Marion Soubliere

#Editor, #writer, #GoC supplier (ProServices). Member of @editorscanada, @CF_Guild Certified by Editors Canada.

[Bruce Fanjoy 🍁 @brucefanjoy]

I’m flattered that CPC MPs Lawton, Gunn, Majumdar, and Reid are visiting Carleton. I don’t know what they think they’re accomplishing, but I thank them for their tourism. I hope they have a chance to enjoy Carleton’s delicious apple crumble, and take some back to their ridings.

[Marion Soubliere @msoubliere]

#Ottawa

[Charlie Senack @Charlie_Senack]

Update from Ottawa Police: A call came in around 4:20 p.m. reporting a “suspicious person” in the area. There are no injuries reported and officers remain on the scene. #ottnews

[Marion Soubliere @msoubliere]

@stphnmaher Thought you might be interested in this article.

[Nunatsiaq News @NunatsiaqNews]

Lori Idlout is not the first NDP MP from Nunavut to cross the floor and join the Liberals. Read Part 3 of Dennis Patteron's column about Peter Ittinuar.
https://t.co/GE43BpbkZt

[Marion Soubliere @msoubliere]

#Nunavut #Liberals

[Nunatsiaq News @NunatsiaqNews]

Twice elected as an NDP member, Idlout's crossing brings Liberals closer to majority government status
https://t.co/83xlxgzpi6

[Marion Soubliere @msoubliere]

#Greenland #Canada #Inuit #Nuuk

[Olivia Stefanovich @CBCOlivia]

Crowd sings Oh Canada as Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand raises Canadian flag to officially open Canadian consulate in Nuuk, Greenland 🇨🇦🇬🇱

[Marion Soubliere @msoubliere]

#Greenland #Canada #Inuit #Nuuk

[Olivia Stefanovich @CBCOlivia]

Canadian flag hoisted on new consulate in Nuuk 🇨🇦��🇱 along with the flag of Iceland (Canada is sharing its consulate space in Greenland with Iceland)

[Marion Soubliere @msoubliere]

#Greenland #Canada #Inuit #MarySimon #GovernorGeneral

[Orla Joelsen @OJoelsen]

Welcome to Nuuk, 🇬🇱 GG Simon 🇨🇦

[Marion Soubliere @msoubliere]

@OJoelsen Qujannamiik, Orla! Could you also post on your Bluesky account so we can share your content there as well? Thanks.

[Rutger Bregman @rcbregman]

Riveting, extraordinary and brutally honest speech by Mark Carney, Canada's prime minister. God, I wish we would have European leaders like this.

Here's an excerpt:

In 1978, the Czech dissident Václav Havel, later president, wrote an essay called “The Power of the Powerless,” and in it he asked a simple question: how did the communist system sustain itself?

And his answer began with a greengrocer.

Every morning, the shopkeeper places a sign in his window: “Workers of the world unite.” He doesn’t believe in it. No one does. But he places the sign anyway to avoid trouble, to signal compliance, to get along. And because every shopkeeper on every street does the same, the system persists — not through violence alone, but through the participation of ordinary people in rituals they privately know to be false.

Havel called this living within a lie. The system’s power comes not from its truth, but from everyone’s willingness to perform as if it were true. And its fragility comes from the same source. When even one person stops performing, when the greengrocer removes his sign, the illusion begins to crack.

Friends, it is time for companies and countries to take their signs down.

For decades, countries like Canada prospered under what we called the rules-based international order. We join its institutions, we praised its principles, we benefited from its predictability. And because of that, we could pursue values-based foreign policies under its protection.

We knew the story of the international rules-based order was partially false, that the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient, that trade rules were enforced asymmetrically, and we knew that international law applied with varied rigor, depending on the identity of the accused or the victim.

This fiction was useful, and American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security, and support for frameworks for resolving disputes.

So we placed the sign in the window. We participated in the rituals, and we largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality.

This bargain no longer works.

Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.

Read/listen in full: https://t.co/1Cxm0Kxz7a

[Julie @hoolie_r]

Thank you, Jon Stewart, for keeping your priorities straight and directing the attention where it belongs.

TikTok can’t process on-screen captions for any video of mine longer than like 2 minutes. Need to start editing elsewhere.

[Marion Soubliere @msoubliere]

#COVIDisAirborne #COVIDisNotOver

[ReSisters @TheReSisters2]

#OneofTheTwo

[julie k. brown @jkbjournalist]

Barring breaking news, I will be on Rachel @maddow tonight about 9:30 talking about the Epstein case.

[Dr. Adam Ogieglo 🇨🇦 @AOgieglo]

Never a bad idea to wash your hands but you can’t keep yourself healthy from a virus that you breathe in by washing your hands.

