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Jonathan Harris

@jonathanbharris.bsky.social
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Public servant, health policy aficionado, lover of yeasted doughs and the Toronto Blue Jays

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Jocelyn Downie @jgdownie.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Appreciate the fact check www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/national/fac...
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Fact File: Headlines falsely claim woman approved for MAID because she couldn't cook
This week, media headlines and social media posts claimed a Canadian woman was approved for medical assistance in dying because she lost her ability to cook. The claim stems from
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Credit to the US for making the point the conference was trying to make about US foreign interference in European democracies for them, and bringing more attention to the conference and its themes than they could have possibly hoped for. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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EU, Canada and Lithuania pull out of disinformation conference after US pressure
The Trump administration was bothered by panels that referred to the U.S. as a disinformation threat.
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Jonathan Harris @jonathanbharris.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I genuinely think I am a better person because my 3rd year CanLit prof put Autobiography of Red on her syllabus.
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Jonathan Harris @jonathanbharris.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
1) the best album for 16-year-olds ever made 2) God, I'm sooooooo old
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Roger Senserrich @4freedoms.es · 21/09/2026
He totally did the meme before the meme existed.
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Karl Schamotta @karl-schamotta.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Trump attempting to shift US imports from Canada to a Russian client state. If there was any doubt before, the argument that the administration is acting in the interests of national security now lies in smoking ruins.
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Jim Stanford @jimbostanford.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Thanks & congrats to United Way Centraide Canada for this timely new report on the workforce challenges in Canada's care economy: www.unitedway.ca/wp-content/u.... Confirms what a vital source of value-added & expertise this workforce is, and why we must invest more in skills & job quality. #canlab
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Jonathan Harris @jonathanbharris.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Good God, Lemon!
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
My only comment about Woke 1 vs Woke 2 is that neither of these things is real &, for the thousandth time, we don’t have to frame <every topic in American politics> on the terms of the far right authoritarian party & right-wing pundits. Other, more serious choices are readily available:
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Drowning in slop www.economist.com/britain/2026...
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Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
on Sophie Cunningham and a trans controversy that doesn't involve any actual trans people: defector.com/the-right-ha...
This rhetoric is ideal for listeners who believe trans women are an issue that they're supposed to care about, but don't actually have any real-world experience with them. The hypothetical trans girl who's supposedly causing all this trouble in the WNBA is the perfect tool for the conservative movement. She can't fight back, she can't disprove anyone's assumptions, and she can't garner sympathy when she's the target of hate. The perfect trans girl is the one who only exists in the imagination of the loudest cis people. Her monstrousness, the need to "protect young girls in a locker room" from her, gives them permission to enact policies that in reality only harm the anonymous girls, cis and trans, who want to play sports without the invasive scrutiny of gender-obsessed adults.
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
this is just extremely plainly cartel behavior
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George @georgem.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
having achieved all the actual sporting accomplishments lebron has moved on to abstract and challenging ones like "make philadelphians like you"
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Benny Drawbars @bennydrawbars.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
So this is from a few weeks ago but it's been a busy summer and I haven't gotten around to much internet-ing. Anyway, shout out to @nikostratis.com whose phenomenal work I've been really enjoying this summer and who reminded me of the formative role Yankee Hotel Foxtrot had in my life
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Shannon Proudfoot @sproudfoot.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
It's genuinely unclear to me why the premiers could consider rolling this back. It's clearly vexing to the Americans - which means it's effective - and no concession gets you anything but less dignity, until the next time the wind blows the wrong way and Trump gets big mad again.
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Barry Petchesky @barryp.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Impressive how the weeks and months and years keep passing and there remains no compelling reason for me to use generative AI for anything.
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Scotty Cameron @cdnecon.ca · 14/07/2026
I feel like we’ve memory-holed that immigration policy was a *response* to inflation. Central government’s only available lever was labour supply. The people demanded action on the price of their morning coffee so we imported a massive underclass to pour it.
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Jonathan Harris @jonathanbharris.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
we are living in halcyon days for people writing extremely dumb and ill-informed things about the Canadian health system
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
New w @pamherd.bsky.social: Mamdani just announced PIT Crew — an NYC tech unit that will build digital public products. Takeaway: Mamdani is reclaiming a vision of tech in govt for progressives, one not driven by consultants and which solves real problems. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/mamdani-in...
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Mamdani invests in tech capacity to “solve real problems”
What PIT Crew says about how he is governing, and tech in government
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Jonathan Harris @jonathanbharris.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
my fav batting stance of all time
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I’m not sure exactly when it happened but at some point political reporting ceased to be about covering politicians and their ideas and turned into a sort of daily horoscope on what ‘the markets’ think about absolutely every single political decision
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts
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Don “Dr Mabuse” Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
“Apparently, companies are now looking at their #^AI bills and deciding that it may not be the smartest thing in the world to encourage employees to use AI as an end in itself.” open.substack.com/pub/deanbake...
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Does U.S. AI Depend on Big Companies Throwing Money in the Toilet? The Chinese Competition
The people who run major companies are often clueless
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Tom McIntosh @proftomuofr.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Further, simple comparisons that say "it works in Germany, so it will work here" are problematic. Less than 15% of German health spending is private. In Canada it is already 30% & Goldman would increase it. I, too, favour "an adult conversation", but let's start with ALL the relevant data. 2/2
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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/06/2026
OG Anunoby Sends Parade Crowd Into Frenzy With Celebratory Nod
OG Anunoby Sends Parade Crowd Into Frenzy With Celebratory Nod
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Jonathan Harris @jonathanbharris.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
This is, without a doubt, the most offensive thing that has ever been included in a Parliamentary committee report. Shameful.
