Cheryl White 🇨🇦

Anas al-Sharif: Four Al Jazeera journalists killed in Israeli strike near Al-Shifa hospital Al Jazeera had condemned a "campaign of incitement" by the IDF against its reporters, but the military claims one of the journalists was part of Hamas.

Let's make this a little less passive:

Israel killed four (more) journalists.

Huge gaps in his understanding of useful/useless Covid mitigations as an example.

I was reading his book during the campaign and noticed he didn’t seem to understand some things he was writing about. At the time I thought I was just missing something.

We know what you meant!

"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people

Oh yeah I worked in a GMP factory and this is not what they do. Mostly they are about documentation and following your own SOPs.

UK British Occupational Hygiene Society clarifies that surgical masks are not PPE, and following IPAC guidelines does NOT fulfill an employer’s legal duty to provide respiratory protection.

“The report reinforces that employers have a legal duty under the Health and Safety at Work Act and COSHH to

What the world can learn from Copenhagen’s cycling revolution Close to two-thirds of the city’s residents commute by bike to school or work every day.

“When mayors in other cities ask me how #Copenhagen afforded to invest in its cycling networks, I ask them how on earth they have been able to afford highway projects. We invested in bike lanes because that was the cheapest option.”
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It’s incredible. I’m really glad your family member is doing well.

It’s just a theory but if true then telling everyone else how terrible we think he has been has the opposite to intended effect.

I have a bit of a theory that the rest of Ontario trusts him because people from Toronto dislike him. As if the moves he makes are all good for everyone else because they are bad for Toronto.

Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you”

Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”

Btw, if I was in comms giving advice to the opposition parties, I'm not sure coming in hot here is the best way to go. I think mocking the govt might be better.

The public doesn't appear to care about Ford's cronyism, but you can damage Ford's 'get it done' brand thru mocking his incompetence.

Important investigative journalism from Global News

"When Premier Doug Ford announced his plan to build a 50-kilometre tunnel under Highway 401..the initial studies and expert feedback were left unmentioned.

Instead, Ford claimed his opponents would say the project was impossible."

#OnPoli

In the US but not Canada sadly, and I already have one friend <50 who died of CRC that was diagnosed too late.

Brazil’s Supreme Court orders house arrest for ex-President Jair Bolsonaro | CNN The Brazilian Supreme Court has ordered the house arrest of former President Jair Bolsonaro, who is on trial over an alleged plot to overturn the results of the 2022 presidential election.

The Brazilian Supreme Court has ordered the house arrest of former President Jair Bolsonaro, who is on trial over an alleged plot to overturn the results of the 2022 presidential election.

wasn't it crazy crossing the gap?

One of the really interesting things I learned during the pandemic was just how siloed scientific disciplines are, even when the scientists involved are studying the same subject.

For indoor air and infection, aerosol scientists have a canonical model (Wells-Riley) that dates from the 1930s.

Yes I saw that. Expected but still disappointing.

I was one as well. They were even asking me to review signage and policies early in the pandemic but never even responded to my concerns about respiratory hygiene. Really disappointing.

This list—predominantly managers of hospital infection control programs—are undermining revisions to a Canadian standard for workplace respirator personal protective equipment (PPE) that would improve safety grounded in science and engineering. /1

But if we suddenly adopted the standard and people stopped dying of infections they picked up in hospitals then maybe people would notice these people have been wrong all this time.

Permission to test. Access to n95s and HEPA filters, knowledge of importance of ventilation and harms of COVID. Access to tools like CO2 monitors to identify poorly ventilated spaces.

Fewer doctors on TV telling us to just calm down and be glad for immunity from infection or later hybrid immunity.

I know people who wore N95s in their private homes and were able to prevent transmission within their families. I think you are trying to come up with hard rules when what the public needed was best practices and the option to follow them.

Honestly yes. I was a cancer patient in 2020 and was writing to the various hospitals asking for permission to wear a mask and then for permission to wear a respirator when they became available. Responses never included evidence, just alignment with other hospitals.

In the light of the atrocities being committed by Israel through the mass starvation of civilians in Gaza, can we now all please acknowledge that the student protestors that were vilified were correct? That the students were right about this just as they were right about apartheid?

He Read (at Least) 3,599 Books in His Lifetime. Now Anyone Can See His List.

Lovely. RIP to a fellow list and book nerd.

"But once Dan Pelzer set his mind on reading something, he did not put it down until he was finished.That’s how Mr. Pelzer’s children said he was able to read 3,599 books from 1962...to 2023, when his eyesight failed..."

#GiftLink 🎁

What a shame for us as a country to watch this happen in real-time and do nothing other than issue meaningless statements.

Collection of bikes scattered along a footpath.

This was 2016 but on Nike campus which is about a 20 minute drive away. Similar bikes but I think they had some kind of digital lock so they weren’t locked up.

A rack of orange biketown bikes in Portland Oregon. On brick sidewalk with leaves on the ground.

This was them in Portland in 2017.