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COVID-19 infection associated with increased risk of new-onset vascular dementia in adults ≥50 years - npj Dementia npj Dementia - COVID-19 infection associated with increased risk of new-onset vascular dementia in adults ≥50 years

“COVID-19 infection associated with increased risk of new-onset vascular dementia in adults ≥50 years”

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Ford government vehicle recorded at stunt driving speeds on Ontario highways | Globalnews.ca At least one cabinet-assigned vehicle was recorded driving more than 50 km/h over the speed limit multiple times in the past three years, according to documents.

Speeds up to 162 km/h and this person still works for the Ford government?

"New data obtained by Global News using freedom of information laws reveal that at least one cabinet-assigned vehicle was recorded driving more than 50 km/h over the speed limit 12 times in the past three years."

#OnPoli

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)

Long COVID is here to stay—even in children Post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC, also known as long COVID) are complex, multisystem, long-lasting complications of SARS-CoV-2 infection that profoundly impact the daily life of those...

Long COVID is here to stay, even in children, and worsened by reinfections and ongoing transmission. Governments and health systems must prioritise research, care access, and protection for kids—otherwise, the long-term social and economic costs will keep rising.

#LongCOVID

Calgary experiences hottest September on record, driest in 140 years | CBC News Summer 2025 has come to an end in Calgary — a season that might be remembered for its soggy start and prolonged warm and dry end.

Global weirding is weirding up Calgary's weather.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This is a wonderful story from the Star (and Sue has gifted it.) It's numbers but, more importantly, it's very human. (I'll share the short video on Jason and his garden that is embedded in the story in the next post.)

#GiftLink 🎁

Sign the Petition Demand Federal Action on Biomedical Care for Children Living with Long COVID

Please sign and support:

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Le regard de notre caricaturiste Godin sur l'actualité du 3 octobre 2025 👉 bit.ly/4mPDBmx

"There are currently 152 people in hospital and 15 Albertans in the ICU because of the illness."

Please read, sign the petition, and share this!

Making health care worse is not the solution! Increased Ontario government funding is required, not lowered standards.

Trump’s ICE Has Started Targeting Activists, Not Just Immigrants ICE demanded Meta hand over personal information attached to Instagram accounts that track immigration raids.

Trump’s ICE Has Started Targeting Activists, Not Just Immigrants

As Trump sucks up more of our data, ICE added online activists to its target list, demanding Meta hand over personal info attached to Instagram accounts for StopIce.net and more.

My report includes tips on how to protect yourself!

Rest in peace, Dr. Jane Goodall💚

Canada’s Sex Ed Is Leaving Immigrant Teens Behind | The Tyee Teens’ contraceptive use has dropped, with the largest decrease reported by newcomers, according to a new study.

When youth get comprehensive sex ed they wait to have sex longer, have safer and healthier sex and face less sexual and physical violence in relationships. Which is why it's a problem that immigrant teenagers appear to be missing out on Canadian sex ed.
Me for @thetyee.ca
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BREAKING: Ford government skills training funding ‘not fair, transparent or accountable’: auditor general Ford government labour ministers overruled civil servants to fund skills training by groups with lobbyists, according to a scathing new report

Wow. What a mess. Field day for lobbyists.

"Ford government labour ministers have selected groups to receive hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars for worker-training programs against the advice of civil servants who’d evaluated their applications, Ontario’s auditor general has found."

#OnPoli

Linda McQuaig: Postal banking once made Canada Post profitable — and could again Providing banking services to rural and low-income Canadians through post offices would be a Canada-first form of nation-building for the people.

Here’s something that could make Canada Post profitable — like it did before -- but instead Mark Carney wants to gut our national post office. That’s no way to build a nation. #canlab #cdnpoli #postal #canpoli www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Millions from Ontario training funding went to dentists’ brokerage with ties to then-labour minister’s wife Dentacloud received more than $2 million through the Ford government’s Skills Development Fund

Another day, another Ford Conservative corruption scandal
www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...

Opinion | What Really Drives Vaccine Hesitancy

“The growth of vaccine hesitance in America may feel inexplicable… Yet my research suggests that this approach to vaccines is entirely logical in a culture that insists that health is the result of hard work and informed consumer decisions and too often sees illness as a personal failure.”

This has achieved parody-level ridiculousness, except the people doing it don't have a sense of humour but are instead amassing a private army to throw people who criticize them into unmarked vans.

As Ottawa looks to trim spending, LGBTQ+ and women’s groups brace for funding cuts Groups say they have not had a clear statement from the government that programs will replenished

Martin Luther King, Jr. famously said that “budgets are moral documents.”

The Carney government must continue to support women and minorities in the forthcoming budget. Equality & human rights must not go backwards.

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Star reporter, Mark Colley, standing out in the rain, clocking car speeds with a hand held radar gun.

"In the 22 min the presser ran ... I clocked 48 cars going 10 or more over. That’s more than 2/min. And get this: I was standing in a construction zone, in front of a police station, in moderate traffic, in rainy conditions with poor visibility & slick roads."
🎁https://tinyurl.com/mr48adtc

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

Navy blue text against a white background reads: "Urgent Call to Action: Resist devastating cuts to 2SLGBTQIA+ and women's equality organizations. We have a limited window to stop the federal government from gutting funding to Women and Gender Equality Canada (WAGE). Only if we speak up, loudly and incessantly, can we save the services 2SLGBTQIA+ people and women rely on." At the bottom, white text against a blue background reads: "Read more and add your voice: MomentumCanada.net/Budget"

Visit www.MomentumCanada.net/budget to read the full statement and take action by sending the Prime Minister an email expressing your concern about proposed cuts.
Cuts aren't inevitable - but we can only stop them by taking action. We've done it before, let's do it again! 🔥

Navy blue text against a white background reads: Over 175 2SLGBTQIA+ and allied organizations call on Prime Minister Carney to maintain funding for 2SLGBTQIA+ equality and women's rights in the 2025 federal budget. The logos of Dignity Network Canada, Egale, Enchante Network, Fierte Canada Pride, Queer Momentum, and Pride at Work Canada are also shown. At the bottom, white text against a blue background reads: "Read more and add your voice: MomentumCanada.net/Budget"

Alongside 175+ organizations across Canada, including leading 2SLGBTQIA+ organizations like @egalecanada.bsky.social, @fiertecappride.bsky.social, Pride at Work Canada, Enchanté Network & Dignity Network Canada, we are sounding the alarm about potential cuts to Women & Gender Equality Canada (WAGE)

A healthcare worker in full PPE working in the ICU

Death rates rose in hospital ERs after private equity firms took over, study finds https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/death-rates-rose-hospital-ers-private-equity-firms-took-study-finds-rcna233211?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=68d3eb5ee5acb10001043617

𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

Tens of thousands in 70+ communities across Canada took to the streets in an unprecedented & historic cross-movement mobilisation to #DrawtheLine and demand Mark Carney & the federal government pick a side: injustice, violence, and climate destruction — or a just and safe future for all of us.✊

I’m all about Canadian History.
Here’s something for the folks not old enough to remember Poilievre’s mentor and groomer.
#cdnpoli #cdnhistory

Populists break government, as they promise. Turns out functional governments are good for the economy.