Our team received a report of intermittent app outages at about 11:40pm PDT on April 15, 2026. They worked through the night to mitigate a sophisticated Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, which intensified throughout the day.
It's not just gas prices.
"Canada’s health-care system is monitoring the global shortage closely as liquid helium plays a crucial role in cooling down MRI machines."
France is switching from Microsoft to Linux
"We must become less reliant on American tools and regain control of our digital destiny. We can no longer accept that our data, our infrastructure, our strategic decisions depend on solutions whose rules, pricing, evolution, and risks we do not control."
One last point: When governments talk about "age verification," they also mean "identity verification"
So even if you're 55 years old, you will be virtually carded and all your social media activity will be linked to your identity. That means no online anonymity and raises privacy issues for adults
TOH is the latest in a growing list of urban Ontario hospitals to aggressively cut staff. As the aging boom continues to accelerate.
Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI.
AI is starting a death spiral for human knowledge. We won't know what is fake and what is trust worth. This will lead us to make wrong decisions and cause substantial harm.
AI risk centuries of progress.
Wild theory - PP is the next floor crosser.
So many terrifying charts for anyone working in the news industry in this report we published today, authored by my colleagues Craig, Amy, Mitali and Richard.
Young people are less interested in news, consume news less frequently, and are much more open to alternative approaches (AI, influencers)
In BC, millions of taxpayer dollars are being poured into "innovative" programs with no transparency and little accountability
How is that ok?
What are the metrics for success?
Crickets
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
Patient Education: Viral Illness/ Common Cold The common cold is a group of symptoms caused by a number of different viruses, including severe acute respiratory coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes COVID-19. Children under six years average six to eight colds per year (up to one per month, September through April), with symptoms lasting an average of 14 days. This means that a child could be ill with intermittent cold symptoms for nearly half of the days in this time period, without cause for concern.
Hi, so my 6yo needed to go to the after hours clinic for an ear infection & fever (Covid negative on plus life) & they gave me a patient info sheet on viral illnesses and guess what?
They are calling Covid a common cold now 🫠
From the archive:
An emergency physician unpacks Canada's severe shortage of doctors and its roots in U.S policy-contagion.
A demonstration and vigil outside the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, on 28 January 28.
US moving pregnant immigrant girls to Texas to avoid providing abortions, critics say www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/01/preg... @melodyschreiber.com @theguardian.com
↷ canadahealthwatch.ca 🍁
An American physician, now practising medicine in Canada has some useful reflections
"In Canada, where people don’t fear bankruptcy for seeking care, patients come in and they just talk to you, about doctor things. That’s a profound relief, for them and me"
canadahealthwatch.ca/2026/02/15/i...
Deregulatory stance aside, the health minister does have very quick follow-through.
From the archive:
Dr. Paul Parks on how Alberta's plans for two-tiered healthcare will delay lifesaving care.
canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/28/t... @pfparks.bsky.social
We need to be specific about this, or it quickly becomes a potent marketing term for tech companies to scoop government contracts in 2026.
@vassb.bsky.social @mgeist.bsky.social
CLOUD lets the U.S. compel data from American companies regardless of where it’s stored. So if compute is operated by U.S. companies, the risk doesn’t disappear even if the servers are here.
The real and emerging issue is defining what “sovereign” tech actually means.
@evansolomon.bsky.social
Wars don’t pop tech bubbles, they turn them to stone.
Governments become the dominant buyer and incumbents consolidate.
If it was released from '95 to '05 then its soundtrack is burned into my brain.
For my kids though, it'll be something from the hollow knight ost
youtu.be/eVEh7JWaXzw?...
Good words of warning here. AI models are generally designed to read and incorporate (and, in a sense, believe) virtually everything they find online, with very few guardrails. The information can get divorced from its original source, context, & rebuttals or retractions. That's a really big problem
MAHA-aligned research is entering the training data of AI models that millions of people (and increasingly governments) rely on.
MAHA-aligned research is entering the training data of AI models that millions of people (and increasingly governments) rely on.
Same same
Digoxin?
"The posture of Health Canada was always protecting, protecting ... we added a lot of layers.”
“This is why I am pushing my department … moving fast, removing the red tapes.”
Paid accounts on X.com
I wonder if GA dems will take this as a cue to stop paying for accounts on x (dot) com.
The Canadian government intends to increase Health Canada's reliance on foreign regulators for drug approvals.
The Health Minister has acknowledged that US institutions are no longer reliable, but it is not known if US regulators will be included in Canada's incoming regulatory schema.
