Gambling is being rebranded as “prediction markets” or “gaming." There are clear losers in the explosion of micro-gambling: Young men and boys, whose health is being harmed by having gambling dens on their phones, by @lizrenzetti.bsky.social www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... via @thestar.com
Très content de retourner à Tout le monde en parle dimanche soir, pour parler de la guerre en Iran:
After the trials for crimes against humanity will come the trials for crimes against logic.
You can also read the newly posted joint submission to the #HESA study on #AMR from @stoptbcanada.bsky.social & @resultscanada.bsky.social
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More than a few of those people are doing other things at the very same time …
The supposed explosion of the federal public service looks less explosive if you put it in per capita numbers and draw a line graph back to the mid-80s.
"Canada has long been complacent about foreign policy and national security: it could afford to neglect the pressures and incentives of the realities of power, comfortably sheltered as it was by a mostly benevolent United States."
If the government gets to decide if you have them, they're not human rights.
Scattered multicolored capsules and pills on a light blue background with ample empty space in the center.
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Be it resolved that Prime Minister Carney's government is a government like any other, weighed down by inevitable inconsistencies, internal disagreements and bureaucratic politics, and intractable trade-offs.
What is NOT on my news feed since the weekend:
Ukraine (about 50% of previous)
ICE (about 25% of previous)
Climate change (about 10% of previous)
Epstein Files (about 5% of previous)
The US/Israel war against Iran is, for obvious reasons, distracting me/us from many other issues.
And then GAC panicked when it turns out, nobody else can decode fine diplomatese, and the statement read to normies like Canada endorsed bombing Iran
Hence the clarification from Carney today that reads like a u-turn but I suspect wasn’t intended to be
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Public lecture & online: "Ethical, epistemic, and effective: At the heart of transdisciplinarity in urban health"
Public health, ethics, transdiciplinarity, cities, and so much more. calendrier.umontreal.ca/activite/eth...
Après la pandémie, les institutions de santé publique de plusieurs juridictions ont perdu leur autonomie, voire ont été simplement supprimées. Autre exemple, le gouvernement du Québec propose de supprimer son institut de santé publique, l'INSPQ. Voir excellente analyse : kubernan.ca/2026/01/29/f...
Public health institutes are a key institution in several countries. Doing away with the INSPQ is a powerful signal of the downgrading of the #PublicHealth function in Quebec. An autonomous voice disappears. Here is hoping that a PH voice function can be preserved in the new, larger institute.
Post-pandemic #PublicHealth institutions in a number of jurisdictions have lost their autonomy if not abolished altogether. Another example, this time from Canada. The gov't of the province of Quebec is proposing to do away with its public health institute, the INSPQ.
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Question for students of rhetoric, logic, and psychology:
what is the relationship between outrage and evidence?
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“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a
theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed”
Eisenhower’s ‘Chance For Peace’ address in 1953 is worth re-reading
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Prof. Juneau understands the dynamics better than most commentators. Worth a watch.
I think there was a lot of reading into the Davos speech things that weren't really there in the text.
Regardless, I think I'd like to hear Carney explain his support for American action — why he supports it, what exactly he supports, etc.
Carney said the rules based international order was always illusory & is now gone. Thus, we live in a time where the old rules do not apply. Support for US war on Iran is be a very bad choice but it isn’t contradictory of the position Carney outlined in his Davos speech.
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Carney declared the results based international order hypocritical and probably dead at Davos. We are seeing the consequences of what a world without rules looks like.
A great thread on where we are and how incredibly problematic this attack is.
Analysis | With Stephen Miller running America's domestic policy, Benjamin Netanyahu running its foreign policy, and Donald Trump heading up interior decorating and bribe-taking, the executive branch has tripled its efficiency.
Canada would have been better off saying nothing. You can detest the regime in Iran without supporting chaos. www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/stat...
