaliatory nuclear strikes that just blew up Quebec."

Analog this analog that but picking up film scans really is such a delight, even when half the roll doesn't turn out

"Radio-Canada was able to confirm that the shooter distributed a violent incel manifesto targeting women. The manifesto called for a violent revolution, invoking masculinist arguments."

new lobbyist registration targeting BC’s healthcare system and BC Hydro: palantir (side note, the @theijf.org database alerts are great)

Brent was my neighbour and friend, he was kind and considerate of others and would have been comforted to know that at least his story might encourage others to be cautious. 😢

I love the part of vacuuming where you have to vacuum again after emptying the canister

I grew up in Kenora, just south of Grassy Narrows. I went to school with kids from Grassy. If this happened in Kenora, it would be solved in a matter of months. Every level of government would parachute in to fix it. No expense would be spared. Instead, this has been going on my entire life.

The most well-mannered and engaged pooch when there’s the possibility of chicken or cheese