Grim
@slackdad.bsky.social
A working knowledge of music, words, politics & drink. 🇨🇦
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While Canada’s residential school era has become a key piece of our national identity, there has been an eruption of late of what some academics call denialism.
That eruption & efforts to counter it, is the focus of the new episode of APTN Investigates:
That eruption & efforts to counter it, is the focus of the new episode of APTN Investigates:
Denialism close-up - an APTN Investigates
APTN Investigates Dismantling Denialism by correspondent Christopher Read delves into residential school denialism.
www.aptnnews.ca
December 8, 2025 at 11:51 PM
While Canada’s residential school era has become a key piece of our national identity, there has been an eruption of late of what some academics call denialism.
That eruption & efforts to counter it, is the focus of the new episode of APTN Investigates:
That eruption & efforts to counter it, is the focus of the new episode of APTN Investigates:
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The 50 best albums of 2025
The 50 best albums of 2025
From prog cabaret and joyful jangle-pop to a rapper who rhymed ‘bonkers’ with ‘chompers’, here are the year’s finest LPs as decided by 30 Guardian music writers
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The 50 best albums of 2025
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Reminder: Bsky's Head of Trust & Safety @aaron.bsky.team, here mocking a woman whose husband was abducted by ICE, is friends with Jeremy Malcom, who imported child sexual abuse material into Australia, and we should raise a bigger stink on why @jay.bsky.team keeps this obvious paedophile on payroll.
December 7, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Reminder: Bsky's Head of Trust & Safety @aaron.bsky.team, here mocking a woman whose husband was abducted by ICE, is friends with Jeremy Malcom, who imported child sexual abuse material into Australia, and we should raise a bigger stink on why @jay.bsky.team keeps this obvious paedophile on payroll.
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Health Minister Adriana LaGrange suppressed information about measles cases that health officials told her the public should have. Another must read from the Globe.
December 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Health Minister Adriana LaGrange suppressed information about measles cases that health officials told her the public should have. Another must read from the Globe.
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Aluminium is crucial to vaccines — and safe. Why are US advisers debating it? www.nature.com/articles/d41... by @heidiledford.bsky.social via @nature.com
"You cannot just get rid of an adjuvant that works and is safe before you have something else that you know will be a good replacement."
"You cannot just get rid of an adjuvant that works and is safe before you have something else that you know will be a good replacement."
Aluminium is crucial to vaccines — and safe. Why are US advisers debating it?
RFK Jr’s vaccine advisory panel will be discussing the inclusion of adjuvants in childhood vaccinations this week. Here’s what’s at stake.
www.nature.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Aluminium is crucial to vaccines — and safe. Why are US advisers debating it? www.nature.com/articles/d41... by @heidiledford.bsky.social via @nature.com
"You cannot just get rid of an adjuvant that works and is safe before you have something else that you know will be a good replacement."
"You cannot just get rid of an adjuvant that works and is safe before you have something else that you know will be a good replacement."
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Out today in print!
December 4, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Out today in print!
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Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star
December 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star
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Well, well, well. AB government did not want to go to arbitration because they were likely going to be forced to pay better wages to teachers. How does this even qualify for using the Not Withstanding Clause? Bizarre-
BEYOND LOCAL: Two cabinet ministers say money a key factor in using Charter override on teachers
Two cabinet ministers say money a key factor in using Charter override on teachers
Alberta's infrastructure minister says the government could not risk allowing the labour dispute to go to arbitration and put the province at risk of paying out hundreds of millions of dollars.
dlvr.it
December 4, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Well, well, well. AB government did not want to go to arbitration because they were likely going to be forced to pay better wages to teachers. How does this even qualify for using the Not Withstanding Clause? Bizarre-
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This is how stupid Ontario’s “Minister of Education” thinks we are:
Starve public system of funds, escalate class sizes, understaff all programmes, report unsatisfactory test scores, blame schools.
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Starve public system of funds, escalate class sizes, understaff all programmes, report unsatisfactory test scores, blame schools.
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December 3, 2025 at 10:21 PM
This is how stupid Ontario’s “Minister of Education” thinks we are:
Starve public system of funds, escalate class sizes, understaff all programmes, report unsatisfactory test scores, blame schools.
