Before you read any further know that I’m NOT a surgeon.
I think it could be fairly argued that as far as surgical impact and benefits go, there are few that rival bariatric surgery.
Shown to prolong life, regularly push many chronic diseases includin…

This the greatest Halloween decoration I’ve ever seen…. pic.twitter.com/V4G5kS5le0

— Jordan🥴 (@Idontknowyoucuh) October 15, 2021

Give them something good to eat: Animals at the Chester Zoo enjoy some Halloween treats. pic.twitter.com/NA9iTmuYpn

— AP Entertainment (@APEntertainment) October 28, 2021

💀 @Flash_Garrett arrived for today’s Halloween game as the Grim Reaper with all QBs that he’s sacked listed on his back 💪

(via @NFL) pic.twitter.com/s96oBBDNOv

— FOX Sports: NFL (@NFLonFOX) October 31, 2021

This #Halloween chip shot was pumpkin spiced. 🎃

(Via TikTok/golfergirlem) pic.twitter.com/IERaYO7ixF

— Golf Channel (@GolfChannel) October 31, 2021

Gurdeep is a true Canadian treasure:

Happy Halloween!
From the Yukon wilderness, I am forwarding Halloween joy, hope and positivity across Canada and beyond.
YouTube: https://t.co/7UZu7LDTpK pic.twitter.com/pGnBXP0qxK

— Gurdeep Pandher of the Yukon (@GurdeepPandher) October 31, 2021

The Pulp Librarian offers the top 20 halloween-inspired pulp magazine covers:

And at no 1: Seven Footprints To Satan, by Abraham Merritt. Fantastic Novels Magazine, January 1949. pic.twitter.com/1dUoL6LNUZ

— Pulp Librarian (@PulpLibrarian) October 31, 2021

A tiny landscape painting on a pumpkin seed 🎃 pic.twitter.com/AAAEuMYG49

— Katie 🌿 (@KatieBrooksArt) October 31, 2021

Best pumpkin carving I’ve seen this year.
SAOR ALBA.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 pic.twitter.com/4fUlGspvqt

— Lynn MacDonald-Matheson (@LynnMamaBear1) October 31, 2021

Every year, somebody takes it just a little too far:

So about that weird Gables police display https://t.co/UwqXrYlzLy

— Samantha J. Gross (@samanthajgross) October 31, 2021

And of course, the greatest music video ever made:

James Heathers, in The Atlantic, on how the house of cards upon which ivermectin studies were built likely underpins much of science. 
Katherine Wu, in The Atlantic, with a Q&A with pediatrician and vaccine researcher Sallie Permar about the …

Next time, dogs own people.

— God (@TheTweetOfGod) October 19, 2021

Some say vaccine mandates don’t work.

But…Health workers who don’t believe in science are leaving healthcare…And…Police officers who don’t care about public safety are leaving policing.

Sounds like vaccine mandates work just fine. 👌🏾

— Naheed Dosani (@NaheedD) October 21, 2021

It’s getting disrespectful how long it takes for me to scroll to my birth year

— Trey (@treydayway) October 16, 2021

😂 pic.twitter.com/BK0n9Gk64r

— 🇨🇦 Leslie-Anne 💉💉FULLY VAXXED 👍🏻👍🏻 🇨🇦 (@ProudGrannyCdn) October 17, 2021

My husband purchased a world map and then gave me a dart and said, “Throw this and wherever it lands—that’s where I’m taking you when this pandemic ends.”

Turns out, we’re spending two weeks behind the fridge.

— Kate Wright 🧡 (@KatezRight) October 4, 2021

“Why do dogs always race to the door when the doorbell rings? It’s almost never for them.” – Norm MacDonald.

— Cannabis Farmer: Jim Belushi (@JimBelushi) September 15, 2021

Little yellow fish gets so excited whenever he sees this diver — watch him surprise her with a gift 💛 pic.twitter.com/nEByULlfRL

— The Dodo (@dodo) October 24, 2021

Giant rescue horse finally gets to relax after working 20 years straight — and when the vet prescribes beer every day, he LOVES it 🍻 pic.twitter.com/U5D4Cm0cRd

— The Dodo (@dodo) October 24, 2021

this dog owner spent $400 to find out why his dog was limping only to learn he was copying him out of sympathy
(jukin media) pic.twitter.com/lmhmtZu908

— Humor And Animals (@humorandanimals) October 15, 2021

They did the mash. Thank you to giant pumpkin growers Larry Nelson and Jacob Baldridge for the gourd time! pic.twitter.com/cuNtwafIA0

— Oregoth Boo (@OregonZoo) October 14, 2021

Room Rater PSA from Canada and @brittlestar. Just remember: THERE’S MORE GOOD. 10/10pic.twitter.com/fIANU1A9kH

— Room Rater (@ratemyskyperoom) October 23, 2021

Eva Wiseman, in The Guardian, on the overlap between wellness/spirituality and conspiracy theories.
Stephanie Lee, in Buzzfeed, on how the world’s most prominent hydroxychloroquine researcher/crusader is trying to punish one of the world’s foremost sc…

There is such truth here:

#INDIGENOUS #TAIRP pic.twitter.com/SQozalLllB

— Indigenous (@AmericanIndian8) October 10, 2021

And truth here too:

Not been guilted into going. This was the right step. The Chief of Tḱemlúps te Secwépemc said it right, actions speak Louder. And him coming on his son’s birthday is the Loudest Action. Grateful that Chief Rosanne Casimir lived streamed this closed event.