[Marion Soubliere @msoubliere]

"Mask wearing is not popular, but when used in poorly ventilated, crowded places (planes, trains, buses, hospitals, malls full of holiday shoppers) is a high yield activity that might spare you a lot of misery this week."

#MaskUp #WearAMask #Flu #Canada

[Kashif Pirzada, MD @KashPrime]

Hospitals all over North America are inundated with Flu cases right now, especially in children. There are already 3 reported child deaths in the Ottawa area.

About 20 years ago I had a nasty bout of Flu that left me with acute viral and post viral symptoms for weeks. I felt like I was going to die. Since then I've lined up for my Flu shot every year as soon as they come out. Unfortunately, this year's shot may not cover the H3N2 strain that is prevalent now, but it may still help with other strains.

Flu is not the same as the common cold. Cold is a mild runny nose/sore throat for a few days. Flu (from the Influenza virus) is like being hit by a truck, body aches, high fever, headaches, shivers/rigours and can drag on for a week or more. It has killed millions upon millions of people stretching back thousands of years, and will continue to do so in the future. It is something to take seriously.

What can you do to manage during this season?

Use Rapid Tests
Firstly I would invest in some Flu and Covid rapid tests. Catching these infections early allows for the use of antivirals (Tamiflu/Xofluza for Flu, Paxlovid/Xocova for Covid). Unlike in Japan or South Korea, where primary care clinics routinely do these tests and treat patients quickly, doctors here are less likely to have these tests available I buy my rapid tests from Europe here: https://t.co/YAn5h0edjk

Use fever medications
- High fever makes you feel miserable. Keep ahead of it with Tylenol/Paracetamol and Advil/Ibuprofen
- Kids and elders will often refuse food when sick, but will still drink; give lots of fluids/electrolytes, especially after you bring down the fever. The appetite will usually recover after a day or two with the more benign viruses.
- most cold/flu meds (eg pseudoephedrine, benadryl) are not recommended or approved for kids <6
- second generation anti-histamines like cetirizine (zyrtec, reactine) or loratidine can help with some symptom management

When to come to see your physician/come to the hospital (not an exhaustive list)
- fever more than 4-5 days
- not eating/drinking or excessive vomiting/can't keep food down
- lethargic/sleepy even with tylenol/advil
- not peeing, or peeing too much
- rapid or noisy breathing, feeling short of breath
- Any fever in a child <6 weeks, or in a chemo patient
- focal source of possible bacterial infection
- ear pain (ear infection), severe sore throat (strep), chest pain, pain on urination (UTI), etc.
- not getting better 2-3d after starting an antibiotic. This is especially important to track with Mycoplasma infections, which first line antibiotics often don't work well against.
- if you're worried

In the hospital we will often give IV fluids, some antinausea meds and get you back on your feet. Some folks who are sicker (with low oxygen levels) will need to be admitted.

Prevention
- Mask wearing is not popular, but when used in poorly ventilated, crowded places (planes, trains, buses, hospitals, malls full of holiday shoppers) is a high yield activity that might spare you a lot of misery this week. - If you're sick with any cold symptoms, stay home, wear a mask if you need to go out. Spare someone else a lot of misery.
- It's a hard thing to ask, but don't go to the big family dinner and infect everyone if you're sick. We postponed our dinner (we do it early because we all work in the hospitals over the holidays) by one week because one person caught the Flu.
- Don't show up sick to work. It's a terrible Christmas present that your colleagues will hate you for.
- Get boosted (for C19, flu, and RSV if available), will hopefully prevent some infection and ensure a milder course of illness for most.
- Pregnant women should consider C19 booster in the 3rd trimester, and get RSV vaccination. Some states/provinces offer RSV vaccination to babies at birth, and I highly recommend that you take it.

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

Employment growth since April ("Liberation Day"):
United States: +119,000*
Canada: +166,200

* The U.S. number is expected to be revised down.

[Marion Soubliere @msoubliere]

If you're in #Sydney, #Australia, and are able to donate O- blood, please do. #BondiBeach

[lifebloodau @lifebloodau]

Our thoughts are with the injured, their families and those who have lost loved ones because of this tragedy.
On Sunday we issued several life-threatening orders for O- blood, in the wake of the incident at Bondi.
Please make an appointment if you can. https://t.co/dGC0V7Cdsi

[The Lone Masker @wonderartsy]

New month, same pandemic #MaskUp #😷

[Rutger Bregman @rcbregman]

I was pretty sad all day about the BBC’s decision to censor my first Reith Lecture...

... but this BBC News segment about the censorship is cheering me up immensely!

[Nili Kaplan-Myrth MD PhD @nilikm]

Paediatric patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test to complete we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Let that be a reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room and staff to get sick.

[Rutger Bregman @rcbregman]

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1