Catherine 🇨🇦

Why do companies think that bombarding you w/multiple emails every day is a good thing? If I sign up for emails, send me 1 once per wk. Once you send more than 1 a day, I unsubscribe. Just b/c I bought something from you, it doesn't mean that I want these emails. It is really getting out of hand.

Quebec’s Attack on Labour, Explained Premier François Legault’s government has passed multiple pieces of controversial legislation targeting the province’s workers this year.

Quebec’s Attack on Labour, Explained

Premier François Legault’s government has passed multiple pieces of controversial legislation targeting the province’s workers this year.

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Magaziner: "This is not about the drugs. This is about oil."

Still the perfect alienating combination of condescension, moral rot, and elite detachment.

Never change…

Ilhan Omar denounces Donald Trump for calling Somali immigrants ‘garbage’ Congresswoman Omar calls Trump's comments about her 'creepy' after the US president launches into an anti-Somali tirade.

Congresswoman Omar calls Trump's comments about her 'creepy' after the US president launches into an anti-Somali tirade.

US wireless carrier AT&T said in a letter to the US telecoms regulator that it had committed to ending diversity, equity and inclusion programs, a move that comes as it seeks approval from the Trump administration to buy wireless spectrum assets. https://cnn.it/3Y3C7eh

She added about 20 million views to this after some dipshit WH spokesperson decided the best plan was to personally attack and insult her. And counting.

When you are off work due to a work injury, you are not contributing to your work pension (if you have one) or CPP. The younger you are injured, the less you have contributed which adds to the poverty experienced at 65 when your #WSIB benefits end. An injury for life should mean benefits for life.

Injured Workers and Advocates Denounce Discriminatory WSIB Age Cut-Off TORONTO, Nov. 25, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In a report released today, entitled Rights Don’t Retire, injured workers, legal advocates, and community organizations are calling on the Ontario government...

Injured Workers and Advocates Denounce Discriminatory #WSIB Age Cut-Off ending benefits at 65 regardless of how long you planned to work. Injuries suddenly don't disappear when you turn 65 which means many injured workers face poverty as they get older.
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Big rebates show the #WSIB is failing Ontario’s workers
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Measles makes a comeback: four charts show where and how Nature - With gaps in vaccine coverage, nowhere is safe from measles outbreaks. But the disease has hit the Americas hard this year.

A surge in measles cases has cost Canada its official measles free designation — and the United States looks likely to follow suit

go.nature.com/4pusUrn

Vaccines save children’s lives Vaccines save the lives of millions of children every year and also prevent needless suffering and permanent disability caused by some childhood diseases.

“Thanks to immunization, a child born today is 40 per cent more likely to see their fifth birthday than a child born 50 years ago.”—@WHO
www.thewhig.com/opinion/vacc...

This really should be bigger news.

3 tables showing total expected hospitalizations since Dec 2/21 by province (error range -/+ 10%), total expected ICU admissions since Dec 2/21 by province (error range -/+ 10%), and total expected deaths since Dec 2/21 by province (error range -/+ 10%) Tables available at: https://covid19resources.ca/covid-hazard-index Page 19 (Reported deaths, ICU, hospitalizations by age)

Graph showing Estimated new daily infections resulting in daily life activity-limiting symptoms lasting >3 months, by province, since Dec 2021. (5 week rolling averages) Graph available at: https://covid19resources.ca/covid-hazard-index Page 13 (Long COVID)

Infections in Canada this week are expected to result in 4,200 hospitalizations, 725 deaths (people who die at least 1 year earlier than they would without COVID) and 23,000 new long COVID cases serious enough to limit daily life activities.

Graph showing Canada's estimated daily % of population infected or experiencing long COVID, by province (average error -/+ 10% overall; 7% last 2 weeks) Graph available at: https://covid19resources.ca/covid-hazard-index Page 15 (Combined prevalence: Infections, LongCOVID)

Table showing estimated new daily and cumulative Omicron hospitalization costs by province - 5 week rolling averages (average error -/+ 10% overall; 7% most recent 2 weeks) Table available at: https://covid19resources.ca/covid-hazard-index Page 17 (Hospitalization costs, burden)

About 2.5% of people in Canada are infected and/or experiencing life activity-limiting long COVID this week.

The estimated cost of hospitalizations from this week's infections in Canada is $92.7M.

