Kate Lawson🍁
@kattl.bsky.social
"Vive le Canada!"
Victorian literature, Prof, U Waterloo
trees, urban forests, bikes, climate change
Victorian literature, Prof, U Waterloo
trees, urban forests, bikes, climate change
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Canadian COVID Forecast Nov 8 - Nov 21, 2025
ONTARIO
HIGH [no change]
About 1 of every 133 people is infected.
Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada:
-Infections: 6.6 x higher
-Long COVID: 5.9 x higher
-Hospitalizations: 9.3 x higher
-Deaths: 11.7 x higher
ONTARIO
HIGH [no change]
About 1 of every 133 people is infected.
Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada:
-Infections: 6.6 x higher
-Long COVID: 5.9 x higher
-Hospitalizations: 9.3 x higher
-Deaths: 11.7 x higher
![This image describes the Canadian COVID Forecast for the fourteen-day period between Nov 8 - Nov 21, 2025, which is produced by COVID-19 Resources Canada. Ontario's COVID Forecast outlook is HIGH [no change] with a COVID INDEX SCORE of 9.2
About 1 of every 133 people is infected.
Estimated infections this week: 208,300-288,000
What these numbers mean: MODERATE 1-5, HIGH 5-10, VERY HIGH 10-15, SEVERE >15 COMPARED TO THE LOWEST POINT IN THE COVID PANDEMIC IN CANADA
How much higher are key indicators compared to the lowest point in the COVID pandemic in Canada?
Waste water, infections: HIGH; 6.6X higher
Long COVID: HIGH; 5.9X higher
Hospitalizations: HIGH; 9.3X higher
Deaths: VERY HIGH; 11.7X higher
HOW TO HELP:
EVERYONE:
UPDATE vaccines every 6 months
WEAR N95-type masks
Who is HIGH RISK?
People 60 and older, babies < 1 year, pregnant
ALL AGES: immunocompromised OR medically at-risk OR no vaccine or infection in the last 6 months
Recommendations are based on the COVID-19 Risk Index from the Peterborough ON Public Health Unit
COVID-19 Resources Canada is a grassroots organization of volunteer scientists supporting Canadian COVID responses. Sources, data and methods for the COVID Index are available at www.Covid19Resources.ca](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qbuobwdie7rzq4fburk63aft/bafkreigh5nngzdygqzqv5qoqrqnzjm5sd77qezjnkrj4tjtd3mrgxkua7q@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Canadian COVID Forecast Nov 8 - Nov 21, 2025
ONTARIO
HIGH [no change]
About 1 of every 133 people is infected.
Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada:
-Infections: 6.6 x higher
-Long COVID: 5.9 x higher
-Hospitalizations: 9.3 x higher
-Deaths: 11.7 x higher
ONTARIO
HIGH [no change]
About 1 of every 133 people is infected.
Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada:
-Infections: 6.6 x higher
-Long COVID: 5.9 x higher
-Hospitalizations: 9.3 x higher
-Deaths: 11.7 x higher
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““We colonized all those countries, and then we set up this structure with these tax rules to benefit us,” said Tedds, who specializes in tax policy. “That’s their industry.” Cc @wickdchiq.bsky.social ricochet.media/labour/class...
The billionaire loophole: How Canada’s tax system fuels inequality
While ordinary Canadians struggle, the top one per cent hide billions in offshore tax havens — a colonial system engineered to protect wealth and starve public services
ricochet.media
October 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
““We colonized all those countries, and then we set up this structure with these tax rules to benefit us,” said Tedds, who specializes in tax policy. “That’s their industry.” Cc @wickdchiq.bsky.social ricochet.media/labour/class...
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Ontario's hospitals have been starved to the point of collapse, but sure, find more savings because Doug Ford refuses to fund the system adequately.
Just appalling.
Just appalling.
