James Andrew Smith
@drsmith.bsky.social
Engineering professor at York University
If only we had tools to help protect our children.
Too bad the public health “adults” can’t get over themselves and figure out how to improve vaccination, masking and clean air uptake.
Too bad the public health “adults” can’t get over themselves and figure out how to improve vaccination, masking and clean air uptake.
Expert calls 2025 flu ‘more infectious,’ as provinces see rise in infected children
Canada flu season starts early, with 'more infectious' virus
Canada’s flu season is off to an unusually early and intense start this year, with experts warning that a more infectious strain is driving higher case counts across the country.
www.ctvnews.ca
December 25, 2025 at 9:15 PM
If only we had tools to help protect our children.
Too bad the public health “adults” can’t get over themselves and figure out how to improve vaccination, masking and clean air uptake.
Too bad the public health “adults” can’t get over themselves and figure out how to improve vaccination, masking and clean air uptake.
December 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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🇺🇦 The ongoing operation to liberate Kupyansk
For Russia, Kupyansk exposes the collapse of its propaganda narrative. At the same time, the U.S. have returned their focus to the area amid renewed peace discussions.
Read more 👀
theukrainianreview.info/the-ongoing-...
For Russia, Kupyansk exposes the collapse of its propaganda narrative. At the same time, the U.S. have returned their focus to the area amid renewed peace discussions.
Read more 👀
theukrainianreview.info/the-ongoing-...
The ongoing operation to liberate Kupyansk, Kharkiv Region
Two weeks ago, Ukrainian Defense Forces launched a successful counterattack near Kupyansk in the Kharkiv region and encircled a Russian group inside the city. U
theukrainianreview.info
December 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
🇺🇦 The ongoing operation to liberate Kupyansk
For Russia, Kupyansk exposes the collapse of its propaganda narrative. At the same time, the U.S. have returned their focus to the area amid renewed peace discussions.
Read more 👀
theukrainianreview.info/the-ongoing-...
For Russia, Kupyansk exposes the collapse of its propaganda narrative. At the same time, the U.S. have returned their focus to the area amid renewed peace discussions.
Read more 👀
theukrainianreview.info/the-ongoing-...
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Consultez les prévisions d’Environnement Canada à l’échelle du Canada.
Tempêtes dans l’Est, froid intense dans l’Ouest et pluie verglaçante en Ontario
www.ledevoir.com
December 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Consultez les prévisions d’Environnement Canada à l’échelle du Canada.
Epstein's BFF threatens the life of a beloved comedian.
Trump says comedian Colbert should be ‘put to sleep’
Trump says Stephen Colbert is a “pathetic trainwreck” who should be “put to sleep"
On the eve of Christmas, President Donald Trump has unleashed a fresh blast of vitriol at late-night comedy talk shows, saying comedian Stephen Colbert is a “pathetic trainwreck” who should be “put to sleep.”
www.ctvnews.ca
December 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Epstein's BFF threatens the life of a beloved comedian.
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Schools must improve air quality to slow spread of respiratory illness, advocates say
The Globe and Mail
December 23, 2025
By Dave McGinn
stillcoviding.ca/en/news/scho...
#CdnPoli #CovidIsNotOver #IndoorAirQuality
The Globe and Mail
December 23, 2025
By Dave McGinn
stillcoviding.ca/en/news/scho...
#CdnPoli #CovidIsNotOver #IndoorAirQuality
Schools must improve air quality to slow spread of respiratory illness, advocates say
stillcoviding.ca
December 25, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Schools must improve air quality to slow spread of respiratory illness, advocates say
The Globe and Mail
December 23, 2025
By Dave McGinn
stillcoviding.ca/en/news/scho...
#CdnPoli #CovidIsNotOver #IndoorAirQuality
The Globe and Mail
December 23, 2025
By Dave McGinn
stillcoviding.ca/en/news/scho...
#CdnPoli #CovidIsNotOver #IndoorAirQuality
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We have started sharing our preliminary H2S data from the Nestor community in San Diego, CA. Levels and odors have been high again recently. For near real time data, see airborne.ucsd.edu/H2S. Screenshot below.
December 24, 2025 at 11:57 PM
We have started sharing our preliminary H2S data from the Nestor community in San Diego, CA. Levels and odors have been high again recently. For near real time data, see airborne.ucsd.edu/H2S. Screenshot below.
