@chrismachine.bsky.social
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I was in the immense Canadian D-Day cemetery as young French school kids read a poem to Canada's fallen.
"We are your children we are children of liberty."
A D-Day vet stood up and said to the students
"don't weep for any man here. We would do it all again so you could be free."
This is Canada.
"We are your children we are children of liberty."
A D-Day vet stood up and said to the students
"don't weep for any man here. We would do it all again so you could be free."
This is Canada.
January 18, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I was in the immense Canadian D-Day cemetery as young French school kids read a poem to Canada's fallen.
"We are your children we are children of liberty."
A D-Day vet stood up and said to the students
"don't weep for any man here. We would do it all again so you could be free."
This is Canada.
"We are your children we are children of liberty."
A D-Day vet stood up and said to the students
"don't weep for any man here. We would do it all again so you could be free."
This is Canada.
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Holy shit @ Jazz - Hawks finish
January 8, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Holy shit @ Jazz - Hawks finish
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Are you wondering why grocery prices are still high?
It's these three guys making billions from you because they run monopolies in the food business and no one can stop them.
It's these three guys making billions from you because they run monopolies in the food business and no one can stop them.
January 3, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Are you wondering why grocery prices are still high?
It's these three guys making billions from you because they run monopolies in the food business and no one can stop them.
It's these three guys making billions from you because they run monopolies in the food business and no one can stop them.
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It looks like the Toronto Sun made extensive revisions to a Joe Warmington column about Justin Trudeau getting ambushed at a ski hill
New version adds quotes from Emily Duggan rationalizing her actions, cuts 344 words criticizing her for swearing at Trudeau in front of his kids
New version adds quotes from Emily Duggan rationalizing her actions, cuts 344 words criticizing her for swearing at Trudeau in front of his kids
December 29, 2024 at 3:04 PM
It looks like the Toronto Sun made extensive revisions to a Joe Warmington column about Justin Trudeau getting ambushed at a ski hill
New version adds quotes from Emily Duggan rationalizing her actions, cuts 344 words criticizing her for swearing at Trudeau in front of his kids
New version adds quotes from Emily Duggan rationalizing her actions, cuts 344 words criticizing her for swearing at Trudeau in front of his kids
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Again: were I a wealthy industrialist, I would focus on well-made products that could never be connected to the Internet, for a fair price
people really need to remember the printer gun post in times like this.
December 28, 2024 at 4:53 AM
Again: were I a wealthy industrialist, I would focus on well-made products that could never be connected to the Internet, for a fair price
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"If a population all wear FFP2/N95 masks, this reduces the effective reproduction number for #COVID-19 transmission by a factor of approximately 9."
#MaskUp 😷
#CovidIsAirborne 🦠
🧪🩺⚕️🧠
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#MaskUp 😷
#CovidIsAirborne 🦠
🧪🩺⚕️🧠
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What if everyone had masked up? Analysis of app data has an answer
Modelling study based on almost 250,000 positive COVID-19 tests in the United Kingdom shows that universal masking could have cut transmission markedly.
www.nature.com
December 6, 2024 at 3:18 AM
"If a population all wear FFP2/N95 masks, this reduces the effective reproduction number for #COVID-19 transmission by a factor of approximately 9."
#MaskUp 😷
#CovidIsAirborne 🦠
🧪🩺⚕️🧠
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#MaskUp 😷
#CovidIsAirborne 🦠
🧪🩺⚕️🧠
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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I’ve been a doctor for more than 20 years & this is the first time that I’ve seen a paediatric stroke awareness campaign (from the American Heart Association). Gosh, what could possibly have changed in the past 5 years* which is increasing the risk of paediatric stroke?
*Spoiler alert: it’s COVID
*Spoiler alert: it’s COVID
December 5, 2024 at 2:21 AM
I’ve been a doctor for more than 20 years & this is the first time that I’ve seen a paediatric stroke awareness campaign (from the American Heart Association). Gosh, what could possibly have changed in the past 5 years* which is increasing the risk of paediatric stroke?
*Spoiler alert: it’s COVID
*Spoiler alert: it’s COVID
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For Giving Tuesday, consider throwing a wee bit of money to the @cancovsoc.bsky.social Canadian Covid Society. Of all the orgs I work with, it struggles the most with fundraising, as we have yet to acheive charitable status. $5//$25/$100
$500/ $10000. Every little bit counts to keep us afloat!
$500/ $10000. Every little bit counts to keep us afloat!