— 🇨🇦Paqtasit Apsalqigwat👸🏼🤘🏼☘️🐓🍷 (@paqtasit) October 19, 2021

Breaking: Trudeau visit to Tk’emlúps te Secwepemc Nation ‘bittersweet’ after not attending National Day for Truth and Reconciliation via @globeandmail https://t.co/F5YIQ5nfo6 #cdnpoli

— Kristy Kirkup (@kkirkup) October 18, 2021

“Instead of talking about truth and reconciliation, people talked about me, and that’s on me,” Trudeau said. https://t.co/rIqOs2bOcd#cdnpoli

— Kristy Kirkup (@kkirkup) October 18, 2021

And Halloween is coming up!

pic.twitter.com/EHRWNP7xAH

— Meanwhile in Canada (@MeanwhileinCana) October 19, 2021

Meanwhile, here in Saskatchewan, our COVID situation is so bad – I cannotimagine the chaos and death in Saskatchewan hospitals right now — and our premier Scott Moe is leading us by naming some guy in North Battleford as the director of Covid response, and immitating a deer in the headlights:

BREAKING – Sask Premier Scott Moe reached out to AMERICAN states for ICU help

BEFORE asking Justin Trudeau for helphttps://t.co/XwfF5wnBf0 #cdnpoli #covid19

— G.T. Lem (@gtlem) October 19, 2021

I’d say “you’ve got to be fucking kidding me”, but how shocking is anything these petty, corrupt bumblefucks do anymore? #skpoli

The *lethal* obstinacy in relation to working with the Federal government here is worthy of an actual trial here. https://t.co/sTZ2dTmtF0

— the 13 Ghosts of Carol Channing Tatum (@ThinWhiteDork) October 19, 2021

Or, hear me out, Take The Fucking Actions that doctors and scientists are telling you are necessary to PREVENT so many people from needing ICU care in the first place.
In other words, protect #skhealth instead of playing #skpoli on #covid19sk https://t.co/TVhCBPu0tw

— Dr. Atul Kapur (@Kapur_AK) October 19, 2021

Arthur Caplan, in The Cancer Letter, on how Nazi analogies (and more specifically Vinay Prasad’s) regarding COVID are imbecilic, ignorant, and dangerous.Marie-Danielle Smith, in MacLeans, with the story of a family of 3 who like all of those we’ve los…

I loved these:

by @warandpeass pic.twitter.com/1tbcluicsM

— WholesomeMemes (@WholesomeMeme) October 10, 2021

The perfect couples costume doesn’t exi- pic.twitter.com/mte2U6EmVv

— Momster (@my_name_here85) October 11, 2021

An ad by a bus company. Nice. 👇👇 pic.twitter.com/jkE3P6vlpE

— Sami (the man) 🇨🇦 🏇 (@msnaydani) October 7, 2021

“why are you crying?”

because bears sit and look at good views pic.twitter.com/cqaN0LJ4pF

— clair without the “e” (@nastywomanatlaw) October 8, 2021

The Japanese 🇯🇵 Puffer Fish is probably nature’s greatest artist 🐟

To grab a female’s attention he creates something that defies belief 😲

pic.twitter.com/AiuQY9XzhN

— Erik Solheim (@ErikSolheim) October 9, 2021

All we need.. pic.twitter.com/0ut6Rnvlmj

— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) October 9, 2021

Reading about white collar crime in the new yorker and this detail is just perfect https://t.co/Ou7ZV9Gbgg pic.twitter.com/ZE3pbMpLOY

— erin griffith (@eringriffith) September 30, 2021

1 of the city high schools here was quite creative. They had plumbing issues, so once or twice every spring whe the weather got nice, in a scene right out of Fast Time At Ridgemont High they synchronized their watches & simultaneously flushed every toilet for an easy 2 day vacay.

— Tom (@BigTontoLove) October 9, 2021

A bookshop door photographed in Canada 🦇 pic.twitter.com/MXxaCcAAji

— 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐚𝐛𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐖𝐞𝐢𝐫𝐝 𝐓𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫s (@FabulousWeird) October 9, 2021

And this one was so sweet it broke twitter – it got 700K likes:

My Finances: pic.twitter.com/SasbwqAIRD

— Andrew Hilary but spooky 👻 (@AndrewHilaryUS) October 8, 2021

New currencies pic.twitter.com/62G017wpKb

— Ms Bay (@bahia_nacional) October 9, 2021

Watch this! https://t.co/ehAIlbbC9W

— unsquare925🕷️🦂🐊🐉🇪🇺 (@unsquare925) October 9, 2021

Here in a nutshell is The Story Of January 6 — an impressive summary by Huff Post White House correspondent S.V. Date describing what happened in the Trump Insurrection:This is what Americans need to be told about, every day, every speech, from B…

Justin Ling, in Macleans, on the persistence of hygiene theatreSarah Zhang, in The Atlantic, on how we’ve lost the plot on COVID.Andre Picard, in The Globe and Mail, on how now is the worst time for governments to be catering to antivaxxersAnnouncement…

After being closed for nearly 19 months due to the COVID-19 pandemic, on November 8th 2021 the United States land border officially opened to all fully vaccinated Canadians. US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has announced they will be staffing their border at pre-pandemic levels, but warns that wait times may be longer than in […]

Katherine J. Wu, in The Atlantic, with everything you really should know about the various modalities of COVID testing.
Ed Yong, also in The Atlantic, on health professionals who themselves are now facing the challenges of long-haul COVID.
Talia Brach…

Joining an ever increasing cavalcade of studies of different diets that demonstrate they all work as well or as poorly as one another comes this week’s A randomised controlled trial of the 5:2 diet published in PLoS. In it researchers randomly as…

The parrot is making fun of him! 🤣🤣pic.twitter.com/98HUbWrkdP— Figen (@TheFigen) November 19, 2021 They used to laugh and call him names.Not anymore. pic.twitter.com/sYEGmlGKqb— Cory Papineau (@Iam_Canadian) November 15, 2021 This one was fascinating…

Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, covers the devastating impact managing patients with COVID has had on the world’s health-care workers many of who are calling it quits.
Megan Molteni, in Wired, on the teensy tiny error that helped COVID kill by creating a fi…

Where to start with this?

