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Israel kills 61 people in Gaza City, at least 100 across enclave The surge in Israel’s bombardment in the north of the Gaza Strip comes as it plans to seize Gaza City.

At least 100 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, including 61 in Gaza City, as Al Jazeera reports intensified strikes in the north while Israel prepares to seize Gaza City aje.io/io4cij

More than 100 groups blast Israel’s ‘weaponisation of aid’ as Gaza starves Mass outcry from aid groups as Israel continues to block millions of dollars in aid supplies to starving Palestinians.

Mass outcry from aid groups as Israel continues to block millions of dollars in aid supplies to starving Palestinians.

Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the targeted assassination of its correspondents Anas Al Sharif and Mohammeel Qraiqea, along with photographers Ibrahim Al Thaher, and Mohamed Nofal, by Israeli forces.

#JournalismIsNotACrime

The only reason you assassinate every Al Jazeera journalist left in Gaza is because you don’t want anyone to document the genocide you are about to accelerate.

Any politician and any journalist who cannot call this genocide for what it is, is complicit, and I hope history remembers you as such.

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

EXCLUSIVE: B.C. paid private nursing agencies $508 million in just two years British Columbia’s health authorities have cut cheques to private staffing agencies totalling a little more than half a billion dollars in just the last two years, in order to have enough nurses to ke...

Ahh yess some brilliant accountability reporting from CTV's @pennydaflos.bsky.social who dug up how much the province is spending on agency nurses vs union nurses. Basically what private vs public health care BC is funding.
Private nurses get almost twice the wage!
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study.

“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”

What a banal way of describing the march toward fascism.

Israel is in talks to possibly resettle Palestinians from Gaza in South Sudan Israel is in discussions with South Sudan about the possibility of resettling Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to the war-torn East African country, part of a wider effort by Israel to facilitate mass...

www.ctvnews.ca/world/israel...

ETHNIC CLEANSING: Israel News: Palestinians may be resettled in South Sudan

B.C. to appeal court ruling that recognized Aboriginal title to land south of Vancouver Judgment could have significant effects on the province’s system of real estate ownership, Attorney-General Niki Sharma says

“B.C. is appealing the landmark decision of its Supreme Court that granted a group of First Nations on Vancouver Island title to riverside land in the mainland suburb of Richmond, saying the judgment raises questions about private-property rights.”

A fantastic addition to @thetyee.ca. They're lucky to have Tyler!

Water shortage in England declared "Nationally Significant Incident" as climate-change induced hot, dry weather continues

Many areas in drought conditions with bans on hosepipe use

Outlook for rain remains below normal

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

They murder journalists and then try to smear them. It's the oldest propaganda trick in the book but somehow, it never quite works for most people (only the wicked, servile and stupid ones )
Rest in power.

“Silencing the Coverage”: Israel Assassinates 5 Al Jazeera Journalists in Targeted Strike in Gaza We speak with Al Jazeera managing editor Mohamed Moawad after Israel assassinated five of the network’s journalists in Gaza, including veteran correspondent Anas al-Sharif, in an airstrike Sunday on a...

WATCH: “Silencing the Coverage”: Israel Assassinates 5 Al Jazeera Journalists in Targeted Strike in Gaza.

The "liberal democracy" Israel has now killed 238 journalists over the past 22 months.
www.democracynow.org/2025/8/11/al...

Rosie DiManno: Netanyahu’s plan to seize Gaza City will cause untold deaths and make Israel even more of a pariah The prime minister's actual goal, writes Rosie DiManno, "is to empty Gaza of Palestinians or force them into displacement satellites and make the Strip part of a Greater Israel."

Netanyahu’s plan to seize Gaza City will cause untold deaths and make Israel even more of a pariah

www.thestar.com/opinion/neta...

