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Protestors in Greenland are outside the U.S. embassy chanting “Go Home USA.” #cdnpoli

Please enjoy my cartoon for Friday's Toronto Star

Wow: “The tooth’s hollow had been scooped out by a stone drill rather than by natural decay or wear… The findings indicated that the prehistoric patient underwent a deliberate Stone Age root canal, a discovery that pushes back the earliest evidence of intentional dentistry by more than 40,000 years”

A group of young men burned down an Ebola treatment center in Congo today. They were angry because their friend had died of the disease and the medical center wouldn’t release the body, which would have been dangerous. If you are thinking this wouldn’t happen here, you are mistaken.

Smith pushes another word salad referendum opening the door to breaking up the country. So why would Mark Carney continue promoting a pipeline with her? Isn't Canada worth more than the interests of oil executives in Calgary and Houston? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Bhattacharya’s legacy The US had a “world-class Ebola lab in Frederick, Maryland, with the NIH,” designed to develop vaccines & treatments. The lab would normally be swinging into action. “But that lab was shuttered last year, with staff laid off abruptly”😢 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

The US shits all over Canada, keeps trying to destroy us, threatens our entire country by telling us what they want, what we can’t do, and then goes all psycho 2.0 when we move on from their abusive toxicity. We are not your punching bag, fix your own damn house, clean up in aisle 4 #NotSorry

I am born and raised in Alberta, and live there now. I'll be voting against any form of separation. From now until the vote in October, I will use my online reach to campaign against the separatists and ensure this discussion of separation ends for good in 2026.

Danielle Smith’s separatist referendum puts us all at risk. We will not stand by and let the extremists who run the Premier also run this province. We’re going to stand up and fight. For our home. For Alberta. For Canada. And with your help, we WILL win. Join us: ForAlbertaForCanada.ca

This is why we need trusted folk already in these places, before outbreaks like Ebola hit--& why funding cuts to WHO and USAID forced many of those people who were working there to leave. Trust of the community is critical when you're asking them to do things like change funeral/burial rituals.

Former CDC Director Robert Redfield delivered a headline-grabbing line yesterday, saying that Ebola may become a pandemic. He also said of the outbreak, “…it wasn’t recognized very quickly. I’m not sure why”. IDK Dr. Redfield, maybe the termination of USAID had something to do with it?

Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star

I raised my 6-year-old on a steady diet of Beatles and Bowie. Then I thought getting him a CD player and a stack of CDs from the thrift shop might be a good way to introduce him to discovering music for himself, rather than Spotify. This morning, I awoke to him singing along to Pitbull. Eww.

Spoiler alert but historically speaking, at no time have disabled people got along just fine as a class. We face entrenched prejudice, societal isolation, and oh yeah, idiots on the internet.

I think the Canadian federation will be unable to survive if we decide that federal-provincial politics will be conducted by governments walking around sticking shotguns in their mouths.

Hantavirus, Ebola - a broken Center for Disease Control. Trump and RFK Jr in charge and a guy who ran a podcast called the Erection Connection. They are your front line of defence. We are playing Russian roulette with super-spreaders. My latest: charlieangus.substack.com/p/warning-shot

I will always be Canadian first and Albertan second.

You need to watch this interview with @lukelebrun.ca on the connection between Pete Hoekstra and the stolen Alberta voter data. He appears to be a big fan of the obscure APP being used by the treason crew in Alberta. @pressprogress.ca @meidastouch.com @meidastouch.com youtu.be/2dJ3-qlFf3M?...

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Scientists at the University of Nottingham have developed a new enamel-repairing gel that starts restoring teeth in just 2 WEEKS. This could replace fillings and change dental treatment worldwide, with use expected around 2026–2027.

You really can’t fix stupid, VITAMIN K Shots are Vitamins to keep your child from bleeding to death after birth, stop listening to propaganda. It’s Science ffs 🤬 Canadian doctors seeing rise in parents refusing vitamin K shots for newborns /1 thread www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

🎻 Teeny tiny violins

As MAGA Alberta Premier pushes an independence vote, important to remember: Alberta separatist movement largely based on lies, conspiracy theories, intolerance, and myths of a magical past... My take: thewalrus.ca/albertas-sep... cc @jaredwesley.ca @ryanjespersen.bsky.social

Danielle Smith announces Fall referendum on the concept of referendums www.thebeaverton.com/2026/05/dani...

Snuffleupagus, a newly described species, is an adorable little predator The seahorse cousin is named for its 'uncanny' resemblance to the Sesame Street character www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...

Remember, all these people in power now, were the critics of the COVID response. Just imagine if they were in charge back then.

I went on @meidastouch.com and talked to @charlieangus104.bsky.social about my deep dive into the connections between US ambassador Pete Hoekstra’s political network and the app at the centre of the massive data breach involving 3 million Alberta voters You can watch here 👇

The substitution of luxury aesthetics for good user experience has reached a deafening crescendo

Many public health officials spent the past 5+ years shunning masks, stigmatizing those still taking precautions & denying airborne viral transmission. Many politicians cut foreign aid & pretended it wouldn't have consequences thehill.com/policy/healt...

Prediction: Someone in Alberta will organize a petition to have a referendum about whether or not we want to have any more referenda.

“In Danielle Smith’s Alberta, if the facts don’t support your argument, you can make up new facts.” #abpoli

AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community. #cdnpoli

I love Alberta because just when you are despondent about how bizarre the politics is it gets more bizarre and you realize that the earlier time was the good old days.

A college student in Utah didn’t *want* to watch a film about a lesbian. The student, a “devout Catholic and a political conservative, felt uneasy…and the idea of writing a paper on it made her…uncomfortable”. Utah passed a law so she and other crybabies can opt out. Disgraceful.

The state of Utah now allows COLLEGE students to opt out of lessons if they make the student feel “uncomfortable” due to their religious beliefs. Professors are now *required by law* to provide an “alternative assignment” for these closeminded whiners.

No one could have foreseen this. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/myo...

In political science school they didn't teach us enough about the role bad faith actors play in politics. I am always, naively, amazed at how craven it all is.

3D TVs are here to stay. We need to stop fearmongering about 3D TVs and start finding the ways that 3D TVs can be used ethically and to support our causes. Naysayers need to realize that this technology is inevitable.

Trump administration officials, who opposed Covid-era restrictions, have taken a more aggressive approach to locking down potentially exposed people than in past outbreaks. 🎁 article: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/u...

Anyone else surprised that Canada, a democratic and sovereign country, is making its own choices about how to spend its military budget? Where is our obsequiousness? #Canada

Markwayne Mullin says he is going to “cut federal screening of foreign passengers at airports in sanctuary cities”. The airports would include those in New York City, Portland OR, and Washington DC. These people are mobsters. No more, no less.

Singapore: COVID-19 cases rise almost 60% in one week. 🔹 Cases increased from 8,000 to 12,700 between May 10–16. 🔹 Hospitalisations also rose 30%, increasing from 56 to 73 during the same period. Source: archive.md/cBfBF

Here’s the plan, fam. We need a Unitarian Universalist to attend college in Utah and refuse to do any assignments on American history because their religion is opposed to patriarchy. Their new law allows for this, yes?

I wonder if Prasad’s colleagues at UCSF are politely asking him to explain this. I would.

USA: COVID-19 infection appears to have driven a sharp rise in myocarditis cases, and rates remain elevated. 📉 Pre-pandemic baseline: Stable at 67–71 cases annually 📈 2020: 103 cases 📈 2021: 128 cases 📈 2022: 139 cases ⚠️ Overall impact: An 80% increase above the historical baseline

Kars4Kids scandal shockingly not an Epstein thing

Christy Clark: "If this should succeed, Danielle Smith will go down as probably the worst premier Canada has ever had. If it fails, she'll go down as someone who got lucky and got out of there with their skin intact and certainly still isn't qualified to be the premier of a province." #cdnpoli

Alberta: run by clowns

By Zdenek Vrozina: "This may be one of the more important long COVID papers in a while. A new study in Frontiers in Immunology suggests that COVID can trigger new-onset insulin resistance - and that this may drive abnormal NETosis in neutrophils months after infection." Published: 04 May 2026

Danielle Smith's national hostage-taking now includes a referendum on....having a referendum. Is she postponing the seemingly inevitable conflict with her separatist supporters, or did she inadvertently accelerate its arrival? #cdnpoli #abpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/22/o...

