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Prof Deborah Lupton, MPH PhD @dalupton.bsky.social · 22h
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... Absolutely appalling - the Australian government is now charging $150 for the COVID vax for most people. The last protection now out of reach for most people
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COVID vaccine set for price hike - ABC listen
From October the COVID vaccine is expected to cost around $150.
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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
this engine of disease spread will do what it does early in the outbreak of any illness… staff and visitors… discharged patients… will carry the killer variant straight back to their homes… including aged care, group homes, hostels, barracks, prisons etc.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 27/09/2026
Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/kQdKbY1
trib.al
Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees
Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A really good long read from @charlesrusnell.bsky.social on the report on how the UCP / AHS / OHS failed to protect workers at the Cargill plant, including lack of appropriate PPE, which led to unnecessary deaths.
thetyee.ca
Alberta’s Deadly Betrayal of Meat Plant Workers During COVID | The Tyee
A shocking report finds the UCP ignored evidence of high risk.
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World Health Network @thewhn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We shouldn’t have to wait for a COVID surge to start protecting ourselves. Layered prevention helps reduce transmission before cases climb and hospitals become overwhelmed. Masking, cleaner indoor air, vaccination, testing, and staying home when sick all work together to reduce (...)
World Health Network graphic on a dark background with orange accents. At the top are the “whn.global” logo and the text “World Health Network — Science for a safer, healthier world.” Large text reads: “We should not need a COVID surge to care about prevention.” The words “COVID surge” are highlighted in orange. Below a horizontal line, smaller text reads: “Masking, clean air, vaccination, testing and staying home when sick work before hospitals become overwhelmed.”
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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 28/09/2026
Anthropic:
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“The president has repeatedly exhibited bizarre conduct in the public eye. Not only does that include taking naps during public events, but also erratic behavior, slurred speech, appearing lost or disoriented, and sporting mysterious bruises.” newrepublic.com/post/215938/...
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Tyler Watt @tylerwatt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I asked the Health Minister about nurses and health care workers being laid off across Ontario. She didn’t answer. Throughout committee, she blamed the federal government, blamed the previous Liberal government from eight years ago, and avoided answering questions. #onpoli
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Conor Curtis @conorcurtis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
3/3 The claims of principles are hollow: bsky.app/profile/cono... The words don't match the actions: youtu.be/6gSoVlaxSkM?... A policy direction set by the rich Trump's allies in the 1%: thetyee.ca/Analysis/202... And made acceptable via the grand, hollow, statements that distract from that fact.
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Feeling confused about Carney’s claims versus his actual policy? This could explain why
YouTube video by Rachel Gilmore
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Conor Curtis @conorcurtis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
2/3 Our Government thinks Palantir is Canadian, awards them military contracts: bsky.app/profile/cono... Deregulation, privatization, are not tradeoffs nor beneficial. None of them help our sovereignty, in fact they harm it now and in the future: bsky.app/profile/sust... It's just AI cult worship.
desmog.com
Mark Carney Advisor Says AI Data Centres ‘Provide Markets’ For Gas
Boosting energy production is one of the top ‘public policy benefits to Canada’ of data centres, internal Privy Council document explains.
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Ben Hoffman @rexmondo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Internal documents from the AI labs show that the executives of these companies were knowingly “pulling off the greatest theft of human labour in history” to train the AI. Do you support labour theft? Do you support the disempowerment of labour that AI will bring?
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Fasten your seat belts... @lesjfrie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This broke today. Our government should be suing ChatGTP, and forcing AI companies to pay for anything related to AI. Taxpayers should not be funding anything related to AI. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Details of how Tumbler Ridge shooter used ChatGPT 'far more disturbing' than previously known, reporter says | CBC News
A Mother Jones magazine reporter says through his reporting he was able to review "significant portions" of the chat history between shooter Jesse Van Rootselaar and OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot in the ti...
