This is all you need to know about the 'debate' over gender-affirming care for kids: There is no evidence that it's being given too quickly and plenty of evidence that it's not.

It should shock & outrage everyone that we somehow, always, find a way to justify--and our leaders praise--the use of mass, brutal, militarized violence to respond to -- at worst -misdemeanor trespass. There is no valid justification for these well-worn tactics against protest.

A reminder this #InternationalWorkersDay 👇

Why have we had such a steep rise in visible homelessness?

Perhaps part of it is because 'Ontario has [been] lowering what it spends on community housing by 70 per cent' since 2018.

Rafah is being decimated, there is nowhere else left to go. Israel is now bombing more than 1.7 million civilians trapped in Rafah, Gaza's last place of refuge. A massacre is happening in Rafah right now and the world is silent.

Criminalization failed to stop drug use before, and it will fail again. This partisan rhetoric ignores not only evidence but the fact that NO PROVINCE has implemented a full suite of evidence-based treatment or harm reduction services. People are dying across the country.

The bottle of “hate” is well done. I’m very happy the Winnipeg Free Press has the backbone to say editorially what many have been saying for some time. Pierre Poilievre sows hate every chance he has. #cdnpoli

The disinformation, judgment, stigma and lack of compassion or acknowledgment of decades of research about drug use and harm reduction in the messages being peddled by the CPC is appalling & risks lives. Scapegoating people who use substances to stir up a moral panic for votes.

Here’s what Canada is doing (and not doing) to watch for #H5N1 amid an explosive outbreak among U.S. dairy cattle — and why Canadian scientists warn we’re already way behind this virus without active surveillance.

New from me:
cbc.ca/news/health/bi…

You must not say
that nothing has been learned
from the current pandemic
after all, at 33 dairy farms
only 23 people have been tested
for avian influenza
which clearly demonstrates
that from the current pandemic
we have learned
that if you don’t look for it
you won’t find it.

Wow this article shows the great lengths some people are going to stop equity work & “go back to the basics”. The same playbook to take down a top math researcher is being used against #OntEd by a few harassment influencers to attack educators in Ontario as well.

A Government that actually wanted to address the workplace and the fiscal effects of poor mental health would focus on, in particular, poverty and all its impacts and mental health care.

It would be guided by a real, and sustained, care for those of us who are struggling.

When I’ve watched footage of the holocaust and other genocides from the past, I’ve believed I would do what I could to help those fleeing and fighting for their lives. Whatever we can do, we must.
URGENT: Help me and my family escape from Gaza to safety gofund.me/bb3861c2

Here and elsewhere several people have responded to my social media posts decrying the keffiyeh ban in the Ontario Legislature by criticizing the keffiyeh as a symbol of hate, oppression, violence and antisemitism. I share my thoughts in response here. alexneve.ca/blog/keffiyehb…

Crack, heroin & fentanyl were not legalized. If you have heroin please let drug users know as there's been no heroin in Canada since 2016 and that's why 40,000+ people have died since. The drug supply changed.

Its unacceptable that our public policy discourse rejects facts.

This should concern us all.
Cdns will think this is an US reality, it’s not. And although the “publish or perish” reality of universities is not felt in 🇨🇦 colleges, the devaluing of public education has very much impacted us all.
A pointed and passionate read.

Remember Brexit? That time a Conservative Party directed voter frustration at an easy scapegoat to win their biggest election victory in decades? Something similar is happening today in Canada, says contributing writer Arno Kopecky.

thewalrus.ca/pierre-poiliev…

“Abundantly clear there was a relationship”: texts show that Doug Ford’s former principal secretary visited a Greenbelt developer’s mansion multiple times, contradicting his sworn testimony to the Integrity Commissioner. Scoop by Charlie Pinkerton thetrillium.ca/news/politics/… #onpoli

Very excited for the release of this paper, mapping the emergence of a moral panic around safer supply prescribing. Led by Liam Michaud 🇵🇸, our team uses established criteria for moral panics to explore recent rhetoric around safer supply, diversion and youth drug use 🧵

ANNOUNCEMENT: Alongside 2SLGBTQIA+ advocates and allies across Canada, we are speaking up for #RainbowEquality with a 🏳️‍🌈 National Rainbow Week of Action from May 11-17th 2024 🏳️‍🌈

Take action, attend a rally, send your MP a letter: rainbowequality.ca.