437 Canadian small businesses are now on Main Street Canada! I made a spreadsheet. Then I made charts. You're welcome, fellow nerds. Swipe for the highlights. ✅ See them all at mainstreet.todmaffin.com
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My latest: Russia, U.S. interfere in Alberta referendum - Kingston Whig-Standard #ForeverCanadian www.thewhig.com/opinion/john...
JOHNSTON: Russia, U.S. interfere in Alberta referendum
United States, like authoritarian Russia, is now working to undermine, dominate, and even annex democratic neighbours.
thewhig.com
JOHNSTON: Russia, U.S. interfere in Alberta referendum - Kingston Whig-Standard www.thewhig.com/opinion/john...
JOHNSTON: Russia, U.S. interfere in Alberta referendum
United States, like authoritarian Russia, is now working to undermine, dominate, and even annex democratic neighbours.
thewhig.com
David Keegan@drdavidkeegan.bsky.social · 3d agoCOVID-19 hasn’t gone since 2020 and has always been airborne. We need a respirator mask mandate for everyone in healthcare settings. Not having one is causing it to spread more, and sicken and disable more. In room air filtration can also help. #abpoli #ableg edmontonjournal.com/news/covid-p...
Patrick Lennox: Alberta Separatism is Moral Treason Not a criminal code offence. A moral offence. Arguably, in this context, even more dangerous. The best response? Get involved. Defend your country. Push back against the separatists. Vote on Oct 19. youtu.be/l2bYx_G4o1I
Patrick Lennox: Alberta Separatism is Moral Treason
YouTube video by Energi Media
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Another important reason we all must vote to stay in Canada. Report after report have shown that separation would be disastrous for our economy, our housing market and now our health care system. www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...
More than half of doctors surveyed would leave an independent Alberta: medical group
Hundreds of physicians would not practise in Alberta if the province leaves Confederation, a survey by the organization that represents doctors in the province indicates.
ctvnews.ca
I just filed my Friday column about the upcoming Alberta referendum & the active campaigns by the Russians & Americans to undermine Canada’s national unity. I pull no punches. 🇨🇦💪
Canada: "COVID patients lumped together in Edmonton hospital" COVID outbreaks are hitting hospital wards, infecting patients admitted for other illnesses. Hospital staff warn: “If one person in that room has COVID, you know the next three are going to get it if they’re not already sick with COVID.”
I have a beloved neighbour in hospital with hip replacement surgery and am terribly worried for her.
The Breakdown AB@thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 3d ago“Havoc is hitting hospitals as patients hospitalized for some other acute illness are getting COVID, adding to the complexity of care — and Alberta’s COVID vaccinations aren’t available yet, and the province’s low vaccination rate isn’t helping.” #abpoli edmontonjournal.com/news/covid-p...
Also I don’t think that we should wait a year to deal with the UCP … elections need to be called!
Scott Robertson@sarobertson.bsky.social · 6d agoRachel Notley on Danielle Smith: "I don't see the calling of this referendum as a strategic ploy on her part to kill the issue. I think she's been throwing gas on the fire from day one."
We’ve been fighting misinformation and disinformation for years, while worrying about the rise of people dying from refusing vaccines and using snake oil to treat illlnesses. Turns out, taking out the source of disinformation works, something individuals couldn’t do by themselves. 🧪 A primer:
Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social · 4d agoGoogle searches for health disinformation plunged after Ukrainian strikes on Russian data centers. How much “turbo cancer” & ivermectin nonsense is fueled by Russian bots, and how many Americans have they killed? Bots spread disinformation. Humans search for it. When bots go down, so do searches.
Let’s talk about trust! Is a relationship between a patient and a health care provider needed to be based on trust?
Canada is worth fighting for. Watch the video: youtu.be/tUTe5oJmSRo
No, Alberta Does Not ‘Subsidize’ the Rest of Canada | The Tyee
The vast majority of workers get more from federal programs than they give.
thetyee.ca
Casey Whitaker@alphacentauri53.bsky.social · 6d agoGM & TY @pinkmouse.bsky.social❤️🇨🇦 @corrina.sheshed.rocks @cdnresistance.bsky.social @ohhellnocanada.bsky.social @suze-bsky.bsky.social @jefftrnka.bsky.social @proudcanadaveteran.bsky.social @pguist.bsky.social @peevee55.bsky.social @iyamcanadian.bsky.social @scotfreeme.bsky.social @cjway.bsky.social
Actor, Mike Myers, claims that he would be “nothing without Canada”. He was a direct beneficiary of many Canadian social services. A leg up is not a hand out. 👏 Video: CBCNews/TikTok
All Canadians should be eligible for a free shingles vaccine Canada may not have a national health care system, but we should still have coherent national policies on essential issues like vaccination, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com
Opinion: All Canadians should be eligible for a free shingles vaccine
Canada may not have a national health care system, but we should still have coherent national policies on essential issues like vaccination
theglobeandmail.com
André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 6d ago‘I want to do everything I can to head off dementia’: Why demand for the shingles vaccine is soaring. Could a drug intended to prevent painful rashes also protect our brains as we get older? by @iansample.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/society/2026... via @theguardian.com
Danielle Smith, how did your yesterday’s secretive meeting with the separatists and convicted Tamara Lich go? Why weren’t media and Albertans allowed to hear what you said to them? When campaigning for unity, we don’t hide. calgaryherald.com/news/local-n... #ableg #cdnpoli
Smith says she attended True North event to sway separatists, but critics aren't convinced
Premier Danielle Smith says she attended True North event to sway separatists, but critics aren't convinced
calgaryherald.com
No amount of preventable dying is NORMAL!
Dr Noor Bari@njbbari3.bsky.social · 6d ago“This amount of dying is normal, therefore acceptable.” Nope. No amount of preventable suffering or dying is OK. Going back to “normal” with what we know now is just not good enough. And we are not back to normal anyway…
What makes healthcare so special that it is exempt from OH&S requirements to wear respiratory protection? Triage for a start has no freaking idea what the pathogen is, let alone the risks involved… ED doesn’t either for the most part… and things crop up on the wards… Why is healthcare exempt?
“There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it.” — Alice Paul (1885-1977)
This is the part that gives me dystopian nightmares! TBH I want to see the faces of those who pushed and ridiculed everyone else to drop precautions and to drop masks when they’ll realize their lives are cut short by 15 years and likely their children’s lives by 30 years.
Michael Olesen@molesen.bsky.social · 7d agoI expect that the trends will curve down even more as some of the sequelae start kicking in. I wouldn't be surprised at all for life expectancy to drop into the 50s or 60s.