Adam Boyd

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Head of Sask. pharmacy association expects COVID-19 vaccine program to start Oct. 14 | CBC News Saskatchewan residents should soon be able to roll up their sleeves to get the latest COVID-19 vaccine. Michael Fougere, CEO of the Pharmacy Association of Saskatchewan, says he expects the province’s...

Nova Scotia’s vaccine rollout has been beat by SASKATCHEWAN. Opened booking yesterday. Honestly… what is going on?

I’m sorry you got sick. You did well to avoid it until recently. I also don’t understand why there isn’t more action in September when a lot of people get sick. Thanksgiving travel and gatherings are also coming fast.

I heard on the regional CBC radio news today (Oct 4) that it will be November in NS but I can’t find anything online in writing.

Periodic reminder that public health in Canada, provincially and Federally, was explicitly told about long COVID in 2020. They knew quite a lot. They received frequent high-quality info. And they said nothing to workers or the public.

Canada Post faces two futures—a revitalized public service or a billionaire cash machine ⋆ The Breach The Liberal government is dismantling Canada Post for the billionaire class, while ignoring bold proposals from postal workers to reinvent the public service

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This image shows gauges with the September 13-26, 2025 COVID Forecast scores for Canada, the provinces, & territories. From left to right: Canada: 13.4 - VERY HIGH Alberta: 14.8 - VERY HIGH British Columbia: 14.1 - VERY HIGH Manitoba: 14.4 - VERY HIGH New Brunswick: 14.6 - VERY HIGH Newfoundland and Labrador: 15.8 - SEVERE North: 14.1 - VERY HIGH Nova Scotia: 14.7 - VERY HIGH Ontario: 14.9 - VERY HIGH Prince Edward Island: 15.6 - SEVERE Quebec: 9.8 - HIGH Saskatchewan: 15.1 - SEVERE A text box reads: "The COVID Forecast is calculated from 3 equally weighted categories: 1) Current infections and spread; 2) Healthcare system impact; 3) Mortality. Within each category, there is one sub-category for trends over the most recent week (Trends) and one sub-category for current parameter values relative to a specified baseline (Current values). Trends and current values are weighted equally when determining the final score for a category. All Forecast input data and sources are available here (https://datastudio.google.com/embed/u/0/reporting/42b886cf-d661-488e-b7d8-5c5836b55ab6/page/p_2yqs028mwc). Past Forecast scores are available in the table below. Forecast scores are grouped into 4 ranges: MODERATE (1 to <5, white), HIGH (6 to <10, yellow), VERY HIGH (10 to <15, orange), SEVERE (>15, red)."

Canadian COVID Forecast: Sep 13 - Sep 26, 2025
Severe: NL, PEI, SK
Very high: CAN, AB, BC, MB, NB, North, NS, ON
High: QC
Moderate: none

About 1 in 81 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

So we heard about people not singing the national anthem in schools this week and made a swift policy change. More O Canada, faster! Moreover, we’re bringing back other old classics like praying and chalkboards and lead pencils and stuff.

For those previously vaccinated, most are recommended to receive only one dose per year. However, some populations are recommended to also receive a second annual dose to mitigate the waning protection from COVID-19 vaccines. • The following individuals who were previously vaccinated and are at increased risk of severe COVID-19 disease should receive a second dose of COVID-19 vaccine per year: • Adults 80 years of age or older; • Adult residents of long-term care homes and other congregate living settings for seniors; and • Individuals 6 months of age and older who are moderately to severely immunocompromised (due to an underlying condition or treatment). • Previously vaccinated adults 65 to 79 years of age who are at increased risk of severe COVID-19 disease may receive a second dose of COVID-19 vaccine per year.

Why is NACI allowing only 1 COVID vaccine per year for most Canadians, making many ineligible for the fall vaccine?

Everyone should be eligible:

1. It’s an UPDATED vaccine.
2. COVID vaccines begin to wane at 4 months - it’s NOT a yearly vaccine.

#Canada
#COVID

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Airlines aren't the only sector where women work unpaid hours | CBC Radio Experts say fields where the majority of employees are women — particularly in healthcare, caregiving and education — tend to be undervalued, and that expectations of unpaid labour are based on longst...

Airlines aren't the only sector where women work unpaid hours

Healthcare, education and other woman-dominated fields are often underfunded, experts say #Canada

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The Handmaid's Tale among more than 200 books to be pulled at Edmonton public schools | CBC News A list confirmed by CBC News shows titles like The Handmaid's Tale and Brave New World are among books to be pulled. The development comes after a policy from Alberta's education minister outlines new...

