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The Ford government can’t find room in the budget for an urgently needed new hospital in Kingston, which would provide essential care for 5 ridings. But if @fordnation wants a private jet, a luxury spa, or ads to boost his image, the money is always there. This government's priorities just don't add up. #onpoli

We all know this. They knew it when they said it. They know it now.

The Pentagon said Iran was responsible. But new evidence further shows U.S. PrSM missiles — which blast thousands of tungsten pellets outward — killed 21 civilians in Lamerd, Iran, including a toddler and several children.

This story has legs. (gift) nytimes.com/2026/03/20/us/…

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📢💉🇨🇦Update on Novavax / Nuvaxovid access in Canada: @SanofiCanada has confirmed that, at the current time, they DO plan to commercialize Nuvaxovid in Canada beginning with the 2026-2027 respiratory illness season, per a recent letter sent to @immunocompCA (immunocompromised.ca/wp-content/upl…) This correspondence is in reply to a June 2025 joint letter to Sanofi Canada by @CanCovSoc and @immunocompCA (covidsociety.ca/wp-content/upl…) Following all of the recent successes of @Novavax in the U.S. (another largely successful seasonal rollout (Sanofi’s first) and Pfizer’s recent deal to use Matrix-M adjuvant), we’ve been seeing more buzz than usual about expanding availability globally. It’s all great to see, but unfortunately, along with that (as is expected) always comes a lot of misinformation as well. To be clear, there has never been any issue with @GovCanHealth and the approval of Nuvaxovid. Nuvaxovid has remained approved since September 2024 (covid-vaccine.canada.ca/nuvaxovid-jn1/…), and, as Sanofi points out in the letter, they also just received a Notice of Compliance from Health Canada last July for the new prefilled syringe presentation with a 6-month shelf life (the same presentation and shelf life as the U.S. product). Nevertheless, contract issues have largely kept it from being available anyway for the past 2 seasons. Below, for anyone interested, is a detailed history of what happened between Novavax and the Canadian federal government a couple of years ago. In short: The original deal fell through because the Trudeau government had a demand for Novavax to produce doses domestically - something that never came to fruition. With new federal leadership, and with the product transitioning to Sanofi’s hands, the hope and expectation is to put that deal behind us and draft a new one that will make Nuvaxovid available for Canadians who demand access to the better COVID vaccine. Everyone wants it to happen, but we still need to continue to be vigilant and make sure that @sanofi @SanofiCanada @MarkJCarney @PSPC_SPAC @PHAC_GC @GovCanHealth @ONThealth get it done. Leave nothing up to interpretation, and continue to ensure that all stakeholders involved are well aware of the demand that exists for Nuvaxovid.

🦔A researcher invented a fake eye condition called bixonimania, uploaded two obviously fraudulent papers about it to an academic server, and watched major AI systems present it as real medicine within weeks. The fake papers thanked Starfleet Academy, cited funding from the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation and the University of Fellowship of the Ring, and stated mid-paper that the entire thing was made up. Google's Gemini told users it was caused by blue light. Perplexity cited its prevalence at one in 90,000 people. ChatGPT advised users whether their symptoms matched. The fake research was then cited in a peer-reviewed journal that only retracted it after Nature contacted the publisher. My Take The researcher made the papers as obviously fake as possible on purpose. The AI systems didn't catch it. Neither did the human researchers who cited it in real journals, which means people are feeding AI-generated references into their work without reading what they're actually citing. I've covered the FDA using AI for drug review, the NYC hospital CEO ready to replace radiologists, and ChatGPT Health launching this year. All of that is happening in the same environment where a condition funded by a Simpsons character and endorsed by the crew of the Enterprise was being presented as emerging medical consensus. The people making these deployment decisions seem to believe the pipeline from research to AI to patient is more supervised than it actually is. This experiment suggests it isn't supervised much at all. Hedgie🤗 nature.com/articles/d4158…

This is a must read, especially for non CC folks… Nicholas Brendon’s death is the sixth of The WB stars since 2024 thecanary.co/global/world-a…

