The Doug Ford government operates behind closed doors, and they don't want us the public to know who they're making their backroom deals with and why

You obviously needed the rest. I hope it goes well for him.

Groceries as interventions for chronic disease "We have a term 'groceries.' It's an old term but it means basically what you're buying, food, it's a pretty accurate term” – US president Donald J. Trump. Providing people with groceries is increasingly being seen as the basis for many viable interventions that can be used to prevent or treat chronic diseases. Sometimes referred to as ”Food Is Medicine” these food-based interventions are ideally integrated into health care and tailored for people’s specific health conditions and/or social needs. These specific food prescriptions can involve food delivery, pick-up, or voucher provision, and often include varying levels of nutrition and culinary education. Unfortunately, few high quality randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have been conducted in this area, because “just giving people groceries” within an RCT can be very challenging. In this session presenters will discuss the how to, results from, and lessons learned along the way of conducting grocery intervention RCTs. Speakers for this session are: Dr. Dana Lee Olstad, PhD, RD and Dr. Bohdan Luhovyy, PhD. Together they will help attendees develop an understanding the challenges related to grocery intervention research and strategies to help address them.

I will be chairing an awesome session on RCTs using "Groceries" as interventions for chronic disease on May 9th, as part of the Canadian Nutrition Society 2026 annual conference
Dr. Dana Olstad PhD RD, and Dr. Bohdan Luhovyy PhD will be speaking so come to Halifax or sign up to watch online

An ad to win a Land Rover through the Sick Kids lottery.

Headline: Land Rovers' and Jeeps' growing bonnet heights 'a clear threat to children' SUVs pose 'no benefit to society and mounting evidence of harm, a damning report has claimed

Ugh

And a whole lot more people than this didn't die or go to the hospital, but got very very sick, missed work, and in many cases did permanent damage to their immune systems, their lungs, their heart, or their brains. Many had strokes or now suffer from chronic conditions. COVID is not over.

Ontario redacts almost every word top civil servant wrote about return-to-office mandate | Globalnews.ca The government is currently rushing its changes to freedom of information laws past public hearings, shielding who the premier speaks to from public view.

NEW: What considerations did Ontario's top civil servant make over return to the office? It's unclear.

Critics say redactions to what we got via FOI pour cold water on the government's argument excluding cabinet from disclosure won't stifle transparency.
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I do this too. I call it a buffer day.

Flu spreads efficiently especially in close quarters like military troop lodging facilities. If you are in the military you are required to get several vaccines because of how devastating outbreaks can be to troops and also because they are more likely be targeted by agents of biological warfare.

"The [OECD] report notes that long COVID has a health system and economic impact that is similar to stroke or multiple sclerosis, but has not sparked the same response."

That cost? $135 billion per year over the next decade, comparable to the entire annual health budget of the Netherlands or Spain.

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Classic Belleville Man

Police arrest man who replaced US$34,000 worth of Lego pieces with pasta Irvine police have arrested a man for grand theft, though the bounty isn’t a fancy car or pricy electronics.

OMG this story 😂 www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...

Went to grab some gardening stuff and came back out to it 😭

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@realnosferatu.bsky.social I noticed you’ve been quiet lately. I hope all is okay.

Photo of the book The God of The Woods by Liz Moore and a hand holding a Bellwoods sour beer glass that’s half full of an orange-hued beer.

First stoop day of the year! 🙌🥳🎉

Female Body | farideh | stream wherever you like to listen to music #womenshealth #comedy YouTube video by Farideh

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April 17, 2026 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PRESS RELEASE: Doug Ford's "Gravy Plane" the real reason for Ford's sudden interest in jets at the island airport Today, the Toronto Star reported that Premier Doug Ford has purchased a jet that can only be flown from the island airport if jet expansion at the island airport goes through. "The timing of Ford's purchase of his taxpayer funded "Gravy Plane" and his sudden interest in expanding the island airport is not a coincidence, Norm Di Pasquale highlighted. "For eight years Premier Ford has not said a single word about the island airport, and suddenly he's hell bent on expand the airport to allow him to fly Gravy Plane jet from there. Ford continues to make decisions affecting Torontonians with the sole focus of him being able to get to work and his fundraisers across Ontario faster. Any other level of government that gets involved in this seemingly corrupt process will now be tarred with Ford's taxpayer funded Gravy Plane." NoJetsTO calls on the Government of Ontario to abandon this rushed plan and allow Torontonians to have their say on the airport by keeping the City of Toronto in the Tripartite Agreement.

NoJetsTO PRESS RELEASE: Doug Ford's "Gravy Plane" the real reason for Ford's sudden interest in jets at the island airport mailchi.mp/nojetsto/gra... #topoli #onpoli

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Thanks Ang. I was until she came and got mad at me for not making her breakfast 🙄

Me too! It’s also a PA day 😫

Thanks Amy

The nugget thinks she is getting sick and I’m listening to a cat try to bring up a fur ball. Happy birthday to me.

I signed up for an Alzheimer’s fundraiser walk with my workplace if anyone cares to donate, here’s the link: support.alzheimer.ca/site/TR?pg=p...

The Ford govt just opened up Covid boosters for clinically vulnerable ppl but you'd never know it. Kieran remains in his hidey-hole & there's no promotion of this vaccine that keeps people out of hospital.

The average admission cost per C-19 patient is about $28,500. Life-saving & cost-saving.

Apart from easing congestion, scaled back the return to the office mandates at Fed and Prov levels could really "help people at the pump".

alas..

High school attendance drops to 40% in Ontario as government considers changes | Globalnews.ca The Ford government is currently considering giving students in grades 9 to 12 credit on their final marks if they attend class as part of new legislation.

Percentage of Ontario high school students missing 10% or more of their classes:

2017-18: 40%
2021-22: 47%
2022-23: 64%
2023-24: 59.5%
2024-25: 59.8%

ON's proposed policy solution? Award grades for attendance. Forget addressing root causes of increased absences.

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This is discrimination and as much as I’m sick of this government wasting our taxes on court cases I hope someone starts a class action lawsuit.

Is it really a Liberal majority when they secured it with defaulting cons?

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-co...

By women and society

Who makes up society, Helen? Goats?