Home - Canadian Covid Society
We are working to protect your health and make living in a world with Covid safer. Learn more
Advice You Can Trust
The Canadian Covid Society is cutting through the noise and misinformation to...
covidsociety.ca
December 3, 2024 at 11:39 PM
For Giving Tuesday, consider throwing a wee bit of money to the @cancovsoc.bsky.social Canadian Covid Society. Of all the orgs I work with, it struggles the most with fundraising, as we have yet to acheive charitable status. $5//$25/$100
$500/ $10000. Every little bit counts to keep us afloat!
$500/ $10000. Every little bit counts to keep us afloat!
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perhaps the most cogent installment of the "I'm a famous person/athlete who got ME/CFS from covid" interview I've seen
love that he's done the reading, and that he draws the links between fatphobia/exercise supremacy, eugenics, and medical mistreatment of long covid
and flomasks! in the guardian!!
love that he's done the reading, and that he draws the links between fatphobia/exercise supremacy, eugenics, and medical mistreatment of long covid
and flomasks! in the guardian!!
“As able-bodied person, you trust your doctor is going to steer ship if something pops up. if I were to wait for them & not be proactive, my health would have continued to decline”
Excellent article by Matt McGorry about stigma of Long Covid, difficulty getting care & learning from disabled people
Excellent article by Matt McGorry about stigma of Long Covid, difficulty getting care & learning from disabled people
‘I was in denial about it’: actor Matt McGorry on having long Covid
Orange Is the New Black and How to Get Away With Murder star speaks about the disease and another way of looking at health
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2024 at 12:17 AM
perhaps the most cogent installment of the "I'm a famous person/athlete who got ME/CFS from covid" interview I've seen
love that he's done the reading, and that he draws the links between fatphobia/exercise supremacy, eugenics, and medical mistreatment of long covid
and flomasks! in the guardian!!
love that he's done the reading, and that he draws the links between fatphobia/exercise supremacy, eugenics, and medical mistreatment of long covid
and flomasks! in the guardian!!
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A postal worker strike in Canada was the first domino to getting better paid maternal leave across Canada. This strike is important for Canada Post workers of course, but this sets the stage for A LOT in Canada. Support our fellow workers.
As @parismarx.com writes, the @cupwsttp.bsky.social strike raises the question of “not just what we want the future of Canada Post to be, but also what kind of society we want to live in.”
canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
Planning the obsolescence of Canada Post
There is an unwillingness to entertain a future in which Canada Post’s role can evolve to serve the needs of Canadians. The degradation of delivery work by Amazon is accepted as a fait accompli, inste...
canadiandimension.com
December 3, 2024 at 1:38 AM
A postal worker strike in Canada was the first domino to getting better paid maternal leave across Canada. This strike is important for Canada Post workers of course, but this sets the stage for A LOT in Canada. Support our fellow workers.
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Lastly - Roger Foley - a disabled man who's been advocating about the dangers of MAiD for years.
What did he want? To be allowed to choose his own caregivers. Those provided by government had caused him harm.
What was he offered? Assisted death. He recorded the conversation & released to media:
What did he want? To be allowed to choose his own caregivers. Those provided by government had caused him harm.
What was he offered? Assisted death. He recorded the conversation & released to media:
Chronically ill man releases audio of hospital staff offering assisted death
An Ontario man suffering from an incurable neurological disease has provided CTV News with audio recordings that he says are proof that hospital staff offered him medically assisted death, despite his...
www.ctvnews.ca
December 1, 2024 at 10:42 PM
Lastly - Roger Foley - a disabled man who's been advocating about the dangers of MAiD for years.
What did he want? To be allowed to choose his own caregivers. Those provided by government had caused him harm.
What was he offered? Assisted death. He recorded the conversation & released to media:
What did he want? To be allowed to choose his own caregivers. Those provided by government had caused him harm.
What was he offered? Assisted death. He recorded the conversation & released to media:
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Review for many and necessary watch (better late than never) for others.
December 1, 2024 at 2:05 PM
Review for many and necessary watch (better late than never) for others.
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Your move, Canada.
The more high-speed rail built around the globe, the increasing urgency to build Canada's Quebec City - Toronto corridor.
And while we're at it, let's add Windsor to the mix and generate more tourism $$ & trade connections to Michigan and nearby states.
The more high-speed rail built around the globe, the increasing urgency to build Canada's Quebec City - Toronto corridor.
And while we're at it, let's add Windsor to the mix and generate more tourism $$ & trade connections to Michigan and nearby states.
Vietnam approves $67 billion high-speed railway project between Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh city
Vietnam approves $67 billion high-speed railway project between Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh city
Vietnam has approved the construction of a high-speed railway connecting the capital Hanoi in the north with the financial capital of Ho Chi Minh in the south.
apnews.com
November 30, 2024 at 4:28 PM
Your move, Canada.