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Starve public system of funds, escalate class sizes, understaff all programmes, report unsatisfactory test scores, blame schools.
🤷🏼🙄🤷🏼
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“the fact is Northback’s Grassy Mountain coal mine will be an open pit mine, even though Smith promised Albertans it won’t be.”
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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BREAKING: Big Aussie Coal *is* Going to Strip Mine the Alberta Rockies After All
“When it comes to coal mining, people do not want to see mountaintop removal,” she said.
open.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:05 PM
“the fact is Northback’s Grassy Mountain coal mine will be an open pit mine, even though Smith promised Albertans it won’t be.”
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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This new Ontario SDF scandal is not to be confused with last month's Ontario SDF scandal, around career colleges
December 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
This new Ontario SDF scandal is not to be confused with last month's Ontario SDF scandal, around career colleges
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"top designers and engineers are permanently staffed in government departments handling multiple big projects"
No false economy of starving the civil service to save small amounts of money while actually undermining capacity, leading to cost overruns.
No false economy of starving the civil service to save small amounts of money while actually undermining capacity, leading to cost overruns.
Spain has used immigration and public-private investment in capital projects to become the fastest-growing economy in the Western world, with the lowest deficits, all with higher Trump tariffs. We can follow their lead
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: Spain has become an economic leader by using Ottawa’s toolkit the right way
The once-flagging Spanish economy has been turbocharged by big infrastructure investments, the green-energy transition and immigration
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:50 PM
"top designers and engineers are permanently staffed in government departments handling multiple big projects"
No false economy of starving the civil service to save small amounts of money while actually undermining capacity, leading to cost overruns.
No false economy of starving the civil service to save small amounts of money while actually undermining capacity, leading to cost overruns.
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Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
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Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
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Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
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Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
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Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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The frothing-mad Conservative culture war attack continues. #Cdnpoli
The Conservative "Multiverse" Attack on Canada
At a time when global instability is rising, you would think that it would be patently obvious that Canada’s longstanding tradition of international engagement matters more than ever.
open.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The frothing-mad Conservative culture war attack continues. #Cdnpoli
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Oil and gas companies collectively owe hundreds of millions to Alberta citizens, municipalities and the provincial government, and making these companies pay up isn't easy. Why do they owe so much? @drewanderson.bsky.social breaks it down: thenarwhal.ca/alberta-surf...
The unpaid bills of Alberta oil and gas companies, explained | The Narwhal
We break down the ways some Alberta oil and gas companies are shirking their bills, and what that means for Alberta municipalities and landowners
thenarwhal.ca
December 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Oil and gas companies collectively owe hundreds of millions to Alberta citizens, municipalities and the provincial government, and making these companies pay up isn't easy. Why do they owe so much? @drewanderson.bsky.social breaks it down: thenarwhal.ca/alberta-surf...
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Room in the same tent? Shouldn't you be asking what it means now that the UCP is fundamentally a separatist party? Smith encouraged the leopards and they ate her face.
December 1, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Room in the same tent? Shouldn't you be asking what it means now that the UCP is fundamentally a separatist party? Smith encouraged the leopards and they ate her face.
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Yep, "the Frankenparty stitched together by Jason Kenney." That's the reality that's always papered over. It's never been fully united, despite the name. There's a permanent struggle for dominance, with the old Wildrose faction usually in command, and the only glue is fear of the loss of power.
The Frankenparty stitched together by Jason Kenney spawns a separatist monster in its ranks. albertapolitics.ca/2025/11/the-...
The Frankenparty stitched together by Jason Kenney spawns a separatist monster in its ranks - Alberta Politics
The Frankenparty stitched together in 2017 by Jason Kenney from the Wildrose Party and the Progressive Conservatives has spawned a monster. Hard-line Alberta separatists who were tolerated by Mr. Ken...
albertapolitics.ca
November 30, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Yep, "the Frankenparty stitched together by Jason Kenney." That's the reality that's always papered over. It's never been fully united, despite the name. There's a permanent struggle for dominance, with the old Wildrose faction usually in command, and the only glue is fear of the loss of power.
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When iffy "evidence" used for policy & fearmongering...
