Thanks for posting your post, it resonated with me. I’m a white Canadian male. I experience loneliness or alienation too. Yesterday, was especially alienating. Chump was threatening more war crimes and nuclear war this time. I was on Mastodon, reading posts of people talking rationally about what’s going on, feeling some community and connection. Then there was my ‘in real life.’ I go to a university that espouses social justice yet has never come close to condemning the current US administration, its wars on diversity, science, etc. The people I know and talk to don’t talk about what’s going on geopolitically. A lot of people I’ve asked have taken on an “I don’t follow the news because it’s too depressing” position since Chump returned to office. And several white people in my family have become subtly more racist.

The more the NYT (as an example) wants to abandon journalism to become a placating rag in support of the white supremacist christofascist state Chump and his camp are trying to build - the more knowledgeable of the facts and anti-racist I want to shift too. But people in my family seem to be shifting with the billionaire-controlled descent into propaganda (failing to notice how it’s changed) rather than resisting it. It’s causing some genuine conflicts between me wanting to love my family members and me wanting nothing to do with them for the views they hold. I haven’t yet figured it out.

I’ve been doing learning about colonialism and anti-Indigenous racism in Canada, which has been really illuminating. But Western leaders’ tacit approval of US and/or Israel committing war crimes in Palestine, Gaza, Iran, Lebanon, Cuba, Venezuela - this has really opened my eyes to how much western colonialism and white supremacy are flourishing. It’s disgusting.

I have found a couple things to be helpful, which I want to share. I’m a healthcare trainee, and I love it for its realness (health and sickness) in contrast with the BS running the world at the moment. It’s surprisingly easy to get along and make friends with decent people at events that only like-minded people would go to. For example, I went to anti-racist event in the fall - the people there were great. Are there any local Indigenous resources, like a community centre, you can check out?

There are no roads connecting Nunavut to the rest of Canada

More Rider merchandise is sold than any other sports team in Canada, with the exception of the Toronto Maple Leafs & Montreal Canadiens

and let the rest of us keep building renewables (eg, solar, wind)

It’ll be great to shut it (!), but ride share apps (eg, uber) have already blown this door open. Not just surge pricing (ie, when there’s high demand on the app, which doesn’t use individual data per se). But folks, mostly with mobility issues, have told me that once they start making the same trip regularly in an app (eg, to the grocery store and back weekly) then that trip starts gets significantly more expensive for them in the app

Great insights, thanks! One thing funk has going for it is that it’s the only genre I know that might mention itself 50+ times in a single song: “Gotta have that funk” 😝

A prime example of the sentiment “billionaires are a cancer” (that we need to beat)

Right on, CMA!

“The notwithstanding clause should not be a tool to end public and legal debate,” CMA president Dr. Margot Burnell said in a statement.

The CMA says being able to obtain Charter rulings, even when laws remain in force under the notwithstanding clause, remains critical for transparency, accountability and evidence-based health policy.

The CMA warns the outcome could have ripple effects beyond Saskatchewan, including its own legal challenge of Alberta’s Bill 26, which it argues interferes with evidence-based medical care and physicians’ freedom of conscience.

Alberta has also invoked the notwithstanding clause to shield that legislation.

Make Nazis afraid again ✊

An investigation by the fifth estate has found the website known as Entropy, which launched in Calgary, is in fact a safe haven for white supremacists and other extremists seeking to monetize the hateful content they livestream to online audiences.

Within two years after it launched in 2019, Entropy processed more than $3 million in transactions and experts say it has since grown to become an essential service for dozens of neo-Nazis and white supremacists.

Many creators have found a home on the Canadian platform after being kicked off and blocked from making money on mainstream platforms such as YouTube for posting antisemitic and racist content that violates the streaming giant’s terms of service.

🤞

City council is expected to consider the motion at its next meeting on March 25th. If approved, the pilot program would move forward with plans for four locations across the city, though exactly where those stores could go hasn’t been decided yet.

Kakistocracy ftw! /s

Good on him for recognizing his lack of fitness for the position due to bigotry and leaving

“For Orbán in Hungary, it took about four years, for Vučić in Serbia, it took eight years, and for Erdoğan in Turkey and Modi in India, it took about 10 years to accomplish the suppression of democratic institutions that Trump has achieved in only one year,” Lindberg says.

US democracy is now back at the worst recorded level since 1965, when US civil rights laws first introduced de facto universal suffrage. All progress made since then has been erased, according to the report.

Worldwide, democracy has receded to its lowest levels since the mid-70s. “The world has never before seen as many countries autocratising at the same time,” Lindberg says.

A record 41% (3.4 billion) of the world’s population currently resides in countries where democracy is deteriorating, the report claims, adding that Washington is leading this global turn away from democracy.

Let’s go, Venezuela!!!

Allow me to provide some context that’s glaringly missing from the article. There was a major under-adoption issue that was a factor in the scrapping of this program. This identifies a new target for intervention: incentivizing primary care offices to get off fax so that we can successfully roll out a more efficient electronic systems like this.

Doctors are still faxing prescriptions in 2026. Ottawa’s $250-million program to change that was just shut down

Despite the number of providers on board, use of the service has remained low. Less than 5 per cent of prescriptions are sent electronically in Canada each year, according to reports from Canada Health Infoway and Telus Health.

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With the MAGA cap too…
ty @stopdropandprole@lemmy.world
I fucking hate genAI. Post should be deleted

The public system gets to pay for treating these patients seemingly made sick by a for-profit business and the investigation of said business. I’m so glad we let for-profit companies back into blood collection after kicking them out after the tainted blood scandal of the 1980s in which 1000s were exposed to HIV or Hep C /s

if she believes this is the best way to represent her electorate and that’s her motivation, fine

I’d have liked to see a town hall meeting or other community consultation at the very least. Absent that, I can’t help but think it’s motivated by self-interest

Legal, yes. Ethical?

That is shocking and maybe setting a very worrisome precedent of Carney clearly implementing a “big business can regulate itself” (wink, wink) style of ‘government’ (or, more cynically, a government that represents clearly represents big business not people)