MillyMia 🇨🇦🇪🇺💙🌻
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Here for the friendly connections, smart cookies and sharing knowledge Anti brexit, anti Con, anti (ongoing) pandemic harms Def woke Lib Canada & UK Promise to follow back you awesome people! Just gimme a moment 😆
A West Coast pipeline is not in our National Interest. Tell your MP there can be No Pipelines on a Burning Planet. Take action today ⬇️ #climateaction #cdnpoli
350 Canada@350canada.bsky.social · yesterday🚨BREAKING NEWS: Over the long weekend, the federal government announced that it intends to list the proposed West Coast tar sands pipeline as a so-called “project of national interest.” Quick 🧵on what it means and what we are doing about it! #pipeline #cdnpoli
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US Congressman Thomas Massie links $40 million in US funding for Morocco to Spain’s Ceuta migration crisis
Morocco has found itself at the centre of international attention over the past week after a surge in attempted migrant crossings into Spains North African enclave of Ceuta prompted renewed scrutiny o...
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There's an AI Data Center going up in Burlington, let's talk about it, because this isn't the first time the city has been surprised by a development. A steel manufacturing plant in Alton Village? Hundreds of trees cut down in Millcroft and surprise extra developments? We are asleep at the wheel
Pierre Poilievre's Conservatives want to launch a witch hunt against Canada's public health heroes - just like MAGA is doing with Dr. Anthony Fauci. Poilievre offers nothing to Canadians except warmed over crap from the American extreme right.
GOOD NEWS! A new cancer treatment has demonstrated unprecedented results in a large trial for cancer patients whose disease has become resistant to chemotherapy AND immunotherapy. Tumors shrank in OVER a third of participants, with 15 patients experiencing COMPLETE eradication of their tumors.
Canadians overwhelmingly demand wealth tax after Kevin O’Leary says it will make him move away
Canadians overwhelmingly demand wealth tax after Kevin O’Leary says it will make him move away
OTTAWA - Pollsters report a split among Canadians over the idea of higher tax on the assets of wealthy individuals, though support skyrockets after noting that Kevin O'Leary has vowed that he will res...
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FIFA President Gianni Infantino is seeking the Trump administration's help to stay in office and has scheduled private talks with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the NYP reports. Assistant Secretary of State Dylan Johnson later said Rubio had no plans to speak with Infantino.
New: A business that made a six-figure donation to Reform UK received interest-free loans of £67m from unnamed “related companies” in the months before, raising questions about the possible origin of the funds. observer.co.uk/news/politic...
Reform given six-figure donation by firm that received £6...
Nigel Farage’s party is facing questions about the lack of transparency over £100,000 in funds donated by a management consultancy
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GOP Rep Thomas Massie: “Don’t fall for the fake Fox/GOP outrage. Two weeks ago the House passed a bill that greenlighted the transfer of Spanish territory to Morocco. Every Republican except me voted for it, but now THEY are acting shocked at the invasion.”
Oh no. Wealthy people who only wanted to live here because they weren’t paying the same tax as everyone else are leaving because they might have to pay the same tax as everyone else. How will I cope with this turn of events? Anyway. 💅
The BBC extends its poor sensationalist coverage of migration issues to Europe
Richard Barfield@richardbarfield.bsky.social · 5d agoKey information on Ceuta and Schengen is omitted from the #BBC News website. Its omission implies that Moroccans entering Ceuta enter the EU Schengen area - which they don’t (see quoted post below). www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Cyclosporiasis in Windsor-Essex linked to cross-border travel—The health unit says 24 cases of the intestinal illness have been reported #Canada Public health investigations have identified travel to Michigan as a common factor among many of the recent infections. www.ctvnews.ca/windsor/arti...
Cyclosporiasis in Windsor-Essex linked to cross-border travel
The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit (WECHU) is advising residents travelling to Michigan to take extra precautions after a sharp rise in local cases of cyclosporiasis linked to cross-border travel.
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Corporations, Not Immigrants, Are Responsible for Vast Majority of Healthcare Fraud, OIG Report Shows (The Intercept)
For more thana year, the Trump administration has sought to blame immigrants for widespread health care fraud. Immigrant communities, the Trump administratio...
