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

Oregon’s 15-year battle against the Jordan Cove LNG project quietly came to an end on December 1, bringing relief to dozens of landowners that live in the path of the proposed project.  It was an anti-climactic end to one of the most controversial fossil fuel projects ever proposed in the Pacific Northwest. Pembina, the backer […]

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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…

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…

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…

Devi Sridhar, in The Guardian, on whether COVID will become a disease of the young. Katelyn Jetelina, in Your Local Epidemiologist, discusses the risk of long COVID even for those who are fully vaccinated. André Picard, in The Globe and Mail…

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]

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)…

Tonight’s question is whether O’Toole and Kenney had a deal that Kenney would delay imposing yesterday’s Covid health measures until after the Monday vote. In other words, did Conservative electioneering cost Albertans their lives? There’s mounti…

Judith Danovitch, in The New York Times, on how masks might help your children to learn.
Lael M. Yonker and Anthony J. Fischer, in Time, on how we can protect unvaccinated kids.
Helen Branswell, in STAT, polled some epidemiologists about what they wer…

Philip Ball, in Nature, on how the UK’s COVID Freedom Day and dropping of restrictions risks incubating far worse variants that will risk us all. 
Andrew Coyne, in The Globe and Mail, makes the clear case for vaccination mandates in Canada. …

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…

Jonathan Howard, in Science Based Medicine, explores myocarditis and spin with the mRNA vaccines.Katherine J. Wu, in the Atlantic, on how to understand breakthrough infections in the vaccinated. Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, in Medium, covers the terri…

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

 ….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, …

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

After long feeling ignored by Washington, D.C., this week Louisiana Cancer Alley community leaders were elated following a visit from the federal government’s highest ranking environmental regulator, Michael Regan. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator met with environmental advocates in New Orleans, Reserve and St. James on November 16, as part of his “Journey […]

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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:

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…

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…

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. 

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. 

Forget about a statistical tie. @VoiceOfFranky has an honest-to-god actual tie – to one decimal point! 31.8% each for the #LPC and the #CPC ! #elxn44 pic.twitter.com/aPP6hWumW0

— David Akin 🇨🇦 (@davidakin) September 15, 2021

The NDP promise to align with with a CPC minority government will not be progressive.@JustinTrudeau🗨”I think it is cynical of Mr. Singh to continue to pretend that there is no difference between a Conservative government & a Liberal government” #Cdnpolipic.twitter.com/Vc9kcpR1fs

— Jaro Giesbrecht🇨🇦 (@JaroGiesbrecht) September 15, 2021

Chretien was at a Liberal event last night, so they got Mulroney at one tonight, and he started talking about O’Toole making “deep structural changes” in Canada – maybe so Conservatives will win elections more easily in the future? Oh but nothing to see here, folks, move along, move along:

So this jumped out at me tonight. @CPC_HQ and @erinotoole have spent weeks trying to suggest no huge changes are coming, Mulroney says the opposite. #Elxn44 #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/wI0G23U5ri

— Althia Raj (@althiaraj) September 15, 2021

Unmentioned is that Harper excommunicated him after the literal bags of cash revelations. Mulroney was politically radioactive. Even his old loyalists had to be very silent about it, lest they upset Harper and lose their status. It was not voluntary. https://t.co/GYnX1N4zhP pic.twitter.com/cxgFg5SNPc

— Dale Smith (@journo_dale) September 16, 2021

At least the Star gets it right. https://t.co/6k7CxUK3vZ pic.twitter.com/O9oDTkcQm2

— Dale Smith (@journo_dale) September 16, 2021

O’Toole is having a lot of trouble maintaining any kind of consistency in his policies – gun control, abortion, vaccinations, carbon pricing, pick anything and O’Toole will flip it around as he tries to appeal to everyone all the time. But things are catching up to him and he can’t duck and weave forever

If reversing policy positions was a drinking game, Erin O’Toole would be blowing .15 #Elxn44 https://t.co/EIq08zNkm2

— Charles Adler (@charlesadler) September 15, 2021

The Beaverton gets it about right:

Erin O’Toole reverses position he hasn’t announced yet https://t.co/Qkxehp38FS pic.twitter.com/JXsQmMF2hv