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Conor Curtis @conorcurtis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Puts no binding regulations on AI data centres (including those for U.S corporations). Wants U.S. corporations to burn more gas: bsky.app/profile/cono... & - after 1 & 1/2 years of claiming to take sovereignty seriously - still routes Fed. email through U.S corporations: proton.me/business/blo...
ctvnews.ca
Why federal guidelines for AI data centres are facing pushback
Ottawa’s new framework for guiding the development of artificial intelligence data centres is failing to win over critics.
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Darren M. A. Calvert @dmacalvert.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
How about the millions of Canadians who have had their data scraped without their consent to be fed to these slop machines? Will this be building Canada strong for them?
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London D. Momo @londonmomo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Someone explain to this guy how gen ai is ruining everything.
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Ken Anyadike @hightower915.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Who is going to own the AI you’re going to run our nation with? Are you going to leave our country vulnerable to foreign tech companies?
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Matthew Rowlinson @matthewrowlinson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sigh. Canada would be better served by scholarships for young Canadians to study history, philosophy and literature.
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Anik 🇨🇦🐸 @anik1968.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
FFS Carney ... this is terrible news. Everyone is worried about AI but you cannot disagree with your Tech billionnaire buddies.
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RavenNemain @ravennemain.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Or you could listen to people tell you how much we don’t want this. It’s destructive to the environment, to education, to creative industries, and to communities, while enriching the worst people in the world.
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Zuuldaff's Pizzeria @zuuldaffs-pizzeria.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The push for so-called "AI" isn't to make Canada strong. It's about making billionaires even wealthier. CC: @avilewis.ca
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Justin // No-Fame // Amherst Dice 🌊 @cranewreck.ca · 27/09/2026
Building Canada Strong by giving money to for-profit US companies built on anti-intellectual, anti-worker, anti-environmental tech focused on reaping our natural resources when ever year our country is literally on fire? When northern communities don't have clean drinking water? This is a joke.
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🍁make it make sense @ocanadaeh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Palantir helped write Bill C-22. Palantir is used for citizen surveillance and the Canadian government hid a massive contract with them to embed them into our military and they will be used to collect our information when Bill C-22 passes. Contact your MPs & ask them to vote against C-22.
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🍁make it make sense @ocanadaeh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Canadian government is actively trying to pass laws (C9) that would destroy Canadians right to protest and enable mass surveillance of protesters, partnered with Palantir.
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🍁make it make sense @ocanadaeh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men."
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🍁make it make sense @ocanadaeh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Also of note, March 16-23 Carney headed to Rome for a week-long vacation with family. www.cnn.com/2026/03/16/e...
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Peter Thiel’s secret lectures on Antichrist in Rome spark debate | CNN
Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist and MAGA donor, is in Rome this week for a series of private lectures on the Antichrist. It’s an event that the Vatican, and the pope, are treating with...
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Dizzy ★ @tindizzy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And Jamil Jivani is Shady Vance’s bestie, too
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🍁make it make sense @ocanadaeh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Palantir Canada sits on Mark Carney’s 🇺🇸/ 🇨🇦 relations board. Peter Theil is JD Vance’s financier. Jeffrey Epstein was Peter Theil's business partner. Palantir's exclusive mandate is citizen surveillance. Why would our PM make them part of the Canadian government? Is everyone awake yet?
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Jacob Siefring @jsief.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
« AI that builds Canada strong for all »: these words don’t mean anything
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Lelani Arris @arthurdent2022.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Maybe try this instead:
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MillyMia 🇨🇦🇪🇺💙🌻 @millymia8.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Maybe the only connection to AI for these students, should be how to stop the harms it’s already deliberately causing? Nobody needs it and it seems all age groups are united in not wanting it. We need to use our brains and be functioning adults in society.
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Lee Guille @writeleewrite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Tone deaf and foolish. This does not support Canadians in any way.
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Emma 🇨🇦 @emfysnest.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Canada Strong means investing in arts and its people, protecting the environment we hold dear. AI is the antithesis of all of that. Stop shoving it down our throats
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🇨🇦 @doreenstermann.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
we don't need AI to take away jobs
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Andrew Iwaniuk @evoneuro.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is a colossal waste of Mitacs funding. You cut graduate student funding through Mitacs, tri-council funding has fallen, and now you are providing free labour to AI companies. This will neither strengthen nor diversify our economy.