Ex-CEO of Alberta health authority asks for lawsuit against her to be tossed Marshall Smith, the Premier’s former aide, is suing Athana Mentzelopoulos for claims she made in a lawsuit against the Alberta government

Ex-CEO of Alberta health authority asks for lawsuit against her to be tossed

EXCLUSIVE: B.C. paid private nursing agencies $508 million in just two years British Columbia’s health authorities have cut cheques to private staffing agencies totalling a little more than half a billion dollars in just the last two years, in order to have enough nurses to ke...

BC paid for-profit nursing agencies $508 million in just two years

Premier’s Office spent nearly $20K on PragerU fundraiser gala Disclosures show that the Premier's Office spent nearly $20,000 to support a fundraiser by far-right American organization PragerU

SCOOP: Alberta taxpayers paid almost $20K for Premier Danielle Smith to speak alongside Ben Shapiro at a PragerU fundraiser in March, according to travel expense disclosures.

www.theprogressreport.ca/premier-prag...

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Trump shredding the constitution in the middle of fifth avenue, MAGA silently watches on the sidelines.

The Library of Congress got caught quietly altering its online display of the Constitution, removing Sections 9 and 10 of Article I. Trump's least favorite sections which guarantees the right to challenge unlawful detention and requires the government to justify confinement.

As a trained historian: do not use AI to help you do anything.

Gaza doesn’t need empty statements. It needs food, dignity, justice and action — now Gaza is a moral mirror. It reflects the fragility of international law, the hypocrisy of global diplomacy and the dangerous elasticity of human empathy. When children are starving to death

Gaza doesn’t need empty statements. It needs food, dignity, justice and action — now

Canadians' health data at risk of being handed over to U.S. authorities, experts warn | CBC News Canadians' electronic health records need more protections to prevent foreign entities from accessing patient data, according to commentary in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

Canadians' health data at risk of being handed over to US authorities, experts warn

🧵Why are seasonal childhood vaccination rates falling after the initial stages of the COVID-19 pandemic despite a mass increase of viral illness?

@mmaroto.bsky.social @amykaler.bsky.social and I add some new understanding to this in our new paper published in The Sociological Quarterly

‘No one should act surprised,’ says UN expert who warned of starvation in Gaza last year Michael Fakhri, UN special rapporteur on the right to food, who sounded the alarm in early 2024, says: ‘Israel is starving Gaza. It’s genocide’

‘No one should act surprised,’ says UN expert who warned of starvation in Gaza last year

Michael Fakhri, UN special rapporteur on the right to food, who sounded the alarm in early 2024, says: ‘Israel is starving Gaza. It’s genocide’

Sydney’s huge Gaza protest shows there’s now no stopping the tide of public opinion | Sarah Malik The Harbour Bridge march felt different. The whole city turned up, not just students and activists but grandmothers and parents with prams. I felt like I was in the majority

Sydney’s huge Gaza protest shows there’s now no stopping the tide of public opinion

Need a cure to Toronto’s heat? This doctor is giving out prescriptions for air conditioning According to the City of Toronto, residents on Ontario Works or the Ontario Disability Support Program can apply for financial aid to buy a cooling unit, if they get a doctor’s note.

This is Public Health in action. You have to ask yourself where are the actual Public Health agencies?

"Green held the first pop-up last month at another building in St. James Town, an apartment community near Bloor Street East and Sherbourne Street, where many residents are low-income."

Okay, so's here's Vancouver Centre Liberal MP Hedy Fry and some Federal Liberal colleagues, supporters and (presumably) staff at the Pride Parade in Vancouver.
I wish I was in the room when they chose their theme this year...

Unpacking the MAHA mirage: Trump guts healthcare while preaching wellness "They're moving us back almost into the Dark Ages."

Unpacking the MAHA Mirage:
Trump Guts Healthcare While Preaching Wellness
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I saw many atrocities as a senior aid official in Gaza. Now Israeli authorities are trying to silence us Devastated hospitals, mass graves, bodies eaten by dogs in the street. After speaking out, I discovered my visa will not be renewed, says Jonathan Whittall of UN OCHA

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...