— The Beaverton (@TheBeaverton) September 15, 2021

And The Globe and Mail seems to be going full frontal fascist about those supposedly awful “non-European immigrants” who are giving the PPC the vapours:

Well, this is disgusting. https://t.co/T56Dh16GuB pic.twitter.com/hlhdk5m7vB

— Dr. Mike P. Moffatt 🇨🇦🏅🏅 (@MikePMoffatt) September 14, 2021

But O’Toole is trying his best to keep on pandering:

I will never vote @CPC_HQ @erinotoole or any Conservative when they continue to throw immigrants and other people of colour under the bus to pander to the racists among their base. Absolutely sickening. https://t.co/YJKRmoSyVB

— Dr. Faisal Moola (@faisal_moola) September 15, 2021

Remember that the same people who thought that Doug Ford and Jason Kenney would make great Premiers now want to elect Erin O’Toole as Prime Minister of Canada. #cdnpoli #Elxn44

— Neil Before Zod™ (@WaytowichNeil) September 16, 2021

So today, after cancelled surgeries and patients being airlifted out, Jason Kenney finally apologized to Alberta for getting Covid so wrong. Sounds like it took a caucus revolt before Kenney would act:

In 45 minutes Alberta Premier @jkenney will announce lockdown measures and a vaccine passport in a effort to battle COVID-19.
There is unrest in caucus and several members will leave. Hearing some high level cabinet ministers may go.
Fascinating times. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli

— Brian Lilley (@brianlilley) September 15, 2021

“I’m sorry. But also not sorry, but kind of sorry, and I really want to emphasize how sorry I am, but not for my apology earlier, but for sure my apology now, which I’m not sorry for, and for that, I am truly sorry…but not, because I’m sorry.”

– Jason Kenney
September 15, 2021

— Andrew Phung (@andrewphung) September 16, 2021

AHS CEO Verna Yu says they’re making preparations to send Alberta ICU patients to other provinces. They’re also preparing to implement “triage protocols” — which mean asking doctors to decide who lives and who dies. #intentionallycruelwave #COVID19AB

— Gil McGowan (@gilmcgowan) September 16, 2021

Who else thinks @jkenney waited for the advance polls to close before making todays announcement? he should have done this a week ago or more.

— Gibson (@BGib47) September 16, 2021

Hey Alberta, your lives are election playthings pic.twitter.com/xitqGYiwOt

— ethan (@verynotmad) September 16, 2021

I fully believe that was the intention was to wait till Tuesday but couldn’t because the Healthcare system wouldn’t make it

— David Gallant (he/his) 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 (@abguy09) September 16, 2021

Saskatchewan had another 450 cases today. Again. I expect sometime tomorrow or Friday Scott Moe will finally be dragged kicking and screaming into the same types of restrictions Alberta is implementing. We really should be trying to do a better job in managing Covid than Alabama.

“University of Sask professor Andrew Potter said it’s clear Moe has stopped listening to reason and facts when it comes to the pandemic.” #skpoli #cdnpoli
Alabama health officials warn Saskatchewan: don’t repeat our mistakes in the COVID-19 battle https://t.co/ys4CVX71H7

— Charles Smith (@ProfSmithSask) September 14, 2021

When thinking about the importance of maintaining gun control in Canada here’s something to consider:

I have bowls full of beach rocks and cans of wasp spray in my classroom. The kids know they’re there in case we need to use them against possible shooters.

Think about having this conversation with kids before you tell me how traumatizing masks are.

— KD 📚🌎🌊🇺🇸 (@kdnerak33) September 15, 2021

And the Marijuana Party is still toking:

The Marijuana Party’s responses to the questionnaire sent out by the Western Canadian Wheat Growers are just a trip that none of you are prepared for in the slightest. pic.twitter.com/TRGLPCbRGW

— Jordan Sherbino (@JordanSherbino) September 16, 2021

Makes me think of those Japanese navy/army fighters found on the islands in the pacific years after ww2 ended and they still thought they were at war. Same idea except cloud of cannabis smoke instead of an island.

