Tara M
@taratrying.bsky.social
PhD, MBA. Health researcher. Mother of two mostly-charming daughters. Feels fortunate to have been a born a Canadian. Batman fan. Opinions my own.
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The federal government should withhold federal health transfers to AB.
Doctors request vaccinations be given to children at hospitals (when parents are willing to do so); province says no.
Bananas.
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Bananas.
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Alberta doctors call for regular access to vaccines in children's hospitals to combat low immunization rates | CBC News
Some Alberta pediatricians say they've got an idea to help improve routine childhood vaccination rates, but they're facing roadblocks. The doctors want the shots, including measles and whooping cough ...
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November 18, 2025 at 2:21 AM
The federal government should withhold federal health transfers to AB.
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Ford crony/TDSB supervisor Rohit Gupta probably doesn’t know (or care) that teachers have to spend their classroom budget (if they have one) or their own $$ on tissues, table wipes, and bandaids.
Your child’s teacher or local school might appreciate a donation of these items if you’re able to help.
Your child’s teacher or local school might appreciate a donation of these items if you’re able to help.
November 18, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Ford crony/TDSB supervisor Rohit Gupta probably doesn’t know (or care) that teachers have to spend their classroom budget (if they have one) or their own $$ on tissues, table wipes, and bandaids.
Your child’s teacher or local school might appreciate a donation of these items if you’re able to help.
Your child’s teacher or local school might appreciate a donation of these items if you’re able to help.
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Today RFK Jr. both suggested that aluminum adjuvants in vaccines cause peanut allergies *and* admitted there are no data to support this hypothesis, so he wants to find some.
Like if you took the scientific method, turned it backward and inside out and made it puke, you’d get RFK Jr.’s thoughts.
Like if you took the scientific method, turned it backward and inside out and made it puke, you’d get RFK Jr.’s thoughts.
November 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Today RFK Jr. both suggested that aluminum adjuvants in vaccines cause peanut allergies *and* admitted there are no data to support this hypothesis, so he wants to find some.
Like if you took the scientific method, turned it backward and inside out and made it puke, you’d get RFK Jr.’s thoughts.
Like if you took the scientific method, turned it backward and inside out and made it puke, you’d get RFK Jr.’s thoughts.
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One academic study showed that “the average number of gambling references per broadcast minute was 2.8” in Ontario during sporting events.
Opinion: Our governments are willfully blind to the financial fentanyl that is online gambling
Insolvencies are up sharply, and there’s growing evidence that gambling is partly to blame
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November 18, 2025 at 1:37 AM
One academic study showed that “the average number of gambling references per broadcast minute was 2.8” in Ontario during sporting events.
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Infuriating to think that in just two months, Conde Nast's Vanity Fair hired Nuzzi while Conde Nast's Vogue absorbed and neutered Teen Vogue, laying off a number of talented writers who can write, and think, circles around Nuzzi.
November 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Infuriating to think that in just two months, Conde Nast's Vanity Fair hired Nuzzi while Conde Nast's Vogue absorbed and neutered Teen Vogue, laying off a number of talented writers who can write, and think, circles around Nuzzi.
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Her whole career appears to have been built around advertising her willingness to sleep with older men and if I was the Condé Nast HR department I might be asking some pretty serious questions right now.
Infuriating to think that in just two months, Conde Nast's Vanity Fair hired Nuzzi while Conde Nast's Vogue absorbed and neutered Teen Vogue, laying off a number of talented writers who can write, and think, circles around Nuzzi.
November 18, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Her whole career appears to have been built around advertising her willingness to sleep with older men and if I was the Condé Nast HR department I might be asking some pretty serious questions right now.
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I’m not sure I see the logic in continuing to teach but stepping back from, like, making public appearances? The issue is with behavior while teaching. Why would it do anything to, like, step off the lecture circuit or whatever? That’s emphatically not the problem.
Larry Summers steps back from public commitments, ‘deeply ashamed’ by Epstein revelations
Larry Summers steps back from public commitments, ‘deeply ashamed’ by Epstein revelations
Emails revealed that Summers sought advice from Epstein on romantically pursuing a woman he referred to as his mentee.
dlvr.it
November 18, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I’m not sure I see the logic in continuing to teach but stepping back from, like, making public appearances? The issue is with behavior while teaching. Why would it do anything to, like, step off the lecture circuit or whatever? That’s emphatically not the problem.