🚨 NEWS ALERT 🚨 The US Embassy in Canberra has been ordered by Washington to recruit Australian opinion leaders to work for them, alongside the US military’s Psychological Operations unit, to strongly increase US propaganda efforts in Australia. ▪️“The United States has directed every American embassy and consulate across the world to launch coordinated campaigns against foreign propaganda. ▪️“The cable, signed by the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, on Monday, also suggests the embassies and consulates work alongside the US military’s Psychological Operations unit to address the problem of rampant disinformation. ▪️ “Embassies are told to recruit local influencers, academics and community leaders abroad to carry counter-propaganda messaging — an approach designed to make American-funded narratives feel locally organic rather than centrally directed. ▪️”The State Department said it…had made countering foreign “anti-American” propaganda “a top priority” — and the department would take “an assertive stance on this pernicious issue” by “fully harnessing every tool in our diplomatic toolkit”.” Details -> theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m…

Tremendously important article by John Sipher in The Bulwark. The damage that Trump is doing to the US IC is deeper and more profound than you might understand. He is changing its very structure thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-doi…

"Some say that Ukraine should be grateful for everything. The truth is exactly the opposite. The rest of us should be grateful to Ukraine... All decent people cannot have any doubts about which side to stand on.” - Donald Tusk Prime Minister of Poland Just wow 🫡

"War is sweet to those who have never experienced it." —Pindar (c. 518 BC – c. 438 BC)

NIH has a literature hub for tracking up-to-date scientific information about COVID-19. There are currently 482,433 publications across 8,000 journals. Bookmark this. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/coron…

She was born in 1856 into the kind of wealth that insulates a person from almost everything. Fifth Avenue mansion. Railroad fortune. Servants, silk, invitations to every drawing room in Manhattan. The world Grace Hoadley Dodge entered at birth was one in which a woman of her position had a clearly defined purpose: marry well, entertain graciously, support a tasteful charity or two between seasons. She was 24 when she walked into a tenement basement on the Lower East Side and started teaching Sunday school to factory girls. She thought she'd teach Bible verses. What she found changed the rest of her life. The girls sitting in front of her, some barely 12 years old, were working 12-hour shifts in sweatshops, laundries, and shirtwaist factories. They earned $3 a week. A single room cost $2 to rent. That left $1 for food, clothing, medicine, and everything else. The math didn't work, and Grace quickly understood what happened when the math didn't work. Some girls went hungry. Some were cornered by foremen who offered lighter work in exchange for things that had nothing to do with work. Some simply vanished. She had come to teach them morality. Instead, she started asking a different question entirely. What if the problem isn't these girls? What if the problem is a system that gives them no survivable options? That question consumed the next 30 years of her life. She co-founded the Kitchen Garden Association in 1880, teaching domestic skills. Then she looked at what domestic skills actually got a woman and pivoted hard. What factory girls needed wasn't needlework. It was bookkeeping. Stenography. Business skills that opened doors instead of decorating the ones already closed. A girl who could type had options. A girl with options had leverage. A girl with leverage didn't have to tolerate what Grace had watched those foremen do. The pushback was immediate. Society said women should learn homemaking, not commerce. Factory owners had no interest in an educated workforce that might demand better conditions. Even some reformers worried that too much education would give working-class women ideas above their station. Grace Dodge didn't care. In 1887, she co-founded Teachers College at Columbia University, the first institution in America built on the principle that training teachers was a serious profession deserving serious pay, not a temporary occupation for women marking time before marriage. It became one of the most influential education institutions in the world. It still trains thousands of educators every year. She helped organise the national YWCA in 1906, but not as a prayer circle. As infrastructure. Boarding houses where women could live without landlords extracting sexual favours for rent. Evening classes in marketable skills. Job placement services. Networks where women warned each other which employers were safe, which neighbourhoods were dangerous, which job offers led somewhere no one should go. She helped establish the Travelers Aid Society, which stationed representatives at train stations and ports specifically because predators waited there for young women arriving alone from farms and small towns, girls who had come to the city looking for work and found men offering jobs and housing that led somewhere else entirely. Grace's representatives got there first. Safe lodging. Legitimate referrals. A hand extended before the wrong one was. They intercepted thousands of women from what we would now call trafficking, decades before anyone used the word. Through all of it, Grace operated on a principle that was quietly radical for her time: she refused to blame the women for the conditions crushing them. When other reformers talked about fallen women and moral improvement, Grace talked about wages and working conditions and predatory men with institutional power. © Women Stories #drthehistories