[Also, it’s that time of year again, and should any of you want to donate to my Movember fundraising (am just over halfway to goal!), here’s the link]

John Cleese seems to have morphed into the angry establishment figure of ridicule he played in sketches.— Chris Kehoe (@MrKehoe79) November 13, 2021 John Cleese, Morrissey and JK Rowling walk into a bar.And the bartender says “the home for aging disap…

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, in his substack, on the damage Aaron Rodgers has wrought on professional sports as a whole. Arthur Shaffer, interviewed in Healthy Debates, on the ethics and legalities of vaccine passports. Andrew McRae and Andreas Laup…

[First written blog post since March 2020. What an awful 20 months. Though the pandemic is certainly not over yet, it feels like it’s time to start writing again. Not sure what the frequency of posts will be, but it’s nice to be back]I wouldn’t have be…

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on his own substack Kareem.Substack.com with two stories about vaccination and the NBA.
The first on why LeBron is wrong to support hesitancy
And the second on Andrew Wiggins’ whining about getting vaccinated.
   &#1…

So I just started a short-term job and one of the things I am going to be learning about is how to host Zoom meetings. Not, like this guy, I hope: We are all in this video pic.twitter.com/ZebenP2Aid— Washington Post TikTok Guy 🪑 (@davejorgenson)…

Well, the boys gave it a good try, but couldn’t quite get into the post-season this year:

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. was sitting in the dugout watching the BOS/WAS game. Sat for a few moments after the Devers HR, the walked up the tunnel. #bluejays

— Ben Wagner (@benwag247) October 3, 2021

I think I stopped breathing for a minute when I read this! This would be every Blue Jays fan’s dream off season signing! Imagine a rotation of Stroman, Ray, Ryu, Manoah with this offence 🤮 Legit title contenders! #WeAreBlueJays https://t.co/2hqXXf3dQe

— Jai Boyal (@Jaiboyal) October 4, 2021

Man, I feel for the @BlueJays right now. Praying the Nationals comeback in the 9th. Wanted to see that Canadian squad in the playoffs more than anything. Beyond bright future for them regardless! 🗣🇨🇦

— Marcus Stroman (@STR0) October 3, 2021

Too bad about the Blue Jays missing the MLB playoffs. I’m sure it was Trudeau’s fault. /s

— John Meadows (@JohnMeadows) October 4, 2021

Now that Trudeau has apologized to Chief Rosanne Casimir in Kamloops about not attending their ceremony on Sept 30, I think the Canadian media will stop talking about Tofino-gate or whatever we are calling it. Embarrassment is what I call it

In this life, there are those who love to obsess endlessly about “optics”, ie appearances.
And then there are those who love to make progress on substance, ie reality.
Each to their own.#IStandWithTrudeau #cdnpoli #cdnmedia @JustinTrudeau

— David Hamer (@DavidHamer_1951) October 3, 2021

Interesting how many #CPC supporters DEFENDED Former Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer REFUSING to go Pride

Yet are now acting like Flesh Eating Zombies about Trudeau and Tofino#cdnpoli

— G.T. Lem (@gtlem) October 2, 2021

Some of today’s funnier stuff too:

it’s the otters’ island; as soon as they develop opposable thumbs we’re done for https://t.co/3K8Vteammv

— Gerry Doyle (@mgerrydoyle) September 30, 2021

How come I get ten thousand spam emails a day but when it’s time to prove *I’m* not a robot I have to solve an entire goddamned highlights magazine

— Daniel Kibblesmith (@kibblesmith) October 3, 2021

Watch until the end:

The end 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/uxsNHjMkE5

— CCTV_IDIOTS (@cctv_idiots) October 3, 2021

Well, its all over except the shouting. 

Overall, I’m very glad that Trudeau will remain our Prime Minister – I hope his Liberal government will last until 2025.

Members of the press expressing the completely nonsensical view: Why did we have an election when nothing changed. Well, that was the *result* of the election. It was not known in advance. Gah! #cdnpoli #Elxn44

— Diane Marie (@DianeMariePosts) September 21, 2021

I suspect that had the Conservatives picked up a few seats and were feeling a little more self-satisfied, the need for/price of an election wouldn’t be a topic of discussion.

— Diane Marie (@DianeMariePosts) September 21, 2021

Conservatives and assorted right wingers online are trying to bend over backwards to pretend that Liberals lost this election, which they won by some margin. No, your “popular vote” tweet doesn’t count. #Elxn44

— Asif Hossain (@asifintoronto) September 21, 2021

To the “what was the point” crowd,

The government had to make extraordinary choices in the last 18 months which they didn’t run on in 2019.

The public was due the opportunity to weigh in on those choices and what comes next.

Democracy is a verb, it’s never pointless. #Elxn44

— Andrew Tumilty (@AndrewTumilty) September 21, 2021

This is a dumb talking point, unless you think an election 2 years from now was going to be free. #Elxn44 https://t.co/iy8Sawyjxo

— Gerald Butts (@gmbutts) September 21, 2021

Twitter has been commenting on the concession speeches. Paul went first, but CBC actually cut away from her during her speech = she wasn’t saying anything particularly interesting, and considering how poorly she did even in her own seat, she’s not going to be around Canadian politics very long anyway.

