Radiation Oncologist (Ret), Undergrad Medical Educator x 20 years at Western University, Schulich SMD.
Ontario
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We need to ask @fordnation @PBethlenfalvy why they feel it is fine that they leave disabled Ontarians in extreme poverty struggling to survive, many with complex disabilities and significant care needs? @CBCNews @CBCQueensPark @CTVToronto @CTVWindsor @globeandmail @TorontoStar
If Halloween candy becomes any smaller we’ll need a microscope. Shrinkflation has come to Candyland. How many treats per child this year? 🤔🤔🤔
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A man in Ottawa with a dozen blood clots in his lungs was put in a hospital storage closet because there was no bed. How can we accept that?
Doug Ford promised to end hallway health care, but it’s only gotten worse.
It’s time to end the wait times by bringing in safe staffing ratios and fixing the bed shortage, so every Ontarian gets a real bed when they need one.
NEW: Internal government data shows Ontario’s hallway health care problem is as bad as it’s ever been.
More from @AidanChamandy: thetrillium.ca/news/health/o…
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🚨🚨NEWWWWW --- @FBI agents are privately sharing a grave concern in recent days: that they'll be ordered to seize voting machines or take other legally questionable steps to disrupt the mid-term elections.
@KDilanianMSNOW & me
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NEW: Internal government data shows Ontario’s hallway health care problem is as bad as it’s ever been.
More from @AidanChamandy: thetrillium.ca/news/health/o…
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Doug Ford stood up and blamed students for the OSAP mess. So let’s follow the money.
In 2024, private college executives donated $151,000 to the PCs, and the Minister in charge at the time got $30,000 from them alone. Now students have had the rug pulled out from under them. So I asked the Premier: was this incompetence, or are students and families paying the price for his insider deals?
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Sotomayor, dissenting from John Roberts’ immunity ruling:
“Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune.”
Roberts signed it anyway.
428 letters to 44,500:
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Holy shit, President Obama is SHREDDING the shit out of "arts and crafts" Cheesecake trump now, you HAVE to see this! 🤣🤣🤣
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Ontario’s hallway health care numbers have hit unprecedented highs:
On an average day in Jan 2025, Ontario hospitals treated 2,088 patients in hallways, break rooms and other spaces never meant for care.
It was the most since Ontario Health began tracking the number in 2017 and 52 per cent more than January 2018, the winter before Doug Ford won a majority government promising to end hallway health care.
Story by @AidanChamandy thetrillium.ca/news/health/o…
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I tried to warn people. I work at one of the largest AI labs in the world. We are currently helping combat hundreds to thousands of agent swarms on our electrical grid infrastructure in the United States. The labs won’t tell the truth but I will.
Great lyrics @MarketWatch @cnbc @carlquintanilla Bryan Adam’s sings what we’re all thinking. It’s always been and will always be Lake Ontario. The lyrics are worth presenting tomorrow am on “Squawk on the Street” @SquawkStreet @NBCNews @AriMelber @maddow
Bryan Adams has a new song out: Lake Ontario youtu.be/VQFYuM2N1Bc?si=n4Ol… via @YouTube
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Canada not in a 'position right now' to agree to U.S. trade deal, Carney says.
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The U.S. has told several Gulf Arab countries to be prepared for a short, intense military campaign after the U.S. midterm elections wsj.com/world/middle-east/u-… via @WSJ
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“Trump's primary interest in the Middle East is to pad his pockets,” @ChrisMurphyCT tells MEI. “The reason that Kushner and Witkoff are the primary communicators to our partners in the region is because the #1 priority of the United States government is to leverage foreign policy to make Donald Trump, Steve Witkoff, and Jared Kushner rich.”
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Content of Tense Conversation Between Budanov and Trump's Team Revealed
Negotiations between the Ukrainian delegation and Donald Trump's special envoys in Miami, as reported by Le Monde, escalated into a conflict. According to the publication, during a three-hour meeting at the Shell Bay golf club, Steve Witkoff "with irritation" demanded that Kyrylo Budanov, head of Zelenskyy's office, cease strikes on Russian oil refineries.
Budanov, per Le Monde's information, "barely contained his anger" and felt that he was being "treated like a child, trying to teach him how to make money." The Americans presented an ambitious plan for postwar "regional prosperity," which envisioned resuming the transit of Russian oil and gas to Europe through Ukraine, with dividends paid to Kyiv.
Budanov was outraged that such a deal would tie Ukraine to Moscow, after which the negotiations broke off. When the meeting resumed, the Americans proposed accepting a deal for supplies of Russian diesel to the United States.
The publication's sources noted that they had never seen Ukrainians "so upset and alarmed." Zelenskyy's entourage described the situation as "hopeless," since Trump's envoys "think only about business."
📸: Press service of the President of Ukraine
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Trump says East Potomac renovation will proceed despite judge’s order blocking golf course closure
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After letting a few private career colleges rip off the OSAP system with impunity, the Ford govt used the scam as an excuse to cut OSAP grants for all students, accusing them of wasting money on “basket weaving courses” & “fancy watches & cologne” thestar.com/opinion/contribu… #onpoli
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The polling expert believes the midterm elections could be so disastrous for Trump that the results will effectively end his presidency. thedailybeast.com/nate-silve…
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Alex Pretti's father: Our son was shot and killed by the government, federal immigration agents, on January 24th, 2026. We learned about his death from the media as we saw him being shot repeatedly in the back after helping a woman from his community. This was not a protest that Alex was at. His hands were in the air, and his face was on the ground when he was executed by ICE agents. We know exactly what our eyes saw. No one from the federal government called us on that day. But they did go on TV to tell lies about Alex. No one has called us since. No one has recanted those lies.
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"Can you explain why this member is getting a promotion after he ripped off the people of this province?"
On the first day of the fall sitting, Premier Ford dodges questions about why Stan Cho, who resigned from cabinet this summer after charging taxpayers for local hotel stays, has been promoted to an education role with a $22K pay bump.