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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
The Ford government's dismantling of Ontario's $15 million wastewater monitoring program was always about politics and not public health.
Hardcastle said that kind of surveillance was done during the COVID-19 pandemic and stepping it up could be beneficial not only for infectious disease monitoring, but for public health in general. 

That would give policymakers an early alert of problems, she said, "rather than waiting for things to really snowball."
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
British Reaction To The Story Of Terry Fox #Canada #TerryFox To most Canadians he is the definition of a selfless hero. youtu.be/oFERTSUISKY?...
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British Reaction To The Story Of TERRY FOX
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Brandy with a why? 🍁 @brandywithawhy.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Here is another article about Jack and Lily. With new pictures. Please share widely, they are missing in Pictou County, NS. missingpeople.ca/we-just-want...
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‘We just want them home’: Mother of missing children in Nova Scotia’s Pictou County pleads for safe return - - Missing People Canada
The mother of two missing children in Nova Scotia’s Pictou County is pleading for their safe return. Six-year-old Lily Sullivan and four-year-old Jack Sullivan were last seen on Gairloch Road in Lansd...
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
“…this morning, from a war zone half a world away, I was reading about your election. And for the first time in days, I exhaled. A small, almost invisible breath. Relief. And then came gratitude… You didn’t just choose kindness or experience… You chose not to flirt with fascism.” From Ukraine.
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The Nation That Trump Could Never Break
Canada didn’t just resist, they reminded the rest of us how to endure
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
6/ I'm dismayed at the election of CPC candidates with extreme anti-science views, including those I mentioned before: Leslyn Lewis, Dean Allison, Roman Baber, and Matt Strauss in Ontario. They're a sign that Canada is ripe for the anti-science destructive populists we see in the US.
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David Hamer @davidhamer1951.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
CBC News projects 4th term 🇨🇦Liberal government! Wait to see if we get a majority! 🍁🍁🍁
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Tara Moriarty @moriartylab.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Canadian COVID Forecast Apr 12-25, 2025 CANADA VERY HIGH (no change) About 1 in every 151 people infected Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada: -Infections ~9X higher -Long COVID ~9X higher -Hospitalizations ~13X higher -Deaths ~12X higher
This image describes the Canadian COVID Forecast for the seven day period between Apr 12-25, 2025, which is produced by COVID-19 Resources Canada. Canada’s COVID Forecast outlook is VERY HIGH (no change) with a COVID INDEX SCORE of 11.0
About 1 of every 151 people is infected.
Estimated infections this week: 229,925-319,075
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; 8.5X higher
Long COVID estimate: HIGH; 8.8X higher
Hospitalizations, ICU: VERY HIGH; 13.1X higher
Deaths: VERY HIGH; 11.5X higher
HOW TO HELP:
EVERYONE:
UPDATE vaccines every 6 months
WEAR N95-type masks
AVOID indoor social gatherings
AVOID crowded non-essential places

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
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Doug Ford's Therme boondoggle at Ontario Place has always looked sketchy, now it smells even worse. Conservatives and Corruption both start with the letter C, especially in Ontario.
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
"in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, its authors describe how a positive test for COVID-19 is associated with increased rates of diagnosis of various non–SARS-CoV-2 infections in the 12 months following an acute SARS-CoV-2 infection" www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cov...
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COVID-19 may put patients at risk for other infections for at least 1 year
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
This is just one example of the mounting anti-science wave taking place within Canadian conservative governments. Ontario disbanded the Science Table during the pandemic, closed the Science Centre, and in Alberta the govt published a widely mocked faux pandemic report rife with disinformation.
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
As I write this, the conservative government of Doug Ford is silent about the large measles outbreak, he gutted Public Health, and his CMOH is nothing but a muted political appointee who is not doing his fiduciary duty.
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
We know from testing obvious symptomatic measles cases that measles is spreading after the fact. Wastewater surveillance would have more properly identified infections much earlier, more completely, and better framed the scale of activity.
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Remember why you’re voting in this election. Canada does not want the continued dismantling of scientific progress as we see happening in the US. Be sure to vote. #canpoli #cdnpoli #canadastrong
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🇨🇦 Kari Raymer Bishop @kariraymerbishop.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Here in Ontario, Doug Ford gave us a handy map so we can always find the booze closest to us.
