This image shows gauges with the Feb 28 - Mar 13, 2026 COVID Forecast scores for Canada, the provinces, and territories. From left to right: Canada: HIGH - 6.7 Alberta: HIGH - 6.5 British Columbia: MODERATE - 4.4 Manitoba: VERY HIGH - 10.0 New Brunswick: HIGH - 7.1 Newfoundland & Labrador: MODERATE - 4.7 North: HIGH - 6.7 Nova Scotia: HIGH - 6.0 Ontario: HIGH - 7.7 Prince Edward Island: MODERATE - 4.9 Quebec: HIGH - 6.6 Saskatchewan: HIGH - 8.1 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: Feb 28 - Mar 13, 2026

SEVERE: none
VERY HIGH: MB
HIGH: CAN, AB, NB, North, NS, ON, QC, SK
MODERATE: BC, NL, PEI

About 1 in 99 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

Somehow, in despite 10 years of increasingly deranged behavior from Trump and co, they find creative new ways to surprise me with their depravity.

If you aren't at the table you're on the menu, eh, Canada?

So is this country number 8 on our list of military actions since Trump took office?

Who actually thought this marriage would last?

South Sudan risks return to full-blown civil war as violence escalates At least 169 killed in raid near Sudan border as clashes between government and opposition forces intensify

"South Sudan risks return to full-blown civil war as violence escalates"

On Sunday, at least 169 people were killed after armed youth from Mayom county in the north raided a village in neighbouring Abiemnom county near the (North) Sudan border.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

for the youths who werent around for the iraq installment
- dont believe anything the govt says about progress
- no the democrats dont have to say getting rid of the baddie was good and therefore they have to support the war
- the war needs to be ended
- the media is not your ally and they love war

10/10 No notes.

'UNIMAGINABLE CRUELTY': Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointeee from NY, thrashes DHS' treatment of a man who came to the US at 9 as an abuse/neglect victim, has no criminal record and became a college grad.

"The laws of decency condemn such villainy." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Kash Patel’s latest firings ousted agents with expertise in Iran The FBI director gutted a specialized, global espionage unit of counterintelligence agents, just days before Operation Epic Fury.

When FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen FBI agents and staff last week for their role in the classified documents investigation of Donald Trump, he targeted an elite counter espionage unit that investigates threats from foreign adversaries and specializes in Iran www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...

Noem AGAIN refuses to apologize to the families of Renee Good and Alex Pretti after calling them domestic terrorists without evidence.

Still, this time she lies and says she never said it, even though it's on tape and she doubled down on her claims several times.

Moments after saying she reviews all contracts over $5 million, Sec. Noem now says she “did not have anything to do” with selecting contractors who won a $220 million bid to produce TV ads.

They literally spent the past 4-plus years blasting Biden over the withdrawal from Afghanistan and how "rushed" it was.

Hey, guys, is it a troubling sign when an 80-year-old man can't remember what continent his father was born on?

Have airstrikes by a hostile foreign country ever produced this outcome? The reactionary centrist blob keeps pretending this is part of a duly considered long-term strategy from Trump but that is not how he operates and even if it was, this is a dumb strategy.

I'm so sorry! Good luck with your root canal! 😪

The MAGA Plot to Take Down Canada A growing movement of MAGA-pilled Albertan separatists would happily break up the country to be closer to Trump.

Scary stuff.
The MAGA Plot to Take Down Canada newrepublic.com/article/2069... via @newrepublic.com

BLUMENTHAL: Is the agent who shot Ms Martinez sill on the job?

NOEM: Our officers conduct operations every day-

B: Is he still on the job carrying a gun?

N: I dunno

B: Would you agree he shouldn't be?

N: I'll get back to you

B: I think Americans would find it absolutely terrifying if he is

You know it’s a rough news cycle when the headline begins with “Trump Admits”

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

The bad actors - the really "effective" transphobes - figured this out 6-10 years ago: If they say outright "I hate trans people", they get rejected. If they derail, dismiss, deny, defend in *response* to trans people begging for humanity, they are tolerated.

Kristi Noem said there were "no plans" to have ICE officers at polling locations.

But she would not explicitly say that DHS has ruled it out.

Voter intimidation is illegal.

If ICE is at our polls - it will be a federal crime.

"This isn’t the first time I have been accused of betraying the “Elbows Up” spirit. It happens whenever I call out the government for failing to speak up against attacks on the International Criminal Court or the rule of law...
"I would be failing in my work if I was silent now."

"The emperor has no clothes, and is standing in front of the mirror, asking who is the fairest of them all. The answer might be unexpected. War can create opportunities for the liar, but it can also expose the shabbiness of the lie."

As @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social notes, international law isn't a principle to be sacrificed on the altar of hard-headed self-interest: it's a core Canadian national interest, and should be defended as such.

bsky.app/profile/ldob...

Development Is Hard Power Alexander De Croo explains why investments to alleviate poverty and shore up institutions are as important as tanks and drones.

“If we elevate fighter jets as “strategic” assets but dismiss a functioning education system as “mere aid,” and if we always find money for missiles but not for water or electricity, we are not protecting our societies. We are weakening them”

www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/d...?

The prime minister has been remarkably consistent in his actions and policies over the past year. It’s time to move beyond the *idea* of Carney and start taking his policies seriously, subjecting them to a serious critique. Because the problems with Carney’s actions aren’t bugs. They’re features.

Carney lands in Australia ahead of planned speech to Australian parliament SYDNEY - Prime Minister Mark Carney has landed in Australia, where he is seeking more collaboration in trade and defence.

“Carney has not spoken with reporters in days, and his office cancelled a Monday press conference in India, following his meeting there with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.”

This prime minister is not someone who is bothered by the need to explain himself to his constituents.

This spells out what we've always known about institutional and community contempt for trans people in death, and elaborates on how that is intensified by anti-Blackness and transmisogyny.

Transmisogynoir means Black trans women's deaths are dismissed, lied about, and not investigated.

Retired wildlife biologist Bob Bancroft wants his name removed from Nova Scotia Forestry Hall of Fame - Halifax Examiner Premier Tim Houston listens only to industries, facilitating their wish to make money by degrading the land and its freshwaters. Those who speak for nature and environmental consequences are labelled ...

Wildlife biologist Bob Bancroft wants his name removed from Nova Scotia Forestry Hall of Fame. He is disgusted with this government's determination to destroy fragile habitat and wildlife in order go maximize profits for extractive corporations.
www.halifaxexaminer.ca/commentary/r...