Jessica Theodor

Province aiming to create faster access to preventative care The Alberta government has announced new reforms aimed at expanding access and choice for preventative screeni...

“Every time this government announces another new privatization scheme they claim it will save money & increase access to care. But Albertans have seen over & over that these schemes never actually pan out as promised," said FOM's Chris Gallaway.

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Everyone knows it'll be the Release the Epstein Files/Adjudicated Rapist Ballroom.

Albertans are struggling to book COVID shots; doctors worry some might give up | CBC News Parents and doctors continue to push back against the Alberta government’s controversial COVID-19 vaccine rollout. Determining who is eligible for free vaccines has not been straightforward, and the b...

It's really hard not to see the UCP game-playing with COVID vaccines as anything but a deliberate attempt to sabotage effective mitigations, and bury just how much damage their mismanagement of COVID has done.

It doesn't help that senior Public Health & IPC leaders share a lot of the same COIs.

The only way to book COVID vaccines for young children in Alberta is by calling 811 / HealthLink.

Bookings opened Monday.

It’s now Friday and the system is still saying call volumes are too high and auto-hanging-up on callers. 🙃

(They also cost $100 a pop, if you can ever get through.)

If you or someone you know is a resident in the Calgary - Bow riding your help is needed! Reach out to Jenny at info@recallnicolaides.ca

One of the largest rallies in Alberta's history.

25,000+ people. One message:
We stand for public education.

Governor Gavin Newsom (@cagovernor) on Threads Here’s to a great World Series — and a tariff-free friendship between Ontario and California!

This is the way it’s done. Two mature leaders having a friendly competition.
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Once again Smith & the UCP are pissing me off

They created the conditions that are forcing the teachers to strike

They refuse to negotiate with them in any meaningful way

& now they are going to pass legislation that will force them back to work

This should anger every worker in Alberta
#ableg

Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.

“Writing prompts isn’t a skill, it’s something you can learn quickly on the job if necessary. I don’t believe translators in training should learn how to prompt. To the contrary: they will be the ones that have to clean up the badly translated texts AI produces.”

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The signing bonus also prompted discussions internally because it’s not contingent on a key part of the hiring process, which is passing the academy, another source said. Even candidates who don’t pass the academy and are slotted for administrative jobs are still pocketing thousands of dollars.

Omg, this detail from CNN about the ICE hiring snafu is wild. This seems like an HR 101 level thing to get right.

They turned a hiring bonus into something much closer to an application bonus.

Seems like a great way to burn a ton of cash. Also? Here’s some waste for sure!

Newsom Says Trump Is ‘Rigging the Election’ With Federal Poll Monitors | KQED In an interview with KQED, Gov. Gavin Newsom warned the Trump administration is laying the groundwork to question the results of California’s Proposition 50 vote.

Via @kqednews.kqed.org
In an interview with KQED, Newsom said Trump wants to cast doubt on the Nov. 4 vote. The Department of Justice says it's sending monitors to protect the votes of "eligible American citizens."

Collections Study Grants Collections study grants provide financial assistance for graduate students and post-doctoral researchers to study the collections of the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture (UWBM).

🚨Call for proposals for Collection Study Grants at the @burkemuseum.bsky.social!! Open to grad students and postdocs for collections-based research, including cross-disciplinary projects. Applications are due December 15, 2025. More information:
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Let's think this through

The UCP are going to let Albertans who can afford it pay for their diagnostic test & then reimburse them

So a portion of available diagnostic equipment will be taken by private patients

Everyone else will have to wait longer

The rich will get better healthcare

#ableg

Well, well, well…what have we here???

"banning AI in the classroom should be as uncontroversial as banning calculators in early maths"

*slaps table*

THANK YOU

Thanks Thomas!

'Irreparably Damaged': Former Senior Official Details the Darkest Days of the CDC Under RFK Jr. Demetre Daskalakis, the former director of CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, argues the public health agency has been weaponized into a political tool.

Kennedy never meant what he said about gold standard science and radical transparency, and never tried to seriously understand or follow science. Or to engage in reasoned decision making. As described by @drdemetre.bsky.social via @gizmodo.com
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Letting Silicon Valley Geoengineer the Atmosphere Will End Badly We already have plenty of evidence of what happens when things better left to governments — which in this case might decide to never flip the switch at all — are ceded to private industry.

"There isn't a reasonable scenario where we grant some rich people control over the planet's thermostat and everything turns out fine."

My latest:

Ottawa cuts number of American vehicles Stellantis and GM can import tariff-free | CBC News The federal government is firing back at Stellantis and General Motors and cutting the number of tariff-free vehicles the automakers can import from the U.S. to sell in Canada.

With US carmakers pulling back to the US and Trump once again saying he’s cutting off negotiations with Canada, it seems pretty clear what Mark Carney should be doing: taking a meeting with BYD and other Chinese automakers to see if they want to build in Canada in exchange for lower tariffs.

“Technology companies are not shy of falsely claiming that students are lazy or lack writing skills. Such a mantra serves only to sell products ... We condemn those claims and reassert students’ agency vis-à-vis corporate control.” — @olivia.science zenodo.org/records/1706...

The push to pump "AI" into everything is coming from the industry that profits from it, academia's middle managers who are happy to buy it, and parents who simply don't know any better because it's frankly not their job to.

See also: inciting moral panics, engaging in corrupt practices, and picking fights with absolutely everyone.

Intentional consequences of a poorly designed multistep process that costs $$, or in other words, exactly the sort of thing the UCP is good at.

TODAY. #abpoli

Angus: Canada is reconsidering that relationship with China. Why? Because we can no longer trust the US.

And we know that we have 150, maybe more, Canadians in custody at ICE detention centers. We had two Canadians under Chinese custody and it caused a huge outcry. We now have over 150 in the US.

High melanosome diversity exhibits weak correlation with color and environmental variables in the early evolution of therian mammals Melanosome geometry in Jurassic and therian mammals reflected a limited color/environment link unlike that in dinosaurs.

High melanosome diversity exhibits weak correlation with color and environmental variables in the early evolution of therian mammals | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

YouTube video by National Council for History Education The Presidential Wrecking Ball and Why it Matters

This morning I discussed the demolition of the East Wing and why it matters.

Its rubble remains are a monument to the destruction of our system of checks and balances, and America's democratic system of government.

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And they called it the the Great Epstein Recess of 2025