Lorraine Cameron

Happy you survived! Thank you for your story from the inside. It informs our perspective on public healthcare funding cuts in Ontario.

"Advocate now for better funding for staffing and supplies. This is on the provincial government and will only get worse with increased privatization." #OnHealth #HealthCare #HealthCareForPeopleNotProfit

🚨 CPJ condemns the harsh 12-18 year prison sentence handed down to Philippine journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio after she was found guilty of financing terrorism. We call on authorities to immediately free her and stop targeting journalists.

Read more: cpj.org/2026/01/cpj-...

#FreeFrenchieMaeCumpio

Join us for a meaningful evening of solidarity and creativity as we make Valentine cards to send to our Prime Minister and our Member of Parliament, calling for justice and equity for First Nations children

🗓 Jan 27th
⏰ 6:30–8:30 pm
📍 Amnesty International Toronto Office

amnesty.ca/event/cards-...

Thousands of people in Ontario are living in encampments, facing unsafe and unstable conditions every day. According to the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO)’s 2025 Homelessness Report Update, nearly 2,000 encampments now exist across Ontario, a 43% increase since 2023.

Confronting the far-right’s war on reconciliation As anti-Indigenous politics intensify in Canada, the far-right is weaponizing residential school misinformation to undermine truth and reconciliation. As professor and author Sean Carleton explains, w...

As anti-Indigenous politics intensify in Canada, the far-right is weaponizing residential school misinformation to undermine truth and reconciliation.

What appear as isolated historical “debates” are part of a coordinated strategy to erode confidence in Indigenous testimony and survivor truth.

Big respect for Matthew Green and others, pushing for steadfast policy to define the NDP not flavour of the month politics.
If grassroots democracy is maintained within the party as intended, policy will guide leadership not the other way around.

Defend Canadian Journalism – Donate Form Support Our Journalism Defence Fund PressProgress is at the centre of what could be one of the biggest, longest and most expensive media trials in recent Canadian history. A former star candidate for ...

I chipped in to the @PressProgress.ca legal defence so journalists can keep holding the powerful to account. This case could set a chilling precedent across Canada. If you can, please donate and share. pressprogress.ca/journalism-defence/donate

HHS Gave a $1.6 Million Grant to a Controversial Vaccine Study. These Emails Show How That Happened Two Danish researchers faced accusations of “questionable research practices” as RFK Jr.’s top appointees made their study a “funding priority”

EXCLUSIVE: In my 1st @rollingstone.com story, internal
@hhsofficial.bsky.social emails show how 2 Danish scientists accused of "questionable research practices" got a $1.6 million grant aligned w/ Sec. Kennedy's theories to study HepB vaccine in Guinea-Bissau: rollingstone.com/politics/pol... /1

CAJ stands with Amber Bracken as landmark press freedom trial begins - Canadian Association of Journalists It’s been more than four years since Canadian photojournalist Amber Bracken was unjustly arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) while on assignment for The Narwhal in northern British Co...

Amber Bracken "isn’t alone in experiencing this kind of censorship or interference at the hands of police ... The Canadian Association of Journalists has documented multiple examples of how law enforcement across Canada too often arrest or detain journalists." caj.ca/caj-stands-w...

Palestinian surgeon Ghassan Abu Sittah defeats pro-Israel lawfare in landmark GMC ruling

www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260112-pal...

Poverty, Food Insecurity, and Housing Instability Among US Health Care Workers This study examines rates of poverty, food insecurity, and housing instability among US health care workers.

Poverty, Food Insecurity, and Housing Instability Among US Health Care Workers url: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

A 35 year old letter to the editor, written by a very ballsy 15 year old, about the Rodney King verdict.

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

A map of the US with each 2025 billion-plus dollar weather and climate disaster geo-located on it. Source: Climate Central

After the US admin cancelled the $B Climate + Weather Disaster dataset, @climatecentral.org hired the scientists who ran it and set it back up.