— Mike (@Mread8821) September 13, 2021

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…

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…

By Kenny Stancil, Common Dreams After Congress lifted a ban on crude exports in late 2015, oil and gas production in the Permian Basin soared while domestic consumption remained flat—leading to a massive build-out of pipelines and other infrastructure that culminated in the U.S. “flooding global markets” with fossil fuels at the expense of humanity, […]

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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…

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…

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…

Starting on November 18, Canada’s RCMP violently cracked down on a group of Indigenous land defenders who had sought to block the construction of a major natural gas pipeline in northern British Columbia, arresting roughly 15 people over a two-day period. The RCMP also detained two journalists covering the events. The Coastal GasLink pipeline, under […]

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 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…

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…

A right-wing group that has a history of receiving funding from conservative foundations and ExxonMobil is trying to frame the state of Michigan’s attempts to shut down the aging Line 5 oil pipeline as an assault on the Black community.  That industry-backed spin has not gone down well with Michigan activists. “I think that’s B.S. […]

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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

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

Chrétien talks about importance of vaccines. Says he’s been vaccinated with various shots for 86 years. On Erin O’Toole- “He is doing something I cannot do – he is speaking out of both sides of his mouth.” pic.twitter.com/9i2drNzG5J

— Abigail Bimman (@AbigailBimman) September 15, 2021

Chrétien said it’s not the time to be far left or far right. It’s time to be in the middle. He said it’s the time to be Liberal.

— Ashley Burke (@AshleyBurkeCBC) September 15, 2021

Q: How do you think this race will end? Chrétien: “It will end on the 20th.”

— Ashley Burke (@AshleyBurkeCBC) September 15, 2021

Chrétien kept us out of the Iraq War when Harper, half the business community and most of the media wanted us in. Thank God. https://t.co/QMNmKwzHXL

— Gerald Butts (@gmbutts) September 11, 2021

The Liberals have released Shelia Copps AND Jean Chretien. If Paul Martin makes an appearance, they’re going to have to start a 90s cover band.

— Brandon Tozzo (@BrandonTozzo) September 15, 2021

Rosemary Barton at the CBC has been doing lengthy interviews with the leaders – O’Toole on Monday night, Trudeau on Tuesday night, and now Singh tonight – worth listening to, I think. But here’s one of the funniest takes:

#CBC’s @RosieBarton looked exasperated trying to get @theJagmeetSingh to answer, so here he is with a perfect response… https://t.co/tvh0IA2uuJ

— dmolson (@burlivespipe) September 15, 2021

Liberals are entering majority territory, though who knows if it will hold up:

CANADA SEAT PROJECTION

Nationwide! Here’s today’s scorecard for how the #Elxn44 race is looking on Sept 14 in #cdnpoli.

Want to see more #cdnpoli projections and polling? Subscribe here: https://t.co/JDqcz5RrWF pic.twitter.com/pzNK36ybBw

— Election Barometer 🇨🇦 (@elxnometre) September 14, 2021

This is why the former Green leader is endorsing the Liberals climate plan now:

Today I met with @JustinTrudeau in Richmond to discuss the @liberal_party climate plan. As I told him, “This is a plan that I’ve been dreaming of for most of my life.” It is economy wide, its all encompassing and it’s costed and well thought through! #cdnpoli #Elxn44 pic.twitter.com/qx39VOCYTn

— Andrew Weaver (@AJWVictoriaBC) September 14, 2021

Another outstanding video:

VOTE FOR!! SHIRLEY ROBINSON!!

For CHURCHILL KEEWATINOOK ASKI!
ON SET 20!!! #VoteShirleyRobinson #Vote4Shirley #4keewatinookaski #cdnpoli #elxn44 @KeewatinookAski @gunktah pic.twitter.com/xSR725dK4g

— Lisa Muswagon (@LisaMuswagon) September 14, 2021

Remembering O’Toole’s greatest hits:

So vile. A blatant lie to deliberately stoke anger and fear in Canadians. It was unforgivable at such an uncertain time. So many people were so stressed thinking we’d never get vaccines.

We should not forget these guys obstructed and cheered against the Covid effort. #elx44

— David Brown (@OrbitStudios) September 15, 2021

And here’s one we need to get trending:

I got fully vaccinated and wasn’t prepared for the side effects but apparently “absolutely enormous cock” is quite common

— Crockett🍀 (@CrockettForReal) September 13, 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. 

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