Pay attention, Canada. If Alberta is successful in this book banning, this will spread. Look around you, b/c this is how it starts. We're on the same ledge the US was on. And we either start fighting this right-wing rise now, or we follow the Americans over the edge.
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Most Canadians oppose book bans.
Most Canadians want their kids to have access to a wide range of books.
Most Canadians trust teachers and librarians to build library collections.

The government should not be telling teens what they can and can't read. Now is an important time to speak up.

I agree. I can see choosing age-appropriate books elementary vs high school, and maybe not requiring certain books for class assignments, but banning them from the library is bad.

The @dalhousieu.bsky.social Board of Governors' "offer" for interest arbitration won't resolve this. It's just creating further delays. Bargaining on the issues important to our members is required. Stop with the stunts, let's get back to the table and talk. It's the only way to #KeepDalStrong

The absolute irony of banning dystopian novels like Brave New World and A Handmaid’s Tale

Ok sure it’s killing kids and making professionals stupider and ruining art and destroying the environment AND still hasn’t made a profit, but by gum, investors love it!

It's now a week since @dalfaculty.bsky.social members were locked out by Dal's board. No access to our physical & virtual workspaces. My students & TAs are left stressed about what will happen next week & I am so angry for them. Do better @dalhousie.bsky.social Get back to the table & #KeepDalStrong

Smoke covering NS. Where is the government action for cleaning indoor air in schools hospitals homes etc #nspoli bsky.app/profile/harb...

As students return classrooms in the next few weeks (elementary up to university) with wildfire smoke filling the air in this province please remember that people have advocated for clean air standards, ventilation, air filtration in every public place since at least 2020. #nspoli

Tenant turnover means they can raise the rent more than the cap allows

Because they only made 34 million squeezing extracting wealth from working class people

The article really spells it all out without offering even a whisper of critique of the financialized housing market

I worked at that CTC store years ago when it was the only store on the peninsula for those types of products (before Bayers Rd Walmart). The back-to-school season was bigger than Christmas! Shelves, hangers, lamps, small appliances, etc. people filled cart after cart for their new apartments.

Google Sign in is dunkin cereal milk gluten fr Al Overview +1 No, Dunkin' Cereal Milk is not gluten-free because it contains milk, which is a common allergen, and as a result, it is not suitable for those with celiac disease or gluten intolerance. However, coffee drinks, dairy milk, and non-dairy milks like oat, almond, and coconut milk are naturally gluten-free at Dunkin'.

In 25 years, every business school in the country will be doing case studies about how a long defunct company known as “Google” once had an unbeatable lock on online information retrieval and then started doing shit like this.

Masked raids are tools of fear, not freedom. Despite what this administration wants you to believe, they are not about “safety.” They are about letting ICE agents hide from accountability while carrying out inhumane acts.

Dalhousie University faculty and staff rally amid lockout, failed negotiations - Halifax Examiner Hundreds of Dalhousie University faculty and staff members rallied in Halifax Friday to demand fair wages and an end to the lockout.

Dalhousie University faculty and staff rally amid lockout, failed negotiations
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Nova Scotia Power doesn't want the public to know the details about the theft of personal data of hundreds of thousands of its customers - Halifax Examiner There's a reason — lots of reasons — for public distrust of Nova Scotia Power, and for the regulatory process that continually approves rate hikes that leave Nova Scotians paying the highest power bil...

Nova Scotia Power doesn’t want the public to know the details about the theft of personal data of hundreds of thousands of its customers

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Shrinkflation has come for the dentist office: Crest Oral-B no longer provides the little sample dental floss to go with the toothbrush and toothpaste.

I'd rather have a water bomber than a police tank.

If you are suffering as a customer during a strike, that is because management is intentionally passing on the suffering to you, which means you have common cause with the workers. This is so whether the management is of an airline, a hospital, or a retail establishment.

Forestry operations still allowed in Nova Scotia’s woodlands, but should they be? - Halifax Examiner North Nova Forest Owner's Co-op voluntarily stopped all operations in the forests because of the wildfire risk, although harvesting wood is the co-op's primary revenue generation. "But it doesn't come...

Forestry operations still allowed in Nova Scotia’s woodlands, but should they be?
A conversation with forestry expert Greg Watson on wildfire risks and climate change, logging when woods are bone dry, and what makes forests less fire-prone.

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As the Susies Lake fire burns and continued drought raises the prospect of still more fires, Tim Houston says he's doing enough to address climate change - Halifax Examiner The Susies Lake fire has burned about 15 hectares and is still considered out of control, but it's not growing.

As the Susies Lake fire burns and continued drought raises the prospect of still more fires, Tim Houston says he’s doing enough to address climate change

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