NEW Epstein survivors have now filed a lawsuit against the Department of Justice, the Trump administration, and Google. 🧵

Everyone is talking about the oil. Almost nobody is talking about the machines. When Iranian missiles hit Ras Laffan on March 18 and 19, they did not just knock out LNG production. They struck the most concentrated node of cryogenic industrial infrastructure on earth. And the reason QatarEnergy’s CEO told Reuters that repairs will take three to five years is not because the buildings are hard to rebuild. It is because the machines inside them are nearly impossible to replace. The core technology in every LNG train and helium extraction unit at Ras Laffan is the brazed aluminium plate-fin heat exchanger, known in the industry as a BAHX. These are not off-the-shelf components. They are custom-engineered cryogenic cores weighing up to 470 tonnes, standing 60 metres tall inside insulated cold boxes, manufactured by exactly five companies on earth: Chart Industries in the United States, Fives Cryo in France, Kobe Steel in Japan, Linde in Germany, and Sumitomo in Japan. That is the entire global supply per ALPEMA, the manufacturers’ own association. Current lead time for a full mega-scale air separation unit built around these exchangers: three to four years from contract to commissioning. Lead time for the BAHX cores alone: 12 to 18 months with order books already full before the war started. Here is why field repair is so difficult. Aluminium has no fatigue endurance limit. Every thermal cycle accumulates irreversible damage. The brazed joints crack under thermal stress, and ALPEMA’s Integrity Operating Windows cap temperature changes at below 1 degree Celsius per minute during normal cycling and below 5 degrees per minute even during startup events. When a joint cracks, the only field repair is layer blocking: welding shut the distributor openings of the damaged layer while leaving adjacent layers open. Chart Industries, the primary manufacturer, recommends a maximum of two blocks before the entire core must be replaced. Each block reduces heat transfer efficiency. Each block increases stress on remaining layers, accelerating the fatigue cycle. Shell confirmed on March 20 that Pearl GTL Train 2 will take approximately one year to repair. The LNG trains S4 and S6, with 12.8 million tonnes per annum combined capacity, will take three to five years per QatarEnergy. The difference in timelines reflects damage extent, not repair difficulty. Both face the same physics. And both face the same logistics problem. Every replacement module, every specialist welder with an ASME R-stamp authorization, every 470-tonne cold box shipment must transit the Strait of Hormuz. The same strait where 90 percent of the world’s ocean-going tonnage has lost war risk insurance coverage. The same strait where the IRGC operates a selective vetting corridor with at least two confirmed yuan-settled payments per Lloyd’s List. The same strait where premiums have surged from 0.125 percent to 7.5 percent of hull value. The machines cannot be repaired without parts that cannot be shipped through a strait that cannot be insured. This is the machine layer that connects the helium shortage to the semiconductor shortage to the AI compute shortage. Qatar produces one-third of the world’s helium as a byproduct of LNG processing through these exact machines. Helium spot prices have doubled. Samsung and SK Hynix hold six months of inventory. There is no substitute in cryogenic semiconductor applications per the USGS. The market priced the oil shock. It has not priced the machine shock. The timeline is measured in years, not weeks. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

If there is precisely one thing you watch today, make it this. French Senator Claude Malhuret. A microphone. And the most magnificently savage dismantling of the Trump administration ever delivered in a language they almost certainly don’t speak. He covers Iran. He covers corruption. He covers the kind of staggering, industrial-scale incompetence that would get you fired from managing a car park. And he does it with the calm, unhurried certainty of a man who has read every page of the indictment and found it, if anything, worse than expected. France has never pretended to like these people. But this is contempt elevated to an art form. The kind of refined, aristocratic disdain that takes centuries of civilization to produce and approximately ninety seconds to deploy. Malhuret sounds like he is four seconds from the button. Not out of panic. Out of sheer, exhausted disgust. Honestly? Understandable. Watch it. Share it. The adults are speaking. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