Another 32 seconds and Annamie Paul’s concession speech will be longer than her leadership term. #cdnpoli

— Dean from Winnipeg (@Dean_Winnipeg) September 21, 2021

Then I think O’Toole was next:

This is the oddest concession speech I’ve ever heard; this one that @erinotoole is giving. It’s like tonight’s results never happened and the next election starts now. #elxn44 #cdnpoli

— Susan Delacourt (@SusanDelacourt) September 21, 2021

Wow ! How disappointing @lraitt @RosieBarton This is hardly an upbeat speech.
Accepting responsibility for flip flopping and supporting the gun lobby, not to mention his decision to avoid facing the need for vaccine mandates seems to go over Erin’s head. #cdnpoli #Elxn44

— G Godwin (@gill_godwin) September 21, 2021

There is no gracious aspect of this O’toole speech. I suppose it’s a calculated choice to keep the internal anger down, but still feels lacking in normal points: congratulations to the winner, acceptance of the results voters gave, and willingness to work w govt.

— Bruce Anderson (@bruceanderson) September 21, 2021

Blanchet was after that, another odd one:

Maybe it plays differently in French, but this feels like a rambling, hard to follow speech from Yves-Francois Blanchet. #Elxn44

— Maclean Kay (@MacleanKay) September 21, 2021

The failure of Cons and Greens and Bloc to congratulate the PM is so petty and appalling lack of basic civility.

Classless.

— Anne with an “e” (@mrsmaris) September 21, 2021

Finally Singh spoke, and his speech was actually very good. He simply congratulated Trudeau on winning the election, and talked positively about the future. How refreshing!

Jagmeet Singh is at his best when Justin Trudeau’s name is never spoken.

He hurt the party trying to take down Trudeau instead of promoting himself, his ideals and his vision.

Nobody can beat Trudeau by personally attacking Trudeau.

Nobody.

People wanna be inspired.

— kris meloche (@krismeloche) September 21, 2021

I’ve had plenty of criticism for Jagmeet Singh and the NDP campaign.

But I’ve got zero criticism of his speech tonight, he hit the notes exactly.

I would’ve liked to see more of that during the campaign. #cdnpoli

— Dean from Winnipeg (@Dean_Winnipeg) September 21, 2021

Lastly Trudeau spoke – somewhat chastened, I thought, but upbeat even though he didn’t get the majority he had wanted. He thanked the people who voted for him, but more importantly he also vowed to work for the people who hadn’t voted for him too.

It should be noted that @JustinTrudeau spoke graciously to his opponents and people who didn’t vote for him. I do not get why this was missing from (most) other leaders’ speeches tonight. #cdnpoli #elxn44

— Susan Delacourt (@SusanDelacourt) September 21, 2021

“We can only move forward if no one is left behind”.
Justin Trudeau Sept 20, 2021.
Now to figure out our way forward,#Canadians #elxn44vote pic.twitter.com/PM42S2mp3b

— Tarita (@EveryAlbertan) September 21, 2021

I sense a little grumpiness among the pundits:

Justin Trudeau treats this election result as a victory because it literally is a victory. The Liberal Party has won the most seats in Parliament and that’s exactly how our system works.
BTW Erin O’Toole is the third Conservative leader Justin Trudeau has defeated.

— Philip MacQuarrie (@monkeynaut1966) September 21, 2021

If @JustinTrudeau’s speech claims this one or two seat shift in his caucus to be a victory worth a $600 million campaign, my TV screen will have a laptop sticking out of it.

— Don Martin (@DonMartinCTV) September 21, 2021

And what’s next?

That faint sound you hear in the distance is the sharpening of knives in the Conservative backrooms

— Ian Bushfield (@ibushfield) September 20, 2021

One thing we can count on – there won’t be another election for years, because the opposition parties cannot ask for a do-over again:

Like, you have them on record, saying #Elxn44 suddenly wasn’t necessary, and how much this costs, and getting their bases all mad about it.

SO NOW THEY CAN’T FORCE A DO-OVER. Chicken played; chicken lost. Is O’Toole willing to make Canadians go through this again? Pfft.

— Carol Channing Tatum (@ThinWhiteDork) September 21, 2021

Finally, I just loved this:

The nice poll officer asked me if it was my 1st time voting. I mumbled that I became a citizen Friday.
She stood up and said to the room: “we have a new citizen here.”
Everyone clapped. It was humbling.
I was told to keep the pencil 😊 pic.twitter.com/zJ7pCa7JTd

— Hina Alam (@hinakalam) September 20, 2021

I hope she frames it.

Well, that’s the ball game:

My prediction for Sept 20, 2021 Election. @JustinTrudeau Liberals form gov’t for the 3rd time. #Ontario delivers the minority. #BritishColumbia determines whether #Liberals win a majority. #Elxn44

— Charles Adler (@charlesadler) September 20, 2021

Seats Changing Hands: pic.twitter.com/gA7vPCCjrY

— Evan Scrimshaw (@EScrimshaw) September 20, 2021

I am still hoping that Trudeau might be able to pull out a few more seat flips and end up with a majority — but as usual, it will all come down to who can get their vote out. 

