Jonathan Harris
@jonathanbharris.bsky.social
Public servant, health policy aficionado, lover of yeasted doughs and the Toronto Blue Jays
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'Tis The Season
December 19, 2025 at 12:40 PM
'Tis The Season
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welcome home to your parents’ house, the channels are Yellowstone, masterpiece mystery, and Jimmy fallon, btw someone from your high school died in a real weird way
December 19, 2025 at 5:09 AM
welcome home to your parents’ house, the channels are Yellowstone, masterpiece mystery, and Jimmy fallon, btw someone from your high school died in a real weird way
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AI could be hugely beneficial to the NHS, but only if it augments, not replaces, human judgement, and is deployed with strong governance and equity-aware data.
Plus of course the challenges of workforce and infrastructure remain!
A new piece by me.
www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/ai-i...
Plus of course the challenges of workforce and infrastructure remain!
A new piece by me.
www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/ai-i...
AI in the NHS: rewards, risks, and reality
The NHS must avoid AI's seductive overdiagnosis trap, writes Professor Christina Pagel, director of UCL’s clinical operational research unit
www.digitalhealth.net
December 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
AI could be hugely beneficial to the NHS, but only if it augments, not replaces, human judgement, and is deployed with strong governance and equity-aware data.
Plus of course the challenges of workforce and infrastructure remain!
A new piece by me.
www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/ai-i...
Plus of course the challenges of workforce and infrastructure remain!
A new piece by me.
www.digitalhealth.net/2025/12/ai-i...
firmest possible co-sign www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Linguistic experts urge Carney government to stop using British spellings | CBC News
Promoters of Canadian English say the federal government is sending the wrong message to the world with its recent use of British spelling in official documents, including the 2025 federal budget.
www.cbc.ca
December 15, 2025 at 7:12 PM
firmest possible co-sign www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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this isn't the point but it is funny and kind of a broader point that the focus of the subhead is "architects" and then they replaced what was, in the original photo, labourers.
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM
this isn't the point but it is funny and kind of a broader point that the focus of the subhead is "architects" and then they replaced what was, in the original photo, labourers.
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rough year for mr. met. he's been off his workout routine for months, can't stand listening to the lumineers anymore, mrs. met won't talk to him outside official appearances, he maxed out for cuomo and sliwa, and now the only coworker who likes him took a better job on the other side of the country
December 10, 2025 at 12:51 PM
rough year for mr. met. he's been off his workout routine for months, can't stand listening to the lumineers anymore, mrs. met won't talk to him outside official appearances, he maxed out for cuomo and sliwa, and now the only coworker who likes him took a better job on the other side of the country
you just know a technology is good when you have to order people to use it.
December 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
you just know a technology is good when you have to order people to use it.
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Monument to the Unknown Bureaucrat, Reykjavik — Magnús Tómasson, 1994
November 26, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Monument to the Unknown Bureaucrat, Reykjavik — Magnús Tómasson, 1994
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ME: they shouldn't be able to say 'your order has shipped' when they've just created a label. That's not shipped.
ISAAC CHOTINER: so, you've never claimed to have a task underway when you've merely opened the file?
ME: that's not-
CHOTINER: in this Teams message to your boss, you said-
ISAAC CHOTINER: so, you've never claimed to have a task underway when you've merely opened the file?
ME: that's not-
CHOTINER: in this Teams message to your boss, you said-
December 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
ME: they shouldn't be able to say 'your order has shipped' when they've just created a label. That's not shipped.
ISAAC CHOTINER: so, you've never claimed to have a task underway when you've merely opened the file?
ME: that's not-
CHOTINER: in this Teams message to your boss, you said-
ISAAC CHOTINER: so, you've never claimed to have a task underway when you've merely opened the file?
ME: that's not-
CHOTINER: in this Teams message to your boss, you said-
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For the #s to register big change in self-employment, don't think "docs". Think: staffing agencies for nursing, homecare platforms.
Re private sector: yes, more out of pocket spending, but big change is governments turning more to for-profit providers.
We pay more, get less.
Not good job growth.
Re private sector: yes, more out of pocket spending, but big change is governments turning more to for-profit providers.
We pay more, get less.
Not good job growth.
December 5, 2025 at 3:02 PM
For the #s to register big change in self-employment, don't think "docs". Think: staffing agencies for nursing, homecare platforms.
Re private sector: yes, more out of pocket spending, but big change is governments turning more to for-profit providers.
We pay more, get less.
Not good job growth.
Re private sector: yes, more out of pocket spending, but big change is governments turning more to for-profit providers.
We pay more, get less.
Not good job growth.
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Last point, and a warning shot for every government in this country:
Health and social assistance has been a job juggernaut for almost every month in 2025.
Cumulatively it has added 79K jobs so far in 2025, most rapidly through self-employment and private sector growth.
A note on "self-employment"
Health and social assistance has been a job juggernaut for almost every month in 2025.
Cumulatively it has added 79K jobs so far in 2025, most rapidly through self-employment and private sector growth.
