Raechel E. Kula

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Jeff Bezos became $3.84 billion richer on Friday. He’s now worth $255 billion. Higher prices at Amazon gave him the ability to sail on his $500 million yacht to his $55 million wedding in Venice to give his wife a $5 million ring while U.S taxpayers subsidize Amazon’s low wages.

[H @hostbodyhan]

Holy shit, after 5 years Health Canada finally put out engineering guidelines recommending people wear N95s, clean indoor air to reduce viral load, and admitted COVID is airborne. Based

https://t.co/TjWPnP2MPX

[Tyler Watt 🇨🇦 @tylerwatt]

We’ve become so desensitized to Ford’s abuse of power that what should be the scandal of the decade barely shocks anyone anymore - but it should.

$2.5 billion meant to train workers and turned it into a cash pipeline for insiders, lobbyists, and donors.
https://t.co/HfVmIzmx69

[ProPublica @propublica]

Microsoft is required to regularly provide U.S. officials with its plan for keeping government data safe from hacking. Yet a copy of the tech giant’s security plan obtained by ProPublica makes no reference to the company’s China-based operations.
https://t.co/725VFNpcW3

[🇨🇦 Jamie Carroll 🇨🇦 @jec79]

"It's almost certain that even after the 2026 deadline passes, many parents in five provinces will be paying more than $10 a day for child care.”

So… shouldn’t headline be “Five provinces have chosen to let their families pay more for childcare despite Feds money.”?

[Barry Hunt @BarryHunt008]

Here's an idea

Everyone in Ontario hospitals wears an N95 for one month

What happens to the hospital acquired infection rate?

What happens to hospital deaths?

What happens to labour shortages & absenteeism?

150 million N95s are already paid for.

Use them or lose them.

[Tyler Watt 🇨🇦 @tylerwatt]

Ontario is falling behind on affordable child care because the Ford government refuses to do its job.

Educators need fair wages. Families need affordable childcare.

Enough delays. It's time to invest in our kids and families.

https://t.co/sBhYSYqYl2 #onpoli #Nepean

[The Markup @themarkup]

California schools are paying millions for the AI detection tool Turnitin, but the tech often makes mistakes and the company requires schools to allow them to keep students’ papers forever. https://t.co/bdTEVeockB

[CTV News Toronto @CTVToronto]

‘The biggest betrayal’: A year on, staff grieve Ontario Science Centre’s snap closure
https://t.co/oJaCECRBEM

[Dr Kareem Carr @kareem_carr]

Warning ⚠️: According to the Nature Index, Harvard is the only US institution in the global top 10 for research output. If its infrastructure is dismantled, the entire top 10 will be Chinese.

[Colin D'Mello | Global News @ColinDMello]

Focus Ontario: Years after the Ford gov't canceled Ontario's Basic Income project, the recipients are still fighting the province in a class action lawsuit.

We spoke to one of the recipients about how the pilot stabilized her life and the lawyer representing them.

#onopli

[🇨🇦 ✍🏽 Johanna Read @TravelEater]

@DrFiliatrault @GovCanHealth Plus have it supplied to 🇨🇦ians, ideally federally not provincially purchased. Provs did a big 🤷🏽‍♀️ when they had to pay themselves.
Govt of 🇨🇦 should ensure it’s available to everyone, since Novavax seems to offer best/longest lasting protection and has fewest side effects.

[IATSE // #IASolidarity @IATSE]

BREAKING: Visual Effects (VFX) workers for Marvel Studios, Walt Disney Pictures, and the 'Avatar' movie franchise have voted overwhelmingly to ratify their first union contracts.

This is decades in the making.

[MichaelHurleyCUPE @HurleyOCHUCUPE]

An 11% increase in measles cases in Ontario in a week - 1,622 cases now. The Medical Officer of Health is failing Ontarians.

[Dr. Sean Mullen @drseanmullen]

I finally had a chance to dig into this monster of a study—and if you care about evidence-based healthcare, you need to read this.

But first, let me explain why I care so much.

There’s been a flood of retracted COVID-related studies—some of which gained massive media coverage before being pulled. As of June 2023, over 300 papers were retracted for fraud, with 19 more under expressions of concern. Some of these falsely claimed that masking caused Long Covid, or wildly underestimated COVID severity and Long Covid prevalence—especially in kids.

And once bad data gets embedded in systematic reviews and guidelines, it doesn’t just vanish. It spreads. It sticks. It misleads.

That’s where this VITALITY Study I comes in.

Published in BMJ (April 2025), it’s the largest empirical investigation to date tracking how retracted RCTs contaminate the entire healthcare evidence ecosystem—from meta-analyses to clinical guidelines.

Here are the jaw-dropping findings:

Key Findings:
•1330 retracted trials were identified; 847 systematic reviews had already included them.
•1 in 5 meta-analyses changed meaningfully when retracted trials were removed:
◦8.4% flipped direction of effect
◦16.0% lost statistical significance
◦15.7% changed magnitude by more than 50%
◦3.9% flipped both direction and significance
But it doesn’t stop there:
•These flawed meta-analyses fed directly into 157 clinical guidelines, many still live today.
•Reviews with fewer included studies were most vulnerable—where just one retracted trial could tip the scales.
•Harm outcomes, which are often underreported or fragile, were especially distorted.

And most importantly?

Almost 40% of these reviews were published after the included trials had already been retracted.

Implication? We’re making clinical decisions based on zombie data.

If this doesn’t make the case for routine retraction screening in evidence synthesis—and updates to guideline repositories—I don’t know what does.

This study deserves to be required reading for:
•Systematic reviewers
•Clinical guideline developers
•Journal editors
•Policy makers
•Clinicians who trust what the evidence base tells them

Data integrity is not a luxury—it’s the backbone of public trust. And it’s time we built systems to protect it.

https://t.co/GtASX1G4lY

[IATSE // #IASolidarity @IATSE]

IATSE and our fellow Arts, Entertainment, and Media Industries (AEMI) Unions are prepared to fight back against efforts to eliminate the NEA, NEH, and CPB. Nonprofit arts, humanities, and public media enjoy broad, bipartisan public support and sustain thousands of family-supporting union jobs.

Shutting down these institutions would be a radical action that would harm everyday people.

Full statement: https://t.co/GhI2tcP2OI

[Alyssa 🖤 @a_lil_bow]

Be the cool punk in the mask that you wish to see in the world

[Dr. Sean Mullen @drseanmullen]

So… I did a thing I'm proud of.

Grateful to @TheWHN for publishing my piece:
"Stuck in the Middle with Masking: Playing the Long Game in a Short-Sighted Age." It’s about masking at work, staying true to long-term health, and navigating a world that often pulls in the wrong direction.

If you’ve ever felt caught between clowns to the left and jokers to the right… this one's for you.

https://t.co/RKjxbxplRe

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Your reminder that when companies pay less than a living wage, taxpayers cover the cost of the social safety nets their employees are forced to rely on.

That’s a government handout to greedy corporations, not to “lazy” workers.

[Nick Dearden @nickdearden75]

We should retaliate against Trump, but that doesn’t mean tariff for tariff. Our response should strip Trump’s oligarch mates of their monopoly powers in our countries. It would be good for customers and the planet too.

This is brilliant by @doctorow

https://t.co/12BwcZ87t1