Catherine

“ breathing clean air is a human right “

[Catherine @mitote83]

Scientists have identified a new gene responsible for doubling the risk of respiratory failure from COVID-19. Sixty percent of people with South Asian ancestry carry the high-risk genetic signal; gene called LZTFL1 https://t.co/8sDaqwppsr

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@bobmackin Full interview is interesting

[The Hill @thehill]

Trump announces TrumpRx expansion, adding 160 more drugs
https://t.co/DhnHLGfvB2

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@MarksGonePublic 😂😂

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@GordoCDA Thank you for all your hard work

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@GordoCDA

[Iran International English @IranIntl_En]

Students held protests in about 15 provinces across Iran on Saturday, according to videos received by Iran International. In Isfahan, students protested against in-person exams and chanted slogans including “Shout it out, shout it out — shout your rights.”

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@beauti_animals Raincouver Burrard street lol

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@GordoCDA Maybe earth opens up and eat the remaining bad ones.

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@Reuters 😂😂 all lies

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@BIVnews How about condos? Not fair

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@MarkJCarney No jobs available except Uber - I know a lot of people who are looking for jobs for months

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@globeandmail The ugly truth : we don’t have much economy let. Private sector is suffering. Many people don’t have jobs. Why do you write articles that don’t reflect the truth ?

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@MarcNixon24

[TrendingPolitics.ca @TrendPolCa]

BREAKING: Ontario recorded its steepest drop in labour force participation since 1976 excluding the pandemic, with 71,300 people leaving the workforce in the first quarter of 2026 according to the Financial Accountability Office of Ontario — Global News

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BREAKING: Ontario recorded its steepest drop in labour force participation since 1976 excluding the pandemic, with 71,300 people leaving the workforce in the first quarter of 2026 according to the Financial Accountability Office of Ontario — Global News

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@CityNewsTO Why should we get used to seeing corruption in this country?

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@MarcNixon24 Affordability is best over a decade ? 🤣🤣🤣

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@MarcNixon24 Second fastest … it gives me nausea

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@Lam_mour @SteveKooner West coast problem

[James E. Thorne @DrJStrategy]

For the record.

In Canada, It Matters How the Economy Dies.

The Canadian economy is dead. It just didn’t die with a crash big enough to satisfy the models. No Lehman moment, no Covid‑style cliff, just two negative quarters of GDP, years of falling output per person, negative productivity, and a private sector slowly strangled by rates and regulation while the establishment insists the patient is “resting.”

On the facts, this isn’t ambiguous. Real GDP has contracted for two consecutive quarters on an annualized basis. Labour productivity has been flat or negative since 2021. Real GDP per capita is below its pre‑pandemic level. Ontario has logged its worst non‑pandemic quarterly job losses since the mid‑1970s. The only consistent growth is in government payrolls and compliance, not in private enterprise and investment. If that isn’t recessionary, the word is meaningless.

And yes Macklem threatens rate hikes through all of this insanity.

Yet Canada’s official guardians insist nothing fundamental has broken. The C.D. Howe recession‑dating committee says the downturn is not “pronounced, persistent, and pervasive” enough. The central bank warns against overreacting to “technical” weakness. Bay Street talks about “soft landings” and “resilience.” In some quarters, the answer to this slow‑motion collapse is not relief, but further rate hikes. Ignore the body on the table, we are told, the vital signs aren’t quite bad enough yet to fill out the certificate.

Their rulebook was built for heart attacks, not cancers. It excels at spotting sudden collapses in aggregate GDP and jobs. It barely registers slow organ failure: a few tenths off real GDP per capita each year, productivity edging down, ugly quarters for private‑sector employment and capex offset by public hiring. None of that triggers the old alarms until the damage is permanent.

Meanwhile, Canada has been busy throwing away the advantages that once justified its prosperity. Energy and resource projects are stalled or strangled. Business investment per worker trails peers. A country rich in capital, talent, and geography behaves as if it can live forever off inherited endowments while making it harder to build anything new. That is not “resilience.” It is delusion.
Canada’s economic establishment needs to wake up.

Two negative quarters of GDP, negative productivity, falling GDP per person, historic job losses in the core province, a suffocated private sector and calls for more tightening on top, are not signs of an economy “cooling toward trend.” They are signs of an economy that has already crossed the line from stagnation into decay.

The Canadian economy is dead in the way that matters: as an engine of rising living standards and a place where private capital is rewarded for building the future. It just didn’t die loudly enough for the old definitions. The real question now is not what we call it, but how long our institutions will keep pretending the corpse is “resilient.”

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@SteveSaretsky Economy crash - people leaving BC

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@MarksGonePublic 😍😍 is it still there ?