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Alberta’s Smith says courts should not be gatekeepers on constitutional questions Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says those seeking an independence referendum should not have “gatekeepers,” like the courts, standing in their way.

Of course the courts should be the ones to adjudicate constitutional issues. That’s the whole point of the rule of law, the cornerstone of government. You can’t trust government or popular opinion to determine or safeguard fundamental rights. #cdnpoli www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

One thing that’s pretty clear about spending any length of time around these people is that they do not accept or even really comprehend ‘constitutional government’ as liberals understand it.

“Shoutout to the boys in Canada’s overwhelmingly Conservative media who consistently blame immigrants in order to shield our country’s investment class!”

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Interestingly, those with household incomes of $100,000 or more were the most likely (40%) to say they’ve intentionally taken an item without scanning it. Just 17% of those making less than $30,000 said the same.

OH THAT IS INTERESTING

This is still far less than the percentage of cops who admit they've beaten their spouse and kids

SARS-CoV-2 Leaves a Lasting Mark on the Immune System A landmark new study shows COVID-19 isn’t ‘just a cold’: One infection left people with long-lasting immune damage, and those with heart disease lost up to 70% of key immune cells. Reinfections may wo...

SARS-CoV-2 Leaves a Lasting Mark on the Immune System
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It's just insane that no pilot thought of this route before AI brilliantly came up with it!!!!!!!!

pete_wharmby_books & ••• HADLEY FREEMAN Wes Streeting must stand up to the ADHD activists I can help with the minister's review: some people are just confused by life Hadley Freeman pete_wharmby_books Ah, as expected the right wing press (and Freeman's pipeline from the Guardian op-Ed pages to the Times is worth looking into) is now piling on, suggesting that these scary ADHD activists are just trying to ruin things for everyone. Not, like, try to improve people's self esteem and sense of what is going on. 2025 is so horrifyingly, predictably *boring*

then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM

Althia Raj: Mark Carney is quietly giving sweeping new powers to his ministers Sneaking a change of this magnitude into a 600-page bill that will not get parliamentary scrutiny raises a red flag, Althia Raj writes.

Giving ministers the power to exempt pet projects from any law on the books except for the Criminal Code isn’t nation-building. It’s a disaster waiting to happen.
The fact that they‘re trying to sneak this through without any explanation is particularly incriminating.

I must have missed the snap elections when Reform won a majority.

It's quite clear that they've already won.

I think that the serious/performative distinction has broken down completely in the postmodern right. Killing people is performance, making up crypto charter cities is 100% serious even if they don't expect them to ever happen. It's an entirely different type of sanity.

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

Persistent Attenuation of Lymphocyte Subsets After Mass SARS-CoV-2 Infection Growing evidence suggests that lymphocyte subsets are declined in COVID-19 patients, but it is unclear if these alterations persist after widespread e…

Here's the link without the ":5037" portion of the URL (dunno why Science Direct is including this unusual port # in their URLs):
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Read this twice.

“Our findings redefine SARS-CoV-2 infection as a condition of long-lasting immune compromise.”

www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...

Seems fine, mild even?

Stop. Getting. This. Disease.

“by the age of 30” illustration by wizardofbarge

🎨 @wizardofbarge.bsky.social

“In the new year, we’ll be launching our guide for GPs to help with the diagnosis, management, and treatment of Long Covid.”

This is good, it’s badly needed in NZ.

IMO this piece could’ve been stronger in its recs for prevention & more inclusive of other LC conditions, but I’m happy to see it.

DC Public Library No Library Wrapped from us — we don't track what you read. DCPL protects your privacy.

DC Public Library with a friendly reminder 📚

I don't think transgender athletes are the problem facing girls and women in sports.

Children’s hospitals face flood of flu visits as physicians urge Canadian families to get vaccinated | CBC News An early start to Canada’s flu season is hitting children hard, sending a flood of young patients into multiple pediatric hospitals as medical teams warn that emergency visits and admissions could kee...

Please, #VaccinesWork! 🙏

Children’s hospitals in Canada face flood of flu visits as doctors urge families to get vaccinated www.cbc.ca/news/health/... by @LaurenPelley

"...higher volumes are already putting strain on the hospital’s limited capacity ... worst is yet to come..."

BUY PHYSICAL MEDIA.

If not for yourself, buy it for your friends who love movies and music and books. Buy it for a stranger. Buy it for the history I fucking BEG you. Hell buy it for me. We are going to lose it all.

Microsoft Teams Starts Telling Your Boss Where You Are—Now Just 8 Weeks Away Microsoft confirms start date for new Teams update — no more hiding places.

microsoft promised to "empower every user" and google to "revolutionise knowledge and technological innovation" but in reality what they have given us is an invasive surveillance dystopian nightmare hard to escape

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From The Montreal Massacre To The Van Attack: Here We Are, Again - Chatelaine We can resign ourselves to accepting the violence or we can commit to fighting like hell to ensure it never happens again.

Here is what I wrote in 2020, once again exhausted at people's refusal to name the problem for what it is - misogyny.

Today is Canada's National Day of Action & Remembrance on Violence against Women. It marks the day in 1989 when 14 women at Polytechnique in Montreal were murdered by an "incel" (Proving that shit has a new name but is an old problem.)

There are vigils across the country today. Please attend one.

‘A BBC journalist ran the image through an AI chatbot which identified key spots that may have been manipulated.‘

Jesus Christ, if you’re a journalist, go and find out for yourself if the bridge was damaged. GenAI is making morons out of people.

the machine does not know what it is doing to you the machine does not know what you are using it for the machine does not know who you are the machine does not understand you the machine can only say what you want to hear the machine is controlled by men willing to risk your children's lives this is how we destroy ourselves narcissus and icarus in one, agreeing ourselves to death

6-fold ward against AI-induced psychosis

cannot stress enough how bad it is to give teenage boys a "see this person naked" button. massive, multi-axis disaster

Cuts at Natural Resources Canada ‘decimate’ wildfire and flood tracking capacity, unions warn Carney's cuts have hit Natural Resources Canada, causing uproar from public sector unions warning the layoffs will hurt Canada's ability to respond to cliamte change and protect Canadians from wildfir...

NEW: Hundreds of public servants are being let go at federal agencies that monitor climate risks, @natashabulowski.bsky.social reports