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'The Precedent Is Flint': How Oregon's Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis Amazon data centers constructed in eastern Oregon's farmland have worsened a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.

NEW TWIST: data centers in farm country may accelerate nitrate contamination from agricultural sources with big implications for public health.

Studies are needed to confirm or refute this finding. Lack of transparency, monitoring, regulations makes it tough.

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Screaming babies getting the needle are especially tiresome:

Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.

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This World AIDS Day, we remember the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers lost to HIV and AIDS, and those living with HIV today. We must remind ourselves and each other that the fight isn’t over until the epidemic is over for everyone.

Almost 10 years ago I wrote about happened when all 10,000 people in Dauphin, Manitoba, got UBI in the 1970s. They got healthier, stayed in school longer, and even had heavier babies: thetyee.ca/Opinion/2016...

Alberta’s data-centre push leaves health questions unanswered Canada's national curated aggregator for health news, policy updates and analysis.

Hyperscale data-centre expansion is outpacing the capacity of the local systems that support it.

The public health costs are falling to small municipalities with limited leverage and no oversight mechanisms.

This week we map out an emerging pattern:

Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol made $95 million last year. His workers are striking for the bare minimum. Glad to be on the right side of the picket line with them.

Gaza: study reveals unprecedented losses of life and life expectancy Researchers analyze the human toll of the ongoing conflict using a statistical model that takes data uncertainties into account

"They estimate that 78,318 (70,614-87,504) people were killed in #Gaza between October 7, 2023 & December 31, 2024...

An update of their analysis, produced after the publication of the study, revealed that the current violent death toll likely exceeds 100,000."

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FDA official proposes ‘impossible’ standards for vaccine testing that could curtail access to immunizations

FDA official Vinay Prasad proposes ‘impossible’ standards for vaccine testing that could curtail access to immunizations.
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Manitoba's HIV infection rates were Canada's highest in 2024, federal data suggests | CBC News New federal figures suggest Manitoba had the highest incidence of new diagnoses of HIV across Canada last year, and advocates say the province needs a better monitoring and evaluation system before ca...

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A PBS News tweet explains how two laid-off USAID employees created a website to match donors with canceled programs, keeping nearly 80 projects running in 30 countries. Below the text is an image of two people—Caitlin Tulloch and Rob Rosenbaum—appearing in a split-screen video interview, each seated in their respective rooms.

Meet two heroes of our times.

Thomas King and the Problem with Indigenous ‘Heroes’ | The Tyee These heroes were largely created by settler-controlled industries such as publishing, media and academia. Not by us.

Thomas King and the Problem with Indigenous 'Heroes' via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Quick takes: More infant botulism in US, avian flu in Indiana All 37 infants with botulism have required hospitalization.

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Death toll climbs in Ethiopia's Marburg outbreak Three new deaths have been confirmed in the outbreak, bringing the death toll to 8.

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WHO declares Ebola outbreak in DR Congo over after 64 cases Five healthcare workers were infected during this outbreak, 3 of whom died.

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Early-infancy RSV infection, inherited allergy may amplify risk of childhood asthma

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WHO: Measles deaths dropped by 88% in past 25 years, but cases now surging

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FDA official proposes ‘impossible’ standards for vaccine testing that could curtail access to immunizations

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Why My Law Firm is Litigating 63 Voting Rights Cases Read here.

Two months ago I wrote about why my law firm is litigating 63 voting and election cases. Today it is 65 cases covering more than half the country. Eleven of them involve redistricting.

Where are the big law firms? Why isn't legacy media covering this? www.democracydocket.com/opinion/why-...

White House Throws Commanding Admiral Under The Bus In Killing Of Alleged Drug Boat Survivors Press secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed the apparent war crime was legal even as she said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth knew nothing about it.

NEW — Admiral Bradley? Allow us to introduce you to the underside of this large bus.

Large bus? This is Admiral Bradley.

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A New Oilsands Pipeline? What Politicians Won’t Admit | The Tyee An energy expert lays out the risks and fallacies as Canada and the world fail to face the climate crisis.

Andrew Nikiforuk demolishes the whole idea: A New Oilsands Pipeline? What Politicians Won't Admit via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Ebola virus disease - Democratic Republic of the Congo. Outbreak ends.

"On 1 December 2025, the Ministry of Health (MoH) of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) declared the end of the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak which had been declared on 4 September 2025"

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Marc Miller is back in cabinet as the Culture Minister Joel Lightbound adds the Québec Lieutenant, on top of Procurement Dabrusin gets a new title, Environment, Climate Change and Nature Minister, essentially absorbing Parks, which Guilbeault had #cdnpoli

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‘Imagine a cigar burning slowly up … without visible flames’: Thorncliffe Park condo fire burns inside walls four days later The blaze, which broke out Thursday, has displaced residents from nearly 400 units at 11 Thorncliffe Park Dr. and 21 Overlea Blvd.

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Conscript dies during military exercise in Kainuu The deceased conscript's relatives have been informed of the incident.

Finland: yle.fi/a/74-20197229

Amid Confusing CDC Guidance About Vaccines, Study Highlights New Risk of COVID-19 During Pregnancy A Harvard study found that the children of women who contracted COVID-19 while pregnant may be at an increased risk for autism and other diagnoses, raising new concerns about the CDC’s decision to sto...

'What surprised them was that 16.3% of those babies received a neurodevelopmental diagnosis by three years, compared with 9.7% of the babies who were not exposed to COVID-19 in utero'.

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Hundreds flee central Haiti after gangs launch large-scale attacks and burn homes An official confirmed nearly a dozen deaths, including a mother and her child, in Artibonite region over the weekend

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Africa: DRC Ebola outbreak declared over The 16th Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo today the end of the outbreak in Kasai Province, after no new cases were reported in the past 42 days since...

Africa: DRC Ebola outbreak declared over
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