Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn't warning the public like it was months ago

Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

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Who is going to do something? This is Kim Jong-Un shit.

“This growing sense of Canadian national pride has trickled into the tech sector, where some investors and startup founders view the divisiveness between the US and Canada as an opportunity…“ “In hindsight we will look at these US tariffs as an important wake-up call for Canada.” Via @wired.com

Trump’s Trade War Pushes Canadian Tech Workers to Rethink Silicon Valley

Canada’s top tech talent has long moved to the US for better opportunities, but Donald Trump’s tariffs and threats are raising questions about how to build a stronger ecosystem at home.

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Axa threatened to cancel cover for Briton with brain injuries in US, says daughter

Axa threatened to cancel cover for Briton with brain injuries in US, says daughter

Company said Jane Rubens, in a coma after being hit by vehicle on holiday, must be repatriated this week, against advice of neurologists The daughter of a woman who suffered brain injuries while on holiday in the US say they were told by her insurer that…

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Recently one of my nephews stopped by and I showed him the old Mac we had set up in our living room. He immediately got sucked into Kid Pix. It’s so cool to see them enjoying the programs we grew up with.

Just a reminder that while some cities are still debating whether or not to transform a block or two of streets into places for people, this year Montreal transformed 11 such streets across 7 neighbourhoods, equalling 9+kms, from car spaces to people places. Leadership. www.mtl.org/en/experienc...

Walk Montréal's car-free streets all summer long! | Tourisme Montréal

Each summer, some of Montréal’s busiest thoroughfares close to car traffic and transform into pedestrianized centres, full of yummy restaurants, markets, bustling terrasses, boutiques and happily stro...

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Daily Mirror and OK! magazine to merge staff

Daily Mirror and OK! magazine to merge staff

Merging of daily newspaper and celebrity magazine employees is latest move by owner, Reach, to cut costs The Daily Mirror is to merge its staff with those on the celebrity title OK! magazine in the latest move by the UK’s largest commercial news…

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The notwithstanding clause in Section 33 of the Charter allows governments to bypass certain Charter rights for up to five years, preventing judicial invalidation of laws related to fundamental freedoms and equality rights. It cannot be used for democratic, mobility, or Aboriginal rights.

This is SHOCKING. Among everything else that’s despicable about this, ITS A CLEAR ADMISSION THAT THEY KNOW THAT DOING THIS WILL OBVIOUSLY ENDANGER LIVES. People rode bikes on these streets before the bike-lanes (albeit fewer) and they will again after. The inevitable blood will be on Ford’s hands.

I’m going to say this again. Given that the Ontario Liberal, NDP and Green Parties are WELL AWARE of the likelihood that splitting the vote would hand the Doug Ford Conservatives another comfortable majority govt with a small % of the vote, I’d think they would put aside ambitions AND WORK TOGETHER.

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This is SHOCKING. Among everything else that’s despicable about this, ITS A CLEAR ADMISSION THAT THEY KNOW THAT DOING THIS WILL OBVIOUSLY ENDANGER LIVES. People rode bikes on these streets before the bike-lanes (albeit fewer) and they will again after. The inevitable blood will be on Ford’s hands.

“A city’s creativity doesn’t depend on cars. That’s the 20th century. We’re in the 21st.” - Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo @annehidalgo.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/8fba...

Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo: ‘A city’s creativity doesn’t depend on cars. That’s the 20th century’

Accused of desecrating the French capital, the politician wants more bikes, green spaces and social housing

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it might be dark out, but lots of people are still cycling because of cycling infrastructure. while crossing bloor/barhurst, counted 8 people on bikes quickly cross the intersection while about a dozen drivers remain stuck in their self-inflicted congestion 🙃

Never forget, if you design a city for cars, it fails for everyone, including drivers. If you design a multi-modal city that makes walking, biking and public transit attractive options, it works better for everyone, including drivers. INCLUDING DRIVERS. The “war on cars” has always been a lie.

🧵 Joe and Mika's journey to Mar-a-Lago prompted a question that many members of the media are quietly asking: Just how worried should we be? More specifically, and practically, what preparations and precautions should news outlets take ahead of Trump's return to power? Here are some answers >>>

Hey, remember when car and oil companies successfully lobbied governments to create car dependent cities and suburbs, and once we became almost completely car dependent, WE became the loudest, angriest champions of unhindered road space for cars, unnaturally cheap gas, and subsidized free parking?

