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As Republicans melt down over Biden’s waiting too long to shoot down the Chinese spy balloon, the DoD casually announces that 3 Chinese spy balloons came into the country during Trump’s presidency and he did nothing
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Want to learn more about Right Whales? Join us Monday night at our side event - the Festival of Ocean Films at the VIFF Centre. #IMPAC5 georgiastrait.org/work/festival-
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"Inside and outside #IMPAC5 calls to protect the North Atlantic #RightWhale — while there’s still time…" says @GreenMission, our National Programs Director and one of our representatives at @IMPAC5Canada.
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@CollingwoodCPC:
Feb.04/23.Saturday.
To assist @VancouverPD in spreading the word re
Bail Money Scam Alert, we have teams out in the #community.
Our ED Partap & myself attended the following places that interact w/ seniors a lot.
We start off w/ Financial institutions.
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Global oil companies are reporting 2022 as their most profitable year in history.
Meanwhile, the planet continues to burn as household budgets shrink.
We must change course. The only credible direction to take is away from fossil fuels & towards renewable energy.
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5/ Second, as more and more people drop out of the workforce due to Long Covid and other sequelae of infection, and sickness absences increase due to acute infection and sequelae, business will start to pressure governments. Notice how the business press is covering Covid.
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4/ Thus politicians seeking to gain or retain power will have to address it. Erosion of healthcare adversely affects everyone, not just people concerned about Covid-19. Therefore it becomes a major electoral issue. It certainly will be in the UK and Ireland.
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3/... are essentially excluded from life.
This is not acceptable.
My feeling is that during the latter half of this year, some mitigations may be mandated again. There are two reasons for this. First, the erosion of healthcare capacity is an issue that will lose elections.
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1/ The response to the ongoing pandemic in the short-term and a call for advocacy: 🧵
Tragically, it is my opinion that globally, we will see very little in the way of improved mitigations against infection being put into place in the short-term.
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4 things governments should do to protect people from #COVID19. Dr @mvankerkhove explains
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“We are in a situation where we have room for action due to extraordinary income from the petroleum sector. We are now stepping up this aid. We will contribute even more to the repair and reconstruction of damaged infrastructure.”
#ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction
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World’s biggest investment fund warns directors to tackle climate crisis or face sack theguardian.com/business/2023/
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A few things you might not know about the pandemic...
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This is pretty outrageous- HCW's in BC are being told to NOT test themselves for COVID-19 and therefore do not need to isolate for 5 days.
In a memo to staff, Island Health's Dr. Réka Gustafson says the majority of HCW's should not be tested and discourages them from doing so.
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As a doctor I recommend against going to work sick and “coughing all over each other.” If you do go to work with a respiratory illness please have respect for your coworkers and wear a mask/socially distance…Jesus Christ.
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Fox host says she doesn't like when people take sick days:
"I say we just come in and cough all over each other and push through. I mean, that's the way we work."
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Canada is promising to establish 10 new federal marine protected areas as IMPAC5, a global summit on ocean conservation, kicks off Friday in Vancouver.
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Seeing some pretty bad takes on the new CHSP release quantifying how many housing units are owner-occupied and who owns “investment” (non-owner occupied) units. This includes condo units as well as investor-occupants, e.g. SFH owners that have a suite.
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Harrison Healthcare is the second company the Medical Services Commission has taken to court over allegations of extra billing in recent months.
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Deaths from #covid19BC in British Columbia likely higher than reported if reinfections not counted. Lack of PCR testing?
#Vancouver #VancouverBC #VictoriaBC #SurreyBC #Burnaby
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BC doesn’t count deaths from re-infections as deaths from COVID. They only count deaths from people infected with COVID for the first time. With the ‘let-it-rip’ policy, the number of people who can be infected for the first time shrinks dramatically. twitter.com/sarperotto/sta
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#covid19 There are more deaths from Covid now than the first wave of the pandemic. With some degree of herd immunity there are far fewer covid illnesses, but with people taking fewer precautions more people are dying. #GetVaccinated #WearAMask
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Remember in 2020 I said close the border & wear a f'ing mask? Here are the high points for the curve for people dying: Week of Dec 29, 2020, 74 deaths, 15/day; May 19, 2022, 91 deaths 13/day; Jan 5, 2023, 90 deaths, 13/day. Don't blame hospitals & nurses for cancelled surgeries
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It must not be forgotten that before she became premier, Danielle Smith was a paid lobbyist, working for a group of businesses which included for-profit healthcare. It certainly seems like she's still working for them.
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ooo... like a third of Canada's frozen food aisles are about to be abandoned.
Nestle is closing its Canadian frozen dinner production, which means Delissio, Stouffer’s, & Lean Cuisine are gone.
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Elevated 'excess' deaths in Canada's provinces potentially due to:
📍underreporting #Covid19
📍low PCR testing
📍drug poisonings
📍increased patient acuity
📍over-capacity health services
📍primary #Cdnhealthcare collapse -> missed diagnoses
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Masks work, but aren't magic. They can't instantly end the pandemic alone. Anti-maskers exploit this nuance to trick people into not wearing them.
But you make a difference in every space you wear a mask, by making that space more accessible to higher risk people. That's huge!
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Masks alone: Not a failsafe strategy.
Vaccines alone: Not a failsafe strategy.
Screening, testing, tracing alone: Not a failsafe strategy.
Pretending a pandemic ended because we don't want to do this anymore: A guaranteed to fail, unsafe strategy.
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I recall govt health advisors trying to calm me in 2020 - saying ‘if we go too hard with things like masks & HEPA now, the public will reject them later in the pandemic when deaths are up & we really need them’.
Deaths are up now & they sit & blink, watching.
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Canadian COVID Forecast and excess mortality threads for January 2023
To make it easier to find them quickly :)
All data/forecasts are available on the website here:
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“Body cameras are not going to save Americans or give us a deeper truth about the world of violence that police inhabit and produce. The truth is already out there in the long history of policing. We merely refuse to look at it.” From
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#WorldWetlandsDay🦆
This day and aim to raise global awareness about the importance of wetlands for people & #OurPlanet
#EUSpace 🇪🇺🛰️provides #OpenData to monitor the health of wetlands worldwide
🔽#Copernicus #Sentinel2 🇪🇺🛰️ image of the Ebro River Delta 🇪🇸
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Fraudulent animal experiments at U-M prompts call for criminal probe
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Current bird flu #H5N1 adaptation:
"if this virus mutates in a way that allows it to become increasingly transmissible between mammals, including humans, it could have deadly consequences."
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Did you know the B.C. govt paid to repair or develop tourism infrastructure and amenities during #COVID19 to promote a sustainable economic recovery? We're taking a look in an upcoming #audit ➡️ oag.bc.ca/work-in-progre #BCpoli
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What gives them the right to dump in OUR ocean?
Why is #Japan planning to flush #Fukushima #wastewater into the #ocean ?
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Verbal & physical assaults, running between dying patients, unable to do their jobs properly w few staff
Just some of the reasons healthcare workers seek mental health supports despite shame & even disciplinary action against them 👇
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"If you allow our #CanadianNewspapers to fall into the hands of a few debt-ridden would-be tycoons fronting for foreign hedge funds, the failures will be catastrophic"
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