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Deaths associated with wildfire smoke up about 275% in Canada, Kiera Osborne reports. Read more at canadahealthwatch.ca #CdnHealth #WildFires

Please read this. For anyone who remembers, we were also promised an "iron ring"

Truly shocking case of car brain at Durham Regional Police on display regarding the horrific case of a motorist and her vehicle striking a daycare teacher and five young children in Oshawa on Wednesday. www.cp24.com/local/durham...

A scandal built on their many scandals. After the election there needs to be a reckoning. The left is in disgrace for letting this go. The right too but one doesn’t expect much on crime from that side.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Love these articles, on the same day our province is spending millions to destroy/ rip out vital infrastructure that fall under municipal jurisdiction. We never ask where the money is for those projects. Helping kids get a solid meal though.

Very good opinion piece on why Canada needs a Royal Inquiry on our country’s poor response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It is shocking that there has been no Royal Inquiry given the devastation caused and continuing due to COVID-19 in Canada. @mark-carney.bsky.social are you listening?

As a Teacher-Librarian, as a voracious reader all my life, as a Canadian, I’ve been shocked by what is happening in Alberta libraries. This Canadian Federation of Library Associations press release sums it all up…

Let's get the timeline clear here: 1. Career Colleges Ontario warns the Ford government about suspicious OSAP activity in January 2023. Ford lets private career colleges abuse the system for years.

Exactly, the threat isn't AI superintelligence, it's human abdication of our own intelligence in favor of the fantasies of rich tech bros. Anyway we should really just not have this stuff. On top of all the other issues, there's no future where people are wise enough to mitigate these situations.

Prenez quelques minutes pour vous exprimer 👉 https://ipfpc.ca/fr/envoyez-un-courriel-a-votre-depute%c2%b7e-exprimez-vous-sur-le-projet-de-loi-c-39/

It just takes a few minutes to make your voice heard 👉https://pipsc.ca/email-your-mp-speak-up-about-bill-c-39/

Well, this is ...something: universityaffairs.ca/news/remove-... I am tired. So very tired. This is really hard work. #AcademicSky 🧪

Today’s legislation was very carefully worded so that virtually any labour dispute could qualify if employers asked for it to - and instead of guardrails, gives the Minister broad powers to intervene. www.thestar.com/business/uni...

The way the app works is this: -Supporters sign up and download the app -Soon, they begin receiving notifications, known in the app as "Digital Fighters Tasks" -The app auto-generates text for the supporter to post, and offers a reward in exchange for copying it on to social media

This "significant labour legislation" could very likely end the right to strike for thousands of workers through expanding whose work is "essential," lengthening bargaining timelines or introducing US style laws. pressprogress.ca/mark-carneys...

Straight from OpenAI's Brockman and Microsoft's Nadella - 'doom loop' for the entire web [as they vacuum up and substitute the work of journalism and threaten their economic foundations]. /2

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

They killed the building, and now they are killing the institution. Senseless. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

No shit! Exports are a fraction of our GDP, exports to US are a fraction of that, the tariffs apply only to a fraction of that, and only end up 'blocking' a small fraction of THAT. Our provinces have unilaterally done more damage to the university sector than Trump is doing to the Canadian economy.

Enraging. We've got a premier doing Trump's work for him, dismantling all the best things about Ontario.

My latest! In this moment of potential massive change, liberals have made sure that no one will be given any room to talk about how we need to break with the logic that lead us here. Instead, they want us to do things as we have, but harder. noraloreto.substack.com/p/the-libera...

New from me: Canadian doctors are rushing to adopt AI medical scribes, but there are serious problems with accuracy, bias, transcription error, & reliance on industry data. Many scribes aren't regulated, leaving doctors to figure out risks like privacy & bias. www.cigionline.org/articles/can...

#Toronto - you can request to vote by mail for the upcoming Oct 26 municipal election here: myvote.toronto.ca/home (up until Thu Sep 24 @ 4:30pm) Other key dates: www.toronto.ca/city-governm... Valid ID: www.toronto.ca/city-governm...

After Ontario replaced the Endangered Species Act, ministry biologists were told they couldn't review developers' plans. We found that over 12 have since left, feeling their jobs "stopped feeling meaningful." Here's our latest investigation: thenarwhal.ca/bill-5-endan... #onpoli

Heartbreaking. Enraging. There was a speed camera on this Toronto street until Doug Ford's government took it away. A boy was struck by a car and suffered devastating injuries. Now the family is suing the province.

