Union launches "Axe the Vax Tax" campaign in Alberta axethevaxtax.ca @cupescfp.bsky.social

The Editor Got a Letter From ‘Dr. B.S.’ So Did a Lot of Other Editors. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/s...

We've just published the most comprehensive study of news creators to date covering 24 countries. Authored by Nic Newman @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social @richardfletcher.bsky.social, it identifies the most mentioned in each country 📱Report buff.ly/bL6y8Hj 🧵6 findings in thread

A Lot of Influencers Talk about the News. Not All of Them Are Journalists. In my latest op-ed for @thetyee.ca, I encourage my fellow journalists to take a risk, show some personality, and hop on these platforms. We have a responsibility to meet Canadians where they’re at — or someone else will:

“Some of us view social media as another tool to flex the reporting muscles we’ve carefully honed with our journalism degrees and years of reporting experience, others have come armed with nothing but a surplus of confidence and a dearth of critical thinking skills.” thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

Heath Canada has approved lecanamab, a drug that slows the progression of Alzheimer's disease in some patients. It's the first drug in Canada approved to slow Alzheimer's. investors.biogen.com/news-release...

A Plea From Doctors: Cool It on the Supplements www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/w...

It’s Just a Virus, the E.R. Told Him. Days Later, He Was Dead. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/w...

Alberta’s new tax on “high value wine” from British Columbia marks the latest clash in the two provinces’ long-running wine war. @cfrangou.bsky.social, The Walrus regional correspondent for Western Canada, reports on the fallout: thewalrus.ca/the-wine-wars-ar...

"Now an extraordinarily successful scientific research system — one that took decades to build, has saved millions of lives and generated billions of dollars in profits for American companies and investors — is being dismantled before our eyes." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

"To notice, we must care. And to care, we must be willing to be changed by what we see." Eric Markowitz required high-risk brain surgery. In its aftermath, he discovered a new way of seeing life. bigthink.com/business/bra...

Alberta announced today the COVID-19 vaccine this fall will cost us $100 per dose. So for my family of four, that'll be $400. Alternatively, we could spend $400 on an overnight trip to Golden or Fernie, B.C., get immunized for free, and make a little mountain vacation out of it.

I'm one of the people who's lost access to their Strava account: all my training logs gone. 😭

UCP government MLAs have submitted proposals to Alberta's independent electoral boundaries commission to redraw several urban ridings and blend them with rural areas:

Renewed calls for Alberta to offer the COVID-19 vaccine for free to all who want it, after the government reinstates coverage for health workers Latest from me👇 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Excellent work here from @nicktsergas.ca: Some scientists say that SARS-CoV-2 can have a lasting immune effect, and the global surge in non-covid infections after pandemic restrictions were lifted should not just be written off as "immunity debt”.

Break the mid-week slump with Feature Writing Long finalists @cfrangou.bsky.social & Rachel von Hahn in Summit (@mountroyalu.bsky.social‬), @klaszus.bsky.social for @sprawlcalgary.bsky.social, & Evan Osenton, Euan Thomson & @‪monicakidd.bsky.social‬ in @albertaviews.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2j7ubp75

The 2025 federal election was likely the “most poorly covered election in modern Canadian history” due to the erosion of local news and Facebook’s news ban, according to a report from @ppforumca.bsky.social. www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/why-...

This story is so sad and shocking. Meta's standards for conversations between AI and kids would be unacceptable between human adults and kids.

The Courage and Death of Anas al-Sharif: newlinesmag.com/spotlight/th...

As Trump Administration Plans to Burn Contraceptives, Europeans Are Alarmed www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/w...

What Happened When I Tried to Replace Myself with ChatGPT in My English Classroom: Piers Gelly on a Semester-Long Dive into the AI Discourse. lithub.com/what-happene...

Kennedy Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/h...

👏 to Anne-Marije Rook at @cyclingweekly.com for calling out the double standard in the coverage of the TDF Femmes this week. Pauline Ferrand-Prévot climbed into history and all we talked about was her body www.cyclingweekly.com/news/4kg-the...

When young adults use Tiktok to keep up with current events, what kind of information are they getting? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Many people don't understand what journalism is or how it works, as the Jeffrey Epstein case shows. That's a big problem. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Photojournalist Heidi Levine of the @washingtonpost.com captured rare aerial images of Gaza from a Jordanian Air Force aid flight. www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."

As science becomes increasingly politicized and federal officials change policies on vaccination, sometimes reportedly overruling their own scientists, independent scientific groups are now stepping into the gap for evidence-based recommendations. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Last fall, I saw the A++ film For Winter at Banff Mountain Festival. It's about a queer climate scientist who leads a team up 🇨🇦's highest peak to capture a record-setting ice core. National Geographic has now pulled this film. @evaholland.bsky.social with the goods: defector.com/why-did-nati...

This is an era of clean(er) cycling. How, then, do today’s competitors far surpass the cheating champions of yesteryear? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

No Meals, Fainting Nurses, Dwindling Baby Formula: Starvation Haunts Gaza Hospitals www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/w...

Many lung cancers Are now in nonsmokers. Scientists want to know why. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/w...

Growing up in Egypt, @mostafaalasar.bsky.social ‬ knew access to news could be fragile. He didn’t expect to lose it again in Canada. But that's what has happened with the Meta news ban. thewalrus.ca/if-you-think...

Hey fellow Calgarians... does anyone recognize this video or the street it's on? Curious because this specific clip of alleged flooding this week has been all over my Tiktok this week and I'm trying to figure out where its from. Help! www.tiktok.com/@proud.canad...

Everyone in Alberta should very concerned about this. The targeted campaign against @carrietait.bsky.social is a direct attempt to intimidate one of the finest, most diligent reporters in Canada. In doing so, it is an attack on journalism, an accountability mechanism essential for democracy.

Brilliant, frightening piece from Meaghan O'Rourke on what AI is doing to students). www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...

Absolute scenes with the demise of the print press; Julian Alaphilippe stole a cardboard sign from a spectator, ripped it up and stuffed part of it under his jersey. Newspapers were so much better. #tdf25 #tdf2025

Like I didn't hate Microsoft Teams enough already. Great to see another distraction added to to the driving experience.

Carol Linnitt, co-founder of The Narwhal, flew to Vancouver in April, took a glass elevator up a glimmering skyscraper and entered a boardroom full of lawyers. There she was grilled, for hours, about details of The Narwhal’s press freedom lawsuit against the RCMP.

Their Water Taps Ran Dry When Meta Built Next Door www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/t...

I can't stress enough how close U.S. science is to the cliff. "Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)

A breakthrough drug could slow Alzheimer’s. Many Canadians won't be able to access it www.thestar.com/life/health-... @cfrangou.bsky.social @thestar.com 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

Are Weighted Vests Worth the Hype? So glad to see the NYT taking this on. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/w...

People With Severe Diabetes Are Cured in Small Trial of New Drug www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/h...

Kennedy’s New Advisers Rescind Recommendations for Some Flu Vaccines www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/h...

I once had a fight with my publisher's lawyer over what constitutes "fair use." He said reprinting 4 lines of a poem without the poet's explicit permission was too much. But AI gobbling up whole books now counts as "fair use." Something is definitely wrong with US copyright law.

RECOMMEND: @canadahealthwatch.ca has become my must-read for Canadian health news. Today, it's got important updates from Canada—including Alberta's COVID vaccine policies—and the U.S. open.substack.com/pub/canadahe...

Congratulations Alberta! The new restrictions on what information you can get from the government are now official! Here's some background from earlier in the year. #abpoli thenarwhal.ca/alberta-foip...