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ok, i'm calling it, Olivia Nuzzi is not real. she is a Markov chain text generator. we've been duped.
November 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
ok, i'm calling it, Olivia Nuzzi is not real. she is a Markov chain text generator. we've been duped.
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NEW: Months after acknowledging that home construction in Ontario was at a “standstill,” the housing minister is hoping the latest set of government interventions will lead to a spring market revival. #onpoli
globalnews.ca/news/1152723...
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Ford government resets housing focus, hoping to turn fortunes around in the spring | Globalnews.ca
While issues with homebuilding in the province have festered for years, housing starts in 2025 plummeted even further as potential buyers sat on the sidelines.
globalnews.ca
November 17, 2025 at 9:49 PM
NEW: Months after acknowledging that home construction in Ontario was at a “standstill,” the housing minister is hoping the latest set of government interventions will lead to a spring market revival. #onpoli
globalnews.ca/news/1152723...
globalnews.ca/news/1152723...
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The Doug Ford government is setting its sites on conservation authorities for the fifth time, merging the watershed protection agencies. Staff tell @fatimabsyed.bsky.social it may ‘slow approvals, create confusion’ — not to mention it's leaving them with ‘whiplash.’ thenarwhal.ca/ontario-cons...
Inside Ontario’s plan to merge 36 conservation authorities to 7 | The Narwhal
Doug Ford’s government is seeking public feedback on its plan to overhaul Ontario’s conservation authorities, reducing local agencies from 36 to 7
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November 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The Doug Ford government is setting its sites on conservation authorities for the fifth time, merging the watershed protection agencies. Staff tell @fatimabsyed.bsky.social it may ‘slow approvals, create confusion’ — not to mention it's leaving them with ‘whiplash.’ thenarwhal.ca/ontario-cons...
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Internal memo that Danielle Smith may use Notwithstanding clause to ban gender affirming care and ban trans girls from participating in school sports globalnews.ca/news/1143606...
Alberta to use notwithstanding clause on its 3 transgender laws: memo | Globalnews.ca
The laws establish rules for students changing their names or pronouns in school, ban transgender girls from taking part in some sports and limit gender-affirming health care.
globalnews.ca
November 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Internal memo that Danielle Smith may use Notwithstanding clause to ban gender affirming care and ban trans girls from participating in school sports globalnews.ca/news/1143606...
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🧊✈️ Hello, Collaborator🖕
ICE Air flights at Seattle are now being refueled and serviced by SkyService, which is a... (checks notes)
😲 Canadian company 🇨🇦
Hmm...
ICE Air flights at Seattle are now being refueled and serviced by SkyService, which is a... (checks notes)
😲 Canadian company 🇨🇦
Hmm...
November 12, 2025 at 8:13 PM
🧊✈️ Hello, Collaborator🖕
ICE Air flights at Seattle are now being refueled and serviced by SkyService, which is a... (checks notes)
😲 Canadian company 🇨🇦
Hmm...
ICE Air flights at Seattle are now being refueled and serviced by SkyService, which is a... (checks notes)
😲 Canadian company 🇨🇦
Hmm...
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Postmedia got over $1million?? The more we learn, the more it stinks.
#onpoli
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#onpoli
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Secret data reveals which low-scoring applicants still received millions of dollars from the Ford government’s skills fund
Secret government data obtained by the Star shows 26 applicants scoring 50 per cent or lower received $36.6 million from Premier Doug Ford's controversial Skills Development Fund earlier this year.
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November 14, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Postmedia got over $1million?? The more we learn, the more it stinks.
#onpoli
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#onpoli
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🚨 BREAKING 🚨
My office just uncovered that, buried in their Fall Economic Statement, Ford’s Conservatives are quietly seizing control of Exhibition Place.
#ONpoli
My office just uncovered that, buried in their Fall Economic Statement, Ford’s Conservatives are quietly seizing control of Exhibition Place.
#ONpoli
November 13, 2025 at 9:22 PM
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
My office just uncovered that, buried in their Fall Economic Statement, Ford’s Conservatives are quietly seizing control of Exhibition Place.
#ONpoli
My office just uncovered that, buried in their Fall Economic Statement, Ford’s Conservatives are quietly seizing control of Exhibition Place.
#ONpoli
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I legitimately think this article misses the mark, because Canadians are not avoiding travel out of some principled boycott of the USA over tariffs.
