Reposted by Lisa FastTim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 8hThis is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever 3498672583
Reposted by Lisa FastIceblueaccent @iceblueaccent.bsky.social · 4hAnyone still travelling to the USA for pleasure deserves the long hours in ICE interviews the USA is promising: www.thetravel.com/us-border-cz...thetravel.comU.S. Border Czar Plans Tougher Border Checks For Canadian TravelersHe said that with the southern border secure, the focus is shifting north. 093
Reposted by Lisa FastCiara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 5hI appreciate Sliwa getting vaccinated publicly. (I'm in Florida where our surgeon general is anti-vax). #getvaxxed #flu 311012
Reposted by Lisa FastAuschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 02/10/20262 October 1936 | Czech Jewish girl, Anita Brandeisová, was born in Prague. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 28 October 1944. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection. --- Gas chambers and crematoria of Auschwitz: youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck 26631188
Reposted by Lisa FastTyson Graber @rnaguru.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Ottawa WAVE (Wastewater Analytics for Viral Epidemiology) as of Sep 20. LEFT IMAGE: 7d trendline of SARS-CoV-2 signal since spring 2020 (A); Past year (B), and 2 months (C), inferred case incidence (D), and Reff (E) determined with ern (PMID: 38905266). RIGHT IMAGE: other viral traces 081
Reposted by Lisa FastMark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026A reminder that this was not a question of 20/20 hindsight, or a legitimate scientific dispute. The N95 respirators that likely would have saved these workers' lives were required under the national standard (CAN/CSA-Z94.4),... 16017
Reposted by Lisa FastAndrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Public payments to for-profit facilities have increased faster than public hospital funding Post-Bill 60, public payments to: for-profit surgical facilities increased at an average annual growth rate of 22.8% medical imaging facilities at 10.7% Public hospital funding only grew at 4.9% #onpoli 1136
Reposted by Lisa FastAxios @axios.com · 28/09/2026Dario Amodei went from a MAGA smear campaign target, to SNL punching bag, to a private dinner with Trump across 72 hours this weekend. Anthropic's quirky, intellectual CEO has become the frontman for a technology that’s changing the world by the day.axios.comAI's man of the momentAmodei has become the face of AI in America, like it or not. 52511
Reposted by Lisa FastEmmanuelle Chaze @emmanuellechaze.com · 28/09/2026My friend's office is next door, I wasn't sure where she was at the time. Just heard from her and thankfully she is unharmed. What is happening in Kyiv right now is truly horrific. Millions of people are at risk of dying at any time. I'm not quite sure this really comes across, abroad. 018693
Reposted by Lisa FastJeff Gilchrist @jeffgilchrist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026*** Ontario Virus Update | Sep 27 *** Hospitalizations due to COVID increased from 39 to 44 in the last update. Influenza hospitalizations increased from 31 to 34 and RSV jumped from 1 to 18. 🧵1/ #Ontario #Virus #COVID #Hospital #Wastewater 13323
Reposted by Lisa FastAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/09/2026Incredible: another Ukrainian famine is unfolding, this time in Russian-occupied Oleshky. The remaining inhabitants of what used to be a thriving small city, now down to about 6000 people, are blockaded by Russian forces and cut off from food and water. www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comOleshky: Eating garden weeds to survive in Russian-occupied city cut off from food and waterThe BBC has spoken to residents in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian town of Oleshky who say they are being "constantly shelled". 7518891170
Reposted by Lisa FastColin Furness MISt PhD MPH @furnesscolin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is what I do when COVID surges. I studiously avoid large indoor crowds, and I minimize dining out. I mask on public transit. I snort Viraleze 1-4 times a day - safe and effective. If I feel in any way dodgy, I gargle with mouthwash containing CPC (not for daily/chronic use). 2/4 3459
Reposted by Lisa FastMax Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Look how fast he folds. Look how strong our cards are. Maybe it's time we played them. #cdnpoli 58495127