Here’s today’s good news about the election: The LPC lead in Ontario is so large that I am not even going to report it (will confirm tomorrow ). I am not sure there are more than a handful of safe CPC seats in Ontario (abridged)— Frank Graves (@VoiceOf…

Meredith Wadman, in Science, explains what VAERS derived data is, why anti-vaxxers love it, and why it’s wrong to use it as a dataset. 
Jason Markusoff, in MacLean’s, on the disaster that is Alberta and the reason for it – the disaster that is Ja…

First Trudeau gets two high-profile endorsements:

Wishing my friend @JustinTrudeau the best in Canada’s upcoming election. Justin has been an effective leader and strong voice for democratic values, and I’m proud of the work we did together.

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) September 16, 2021

I have seen my friend @JustinTrudeau show leadership in the fight for accessible child care, protected reproductive rights, and ambitious climate action.

I’m wishing him and our progressive Canadian neighbors the best in Monday’s election.

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 17, 2021

Then Singh gets one as well:

Bernie Sanders has just given his endorsement to Jagmeet Singh. (The campaign is ecstatic) This comes on the same day Hillary Clinton endorsed Trudeau. https://t.co/a2fBs5Z0OD

— Annie Bergeron-Oliver (@AnnieClaireBO) September 17, 2021

And even O’Toole gets the pardonned felon nod:

Conrad Black: There is only one rational choice in this election https://t.co/1Mf7pzZWli

— National Post (@nationalpost) September 17, 2021

Some reactions:

Conrad Black endorsing O’Toole. 😂😂🤣🤐🤐

Vote Liberal.

— Neo-Leigh (@leighfromcanada) September 18, 2021

How many people across Canada are on the fence when it comes to voting and thinking “I’ll just wait and see what Rex Murphy, Conrad Black and the editorial in my local Postmedia paper suggest.”

— Rev.Paperboy (@revpaperboy) September 17, 2021

Trump has to endorse Bernier now, right?

— Alex Forgay (@AlexForgay) September 17, 2021

The Beaverton gets it again:

Beaverton as usual nails it lol! https://t.co/Na0dLAcGvz

— Mike Morden (@mmorden) September 17, 2021

Except for the Manitoba chiefs endorsing Liberal candidate Shirley Robinson (in front of Singh, at that priceless press conference!) I think Canada’s First Nations leadership has been walking a fine line, I think to avoid problems with provincial issues across the country. Former AFN chief Phil Fontaine does endorse Trudeau today:

Former AFN National Chief Phil Fontaine says “Liberal government offers Indigenous people a path to insuring a brighter future for all” #elexn44 #cdnpoli #VoteLiberal #Elxn44 #elxn2021 #LPC

https://t.co/32Nmz9yvkB via @YouTube

— Susan Smith (@susansmithott) September 17, 2021

Work is continuing on lifting the boil water orders as the most intractable problems are getting resolved one by one:

This was such a wonderful announcement the other day. Torpedoed Jagmeet’s “they’ve done nothing” rhetoric. https://t.co/lFOCVtn5vS

— Arthur Atkinson 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 (@ArthurAtkinson0) September 17, 2021

Here are some priorities that Canadian Aboriginal organizations want to discuss with the next government. New AFN chief RoseAnne Archibald tweeted this priorities document on its priorities for the next government:

Election Day is September 20. How will you cast your vote?

To view the full AFN Healing the Path Forward Election priorities document: https://t.co/96v4KWpz4E#Election2021 #CanPoli #AFN #LPC #CPC #NDP #QC #GPC #ClimateChange pic.twitter.com/rS0ykQYAhQ

— RoseAnne Archibald (@ChiefRoseAnne) September 17, 2021

And the BC chiefs are sending this Open Letter:

Open Letter to All Candidates in the Federal Election: “The events of the last year have exposed the deep wounds of colonialism. Canadians have said that they want a new relationship with Indigenous peoples. Canada’s next Parliament must act […]” https://t.co/bidp4OUxv7 pic.twitter.com/foh6P3KYMh

— UBCIC (@UBCIC) September 13, 2021

Here’s a few more tweets from today:

Jagmeet Singh is starting to piss me off as much as O’Toole does.#Elxn44 #cdnpoli

— Marc (@MarcDesgagne1) September 16, 2021

So the guy calling Sophie Trudeau a whore turns out to be @JustinTrudeau‘s fault, according to Singh, who stopped short of asking what Sophie was wearing. Singh is a menace and NDP would do well to send him back to Detroit. #Elxn44

— john d beggs (@dbeggs13) September 17, 2021

A big surprise in #elxn44 has been the extent to which Singh & NDP opted to double down on tropes (“ you bought a pipeline”), misleading info (“Liberals have done nothing”), & blew an opportunity to pitch a more ambitious, comprehensive, & credible #ClimateChange plan. #cdnpoli https://t.co/pUwrxLW5kD

— Dan Woynillowicz (@DanWoy) September 17, 2021

From @EdmontonSun “Erin O’Toole playing the fool. If he doesn’t believe in his platform, why believe in him?” by Conservative commentator Lorne Gunter @sunlornegunter #elxn44vote https://t.co/1bI8yS4pJ0

— Charles Adler (@charlesadler) September 17, 2021

Very true. He doesn’t have the leadership qualities required to run this country. He can’t manage this caucus, so how would he manage this country? https://t.co/gCeEfV0oRE

— Peter Gabriel Benevides (@peter_benevides) September 16, 2021

The people who fed raw meat to tigers for years now have concerns about being eaten by tigers. 🐅 #Elxn44 pic.twitter.com/y7LtVQcWsg

— Gerald Butts (@gmbutts) September 17, 2021

And he didn’t have to shit talk anyone to make his point. I’m no longer accepting “that’s politics” as an excuse. We won’t get better until we demand better.