Ontario hospitals told to find savings; ministry doesn't rule out service cuts
TORONTO - Ontario's Ministry of Health has tasked hospitals struggling with deficits to come up with a three-year plan to balance their budgets, and service cuts and bed closures do
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca
October 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Ontario's hospitals have been starved to the point of collapse, but sure, find more savings because Doug Ford refuses to fund the system adequately.
Just appalling.
Just appalling.
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The federal govt looks set to revive the deep cuts of the 1990s—cuts that gutted public services, widened inequality and left lasting damage still felt today. Here’s my op ed on what’s at stake today. bit.ly/4ovzcr3 #cdnpoli
Ottawa can’t cut its way to a stronger Canada
Katherine Scott - Do we really want to relive the pain of Paul Martin’s 1995 budget?
bit.ly
August 13, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The federal govt looks set to revive the deep cuts of the 1990s—cuts that gutted public services, widened inequality and left lasting damage still felt today. Here’s my op ed on what’s at stake today. bit.ly/4ovzcr3 #cdnpoli
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Reminder on priorities. Widespread funding for things like gender based violence is a no but the usual domestic economic policies that favour men are a go www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Cautious optimism in B.C. after PM announces $1.2B in softwood lumber support | CBC News
B.C.'s forestry industry has taken major hits over the last few years, as escalating U.S. duties on softwood lumber imports have piled atop a number of other challenges, leading to thousands of job lo...
www.cbc.ca
August 6, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Reminder on priorities. Widespread funding for things like gender based violence is a no but the usual domestic economic policies that favour men are a go www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Spending more on defence, less on ??? www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
How much less?
Campaign platform: cap spending growth to 2% a year.
Today: 7.5% in spending cuts by April (2026-27), 10% less in 2027-28, 15% less in 2028-29.
What will go?
/2
How much less?
Campaign platform: cap spending growth to 2% a year.
Today: 7.5% in spending cuts by April (2026-27), 10% less in 2027-28, 15% less in 2028-29.
What will go?
/2
Carney's cabinet asked to find 'ambitious savings' ahead of fall budget | CBC News
Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne sent letters to his fellow cabinet members Monday asking them to come up with "ambitious savings proposals" to get a handle on public sector spending, acco...
www.cbc.ca
July 7, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Spending more on defence, less on ??? www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
How much less?
Campaign platform: cap spending growth to 2% a year.
Today: 7.5% in spending cuts by April (2026-27), 10% less in 2027-28, 15% less in 2028-29.
What will go?
/2
How much less?
Campaign platform: cap spending growth to 2% a year.
Today: 7.5% in spending cuts by April (2026-27), 10% less in 2027-28, 15% less in 2028-29.
What will go?
/2
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Please. America. See what happens in other countries, including *right now*, *today*. You have hundreds of millions of people. Stand up in force. Put a stop to this.
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March 15, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Please. America. See what happens in other countries, including *right now*, *today*. You have hundreds of millions of people. Stand up in force. Put a stop to this.
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Closer to 165,000 excess deaths in Canada in the last 5 years
--AFTER subtracting excess mortality attributable to toxic drugs and overloaded healthcare system (% excess cancer deaths)
-from '22 on it's ~35-45K/yr, similar to (and on top of) annual smoking deaths
-about 10-13X annual flu deaths
--AFTER subtracting excess mortality attributable to toxic drugs and overloaded healthcare system (% excess cancer deaths)
-from '22 on it's ~35-45K/yr, similar to (and on top of) annual smoking deaths
-about 10-13X annual flu deaths
Five years ago today, Canada recorded its first #COVID19 death, an 83-year-old man at Lynn Valley Care Centre in North Vancouver. There have been more than 60,000 pandemic deaths since.