Canada ends agonizing three-year Walter Cup drought

Let's have a referendum on whether we should have a referendum on whether we should have a referendum on whether we should have a referendum on whether we should have a referendum on whether we should have a referendum on whether we should have a referendum on whether we should have a referendum on

I’m reading The Demon of Unrest by Larsen and I learned that Ft. Sumter’s walls were weakest in the back where it faced the U.S. The military never conceived of an attack coming from that direction. It turns out that most of our governmental walls are the same, metaphorically speaking.

Young men torched an Ebola center bc they were mad they couldn't retrieve their friend's body for burial, AP reports. People get mad when their loved ones are disappeared. If that's not taken seriously, the whole response will go south. My piece from 2015 www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/ar...

“There’s something else worth knowing about beef tallow that isn’t making it into the wellness content: It contains ruminant trans fats. They’re naturally occurring, present in all beef fat, and according to cardiologists, present in tallow at levels far above what’s considered safe.”

My latest for @statnews.com is deeply personal. I write about returning from Sierra Leone after running an #Ebola Treatment Unit in 2014 — and becoming a suspected Ebola patient myself. It’s also about whose suffering gets seen during outbreaks, and whose does not. www.statnews.com/2026/05/20/e...

Yes, of course. Obviously! Go look at the 1980 and 1995 Quebec Referendums. Most Canadians love Canada.

A referendum on whether we should have a referendum lmao

Local woman wakes up, requires all Alberta separatists to write 10,000 word essays (with fact checked info, proper citations and no AI assistance) on the positive and negative impacts of separating from Canada, makes oatmeal.

Democracy dies in the darkness.

Montreal Canadiens dominate Hurricanes in Game 1 of East final 🍁🇨🇦🥅🏒 #GoHABSGo Habs open series on road with 6-2 victory over Carolina www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Plus the all-important "Oxford" branding. As Christina and Gideon say, this isn't science. And there's no law against any random outfit calling itself "The Oxford Institute of Clever Stuff".

Toronto Blue Jays I will never stop loving you, you island of misfit toys jerks 💙💙💙

Alberta, A Poem Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And I asked "should we take route 1, or should the Government of Alberta commence the legal process required under the Canadian Constitution to hold a binding provincial referendum on whether or not we should take route 1 or route 2?"

Hi Air Travellers! Check your goddamn bags.

It was a NOT TODAY, MOTHERFUCKER kinda day and is a very good thing I have a four day weekend.

I know nothing about Kyle Busch as a person. I’m very sorry for his family’s loss. But I do know that it is absolutely disgusting that social media is amplifying a rumor that he died from the COVID19 vaccine.

Another day, another bad take on oil and gas from the Globe and Mail -- this time from Tony Keller. Let's dig in. 🧵 www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

So a 41 year old race car driver suddenly dropped dead after struggling with a “sinus cold” that became severe and put him in the hospital for three days. I wonder what kind of a sinus cold could cause the kind of sudden death typically associated with a blood clot or heart attack.

@bymichellersmith.com on Trump Surgeon General nominee Nicole Saphier's hawking of dangerous, quack supplements. Tell your Senators to vote NO on Saphier. 1/ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Update: surgery was super duper successful & I have practically no nerve pain at all anymore 🥳🥳🥳🥳 I’m gonna be offline for a little bit longer while I focus on making a full recovery from surgery but hopefully not too much longer.

"The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is spreading rapidly", says @drtedros.who.int at @who.int presser. 82 cases and 7 deaths have been confirmed in DRC. "But we know the epidemic in DRC is much larger. There are now almost 750 suspected cases and 177 suspected deaths."

Forty years ago this week, Rick Hansen was halfway through his 26-month, 40,075-kilometer, 34-country Man In Motion world tour to advocate for global accessibility for people living with disabilities. #Canada www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

Download The Alberta Clash's new single "Should I Stay or Should I Stay or Should I Go?"