— Scribulatora (@Scribulatora) September 18, 2021

Canadians are starting to try to evaluate this whole election experience, to figure out what it all means, too:

Despite what cynics have continued to crow, this #Elxn44 was *not* about nothing. #Pandemic response, tackling #climatechange, nat’l #childcare; the stakes have been sky high. Pundits have refused to acknowledge that fact in favour of cynical columns that earn clicks. 🙄#cdnpoli

— Stephen (is really) Near 🇨🇦😷 (@SNear23) September 18, 2021

Because it’s the election of good vs evil

— Bev Rayburn (@RayburnBev) September 18, 2021

Late news tonight — from Frank Graves at EKOS –

The CPC are at , wait for it , 26pts tonight . WIPEOUT

— Frank Graves (@VoiceOfFranky) September 18, 2021

let me explain this for you that don’t understand stats . This is over , done like dinner . Only question is whether it is a majority or minority

— Frank Graves (@VoiceOfFranky) September 18, 2021

A call to arms:

We must ensure the Conservative party loses this election so badly, they can never recover as a party again. The people of Canada have a new enemy, the PPC. Keep your eye on the ball. Look over the horizon. Forget the trees, start looking for the forest.

— John Corbett (@johnVcorbett) September 18, 2021

…that we won’t have anything to do with their crazy American ideas on guns and abortion and religion and the rest of their awful fantasies, then they win. It’s that delicately balanced, right now. If you live in a safe NDP riding, then, fine, vote your heart out.

— John Corbett (@johnVcorbett) September 18, 2021

But, if you live in a riding where the Liberal can defeat the Conservative, you gotta vote red.

— John Corbett (@johnVcorbett) September 18, 2021

Here’s a thread for strategic voting:

Hey Friends; I posted all the ABC ridings across Canada (thread). I just want to let you all know that every VOTE counts! Let’s do this and make Canada blue free! 😘 If you are unsure about the requirements please see https://t.co/UoN3tSSwTF We got this progressive peeps ❤️

— Lucy 🇨🇦 (@TheBlueGem3) September 18, 2021

Sarah Zhang, in The Atlantic, on putting an end to all respiratory viruses (not just COVID)
Vishal Khetpal, in Slate, on the collapse of the American medical system.
Jay S. Kaufman, in The New York Times, explains how sick societies trump science and …

Olivia Goldhill, in STAT, on the race against the next worse variant.
Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, on how COVID long haulers are everyone’s problem.
Katherine J. Wu, in The Atlantic, with why you likely need not worry too much about your waning immunity….

On August 9th 2021, Canada opened its border to all fully vaccinated Americans allowing tourists from the United States to visit the country once again. The US border remains closed to Canadians, however, and American authorities recently extended the border closure until September 21st citing COVID-19 transmission rates south of the border as well as […]

With respect to the three conservative leaders that have lost to Prime Minister Trudeau….I just can’t resist. #elxn44 #cdnpoli https://t.co/mcD34J1xAb

— Bill Oates 🏳️‍🌈 (@CaptPolitical) September 21, 2021

When my wife told me that the Prime Minister of Canada got re-elected, I thought she was lying.

It’s Trudeau.

— Dad Jokes (@Dadsaysjokes) September 21, 2021

Groan!

The majority complaining it was a waste of money are merely upset the election changed very little. But make no mistake, the #NotMyPM chants are only because you didn’t get the results that you convinced yourself of.
PS It cost roughly $15 per Canadian to determine our direction.

— Middle Minded (don’t fall off the edge ) (@BEPC22087964) September 21, 2021

I live in a Province where the Premier straight up lost $1.3 billion on a pipeline. Like poof, gone forever. For me $600 million that employed 200,000+ election officials and allowed Canada to make decisions on what’s next is not a bad deal.

— Tony Charron (@manaboutcowtown) September 21, 2021

O’Toole said he met “thousands of people” during this election. When was that, the empty bowling alley, empty dock, empty field, empty gym, ballroom? What nonsense he hid from voters the entire campaign. #Elxn44 #cdnpoli

— Steve V (@FarAndWide) September 21, 2021

Well I for one am shocked that showering with his clothes on in an attempt to curry favour with non-voting kids didn’t translate to an effective strategy…

— Michael Strathmore (@The_Strath) September 21, 2021

This sounds like a problem. https://t.co/Vq9qBD3i2x

— Dale Smith (@journo_dale) September 22, 2021

Here’s the g*dd*m good news story of the election. Beating that old reprobate CPCer,Diotte. Congrats! pic.twitter.com/26eUX2LJoe

— Antifa Larry M. Retzlaff (@Greyseeker) September 21, 2021

Moving on from the election:

It’s going to be Conservative groundhog day, @jkenney and @fordnation are going to come out of the holes now that the election is over, if they see their shadows we have 2 more years of incompetence.#abpoli #onpoli

— Tsiehta ⚛️💉💉 (@Tsiehta) September 21, 2021

Alberta: Where the morgues are full but the bars are open.

— The Wicked Witch of the Far Left 🌾 (@FarLeftWitch) September 20, 2021

So finally today, Alberta sent a letter to the federal government to ask for help dealing with the Covid crisis in their hospitals. When asked if they had deliberately waited until after the election — to save Kenney the embarassment of asking Trudeau for help, even though this caused even more misery to Alberta people — the province perished the thought – it was, they said, just because they didn’t know who they should address the letter to. I guess nobody thought of sending it “To Whom It May Concern”?

Good God. We couldn’t get emergency help because you couldn’t figure out where to send the letter. Well, if that doesn’t sum up the UCP perfectly. Ffs.

