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“Remote and hybrid work improves productivity, lowers absenteeism and turnover, and supports caregivers, people with disabilities, and rural workers… Statistics Canada estimates that feasible telework could cut 9.5 megatonnes of greenhouse gas emissions annually.”

I went to retail stores today & it wasn’t to shop (although I did pick up an item for $2.50). I went out of my way to ask one worker from each store if today was voluntary. The only employees that said “yes” were surprisingly from Walmart. Scheduled shift for everyone else.

“Personal Protective Equipment, PPE, that word we all dread...” I’m sorry, what? What a ridiculous thing to say. I can understand dreading diseases & other dangerous pathogens… …but why on earth would anyone sensible dread the equipment designed to protect & keep them safe?

Doug Ford wants you to spend today with your loved ones at Home Depot. 😂

Sooner or later we have to get off this roller coaster: 1. Sensible regulations on domestic energy prices (as we already do for electricity & gas distribution). 2. Redistribute big oil's coming record profits to protect consumers. 3. Accelerate shift to sustainable energy. /7

When people can’t afford the necessities of a dignified life, it's the government's job to step up and actually govern.

@fordnation Maybe not a happy day for those workers who used to get the day off but are now scheduled for work.

To everyone celebrating across Ontario, wishing you a very Happy Victoria Day.

Many of them didn't. Your great-great-grandmother was probably drinking opium for her nerves, sold at the corner shop as cheap as a pint of beer. It was called laudanum, a mix of opium and alcohol that doctors handed out for anxiety, sleeplessness, and "women's troubles." Mothers fed it to crying babies. The babies often stopped crying because they stopped breathing. The men drank. By 1830 the average American was putting away almost two bottles of liquor a week. Whiskey cost less than coffee or milk. People started their day with a shot and ended it with another. Toddlers drank from their parents' rum mugs. ADHD has a long paper trail. A Scottish doctor described kids who couldn't focus in 1798. By 1846 there was a popular German children's book about a boy called Fidgety Philipp who couldn't sit still. In 1902, a London children's doctor named George Still wrote a famous paper on the same kids and called it a "defect of moral control." Same kid, three different centuries. Depression and anxiety had old names too. Melancholia, hysteria, the vapors. Treatments included bloodletting, ice baths, and chaining people to a wall. By 1937, American mental hospitals held 451,672 patients and took up more than half of every hospital bed in the country. Inside the walls, about 1 in 10 patients died each year. Then came the lobotomy. Between 1949 and 1952, around 50,000 Americans were strapped to a chair while a doctor hammered an ice pick through the thin bone above their eye and wiggled it around inside their brain. It took about ten minutes. Sixty percent of the patients were women. About 1 in 20 died from the procedure. Many of the ones who lived came out with no personality left. The man who invented the procedure won a Nobel Prize. Britain's male suicide rate hit 30.3 per 100,000 in 1905. The lowest rates ever recorded in British history are happening right now. Plenty of our ancestors didn't make it. They drank themselves dead. They overdosed on shop-bought opium. They got locked in asylums and never came out. They had picks driven through their eye sockets. They killed themselves in numbers we don't see today. The conditions were always there. The treatments just used to be worse than the disease.

An auditor for the Ontario, Canada government found that AI agents tasked with turning doctor/patient conversations into structured notes routinely hallucinated false treatments, replaced drug names with entirely different drugs, and missed crucial information

Just take a minute to think about why the thought of drinking contaminated water is disgusting, but the thought of breathing contaminated air is not. It hardly even registers with most people. Air in public indoor spaces should be cleaned, as public water is

Another attack by @PaulCalandra @fordnation on children in Ontario.👇

Posting this after proposing legislation that would destroy habitats for killer whales is pretty diabolical. @MarkJCarney proposed legislation last week that waters down the Species At Risk Act so they can override it for "major projects" like pipelines.

Recall that Henry argued in spring 2020 that asymptomatic/presymptomatic transmission of SARS2 wasn't likely. We've since learned that she was wrong, and that people without symptoms account for perhaps as much as 50% of cases. We don't have to keep relearning these hard lessons.

CANADA. This is hilarious 😂.

On this day in 2006, Capt. Nichola Goddard was killed in Afghanistan. She was the first female Canadian soldier to die in combat. She was posthumously awarded the Meritorious Service Medal. Two schools and a Coast Guard patrol vessel are named for her. 📸 Sally Goddard

"It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the expression 'as pretty as an airport'." - Douglas Adams. Pick a vision for the central waterfront: YYZ/Malton, Toronto Islands/harbour skyline. #NoJetsTO

"Personal Protective Equipment, PPE, that word we all dread" - Dr Bonnie Henry, May 16, 2026 And there you have it 👇👇👇

We're in a weird era where a guy gets publicly shamed for running his sprinklers on a Tuesday, while a data center the size of a Costco quietly drains a reservoir so AI can generate a picture of your cat as a medieval knight. And the data center gets a tax incentive for it.

"Province looking to lease Niagara Falls parkland to ferris wheel builder for up to 49 years.The Ford government’s preference is for the ferris wheel to be built directly across from the falls, in Queen Victoria Park" The grifter selling off your park land thetrillium.ca/news/municipal…