Injured worker/health & safety activist, Still masking b/c Covid isn't over. Post as Peel Injured Workers on the other site.
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Happy Labour Day! Workers won us weekends, health care, pensions, and parental leave. Today, they’re still the answer to runaway inequality. In this oped, @clcpresident.bsky.social explains why worker power is the way to end this new Gilded Age. 👉 canadianlabour.ca/happy-labour...
The deadly toll on journalists in the Gaza war. The total number of journalists and media workers killed in this conflict since October 2023 is at least 189, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists www.theguardian.com/global-devel... @theguardian.com @pressfreedom.bsky.social #journalism
Starbucks’ CEO currently makes 6,666x what the median worker makes. There’s no better time than Workers’ Labor Day to stand with @sbworkersunited.org baristas as they fight corporate greed.
On June 21, 1919, the Royal North-West Mounted Police and hired union busters rode on horseback and fired into a crowd of thousands of workers, killing two and injuring countless others.
I wish people would stop blaming COVID mitigation policies for the acceleration of right wing extremism, and instead acknowledge the fact that we endured a mass casualty and mass disabling event that was mismanaged by narcissistic authoritarians who shifted the blame to marginalized communities
We march! From Nathan Phillips Square to the CNE, members take to the streets to Protect Canadian Jobs. #LabourDay #canlab
Neurovascular Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2: A Comprehensive Analysis of Blood-Brain Barrier Disruption, Microthrombosis, and Cognitive Impairment in Long COVID Study reveals how SARS-CoV-2 hijacks testicular lipid metabolism to replicate. Covid Could Be Quietly Aging Your Arteries by Five Years.
Happy Labor Day! Anybody see this in today's newspaper? ✊🔥 Sign our pledge to stand with over 12,000 union Starbucks workers and say No Contract, No Coffee! 👉 bit.ly/NoContractNoCoffee
Wages of unionized workers are 13% higher than their nonunion counterparts. But unions also set a higher pay standard that all workers enjoy. In high-union-density states, median household income is $12,000 higher than in low-union-density states. This is why unions are vital.
I didn’t really need more evidence that RFK Jr is nuts and delusional.
Weston Halsne knew immediately that something had hit him during the shocking mass shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis last week. https://cnn.it/47TJmLY
Because it does. It's sickening. I don't know how anyone can stand it.
If masking and/or talking about the realities of COVID irritates people in your circles, please hear this: you are not responsible for other people’s discomfort with reality.
Trump limits National Guard assignments to 29 days at a time to keep the called up service members from getting healthcare and housing benefits while on duty. And the NG troops are catching on. Stereotypical Trump. Don't give those losers and suckers an extra dime. www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
You guys elected Trump, that's self inflicted.
When you witness harassment in public, do you tend to freeze? Are you worried you're going to make it worse? Are you scared you'll be targeted? Do you tend to overreact and unintentionally escalate things? You're not alone. Let me teach you how to intervene effectively! zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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From the man himself, what the deletion of @joho.bsky.social’s channel at the hands of YouTube via Vinay Prasad means. sciencebasedmedicine.org/vinayprasadl...
Once teeming and crowded with residential buildings, Gaza City is home to one million now facing forcible displacement.
Maybe because it’s not actually “post-covid”, given covid continues to circulate and many places are experience surges at the moment. No matter how much we *want* it to be over, wishing something doesn’t make it so. But actual layers of protections could make it so… www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
UNRWA warns there is no space for Palestinians forcibly fleeing Gaza City, as Israeli attacks attempt to forcibly displace nearly a million people to so-called evacuation zones in southern Gaza. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/siqj7j
I live in Brampton and our mayor, Patrick Brown uses his wife & kids as props. He sends out a newsletter & the majority of the photos include his kids. No one else does that. It is so off-putting. I recall 1 of the women who accused him said he told her he needed a family for his political image.
The ‘self-inflicted injury’ to U.S. tourism that’s making some Americans angry and disappointed Hey, Europe, check out Canada! 😋
In some companies you need to bank sick days when you only get a limited number of days in case you get really sick (think cancer or a bad car accident) and don't have access to short term disability.
Post-COVID? This article must be from the future. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
This is not a mystery. The Pandemic™️ was indeed ~a pandemic~ therefore, people not being congregated in offices are less likely to get sick. Additionally, if you're already working from home, working while sick is easier (& safer for others!) So, OF COURSE sick days will increase with RTO!
Embracing Public Health's favorite "if you don't count it didn't happen" strategy for covering up negligence. Turns out that putting the ones who screwed up and killed and disabled an enormous number of people in charge of counting the bodies is...not a great way to get good data. Who knew? 🤷
I used to buy POM & didn't know that. Thanks for the heads up.
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
He’s providing them with valuable mulching experience though.
That could apply to any group of people. We aren't defined by one thing.
