We need our countries to get serious about abandoning US tech and putting serious resources behind developing more public-oriented alternatives their citizens can use instead.

Always great to get @ceciliarikap.bsky.social’s insights on these topics. Don’t miss our chat!

Interesting piece on leveling up Canada's economic potential by @aradwanski.bsky.social

www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/16be328...

This is brilliant policy reporting of a rare kind by @aradwanski.bsky.social — very big-picture post-USA proposals that nonetheless focus on the achievable and realistic, with suggested plausible paths to achievement

www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

I traded my U.S. medical career for life in Canada. Here’s how the two health systems stack up. canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/03/25/i... @codeblackamerica.bsky.social

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The mistake of allowing US interests to buy up our Canadian media is now in full view. The National Post is throwing things at the wall - doubt any of it will stick with the majority of Canadians.

Canada’s first ministers have agreed on the development of a national trade and energy corridor strategy, Prime Minister Mark Carney tells reporters at a news conference in Ottawa following his meeting with provincial and territorial premiers.

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This is a highly significant development - Canada may be shifting out of the US military production complex orbit. I wonder ifnit depends on a Liberal majority or if the other parties have been briefed, especially the Conservatives. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/w...

History repeats itself. These are pictures from outside my grad school lab for a Guardian article I wrote shortly after Brexit in the UK. First is all of us, the second is only the British researchers. www.theguardian.com/science/occa...

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

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I will attempt to flesh out why the CBC's broadcast of Cross Country Checkup was so toxic today, since there are some people still expressing confusion or dismay at the criticisms, including my own, leveled at it.
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Just an absolute banger of a research paper out recently from Mark Ellis, a Senior Fellow @econliberties.bsky.social about how investor owned utilities are breaking the bank, and the backs, of regular people.

Here are few of my favorite passages, a 🧵.

www.economicliberties.us/press-releas...

If Alberta applied the same level of stringency of regulation to the oil and gas sector that it now plans to wind and solar, there would be no oil and gas sector 🤣 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This is a must watch clip!

Because in it, Smith is fact checked on the amount of drugs and migrants crossing the border.

Smith’s response is to state that “we have the highest level of opioid deaths we’ve ever seen”.

So much for the Alberta Model?

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My grizzly shot that was nominated for The People's Choice Award in last year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.

Thank you for sending to your followers! Happy to answer any questions on the paper, which fortunately has no paywall.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

This was too funny to not crosspost it here 😭😭 @lefthandstu.bsky.social

Beyond parody: while debating the motion to re-instate natural gas heating in new buildings, Mayor Sim and Cllr. Brian Montague described the colourful artwork created by children & displayed by Cllrs Fry & Carr "intimidating" to those who express pro-gas opinions. Demand the signs be taken down.