The green transition runs on sulfuric acid. Sulfuric acid is made from sulfur. Sulfur is a byproduct of refining the oil that the green transition was designed to replace. And 45 percent of the world’s seaborne sulfur trade just got trapped behind the same chokepoint that trapped the oil. This is the circle nobody drew. Copper for electric vehicle wiring is extracted by leaching ore with sulfuric acid. Nickel for battery cathodes is processed in high-pressure acid leach plants that consume sulfur shipped from Gulf refineries. Cobalt and lithium follow the same chemistry. Twenty percent of global copper production, 30 percent of nickel, and 50 percent of uranium depend on sulfuric acid derived from sulfur that comes overwhelmingly from fossil fuel processing in the Middle East. The war did not just trap the fuel. It trapped the chemical that mines the metals that were supposed to end the need for the fuel. The snake is eating its own tail. At Hormuz. Sulfur prices have surged 165 percent year on year to over $650 per ton, up 25 percent since the war began. Indonesia’s nickel HPAL plants, which supply the cathode material for the batteries in your phone and your Tesla, import 75 percent of their sulfur from the Middle East. They hold one to two months of inventory. The clock started on February 28. It is now Day 27. The DRC copperbelt imports approximately 2 million tons of sulfur per year for oxide leaching. Fifty to 60 percent of its copper output is acid-dependent. Sulfuric acid was already up 500 percent in the 2.5 years before the war began, driven by smelter closures and decarbonisation reducing byproduct supply. The war added a chokepoint to a market that was already in structural deficit. Now layer the diesel crisis on top. Blue Cap Mining in Western Australia stood down 120 of 180 workers on March 17 because it could not secure 15,000 litres of diesel per day. Australia’s mining industry burns 10 billion litres annually. Diesel prices are up 40 percent. Over 500 stations have run dry. And modern haul trucks will not operate without AdBlue, a urea-based exhaust fluid Australia imports 69 to 95 percent from the Middle East. No diesel to move the ore. No AdBlue to run the trucks. The ASX Materials Index is down 20 percent. Bear market. The market sees an energy crisis. It is wrong. This is a chemistry crisis. The molecules that extract copper from rock are refined from oil that flows through Hormuz. The fluid that allows trucks to meet emissions standards is made from urea synthesised from gas processed at Ras Laffan. The helium cooling the chips controlling the electric trucks replacing diesel trucks is a byproduct of LNG from the same facility the war shut down. Every substitution loops back to the same chokepoint. Diesel powers the truck. Sulfuric acid leaches the copper. AdBlue cleans the exhaust. Helium cools the chip. Urea feeds the soil. LNG powers the grid. Every molecule either transits Hormuz, is refined from something that transits Hormuz, or is a byproduct of processing something that transits Hormuz. The strait is not an oil chokepoint. It is a chemistry chokepoint. The entire periodic table of industrial civilisation is queued behind it. The Filipino nurse walks to work. The GPU ships late. The Western Australian miner flies home. The Indonesian nickel plant counts inventory. The Congolese copper pad waits for acid. The Iowa corn field waits for nitrogen. And the electric vehicle that was supposed to make all of this irrelevant waits for a battery made from metals extracted by chemicals derived from the fuel it was designed to replace, through a strait it was supposed to make unnecessary. The molecules do not care about your energy transition. The molecules transit Hormuz. Or they do not move at all. Full analysis: open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

🚨BREAKING: The House Oversight Committee quietly dumped Epstein's accountant Richard Kahn and lawyer Darren Indyke's deposition videos today when media focus is on Trump's zigzags on Iran. Here's about "Jane Doe 4," who accused Epstein and Trump of raping her at the age of 13. Kahn seems to be shifting positions while under oath, and his lawyer followed up a day after that he can "neither confirm nor deny" whether Epstein's estate settled with "Jane Doe 4. Three of her four FBI interviews about Donald Trump are still "missing" and weren't released as part of the EPSTEIN FILES. I wonder why...