I had a coworker in the '90s always talk about WASPs like us. I never corrected him, I'm Catholic. When he found out I was Catholic, he stopped talking to me. I was shocked. We were both in our 20's. I had never experienced that before or since. He was, or I thought, a smart, educated guy.
It started w/the Irish Catholics which is why we have a separate school system, but then later other predominantly Catholic people like Italians, Portuguese etc came along & were also hated. They were also considered non white.
There was a strong hatred of Catholics in parts of Canada like Toronto which was a very Orange city. Being Catholic was a bar to getting elected municipaly & getting jobs. My dad came to Canada in the '50s & said there were signs in Toronto "Catholics need not apply" when he was looking for work.
Let me interrupt your expertise with my confidence
BREAKING: At least 63 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, including 32 aid seekers, medical sources told Al Jazeera. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ukxcfz
When I asked my gastroenterologist about the risks of using PPIs, he told me there were no risks, that they were completely safe to use long term otherwise they wouldn't be on the market. He completely dismissed the legitimate concerns I raised that were confirmed by the info sheet in the pkg.
Heartburn relief ≠ risk-free. Long-term PPIs(Prilosec, Prevacid, Protonix, Nexium) tied to kidney disease, fractures, infections, nutrient loss… and cancers (gastric, liver, pancreatic, colorectal). And 25–70% of prescriptions may not be truly needed… #BlueSky #MedSky #SciSky #NewsSky #GISky #EMSky
Great work, everyone. A+ 😡
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More than one in ten deaths in some regions of Quebec… due to MAID - correction.
A lead CDC official who resigned said Kennedy’s team asked him to “change studies that have been settled in the past” to fit anti-vax views. That’s not public health leadership—it’s malpractice. 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o... #BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky #SciSky #NurseSky
Not lies, alternative facts. Get with the program. They normalized this during his 1st term. The truth no longer matters. Both sides and all that crap, though it seems now we just get one side and it's the wrong side.
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I wrote about Toronto’s bubble zone bylaw for @canadiandimension.bsky.social TL;DR: it’s bad, but probably not (just) for the reasons you think it is
ICE detain man who is legally in U.S.—son of a decorated military veteran. "As a granddaughter of a Master Sergeant veteran," she said. "I never believed my home would be at risk in the country my family fought for." He is living in U.S. legally—and has never commit a crime. Dallas, Texas.
I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Imagine, normalizing violence in America
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If you live in a fire state, which is now pretty much every state, you know how apoplectically enraging this is www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6sfUYwy/
Alicia Little was killed by her partner in 2017. Her killer was released from jail after two years and eight months.
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s assault may have dealt lasting damage to the CDC, experts fear, with harsh consequences for public health. (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/h...
Thank you, Trump voters.
On Aug. 29, 1907, the under construction Quebec Bridge suddenly collapsed into the St. Lawrence River. Of the 86 workers on the bridge, 75 were killed and the rest were injured. This is the story of that terrible disaster. 🧵 1/14
Banning books is ridiculous, dangerous & mean. This is who the UCP are. Let’s be clear: this isn’t about ‘explicit content.’ It’s about erasing queer, feminist & anti-racist voices from our schools. “Don't let the Bastards grind you down.” - @margaretatwood.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
People with stronger malevolent traits may be more comfortable with aggression, dominance, or cruelty and less likely to value fairness or kindness. These tendencies are associated with lower levels of empathy and higher levels of dissonant empathy (enjoyment of others’ pain).
You're lucky. My dentist yelled at me, threw a hissy fit & stormed out of the room refusing to treat me when I asked him to wear an N95. He wore 1 the wk before. Filed formal complaint but he lied said I yelled at him (I asked politely) & complaint was dismissed. Destroyed my faith in the profession
Remember these children who are starving. www.ap.org/news-highlig...
Bizarre step by the Trump regime. The UN needs to move its HQ out of the US. www.ctvnews.ca/world/israel...
Strong statement from the BC Labour Relations Broad. They say Amazon attempted to "frustrate or defeat the [BC Labour Relations] Code" when Amazon engaged in egregious unfair labour practices that undermined a @unifor.org organizing campaign at a Delta warehouse. #canlab
As you get ready for Labor Day weekend, remember to thank a union.
Well I hope no one is having penetrative sex or any sex in school libraries.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday that he would not issue visas to Palestinian officials to prevent them from attending the annual UN General Assembly in New York next month.
A dramatic, extremely worrying moment; over 61,000 people held in ICE detention. That is the highest number ever on record in United States history; roughly 6,000 higher than the previous record set under Trump six years ago, and over 21,000 higher than when Trump took office just seven months ago.
The Republicans still don’t get it 😂😂😂
Think Trump and MAGA can’t happen in Canada? “The Handmaid's Tale among more than 200 books to be pulled at Edmonton public schools.” It can happen here too if we don’t stop it. Some of it already is.
There is going to be a RFK death toll, but it's going to be difficult to calculate because the people responsible for keeping tabs on those sorts of things are in the CDC.