A note on "self-employment"
December 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Last point, and a warning shot for every government in this country:
Health and social assistance has been a job juggernaut for almost every month in 2025.
Cumulatively it has added 79K jobs so far in 2025, most rapidly through self-employment and private sector growth.
A note on "self-employment"
Health and social assistance has been a job juggernaut for almost every month in 2025.
Cumulatively it has added 79K jobs so far in 2025, most rapidly through self-employment and private sector growth.
A note on "self-employment"
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An acute example of Cdn establishment hollowness. When asked why no Palestinian voices in a debate *about* Palestinians, Griffith said they're pvt & somebody else should do it. Yet he struts & clucks on stage that Munk is fearless in its free speech & open dialogue. Such dilettante wankery.
Nearly 200 protest outside Munk debate amid calls to arrest ex-Israeli officials over alleged war crimes | CBC News
As many as 200 people protested outside the Munk Debates in Toronto on Wednesday, where a panel of all-Israeli speakers discussed whether a two-state solution is in the best interest of Israel.
www.cbc.ca
December 4, 2025 at 6:44 PM
An acute example of Cdn establishment hollowness. When asked why no Palestinian voices in a debate *about* Palestinians, Griffith said they're pvt & somebody else should do it. Yet he struts & clucks on stage that Munk is fearless in its free speech & open dialogue. Such dilettante wankery.
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We're doing arch. They didn't, they said it wasn't possible, and [quickly, stumbling] it wasn't possible with sleepy joe and the autopen but [awful wet breath] we're doing arch, and quite frankly we are doing plaza as well.
‘We’re doing arch’ Trump says in update on latest construction project
‘We’re doing arch’ Trump says in update on latest construction project
‘We’re doing arch’ Trump says in update on latest construction project
www.independent.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
We're doing arch. They didn't, they said it wasn't possible, and [quickly, stumbling] it wasn't possible with sleepy joe and the autopen but [awful wet breath] we're doing arch, and quite frankly we are doing plaza as well.
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Labour shortages because of immigration policies.
Signals the underlying possibility of making every job a good job. Or at least more of them.
Signals the underlying possibility of making every job a good job. Or at least more of them.
BofA: "We now hear of companies proactively shifting to high school apprenticeship models"
December 3, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Labour shortages because of immigration policies.
Signals the underlying possibility of making every job a good job. Or at least more of them.
Signals the underlying possibility of making every job a good job. Or at least more of them.
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Why there never was a Vibecession in one chart.
It’s always been about the prices of essentials.
It’s always been about the prices of essentials.
November 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Why there never was a Vibecession in one chart.
It’s always been about the prices of essentials.
It’s always been about the prices of essentials.
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Firms reporting terrible ROI for GenAI bodes ill for PM Carney with his all-in focus on GenAI, as @bhaggart.bsky.social & I explain in this oped for @policyoptions.irpp.org policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/11/ai-r...
November 19, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Firms reporting terrible ROI for GenAI bodes ill for PM Carney with his all-in focus on GenAI, as @bhaggart.bsky.social & I explain in this oped for @policyoptions.irpp.org policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/11/ai-r...
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Everyone is getting upset about the data centers. They pollute a lot and use a lot of energy and will eventually be very ugly/huge vacant buildings. And I understand being mad about that. Until you consider the state of the lazer tag industry at this moment, and how much help that sector needs.
December 1, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Everyone is getting upset about the data centers. They pollute a lot and use a lot of energy and will eventually be very ugly/huge vacant buildings. And I understand being mad about that. Until you consider the state of the lazer tag industry at this moment, and how much help that sector needs.
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Entire career got debunked voice:
November 28, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Entire career got debunked voice:
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The polycrisis cannot be addressed by markets and biz investment alone, though the feds are not incorrect to address the need to at least offset the wave of biz disinvestment that is coming our way.
Household spending can't save us either, nor trade.
We need more government, not less.
Household spending can't save us either, nor trade.
We need more government, not less.
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The polycrisis cannot be addressed by markets and biz investment alone, though the feds are not incorrect to address the need to at least offset the wave of biz disinvestment that is coming our way.
Household spending can't save us either, nor trade.
We need more government, not less.
Household spending can't save us either, nor trade.
We need more government, not less.
one man's "challenging orthodoxy" is another man's "uncritically pushing whatever right wing dogma is currently in fashion"
November 28, 2025 at 1:56 PM
one man's "challenging orthodoxy" is another man's "uncritically pushing whatever right wing dogma is currently in fashion"
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Excited by the prospect of Mamdani bringing his communication skills to talking about basic public functions and the people that provide them.
Combatting poverty and hunger in this city will take every single one of us. Myself included.
November 27, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Excited by the prospect of Mamdani bringing his communication skills to talking about basic public functions and the people that provide them.
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CDC website altered at Robert F. Kennedy's behest to reflect his belief that "all events depicted in the film Ghostbusters really happened."
November 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
CDC website altered at Robert F. Kennedy's behest to reflect his belief that "all events depicted in the film Ghostbusters really happened."