Terry Fox stands on a rocky shoreline beside a body of water, wearing a light blue athletic shirt with darker sleeves, short running shorts, white socks, and running shoes. His right leg is a prosthetic. Doug Alward stands next to him in a tan jacket and dark pants, hands in his pockets. A rope or cable runs along the edge of the shore in front of them. The water extends into the background with a distant shoreline and buildings visible across it.

On April 12, 1980, Terry Fox, accompanied by his friend Doug Alward, dipped his right leg into the Atlantic Ocean at St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
It began the Marathon of Hope and turned Fox into a Canadian hero and icon.
This is the story.

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CIHR Project Grant Cycle Restructuring Dear colleagues, Below you will find a draft letter regarding the proposed transition to a single annual CIHR Project Grant competition, and to invite you to sign on if you are in agreement with its c...

With the rumblings around CIHR wanting to move to one cycle per year not going away, in consultation with a diverse stakeholder group, we have put together a letter for CIHR leadership. Please consider signing this letter and share/RT: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @cannabrain.bsky.social

Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes: December 2025: Atrocities 581- 637 Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We...

ICYMI: We're keeping a running catalogue of Trump's and his administration's cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes.#LestWeForget

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I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Still of Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton and Jane Fonda from the film, 9 to 5. Text above reads: Get in losers, we’re going to ruin the workforce.

On Oct 1 the Standing Committee on Science and Research passed an egregious motion calling for the disclosure of disaggregated data for research applications to federal granting council from 2020-2025. On Oct 20 they amended the timeframe to 2000-2025.
@picardonhealth.bsky.social

I love Rebecca DOWN. Known as Dollar Tree Dinners.

Her “Meal in a Bag” is meant to provide ppl with a complete meal that is $8 or less, is shelf stable, & can be made without access to a full kitchen. I love this as a direct aid option. Good for neighbors & elders who can’t/wont go to a pantry.

Can’t get any more delicious than Trump losing the #NobelPeacePrize to an anti-fascist Venezuelan woman that’s fighting against people just like him….great choice by the committee!

Congratulations María Corina Machado 💪

Opinion: Lessons on dying well from the father of palliative care The best way to honour Dr. Balfour Mount’s legacy is by making palliative care available to all Canadians

Lessons on dying well from the father of palliative care. The best way to honour Dr. Balfour Mount’s legacy is by making palliative care available to all Canadians, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

Very proud of this rising star who shows true commitment to excellence, amplifies patient voices, and works alongside them every step of the way @ulaval.ca @crchudequebec.bsky.social

Job Posting: Post-Doctoral Researcher CAMH Bioethics and Education - Everyday Ethics Lab The Everyday Ethics Lab, part of CAMH Education Research, is currently seeking a Post-Doctoral Researcher to support projects in bioethics led by the Lab (https://www.everydayethicslab.ca). Reporting ...

🚨 Hiring! My lab, the Everyday Ethics Lab at @camhnews.bsky.social is recruiting a postdoc to conduct empirical bioethics research in mental health, substance use health, and chronic pain. Join us for critical, collaborative, impactful work. Details here: bit.ly/4eRc4if Please share!
#Bioethics

Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Telling the Truth About the Supreme Court The task of interpreting the law is inherently “political.” But no justice has been this comfortable saying so in public.

I think Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissents are an important exception to the "Supreme Court dissents don't matter" rule of thumb, because she is using them not to argue with the conservative justices, but to explain to the public that the conservative justices are liars and in the tank for Trump

‘The damage is terrifying’: Barbara Kingsolver on Trump, rural America and the recovery home funded by her hit novel Demon Copperhead, the author’s retelling of Dickens during Virginia’s opioid crisis, was a global success. Now she has used royalties from the novel to open a recovery residence

Novelist Barbara Kingsolver has given much of her income away, including spending proceeds from Demon Copperhead on a recovery home for those affected by the opioid epidemic: “Material success came gradually. So I had time to learn how to draw a cap on what we need & what we can do with the rest”

Signs the Frog Has Been Boiled A large pot sits in plain sight. There’s a frog in it. Every day, Leader announces his plans to boil the frog. His campaign slogan was “BOIL THAT F...

A man stirs the pot. “It’s a metaphor,” he says.

The frog is sweating.

The frog is informed that this is due to a natural variation in temperature.

“He’s clearly boiling the frog,” say the other frogs.

All books about frogs have vanished from the library.

So, moral of the story: if you want your kids to learn to think critically about the world, model that kind of critical thinking for them (don't wait until after bedtime to talk politics), help them find reliable information to consume, and encourage them to reflect critically on what they learn.

“I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honourable, to be compassionate. It is above all to matter. To count. To stand for something. To have it make some difference that you lived at all.”
- Leo Roston

The black-and-white photo shows Elijah Harper seated at a desk, wearing a suit with a patterned tie and a large circular pendant. He holds an eagle feather in one hand, with an earpiece visible, and a microphone on the table in front of him, suggesting a formal or parliamentary setting.

Elijah Harper was a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, little known outside of the province.
But when he refused to accept the Meech Lake Accord and voted against it while holding an eagle's feather, he became an icon of resistance.
This is his story.

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Several conferences relocate north of the border as Canadians refuse to travel to the U.S. Conference organizers say they made changes after members expressed concerns over U.S. travel

"[I] will not be travelling to the United States right now because it feels very dangerous to do so.”

Academic organizations are changing their conference plans to deal with the threat of the US border.

www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7531255

Good piece, from my perspectives in #bioethics & as a #raredisease patient:
"Never-words are conversation stoppers.
They seize power from the very patients whose own voices are essential to making optimal decisions about their medical care."
www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S002...

Opinion: As a nurse and as a person, my life is richer working in palliative care www.montrealgazette.com/opinion/op-eds/article92...

Sesame Street had him pegged back in 1988.

Carney to Trump: "There are some places that are never for sale ... having met with the owners of Canada over the course of the campaign, it's not for sale. It won't be for sale ever."

The Nation That Trump Could Never Break Canada didn’t just resist, they reminded the rest of us how to endure

Message from Ukraine:
Thank you, Canada.
For being yourselves when so many others are trying to be worse.
You reminded us that we are not alone.
Because of you, this morning felt a little less like the end of the world.
And more like something worth staying alive for.
substack.com/home/post/p-...

I told you he would never lose to the CPC or Pierre.

Thank You JT. You played the game and won.

The best. Thank you.

Toxicologist here! This will improve the health of zero Americans. Current synthetic food dyes are not causing health problems, and are often times used because they are actually safer than natural food dyes. Reminder that guns are the #1 cause of death of children but we are going to ban food dyes.