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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Ontario health-care crisis — the sky really is falling. This isn’t fearmongering. The system is crumbling under chronic underinvestment, policy inertia and an unwillingness to face difficult fiscal realities, by Dr. Alykhan Abdulla ottawacitizen.com/opinion/onta... via @ottawacitizen.com
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Abdulla: Ontario health-care crisis — the sky really is falling
This isn’t fearmongering. The system is crumbling under chronic underinvestment, policy inertia and an unwillingness to face fiscal reality.
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Public Services International @psiglobalunion.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
🐊 Friendly monday reminder that billionaires and financiers are eating your income... ...and organizing through unions is how we win it back. 💪😍
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Pin this, save it, we’ll need it. “When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.” AOC 🔥🎯
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 08/01/2025
Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.
The image is from a "Transparency Center" document and lists guidelines regarding acceptable and prohibited content for insults. It mentions:

1. Insults about:

Character, such as cowardice, dishonesty, criminality, and sexual promiscuity or immorality.

Mental characteristics, including but not limited to accusations of stupidity, intellectual capacity, and mental illness, as well as unsupported comparisons among politically correct (PC) groups based on inherent intellectual traits.

2. Highlighted section:

The document allows allegations of mental illness or abnormality when tied to gender or sexual orientation, referencing political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality. It also acknowledges the non-serious use of terms like "weird."
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Ben Werdmuller @werd.io · 27/12/2024
American cities remove homeless encampments as part of “sweeps” and take the belongings of the people they move. ProPublica asked them to explain what was stolen from them and how sweeps have affected them. It’s devastating. projects.propublica.org/impact-of-h…
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The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps — ProPublica
Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so they could explain what they lost in their own words.
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David Fisman. @dfisman.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
TIL—Sickkids Foundation (not the hospital, revenues all via donation) pays CEO $1.1 million/year and has nine execs in the $350k + category theijf.org/charity-pay?...
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Which charities have the highest paid employees — and are they worth their pay cheques?
Some experts say Canada doesn’t require enough transparency about charity sector compensation
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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/12/2024
Newest U.S. Aid Mission Just Single PowerBar Labeled ‘For Gaza’ Thrown Into Ocean theonion.com/newest-u-s-a...
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Self awareness is the most important trait you can cultivate. Only through constant introspection can you develop the wisdom necessary to be sad all the time
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Marit Stiles @maritstilesndp.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
This holiday season, Doug Ford is gifting his insider pals a luxury spa and sticking you with the bill: It'll cost $400 for every single household.
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freecialis @freecialis.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
this is so perfect youve gotta think it was intentional
One former Cigna executive recalled how the US health insurer used to frequently face threats when claims were denied. “We’d have times when you’d deny proton laser therapy for a kid with seizures and the parent would freak out,” said the former executive.

Another industry executive said: “What’s most disturbing is the ability of people to hide behind their keyboards and lose their humanity.”
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Early days, but another exciting application of vaccine technology. And a tough one for antivaxx crowd. Vaccine shows promise against aggressive breast cancer medicine.washu.edu/news/vaccine....
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Vaccine shows promise against aggressive breast cancer | WashU Medicine
Clinical trial targeted recurrence of hard-to-treat triple-negative breast cancer
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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
"This is what the media fails to understand. They don't see insurance CEOs who sanction the deaths of thousands of innocent people a year by denying them coverage, often coverage doctors deem medically necessary, as violent." www.usermag.co/p/yes-we-wan... #UnitedHealthcare #BrianThompson
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Why "we" want insurance executives dead
No, that does not mean people should murder them. But if you've watched a loved one suffer and die from insurance denial, it's normal to wish the people responsible would suffer the same fate.
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
#Scurvy in Canada Is a Symptom of Our Sick Politics, by @crof.bsky.social thetyee.ca/Analysis/202... via @thetyee.ca #sdoh
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Scurvy in Canada Is a Symptom of Our Sick Politics | The Tyee
And it reveals much about how we approach fairness and human rights.
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maximumtaco.bsky.social @maximumtaco.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Great post from Cory Doctorow discussing the extreme corporate oligarchy we have in Canada... pluralistic.net/2024/12/05/t...
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Pluralistic: Denise Hearn and Vass Bednar’s “The Big Fix” (05 Dec 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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