The privacy violations seem egregious to me. Then there's the fact that this bill will secure pensions for 80 politicians by pushing the next election back a week. Why doesn't the electorate trust politicians more? /s

I think political parties love where politics is at. It's become about data collection and copious personalized advertising to 'key voters' (ie, small groups of voters that heavily and unfairly sway overall results in first-past-the-post style elections). Policy and party identity are passé and not as easy to game the system and be reactionary with. It's easier to buy votes (via personalized advertising) than it ever was before this era of social media saturation, I think.

I'm in my 30s and I reject these sort of privacy violations (and freedom of reach), in part because I remember how much ownership and privacy consumers used to enjoy. Now, we can't access many services without handing over gobs of our data, and because we often pay for licenses versus actual goods (eg, netflix) we are at the whims of companies when they want to change their services, increase fees (eg, surge pricing), or change end-user agreements.

I make a point of my age, because when I talk to people in their 20s and younger, they often don't see things like I do; my privacy-centric views seem strange to them. For people who've experienced puberty and onwards with multiple mainstream social media platforms, they seem to regard this relationship with products and companies as completely normal. Good news for the oligarchs.

"This doctor billed the Ministry for over 23,000 vaccines over 5 days, incorrectly billing the Ministry for $630,000, 21 times their eligible payments."

Those vaccines were not administered by her or her staff, but by local medical students, and not in her office, both of which apparently go against billing codes.

I'm not sure I agree with seizure of all funds here, and the vaccine clinics did good, but I think the doctor intended to misuse billing codes and I understand why the Ministry wants some money back. There should have been more communication and compromise earlier on. Like, if a doctor bills the province for $100,000 for a day's services that should raise a flag

In much of Europe and China the progress being made on renewables is awesome to see. In contrast, Canadian and American decision-makers seem hellbent on stymying this continent's transition to renewables

For his rich investor buddies? Lots! Greenbelt development scandal, Ontario Science Centre scandal, privatization of Service Ontario to Staples, giving Brewer's Retail some absurd amount of money to get out of a contract 1 year early and privatize alcohol sales, scrapped paid sick days, inked a new contract with Enbridge to lock us into natural gas for many more years to come, the list goes on. Ontario is "Open for business"

Policing is about protecting wealth and social hierarchy, not public safety or public interests. But no one who wants to invest more in policing will say this out loud, because they wouldn't get votes. So, complete falsehoods about investing more in policing to reduce crime are presented instead, as you and the article point out

This is what supporting genocide looks like. (If you're in the US, I think you still have to vote for Biden in November)

If I learned 1 thing from the COVID pandemic, it's that science doesn't matter when it's at odds with established big money continuing to make big money.

Per the WHO, processed meat is in the same category of carcinogen as cigarette smoking. That's the science. In my locale of Toronto, they sell dollar hotdogs weekly at the ballpark of the professional men's baseball team. They dump tons of money into advertising and fetishizing binge meat-eating. They try to increase the stadium's consumption that day well past 40,000 'dogs'. Last I checked, colon cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer death in men and second in women. These dollar hotdogs certainly keep colonoscopists in business.

More money talk. 2/3rds of animal biomass on this planet is 'livestock', which is given three-quarters of the antibiotics we produce. A healthy vegan is very unlikely to need diabetes, cholesterol-lowering, or heart disease meds. Most people on North American-ish omnivore diets will be on multiple prescription meds of these classes for decades of their life. They will need colonoscopies every year or two, starting around age 50. They will need hospitalization and maybe surgery after their first angina attack, heart attack, or stroke. They're essentially a different kind of livestock.

It's amazing how much taxpayer money goes into preserving this extremely-dettached-from-reality status quo that benefits pharmaceutical companies, the medical industry, and Big Meat. It's not serving the people who eat North American-ish omnivore diets, the healthcare system, the tortured non-human animals, or the low-paid humans that are probably stuck in those barbaric industries for lack of access to better work

How disappointing and shameful. It'd be nice to see our country on the right side of history

At least six doctors and healthcare workers were suspended at Toronto’s SickKids hospital for social media posts supporting Palestinians while doctors at St. Michael’s around the corner were allowed to share an hour-long lecture about Israel to staff and students.

Another half dozen physicians were removed from their roles assessing medical students’ residency applications at Queen’s University because they signed a petition calling for a ceasefire.

According to Ge, physicians and students making posts about Palestine are also being accused of creating a lack of safety for Jewish patients, despite no patient complaints.

“For someone to accuse someone else in the profession that there’s a concern for patient safety is…a grave and significant and severe concern,” he said.

“It is being disproportionately used in a very malicious way now to call into question people’s competency, without an appropriate look at [whether there is] actual concern for patient safety and [whether there is] true bias.”

I have no problems with the departure of a newspaper editor who censors criticism of Israel while Israel commits genocide. The paper's owner, however, caught my intrigue. A billionaire who's pro-Palestine, owns a newspaper, and has largely respected the editorial independence of that newspaper -- seems like a rare breed of billionaire

That's creepy af

I was introduced to Wayne Brady through Chappelle's Show :) I like his coming out, and the thoughtful message he gave. As a wealthy, middle-aged Black celebrity and comic, I think he may be quite influential in opening others' minds and hearts. Also, I'm glad there's a text summary here, because I'd never visit TT