Injured worker/health & safety activist, Still masking b/c Covid isn't over. Post as Peel Injured Workers on the other site.
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Vastly important from @timbousquet.bsky.social www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...
Brandon Klayme's wrongful conviction is the second for Crown prosecutor Melanie Perry - Halifax ExaminerThe wrongful conviction literature is replete with instances of individual cops and individual prosecutors being the loci of multiple wrongful convictions.www.halifaxexaminer.ca
Crews called to rescue resident who defied evacuation order, B.C. Wildfire Service says
Crews called to rescue resident who defied evacuation order, B.C. Wildfire Service says | CBC NewsWildfire officials in British Columbia are urging people to abide by evacuation orders, after they say crews were forced to rescue a resident who had stayed in a fire zone.www.cbc.ca
A Canadian man served 18 months in prison after being wrongfully convicted of offenses related to child pornography when investigators mixed up his username on the instant messaging app Kik, an appeals court in Nova Scotia found.
Mistaken Username Sent Man to Prison for 18 Months, Court FindsAn appeals court in Canada acquitted Brandon Klayme of child pornography-related charges. His Kik username had one less underscore than another account that was involved.nyti.ms
Who died and why: COVID-19, class and mass death in the United States www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Who died and why: COVID-19, class and mass death in the United StatesAcross both the Trump and Biden administrations, official public health policy forced working-class and minority Americans to bear the pandemic's highest death toll.www.wsws.org
There’s nothing this country loves quite like sucking up to rich foreigners
Luke LeBrunSwiss arms dealer who shouted "I'm a fucking racist and I'm proud of it" and violently assaulted a Palestinian woman outside a weapons manufacturers conference in Ottawa is given an absolute discharge by court after pleading guilty
“We want to make sure that doesn’t happen here,” said Max Sebesta, who lives in Mississauga. “If the federal government and the provincial government aren’t doing anything, it’s up to the municipal government … to start making change.”
Emmerson JullMississauga councillors vote 11-0 to support a one-year pause on data centres. If approved on Sept. 16, this could be the first interim control bylaw in Canada. It’s likely to face appeals. My latest for @nationalobserver.com www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/29/n...
I do get a third thing in my comments, which is increasingly desperate and absurd rationalizations so they can try to avoid dealing with cognitive dissonance.
Michael NabertWhenever I say that I don't want Mark Carney to harm the environment or attack human rights or kowtow to tech billionaires, a whole bunch of his supporters show up to 1. insult me, 2. accuse me of being a conservative supporter, and 3. nothing else. There is no third thing. 1/
This is like letting doctors run RCTs on smoke detectors and it has to stop. NOW. It would be laughable if not so deadly. I repeat, medicine, the call is coming from inside the house. Please collect your 🤡🤡🤡. We are tired of watching this dangerous, bumbling incompetence. #AskAnEngineer FFS
The Conversation UKA large trial found no evidence that Hepa air filters reduce respiratory infections in care homes, challenging assumptions about their role in infection control.
Inflammation is a driver of age-related diseases (inflammaging) and this new NYT magazine article gets deep into the progress that is being made to track and block it gift link www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Inflammation Keeps Us Alive. It's Also Making Us Sick. (Gift Article)The discovery that chronic inflammation is a cause of myriad illnesses could be this century's biggest medical breakthrough.www.nytimes.comFauci never said it should be a crime not to wear a mask.
jessethe lead anecdote in this story is about a mother who was reportedly tased and arrested at a football game in 2020 for not wearing a mask, and for some reason, this is the fault of anthony fauci and never, ever the cops, who were powerless to not do that
I don’t understand how this got published. It would be akin to saying “seatbelts don’t save lives” because of a study when people who didn’t use them properly had just as bad injuries as people who didn’t use them at all.
Mark UngrinNot only did only ~12% of participants get in-room HEPA (sharing common areas with the other 1,570 who didn't, with "up to 5" shared HEPAs), in-room HEPAs were only (reportedly) "usually" (which is...not a scientific unit of measure! 🙄) turned on. For "pragmatic" read "sloppy"