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Shannon Proudfoot @sproudfoot.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The thread this is from will make your heart turn black from enraged despair, but this policy is a thing of beauty. I'm not sure I've ever seen someone so eloquently express what I love about writing, too. Keep up the good fight.
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Jonathan Harris @jonathanbharris.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
cool to pretend this is going to be a thoughtful piece when it platforms the main voice spreading disinfo about harm reduction in this country
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Jonathan Harris @jonathanbharris.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
oh damn, you mean the ingredients listed on the bag are actually in there?
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Dylan, on life in your 80’s, is incredible. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...
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DougExeter @dougexeter.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
oh i get it now. its soccers answer to the world baseball classic
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 10/06/2026
the cars don't drive themselves and we're still nowhere near Mars, but you can't question Elon Musk's ability to deliver screwworms and racial violence
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Jonathan Harris @jonathanbharris.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
extremely 30 Rock-coded
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one dozen bats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Knicks fans, it’s hard to process a playoff loss after a long win streak, but take a deep breath this morning and repeat to yourself: - That WAS the series turning point - The Spurs WILL win three of the next four - The League DOES want Wemby as their new face - You CAN’T stop it
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Meet the Dementia Rebels: Few things are more feared than a dementia diagnosis. Now people living with the condition are fighting against damaging stereotypes and demanding proper medical support, by Anne Karpf www.theguardian.com/society/2026... via @theguardian.com
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‘You’re treated like this is the end’: Meet the dementia rebels – diagnosed and determined to change people’s minds
Few things are more feared than a dementia diagnosis. Now people living with the condition are fighting against damaging stereotypes and demanding proper medical support
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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
One of my crank opinions is that governments should own and operate manufacturing lines for open source hardware that's DIY repairable by design.
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ceej @ceej.online · 04/06/2026
(in the seventh month of defending a candidate who has slowly revealed himself to be a werewolf) so actually I think most guys get worse under the full moon
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Alopex Fox @alopexfox.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I want a T-shirt that says: "Billionaires think you are being selfish."
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hclark @hclark.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Why is health care -- health data -- so central to the new federal #AI strategy? @annfitzgerald.bsky.social from the @balsillieschool.bsky.social gave us some fascinating perspective on TVO Today Live this season: youtu.be/KLxJf1QbBQQ?... #cdnpoli
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Can Canada Regain Its Digital Sovereignty? | TVO Today Live
YouTube video by TVO Today
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Jonathan Harris @jonathanbharris.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
they're calling it the Saskatchewan Growth Plan 2.0
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Jonathan Harris @jonathanbharris.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
now do "Bing Bong"
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
This executive branch aggrandizement of power has gone too far
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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Kind of an accidental, explicit acknowledgement that the people who said carbon capture was going to only ever be a bait-and-switch were... entirely correct.
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
“I worry that my research — which is not to replace doctors, not to get people to stop seeing their doctors and talk to their chatbots... — is going to get used by companies that are heavily financed and are looking to skip some of these essential safe pieces..." www.statnews.com/2026/04/30/o...
statnews.com
As artificial intelligence shows off diagnostic chops, scientists reckon with the way forward
On Thursday, researchers published in Science the results of a study that tested an OpenAI model on diagnostic and clinical reasoning tasks.
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Natalie Brender @nataliebrender.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Terrific short piece by @paulcairney.bsky.social that's equally applicable to Canada's federal govt. Important for advocates (in public health and otherwise) to get past the 'speaking truth to power' understanding of advocacy that buys into this mistaken view of how policymaking works.
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Policymaking doesn’t work the way Westminster thinks | LSE British Politics
There is a prevailing story in Westminster about how policymaking works. That story is a myth, but it still matters.
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Paul Cairney @paulcairney.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Prevention is back on the agenda. Why it is so difficult to progress (England) doi.org/10.1016/j.so... Why policy is not so preventive (UK and devolved government) paulcairney.wordpress.com/wp-content/u... Prevention as a buzzword: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Redirecting
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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 28/04/2026
Put Jeff Rosenstock on the list of great American Songwriters you cowards
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Kevin Milligan @kevinmilligan.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Hmm. Up front concessions / 'entry fee' before starting talks? Let me remind the capitulationists: 1--you don't make concessions to an unreliable counterparty. 2--I am the wallet inspector; please make donation via DM 3--I would enjoy playing poker with you. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Washington demanding 'entry fee' from Ottawa before trade talks: sources | CBC News
The Trump administration is demanding what amounts to an "entry fee" from Canada to engage in trade talks toward a revised Canada-United States-Mexico Free Trade Agreement (CUSMA), four sources told R...
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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Markets ping-ponging between bottom left and top right corner every time someone schedules or cancels a meeting about Iran
A graphic labeled The Mood Meter with axes labeled Low Energy to High Energy and Unpleasant to Pleasant. The Low Energy/Unpleasant corner is labeled “Mom would be sad” and the High Energy/Pleasant corner is labeled “Let’s fucking goooo”
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