The Ford government's dismantling of Ontario's $15 million wastewater monitoring program was always about politics and not public health.
07.07.2025 11:11 — 👍 35 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0The Ford government's dismantling of Ontario's $15 million wastewater monitoring program was always about politics and not public health.
07.07.2025 11:11 — 👍 35 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0
British Reaction To The Story Of Terry Fox #Canada #TerryFox
To most Canadians he is the definition of a selfless hero.
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Here is another article about Jack and Lily. With new pictures.
Please share widely, they are missing in Pictou County, NS.
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“…this morning, from a war zone half a world away, I was reading about your election. And for the first time in days, I exhaled.
A small, almost invisible breath. Relief.
And then came gratitude…
You didn’t just choose kindness or experience…
You chose not to flirt with fascism.”
From Ukraine.
6/ I'm dismayed at the election of CPC candidates with extreme anti-science views, including those I mentioned before: Leslyn Lewis, Dean Allison, Roman Baber, and Matt Strauss in Ontario. They're a sign that Canada is ripe for the anti-science destructive populists we see in the US.
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CBC News projects 4th term 🇨🇦Liberal government!
Wait to see if we get a majority!
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This image describes the Canadian COVID Forecast for the seven day period between Apr 12-25, 2025, which is produced by COVID-19 Resources Canada. Canada’s COVID Forecast outlook is VERY HIGH (no change) with a COVID INDEX SCORE of 11.0 About 1 of every 151 people is infected. Estimated infections this week: 229,925-319,075 What these numbers mean: MODERATE 1-5, HIGH 5-10, VERY HIGH 10-15, SEVERE >15 COMPARED TO THE LOWEST POINT IN THE COVID PANDEMIC IN CANADA How much higher are key indicators compared to the lowest point in the COVID pandemic in Canada? Waste water, infections: HIGH; 8.5X higher Long COVID estimate: HIGH; 8.8X higher Hospitalizations, ICU: VERY HIGH; 13.1X higher Deaths: VERY HIGH; 11.5X higher HOW TO HELP: EVERYONE: UPDATE vaccines every 6 months WEAR N95-type masks AVOID indoor social gatherings AVOID crowded non-essential places Who is HIGH RISK? People 60 and older, babies < 1 year, pregnant ALL AGES: immunocompromised OR medically at-risk OR no vaccine or infection in the last 6 months Recommendations are based on the COVID-19 Risk Index from the Peterborough ON Public Health Unit COVID-19 Resources Canada is a grassroots organization of volunteer scientists supporting Canadian COVID responses. Sources, data and methods for the COVID Index are available at www.Covid19Resources.ca
Canadian COVID Forecast Apr 12-25, 2025
CANADA
VERY HIGH (no change)
About 1 in every 151 people infected
Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada:
-Infections ~9X higher
-Long COVID ~9X higher
-Hospitalizations ~13X higher
-Deaths ~12X higher
Doug Ford's Therme boondoggle at Ontario Place has always looked sketchy, now it smells even worse. Conservatives and Corruption both start with the letter C, especially in Ontario.
16.04.2025 13:54 — 👍 47 🔁 16 💬 3 📌 2
"in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, its authors describe how a positive test for COVID-19 is associated with increased rates of diagnosis of various non–SARS-CoV-2 infections in the 12 months following an acute SARS-CoV-2 infection"
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This is just one example of the mounting anti-science wave taking place within Canadian conservative governments. Ontario disbanded the Science Table during the pandemic, closed the Science Centre, and in Alberta the govt published a widely mocked faux pandemic report rife with disinformation.
12.04.2025 09:26 — 👍 77 🔁 32 💬 1 📌 5As I write this, the conservative government of Doug Ford is silent about the large measles outbreak, he gutted Public Health, and his CMOH is nothing but a muted political appointee who is not doing his fiduciary duty.
12.04.2025 09:34 — 👍 140 🔁 54 💬 5 📌 10We know from testing obvious symptomatic measles cases that measles is spreading after the fact. Wastewater surveillance would have more properly identified infections much earlier, more completely, and better framed the scale of activity.
12.04.2025 09:31 — 👍 79 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 2Remember why you’re voting in this election. Canada does not want the continued dismantling of scientific progress as we see happening in the US. Be sure to vote. #canpoli #cdnpoli #canadastrong
12.04.2025 09:43 — 👍 172 🔁 65 💬 3 📌 0Here in Ontario, Doug Ford gave us a handy map so we can always find the booze closest to us.
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Our CBC Power and Politics Friday panel takes stock of where the major parties are after week 3 of the campaign, and looks at what the path for a majority might look like:
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Wow, you have to go to this page in MacLeans, all the articles about who stands to win, if the CPC won in Canada and it is not pretty, it's scary. Scroll down the page and read the headlines for all the articles. The people won't win, but wealthy would.
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A bronze statue depicts Terry Fox running with a determined expression, prominently displayed on a concrete pedestal in an urban setting. Surrounding buildings and streetlights contribute to the cityscape backdrop of Ottawa Canada.
On this date in 1980 Terry Fox began his #MarathonOfHope for #Cancer awareness. He never finished the race but the fight continues to this day #CancerAwareness fineartamerica.com/featured/ter... @terryfoxfoundation.bsky.social @terryfoxresearch.bsky.social @terryfoxaward.bsky.social
12.04.2025 12:44 — 👍 31 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 0
Delete, delete, delete… 📲
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As I warned repeatedly last July, the foolhardy cancellation of the world class and inexpensive Ontario wastewater surveillance program was a mistake. I cautioned that we would be less prepared as new infectious disease risks rose during the winter. #measles #H5N1
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Letter in response to my column: The federal election is a chance to reform health care, if we would be so bold.
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"We are witnessing the destruction of science in America."
10.04.2025 17:22 — 👍 42 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 0Measles is highly contagious, the best way to control the spread is to ensure that over 95% of the community is immunized against the virus. Failure to do so will lead to this sort of ongoing outbreak. 61 have been hospitalized, eventually the growing numbers will lead to a death, likely a child.
10.04.2025 22:22 — 👍 28 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1
Now 816 #measles cases in Ontario from outbreak, up 155 in week.
"The sharp increase in the number of outbreak cases and the geographic spread in recent weeks is
due to continued exposures and transmission among individuals who have not been immunized."
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Canadian (blue) and American (red) major stock indexes over the past three months. Canada is down -6.4%, the US is down -9.84%. Trump announced 25% #tariffs on Canada on March 4th, that's when the divergence began. #CanadaStrong
11.04.2025 12:00 — 👍 64 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 0
On the subject of Paul Chiang......
01.04.2025 13:50 — 👍 49 🔁 21 💬 10 📌 2More than anything THIS.
30.03.2025 16:49 — 👍 78 🔁 20 💬 2 📌 0
Didn’t take ‘em long.
Cue cheap child labour.
You just couldn’t say the word “airborne”.
28.03.2025 18:57 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
People will die.
The babies will die.
The children will die.
They do this with intention. They know people will die and they’re going to do this anyway.
What’s it going to take America?