Lisa Fast

"Mate, I can't do anything but tell it to you straight. This Canada thing is literally the dumbest thing I've ever heard. The Canadians ran an advertisement showing Ronald Reagan being against tariffs. Guess what? Ronald Reagan was against tariffs."

Breaking news: censorship isn't just for banned books anymore. My musical Between the Lines was cancelled due to the comments of a single parent.

Plain terrorism, nothing else. Footage has emerged of the Russian drone strike hitting a private kindergarten in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Children were inside when the strike landed.

This is really kind of epic:

Agree, this is taking time and attention away from actual public service. However I doubt the “Carney government” has anything to do with this. It’s the bureaucrats bureaucratting- notice the focus on ‘noncompliance’. Sabia’s letter to the PS didn’t say ‘focus on monitoring and reporting’.

Do I know anyone in the Ottawa area who plans on traveling to the United States before December? If so, please DM me, thanks!

Bee 🐝 careful with your decorations!

If my wait time to speak to a customer service agent is 50 minutes, you can be sure that I'll be spending every minute of it researching how to switch to one of your competitors

What does it mean? COVID may have created a new year-round baseline for work absences that is similar to influenza season conditions before the pandemic; policymakers should consider expanding interventions & data collection efforts to address the negative impacts of COVID-19 on the labor force. 5/

I’m on the couch with Covid right now, and thankfully don’t have to drag myself into the office to infect others. Canadian public servants do, their rates of illness seem much higher too.

What did we find? In this study of approximately 158.4 million workers, rates of health-related work absences remained elevated after the pandemic and were associated with circulating SARS-CoV-2 and subsequent decreases in labor force participation by absence-affected workers. 4/

Feds promised to test a new 'automatic' tax filing service — but recycled an old program | CBC News The federal government promised to "pilot a new automatic [tax] filing service" in 2024 to help get benefits to low- and fixed-income Canadians — but ended up recycling a program from the year before ...

@jrobson.bsky.social Bravo for saying this "I'm not saying that this is a simple file to resolve, but I am saying that I think the progress on this has been fairly slow and quite modest”. Disappointing to see the plan is more of the dysfunctional same. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Announcement from PM Carney moments ago and this is good news. I've been working on this issue with @saulschwartz.bsky.social and @agenestgregoire.bsky.social for years. We've documented how many Canadians don't file and miss out on or loose benefits, .. 1/3

Opinion: What Keir Starmer figured out about Donald Trump before the rest of us The British Prime Minister’s friendly visit to the Oval Office in February resulted in a trade deal. Mark Carney took a page out of Starmer’s book this week

Always read @sproudfoot.bsky.social, folks.

#cdnpoli

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Yay for K-way! The visor looks dorky but keeps sun out of my eyes, rain off my glasses and even those dang clouds of bugs off my face. It’s not as big as it looks in this pic though (thank goodness!). Velcros on and off, love it.

I've been up to something. For many, it's not worth making a big deal of it. But for me, it's been a goal for a long time. I started commuter cycling from #collegeward. I think it makes sense to share this as my entry into the #weekwithoutdriving challenge.

Woman in bike helmet stands in front of a row of bikes parked in docks.

Wonderful! Way to go Laine. We just spent time in London and Pais and really enjoyed using the city commuter bikes to explore. The apps made it easy. So many people were using them, even in the rain!

What Americans Die from?

And what the media reports on...

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Vehicles registered to Ford cabinet ministers caught by speed cameras more than 20 times | Globalnews.ca Documents obtained by Global News reveal that, over three years, vehicles registered to Ford’s cabinet minister received more than $3,300 in fines for speeding.

🤤 (shocked, shocked I tell you)

Two weeks ago the PBO came out with the Economic and Fiscal update and release the graph on the left. What happens if you set the axis to 0 (as one should) and how it is historical context. That is the graph on the right (reproducing only the dark blue line because that is the numbers they gave).

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

The Manitoban (the independent student-run newspaper of the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada) leaves X (6.670 followers)

Bluesky: @themanitoban.bsky.social

Bravo to @themanitoban.bsky.social The Canadian Government should also leave X. Every Provincial Government should leave X. Every Canadian municipal government should leave X.

In cities, street space is a really scarce (and under-valued) commodity. Increasing vehicle size costs everyone.

And vehicle weight determines your impact on the wear-and-tear of cities.

So this kind of public policy is really just common sense.

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I spent some time with OpenAI's new AI video app Sora. Not just slop but ragebait, fake crimes and women splattered with white goo. The implications of all of this are horrifying.

Joy SpearChief-Morris, 31, contracted measles in August even though she had been vaccinated for the disease as a child.

I'm fully vaccinated against measles, but I still became Ottawa's fifth confirmed case this year www.theglobeandmail.com/life/article... @joyscm.bsky.social @theglobeandmail.com

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This man makes me irate. All the ppl I hear complaining about things the province controls and when I explain to them that's your GOOD OLD BOY DOUG'S DOING they go blank.

Oh the hospital waits are horrible. Oh I love Doug Ford, cheap beer talks like a regular guy.

WHO RUNS HEALTH CARE?? WHO?

Got the pokes this morning.

Influenza and most recent C-19 vaccines.