Jo in TO

Is Quebec serious about climate change? New government bill raises questions | CBC News A new government bill aimed at reducing bureaucracy and increasing state efficiency could take a bite out of Quebec's ability to fight climate change. Under the proposed legislation, the finance minis...

Bloody insane. Québec’s government is considering using its green fund to LOWER GAS PRICES. Um what.

Also, why does the fund even have a $1.8B surplus? Sounds like they haven’t been using it to, you know, fight climate change, like they promised voters.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

OK this is ridiculous. The draft new Canadian public health guidance-development mechanism doubles down on excluding subject matter experts from voting roles, restricts membership to people from inside the EBM pseudoscience bubble, and sets up to funnel public money to McMaster-GRADE courses etc.

🚨new publication🚨

𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗷𝘂𝗿𝘆

in: Understanding Social Struggles: Relating Recognition Theories and Epistemic Injustice (eds. H. Hänel and F. Schuppert), Transcript. pp. 49-64. 2025.

Open Access: philpapers.org/archive/BLUC...

Montreal needs to learn from other cities Montreal needs to learn from other cities. Part one in our wish-list for the city's mayor-elect Soraya Martinez Ferrada.

“Don’t be fooled into thinking Montreal is on the cutting edge of urban planning, architecture or fighting climate change. We’re not.

“If there was one dominant feature of the municipal election, it was a general lack of vision — especially when compared to advances being made in other cities.”

6 million American kids have Long Covid.
This isn’t fringe.
It’s now more common than asthma — the #1 chronic condition in U.S. children.

Do you even know what Long Covid refers to?

Natural forests of the world – a 2020 baseline for deforestation and degradation monitoring - Scientific Data Scientific Data - Natural forests of the world – a 2020 baseline for deforestation and degradation monitoring

We can map the world's existing forests with incredible accuracy now, but clearly we cannot (or will not) stop them from disappearing at rapid rates almost everywhere. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌎

Canada's recent creation of a task force to look at what the FDA's staff cuts and lighter regulations could do to food and drug safety here needs to move fast.

And we need more than a task force. We can't trust the FDA to protect Canadians any longer.

bsky.app/profile/chri...

A sepia-toned historical portrait of an Indigenous man with straight dark hair cut in a bowl style, a mustache and goatee, wearing a fur-lined parka hood. He gazes directly at the camera with a neutral expression against a plain backdrop.

Abraham Ulrikab wanted to help his family and agreed to be placed in a human zoo in Europe with seven other Inuit, including his family.
The man who recruited Abraham never vaccinated the Inuit.
Within months they were dead of smallpox.
This is Abraham's story.

🧵 1/10

UPDATE: Person infected with bird flu in Washington state has H5N5. It's the first time H5N5 has been found in a human

The person is an older adult with underlying health conditions and remains hospitalized.

The patient keeps a mixed backyard flock that had contact with wild birds.

Microscopic Structures Found in Long COVID Blood The researchers also incorporated Artificial Intelligence tools, including machine learning, to analyze biomarker patterns. These methods allowed them

'Microscopic Structures Found in Long COVID Blood'

'These methods allowed them to accurately differentiate Long COVID patients from healthy individuals and to pinpoint the most informative biomarker combinations.'

www.miragenews.com/microscopic-...

School of Pharmacy, Johns Hopkins Supporting Long COVID Patients in New Collaboration - News This collaboration highlights the vital role of pharmacists in a team-based approach to post-COVID care and recovery.

Univ. of Maryland - Baltimore: 'School of Pharmacy, Johns Hopkins Supporting Long COVID Patients in New Collaboration'

“Being part of this effort is incredibly rewarding, and I’m proud that UMSOP is contributing to such a meaningful initiative.” - Mojdeh Heavner

www.umaryland.edu/news/archive...

Good grief: cancelling the Ontario Bar exams in part because “the process can be stressful”?
Heaven protect people now to be represented in court by snowflakes.
🤷🏼🤔🧐😒🤷🏼

Doctors, pharmacists urging Ontarians to get flu shots as province sees rise in cases | CBC News As flu cases rise across the province and vaccine hesitancy persists, Ontario pharmacists and doctors are urging residents to get immunized.

Doctors, pharmacists urging #Ontarians to get flu shots as province sees rise in cases
New influenza strain doesn’t mean immunization efficacy is zero, experts say

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

'The Royal College of Nursing, @rcn.org.uk, and British Medical Association, @bma.org.uk, have criticised the UK government for failing to recognise #LongCovid and severe COVID-19 complications as occupational diseases for health and social care workers.' 👏💯
www.nursinginpractice.com/clinical/res...

🚨 BREAKING 🚨

My office just uncovered that, buried in their Fall Economic Statement, Ford’s Conservatives are quietly seizing control of Exhibition Place.

#ONpoli

Stanford Medicine scientists tie lupus to a virus nearly all of us carry The Epstein-Barr virus can convert B cells it’s infected into diabolical overlords that reprogram myriad other immune cells to attack our tissues, Stanford Medicine scientists have found.

Here are a few more details on this from the Stanford news release. Unfortunately, the research article seems paywalled.

med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...

Environmental impact and net-zero pathways for sustainable artificial intelligence servers in the USA - Nature Sustainability The rapid expansion of AI server installations in the United States poses sustainability challenges in terms of water usage and carbon emissions. A study now quantifies these potential impacts and out...

A new state-by-state evaluation of the projected energy and water use of "AI" data centers in the US. Looks… real bad. Like, "undoing tech sector climate gains" bad.

Strongly recommends immediately ensuring any & all new "AI" data centers to run on existing & expanded renewables grids. Which… yeah.

Pipelines in Canada, explained | The Narwhal Why are we hearing about building more pipelines? Do they make sense for Canada's economy? And what about our emissions goals? We mapped 800,000 kilometres of pipelines in Canada and tried to get to t...

Why are we hearing about building more pipelines? Do they make sense for Canada's economy? And what about our emissions goals?

We mapped 800,000 kilometres of pipelines in Canada and tried to get to the bottom of these questions in our latest explainer video. #cdnpoli

thenarwhal.ca/video-pipeli...

I've called PM Goldman Sach's approach trickle-down. This whole column is worth a read.

"While Carney hails his budget as “generational,” it’s actually a glossy repackaging of the “trickle-down” economics popularized by U.S. President Ronald Reagan"

#GiftLink 🎁

www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Metrolinx struggled to tunnel under Hwy. 401, forcing lane closure and repairs | Globalnews.ca Since early 2023, a tunnel boring machine has been slowly making its way south from Sheppard Avenue and McCowan Road, digging out a route for the Scarborough Subway Extension.

Internal documents obtained by the NDP reveal Metrolinx covered up serious problems tunnelling under Highway 401 for the Scarborough Subway Extension, forcing highway lane closures & months of repairs that were not disclosed to the public globalnews.ca/news/1152183... #onpoli

Canada's next extractive industry: How AI is following the fossil fuel playbook Ottawa is betting nearly a billion on artificial intelligence, ignoring warnings of its environmental risks. Just like Big Oil, Big Tech is building infrastructure that will be nearly impossible to di...

Canada’s next extractive industry: How #AI is following the fossil fuel playbook.

Ottawa is betting on artificial intelligence. Just like #BigOil, Big Tech is building infrastructure that will be nearly impossible to dismantle.

New from @terraloire.bsky.social:

ricochet.media/climate/cana...

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

Can anyone in Canada capitalize on the Mamdani effect? The NDP and Conservatives both seem to be lacking the political acumen needed to cash in on voters desperate for a response to the cost-of-living crisis.

I wrote about Zohran Mamdani and what his win tells us about the two embattled parties—CPC and NDP and how they’ve failed

hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

In the news today: Federal budget falls flat: poll; G7 meeting in southern Ontario Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed...

Federal budget falls flat on affordability.
30 per cent of Canadians who responded approve of the budget tabled by Prime Minister Mark Carney's government on Nov. 4. Another 37 per cent had a negative response. #cdnpoli
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/national/in-...

Federal prison service 'ill-equipped' for long-term mental health care: watchdog OTTAWA - The federal prison ombudsman says weak policies, insufficient training and a lack of specialized treatment are hindering the Correctional Service of Canada's efforts to deliver mental health ...

Federal prison service 'ill-equipped' for long-term mental health care. #cdnpoli
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/national/fed...

A group of Indigenous women holding signs to raise awareness for MMIWG. There are large poster boards of pictures of the missing women. They are on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, the location of Canada's federal government.

Every day I am going to post this (permission from Del Schilling).

Will you join me?

Over 5700+ Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls

#MMIWG #cdnpoli

So our entire economic well being hinges on a company with $20B in revenues spending $1.4T on AI infrastructure when there isn’t enough electricity generated on the planet to power that many data centers?

Alberta's role in Canada's loss of measles elimination status embarrassing, former chief medical officer says | CBC News The latest federal data shows Alberta accounts for 38 per cent of Canada’s cases.

A former chief medical officer of health for Alberta says the provincial government should be embarrassed by the role Alberta has played in Canada’s measles outbreaks
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

We’re a small team of seven journalists who investigate stories wealthy and powerful people don’t want Canadians to know about

Now we need your help to defend our journalism and continue shining a light on information politicians want to keep secret

Help us out 👉 JournalismDefence.ca

Observations from Montreal An ever-changing collection of commentary and observations by Montrealers or about Montreal politics and culture.

“Trump and Poilievre’s brand of right-wing populism always presents itself as the champion of free speech, but in reality it barely tolerates dissent and constantly distorts the truth to suit its own agenda.”