“They cut speed limits, changed street design, removed space for cars… Now it appears that work is paying off. #Oslo & #Helsinki are reaping the rewards of committed action on making their roads safer, reducing pedestrian fatalities to zero last year.” #VisionZero www.theguardian.com/world/2020/m...

How Helsinki and Oslo cut pedestrian deaths to zero

After years of committed action, neither city recorded a single pedestrian fatality in 2019

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BREAKING: “Removing bike -lanes from busy city streets will increase traffic congestion, according to a government document leaked amid a furious row over urban infrastructure. The findings undercut claims that the dedicated routes contribute to urban gridlock.” www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

Removing Toronto bike lanes will make traffic worse, official document shows

In preparation for plan, Ontario has indemnified itself from liability if cyclists are killed on streets that once had bike lanes

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I actively avoid calling people on bikes “cyclists.” It fuels an “othering” or “us vs them,” and makes it easier to claim that safe infrastructure is for a small in-group. None of which is helpful. It may take more characters in a post, but I just say people on bikes. Because that’s what they are.

Doing good science is 90% finding a science buddy to constantly talk to about the project.

Underused public land in some of Canada’s larger cities could house a million people, study shows: The Toronto area and five other cities would altogether have enough underused government-owned land to build homes for as many as one million people, according to a new study by University of British…

Underused public land in some of Canada’s larger cities could house a million people, study shows

The Toronto area and five other cities would altogether have enough underused government-owned land to build homes for as many as one million people, according to a new study by University of British Columbia researchers

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Canada’s security agencies suspect Modi knew of plot to kill Sikh activist: Intelligence has also tied India’s External Affairs Minister to interference operations, source says

Canada’s security agencies suspect Modi knew of plot to kill Sikh activist

Intelligence has also tied India’s External Affairs Minister to interference operations, source says

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How a handful of rich Toronto businessmen with entirely too much political access and influence, but apparently zero understanding of how urban mobility actually works, appear to be getting their way with Ontario Premier Doug Ford on bike-lanes province-wide. www.thetrillium.ca/news/municip...

How a handful of Toronto businessmen got their way on bike lanes provincewide

'Non-partisan group' Balance on Bloor includes a former PC candidate, donors, and real estate industry players

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Within MSNBC, there are a variety of opinions about what Trump and his allies might do to the media. For that reason, there are a wide range of feelings about the "Morning Joe" meeting with the president-elect, according to half a dozen employees 🧵

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart govts do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.bsky.social

Live updates: Canada’s inflation rate jumps back up to 2% in October: The last inflation report to be released before the Bank of Canada’s next interest rate announcement on Dec. 11

Live updates: Canada’s inflation rate jumps back up to 2% in October

The last inflation report to be released before the Bank of Canada’s next interest rate announcement on Dec. 11

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University of Toronto faculty members are facing meetings with deans after expressing support for Palestine on social media, raising alarms about potential threats to academic freedom.

U of T faculty members called into Dean’s office for supporting Palestine on social media

Professors express concern over the admin’s actions, the “Palestine exception” on campus

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Lots of people are about to be really mad that price of eggs goes up but they can’t get a 2nd job because they can’t afford childcare and when they do finally get the eggs they get E Coli because there’s no FDA but can’t go to the doctor because they got kicked off their health plan. #FAFO

Elon Musk's xAI has shifted a $6 billion server order from Supermicro to Dell due to financial instability at Supermicro. This move benefits Dell and its suppliers amid rising AI demand. Supermicro faces challenges from accounting probes and delayed filings.

Elon Musk's xAI reportedly shifts $6 billion AI server order from troubled Supermicro to its rivals

Supermicro could be delisted at NASDAQ.

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Assassins, spies and a superpower on the rise: the rift between Canada and India – podcast

Assassins, spies and a superpower on the rise: the rift between Canada and India – podcast

A killing in a Canadian suburb has provoked an astonishing diplomatic breakdown between India and Canada. Hannah Ellis-Petersen reports On 18 June last year Hardeep Singh Nijjar had spent the day in his local gurdwara or Sikh temple. The owner of a…

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Lidia Thorpe defiant after Senate censures her protest against King Charles: ‘I’ll do it again’

Lidia Thorpe defiant after Senate censures her protest against King Charles: ‘I’ll do it again’

Senator rips up paper copy of motion against her and says she was ‘denied my right’ to be present during vote * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Lidia Thorpe has…

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