Tiramisu or lemon square?
December 24, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Tiramisu or lemon square?
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There needs be publicly available information on how many people these mostly-preventable (e.g. adequate ventilation alone is enough to block at least 3/4 of infections in shared hospital rooms) outbreaks kill.
"They were going to die anyway" lets healthcare get away with so much avoidable harm.
"They were going to die anyway" lets healthcare get away with so much avoidable harm.
This paper showed the large majority of shared-room COVID transmission events are preventable by good ventilation. The fact that it was published by some of the people who had most strenuously insisted COVID *wasn't* airborne (albeit only after they sat on the data for years) is meaningful as well.
So...sounds like we can say that if you got COVID in a 1 ACH hospital room, odds are at least 50% it would have been prevented if ventilation had been merely adequate, rising to 75% if infection control had done their jobs properly and listened to actual experts even just about ventilation?
Noted.
Noted.
December 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
There needs be publicly available information on how many people these mostly-preventable (e.g. adequate ventilation alone is enough to block at least 3/4 of infections in shared hospital rooms) outbreaks kill.
"They were going to die anyway" lets healthcare get away with so much avoidable harm.
"They were going to die anyway" lets healthcare get away with so much avoidable harm.
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Des internautes découvrent facilement des informations caviardées des dossiers Epstein
Des internautes découvrent facilement des informations caviardées des dossiers Epstein
Certains documents semblent avoir été censurés à la hâte.
www.journaldemontreal.com
December 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Des internautes découvrent facilement des informations caviardées des dossiers Epstein
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At this point one should simply assume every action taken by the Ford government is intended to degrade the environment, health, education, housing, and every other public good, and also individual quality of life except as narrowly defined to be "driving more is better".
The Doug Ford government dropped tire recycling targets, but consumers are still paying eco fees on tires, and there have been job losses for those who used to collect and recycle tires. This is horrible for both the environment and for workers.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Hundreds of thousands of used tires are piling in Ontario. Some industry insiders are sounding the alarm | CBC News
Hundreds of thousands of used tires are piling up in depots, lots and shops across Ontario as some of the companies responsible for tire recycling have stopped collecting, industry experts say.
www.cbc.ca
December 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
At this point one should simply assume every action taken by the Ford government is intended to degrade the environment, health, education, housing, and every other public good, and also individual quality of life except as narrowly defined to be "driving more is better".
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“We have been asking them and insist that they invest in measuring the air quality in those spaces, schools and school buses, and not leaving it as something for which school boards have to pull from an already overstretched budget,” @mjnabuurs.bsky.social says.
ottawa.citynews.ca/2025/12/21/s...
ottawa.citynews.ca/2025/12/21/s...
Schools have become cesspools for cold and flu, but they don't have to be: Ontario School Safety
The volunteer organization Ontario School Safety is calling on the provincial government to improve air quality in schools as flu spreads.
ottawa.citynews.ca
December 22, 2025 at 11:39 AM
“We have been asking them and insist that they invest in measuring the air quality in those spaces, schools and school buses, and not leaving it as something for which school boards have to pull from an already overstretched budget,” @mjnabuurs.bsky.social says.
ottawa.citynews.ca/2025/12/21/s...
ottawa.citynews.ca/2025/12/21/s...
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The Doug Ford government dropped tire recycling targets, but consumers are still paying eco fees on tires, and there have been job losses for those who used to collect and recycle tires. This is horrible for both the environment and for workers.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Hundreds of thousands of used tires are piling in Ontario. Some industry insiders are sounding the alarm | CBC News
Hundreds of thousands of used tires are piling up in depots, lots and shops across Ontario as some of the companies responsible for tire recycling have stopped collecting, industry experts say.
www.cbc.ca
December 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
The Doug Ford government dropped tire recycling targets, but consumers are still paying eco fees on tires, and there have been job losses for those who used to collect and recycle tires. This is horrible for both the environment and for workers.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Policy on health is clearly broken - politicized, out of touch, reactive and slow. My recent keynote at the Canadian Biosafety Symposium took a big-picture look at how and why that's happening, and how we can turn things around.
Here's a general-audience version, recorded at the Deep River library.
