Anton Gerashchenko@antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 2mo agoA #Ukrainian Defender with the callsign "Demon" carried his wounded brother-in-arms, "Bora-Bora," on his shoulders for almost 20 kilometers after he suffered a severe leg injury. The Warriors spent four days making their way to safety under constant Russian shelling and the threat of drone attacks.
Here's my piece on the misogynistic intent of calling women a witch in @theconversation.com! "Calling a woman a “witch” reinforces the idea that women who seek or have political power are not to be trusted. They are cast as inherently deceitful, dangerous, and diabolical." #AusPol
Why is it misogynistic to call a woman a ‘witch’?
From the middle ages on, threatening the patriarchy by displaying ambition or failing to conform to societal gender norms was taken as evidence of witchcraft.
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Thunder Bay police continuing world class obstruction of reporting. ricochet.media/media/thunde...
Thunder Bay police retaliate against award-winning journalist
Force refuse to send official communications to reporter who won a Canadian Screen Award for exposing misconduct in the department
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I have a family member who was recently screened for this. Research indicates that about 1 in 5 Canadians have high levels of Lipoprotein(a), or Lp(a), putting them at greater risk of a heart attack or stroke. And yet there is no routine screening for Lp(a). www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
A simple blood test could tell you if you're at greater risk of having a heart attack or stroke | CBC News
Research indicates that about one in five Canadians have high levels of Lipoprotein(a), putting them at greater risk of a heart attack or stroke. And yet, many people have no idea because there is no ...
cbc.ca
5 years ago, this week, I was lucky to receive my first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine that gave me a fighting chance during the pandemic But millions were not as lucky... This week, I reflect on why charity can never be justice meridianletters.com/vaccine-ineq...
I Was Lucky Enough to Access a Life-Saving Vaccine. Millions Were Not. We Must Fix This Injustice.
Madhukar Pai argues that COVID-19 vaccine inequity was a defining policy failure and that fairer access will require new manufacturing and political choices.
meridianletters.com
Mardoché and his family were displaced from their home in Petite Rivière, Haiti in November 2024 and now live in Verrettes. For a long time, even putting food on the table felt uncertain. Today, things look different. (1/2)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Post-acute organ complications within one year following COVID-19 hospitalization and related socioeconomic inequalities - Nature Communications
Post-acute complications of COVID-19 and their determinants are incompletely understood. Here, the authors analyse linked electronic health and social registries from Belgium to estimate risks of post...
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In this experiment, Dr Rob Thompson from the University of Reading shows how long it takes a cup of water to soak into parched ground. This is why heavy rainfall after a drought can be really dangerous & might lead to flash flooding. Original post
#Canada #Cdnpoli #Survivors #ResidentialSchool
Journalist plans to create new archive of residential school survivor stories — before it's too late | CBC News
A new project from award-winning journalist Connie Walker aims to create an archive of testimonies of abuse at residential schools before the accounts are destroyed in September 2027.
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Yet another reason to make HPV vaccination more widely available! HPV vaccination cuts cancer risk in men by about half, study suggests www.cidrap.umn.edu/human-papill...
HPV vaccination cuts cancer risk in men by about half, study suggests
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Just wanted to remind folks, especially the GOP and the FDD, that Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal didn’t give Iran control of the Strait of Hormuz or allow it to keep 60% enriched uranium. It sent $1.7 billion to Iran versus the tens of billions Iran will now make from tolls. 🤷🏽♂️
Ukrainian Defender Mykhailo from the 128th brigade held his positions for almost 200 days under constant drone attacks. Mykhailo survived without food and basic comforts, entered combat, walked for 8km in pain. Deepest respect to Ukrainian Hero. 📸: 128 Brigade
Trump has bankrupt the US in less than two years and lost all its 1st world allies. Pretty impressive for a Russian Israeli asset.
After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations. She accepted three. One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history. www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...
WNBA Players Had an Ace Up Their Sleeve in Pay Negotiations: A Nobel Laureate
Harvard economist Claudia Goldin helped WNBA players win a nearly 400% raise. Starting this season, players’ average salary will top $580,000.
wsj.com
Cool. Data centres drawing all the energy so that human beings will no longer be capable of creating any new data.
Cloe Logan@cloelogan.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe government wouldn't give us a list of data centres seeking power in Ontario. So, we built one ourselves. What @rorywh.bsky.social and I found: at least 15 projects drawing a combined 2,202 MW: more electricity than 2 million homes. #OnPoli for @nationalobserver.com 🧵
Bucha has come to symbolise the cruelty of Russia’s war. Of the civilians killed, many were shot at close range. Some with their hands tied behind their backs. Four years after these mass killings, we remember the victims. What happened here cannot be denied. (1/2)
More than three years after inking the deal to buy 5 million bottles of childrens medication, most of which didn’t and couldn’t come, the Alberta government says AHS is now using legal means to try and recoup $49 million from the sellers www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #AbLeg #AbHealth
Alberta Health Services taking legal steps to try and recoup $49M for medication never received | CBC News
Premier Danielle Smith says Alberta Health Services is trying to get its money back after paying $49 million to an importer and Turkish drug company for products it never received.
cbc.ca
"This World TB Day, as ever, the world has everything it needs to end tuberculosis in our lifetimes. Yet in 2024, 1·23 million people died of tuberculosis, indicating that tuberculosis persists as the world's deadliest infectious disease" @lancetgh.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Tuberculosis at a crossroads
This World Tuberculosis Day, as ever, the world has everything it needs to end tuberculosis in our lifetimes. Yet in 2024, 1·23 million people died of tuberculosis, indicating that tuberculosis persis...
thelancet.com
Most flu deaths this century were recorded in 2025, ABS finds. -bigger season means more deaths unless flu vaccination levels are much higher. And we had our biggest season in record. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
Most flu deaths this century were recorded in 2025, ABS finds
There were more deaths associated with influenza last year than any other year this century, according to the Australia Bureau of Statistics.
abc.net.au
This is a good use of a domain Jeffreyepstein.com directs here
HOME | Trump Kennedy Center
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Dr. Eva Andersson-Dubin is founder of the Dubin Breast Center at the Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital. All our institutions are corrupted. 😭
Nate Bear@natebear1.bsky.social · 6mo agoEva's billionaire husband Glenn Dubin was the first person to rape Virginia Giuffre. Dubin is vice chair of the Zionist lobby group the American Jewish Committee which regularly visits Tel Aviv to meet Israeli officials and helped lead the crackdown against pro-Palestine protests
I just thought I'd share a photo of some totally secular kids on a visit to our totally secular public hospital in the totally secular province of Quebec where public workers aren't allowed to wear hijabs because those are too religious. But it's totally not Islamophobia at all c'mon guys
Is the “Kindy cold” normal… Topic of abc radio Sydney today. 😱 All those parents that were told that years of suffering illness in preschool would “make them ready for school”, “build their immunity” and other 🐂 💩.