The week @nationalobserver.com broke news about a Trump-linked US company hosting Albertans' electoral data, our site started suffering from massive outages. Our provider tells us their servers are under attack. We don't know if we're the target, but the timing is weird. Thanks for bearing with us!

What a fucking joke.

Not their house, but definitely their sunbeam.

People sleep in parks and on buses in Canada but Latvia needs more ammo.

"How do you feel about sports betting ads when you see them?" Dislike Them: 65% Indifferent: 29% Enjoy Them: 2% Angus Reid / May 11, 2026

🚨 Trump & RFK Jr have a new & extremely inhumane approach to global health: holding vulnerable people to ransom 🆕 My latest article in @bmj.com examines how the Trump administration is withholding life-saving health aid from countries & from Gavi to extract concessions www.bmj.com/content/393/...

Starts in 1hr. You can register and listen in www.who.int/news-room/ev...

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Good morning only to smart people 😁

I’ve just come up with an option for a the legally-required “alternative assignment” for the Catholic student in Utah who didn’t want to watch a film about a lesbian because it made her “uneasy”.

Took extra long to get my kids to bed tonight. Missed Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's speech. Just opened up the news. Am I understanding this right? We're having a referendum on ... whether we should have another referendum?

Stopped at a red light and saw an elderly woman on the median, ankles swollen, limping slowly past stopped cars, holding a paper cup. Gave her money and the car behind me did the same. Don’t care what she’ll do with this money; there, but for the grace of our privilege, go all of us. #poverty

“The vast majority of Albertans (73%) want their province to remain in Canada.”

New chicken owners flock to Ross Farm #NovaScotia Nova Scotians turn to backyard poultry to combat high food prices Newton has kept chickens for more than 10 years, following in the footsteps of her parents and grandparents, who were also farmers. /1 thread www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

AUSTRALIA Weekly COVID Update: 22 May 2026 🔹WA: ⬆️(+25.8%) Avg 61/day in hospital 🔹NSW: ⬆️(+20.4%) 🔹SA: ⬆️(+16.3%) 🔹QLD: ⬇️(-4.7%) 36 in hospital 🔸VIC: Next update: 29 May 🔸TAS: Next update: 29 May 🔹Aged Care: The Australian government ended weekly reporting

How MAGA and regressive is Alberta? This...👇 Alberta’s most banned books of 2026: theijf.org/article/albe... via @theijf.org Banned: - 1984 - Watchmen - The Handmaid’s Tale - Flamer - V for Vendetta - Blankets Dark Age 2.0

Smith putting a separatism question on a ballot and then campaigning against it. #cdnpoli

If Doug Ford wants to clear an encampment, he has an easy set of options: 1) PROVIDE HOUSING, 2) PROVIDE HOUSING, or 3) FUCK OFF.

David Eby: "I think that this is the moment when the country needs to pull together as a whole. There is no shortage of people who want to take it away from us. We have to fight for this country every day. And so that message the Prime Minister is, look, BC is all in on Canada." #cdnpoli

Because Canadians: a) are still wilfully deluded about who he is, b) loathe and fear Poilievre and will accept any better alternative, c) do not understand how a multi-party parliamentary democracy works and think it's a binary choice. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

“Long COVID will cost the US an estimated $8 billion over just 3 years due to healthcare burden, managing symptoms and loss to the workforce” theconversation.com/long-covid-w...

What a joy to recreate your steps from a past adventure, to revel in the joy of artistic creation, and appreciated all the small happenings that happen in such a large city that make it more than the sum of its parts. anyways london is great

One consequence of tolerating pseudoscience is that people die when its legitimatization becomes baked into our culture, health care systems, and institutions.

This is not the next pandemic. But it is a stress test, and a reminder of something we keep relearning the hard way. When humans push into ecosystems they don’t normally inhabit, they are exposed to viruses, write three experts. 🦠

This referendum on a referendum deliberately exposes Canada to the risks of foreign interference — risks that are multiplied for the millions of Albertans who have had their personal data exposed by Parker’s Centurion project, @maxfawcett.bsky.social writes.

great meeting @mollyjeffery.bsky.social & @publichealthguy1.bsky.social in ATL!