“We may be living through a slow-moving immune decline crisis" -

(* Good to see the @thetyee.ca taking the #OngoingPandemic seriously again).

Libraries Scramble for Books After Giant Distributor Shuts Down Why it might have been and may continue to be harder to get new releases from your local library.

Private equity destroys 200-year-old book distribution company that libraries around the country rely on and now libraries are having trouble getting new books:

www.404media.co/libraries-sc...

Mark Carney is pitching ‘austerity’ but Canadians want something else, poll suggests The future of the Carney minority government turns on how Carney strikes the right balance Tuesday.

"Canadians are not embracing any talk of "austerity," and if needed, a majority — nearly 60 per cent — says Ottawa should hike taxes on wealthier Canadians if new spending is needed"

www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

@emmettmacfarlane.com Anything equivalent for Canada? How about recent?

So like I hear you but apparently we need 10,000 more data centres instead

After winning the April 28 election, Prime Minister Mark Carney, pictured, centre, with his cabinet on May 13, 2025, appointed 28 cabinet ministers and 10 secretaries of state. The secretaries of state can attend cabinet meetings by invitation only.

Stakeholders lament lack of 'concrete' action plans for fixing healthcare after ministers' annual meeting www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

To get buy-in from all 10 provinces (which it didn't), Canada's constitution has a clause allowing provinces to override its fundamental rights and freedoms. The framers -- I've spoken to some -- imagined it used in existential-crisis cases. Well, a province just used it to break a teachers' strike

I’m just a Canadian, looking at her fellow Canadians, begging them to connect the dots between rising anti immigrant sentiment and what is happening in the states.

Worth recalling the natural law tradition that taking food if you're starving is not simply *allowed*, it is not even correct to call it stealing. In a just society nobody would starve, therefore any law which would allow starvation is by definition unjust and thus is no longer a law.

RECALL of Neutrogena Makeup Remover Ultra-Soft Cleansing Towelettes. Recalled wipes tested positive for Pluralibacter gergoviae; risks include respiratory distress, urinary tract infections, eye infections, sepsis.
Lot number: 1835U6325A
sold in: Texas, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida

If you've ever wondered why there's a couple rougher patches in the Bloor bike lanes near U of T

Are we facing a surge of Long Covid with Paediatric Acute-Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome (PANS)? In the Long Covid Kids Support Services we see a significant number of children with symptoms consistent with a condition called Paediatric Acute-Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome (PANS) following COVID...

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"A number of infections are known to trigger #PANS such as influenza, hand, foot and mouth disease, chicken pox, pneumonia and, more recently, coronavirus ( #COVID-19)":

@longcovidkids.bsky.social

www.longcovidkids.org/post/what-is...

The flow of wealth on this planet is completely untethered from reality

If you can, please donate. ❤️
You'll directly support people who lost their livelihood to Gen AI.
And sharing rocks! 🤘

Superb example of the genre of "AI produces bad outputs, but what can we do, we're stuck with it so the solution is somehow 'AI literacy' rather than plugging the holes from which slop oozes"

Boy are people fatalistic in the face of tech that is within our power to regulate, marginalise, reject

Covid hospital acquired infections, Stricter Covid controls equals better outcomes, Medical masks aren’t PPE, and more Bonus Policy wins, Fauci losses and the first WTFkery of the Week Award

Covid hospital acquired infections, Stricter Covid controls equals better outcomes, Medical masks aren’t PPE, and more

johndupuis.substack.com/p/covid-hosp...

Cis women in anti-trans religious communities are literally fucking medically transitioning, and the NYT buries this fact 1000s of words into the article.

Ford should have control over nothing public

If you're a writer/other creator in the United States, consider creating an LLC for your business and then signing up for a local area Chamber of Commerce. Many of them have health insurance plans that pool their members and members of other CoCs to create insurance efficiencies relative to ACA.

ICYMI, my horror short 'You Will Survive This Night' (1st pub COME JOIN US BY THE FIRE s2, Nightfire), now free to read as a reprint. A woman in her 30s is dragged to a late night winter house party in the poshest part of Kolkata & regrets it even more than expected. Here be monsters, mundane & not:

“Every one of those overdoses is going to be someone’s son, daughter, mother or dad” — West End Phoenix Supervised consumption sites have closed across the province, and the ones that remain are struggling to keep up.

“EVERY ONE OF THOSE OVERDOSES IS GOING TO BE SOMEONE’S SON, DAUGHTER, MOTHER OR DAD”

Supervised consumption sites have closed across the province, and the ones that remain are struggling to keep up.

The latest from our October issue by Christian Malong

www.westendphoenix.com/stories/ever...

I loved Weapons so thoroughly it pushed Sinners to #2. Shocked.

The most creatively bankrupt risk aversion

My friend's wife in TO is almost at her 2nd year with long COVID. She's getting a bit better, but is afraid of falling & breaking more bones. She's developed cognitive difficulty with sorting and sequencing things like her multiple meds and paperwork like bills and statements.

I never thought it would be better paired with Lord of Illusions instead of Gremlins. Or an 80s magic beams kung fu movie. But so much could've been elided. Feels like a short stretched. And there were sequels?

Well the tone changed after the party.

Have you tried fresh and frozen? Could see a difference.

I wonder what a recut of The Ghoulies would look like if the focus was toning down (or removing) the 80s zaniness & upping the spooky bits. Really just feels like some teensploitation flic from back then so far.

Paternal SARS-CoV-2 infection impacts sperm small noncoding RNAs and increases anxiety in offspring in a sex-dependent manner - Nature Communications Whether paternal pre-conceptual SARS-CoV-2 infection impacts sperm RNA content, or effects offspring phenotypes, has not been previously investigated. Here authors report changes in sperm noncoding RNAs in SARS-CoV-2 infected sires and increased anxiety-like behaviors in offspring.

Study: Paternal SARS-CoV-2 infection impacts sperm small noncoding RNAs and increases anxiety in offspring in a sex-dependent manner.

Published: 11 October 2025

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Toronto's bike lanes decision is going to get a lot of use