COVID-19 was still the largest driver of hospitalizations for vaccine-preventable respiratory diseases in 2024 www.cihi.ca/en/priority-... via @cihica.bsky.social

#VaccinesWork

Noah Kahan: Tiny Desk Concert Noah Kahan's songs radiate empathy for loved ones and places from his past. After a gradual rise, the Vermont singer-songwriter finally makes his Tiny Desk debut.

Noah Kahan's songs radiate empathy for loved ones and places from his past. After a gradual rise, the Vermont singer-songwriter finally makes his Tiny Desk debut. n.pr/4cGau20

Série Canadien-Lightning: une église ouvre ses portes pour les fidèles de la Sainte-Flanelle à Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu Une église à Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu s’est transformée en amphithéâtre pour le premier match du Canadien en séries éliminatoires.

Série Canadien-Lightning: une église ouvre ses portes pour les fidèles de la Sainte-Flanelle à Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu

Schrodinger’s Strait

Child: I know your name. Mamdani.

Obama: What’s his first name?

Child: Mayor.

The kids crawling all over these men. Such joy.

For those of you playing along at home, exactly 14 hours and 5 minutes passed between the New York Times news alert reporting that the Strait of Hormuz was “fully open” and the one reporting that Iran had closed it again…

I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

Le «Bescherelle» québécois reconnaît la réforme du participe passé

Une décision qui provoque la liesse des spécialistes de la langue au Québec, qui la proposait depuis 2014.

Ottawa campus threat hits home in fear, finally relief IT’S 4:20 p.m. last Friday and I’d just filed my column when my phone rings. It’s my colleague, Stephanie, in Ottawa. Odd, she usually texts. “Have you talked to Sarah?” she asks. I hadn’t. “There’s an active shooter at the University of Ottawa,” she says. “Find her.” It’s impossible to describe what it’s like to realize your child is in life-ordeath danger. It’s even more difficult to explain how it feels when that child is more than 2,000 kilometres away. Fortunately — perhaps, unfortunately — I am well versed in handling trauma. I know, for example, that until you know what to do, you have to turn off the heart while keeping the mind on. I dial my daughter’s phone number. After one ring, I get a vision. What if she is hiding and the shooter is nearby? I hang up and text: “Are you OK? Where are you? I’ve heard there is a shooter on campus.” Nothing. My mind races, calculating as many possibilities as I can. “Turn your phone on silent. Find a room and lock the door if you can. Barricade yourself in with whatever you can. Text me.” Nothing. I scan social media and discover Ottawa police have arrived and are setting up a blockade, stopping anyone trying to enter or exit the centre of campus — precisely where my daughter would be at this time. I wait. Ten minutes feels like 10 hours. I know she doesn’t need a distraction right now but I text anyways: “I love you. So much. Please text when you can.” I stare at the screen when suddenly, three blinking dots appear. That’s when the tears start. She says she is in a room in the basement of her building with a handful of classmates. They’ve barricaded the door using tables and a music stand to cover the window. They’re sitting in the dark, whispering and trying to stay as quiet as possible. “I’m OK,” she texts. “One of us freaked out so we sat together and talked. We don’t hear anything. We are locked in. We feel safe.” I text that I will find out wha…

When @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social spoke in Altona awhile back he proudly related how his daughter had taken her own path, her love of music, going off to Ottawa for university. I can't comprehend the fear of that day. A fear no parent, no student, no child should ever have to endure.

Air Canada augmente certains frais de bagages Après avoir augmenté ses suppléments carburant, Air Canada revoit à la hausse ses frais de bagages pour certaines destinations.

Air Canada augmente certains frais de bagages @larocquesyl.bsky.social

«Ça dégénère un peu trop»: un homme lance des canettes de bière sur des joueurs de hockey en plein match Un individu a lancé deux canettes de bière sur des joueurs de hockey lors d’un match à Laval, jeudi soir.

«Ça dégénère un peu trop»: un homme lance des canettes de bière sur des joueurs de hockey en plein match

Milliard would renew the notwithstanding clause to shield Quebec’s Bill 96, he says montrealgazette.com/news/provinc...

I belong to some travel groups and the number of people who use it for travel advice is increasing. And then they come to these groups to doublecheck the AI travel agent information. It is all baffling. Ask real people. Or a real travel agent.

BBC Plans 2,000 Layoffs In Major Cost-Cutting Drive The BBC is planning to make 2,000 job cuts in one of its most brutal cost-cutting efforts to date.

Absolutely brutal all-staff call currently taking place at the BBC. Up to 2,000 job cuts coming in Sept. BBC bosses painting bleak picture of finances. "Our funding model has reached end of life," interim DG Rhodri Talfan Davies said, per one insider. deadline.com/2026/04/bbc-...

Stubb went to university on a golf scholarship. If it were summer, they probably would have golfed.

To be fair, in the 70s, the Venn Diagram of Bowie fans and Letraset fans would have been a circle. AKA My brother.

Sérieux, si ça se finit encore à une voix d’écart, on fait ça pile ou face la prochaine fois…
(Juste 5 boîtes dépouillées)

Yogurt and fruit for breakfast pretty mich every morning for maybe 25 years? 30? Fruit changes with the seasons, more Greek plain yogurt now but yeah, I am Team I like what I like, too.

Hungary has chosen Europe.

Europe has always chosen Hungary.

A country reclaims its European path.

The Union grows stronger.

Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?

This is quite extraordinary- scientists set a kind of trap for AI chat bots by inventing a fake disease. AI told people it was real and… the deliberately bogus preprints started being cited in peer reviewed literature 🫣
🧪 #MedSky

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

we could pay women the same as men so it’s not cheaper to hire a woman?

TLDR: Men are affronted by the idea of doing work they deem only fit for women.

Good morning, everyone. Group hug! ❤️

Photo: The Artemis II crew after they looped around the far side of the moon and started for home. ABC news.

Why Montreal isn't hosting the World Cup — and FIFA's strict conditions for Toronto, Vancouver | CBC News Thousands of documents obtained by Radio-Canada's investigative program Enquête shed light on why Montreal isn't among the host cities, how much the event will cost Canadian taxpayers — about $1 billi...

In light of all the things in Vancouver that are cancelled or curtailed this year in exchange for hosting the equivalent of, to quote the mayor, "30 or 40 Super Bowls", this story by our colleagues in Montreal is worth reading

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

Sha’Carri Richardson chasing down other runners after the staggered start

Update from NYTimes PR:

Sirop falsifié : les conserves retirées des tablettes Des épiceries retirent le sirop d’érable de Steve Bourdeau à la suite du reportage de l’émission « Enquête », révélant que des conserves étaient falsifiées.

Avez-vous du sirop de poteau distribué par l’acériculteur Steve Bourdeau qui vend ses produits falsifiés par l’entremise de sa société à numéro 9227-8712 Québec inc ?
ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/224...