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Rugged Broad @ruggedbroad.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Dangerously close to a ratio for a PM with such a high approval rating. This decision sucks.
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ChrisannaD @chrisannad.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is what extreme weather is doing to Cape Breton Island. AI contributes to extreme weather. It has to stop. 
A set of train tracks suspended above a raging torrent of muddy brown water, where all the earth below the tracks has been washed away and the culvert’s remain 
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Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansproutsmom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Non-AI #CdnPoli youth intern job ideas: My god, @mark-carney.bsky.social, you could easily throw 10,000 interns into the climate service providers/needs described in your own report, to address Canada's five 🚨 climate crisis outlined in the same report 😫🤬 www.canada.ca/en/environme...
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Chapter 10: Climate services and using climate information - Canada.ca
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ioev @ioev.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Federal government literally giving money to billionaires.
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DrBoss @abrainiac.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
no person who is YOUNG wants this this is taking real jobs away from real people to make more profits for big business STOP pushing AI so hard, with no proven benefits that are seen as of yet!
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Worldofhiglet @worldofhiglet.northsky.social · 28/09/2026
All the replies to this are negative. All the reposts I’ve seen have been castigating this decision. Why is the government spending money on such a thing while at the same time cutting services, government jobs & support for education? Where are the paid climate change positions for young people?
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Allison 😣 @allisonpotts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A complete abdication of leadership for a tech business balloon that will harm people and the planet.
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Dr. Tanya Lentz, R.Psych. @pednpsy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ai needs regulation that is enforceable.
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Rachel Wales @rachelwales.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I was so glad to hear that the Starlink contract was cancelled. This was a step in the right direction. We don't need corporations like Palantir either. Ideally we don't give them contracts. They can't be trusted. globalnews.ca/video/734880...
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NDP criticizes Liberal government over ethics commissioner’s findings on Palantir Technologies Canada | Watch News Videos Online
Watch NDP criticizes Liberal government over ethics commissioner’s findings on Palantir Technologies Canada Video Online, on GlobalNews.ca
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wanderlustdude.bsky.social @wanderlustdude.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mark Carney doesn't respect the wishes of Canadian citizens... he only respects profits. ca.news.yahoo.com/poll-shows-n...
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New poll shows number of Canadians with negative views on AI increasing
A new poll shows the number of Canadians who have a negative view on artificial intelligence is increasing. Research Co. finds majority would like to see a slow down on the development of the technolo...
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Sheri-Anne @sheri89.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Do we #Canadians want nation building with the U.S? I thought #MarkCarney is fighting for our sovereignty by trying to be less dependent of the U.S? Yet here we are… www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Morgan Stanley, CIBC Win Mandate for Sale of Canada Airport Concessions
The Canadian government has hired Morgan Stanley and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce to advise on selling the operating rights to the country’s four largest airports, according to people with knowl...
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MudaPete ✨ @mudapete.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And the AI regulation????? Can we have that first/instead???
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Sheri-Anne @sheri89.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#MarkCarney you say you are building solidarity with labour in your #UN speech. How is removing workers rights accomplish this? You are going to far right with your policies. It seems you are not looking out for the owners of Canada here. @mark-carney.bsky.social psacunion.ca/attacking-wo...
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Attacking workers’ right to strike won’t build a stronger Canada
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Nightmare @nightmaremantis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hey about instead of this bs ya'll invest in the arts like Ireland did. You know, the people from which AI has blatantly stolen from to get to where it is without paying any of us. Support humanity, not machines that set us back environmentally and only benefit the wealthy technocrats.
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ArCee🏳️‍🌈♊️🇪🇺🇨🇦 @rouge06iamme.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Why ??? We do not want do not need AI . Can we please fund our healthcare , affordable housing , affordable groceries?!!! You are more and more a disappointment.
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Dizzy ★ @tindizzy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
America has 5,427 data centers.
China has 513 data centers.
China has four times the people.
There's no Al race.
Screw the Propaganda.
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