FDA claims Covid shots killed 10 children and vows new vaccine rules www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... via @nbcnews.com
Meme "is misusing information from VAERS, an unverified reporting system..."
And "irresponsible" & "dangerous."
FDA claims Covid shots killed 10 children and vows new vaccine rules www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... via @nbcnews.com
Meme "is misusing information from VAERS, an unverified reporting system..."
And "irresponsible" & "dangerous."
FDA claims Covid shots killed 10 children and vows new vaccine rules
Vaccine experts said the memo was irresponsible and omits key details about how officials arrived at the conclusion.
www.nbcnews.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
When iffy "evidence" used for policy & fearmongering...
FDA claims Covid shots killed 10 children and vows new vaccine rules www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... via @nbcnews.com
Meme "is misusing information from VAERS, an unverified reporting system..."
And "irresponsible" & "dangerous."
FDA claims Covid shots killed 10 children and vows new vaccine rules www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... via @nbcnews.com
Meme "is misusing information from VAERS, an unverified reporting system..."
And "irresponsible" & "dangerous."
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Influencer hype + iffy science = goofy trend
Does taping your mouth while you sleep have benefits? www.economist.com/science-and-...
"All this might suggest that some people would benefit from taping their mouths shut at night. Alas, the evidence does not bear this out."
Does taping your mouth while you sleep have benefits? www.economist.com/science-and-...
"All this might suggest that some people would benefit from taping their mouths shut at night. Alas, the evidence does not bear this out."
Does taping your mouth while you sleep have benefits?
Proponents say it improves sleep and oral health
www.economist.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Influencer hype + iffy science = goofy trend
Does taping your mouth while you sleep have benefits? www.economist.com/science-and-...
"All this might suggest that some people would benefit from taping their mouths shut at night. Alas, the evidence does not bear this out."
Does taping your mouth while you sleep have benefits? www.economist.com/science-and-...
"All this might suggest that some people would benefit from taping their mouths shut at night. Alas, the evidence does not bear this out."
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A new mural has appeared in Ternopil, dedicated to children killed in Russia’s attack.
The artwork, showing a child shielding her toys from a Russian missile, was created by artist Andriy Yermolenko. He described it as “a cry for help to the global community.”
The artwork, showing a child shielding her toys from a Russian missile, was created by artist Andriy Yermolenko. He described it as “a cry for help to the global community.”
November 29, 2025 at 9:48 PM
A new mural has appeared in Ternopil, dedicated to children killed in Russia’s attack.
The artwork, showing a child shielding her toys from a Russian missile, was created by artist Andriy Yermolenko. He described it as “a cry for help to the global community.”
The artwork, showing a child shielding her toys from a Russian missile, was created by artist Andriy Yermolenko. He described it as “a cry for help to the global community.”
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"Anthropic paid" are the two key words here
Headline: "AI can replace 11.7% of workforce"
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce
Artificial intelligence can already replace 11.7% of the U.S. labor market, across finance, health care and professional services, according to MIT's study.
www.cnbc.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:15 PM
"Anthropic paid" are the two key words here
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Tom Stoppard leaves 'majestic body of intellectual work' reut.rs/3XX0z0V
Tom Stoppard leaves 'majestic body of intellectual work'
Tom Stoppard, one of Britain's best-known playwrights, has died at the age of 88. Below are some tributes and reactions.
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November 29, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Tom Stoppard leaves 'majestic body of intellectual work' reut.rs/3XX0z0V
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An exhaustive deep-dive into the rise of Sam Mraiche from bankruptcy to health care titan, with new wrinkles on his connections to the UCP and AHS dealings.
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Who is Sam Mraiche? Inside Alberta’s health care controversy
A Globe investigation into the provincial health agency’s dealings with a company whose contracts have come under scrutiny
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:47 PM
An exhaustive deep-dive into the rise of Sam Mraiche from bankruptcy to health care titan, with new wrinkles on his connections to the UCP and AHS dealings.
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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🧪It took multiple studies over several years to disprove Andrew Wakefield’s notorious fraudulent research article.
November 28, 2025 at 2:43 AM
🧪It took multiple studies over several years to disprove Andrew Wakefield’s notorious fraudulent research article.