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🚨 This is inexplicable news to share. If in Alberta and you want flu and covid shots for NEXT year (2026-2027), you have only until December 15 of THIS year to order them.

This is not incompetence. It’s a deliberate choice to prevent as many people ..

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Can you #FindThatLizard

Last weekend, I went to Big Bear with some friends. Although it’s getting to the end of lizard season, I was hoping to get a few #FindThatLizard photos. I knew if nothing else, the western fence lizard Sceloporus occidentalis wouldn’t disappoint me.

This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.

A picture of a foggy street

Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage

A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are in bed. Green has just woken up, bleary-eyed, while Blue is still sound asleep. Green narrates. Green, narrating: You might wake up at 5 on a cold, dark monday to the sound of someone scraping frost off their windshield. Still sleepy-eyed, Green turns towards sleeping Blue. Green, continuing to narrate: But you are warm, safe and cozy, in bed with the love of your life. Closing his eyes again, Green cuddles up to Blue. Green, narrating: One of life's sweet, fleeting moments of pure and perfect bliss. Blue wakes up, both foxes are bleary-eyed and half-asleep. Blue: Can you get off me? I need to go pee. Green, still narrating: Very fleeting.

Millions exploited by ‘menopause gold rush’ amid lack of reliable information, say experts Women’s health academics at UCL call for education programme to combat misinformation and unregulated advice

This is very easily avoided by getting The Menopause Manifesto by @drjengunter.bsky.social.

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Look who is "we", obviously I can't speak for everyone but I personally never experienced a milisecond of doubt about whether Virginia Giuffre was lying or not?

Wes' move was sparked by an innovative program called Canada Leads, launched in April by Toronto's University Health Network.

Canada’s brain gain: A scientific migration amid U.S turmoil www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic... @avisfavaro.bsky.social @codeblackamerica.bsky.social

More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

Some sticks are more complicated to retrieve than others

The franchise pretty uniformly has a really great attitude of people being into nerd shit but doing it with absolutely no shame or hesitation because they know they’ll be accepted and encouraged by their friends. I’m trying to do that myself but I know it will end with a friend’s improv comedy show

Pierre Poilievre channels his inner JD Vance Owning the libs is no way to actually govern a country, as Americans keep finding out with each passing day. That's not about to stop Pierre Poilievre from constantly trying to do it.

Pierre Poilievre channels his inner JD Vance, @maxfawcett.bsky.social writes www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/21/o...

Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com

These two beauties hold our record for the kittens that waited the longest for a home -- more than six months. Mainly, I suspect, because they're black & white. But they are SO lovely and look how happy they are now ❤️

At Yonge & Dundas Jays fans are obeying the pedestrian scramble, as is the custom & returning to sidewalk each light cycle.

Pharmacist Randy Howden administers a COVID-19 vaccine at the Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy in the Crowfoot West Business Centre in Calgary on Wednesday, October 16, 2024.

Albertans who don't pre-order flu, COVID-19 shots for 2026-27 season can book them next year: province https://calgaryherald.com/news/albertans-who-dont-pre-order-flu-covid-19-shots-for-2026-27-season-can-book-them-next-year

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Hi Alice! I don't get on here much for my mental health, the stress of everything etc but I do try to check in once in a while. Welcome back!

A golden brown, perfectly cooked turkey is suspended horizontally in a bbq on a spit, there are orange flames from the rotisserie burner behind it and a pan with delicious drippings beneath it.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! We had our dinner last night so today is all about making stock from the bones. Forgot to get pictures of the whole feast, but here's our bird on the rotisserie. If you've never tried rotisserie turkey you should, it's delicious!

Why journalists are reluctant to call Trump an authoritarian – and why that matters for democracy Media framing shapes people’s understanding of the world. A political communication scholar says that journalistic outlets’ failure to call Donald Trump an authoritarian is a problem for democracy.

Do I believe Trump is an authoritarian? Yes. He is competing against democratic constraints at every opportunity. Those constraints are slowing him down but once he breaks down all resistance, he will be a full-throated authoritarian leader, much like Putin.
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I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

SickKids named world’s best pediatric hospital in new ranking The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto has topped a new list ranking the world’s top pediatric hospitals.

This will not play well with American critics of the Canadian public healthcare system.
"SickKids named world's best pediatric hospital"

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I've had 3 times and every time it hit me like a dump truck, way worse than any other vaccine I've had. Hopefully it passes soon for you

Dr. Saad Khan and his wife Samantha, an occupational therapist, moved to West Kelowna from the U.K. this summer in response to a B.C. health recruitment ad he spotted on Facebook.

'Breath of fresh air:' U.K. couple documents move to B.C. after seeing doctor recruitment ad https://vancouversun.com/news/uk-couple-move-bc-doctor-recruitment-ad

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Every once in a while I tell people from other countries about how the health insurance system works in the US and they are aghast. Yesterday a guy straight up didn’t believe me when I said people can die because of not being able to afford medicine. He was sure I meant in the distant past.

Look you can’t tell me this thing is “intelligently designed” — it goes into a five-minute coughing fit if I breathe wrong. Sometimes it accidentally bites itself. It draws blood.

Opinion: The summer (and fall) of our COVID discontent We still aren’t doing enough to mitigate the spread of the virus

The summer (and fall) of our COVID discontent. As eager as we are to forget, #COVID19 is still with us, and we need to mitigate our risk, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com

🧵 Fact: #mRNA is a normal part of cells, it acts like an instruction manual to build proteins. mRNA covid #vaccines send cells instructions to build a specific part of the virus. This spike protein can't cause covid but will warn our immune system. mRNA and the protein break down quickly into waste.

Why the CMA Must Break with the AMA If the CMA follows AMA’s lead, it is only a matter of time before convoy-aligned doctors in Canada are positioned as “experts” inside Ottawa.

Florida just equated childhood vaccination with slavery.

The CMA’s response? Linking arms with the AMA—an institution that looked away as disinformation captured U.S. medicine.

Solidarity isn’t policy. Canada needs independence, not borrowed outrage.

#CanMed #CdnPoli #HealthPolicy

Its impossible to overstate the importance of this. As time drags on and the USA falls further into fascism, the US institutions Canada has deferred to and aligned with will become less and less trustworthy. Many are already tools of the MAGA fascist state.

🇨🇦 orgs need to stand on their own.

A roughly 5 week old orange tabby kitten stares pensively into the camera.

Someone is getting really big and fluffy! #bcspca #fosterkittens #orangetabby

Raw food contamination, deflection and denial I recently wrote about an FDA notice about H5N1 contamination of RAWR pet food that killed a cat (and likely sickened others, but that’s a guess). A sharp

The company letter and my critique are here...

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Project 2025 mastermind invited to Carney's cabinet meeting no longer speaking | CBC News A prominent conservative figure in American politics and the mastermind behind Project 2025 — the infamous policy blueprint that proposed a drastic overhaul of the U.S. government — was invited to spe...

Inviting an evil, racist, misogynist to speak to the cabinet is not a good look. I don’t care what playbook he knows. Don’t normalize this. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...