This image shows gauges with the Nov 22 - Dec 5, 2025 Forecast scores for Canada, the provinces, & territories. From left to right: Canada: HIGH - 9.4 Alberta: SEVERE - 15.1 British Columbia: HIGH - 7.2 Manitoba: VERY HIGH - 13.9 New Brunswick: VERY HIGH - 14.0 Newfoundland & Labrador: HIGH - 7.9 North: VERY HIGH - 11.1 Nova Scotia: VERY HIGH - 14.3 Ontario: HIGH - 8.2 Prince Edward Island: HIGH - 8.8 Quebec: HIGH - 8.7 Saskatchewan: VERY HIGH - 14.5 A text box reads: "The COVID Forecast is calculated from 3 equally weighted categories: 1) Current infections and spread; 2) Healthcare system impact; 3) Mortality. Within each category there is one sub-category for trends over the most recent week (Trends) and one sub-category for current parameter values relative to a specified baseline (Current values). Trends and current values are weighted equally when determining the final score for a category. All Forecast input data and sources are available here (https://datastudio.google.com/embed/u/0/reporting/42b886cf-d661-488e-b7d8-5c5836b55ab6/page/p_2yqs028mwc). Past Forecast scores are available in the table below. Forecast scores are grouped into 4 ranges: MODERATE (1 to <5, white), HIGH (6 to <10, yellow), VERY HIGH (10 to <15, orange), SEVERE (>15 red)."

Canadian COVID Forecast: Nov 22 - Dec 5, 2025

SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: MB, NB, North, NS, SK
HIGH: CAN, BC, NL, ON, PEI, QC
MODERATE: none

About 1 in 161 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

Safe Care Ontario Advocating for universal masking protections in healthcare and other mitigation tools. Airborne pathogens like SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the COVID-19 disease, pose a risk to EVERYONE's health ...

COVID outbreak risk remains in #ONhealth hospitals without layers of protection.

Universal masking in ALL areas of #Ontario hospitals is essential for safe healthcare access.

Let regional decision-makers know this is a priority.

@safecare.initiative.works
Take action:
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Dead workers? Well, at least we aren’t confusing businesses!

We anxiously await his appointment to a MAHA leadership position in US public health—along with Barney the dinosaur, Kid Rock, the QAnon Shaman guy from January 6th, and Inspector Gadget.

House Democrats Sound Alarm About Number Of Deaths In ICE Detention This year's fatalities exceed those of "every year on record since reporting began in 2018," they write.

This year's fatalities exceed those of "every year on record since reporting began in 2018," they write.

It’s wild to me that people would prefer to spend a week or so being sick than to risk being judged by strangers for wearing a mask in public.

And that’s assuming that they believe “it’s mild” dogma and have no idea about the potential long term consequences.

Social control is a powerful thing.

Important read out of the Uk

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Not sure who came up with this idea but hooboy, this is a beaut. Not to mention it’s a shiv to Home Depot because they absolutely could do more to protect anyone (staff, shoppers, families) on their premises.

This is the way. #ICEScrapers

"Mariana Times" supports deporting Zohran Mamdani but

This account is based in India

the last 24 hours on X, summed up:

An image showing the many different types of damage long COVID does to the body.

But also the school-absences story is just...seriously WTF is wrong with these people? Are they so terrified of criticism from pseudoscientific loons that they just won't discuss COVID? So out of touch that they don't know this stuff? Just phoning it in? 🤷

www.nationalacademies.org/read/27756/c...

There is no such thing as an intelligent report on increasing school absences due to chronic illness and mental health issues that does not lead with a discussion of the out-of-control virus that causes chronic illness and mental health issues.

@cbcnews.ca has seriously weird biases about COVID. 🙄

Hey yo it’s frickin ILLNESSES because schools have not made their air safe to breathe during an ongoing airborne pandemic

Some vaccines like COVID and flu don’t stop completely stop infection.

But they do reduce the risk of getting infected and greatly reduce severe illness risk.

They are still worth getting.

Since they are not 100% effective it’s also wise to add another layer of protection by wearing a mask.

since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.

67 Children Have Been Killed in Gaza Since 'Ceasefire' Began, as Israel Committed Hundreds of Violations | Common Dreams At least 67 children have been killed in Gaza since the "ceasefire" began last month, according to UNICEF, as Israel has committed hundreds of violations. "The pattern is staggering," a spokesperson ...

67 Children Have Been Killed in Gaza Since 'Ceasefire' Began, as Israel Committed Hundreds of Violations www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-ch...