#BreastCancer rates on the rise for young women in their 20s and 30s, study says. What's happening Canada is part of a global trend, by Kelly Grant theglobeandmail.com/canada/article… via The Globe and Mail Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal

Novavax prepared to deliver protein-based JN.1 COVID vaccine this fall, in line with WHO recommendation ir.novavax.com/press-releases… Novavax

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'The keffiyeh may be cultural or political or both depending on who’s wearing it and why, but it isn’t the business of the Ontario legislature to decide.' — David Moscrop #onpoli tvo.org/article/the-ke…

Harassing and intimidating medical learners is never OK

And yet, OMA District 11 Ontario Medical Association remain completely silent on the anti-Palestinian racism experienced by physicians and medical learners. Your blatant racism is showing. Have you no shame?

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'So damn undemocratic': Edmonton mayor reacts to legislation granting province power to fire councillors or veto local bylaws edmonton.ctvnews.ca/so-damn-undemo…

I think it is a profound failure that Palestine continues to be occupied in clear violation of international law.

I’m gutted to see decrim gutted. We struggled for 30 years. Spent the last three working intensively.
Drug prohibition has had over a century to prove whether it works. We had about 18 months

Risk assessment is worth a read

Seems very likely we could have an additional pandemic in the next year

Things are moving fast

Courting voters who never actually vote for you. It’s always been a curious electoral strategy of US Democrats, UK Labour, and New Democrats.

And for infectious diseases—some of which (sars2) may be life-altering

'drug use is a health issue!' they say over and over again while insisting through their actions that it's a criminal issue

While we have been warning of a potential avian flu pandemic I don’t think we have ever been this close to the “leap” before.
More cases lead to more chances at evolution which would push us to the scenario that keeps us awake at night.
I would start manufacturing vaccines now

Any university that allows snipers on the roof of campus buildings in response to a nonviolent student protest is not place of higher learning.

They want you to believe the Chair of the Philosophy department is the threat to western values and not the masked, armed man brutalising her for expressing anti-war sentiment

Can’t believe how quickly this generation of college students went from being characterized as lazy, unmotivated and unprepared to accomplish anything to a posing such a threat to their elders that they must be subdued by snipers and cops with cuffs and clubs.

'BC recriminalizes use of drugs in public spaces'

They cycle of criminalization will continue.
People who use drugs will not be supported through this.
People will use alone, and they will die.

We staunchly object, and we will take action. #bcpoli

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British Columbia to recriminalize use of drugs in public spaces cbc.ca/news/canada/br…

As Ben Parfitt signs off he remembers covering the mountain pine beetle infestation in BC interior forests, writing for the Climate Justice Project & coming full circle with his report on wood pellet exports to Japan and a loss of BC’s primary forests.
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