Stephen Bailey🇨🇦

I work in produce. I spend my day surrounded by the sights and smells of fresh fruits and vegetables.

[Stephen Maher @stphnmaher]

Updated this morning with clarification from senior Canadian source

[Stephen Bailey🇨🇦 @StphnBailey]

Aglais milberti, the fire-rim tortoiseshell and a White Admiral.

[Stephen Bailey🇨🇦 @StphnBailey]

#fungifriday

[Stephen Maher @stphnmaher]

Let us talk about Churchill Falls a little bit. I have been there, used to live in Labrador, am well aware of the extremely hard feelings about the deal in that province.

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

To the thousands of WestJet flight attendants who are out on strike against unpaid work: the NDP stands with you.

Your fight is the fight of every worker who is sick and tired of getting pushed around by big corporations — people who are working harder than ever and still struggling to get ahead, while a handful of CEOs keep getting richer. Millions of Canadians will be cheering you on today.

The right to strike is not an inconvenience, it's a cornerstone of our democracy. That's why the Liberal government must not use Section 107 to force flight attendants back to work, as it did with Air Canada workers last year. Canadians won't soon forget if the Prime Minister intervenes on behalf of WestJet this time around.

This strike is about basic fairness, dignity and respect. No one should be expected to work for free.

[Stephen Bailey🇨🇦 @StphnBailey]

A big sky panorama near Ruby Line.

[Stephen Bailey🇨🇦 @StphnBailey]

Same place a little farther along.

[Stephen Bailey🇨🇦 @StphnBailey]

This brook can be found in Mount Pearl NL

[Arnesa Buljušmić-Kustura @arnesa_kustura]

Yesterday, I spent most of my day crying and praying. It feels as if there is an elephant sitting on my chest. It is difficult to truly describe the mark that the Bosnian Genocide has left on all of us. How it follows us throughout everything we do.

[Raghu Venugopal MD @raghu_venugopal]

On healthcare issues in Canada, Robyn Urback, the profiteers and the right are again found exaggerating and unreliable: 👇👇👇

1. Urback argues healthcare in Canada is "horrifying":

I work evenings and nights in 3 urban ERs. I see the worst of the worst of everything possible related to the human condition. I've worked in many nations around the world (from Congo to Gaza) with serious privation, war and forced migration. Urback's "Health care is horrifying in this country" is an insane statement. Robyn knows nothing about "horrifying". 

I work in Ontario, governed by Premier Ford's Conservatives whose policies I often disagree with, but I still would not call the situation "horrifying".

What Op-Ed writers like Urback have, is zero idea about the successes in publicly funded healthcare. She has no idea that of the 16.1 million ER visits in Canada a year, the majority of them are straightforward.

There was no "horror" on my ER shift on Monday or Tuesday this week. I'll keep an eye out for "horror" on Thursday and Friday when I'm on next.

We see chest pain, abdominal pain, fever, injury, addictions and a host of other common problems - and in attending to those patients, I've not had a "horror" case recently in full-time practise.

In fact, under Liberal, NDP and Conservative governments, the majority of ER visits in Canada are reasonable or good. Many are very good, excellent and outstanding - and patients tell us that.

In ER, it's pretty routine that patient's problems are diagnosed, they receive treatment, and they either stay in hospital or go home. What Urback doesn't see is what ER doctors see. Heart attacks diagnosed in seconds, strokes diagnosed in minutes, sepsis reversed and bones put back in place. If all you do is read the paper and spend time on X, you only know what makes the news or generates outrage. Good solid medical care never, ever, ever makes the news, because it doesn't sell or foment outrage.

-Are there problems in healthcare? Definitely. Like patients too long in ER because hospitals are underfunded. 
-Am I critical of those problems? All the time. I'll talk about failed addictions policy in Ontario on CBC this week. 
-Can we do better? Yes. There are important examples in Ontario of decanting the ER with improved outcomes like at Durham Region's Lakeridge Health. 

But branding healthcare in Canada as "horrifying" as an overgeneralization, is uneducated and ill-informed. This kind of narrative is meant to undermine a healthcare system that is publicly funded.

2. "Experimenting" according to the right and profiteers vs. the rest of us. 