Your vote in this Toronto election matters. But with so many local decisions undone by Doug Ford, @alisonmotluk.bsky.social writes, it doesn’t matter as much as it should. thelocal.to/toronto-city...

💕 "Under the plan, the Nation says Canadian-trained clinicians will be welcomed to provide gender-affirming care, along with primary and specialist care, on reserve lands. Saddle Lake Cree Nation also says it intends to exempt those clinicians from sanctions imposed.." substack.com/home/post/p-...

NEW: The San Francisco City Attorney has hit Meta with a cease-and-desist telling it to stop publishing ads with AI-generated child sexual abuse. The letter asks Meta why the same ads keep running. Meta says the ads didn’t run in San Francisco and they are outside the city attorney's jurisdiction

Vaccine shortages and bad procurement last year have led to the world's largest outbreak of measles in Bangladesh. Nearly 200,000 cases, and over 1,000 children dead A recent vaccination drive missed 4 million children so didn't achieve herd immunity www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/...

Freedom of information? We filed an FOI for refused FOIs to find out what Ontario's government doesn't want you to know. ijb.utoronto.ca/news/freedom...

It seems a bit odd to me to be advocating for banning e-scooters on our streets but also to have pushed against speed cameras operating 24/7 in school zones. www.therecord.com/opinion/colu...

Familiarity may not always breed contempt, but it can result in something just as destructive: indifference. Lake Ontario helps fuel Canada’s economy, but as professor Daniel Macfarlane notes, our utilitarian view of it has obscured our duty to protect it. https://ow.ly/S9Yj50ZI88B

And finally Ford’s government announced new procurement to build Highway 413, which will only increase congestion in the Toronto area.

Second, Ford’s government has put out an RFP for companies to rip out three major bike lanes: Bloor, Yonge, University, and Queen’s Park, Queen’s Park Crescent, and Avenue Road. Bike lanes move far more people than car lanes do. ->

Yesterday Doug Ford did three things that will make congestion around Toronto much, much worse. First, Ford has made made massive cuts to GO Train service on the Lakeshore West, Lakeshore East, Barrie and Stouffville lines. In some cases, GO Train frequency will drop from 15 trains a day to 4 ->

Our taxpayer dollars are being spent at an American company (in the middle of a trade war) that offers better deals to folks walking in off the street than to teachers ordering through the Ontario Ministry of Education portal. Make it make sense!!! #OntEd

The Fight For Safe Streets. Thank you to everyone who came out and everyone who shared footage of this incredible protest ride. @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social @cycletoronto.bsky.social @lanrickbennett.bsky.social

I really enjoyed yelling at how susceptible we all are to wanting to feel like someone is standing up for us, even when that person is defunding healthcare and education, centralizing power and undermining other governing bodies, failing to hit their own housing targets, and racking up scandals.

NEW: News media leaning into the trade war, and Ford's response, has papered over the fact that he's aligned with Trump's agenda on the domestic front. In fact, he and the PCs were embroiled in a scandal when the talks collapsed. Spying on Liberal leader Bonnie Crombie disappeared from the headlines

Play it again @jaycockburn.bsky.social 'Pedal politics: How Toronto’s bike lanes became so divisive' h/t @mbonsma.bsky.social @uoftcities.bsky.social @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/art...

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... ‘So, what would a public interest data centre policy framework require? Drawing on our research into the data centre boom and its impacts, we assess the Ontario draft against four basic thresholds.’ @policyalternatives.ca

The Ontario PC's replacement safety measure for speed cameras are clearly working 👌🏼 pedestrians are definitely safer now...thanks Dougie 🙄

*** Ontario Virus Update | Aug 11 *** Hospitalizations due to COVID have increased from 12 to 14 in the last update. Influenza hospitalizations increased from 4 to 5 and RSV decreased from 4 to 1. 🧵1/ #Ontario #Virus #COVID #Hospital #Wastewater

While age 80+ has the highest COVID cases rates per 100k population so far this year, infants <1 have the second highest rate, almost as high as age 80+ and almost 5x higher than the next closest rate age 60-79. 7/

In 2021, Premier Doug Ford was personally presented with 20 recommendations to improve emergency management in northern Ontario. The auditor general later offered another 30. Little progress was made before the deadliest wildfire season on record. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-igno...