Internal comms from BC Nurses Union: Nurses could vote to strike if BC pushes limits on benefits, esp. massage and physio. All health workers are bargaining rn, pushing for better wages/benefits to retain employees amid staff shortages: My first @pressprogress.ca: pressprogress.ca/bc-nurses-un...
100% agreed. Work should not hurt.
I don't like the "Take off your masks" message as Covid is still an issue. I think "what are you hiding from?" would be more appropriate because these are disguises and not PPE. There are still many vulnerable people who have to fight to wear masks in public due to anti-mask laws targeting them.
"[RFK Jr.] wondered whether COVID might have been 'ethnically targeted' so as to 'attack Caucasians and black people' while going easy on 'Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.'"
You can't believe a word Tesla says. Doubly true for Elon. The only safe thing to assume is that both are lying. #teslatakedown #MuskMustFall
The maddening thing is that we know EXACTLY how to prevent this. Yes, kids should get vaccinated, test, stay home when sick, mask as much as possible. But even without any of that: Better ventilation and filtration in schools can MASSIVELY reduce viral spread, for all sorts of respiratory diseases.
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If people understood the information in this article, they'd never eat raw oysters again. Ever.
New, from me: The CDC shitshow is a microcosm of the mismanagement of the Trump era. It also demonstrates some extraordinary courage among principled public servants, who were willing to lose their jobs to draw attention to damage being done to public health donmoynihan.substack.com/p/your-gover...
NEW: CNN's now publicly released video analysis shows Israel's 'double-tap' attack on Nasser Hospital was, in fact, actually a triple-tap. They bombed the hospital, and then fired upon the rescue team and journalists with not one but two more shells.
Even mild Covid may leave blood vessels five years older (August, 2025) www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... This seems to confirm a 2020 column in Scientific American: COVID-19 Can Wreck Your Heart, Even if You Haven’t Had Any Symptoms (August, 2020) www.scientificamerican.com/article/covi...
Let’s show up for Canada’s public services. Join us at foryoucanada.ca and pledge your support!
Meteorologists now face a Trump ‘loyalty test’ when applying to National Weather Service jobs www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
IIRC there were big cuts to public health in ON prior to 2020 which resulted in many people leaving which may have paved the way for the 2020 failures. Of course it might go back to 2003 and not learning from Sars1.
I’ve got news for you. The foundations of public health cracked in 2020 when they mostly flubbed completely the response to sars2. Using ascientific approaches and telling outright untruths (sterilizing vaccine anyone), plus the ‘unsure if masks work’ bs. That completely undercut PH credibility.
This week, CFNU President Linda Silas spoke on CBC Radio stations across the country about the difficult day-to-day realities for nurses and what nurses say they need to stay in the profession long-term. Safety and respect are at the top of the list, as CFNU’s new report Today’s Nurse found. (1/2)
I have never seen so many public servants protest the mismanagement of a government. Trumpists will point to this as proof of the deep state, but the reality is that these are professionals who are desperately trying to get the public to understand how bad things are.
The State Department is making a self-serving attempt to hide evidence that the government retaliated against Rümeysa Öztürk for exercising her right to free speech. While there are legitimate reasons to shield personal information from public disclosure, this is not one of them.
Ashley Babbit dishonored her service by committing insurrection against her country. While her death is absolutely tragic and I wish it hadn’t happened, the Air Force giving her honors is in itself a dishonor.
They are arresting fire fighters while they are fighting a fire. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
António Guterres: "Famine is no longer a looming possibility, its a present day catastrophe.. and the systems that sustain life.. have been systematically dismantled. These are the facts on the ground, & they are the result of deliberate decisions that defy basic humanity"
Five years later There is ZERO back-to-school guidance From Canada's Hospital for Sick Children On airborne transmission On masks & respirators On the high risk of kids contracting Covid & Long Covid And what that can mean for kids long-term health 😠😠😠
Hospitals are creating more customers More community disease By denying airborne transmission By denying N95s By prioritizing smiles over masks 😢
I worked in food retail back when I was in university. It was a very hard job to get. It paid well above min wage, I had a dental plan as a part timer, got quarterly COLA payments & plenty of hrs if I wanted them. Now they pay min wage, no benefits & if you're lucky you get 1 or 2, 4 hr shifts/wk.
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Just another day in the GTA
New, from me: America is no longer a functioning democracy. It is a competitive authoritarian system, hurtling rapidly toward authoritarianism. This was a hard piece to write but we can't move forward if we don’t acknowledge where we are. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...
I have 2 siblings w/heart issues now but they don't see the link to Covid. Dad died after a stroke, they blamed it on age not Covid. Sibling ended up hospitalized w/stroke like symptoms & prolonged severe balance issues. Dr said it was from the "bad cold" she had the wk before. No mention of Covid
If you can't test, then no one has Covid. People are dropping like flies but they don't see the link. I have too many of these people in my life so I know how they think. We should be blaming public health leaders, govt etc who failed us, not each other. Note I still mask & take precautions.