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Greg MacEachern @gregmaceachern.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Our CBC Power and Politics Friday panel takes stock of where the major parties are after week 3 of the campaign, and looks at what the path for a majority might look like: www.youtube.com/live/VGwblSU...
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Power & Politics | Carney leaving 'instructions' to prepare for Trump negotiations in May
YouTube video by CBC News
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Wow, you have to go to this page in MacLeans, all the articles about who stands to win, if the CPC won in Canada and it is not pretty, it's scary. Scroll down the page and read the headlines for all the articles. The people won't win, but wealthy would. macleans.ca/the-latest/
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The Latest - Macleans.ca
from Macleans.ca
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Karen Cook Fine Art Photography 🇨🇦🍁 @karencookphotos.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
On this date in 1980 Terry Fox began his #MarathonOfHope for #Cancer awareness. He never finished the race but the fight continues to this day #CancerAwareness fineartamerica.com/featured/ter... @terryfoxfoundation.bsky.social @terryfoxresearch.bsky.social @terryfoxaward.bsky.social
A bronze statue depicts Terry Fox running with a determined expression, prominently displayed on a concrete pedestal in an urban setting. Surrounding buildings and streetlights contribute to the cityscape backdrop of Ottawa Canada.
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This Hour Has 22 Minutes @22-minutes.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Delete, delete, delete… 📲 www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tjU...
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When U.S. Customs goes through your camera roll... | This Hour Has 22 Minutes
YouTube video by 22 Minutes
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
As I warned repeatedly last July, the foolhardy cancellation of the world class and inexpensive Ontario wastewater surveillance program was a mistake. I cautioned that we would be less prepared as new infectious disease risks rose during the winter. #measles #H5N1 www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
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Amid Canada's largest measles outbreak in more than a decade, experts say this COVID-era tool could help | CBC News
As Canada deals with its largest measles outbreak in more than a decade, health experts say a COVID-era tool could help tame the spread.
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Letter in response to my column: The federal election is a chance to reform health care, if we would be so bold. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/lett... www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
"We are witnessing the destruction of science in America."
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Measles is highly contagious, the best way to control the spread is to ensure that over 95% of the community is immunized against the virus. Failure to do so will lead to this sort of ongoing outbreak. 61 have been hospitalized, eventually the growing numbers will lead to a death, likely a child.
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Now 816 #measles cases in Ontario from outbreak, up 155 in week. "The sharp increase in the number of outbreak cases and the geographic spread in recent weeks is due to continued exposures and transmission among individuals who have not been immunized." www.publichealthontario.ca/-/media/Docu...
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Canadian (blue) and American (red) major stock indexes over the past three months. Canada is down -6.4%, the US is down -9.84%. Trump announced 25% #tariffs on Canada on March 4th, that's when the divergence began. #CanadaStrong
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
On the subject of Paul Chiang......
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Nosferatu @realnosferatu.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
More than anything THIS.
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David Fisman. @dfisman.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Public health needs to be independent. During COVID, I experienced firsthand how political pressure twisted science—and nearly destroyed reputations. A short thread on conflict-of-interest theatre, redacted emails, and lessons we still haven’t learned.
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Christine Cooper 🇨🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @coopspeak.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Didn’t take ‘em long. Cue cheap child labour.
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Christine Cooper 🇨🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @coopspeak.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
You just couldn’t say the word “airborne”.
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Christine Cooper 🇨🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @coopspeak.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
People will die. The babies will die. The children will die. They do this with intention. They know people will die and they’re going to do this anyway. What’s it going to take America?
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
"Mr. Arya took a trip to India last August and met Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The source said Mr. Arya had not informed the government of that trip even though bilateral relations are in a deep freeze over accusations that India carried out murder and other violent acts in Canada."
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
"The source said the Canadian Security Intelligence Service had briefed the government about Mr. Arya’s alleged close ties to the government of India, including its High Commission in Ottawa."