Reposted by Lisa FastMax Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The shock doctrine is explicitly premised on governments causing the chaos/crisis in order to enact the changes they want. That obviously isn’t happening here. 2111
Reposted by Lisa FastGuardian US @us.theguardian.com · 21/09/2026The “jaw-dropping” El Niño currently heating up the planet has burst through the highest temperature ever recorded for the phenomenon, several months before its expected peak. 431657921
Reposted by Lisa FastMax Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 21/09/2026There is no rake these guys won't step on. 86800209
Reposted by Lisa FastJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 21/09/2026If anyone from @washingtonpost.com would like to explain or defend this terrible piece, I'm all ears, at JFallowsSubstack@gmail.com 716314
Reposted by Lisa FastAuschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 19/09/202619 September 1929 | A French Jewish boy, Georges Berger, was born in Saint-Ouen. He arrived at Auschwitz on 28 August 1942 in a transport of Jews deported from Drancy. After the selection he was murdered in a gas chamber. --- Development of mass murder at Auschwitz: youtu.be/tRwZ49q-9e0 11414109
Reposted by Lisa FastRyan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Child sex abuse material, some created by Grok, continues to spread on X. An incredibly disturbing read. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/t... 18500183
Reposted by Lisa FastKate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 11/09/2026The ebook of Mercutio is on sale in the US and Canada for $0.99, at all retailers, I think. Not sure how long that will be the case. It's a strange medieval prequel to Romeo & Juliet with bad fairies, Umberto Eco meets Susanna Clarke, going for a song at the moment www.kateheartfield.com/mercutio/kateheartfield.comMercutioComing soon from HarperVoyager UK. May 7, 2026: UK hardcover edition and ebook. Worldwide audiobook. August 18, 2026: Canada paperback, hardcover and ebook. June 2027: US paperback edition (this will ... 12216
Reposted by Lisa FastFlavio Volpe, C.M. @flaviovolpe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026We’ve been over this before: Every Global 7500 that Bombardier builds in 🇨🇦 has 2 GE engines built in Indiana, 🇺🇸. Every Challenger that Bombardier builds in 🇨🇦 has 2 Honeywell engines built in Arizona. 🇺🇸. Bombardier employs 3,000+ 🇺🇸s & has 2,800 🇺🇸 suppliers. Not so smart. 100792330
Reposted by Lisa FastWill Masters @willmasters.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Iodized salt is a great achievement, easily lost: Adoption in Ethiopia was paused in the late 1990s, permanently harming those born at that time especially in districts with low environmental iodine. Great work from @robel-alemu.bsky.social in @natfood.nature.com, from @tuftsnutrition.bsky.socialnature.comLoss of salt iodization harmed child survival and academic achievement in Ethiopia - Nature FoodThis study examines the effects of early-life iodine deficiency on health and educational outcomes following the war-induced disruption of Ethiopia’s salt iodization programme in the late 1990s. Using... 7431142
Reposted by Lisa FastJenny Lee Shee @jennyleeshee.bsky.social · 01/09/2026The Ontario govt took $60M out of public education and handed it to Staples. Tomorrow, 80K elementary teachers each get $750 of the misappropriated money to buy overpriced classroom supplies at an 🇺🇸 corporation. Please remember this the next time Captain Canada tells you to #BuyCanadian. #OntEd 16487272
Reposted by Lisa FastThe Ferrari Lab @theferrarilab.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I have quantified measles deaths globally on behalf of the WHO since 2012. We attribute any death within 4 weeks of a measles case to measles. Measles is immunosuppressive and the proximate cause is often a secondary infection that would otherwise not have led to death. 325496
Reposted by Lisa FastLakefrontDaisy1 🇨🇦❣️🇺🇦🍁 @lakefrontdaisy1.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Canada fuels American growth. Canada supplies 99% of natural gas imports, 85% of electricity imports and 60% of crude oil imports. I don't think they want us to stop sending any of that energy. -PMCarney #TrumpTariffs 31263182536