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com
B.C. records Canada’s first coronavirus death
The elderly man who died of COVID-19 on Sunday night lived at a North Vancouver nursing home where two workers and at least one other resident are also infected
www.theglobeandmail.com
March 9, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Closer to 165,000 excess deaths in Canada in the last 5 years
--AFTER subtracting excess mortality attributable to toxic drugs and overloaded healthcare system (% excess cancer deaths)
-from '22 on it's ~35-45K/yr, similar to (and on top of) annual smoking deaths
-about 10-13X annual flu deaths
--AFTER subtracting excess mortality attributable to toxic drugs and overloaded healthcare system (% excess cancer deaths)
-from '22 on it's ~35-45K/yr, similar to (and on top of) annual smoking deaths
-about 10-13X annual flu deaths
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Global News keeps misreporting the cause of the university financial crisis. Int'l student caps only exacerbated the real problem: endlessly falling government funding and, in Ontario, a brutal tuition freeze. globalnews.ca/video/110188...
Canadian universities, colleges face cash crunch because of student visa cap | Watch News Videos Online
Watch Canadian universities, colleges face cash crunch because of student visa cap Video Online, on GlobalNews.ca
globalnews.ca
February 14, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Global News keeps misreporting the cause of the university financial crisis. Int'l student caps only exacerbated the real problem: endlessly falling government funding and, in Ontario, a brutal tuition freeze. globalnews.ca/video/110188...
Over 100,000 people protested in 25 Slovak towns and cities claiming their PM is "undermining the country's institutions, culture" etc.
Has there been a single mass demonstration in the US against Trump?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Has there been a single mass demonstration in the US against Trump?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Tens of thousands protest in Slovakia against PM Fico
Tens of thousands come onto the streets, as Robert Fico threatens to deport foreigners he says are fomenting a coup.
www.bbc.com
February 2, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Over 100,000 people protested in 25 Slovak towns and cities claiming their PM is "undermining the country's institutions, culture" etc.
Has there been a single mass demonstration in the US against Trump?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Has there been a single mass demonstration in the US against Trump?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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If you use AI or allow your students to use it, you’re contributing to the destruction of the planet. Please consider a ban on AI in your classes. Here’s my AI policy if you want a model.
December 23, 2024 at 4:59 PM
If you use AI or allow your students to use it, you’re contributing to the destruction of the planet. Please consider a ban on AI in your classes. Here’s my AI policy if you want a model.
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Elsa Lam at @canadianarchitect.bsky.social is absolutely killing it on Ford + Ontario Place. I referenced her July work in my current column, now she’s out w 3 new 🔥 examinations of the auditor’s reports. Here’s 1st
1/3
www.canadianarchitect.com/the-auditor-...?
1/3
www.canadianarchitect.com/the-auditor-...?
The Auditor General’s Report, Part 1: The cost of privatizing Ontario Place
This article is part of a multi-part series examining findings from the Auditor General’s 2024 Report. Future parts will be posted in the coming week. On Tuesday, December 3, 2024, Ontario’s Auditor G...
www.canadianarchitect.com
December 7, 2024 at 9:53 PM
Elsa Lam at @canadianarchitect.bsky.social is absolutely killing it on Ford + Ontario Place. I referenced her July work in my current column, now she’s out w 3 new 🔥 examinations of the auditor’s reports. Here’s 1st
1/3
www.canadianarchitect.com/the-auditor-...?
1/3
www.canadianarchitect.com/the-auditor-...?
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#ICYMI - ever wonder why #doctors like I feel #ontario isn't a friendly place to practice #medicine? It's because @ONThealth does things like this #physicians. Please read, sign petition and share widely #medsky and everyone:
justanoldcountrydoctor.com/2024/12/02/d...
justanoldcountrydoctor.com/2024/12/02/d...
Dr. Elaine Ma Case is Proof Ontario is Unfriendly to Physicians
Last week, the Ontario Health Sector Appeal and Review Board (HSARB) denied the appeal by Dr. Elaine Ma in her fight against the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP). At the risk of upsetting Dr. M…
justanoldcountrydoctor.com
December 3, 2024 at 3:15 PM
#ICYMI - ever wonder why #doctors like I feel #ontario isn't a friendly place to practice #medicine? It's because @ONThealth does things like this #physicians. Please read, sign petition and share widely #medsky and everyone:
justanoldcountrydoctor.com/2024/12/02/d...
justanoldcountrydoctor.com/2024/12/02/d...