Canadians who are avoiding the USA are seeing images of masked government thugs kidnapping people and teargassing children.
Canadians who are avoiding the USA are seeing images of masked government thugs kidnapping people and teargassing children.
November 13, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I legitimately think this article misses the mark, because Canadians are not avoiding travel out of some principled boycott of the USA over tariffs.
Canadians who are avoiding the USA are seeing images of masked government thugs kidnapping people and teargassing children.
Canadians who are avoiding the USA are seeing images of masked government thugs kidnapping people and teargassing children.
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I think it's the "saving up for braces" part of this story that adds a whole new level of ick. Like... that's a kid, man
The 17 year old who had sex for money with Trump’s first nominee for Attorney General was in and out of a homeless shelter, working at McDonalds. and trying to save up for braces. (Gift link).
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
In Matt Gaetz Scandal, Circumstances Left Teen Vulnerable to Exploitation
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I think it's the "saving up for braces" part of this story that adds a whole new level of ick. Like... that's a kid, man
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I feel like the business community in Canada is just not getting the message - there is no miracle deal with Trump and any arrangement we make will be immediately upended when he somehow takes offence at some trivial thing.
November 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I feel like the business community in Canada is just not getting the message - there is no miracle deal with Trump and any arrangement we make will be immediately upended when he somehow takes offence at some trivial thing.
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Free with Apple News, even if you have the app but not a pd subscription
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CSIS director warns China, Russia agents active in Canada
Countries are seeking to gain a strategic foothold in the Arctic, spy agency head says
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Free with Apple News, even if you have the app but not a pd subscription
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
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The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative | Euractiv
The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software
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November 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
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The Beaverton will tell Doug Ford a tunnel under the 401 is the dumbest idea of all time for just 8.5 million (Podcast)
The Beaverton will tell Doug Ford a tunnel under the 401 is the dumbest idea of all time for just 8.5 million
“We’re willing to negotiate down to 8.2.” Luke and the Panel (Ian MacIntyre and Nile Seguin) delight in the chaos consuming the Conservative Party, wonder why the Democrats are incapable of not shitti...
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November 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
The Beaverton will tell Doug Ford a tunnel under the 401 is the dumbest idea of all time for just 8.5 million (Podcast)
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"I asked ChatGPT-"
Okay well I asked the voices and they say you sound insane right now
Okay well I asked the voices and they say you sound insane right now
November 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"I asked ChatGPT-"
Okay well I asked the voices and they say you sound insane right now
Okay well I asked the voices and they say you sound insane right now
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I'm sure the threat of potentially being detained by ICE, the US storing facial recognition data on Canadians and going through your cell phones upon entry doesn't help. 😒
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I'm sure the threat of potentially being detained by ICE, the US storing facial recognition data on Canadians and going through your cell phones upon entry doesn't help. 😒
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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You guys keep saying it’s the tariffs like Canadians aren’t terrified of ICE and being detained and sent to El Salvador prisons, and that’s IF a CBP officer doesn’t make up a reason to deny you at the border - it’s not the tariffs guys
November 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
You guys keep saying it’s the tariffs like Canadians aren’t terrified of ICE and being detained and sent to El Salvador prisons, and that’s IF a CBP officer doesn’t make up a reason to deny you at the border - it’s not the tariffs guys
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🍁5138 people have contracted measles in Canada this year
🍁4550 of them were unvaccinated or under-vaccinated
🍁16 cases were newborn babies congenitally infected
🍁2 people died
No, immigrants are not to blame.
Yes, anti-vaxxers are.
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
🍁4550 of them were unvaccinated or under-vaccinated
🍁16 cases were newborn babies congenitally infected
🍁2 people died
No, immigrants are not to blame.
Yes, anti-vaxxers are.
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
Canada loses its measles elimination status — as it happened | CBC
www.cbc.ca
November 13, 2025 at 5:57 PM
🍁5138 people have contracted measles in Canada this year
🍁4550 of them were unvaccinated or under-vaccinated
🍁16 cases were newborn babies congenitally infected
🍁2 people died
No, immigrants are not to blame.
Yes, anti-vaxxers are.
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
🍁4550 of them were unvaccinated or under-vaccinated
🍁16 cases were newborn babies congenitally infected
🍁2 people died
No, immigrants are not to blame.
Yes, anti-vaxxers are.
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...