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Logged in this morning because I knew this would be the place to find information about the prospects for getting me and my family vaccinated this fall. Thanks for sharing!

White supremacist, Christo-fascists, their gullible cult followers, and the billionaires puppet-mastering the whole thing are fanatical. We won the battle on April 28 (thank god), but the fascists will not let up. We have to protect our democracy as zealously as the fascists want to tear it down.

Sure, a Liberal majority would've been better. But from where we were a couple of months ago, I'll take it. I did not trust the polls and am incredibly relieved. Also, I'm just so damn proud of the women who stepped up to run, who worked so hard to represent their communities and our country. Bravo!

With our sovereignty and democracy at stake, the subject line of the CPC's latest fundraising email is "Do you want cheaper beer?" Not the Onion. When you've NOTHING of value to offer Canadians, you piggyback off a premier's simplistic, populist ideas (à la buck-a-beer), I guess? PP is the worst.

ON. West of GTA.

There are a lot of CPC signs in my neighbourhood. Ugh. What are people thinking?!

Elbows up, Canada.

Trumpian. I can't believe how easily people are duped.

Was hoping our eldest could vote too, but a month too soon for him! I may try to get him out to canvass with me though.

Mark Carney: "A person who worships at the alter of Trump will kneel before him, not stand up to him. Pierre Poilievre's slogans are not solutions, his anger isn't action, his division isn't strength."

Mark Carney to be next Canada PM after winning Liberal leadership race Former central banker will be only second prime minister in Canadian history without a seat in parliament Mark Carney, the former central banker who oversaw the response to financial crises in North America and the UK, will become the next prime minister…

Mark Carney to be next Canada PM after winning Liberal leadership race

Thank you! At least I'm not awaiting medication or other necessities. My teen is gonna get pics of his Xmas gifts, I guess.

You're better than me. Gave up after 2.5 hours. At least I was given the privilege of being able to wait. Most often, I get a, "Sucks to be you. Goodbye." Maybe even worse, the website's chatbot pretends it's gonna connect me with an agent. And then chuckles its AI head off.

Don't mean to hijack, but were you able to pick up the package? I've got one sitting at a sorting facility, ten minutes from my house. I'm thinking of going there, but I understand a lot of packages are just sitting on trucks and/or pallets waiting to be unloaded. Mayhem indeed.

Same. Package has been sitting ten minutes from my home since Sunday. "Weather delay" in an area where we've barely experienced winter. No customer service access through the chat bot. And on the phone, it's basically a "sucks to be you - goodbye" hang up. This is definitely some bullshit.

Ugh. I could have got behind Erskine-Smith. Is extreme disinterest - i.e. how I feel about Crombie - an oxymoron?

"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting.

Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC

Yes! It gives my heart a little boost every time I discover here a familiar Cdn account from X - not necessarily a journalist, expert, or someone with a huge following - just a thoughtful and compassionate person who cares about democracy and decency.

The Conservative MP Michelle Ferreri dismissed the school food program as, “not worth the cost to our families and our children.”

With over 3M children in 🇨🇦without nutritious school meals, does she object to feeding children or just object to feeding poor children?

#Reprehensible

So much is so sh*tty, but my day just got better. The Force is with us.

Canadian. Devastated by Disinformation's takeover of America, knowing we're not better or far behind here.
But there remain good things to be done. This week:
- deleted X account (finally)
- canceled WP subscription
- renewed ACLU membership
- saw Springsteen in concert
- came back to Bluesky

We use the BTNX tests because those are the ones the government gave us. In our family's case, we test often, the whole family, regardless of symptoms. I think this helps mitigate the risk of false negatives. And they worked this week - as two of us tested +ve, with, at first, mild symptoms.

Thank you! Have you seen it available anywhere in Halton? Halton has closed its community clinics, advises NVX may be available in pharmacies, but above the two pharmacies listed, it states that info will be updated when vaccine becomes available.

I used to be a Gervais fan. Love The Office, Extras. And he's a staunch animal rights advocate. But he's decided that ranting about "wokeness" is a money-maker. He doesn't care that it's lazy, dishonest, pandering, and, frankly, not funny. Marc Maron has a good take on all these a**holes.

I keep seeing this headline, panicking for a second (that sinking, sickening, dread feeling in my gut - like when Trump was elected), and remembering that Trump is not the POTUS. He and his team can actively plan all they want from Trump's jail cell.

I just told my sister she's my hero. She laughed, but I was serious. She lives in a group home. Felt unwell. Asked for a RAT. Staff said no, she didn't need one - "it's just a cold." She insisted. Because she cares about others. RAT was +ve. She's now isolating in her room, protecting others. Hero.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Prevention of #LongCovid: A meta-analysis of 24 studies shows vaccine effectiveness, with booster, at 69% and without booster 37%

FLU SHOTS IN ONTARIO - I'm sure most people are now aware, but I've been receiving emails today from pharmacies at which I was waitlisted for the flu vaccine. Most are now both booking appointments and doing walk-ins.

Unbelievable that the school continues to double-down on its overt anti-Black racism. Kudos to that child and his family for not backing down, but it's disgusting they've been put in this position.