— Lloy Williams (@lloy_williams) September 21, 2021

And Saskatchewan premier Scott Moe held a bizarre press conference about this today:

Moe is deeply afraid of the Sask purple people eaters (AKA the Buffalo Party) so I think this statement is a flex to try to impress them with how “tough” he is.

— Cathie from Canada 🇨🇦 😷🏳️‍🌈 (@CathieCanada) September 21, 2021

Wheel of Saskatchewan Misfortune… pic.twitter.com/yBHwtHGr5x

— Frank Francoeur 🟠 (@flipkoin2) September 17, 2021

Here’s some random funny stuff:

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂🤣🤣🤣😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 https://t.co/6PSFyS6eYl

— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) September 21, 2021

Tips on writing pic.twitter.com/iDfksWbMMN

— Meanwhile in Canada (@MeanwhileinCana) September 19, 2021

What

10 years

No

*crumbles into mummy dust* https://t.co/PHpKwCiVsg

— Chester Scoville (@ChesterScoville) September 20, 2021

“If Jaws was filmed in Canada”#Canada #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/cbXmcbbsmR

— Kelly Fairchild (@kellyfairchild2) September 17, 2021

Joe Biden said something nice about Australia and then Canada immediately gets the vapours? We really are still living in high school, aren’t we:

Surprisingly I am more than a little wounded by this.

— Tertiary Person-#ChooseForward 🇨🇦 (@kaythird) September 22, 2021

Did Canada just get broken up with by text?

— Dion Freeman 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@dionbfreeman) September 22, 2021

Proportional representation anyone?

Yeah. This just firms up my ‘Not a chance in hell I would ever support PR.’ pic.twitter.com/J9y1aOSEz1

— Danika Dragomir (@NikaDragomira) September 22, 2021

Well observed!

I’ve asked many people why they say Trudeau is divisive. Not one has been able to answer. I can only assume it’s because they don’t want to admit they want him to tolerate their bigotry. #cdnpoli https://t.co/CzPnW8nU74

— Justice.Happy is 96% vaxxed!!!! (@Happyjustice4) September 22, 2021

Imagine spending years calling a guy an idiot former drama teacher who is completely incapable and corrupt…. and then losing an election to him three times with three different leaders.

— Dylan (@LDTG117) September 22, 2021

Funny:

OMG—this vaccine info Family Guy clip is amazing! Get #vaccinated before we get more variants!

HT @FamilyGuyonFOX @SethMacFarlane #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/cYTLlrCbR0

— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) September 22, 2021

Please enjoy my #elexn44 cartoon for Thursday’s @TorontoStar #cdnpoli #Elxn44 pic.twitter.com/kj8LxRW5fB

— Theo Moudakis (@TheoMoudakis) September 22, 2021

I’m sick of killing people with kindness, I want to kill them with all of this pent up rage.

— Annie the Nanny (@AnnietheNanny1) September 21, 2021

Joe Vipond, Kashif Pirzada, and Danielle Cane, in The Toronto Star, on how Canada’s culture of silence around airborne transmission has led to confusion and undoubtedly, to avoidable illness and death.
Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, on the lessons we shoul…

Join your mostly white media in making #TruthandReconciliationDay all about a white man. Couldn’t fail harder if we tried.

— #SHIFT (@TheGentYYC) October 1, 2021

Does anyone else find it rather odd that the Trudeau in Tofino story is now on its second day? Ridiculous. 

 Excerpt from the poem Forgiving Our Fathers,from one of the best movies ever made, Smoke Signals. Residential School Survivor offers advice on how to honour National Day for Truth and Reconciliation https://t.co/tdtjpVZxu2— The Globe and Ma…

What is it with these guys? Today we learned that White House staff were soothing Trump’s rages by playing show tunes he liked: Trump’s handlers designated a White House official known as the “Music Man” to play him his favorite show tunes, includ…

 ….Powell’s interview “suggests that the purpose of the insurrection was to DELAY the electoral college certification to give [Justice Samuel Alito] time to intervene on this legal challenge. But, Powell says they didn’t anticipate Pelosi reconvening Congress that day.” 

 Powell said that while then-President Donald Trump was inciting a riot at the Capitol, her team was filing a “12th Amendment constitutional challenge to the process the Congress was about to use.”

 “Justice Alito was our circuit justice for that,” she recalled. “And we were suing the vice president to follow the 12th Amendment as opposed to the Electoral College Act.” 

 Powell alleged that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi learned of the lawsuit and rushed to have Congress certify the election despite the ongoing attack on the U.S. Capitol. 

 “Everything broke loose and she really had to speed up reconvening Congress to get the vote going before Justice Alito might have issued an injunction to stop it all, which is what should have happened,” the attorney said

If you think the insurrection ended on January 6, you are not paying attention.

— Steven Beschloss (@StevenBeschloss) September 26, 2021

In other news today, I guess nobody told Post Media that the election is over.

Nothing like American owned, right wing media and their polls to reflect Canada. We just had an electionLiberals won, end of story.

— Nancy Nicholls (@nisobel) September 25, 2021

They just can’t stand it that Trudeau won AGAIN! https://t.co/4Ad3dg2gzg

— Cathie from Canada 🇨🇦 😷🏳️‍🌈 (@CathieCanada) September 26, 2021

COVID news keeps getting worse every day – more than a thousand new cases in Saskatchewan just this weekend. This is absolutely nuts – the anti-vaxxers are terrified of COVID but they’re now trying to demonize doctors and nurses, and they’re putting together “protocols” to breathe hydrogen peroxide and gargle iodine.

A quick thread:

⁰It’s hard to explain just how radicalized ivermectin and antivax Facebook groups have become in the last few weeks.