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#OTD in 1849, Charlotte Bronte's novel Shirley is published. @kattl.bsky.social reads the novel as a sequel not to Wuthering Heights but to the historical narrative of Yorkshire, a history of labor and struggle. Read on in "Shirley, History after Wuthering Heights" (SEL 61.4) https://buff.ly/3BWz6F5
October 26, 2024 at 5:00 PM
#OTD in 1849, Charlotte Bronte's novel Shirley is published. @kattl.bsky.social reads the novel as a sequel not to Wuthering Heights but to the historical narrative of Yorkshire, a history of labor and struggle. Read on in "Shirley, History after Wuthering Heights" (SEL 61.4) https://buff.ly/3BWz6F5
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"And that, she says, is what most people fail to understand about long COVID: how serious it is, how much is at stake — how fast a healthy girl with boundless energy and big dreams can lose it all."
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06...
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06...
The myth that COVID is 'harmless' for kids has left millions of children with long COVID invisible. Here's what they want you to know
They're losing their formative years to this debilitating disease. But for too many children with long COVID, finding help is a frustrating and traumatic process that leaves them feeling isolated and ...
www.abc.net.au
June 16, 2024 at 12:26 AM
"And that, she says, is what most people fail to understand about long COVID: how serious it is, how much is at stake — how fast a healthy girl with boundless energy and big dreams can lose it all."
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06...
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06...
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Answers to the Flash Flood of #Measles questions:
Experts give answers in a brilliant mix of perspectives from paediatric clinical info to essential epidemiology (by @deonandan.bsky.social )to Public Health recommendations - well worth a read.
Let’s stop the rise of measles.
Experts give answers in a brilliant mix of perspectives from paediatric clinical info to essential epidemiology (by @deonandan.bsky.social )to Public Health recommendations - well worth a read.
Let’s stop the rise of measles.
Measles has landed in Canada and there is a flash flood of questions
by @maryfernando.bsky.social
canadahealthwatch.ca/2024/03/27/m...
by @maryfernando.bsky.social
canadahealthwatch.ca/2024/03/27/m...
Measles has landed in Canada and there is a flash flood of questions
Canada Healthwatch | The most important health news, in one place.
canadahealthwatch.ca
March 28, 2024 at 11:21 AM
Answers to the Flash Flood of #Measles questions:
Experts give answers in a brilliant mix of perspectives from paediatric clinical info to essential epidemiology (by @deonandan.bsky.social )to Public Health recommendations - well worth a read.
Let’s stop the rise of measles.
Experts give answers in a brilliant mix of perspectives from paediatric clinical info to essential epidemiology (by @deonandan.bsky.social )to Public Health recommendations - well worth a read.
Let’s stop the rise of measles.
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A few hours after we receive an email from the Provost about another new senior admin being created (including a whole new administrative *unit), we get an email outlining an effective staff hiring freeze. I.e. if we start losing staff people, they're unlikely to be replaced.
Literally the day after this message, the university announces the creation of yet ANOTHER new senior admin position, the new Associate Provost, Campus Support and Accessibility.
It'd be funny if it wasn't infuriating.
It'd be funny if it wasn't infuriating.
We've received messaging from our Provost today that the Ford government's "$1.3 billion" in new spending in post-secondary education will do almost nothing to address the structural deficit situation caused by lack of gov't operating funds and the ongoing tuition freeze. Major cuts coming.
March 5, 2024 at 6:59 PM
A few hours after we receive an email from the Provost about another new senior admin being created (including a whole new administrative *unit), we get an email outlining an effective staff hiring freeze. I.e. if we start losing staff people, they're unlikely to be replaced.
November 18, 2023 at 2:49 PM