Reposted by Lisa FastKikki Planet @kikkiplanet.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Current status: watching Jason Kenney take Jamil Jivani to the woodshed over on the place formerly known as Twitter, and I gotta tell ya … it’s kinda making me 🔥 Of course, that could just be the menopause talking. But Kenney seriously went off on JD Vance’s bestie. #cdnpoli #ableg 34571140
Reposted by Lisa FastAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/08/2026Mark Carney: "In recent days. the US proposed new terms that were uneconomic, unfair, and undermine the net benefits for Canada, and called into question the reliability of any deal. In short, they asked too much and they offered too little ... You're at war when you get attacked. We got attacked." 406114132821
Reposted by Lisa FastJennifer Robson 🇨🇦 @jrobson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Remember folks: nothing in US trade law, not even s.338, would legally empower Trump to tariff Canada because consumers don’t want US booze. But the shelf ban is explicitly part of the 338 justification & courts might uphold it. 4178
Reposted by Lisa FastGeoffrey P Johnston😎🇨🇦🇺🇦 @geoffypjohnston.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Clients of Carleton Place salon may have been exposed to infection, health unit warns | CBC News www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.caClients of Carleton Place salon may have been exposed to infection, health unit warns | CBC NewsSoutheast Public Health is warning clients of a Carleton Place salon who received certain services over the past three years that they may have been exposed to equipment that wasn't properly cleaned o... 266
Reposted by Lisa Fastpyang.bsky.social @pyang.bsky.social · 10/08/2026This just helped me not ten minutes ago. 05327
Reposted by Lisa FastEric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Severe Covid leads to persistent viral reactivation, with >10 different viruses noted in the first 40 days after hospital admission. Long Covid was specifically associated with reactivation of latent Anelloviridae virus @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comVirus reactivation in acute and long COVID-19 - NatureChronic reactivation of distinct herpesviruses and anelloviruses occur during acute and long COVID-19, and track with disease severity, inflammation and outcomes, revealing immune signatures with prog... 9444210
Reposted by Lisa Fastryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 04/08/2026"In the Canadian capital of Ottawa, 14% of vehicles were speeding on Katimavik Road last fall while the cameras were in use, but a whopping 80% did in May following their removal." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...bloomberg.comWhat Happens When Speed Cameras Get Shut OffIn 2025, Ontario banned automated traffic enforcement. Now the number of drivers exceeding the speed limit has surged, according to traffic data. 1017959
Reposted by Lisa FastCheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Health Canada authorizes mRNA vaccine trial for Ebola virus causing huge outbreak in Congo More than 3,800 cases have been recorded in eastern Congo, with some 1,700 deaths, according to latest figures www.cbc.ca/news/health/...cbc.caHealth Canada authorizes mRNA vaccine trial for Ebola virus causing huge outbreak in Congo | CBC NewsHealth Canada has given Moderna the green light to launch a clinical trial for a vaccine targeting the Bundibugyo form of the Ebola virus, which continues to surge throughout the Democratic Republic o... 611853
Reposted by Lisa FastBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Almost every city in the world needs to urgently understand the need to get really good at planning and designing for shade. #UrbanHeat 19540143
Reposted by Lisa FastJohn Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 02/08/2026There’s “off the charts” and there’s France’s absolutely bonkers June & July 2026 temperatures (see black line below). Bad things are happening. Fast. 26780324
Reposted by Lisa FastGhost Gurney @ghostgurney.bsky.social · 01/08/2026UPDATE : in 2026, temp ER closures in #ONTARIO are @ 9️⃣9️⃣0️⃣.2️⃣5️⃣hours, perm closure/hour reduction in #Durham #Minden #Chesley are @ 1️⃣3️⃣3️⃣9️⃣8️⃣hrs 033
Reposted by Lisa FastLuke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 31/07/2026Received this bizarre email out of the blue yesterday from National Post columnist Adam Zivo gloating over my former colleague's layoff notice I'd like to thank Postmedia for looking into it and issuing this statement clarifying Zivo is expected to uphold professional standards for employee conduct 3442276