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Poilievre still refuses to get a security clearance so he can know which CPC MPs have ties to foreign governments. #canpoli "Ousted Liberal MP Chandra Arya barred from running under party’s banner over alleged ties to India" - Globe and Mail www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
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Ousted Liberal MP Chandra Arya barred from running under party’s banner over alleged ties to India
A source says foreign-interference concerns caused the party to revoke his leadership and nomination bids, but the expelled MP says it was because he opposed Sikh separatism
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Heavily mutated covid variant detected in Canada, likely related to a chronic infection. As @kgandersen.bsky.social explains, such variants, such as the recent one in South Africa, may not be fit enough to outcompete other variants. But eventually we may see one spawn a new wave later this year.
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Should not be lost on anyone that the Oil Sands is majority owned by American shareholders and the transfer of resources to the US is essentially a US-to-US activity. Most of the profits go to the US, some also to China. The Alberta political landscape is influenced by these foreign interests.
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
In a world needing limited resources, I believe Canada has to look after its own interests. That should include national investment in strategic resources. Norway made such a decision in 1972 regarding oil and is one of the richest countries in the world. www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-bu...
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What Norway did with its oil and we didn’t
How a country with an economic base much like Canada’s leverages its natural resources to diversify its economy
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Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
White House officials announce today the US government will no longer use the Signal app to share military intelligence among its leadership and will instead use Facebook Marketplace.
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Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
If I am informed about things then I will not be able to speak about those things in an uninformed manner so I must continue to be uninformed in order to keep Canadians informed about the things no one is telling me. This is just Conservative common sense.
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Mike Vlasic @mikevlasic.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Unfortunately, she's so much on their side, not ours...
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Mike Vlasic @mikevlasic.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Politicians are like sleazy salesmen trying to sell you something. Once you buy their product, the warranty is up and they ignore your complaints. Then you get buyer's remorse and feel cheated.
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Mike Vlasic @mikevlasic.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
In another fail by federal & provincial Public Health, they are not using wastewater testing for detecting measles. www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
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Amid Canada's largest measles outbreak in more than a decade, experts say this COVID-era tool could help | CBC News
As Canada deals with its largest measles outbreak in more than a decade, health experts say a COVID-era tool could help tame the spread.
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David Hamer @davidhamer1951.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Piffleswipe Pierre Poilievre is lying about his 10 year old security clearance as a Harper Cabinet member. It’s stale-dated and lapsed. If he actually wants to stop foreign interference via his already compromised party, he needs a new one. Now. #ElbowsUp🇨🇦 🍁🍁🍁
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The Chronicle Herald @thechronicleherald.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
‘Canada or America?’ Touring folk duo Cassie and Maggie questioned by state troopers www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...
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‘Canada or America?’ Touring folk duo Cassie and Maggie questioned by state troopers
It was after the state troopers who had pulled them over receded from view that Cassie said, “Well that was wild. He asked me ‘which do I prefer, Canada or America?’”
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Denise Dewald, MD @denisedewald.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
So many people are failing to meet the moment. The American news media are sanewashing Donald Trump’s imperialist threats and ongoing illegal actions. They should be stating unequivocally that his plans are a breach of international law and condemning them. I understand now how Hitler came to power
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David Fisman. @dfisman.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
As always, Chris Holcroft is on-point. Canada is in the fight of, and for, its life. thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
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Canada Is in a Fight for Its Life | The Tyee
Trump attacks from outside and the right undermines from within. Here’s what’s needed.
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Brittlestar @brittlestar.com · 12/03/2025
KRAZY KARL'S KARS WHITE HOUSE CAR LOT
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
OK, this is almost funny
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Oh Canada! The Current's Travel Bucket List What’s your favourite vacation spot in Canada? The Current wants to know www.cbc.ca/radio/thecur...
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Oh Canada! The Current's Travel Bucket List | CBC Radio
The Current is building a bucket list of the best travel destinations in Canada, made from your suggestions.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Following the Butter Tart Trail #Canada www.readersdigest.ca/travel/canad...
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Following the Butter Tart Trail
There's more than one Butter Tart Trail in Ontario, so fans of ooey, gooey goodness are in for a treat. Here's what you'll find en route.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Is that grocery product really Canadian? Or is it 'maple-washing'? #MapleWashing #Canada #NovaScotia Tagging shelves with maple leaf 'might in some cases be an oversimplification,' says professor www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Is that grocery product really Canadian? Or is it 'maple-washing'? | CBC News
Grocery store shelves are full of maple leaf stickers and shelf talkers indicating products are, in some way, Canadian. But they don't always tell the whole story.
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