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Vaccine Makers Curtail Research and Cut Jobs

We need *public* vaccine design, testing, and manufacturing in Canada. Not at the mercy of corporations. Not at the mercy of the anti-vax US government. Global vaccine equity, not corporate profits.

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Halifax councillors considering carpool lanes to help ease traffic congestion - Halifax | Globalnews.ca The mayor said he believes moving ahead with high-occupancy (HOV) lanes could help the municipality take control of its own roadways and planning.

HRM Call to Action! ☎️ 💻📨 Phone/email script below ⬇️

Andy Fillmore wants to take away dedicated bus lanes by opening them up to “high occupancy vehicles” (HOV).
That’s any vehicle with just 2+ people! 🚗🛻🚚🚙🚗🛻🚚💨
globalnews.ca/news/1166132...
Whether you drive, bike, or use transit, this is bad news.

Halifax! There is a trial of an inhaled vaccine for COVID that you can enrol in right now!

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

-Wilhoit's Law

For our How Halifax Works series, the Chronicle Herald is looking at Halifax Transit.

We want to hear from you: Is the bus schedule reliable? How does it affect your commute? What changes do you want to see when it comes to Halifax Transit?

Email our reporter Ally Bowes at abowes@postmedia.com.

Hard to look at this and not think that Andrew Wakefield won.

1. #CDC posted new #flu data today. A 🧵
Another pediatric death was reported in the 2024-25 flu season, making it the deadliest flu season for kids since CDC started collecting this data point 20 years ago. 2024-25 has surpassed the 2009 H1N1 pandemic.
9 kids have died from flu so far this year.

In a study following 23 million people age 18-59 (pretty young) for 4 years…despite the fact that the ones who got the COVID vaccine were overall older and sicker at baseline, they not only had 74% lower risk of dying from COVID than the unvaccinated but 25% lower risk of dying from any other cause!

Canadians (especially cis Canadians), PLEASE take a moment to sign this petition and take action in defence of trans people. It takes less than a minute to sign and verify your signature.

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

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The way to make Canada a top global science leader is to a) prevent brain drain, and b) make it a go-to for the best researchers from around the world. You do this by having very robust, stable, and internationally competitive funding across the board -- not by huge one-time recruitment efforts.

OPINION: Don’t wait for B.C. public health to protect you this flu season - Surrey Now-Leader H3N2 could make this a rough winter – be prepared

Dr Lyne Filiatrault has written about how this year's H3N2 flu variant is straining hospitals, and what we can do to help alleviate that: get vaccinated, wear a mask, and filter the air.

surreynowleader.com/2025/12/06/o...

The only way to reduce traffic is to *reduce traffic*. We need to give people a way to get around the province without a car.

Nova Scotia needs to rebuild our train network. That's the real solution. It's actually obscene that we had better public transportation two centuries ago than we do today.

Read this as an American woman and then go break something.

ACIP's discussion about "informed consent" today is dishonest. The HepB birth dose is not mandatory; it is recommended. Parents & caregivers have always had the right to refuse or delay. This edit is intended to confuse people about public health mandates and make MAHA out to be a freedom hero.

Measles resurgence a herald of other infectious disease waves, WHO warns A global resurgence of measles is a “fire alarm” for further waves of other infectious diseases such as diphtheria and polio, a senior health official has said. The remarks came at the launch of the ...

Antivaxxers own this. Infectious disease minimizers own this.

www.bmj.com/content/391/...

Infuriating.

The effect of shingles vaccination at different stages of the dementia disease course A natural experiment found that herpes zoster vaccination reduced the occurrence of mild cognitive impairment and deaths due to dementia, indicating that the vaccine may slow the progression of dement...

I really enjoyed reading this.
A fascinating new natural-experiment study in Cell adding to the evidence that shingles vaccination may have cognitive benefits beyond preventing zoster. i.e. may slow dementia progression.
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Measles outbreak over in northern Nova Scotia, no active cases in province Nova Scotia Public Health has declared a three-month measles outbreak in the Northern Zone to be officially over.

Measles outbreak (61 people) over in northern Nova Scotia, no active cases in province #NovaScotia

I attribute this low case count due to the aggressive vaccine program, to have older people vaccinated as well as children who had not previously been vaccinated.

www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nov...

🚨 This is inexplicable news to share. If in Alberta and you want flu and covid shots for NEXT year (2026-2027), you have only until December 15 of THIS year to order them.

This is not incompetence. It’s a deliberate choice to prevent as many people ..

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A pedestrian walks past an Edmonton pharmacy advertising COVID and flu immunization shots, Wednesday Oct. 9, 2024.

Alberta physicians on alert amid low vaccination rates, COVID and flu season https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/alberta-hospitals-covid-vaccination-cold-flu-season

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COVID Vaccines Still Effective Against Severe Outcomes, VA Study Suggests Even as COVID's severity wanes, vaccines reduced emergency visits, hospital stays, and death

Less doubt mongering.👎 More facts. 👍

COVID Vaccines Still Effective, Study www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

Effectiveness:
- 29.3% against emergency department visits
- 39.2% against hospitalizations
- 64% against deaths

"Vaccines were effective across age groups"

Covid and flu appointments are now available in Nova Scotia 💉❤️ Please get vaccinated and protect yourself + your community!

If you have any issues booking your appointment, please reach out to the booking line at 1-833-797-7772.

novascotia.flow.canimmunize.ca/en/booking/c...

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

There’s something I’d like to write if I can find time. It has been prompted by a thought: our culture is being consciously steered towards intolerance. Our great-grandchildren will look back on what’s being done now and say that we lived in different times and didn’t know better. But we do. We do.

Halifax Urban Greenway & Active Transportation to Point Pleasant Park The municipality is extending the Halifax Urban Greenway Extension and AAA Bikeway from Beaufort Avenue and Bellevue Avenue to Point Pleasant Park.

#Halifax regional municipality wants public feedback on the Halifax Urban Greenway Extension and AAA Bikeway to Point Pleasant Park. At this link, there is a survey you can fill out, plus details on public engagement sessions that start in October.

engagehalifax.ca/urban-greenway

This whole thread is worth a read