Supporting 2SLBGTQI+ folks All Human Rights: Health, Water, Housing, Healthy Planet Uninvited guest on Treaty 7 Lands
Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.
“The Premier ran last election on a ‘Public Health Guarantee,’ repeatedly promising that her govt wouldn’t delist any med procedures from public funding & that no ABs would have to pay … to access care. Yet here we are. What a betrayal of ABs who took the Premier at her word in the last election.”
Friends of MedicareWhile Canada’s Premiers met this week, Alberta quietly reclassified all preventive testing as non-insured extended health services. Laying groundwork to delist health services from public coverage? Yet another step towards two-tier health care. www.friendsofmedicare.org/oic_step_tow...
www.friendsofmedicare.org/canadas_heal... “An investment in health care is an investment in Canada’s future: with every dollar the federal government spends on health, more than $1.30 is generated in additional GDP.”
Joint statement: Canada’s health workforce united: investing in health care keeps Canada strongRead this joint statement via @friendsofmedicare! Canada’s health workforce united: investing in health care keeps Canada strongwww.friendsofmedicare.org“The Republican Party’s new favorite talking point is calling Democrats communists,” Representative Jim McGovern (D-MA) said yesterday on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. “Really? Communists? Did we accidentally step into a time machine?” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
July 22, 2026“The Republican Party’s new favorite talking point is calling Democrats communists,” Representative Jim McGovern (D-MA) said yesterday on the floor of the U.S.open.substack.comJFC how many distractions does he need to create? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Trump administration weighing military options in Mali, officials sayIf approved, it would add an eighth nation to the list of countries where President Donald Trump has ordered strikes since the start of his second term.www.washingtonpost.comPls sign the petition now calling on the CDC and the Trump administration to restore full, mandatory tracking of cyclospora and other foodborne illnesses: sign.moveon.org/petitions/cy... Americans deserve a public health system that catches foodborne illness early; we need more tracking, not less.
Tell the CDC: Restore tracking of cyclospora and other foodborne illnesses!FoodNet has tracked foodborne illnesses since 1995, giving health officials the data they need to spot outbreaks early, understand their scope, and respond before they spiral. Cyclospora surveillance ...sign.moveon.org
A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.
