Mat Wright

and calling bullshit on Bonnie, collated Federal data shows Covid spiking, flu going up as well - low prevalence and declining my ass

Our 'Top Doctor' lying through her teeth

B.C.'s top doctor declares end to province's 2025-26 respiratory-illness season | CBC News B.C.'s current respiratory-illness season has drawn to a close, according to Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry, as data shows low and decreasing levels of influenza, RSV and COVID-19.

What's the point of declaring a winter respiratory when our 'top doctor' doesn't do any mitigations - at all

It's all nonsense performance

#BCpoli #Covid #Covid19 #RSV #Flu

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YOU ASKED FOR THIS!

Downfall. Kristi Noem Edition:

This is nuts, 25 years of false research and articles citing fictional case studies in a leading pediatric journal

How many media outlets got duped?

#CDNpoli #Health

Whoa - this March will be the final time British Columbia changes clocks - going to Permanent Daylight Savings Time

#BCpoli #CDNpoli

Chilliwack school trustee Laurie Throness resigns over free speech 'chill' A school trustee in Chilliwack, B.C., has resigned his position, saying he "no longer feels safe in expressing" himself after the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal's decision to fine former trustee Barry Neu...

Laurie Throness was a farce as an MLA - bigoted, anti LGBTQ, wants to ban books, into 'Christian Government - he doesn't get the difference between free speech and hate speech

Now resigning - good, asshats like him don't belong on school boards

#BCpoli

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UK Greens won a massive by-election in Manchester, overturning a huge 13K vote majority of Labour in the last election, and beating off the radical right Reform Party

it was a total landslide

Change can happen

#CDNpoli #UKpoli #BCpoli

Conservative MP searches for ‘antifa’ in federal government, Canadian Armed Forces - National | Globalnews.ca Federal departments and the Canadian Armed Forces must answer by April how many members of anti-fascist groups work for the public service and the military.

oh good grief, this is just stupid

#CDNpoli

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FU Kansas - literally deleting a minority

#USpoli

well played - laughed out loud

The USS Gerald R. Ford Toilet Crisis: How a $13 Billion Aircraft Carrier Was Undone by Plumbing - Bolt Flight The USS Gerald R. Ford, the most expensive and technologically ambitious aircraft carrier ever built, was designed to redefine naval power. At $13 billion, it showcases next-generation reactors, advan...

uhm, err - sorry Mr. President, the attack on Iran will be slightly delayed....

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Scoop: DNC officials working on secret report found Gaza stance cost Harris votes The DNC's research on what went wrong in 2024 has been under lock and key since party leaders decided to hide it from the public.

This is not a surprise, during the last US election campaign a few of us watching from Canada said Harris would lose voter enthusiasm because of Gaza. To everyone who rolled their eyes at us - fuck off

#USpoli

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Exclusive | OpenAI Employees Raised Alarms About Canada Shooting Suspect Months Ago The ChatGPT maker opted against informing Canadian authorities about Jesse Van Rootselaar’s descriptions of violence last June.

This is horrific and MUST result in criminal charges and massive civil damages to the victims and their families

OpenAI knew of the Tumbler Ridge shooter's mindset and likely intentions months before she went on a killing spree

#CDNpoli #BCpoli #TumblerRidge

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Manitoba's Joss Reimer is named Canada's new chief public health officer | CBC News Health Minister Marjorie Michel has announced that the face of Manitoba's pandemic immunization efforts, Dr. Joss Reimer, will be Canada's new chief public health officer.

We finally have a new Canadian Public Health Officer. Reminder that Dr. Tam stepped down in June of last year

At least it's not Bonnie Henry

#CDNpoli #BCpoli #Covid

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Trump order pushes glyphosate production; Roundup chemical hated by MAHA Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Make America Healthy Again movement is largely opposed to glyphosate.

Kennedy will declare all kids get X-ray dosages entering schools to build herd immunity for when the sun eventually dies

#USpoli #Stupid

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I disagree with Doug Ford - basket weaving is an essential course, we'll need them for all the beheadings

#CDNpoli #ONpoli

UK bank bosses plan to set up Visa and Mastercard alternative amid Trump fears Exclusive: First meeting to be held over domestic payments system aimed at reducing reliance on US networks

This might be one of the most consequential actions of the world breakup with the US, literally means dumping the $US as a reserve currency - plus EU/UK quickly moving to non-US based or owned cloud, computer services

Trump sure is making 'Murica great again

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Seattle area Covid wastewater signal is spiking fast - not good

#Covid #Covid19

As Tumbler Ridge Mourns, Anti-Trans Misinfo Spreads | The Tyee No good will come from the conservative rush to weaponize the shooter’s identity in this story.

Even before the rumours were confirmed, the right wing culture war asshats were raging

Every politician needs to call them out, especially conservatives who have both quietly, and often openly, courted blatant sexism and anti-trans disinformation and discrimination

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'The BC NDP is chasing the BC Conservatives in a fruitless culture war... & driving the Overton window rightward' - BC Green leader @emilylowan.bsky.social talking to @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social about @bcgreens.bsky.social ending their agreement with the NDP #bcpoli www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

BC NDP ministers getting on media anguishly hand wringing over BC Greens ending the governing agreement, saying cooperation has ended - no, it hasn't, work together and good bills can be introduced and passed, stop playing politics and do what you preach, cooperate

#BCpoli

BC Greens won't renew accord with NDP citing stalled, undelivered vows The BC Green Party has announced it will not be renewing an accord with the governing NDP when it expires next month.

Eby won't call an election, signaling an austerity budget with big cuts, obvious move for Emily and the BC Greens - game of chicken, hold them to account

#BCpoli

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Dear Hakeem, you soulless damp squib - THIS IS ALREADY AGAINT THE LAW!!!

#ICE #USpoli

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Nurse wife on LTC shift saying she has 3 resident falls, the ambulance wait is 2 hours, and the fire dept. won't respond

#BCpoli #Health #Nanaimo

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Fuck Off Hootsuite

#ICE #Hootsuite

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BREAKING: Another rapid response action! Indivisible Vancouver is leading a protest rally THIS FRIDAY January 30 against Jim Pattison, who is planning to sell one of his warehouses in Virginia to DHS/ICE to become a human processing facility. #boycottpattison #ice #iceraids #protest

this took some organizing and pure chutzpa - well done - container ship arriving in Tacoma today with the shipping doors spelling Renee

#USpoli #Renee

‘Enough Is Enough’: Hundreds of Minnesota Businesses Take Stand Against ICE

I've covered a lot of protests and resistance movements of various kinds in my days on this earth -- I've never seen anything quite like this epic day in Minneapolis today.

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‘It just took off like wildfire:’ health foundation fundraiser shatters expectations NANAIMO - Despite a languishing economy and competing winter holiday season priorities, mid Islanders stepped ...

When we have public healthcare, we should not need massive community fundraisers to pay for basic buildings and systems, it comes out of taxes z

Hospital foundations are a self loop of 'pay for it yourself', twice

#BCpoli #CDNpoli

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Trump has disinvited Carney and Canada from the totally disingenuous Gaza 'Board of Peace' - which is our prime minister and every Canadian going 'phew, managed to dodge that shitshow'

#CDNpoli #Gaza #Trump #USpoli