The more high-speed rail built around the globe, the increasing urgency to build Canada's Quebec City - Toronto corridor.
And while we're at it, let's add Windsor to the mix and generate more tourism $$ & trade connections to Michigan and nearby states.
The more high-speed rail built around the globe, the increasing urgency to build Canada's Quebec City - Toronto corridor.
And while we're at it, let's add Windsor to the mix and generate more tourism $$ & trade connections to Michigan and nearby states.
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"Free speech"
In December 2022, I partnered with @georgelakoff.bsky.social to describe how Elon Musk planned to use Twitter's algorithms to distort the public discourse and give a huge advantage to extremist views. (Got banned four days later!)
www.theframelab.org/algorithm-wa...
www.theframelab.org/algorithm-wa...
Algorithm Warfare: How Elon Musk uses Twitter to control brains
Like Trump, Musk has weaponized tweets for the information war
www.theframelab.org
November 30, 2024 at 4:21 PM
"Free speech"
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Surprising literally nobody, it turns out that oil and gas companies are behind the campaign to get rid of the carbon tax.
#CdnPoli
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#CdnPoli
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Meet the groups spending the most on social media ads attacking the carbon tax | CBC News
The Investigative Journalism Foundation (IJF) analyzed social media advertising over the last year to see who is echoing Poilievre's "axe the tax" mantra. Apart from politicians and political parties, the biggest spender is an outfit most Canadians have never heard of.
www.cbc.ca
November 27, 2024 at 11:41 PM
Surprising literally nobody, it turns out that oil and gas companies are behind the campaign to get rid of the carbon tax.
#CdnPoli
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#CdnPoli
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Low-paid, untrained workers were introduced to long-term care in 2021 as an emergency stopgap.
Now, the Ford government is making them permanent.
Now, the Ford government is making them permanent.
Untrained, low-wage workers are here to stay in Ontario long-term care www.canadianaffairs.news/2024/11/26/r... @nicktsergas.bsky.social @cdnaffairs.bsky.social
Get weekly updates: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁
Get weekly updates: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁
November 27, 2024 at 12:24 PM
Low-paid, untrained workers were introduced to long-term care in 2021 as an emergency stopgap.
Now, the Ford government is making them permanent.
Now, the Ford government is making them permanent.
It’s interesting that Andlauer made a direct comparison to New Jersey in talking about maybe getting his pick back. As a fan, I felt a “yes!” reaction, but soon I felt it might have the inverse effect if Bettman is angered by it. If he already thought it was impossible, though, why not. Thoughts?
November 26, 2024 at 1:50 AM
It’s interesting that Andlauer made a direct comparison to New Jersey in talking about maybe getting his pick back. As a fan, I felt a “yes!” reaction, but soon I felt it might have the inverse effect if Bettman is angered by it. If he already thought it was impossible, though, why not. Thoughts?
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😬 I got distracted and forgot to tag @nbcovidinfo.bsky.social on the post with that PHAC presentation - it would likely have stayed buried if they hadn't dug that information up with a Freedom of Information request. More on that here: popnb.substack.com/p/omission-i...
November 25, 2024 at 8:25 PM
😬 I got distracted and forgot to tag @nbcovidinfo.bsky.social on the post with that PHAC presentation - it would likely have stayed buried if they hadn't dug that information up with a Freedom of Information request. More on that here: popnb.substack.com/p/omission-i...
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Gentle reminder: even if you don't mask regularly, please mask inside airplanes.
November 25, 2024 at 8:33 PM
Gentle reminder: even if you don't mask regularly, please mask inside airplanes.
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Here's your morning #BadActorBingo case study: the pattern here is common. Meet Sonia!
November 24, 2024 at 11:31 AM
Here's your morning #BadActorBingo case study: the pattern here is common. Meet Sonia!
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Hello @dianacmcnally.bsky.social! You've won the best tweet over at the 🐦site!
#FordFailedOntario #FordMustBeDefeated #onpoli
#FordFailedOntario #FordMustBeDefeated #onpoli
November 23, 2024 at 6:41 PM
Hello @dianacmcnally.bsky.social! You've won the best tweet over at the 🐦site!
#FordFailedOntario #FordMustBeDefeated #onpoli
#FordFailedOntario #FordMustBeDefeated #onpoli
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At least he took a shot at the Hail Mary.
November 22, 2024 at 4:36 AM
At least he took a shot at the Hail Mary.