Reposted by Lisa FastJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 28/07/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/o... new from Chrystia Freeland. Reminds me why I wanted her to replace Trudeau as PM, but maybe it's even better for her to be free to speak her mind like this.nytimes.comOpinion | ‘You Aren’t Going to Like What Comes After America’ (Gift Article)Remember when ‘blame Canada’ was a joke? 1414154
Lisa Fast @lisafast.bsky.social · 28/07/2026@petersinger.bsky.social Per your model’s prediction. Canada should fund GLP1 medications to improve our health, our economy and reduce our public health expenditures. 142
Reposted by Lisa FastDEF CON @defcon.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Friendly #DEFCON34 reminder: Meta-style glasses with recording capabilities are prohibited at DEF CON. There is no exception for recording glasses with prescription lenses. Be sure to pack non-violating eyewear if you need them. Please see our Photo policies for more. defcon.org/html/links/d... 14441136
Reposted by Lisa FastDick Zoutman @dickzoutman.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Having managed many large outbreaks of Norovirus in large hospitals I can attest to how ferociously it spreads! Literally like wild fire. People would get sick often without any contact with sick patients or their rooms strongly implying airborne spread. Has important implications for control. 24916
Reposted by Lisa FastInfectious Disease Tracker @hmpxvt.bsky.social · 24/07/2026The DRC reports 97 new confirmed Ebola cases, the highest single day total of the outbreak so far. An additional 62 deaths were recorded, mostly in the community, indicating that unmonitored transmission chains are spreading unchecked. 12013
Reposted by Lisa FastChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 23/07/2026NASDAQ basically force-loaded about $25 billion of SpaceX stock into passive investor portfolios (aka, people's pension and retirement funds) by jamming SpaceX into its index right at IPO time rather than waiting the standard 30-60 days. Billions of dollars of unrealized losses already. 331519445
Reposted by Lisa FastWorse On Purpose @worseonpurpose.bsky.social · 18/07/2026One PE firm owns Pyrex, Corelle, CorningWare, Instant Pot, Anchor Hocking, and Oneida. The pastel Instagram pans lose their nonstick between cooking cycle 30 and 60. A pan measured in months, priced like it's forever. Who owns your kitchen, and what's still worth buying 👇 tinyurl.com/2s3xc53mworseonpurpose.comYour Cookware Got Worse On PurposeOne buyout firm quietly collected Pyrex, Corelle, Instant Pot, and Oneida. Farberware is a name on a 200-year lease. And the pans still worth buying. 1312969
Reposted by Lisa FastJennifer Robson 🇨🇦 @jrobson.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Code has finished re-running! I get a total, across all 3 lists of about ~5.3% of annual Canadian imports into the US for US consumption (ie: not to be exported on elsewhere) using 2025 data or ~USD$20B, which will now cost US consumers up to USD$10B more if these come into effect in 30 days. 1/n 48535
Reposted by Lisa FastAuschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 20/07/202620 July 1943 | 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy in German-occupied France arrived at Auschwitz. After the selection, 369 men & 191 women were registered in the camp. The remaining 440 people were murdered in a gas chamber. Among them was 16-month-old Claudine Ruben. 9414106
Reposted by Lisa FastToon Dreessen @toondreessen.bsky.social · 18/07/2026These are decisions leaders have been warned about for decades, but refused to take appropriate bold action, necessary. And who’s paying the price for this? We are. All of us. Whether through our taxes, delayed infrastructure or investment we are all paying for our leaders unwillingness to be bold 052
Reposted by Lisa FastDr Satoshi Akima, FRACP @toshiakima.bsky.social · 18/07/2026The surgical mask shown in this article will do almost nothing to reduce particulate inhalation because it's just a splash guard. Wear a well-fitted respirator N95 or bettercnn.comWhat you need to breathe easier when the air is full of smoke | CNNMillions of Americans and Canadians are breathing bad air right now due to wildfire smoke. Here’s what you need to know masks, ventilation and staying healthy. 281136447