They’re now telling people who get COVID to avoid the ICU and treat themselves, often by nebulizing hydrogen peroxide.

So, how did we get here?

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) September 24, 2021

pic.twitter.com/kRIgD4Z5zb

— John Wildman (@wildmanjohn10) September 25, 2021

Thank you to the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra @SSOyxe for your leadership and commitment to keep our community safe! 👏👏👏 https://t.co/V25J7ZZQGT

— Jennifer Bowes (@JBowes_SKNDP) September 9, 2021

My brother was at the Saskatoon Symphony performance this weekend, and there was one anti-vax cellist playing out front for spare change, because she refused to get vaccinated – so now she is losing her career and all her friends, just because of anti-vax ignorant stubbornness. 

And it makes me absolutely furious that so many innocent people are being hurt by the anti-vax intransigence. I see more and more doctors speaking out:

Today I transferred an unvax Covid + patient to another hospital where her unvax Covid + husband is being treated so they could die together in the same room. Then had to tell their child about both parents likely pending demise. 😢

— Dr. K.U. (@DrKU14) September 24, 2021

We hold your hands with our gloved ones. We smile with tired eyes under our goggles. We absorb your pain with heavy hearts beneath our gowns. We are tired and broken, from suffering and death that did not have to be. This was predictable and preventable. #FirebreakAB #ThankYiu

— Chuck Wurster, MD (He/Him) (@ChuckWurster) September 27, 2021

Person in Regina hospital. Crying. Dying.

“I should have had my shots. My wife had hers. She kept telling me to get mine. I’m going to die, aren’t I?”

He spoke w/ family one last time before going to ICU. He told them he was so sorry.

He died 3 days later, alone.#COVID19SK

— Dr. Alexander Wong (@awong37) September 26, 2021

Please take this amazing remedy. Get vaccinated for those who love you. So that we do not have to break their hearts when we ask them,

“What would he want us to do if we cannot cure him?”

— Darren Markland (@drdagly) September 27, 2021

I agree with this too:

If locking my 2X vaccinated ass down for a month buys a kid his cancer surgery, a grandmother her long awaited & desperately needed new hip, keeps one more immunocompromised person from dying from Covid, or allows a mom to get her transplanted liver,

Lock.

Me.

Up.#ableg

— Shawna Gawreluck (@ShawnaGofABPoli) September 27, 2021

James Heathers, with a rare must read recommendation, in Medium, on how our biggest failing of the pandemic has been keeping it invisible. Ben Collins, in NBC News, on the rapid continuing radicalization of the anti-vaxxer movementCraig Spencer, …

First, The Michaels are coming home.

With the timing of their release Beijing reveals what everyone knew: They had been political prisoners all along. https://t.co/N8FIUuD5Es

— Micah Zenko (@MicahZenko) September 25, 2021

Justin Trudeau just saved the two Michaels. No doubt worked in it all through #Elxn44 while being attacked by ignorami across the #cdnpoli spectrum. Well done, Mr. Trudeau. Well done.

— Matt Hopkins (@RealMattHopkins) September 25, 2021

We’re sending Rex Murphy to China and Conrad Black to the US. China also gets the 2022 Leafs second round draft pick. #cdnpoli

— Carlos. 🇨🇦 (@carlosstelmac) September 25, 2021

We’re finished with Meng Wanzhou too:

And the next time the US tries to get Canada to arrest someone based on a stupid president’s stupid whim, DON’T DO IT! https://t.co/rxk3tO0j36

— Cathie from Canada 🇨🇦 😷🏳️‍🌈 (@CathieCanada) September 25, 2021

Second, the Canadian catholic bishops are stepping up to take responsibility for residential school abuse — unfortunately this story has been overshadowed tonight by the Michaels news, but a really significant story overall:

Canadian Catholic bishops apologize for ‘grave abuses’ at residential schools, vow to raise funds for Indigenous efforts https://t.co/SXntfn6IKO

— The Globe and Mail (@globeandmail) September 25, 2021

Statement of Apology by the Catholic Bishops of Canada to the Indigenous Peoples of This Land – Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops #cdnpoli https://t.co/Yc2BrMSPKD

— Marc Miller (@MarcMillerVM) September 24, 2021

And now I’m thinking maybe Pope Francis was active behind the scenes:

BREAKING: Catholic Bishops of Canada hint they are working to have Pope Francis come to Canada.

“We pledge to work with the Holy See and our Indigenous partners on the possibility of a pastoral visit by the Pope to Canada as part of this healing journey” https://t.co/E9H83dZyDQ

— Harrison Lowman (@harrisonlowman) September 24, 2021

Its Corn Maze season, too:

It’s CORN MAZE SEASON!

Check out the #SuperMarioBrothers maze at @SiegelsFarm in Lockport, IL. @WGNMorningNews @NintendoAmerica pic.twitter.com/xN6UaEUARg

— Sarah Jindra (@SarahJindra) September 24, 2021

There’s nothing that people can’t turn into an art form:

That’s one artistic leg day.https://t.co/8nlocnb65w

— VICE (@VICE) September 24, 2021

Saskatchewan had 460 new cases of COVID-19 to report Thursday, along with 444 recoveries and seven deaths. There are 273 COVID patients in the province’s hospitals, including 58 in ICUs.https://t.co/DYD2Too4Ws

— 650 CKOM (@CKOMNews) September 23, 2021

COVID here in Saskatchewan is horrible, and I am deeply angry — first, at the thousands of unvaccinated-by-choice who are to blame for this mess, and second, at the politicians who pandered to them.