Now the 2025 numbers are in: it's 3rd highest year on record and highest year w/o land-falling hurricanes.

More: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...

By standing up to Abu Dhabi, Riyadh is reshaping the Middle East The UAE and Israel, backed by the US, have long sown the seeds of civil war and conflict across the region. Will they finally be held accountable?

By standing up to Abu Dhabi, Riyadh is reshaping the Middle East - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/standing-abu-dhabi-riyadh-reshaping-middle-east

Event poster for "All Out for Avi" virtual outreach party on Jan 11, 9am PT/12pm ET to 5pm PT/8pm ET, featuring Avi Lewis and special guests.

This Sunday! Join me, Gabor Maté, Bill McKibben, Anjali Appadurai, Libby Davies, El Jones, Judy Rebick, Nas Yadollahi, and other guests for an All Day Outreach Party.

Together, we’ll invite thousands of new members into the NDP before the Jan 28 deadline.

RSVP: https://avilewis.link/january-11

The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing Academic publishing now shows the same decline that has hit social media and online marketplaces.

The great “enshittification” 🧪

theconversation.com/the-5-stages...

Analysis of the fish archive revealed that total bioaccumulative PFASs in predator fish peaked around 2008 and have since been decreasing.

Historical PFAS trends in the Great Lakes using four decades of archived fish.

#GreatLakes 🧪

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"I look for the day when there will be an investigation on the role of Western corporate media in this genocide. Because this is not a genocide that has been just overlooked. This is a genocide that has been justified and enabled by the media." — Francesca Albanese
#GazaGenocide #media #journalism

On this day, what an absolute red herring story.

And if you’re thinking, “I’m just one person, what difference can I make?” my pinned post has you covered:

Francesca Albanese and the Lonely Road of Defiance The U.N. special rapporteur is one of the most courageous crusaders against the genocide in Gaza. Because of this, she is blacklisted and treated as if she is a terrorist.

Francesca Albanese and the Lonely Road of Defiance
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One of the most cited #cancer studies defending the safety of the world’s most used pesticide has officially been retracted, 25yrs later.

There should be
🚫 no renewals, registrations, or amendments of glyphosate-based products 
✅ an expedited special review of its toxicity 

👉https://bit.ly/4s2k1au

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Consider becoming a member (action.readthemaple.com/2025-fundrai...) and/or making a one-time donation (readthemaple.com/donate/) now to help ensure we can hire a new journalist next year.

"Shifting public funds towards climate losers like #LNG, aka #FossilGas & of course the great #CarbonCapture boondoggle are policies that largely serve Alberta's FOREIGN OWNED #BigOil businesses, many of which are American & there's nothing very #ElbowsUp about that, is there?"
#cdnpoli #MarkCarney

Nigeria Closes Factories Linked to U.S. Auto Industry Amid Poisoning Inquiry

Great journalism with real-world implications. And it ends with a simple but accurate quote: “Many people are unaware of the true nature of lead. They don’t understand the danger.” 🧪 gift article

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/w...

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵

Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.

“I’m imagining an instructor somewhere making a syllabus with ChatGPT, assigning reading from books that don’t exist. But the students don’t notice, because they are asking ChatGPT to summarize the book or write the essay.”
🧪

www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review — often against guidance A survey of 1,600 academics found that more than 50% have used artificial-intelligence tools while peer reviewing manuscripts.

🧪 Over half of researchers now use AI for peer review, often violating confidentiality protocols. As third-party tools risk data security, publishers are moving toward closed internal systems to safely integrate AI assistance.
#AcademicSky #PeerReview

Human-to-Human Rabies Transmission via Solid Organ... This report describes the public health response to a patient who died after transplantation with an organ from a donor with undiagnosed rabies.

Tragic report of rabies via organ transplantation. From an epi perspective, this event features two very infrequent transmission events. Aside from the incredible rarity of human to human transmission, the initial human infection also had some uncommon features regarding acquisition. 🧵