Here's a general-audience version, recorded at the Deep River library.
Inquiring Minds 03: Mark Ungrin - Science, Pseudoscience and Public Policy
YouTube video by Deep River Public Library
www.youtube.com
December 24, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Policy on health is clearly broken - politicized, out of touch, reactive and slow. My recent keynote at the Canadian Biosafety Symposium took a big-picture look at how and why that's happening, and how we can turn things around.
Here's a general-audience version, recorded at the Deep River library.
Here's a general-audience version, recorded at the Deep River library.
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Utterly infuriating! I’m happy to pay that fee to have tires properly recycled—not to increase the profits of the manufacturer while tires pile up, waiting to burn!
The Doug Ford government dropped tire recycling targets, but consumers are still paying eco fees on tires, and there have been job losses for those who used to collect and recycle tires. This is horrible for both the environment and for workers.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Hundreds of thousands of used tires are piling in Ontario. Some industry insiders are sounding the alarm | CBC News
Hundreds of thousands of used tires are piling up in depots, lots and shops across Ontario as some of the companies responsible for tire recycling have stopped collecting, industry experts say.
www.cbc.ca
December 24, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Utterly infuriating! I’m happy to pay that fee to have tires properly recycled—not to increase the profits of the manufacturer while tires pile up, waiting to burn!
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I gotta finish wrapping presents
December 24, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I gotta finish wrapping presents
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I think the denial bubble in which they live is pretty dense and therefore protects them from the risk of consequences or self-reflection.
December 23, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I think the denial bubble in which they live is pretty dense and therefore protects them from the risk of consequences or self-reflection.
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Imagine being a COVID-minimizing, vax-and-relax, it-doesn't-harm-kids aerosol-denier public health / infection control / peds doc in 2025, looking back at your net contribution to humanity and realizing that the last five years has more than erased every good thing you've done in your entire life.
December 23, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Imagine being a COVID-minimizing, vax-and-relax, it-doesn't-harm-kids aerosol-denier public health / infection control / peds doc in 2025, looking back at your net contribution to humanity and realizing that the last five years has more than erased every good thing you've done in your entire life.
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Early-life infection burden continues throughout childhood, new data reveal
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 23, 2025 at 11:38 PM
"'...Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than we previously had reported or that we were aware of.' And it said that he is listed as a passenger on at least eight flights between 1993 and 1996."
#DonaldTrump #Epstein
#DonaldTrump #Epstein
The Justice Department released nearly 30,000 more pages of documents related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including many that reference President Donald Trump. https://to.pbs.org/44CAg44
What the latest Epstein files release reveals, and where Trump is mentioned
The Justice Department released nearly 30,000 more pages of documents related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including many that reference President Donald Trump. The new batch co...
to.pbs.org
December 24, 2025 at 2:34 AM
"'...Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than we previously had reported or that we were aware of.' And it said that he is listed as a passenger on at least eight flights between 1993 and 1996."
#DonaldTrump #Epstein
#DonaldTrump #Epstein
Epstein Epstein Epstein
The Justice Department released nearly 30,000 more pages of documents related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including many that reference President Donald Trump. https://to.pbs.org/44CAg44
What the latest Epstein files release reveals, and where Trump is mentioned
The Justice Department released nearly 30,000 more pages of documents related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including many that reference President Donald Trump. The new batch co...
to.pbs.org
December 24, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Epstein Epstein Epstein
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Usage de l’IA en cour | « Un défi pour les années à venir »
Usage de l’IA en cour | « Un défi pour les années à venir »
www.lapresse.ca
December 24, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Usage de l’IA en cour | « Un défi pour les années à venir »
Hadfield is napping and doesn’t want to be disturbed.
December 23, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Hadfield is napping and doesn’t want to be disturbed.
Epstein Epstein Epstein.
#DEVELOPING: U.S. DOJ says letter signed by ‘J. Epstein’ and referencing ‘our president’ is fake
Epstein files: U.S. DOJ says Larry Nassar letter is fake
The U.S. Justice Department now says a handwritten letter it released Tuesday that was signed by 'J. Epstein' and addressed to convicted sex offender Larry Nassar is 'fake,' asserting that the handwriting did not appear to match that of Jeffrey Epstein.
www.ctvnews.ca
December 23, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Epstein Epstein Epstein.