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This month’s journal club will focus on a systematic review of existing data on persistent symptoms following non-COVID-19 infections such as influenza and RSV. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... You can register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Please enjoy my cartoon for Tuesday's Toronto Star

‼️ This is important. If you can, don’t wait until the last minute to vote. Check when early voting opens in your state at vote.org/early-voting-calendar and plan accordingly.

Your state and local health departments are a critical source for outbreak and other health-related information, especially now that federal data are being compromised. Look up your health departments by state and county for more info.

Even with all the levers of power he has his hands on, and even with control of every mechanism in the federal government, Trump has been unable to find election fraud. So he's crowdsourcing it now.

In the last few weeks, the Trump admin has: 🔺 Tried to stop California from counting 20k ballots 🔺 Preemptively sued Alaska from certifying results of a key race — if the Republican loses 🔺 Inserted itself into Michigan's election That’s not all. Here's how it's already meddling in the midterms 👇

Beware innocuous seeming new accounts that are following unrealistic numbers. Especially this close to voting. Botnets in the making. VET your followers #BlockBots

Ontario promised four hours of daily care for every resident of long-term care homes by by 2024-25. Records show nearly 300 LTC homes are failing, by @fxplante.bsky.social www.thestar.com/news/investi... via @thestar.com

Focus!

Blame government neglect for hospital wait times — not immigrants. Both Edmonton and Calgary need at least 1,000 new acute care beds. edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu... via @edmontonjournal.com

The Comeback Kid:

NEW: DOJ just admitted in court that their lawsuit against California is not about outcome determinative issues, it's simply saying that a single non-citizen voting causes the government irreparable harm. That's bananapants.

"The merging of tech and MAGA networks created a frenzy of open political corruption unlike anything in American history." @thewalrus.ca published The Nerd Reich's introduction, which charts tech fascism's rise to power under Trump/Thiel. paywall-free thewalrus.ca/billionaire-...

On this day in 1941, Gordon Tootoosis was born at the Poundmaker Reserve. He was best-known for his role as Albert Golo on North of 60. With Tantoo Cardinal he founded the Saskatchewan Native Theatre Company. He earned a Gemini and the Order of Canada. 📸 Jonathan Hayward

So far, 5824 votes have been cast in Ward 6. In the last election the total vote count was 6016. We are at approximately 97% voter turnout from the last election with one more day of online voting to go and E-Day. Last election about 50% of votes were cast on E-Day. We can hit 10,000 votes! Vote!

I’m just an oatmeal socialist girl, standing in front of the Alberta NDP, asking them to campaign on more than “but the conservatives are worse” platform in the next election.

At some point, BC media needs to contend with the airtime they give to Angelo Isidorou & their role in completely laundering his image. Isidorou has never walked back his white nationalist bs or his decision to, for example, platform neo-Nazis through the UBC Free Speech Club.

US voters take note. These groups coordinate - Republican strategists were in Alberta working to undermine democracy in Canada, and when the dust settles I strongly suspect you'll find they were working with Bolsonaro's cronies in Brazil, too.

I’m live right now with the host of Legal AF Mike Popok to discuss the illegality of Blanche and Trump interfering in the midterm elections! Free to watch: youtube.com/live/Sdm2FYC...

How everyday ppl end up advancing fascism: they're "just doing their jobs". We are repeating the horrors of fascism because we've somehow failed to teach the population that- it is morally correct AND REQUIRED to decline immoral jobs It's taught to the military, but not to cops?

HAPPENING NOW: 9th Circuit Oral Arguments on DOJ's lawsuit against California voters. DOJ is arguing that there is massive amounts of non-citizens voting, and the harm is irreparable because once the ballot is separated from its envelope, you can't trace it to the voter. 1/

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

How everyday ppl end up advancing fascism: they're "just doing their jobs". We are repeating the horrors of fascism because we've somehow failed to teach the population that- it is morally correct AND REQUIRED to decline immoral jobs It's taught to the military, but not to cops?

Early this year, I visited Ingram, a TX town of ~1,900, to check out a tip. The area was starting to recover from its worst flood in a century. But as Latino workers drove to jobsites to help rebuild, the tipster said, a cop in a black Dodge Charger kept stopping them ... 🧵

Gift link 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/m...

You can read the full story here (w/ @propublica.org + @nytmag.bsky.social) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/m...

So as I headed to Ingram for the first time in March, I wanted to know who the local faces of the national immigration crackdown were. Who was driving the black Dodge Charger? www.propublica.org/article/depo...

"[paying for private procedures] risks undermining the public hospital system", and it risks reducing equitable access to surgical care," said @policyalternatives.ca health policy researcher @alonghurst.bsky.social. #bcpoli vancouver.citynews.ca/video/2026/1...

Meta is accused of election interference in Brazil after restricting Lula's Instagram while recommending Bolsonaro's accounts. 1,613 foreign-funded political ads were uncovered generating 171M impressions. Brazil has ordered Meta to explain its conduct.

The 5-year cancer survival rate is up to 70% SIDS deaths have decreased by over 50% 89% decline in tornado deaths All thanks to federal investment in science and OUR tax dollars at work!

Obama: "Imagine the power duo of Abdul and Elissa. You got a Muslim man, a Jewish woman, fighting for you in the US senate. That's something, Michigan, you can be proud of!"

Danielle Smith says that schools like the one in her constituency that flies multiple international flags inside the school will be able to get an exemption. Want to guess what’s not in the new regulations? An exemption process. Or even the word “exemption”.

Literally every demographer for two generations: it's gonna be rough when the boomers get past 70, everyone get ready Ontario:

Turns out those free passes for summer vacations in our national parks were not very affordable.

"[Donald Trump] has got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory." --Barack Obama

Tens of thousands of Lula supporters rally on eve of Brazilian election runoff

Your regular reminder that @wikipedia.org is an international treasure and may be the only way to keep the oligarchs and the dictators from rewriting history. I support Wikipedia, where information is still human-created, fact-checked, and 100% free. Join me! donate.wikimedia.org

"There is no shortage of nurses...there is a shortage of nurses that want to work in the current environment." Nurses are in high demand, but leaving in droves because of understaffing and violence, by @tepingchen.bsky.social www.wsj.com/health/healt... via @wsj.com

Sunset view from the west side of San Juan Island, Washington, 21 October 2026 for your 9 o'clock photo.Thetop

In a little-noticed webpage update, the Environmental Protection Agency has announced a plan to decommission its online web archive at the end of the year, a move that would wipe tens of thousands of publicly available environmental resources from the web.

We’re back with a Jabapalooza clinic to give our patients their Covid-19 and flu vaccine boosters. Before you ask, yes, there is still Covid-19 in the community. Visiting a patient who just underwent cardiac surgery, there was an outbreak in hospital (see the sign below). Vaccines save lives.

🚨BREAKING: A Trump-appointed judge just dismissed DOJ’s lawsuit seeking Utah’s unredacted voter roll, with prejudice. The ruling drops the administration to 0-27 in its nationwide crusade for sensitive voter data.

They’re not alleging fraud or misconduct. They’re preemptively suing to block certification based on an outcome they haven’t accepted yet. It’s no longer a hypothetical talking point. The Justice Department is officially Trump’s election interference machine.

Today on my podcast Canadian History Ehx: Gander on 9/11 On Sept. 11, 2001, when the USA closed its airspace, 38 planes landed in Gander, NFLD where 6,000 passengers and crew were welcomed with open arms. Subscribe on all podcast platforms or read 👇 canadaehx.com/2026/10/23/g...