We have to understand that Canada's right (and their allied profiteers) use the word "experiment" and "innovation" to mean let the rich get to the front of the line. That's what experimenting means to them. They're honest, and they admit it.

But in reality, publicly funded hospitals "experiment" all the time:
-Like when a stabilization centre outside the hospital was successfully opened to decant intoxicated patients who needed a dark, quiet place to detox and then go home.
-Like when a hospital created an apartment building to give homes to the highest-using ER patients who were homeless (and as a result, ER visits collapsed).
-Hospitals "experiment" with "code hip" to get hip fractures treated faster and "code shock" to wake the whole hospital for patients with undifferentiated shock.

In truth, publicly funded health care experiments all the time to make the system work even though provincial governments like in Ontario have frozen healthcare funding as a percentage of GDP for over a decade. 

Canada's right and Canada's profiteers don't want to "experiment" in good-faith. They just think because they have more money - that they deserve priority, like in every other aspect of their cozy life. 

Letting the rich jump the queue hasn't worked in countries like Canada where we have a fixed pool of doctors. Pulling doctors out of the healthcare system to cherry-pick and skim-off the easy cases (leaving the harder medicine to the publicly funded system) has proven a failure around the world. But that doesn't stop the right who don't actually want to make the system better for everyone - they just want to make it better for themselves. 

@RobynUrback @HealthCoalition @OntarioHealthC @jkenney @picardonhealth @globeandmail @SecondStreetOrg

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

This is completely out of line.

Minister Miller says, "It isn't up to me to speak to, or insert myself in, the curation of any particular exhibit.” And then he does exactly that.

His comments are a direct attack on the independence of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights – exactly what the Museums Act is meant to prevent.

The story of the Nakba needs to be told. It’s a hard history to confront: Israel’s independence was achieved with massacres, ethnic cleansing, and the forcible displacement of over 750,000 Palestinians.

And it’s a story that’s not over: all of those assaults on human dignity and fundamental human rights continue to this day.

This is the very purpose of museums like the CMHR: to shine a light into the corners of history and connect historical events to the present. Public education informed by the principles of justice and human rights.

The “error that needs to be rectified” is not the exhibit, it’s the Heritage Minister’s unacceptable political interference. He should retract his comments, apologize, and leave curating to the curators.

https://t.co/mD8FLlDw5d

[Kyla Lee @IRPlawyer]

There Is No Such Thing as a “Victim of the Jordan Decision” https://t.co/VnSWBE0wnF

[The Road Jess Travelled @JessPected]

How much more before the world is willing to recognize the terrorism that is misogyny? Whether mass murders like this, Marc Lépine, Elliot Rodger, Alek Minassian, Scott Beierle, & numerous more, or the domestic violence & history of misogyny behind most mass murders?

[Stephen Bailey🇨🇦 @StphnBailey]

pics from logy bay hike.

[Michael Geist @mgeist]

Well past midnight and the votes continue on Bill C-22 amendments. Just amendment numbers with no discussion, no debate, and no way for the public to even know what is being voted on.

[Michael Geist @mgeist]

Government’s vision of social media, AI and privacy regulation: Super-regulator that strips power from Privacy Commish and leaves 5 people to set the rules, enforce, investigate, litigate, and advocate with their own rules of evidence and less independence
https://t.co/6dYV60v7Xf

[Paddystinian @Paddystinian]

For anyone unaware of the Belfast riots, thinking this is an Irish revolution then watch this young lad break it all down.

Know who the rioters are!
Loyalist = Loyal to 🇬🇧
Republican = Irish 🇮🇪

These rioters will be burning our flag 🇮🇪 in a few weeks!

[Stephen Bailey🇨🇦 @StphnBailey]

Good morning Canada from St. John's NL

[Rachel Gilmore @atRachelGilmore]

I think it’s really unhelpful that politicians of all political stripes are characterizing effigies of Ben Gvir, Netanyahu and Trump (??) as “effigies of Jews.”

This was clearly an act of protest against the architects and key players perpetrating a genocide, and it’s dishonest and problematic to characterize the effigies as being tied to religion.

[David T.S. Fraser @privacylawyer]

What I saw at today's #SECU meeting on Bill C-22 Lawful Access:

(1) The main cheerleader of the lawful access (the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police) wants to bypass encryption, and they appreciate that the Bill will do this.