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“The report highlights how Bill 11 opens the door to American-style health care markets. By allowing private insurance for services that are currently publicly covered, Alberta has created the conditions for U.S. health corporations to enter Canada.”

www.lakesideleader.com/albertas-bil...

Maryland health officials warn providers about an upsurge in mumps cases Maryland health officials are warning about an uptick in cases of mumps.

Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading.

Now we’ve got mumps rolling up.

Expect more.

This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.

Corb Lund’s Drive to Block Coal Mines Gets the Green Light | The Tyee Elections Alberta approves a citizen initiative petition drive.

Corb Lund’s Drive to Block Coal Mines Gets the Green Light
Elections Alberta approves a citizen initiative petition drive. thetyee.ca/News/2026/02...

Re: Why covid-19 is “a vascular disease masquerading as a respiratory one”

“the medical profession’s response to covid-19 has been in effect to walk away from the established public health principles of ‘control, eliminate, eradicate’, adopting instead what I have termed the ‘surrender narrative’”

www.bmj.com/content/392/...

New Immunization Schedule Sparks Grave Concern This Medical News article discusses changes to the US government’s childhood and adolescent immunization schedule and what they mean for clinicians and families.

The CDC has removed several vaccines from the childhood and adolescent immunization schedule.

Here’s why the changes are sparking grave concern. ja.ma/4qzH22s

The transition to cleaner forms of energy are not happening fast enough to avoid dangerous climate change

Read the full story: go.nature.com/4rNfCXM

Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

This morning I posted our petition to get Palantir out of our NHS and our public services.

Over 40,000 people have now signed it - thank you.

Please do keep sharing!

you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website.

The pandemic preparedness programme at NIAD is to be cut in yet another inexplicable decision by Bhattacharya. Without the research that was done by institutes such as the NIAD that was already looking at coronaviruses we would not have had such speedy vaccine development 🧪🧵 #HealthPolicy

Rubio speech at MSC—in short: US sees global trade, diplomacy, migration, immigration, global institutions and global affairs in general as a “foolish post-WWII mistake” and invites Europe “so save itself by each protecting sovereignty, closed borders, and Christianity” alike Trump’s America.

Canada is not on track to meet any of its climate targets, a new study says A new study published Friday by the Canadian Climate Institute says Canada is not on track to meet any of its climate targets — not the 2026 interim emissions reduction target, the 2030 Paris Agreemen...

Further confirmation that Canada's far off track from its 2030 target. As I mention here, the models tend to overestimate the impact of climate policies, because they represent an idealized world in which policies are fully implemented and work as intended.
www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-...

Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website.

Sure sure let’s order the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) to end all pandemic preparedness and biodefense work.

WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?

Social Security Workers Are Being Told to Hand Over Appointment Details to ICE The recent request goes against decades of precedent and puts noncitizens at further risk of immigration enforcement actions.

Workers at the Social Security Administration have been told to share information about in-person appointments with agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The order to share information, which was recently communicated verbally to workers...

TAT: [Nationalism | Weakening Civil Rights]

This does not seem prudent.

Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website.

“Staff members at the United States’s premier infectious-disease research institute have been instructed to remove the words “biodefense” and “pandemic preparedness” from the institute’s web pages, according to e-mails Nature has obtained.”

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Pensions and Investments Dangerously at Risk We're underestimating the risks of climate change and the decline of nature.

Pensions and Investments Dangerously at Risk
open.substack.com/pub/leahy/p/...

This Is How a Child Dies of Measles When your family becomes a data point in an outbreak

This is a bracing read, and also one to share with anyone you know questioning the severity of this virus:

Iris Gorfinkel: Measles outbreak more proof we didn’t need for a province-wide vaccine registry A modern vaccine registry would show which children are overdue for shot and which communities are most at risk. In just a few clicks, clinicians anywhere in Ontario could see

I can’t believe we still rely on yellow cards

…after thousands of deaths from Covid & the biggest measles outbreak in decades

Have we le’arned nothing?
This makes NO sense.

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

Trump team’s new rule could make firing government scientists easier Although the government says the move will depoliticize US science, some researchers say it will do the opposite.

Researchers fear this will lead to further political interference in US science

go.nature.com/4kxFjJK

YouTube video by Charlie Angus CANADA'S LEGAL OBLIGATION TO BLOCK MILITARY SALES TO ICE !!!

It is against Canadian law to sell weapons that could be used against civilians. Check out my conversation with @heathermcpherson.bsky.social over her push to cancel the export permits for the armoured carriers that Rochell industries is building for ICE.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3McF...

Canada should not be providing military equipment to ICE
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So the confrontations, violent apprehensions, and general fear bearing down on communities like Minnesota is only the beginning of the nightmare. Behind the scenes, Orwellian anti-judicial antics thwart lawful recourse. And hidden from sight, non-citizens are tortured for being noncitizens.

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People can have different political opinions about immigration policy. Political differences are fine, healthy for a democracy.

But if you’re okay with this, that’s not a political opinion. That is a moral failing.

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These are the conditions under which the Trump regime wants to detain noncitizens indefinitely. It violates international law, the Eighth Amendment, and our own laws & regulations.

And the DOJ and DHS are willing to manipulate any law, defy any court order, to keep doing so.

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I had a pregnant client who was experiencing abdominal cramping for three days and was deprived of medical care. When we interceded, she was punished.

A first grader snatched two days after surgery denied wound care.

A client who developed a large painful cyst but was ignored.

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ICE Arrests Transplant Patient and Cuts Off Life-Saving Meds The 38-year-old hasn’t had his kidney transplant medication since he was detained on Thursday.

A transplant recipient whose body was rejecting his organ because DHS won’t give him his absolutely essential anti-rejection meds. www.thedailybeast.com/ice-arrests-...

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18-month-old girl hospitalized with respiratory failure in ICE detention, lawyers say Dilley Immigration Processing Center in rural Texas withheld medication after ‘gravely ill’ toddler was sent back into its custody, according to federal lawsuit

4. Medical malpractice. Here’s why I say stopping this detention-to Texas pipeline is life of death.

An 18-month old hospitalized after nearly dying of three simultaneous respiratory infections. When she returned to the camp, DHS withheld her meds.

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www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

2. Non-potable water. Clients have reported becoming ill from chemical-tasting water. Some developed rashes.

3. Deplorable accommodations. A client sick with the flu was forced to sleep on a frigid concrete floor. In Camp East Montana, fetid water leaches through the roof and soaks the beds.

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And what awaits these clients in Texas? Unspeakably cruel and inhumane treatment.

1. Rotten food. I had a client explain she had to make a half-pint of milk and an apple last every day because the other meals consisted of spoiled or rotten food. One client wasn’t fed for >36 hours.

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And even when we move at warp speed and outpace this regime, DHS doesn’t care. They’ve moved people to Texas hours or days after being enjoined.

When ordered to return them, DHS just… doesn’t. The AUSAs let them: when we notify them of a violation, they send the email equivalent of a shrug.

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Meanwhile, DHS shows its contempt for the judiciary in a different way. In dozens, likely now thousands, of cases, DHS openly defies court orders.

Minnesota courts enter orders forbidding ICE from moving noncitizens who’ve filed habeas petitions out of Minnesota. They move them anyway.

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