Psst… can we also have another episode of I Podius where they talk to Mary Beard, please?

We had a similar set up when we had a newborn, and my executive functioning was further impaired by sleeplessness. I recommend a basket of sharpies, post-it notes, and painter's tape as a baby shower shower gift for new parents.

Not to mention the rancid, one-dollar-a-bottle beer that’s soaked into the carpets. The steam cleaning and detailing are going to cost a mint.

On top of Doug Ford’s new, $29,000,000 private jet, are the expensive Government of Ontario propaganda spots on the radio which run in *every* commercial break on my station, sometimes two at a time. How many wasted millions does that add up to, I’d like to know.

What’s interesting is that it’s also a big tent boycott, crossing political boundaries.

Canada’s boycott wasn’t organized. It was organic.

Reasons from friends, family, neighbours and Bluesky suggest it’s because Canada has a high literacy rate and over 60% of us have a college/university education; we listen, we read and quietly make up our minds. One Canadian at time.

#Canada

Hospital admissions for respiratory illnesses from vaccine-preventable diseases is twice what it was before the Covid pandemic. Get your damn vaccines. Make your loved ones get vaccines. COME ON.

Democrats are underreacting to Donald Trump’s obvious mental decline.

They should be shouting it from the rooftops and on every cable show, just like Republicans did with Joe Biden.

Trump is clearly not well.

Doug Ford is determined not to go down like his brother Rob.

Ontarians must be equally determined to bring him down.

Hospitalization rates for illnesses like COVID, flu have doubled since pre-pandemic, report finds | CBC News Striking new data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) shows hospitalization rates for vaccine-preventable respiratory diseases more than doubled in 2024, compared to pre-pandemic...

Vaccine uptake, respiratory illnesses, and hospital burden are issues I have attempted to share through charts and advice. A population that vaccinates less is going to face more serious illness risks more often and impact our healthcare system. Vaccines work.

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Amazon will pay $20.5 million to settle allegations that two of its Oregon data centers helped contaminate groundwater.

This is exactly why communities across the country are organizing to stop data centers — and winning.

Never doubt your power to change the system.

Would love to see more of this in Canada

see: recycling and how plastic and petrochemical companies made *their* mass pollution each of our personal individual problems

Part of their problem is that Kakapo males take their whole world view from manosphere podcasts and YouTubers.

I remember speaking to a US resident Doctor about US private healthcare.
This is just one scenario.

Me:”What happens when your insurance cover ends ?(chronic disease eg cancer)”
Dr: “You use your savings”
Me: “And when they run out?”
Dr: “ First they make you bankrupt and then you die”
#r4today

Ontario: if you're sick, stay home!

Also Ontario: if you stay home, we'll punish you

This driver was going so fast that they FLIPPED A CAR in a freaking school zone!!! And collectively, our community shrugs. There wasn't any media coverage beyond this CTV post. In what other domain would we accept this level of recklessness and risk?

Tina Yazdani was respected for asking tough questions at Queen's Park, and not being a glorified stenographer for the wealthy and politically connected.

CityNews suddenly sacking her and scrubbing her work on Doug Ford from the web smacks of someone making a phone call to get her canned. #onpoli

As usual, Morgan saw it coming.

#CdnMediaColludes

Best of luck to Tina. I already saw her byline on TorontoToday, which is a news source you should check out.

Support independent news, not goddamn Rogers and Bell.

For health and environmental reasons, we've been reducing our intake of beef, so we were out of touch w/ the current prices. When we decided to treat ourselves w/ braised short ribs for NYE, we were floored by the cost. The budget friendly cuts that we used eat are now astoundingly expensive.

It's also amazing to me that you need to register your party preference.

Since Doug Ford campaigned on lower hydro bills he has approved a 60% increase, & has a proposal for a 100% increase in front of him. He is building out nuclear, the most expensive electricity available on the planet. #onpoli #FordFailedOntario
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Also the same companies that convinced North Americans that they needed to spend three month’ salary on an engagement ring.

I know it's considered to be part of the Renaissance era, but I'm deep into Tudor history right now because Henry VIII's rule seems to be pretty relevant to our time as well.

It doesn't help that a lot of the dental practices are being bought out by corporations these days. (Same with vet practices.)

I think that in central and eastern Canada they tend to be coyote-wolf hybrids, so they're bigger than the western coyotes.

I'd replaced my Kindle just before the parent company's toxic politics became impossible to ignore any longer. I've replaced it with an e-reader that's compatible with our city's library lending system -- so at least it has that saving grace.

Understandable. With everything that's going on, I'm finding some solace in knowing that we're helping local wildlife by adding native plants to our yard.

We've subsidised oil companies for decades as we "need" their products to run society, but now we dont, we need to use those same subsidies for heat pumps, EV's, solar panels, turbines, bio mass what ever else we can use to generate electric, it's only fair, we'd get to "net 0" real fast that way.

Most California voters support the state’s newly proposed billionaire tax, according to new polling.

Meanwhile, rich Californians are plotting a $500M slush fund to influence the state's politics.

So they can't afford a wealth tax, but they'll spend a fortune buying elections?

See the problem...