Christopher Byrne 🇨🇦🇺🇦 Bruce Arthur Rachel Gilmore Luke LeBrun David Moscrop Colin D'Mello | Global News chantal hébert Dale Smith Great list! I also like Max Fawcett 🇨🇦 André Picard

Mental illness, violent offences: B.C.'s health solutions are failing its citizens, say experts in wake of latest deadly stranger attack in downtown Vancouver, by loriculbert vancouversun.com/health/mentall… via The Vancouver Sun #MentalHealth

Une rentrée « préoccupante » en matière de sécurité routière. Deux enfants ont été happés en l’espace de quelques heures jeudi dans les rues de Montréal, par Henri Ouellette-Vézina lapresse.ca/actualites/gra… via @lp_lapresse Piétons Québec #VisionZero

Does Yoshua Bengio regret helping to create #AI? The Université de Montréal computer scientist explains why he’s worried about the rapidly developing technology, and how it could be reined in. Q+A by Matt Galloway cbc.ca/listen/live-ra… via @cbcnews

« J’ai appelé ça l’entrepôt de patients ! » -- Une femme de 83 ans a vécu l’horreur, passant deux mois à l’hôpital, privée de toute stimulation, faute de place en CHSLD, par Marie-Eve Cousineau lapresse.ca/actualites/san… via @lp_lapresse

I've been an #ER physician in #Canada for fifteen years and I can count on one hand the number of patients I have seen who have come in wounded by gunshots. I had to go to the US as a trainee to learn how to manage them. School shootings are a power & policy problem.

Flush toilets🚽coming to B.C. construction sites. A long-demanded improvement to work conditions will soon become a reality. It’s being welcomed by unions and bosses, but questions about rollout remain, by Liam Britten cbc.ca/player/play/vi… via @cbcnews #NoPlaceToGo

We each have a Nazi in us. We need to understand the psychological roots of authoritarianism. The amygdala, a tiny almond-shaped brain structure that mediates fear, is larger in people with more rightwing views, by Dr. Gabor Maté theguardian.com/commentisfree/… via The Guardian #neuroscience

This is a great thread, from a bus operator on why bus-only lanes make sense.

6 Mistakes New Runners🏃‍♀️Make. #Running experts and coaches share their best advice for avoiding these common pitfalls, by Talya Minsberg nytimes.com/2024/09/05/wel… via NYTimes Well

Time to Say Goodbye to the #BMI? The body mass index has long been criticized as a flawed indicator of health. A replacement has been gaining support: the body roundness index, by Roni Rabin nytimes.com/2024/09/06/hea… via @NYThealth #obesity

Caring for #aging parents can strain everyone’s finances. Plan now. There is a long-term care crisis, and we’ve done little to address the high cost, by Michelle Singletary washingtonpost.com/business/2024/… via The Washington Post Canadian Centre for Caregiving Excellence #eldercare #caregiving

How a bat🦇disease may have led to the death of more than 1,000 kids. A new study in the journal Science found the decline of bats in the U.S. had come at a deadly cost to humans, by Dino Grandoni washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro… via The Washington Post

#COVID19 activity is high, but Canada not 'remotely close' to worst days of the pandemic: experts. Latest surge driven by highly contagious Omicron offshoots, sub-variants from the JN.1 lineage, by Sharon Kirkey ottawacitizen.com/health/what-to… via @ottawacitizen

Why #AI poses an existential danger to humanity by Yuval Noah Harari, author of "Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI." theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl… via Globe Opinion

Advocates call on Ottawa to impose rules on scooters, e-bikes and mopeds, which ride the streets unchecked. ‘Micromobility’ vehicles operate in regulatory grey zones, often creating havoc on sidewalks and bike lanes, by Pippa theglobeandmail.com/business/artic… via The Globe and Mail

Ontario reports first human case of #rabies since 1967. One person hospitalized after being exposed in northern Ontario, likely from contact with bat.🦇 theglobeandmail.com/canada/article… via The Globe and Mail

Cathy Merrick, Grand Chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, dies after collapsing outside courthouse while talking to reporters. theglobeandmail.com/canada/article… via The Globe and Mail Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs

Female athletes keep getting killed in Kenya. Olympic runner Rebecca Cheptegei is the 3rd elite female athlete murdered by a partner since 2021. Advocates blame an epidemic of gender-based violence, by Sheena Goodyear cbc.ca/radio/asithapp… via As It Happens #femicide

U.S. reports first case of H5 bird flu in a person who didn’t have contact with sick animals. The infection is unsettling but experts say it's too early to jump to conclusions, by Helen Branswell 🇨🇦. statnews.com/2024/09/06/mis… via STAT #H5N1 #AvianInfluenza