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If anyone's motivated to scroll eight pages down in the BBC report -
I get a little annoyed by the coverage of the proposed sell-off of the World Cup. They’re not just planning to sell it off. They’re planning to sell it off *to the Trump family*. That should be up front and central.
Trump during the pandemic: Stop counting the people killed by Coronavirus and it all goes away. Republicans want to harass a good doctor to hide from the fact that their bad leadership killed a million Americans.
You know that Fourth Lord Rothermere bloke? The billionaire who inherited the fortune the Third Lord Rothermere inherited from the Second Lord Rothermere, who inherited it from the First Lord Rothermere? Well, it turns out he's against inheritance tax.
Valar Atomics, the nuclear energy startup backed by current & former PALANTIR executives, just announced a partnership with Nvidia to explore development of an AI DATA CENTER in Utah. Palantir also just announced a partnership with Nvidia to build an AI platform for the US government. #Palantir 1 /
The best new idea I've heard this week is a campaign to replace CEOs with AI. As long as they were programmed with some minimal amount of social conscience, I'm pretty sure they'd do a better job. And think of all the millions of dollars they'd save! I hope the business world takes a look at this.
The survey has 100+ unique emergency room narrative responses already! But we're aiming for 150 before we close. If you have a diagnosis of #MECFS or #LongCOVID and have been to the emergency room in the past 10 yrs for your symptoms, I hope you'll take the survey. And if you don't, please share!
#MEAction Network@meactnet.bsky.social · 2w agoAre you someone with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome #MECFS or #LongCOVID who’s been to the emergency room at least once over the past 10 years for your symptoms? Clinical care needs your voice! Take the Emergency Department research survey: surveys.mayoclinic.org/jfe/form/SV_...
US COVlD Update, PMC, July 27, 2026 ▪️10 hot spots (see Alt text) ▪️Persistent high/very high levels in TX ▪️FL, AK, HI, & the continental northwest picking up ▪️1 in 198 people estimated actively infectious nationally ▪️1.57 million estimated weekly infections & rising (1/2)
There is nothing unique about what today's anti-vaccine influencers are saying. They are simply using messaging that has been recycled for over 200 years! stopantivaxpropagand...
IPC and Public Health's "anything but COVID" disinformation campaign still going strong I see. "something else is happening" So medicine's just vibes now? 🙄 No wonder it's losing ground to the RFK types. At least they *know* they're making stuff up. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41005961/
‘It was like something was crawling over me’ – The worrying rise of shingles among millennial women. Stress, long working hours, lack of chickenpox vaccine, blamed for rise in illness among women in their 30s and 40s, by Emily Retter www.theguardian.com/society/2026... via @theguardian.com
‘It was like something was crawling over me’ – the worrying rise of shingles among millennial women
Stress, the cost of living, long working hours and even excessive exercise have all been touted as reasons the illness is rising among women in their 30s and 40s. What can be done to help them?
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We need a moratorium on AI data centres. The petition is closed for signature September 24, 2026, at 2:50 p.m. (EDT) Remember to confirm your signature. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Petition e-7550 - Petitions
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SpaceX has asked the FCC to launch up to a million data-center satellites, calling it a step toward a "Kardashev II-level civilization." Scientists say it could degrade the ozone layer. The NOAA official who studied satellite pollution was fired. The research has since stopped. Be afraid.
Space datacenters proposed by Musk and Bezos ‘catastrophic’ for planet, experts warn
New US petition demands review of plans from tech companies amid fears of environmental destruction
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A core belief these people share is that children are property and don’t deserve basic rights or protections
ProPublica@propublica.org · 2w agoRegulators have linked Mark McAfee’s raw dairy farm to more than a dozen recalls and outbreaks that left hundreds of people ill. “I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital,” McAfee said. “But here’s the thing: I’m a pioneer.”
“Elections are decided by those who show up.” There it is in a nutshell folks. Remember, misinformed people will be voting, so if are cool with that deciding your future, I guess stay home on referendum night. Otherwise get yourself an advance voting package and avoid the lines. #abpoli #ableg
Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦@daveberta.bsky.social · 2w agoEven after writing about Alberta politics for more than 20 years it’s still sometimes hard to fully understand and explain what is happening in our province. 🙃😬