Eric Blais

Healthcare by day. I believe in progress & evidence based decision making. Covid aware. Views are my own & not those of my employer. #MaskUp

[g. @GeauxGabrielle]

26 years ago we declared measles eliminated. We had it isolated to tiny pockets that were controlled with surveillance.

And now here we are 2 generations later. It’s ungodly.

[Masked Rogue 😷 🇵🇸 @unMaskedRogue]

Did you know that the cut off for the Canada Disability Benefit is an income of $35k (clawbacks start at $23k)?

The cut off for the Canada Child Benefit is over $240k.

[Shanon @ShanonXray1]

They do become enraged. It's so strange. I've been a hcw long enough to remember when we masked for "reverse isolation" to ensure cancer patients didn't contract anything from us.
When my husband had radiation, an MRT was exceedingly angry at my request for her to mask.

[Emily Spanton @whatdoesntkillu]

ICYMI: BC orchards are going up in flames while Niagara orchards are battling root rot.

There is no food security without serious climate change mitigation.

Pipelines don't feed us and data centres don't create potable water @MarkJCarney

[Eric Blais @Eric_Blaze]

Peak toddler brain.

[Evander Kane @evanderkane]

Imagine believing that someone else’s injection was supposed to protect someone who didn’t get one… and then calling other people the idiots. 😂

And acting like that was obvious science.

And the media didn’t just repeat it
they amplified it, enforced it, and treated anyone who questioned it like they were dangerous.

[Ethan Sacoransky @blizzardof96]

The ECMWF seasonal model is forecasting what could be the warmest winter on record across Canada, largely driven by the tropical pacific super El Niño

[AccuWeather @accuweather]

Wildfires are burning across the globe, often fueled by extreme heat, drought and strong winds. NASA FIRMS data shows active fire detections and thermal anomalies from the past week, including fires near Spokane, across Canada and throughout Europe.

[Ryan Maue @RyanWeather]

Update: This "Super El Niño" will be perhaps the strongest in 500 to 1000 years, and could legitimately be the most extreme global weather or climate event experienced by humanity since the invention of the printing press. Only more extreme situation is a volcanic winter.

[Wayne Gates @Wayne_Gates]

Hospitals are borrowing money to make ends meet in Ontario.

Why?

Because of a $2.2 BILLION drop in capital since 2020.

1300 jobs have been lost this year, deficits reached $500 million, and the Ford government still refuses to adequately fund our healthcare system.

#onpoli

[Becky Ancira Robertson @AnciraBecky]

Imagine this being your child. No cure in sight. The list of potential treatments is short.
#LongCovidAwareness

[En(during COVID) @DEC0L0NIZE]

you all are really gonna “during covid” your asses into an early death.

[𝓥𝓮𝓻𝓪 🦇💋 @DEFlLEDSOUL]

my mother broke her femur last fall, and the hospital used AI to "analyze" her X Rays after her first surgery. it hallucinated a second fracture in her ankle, and she was being prepped for a second surgery when a doctor finally looked at them and realized

[Emily Spanton @whatdoesntkillu]

Jfc. The flood caused the PCB containment system at the former GM site in downtown StC to fail.

PCBs are leaking into the Twelve Mile Creek.

Crickets from @fordnation Minister of the Environment @ToddJMcCarthy.

#DougFordIsCorrupt #FordNationIsCorrupt #WaterIsLife

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Mayo Clinic is being sued by its former AI compliance lead, who alleges the hospital system concealed its AI tool's 67% error rate at the expense of patients, per Futurism.

[The Serfs (youtube.com/theserftimes) @theserfstv]

Mark Carney has:

-scrapped consumer carbon tax
-scrapped oil/gas emissions cap
-cut $1.3B from environment Canada
-weakened industrial carbon pricing
-axed 2 billion trees program
-approved 1M barrels/day pipeline
-weakened greenwashing laws

[Noah Karl🌏🌌🚀 🇪🇺🇩🇪 @NoahKarl1]

The difference between

"There used to be hot summers too."

and
climate crisis.

[tern @1goodtern]

This is such a horribly shocking statistic that it's hard to comprehend, but it's even harder to comprehend that there will be *worse years ahead*. Much worse.

[Jake Landau (He/Him) 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇻🇪🇺🇦 @JakeLandauTO]

You pretty much can't go to university in Canada without the risk of being spied upon by Zionists and persecuted for showing any hint of sympathy for Palestine. It's like how Apartheid South Africa put spies in the universities to patrol for dissent.

[Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb]

New reporting from @TheBreachMedia shows that Canadian universities operated a secret national effort to coordinate surveillance and policing of anti-genocide activism and encampments.

These are the schools involved:

[Tina Yazdani @TinaYazdani]

Ontario may be home to the largest share of AI data centres in Canada, and proposals for new ones in the GTA are piling up, but the Ford government has yet to unveil the rules governing which projects get approved & which get rejected.

My exchange with Energy Minister Stephen Lecce here: