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19 April 1943 | Groups of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto began the uprising against Germans. Their heroic battle lasted 27 days.

Today we remember the bravery & sacrifice of people who chose to resist against impossible odds to die in dignity & save the human spirit.

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Matt has been a fighter for all of us for a very long time. Time to step up for them.

Justin Ling: Canada can rescue Ukraine with seized Russian cash. What are we waiting for? It would be an easier job than you might think. In fact, what really baffles the experts is why Canada hasn’t acted already.

American aid has dried up. Europe's aid is being held up by a Putin stooge. Canada has the power to finance Ukraine's self-defense: so let's do it. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

(Posting again because the link didn't unfurl properly the first time.)

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Guess it would be easier to defend PHAC if it had done a critical public review of its performance during COVID, it stopped harassing queer businesses selling poppers (legal to possess and use but mustn’t sell, aka harassment), etc.

Well put, David.

Faced with new energy shock, Europe asks if reviving nuclear is the answer As war drives up gas and fuel prices, Europeans turn again to the issue of energy independence.

Europeans will talk about it… again. Funnily complacent crowd. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Oh dear.

The New York Times clever headline about NATO is entirely based on them getting its name wrong 😐

The A doesn’t stand for America, dudes.

The cancer that are consultancies cashing in on the underfunding of higher education, declaring their own nonsensical standard the benchmark against which universities have to measure up. Tells us how badly universities are managed that they fall for this claptrap.

Trump admin anti-trans snitch site targeted Canadian doctors ⋆ The Breach Canadian jurisdictions were included on a U.S. ‘whistleblower’ form targetting trans care providers—and then were quietly removed after media enquiries

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The Dismantling of Environmental Protections — A Grave Threat to America’s Health | NEJM The Trump administration’s wide-ranging actions to dismantle U.S. environmental regulations will cause long-lasting health harms, disproportionately affecting low-income and other vulnerable groups.

"We health professionals must call urgent attention to this silent but deadly assault [EPA dismantling] on American's health...."
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Rise of social media bans is a blunt force that will harm LGBTQIA+ children, especially in rural areas If we are serious about protecting young people, we need to approach social media policy with that nuance in mind.

Social media bans are often framed as a simple safeguarding issue.

But zoom out from cities where these decisions are being made and the picture looks very different

This Toronto doctor has over 2,000 patients, but still no permanent residency | CBC Radio Dr. Michael Antil left the U.S. in 2023 with his family, driven out by an increasingly conservative political climate and COVID-era hostility toward doctors. Now a family physician to over 2,000 patie...

The farce that is our citizenship and immigration bureaucracy 😳 www.cbc.ca/radio/whitec...

Against Moral Panic and Citation Fiction: A Critique of “Panem, Corticoids and Circenses” and a Proposal for Editorial Gatekeeping on Reference Integrity The proposed Enhanced Games have become a convenient stage for bioethical sermonising about risk, authenticity, and the “spirit of sport”. This is epitomized by a recent article arguing that institut...

Against Moral Panic and Citation Fiction: A Critique of “Panem, Corticoids and Circenses” and a Proposal for Editorial Gatekeeping on Reference Integrity - Arandjelović - Bioethics - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Academic Integrity Is Coming Increasingly Under Attack From Academics Using AI Tools as a Short‐Cut to Publications Click on the article title to read more.

Academic Integrity Is Coming Increasingly Under Attack From Academics Using AI Tools as a Short‐Cut to Publications - Schuklenk - Bioethics - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

When Disregard for Population Health Becomes US Policy This Perspective discusses the consequences on population health of recent US policies, such as those that limit funding for scientific research or affect vaccine access.

When Disregard for Population Health Becomes US Policy url: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Genuinely just bonkers to watch the USA do this to one of the most successful and innovative hubs of scientific research the world has ever seen. All those years of Free Speech On Campus debates and it turns out they actually wanted less cancer research. Absurd.

I Wrote Research Funding Announcements for NIH for 22 Years. This Year They’ve Published 14 How NIH went from 756 funding announcements to 14 in two years — and what it means for every disease that depends on federal research

This is an incredible documentation of the systematic, intentional collapse of American health science, by Elizabeth Ginexi.

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Seventh narco sub found near Australian waters, signalling 'insane amount of drugs' At least seven narco subs have been discovered in Pacific waters near Australia in the past 18 months, with experts warning that Australia's cocaine demand means more are on the way.

Seven+ narco subs are believed to be operating in Australia’s Pacific waters, feeding the country’s cocaine habit, while our cops focus on small-time #cannabis busts, and our navy is rented out to the US in the Middle East. Welcome to Trump & Albo’s War on Decency.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Rotting in hell is too good for them. They’ve got to roast.

Canadian Health Coalition calls for the shutting down of all for-profit, private plasma centres Manitoba needs a coroner’s inquest into deaths following plasma extraction

The Canadian Health Coalition is calling on federal Health Minister Marjorie Michel to shut down for-profit plasma collection centres across Canada following reports of two deaths linked to plasma extraction in Winnipeg.

What “Western Civilization” Really Means It has less to do with faith—and more to do with the Enlightenment—than Marco Rubio thinks.

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Zelensky accuses EU allies of 'blackmail' in oil pipeline row Volodymyr Zelensky says restoring the flow of Russian oil via Ukraine into the EU would be like lifting sanctions on Russia.

The EU ain’t a serious operation . Running from one dictator to the next to get energy instaed of working towards independence. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Wired headphone sales are exploding. What's with the Bluetooth backlash? Is the return of wired headphones driven by a simple desire for better sound quality or is it part of a backlash against modern tech? Thomas Germain tries to find out.

Im in the Bluetooth hate camp, never works for me when i need it (only slightly exaggerating ) www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Harish Rana: Supreme Court allows 'passive euthanasia' of patient in vegetative state Harish Rana has been in a vegetative state since 2013, when he fell from a balcony and suffered head injuries.

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'One year of failure.' The Lancet slams RFK Jr.'s first year as health chief In a scathing review, the top US medical journal's editorial board warned that the "destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 in office might take generations to repair."

In a scathing review, the top US medical journal's editorial board warned that the "destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 in office might take generations to repair."

‘Dark, like our future’: Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran’s oil depots bombed Residents report terror of smoke-filled city, from potentially toxic rain, air and water to food scarcity and difficulty of escape

I’m thinking of all the innocent civilians 😔

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