I got my second shot (the Dolly one) at a pop-up clinic on Friday. No real rush on my part—my in-person job doesn’t start until the fall—but I’m kind of over worrying about all this.
― edited for dog profanity (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 30 June 2021 00:59 (three years ago) link
I got my second shot moved up from mid-August to this Friday.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 30 June 2021 02:45 (three years ago) link
Three minutes later I rebooked an appointment on behalf of my brother, and so many time slots had been taken in that short time, that his appointment is 15 days later than mine.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 30 June 2021 02:53 (three years ago) link
182 unmarked graves found at location of former residential school in Cranbrook, BC. Lower Kootenay Band says graves detected using ground penetrating radar at former St. Eugene's Mission School, which closed in 1970. (24-hour crisis line for anyone who needs it: 1-866-925-4419)— CBC News Alerts (@CBCAlerts) June 30, 2021
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Wednesday, 30 June 2021 17:28 (three years ago) link
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/sudden-deaths-heat-wave-b-c-1.6086770
― symsymsym, Thursday, 1 July 2021 01:13 (three years ago) link
https://www.citynews1130.com/2021/06/30/b-c-paramedic-dispatcher-heatwave-emergency/
― symsymsym, Thursday, 1 July 2021 01:35 (three years ago) link
“I didn’t see any managers at any of the hospitals, I mean it was truly an emergency situation. So I don’t know whether they prepared,” Alex said. “The ambulance services is running pretty much at capacity, I mean, on a regular day we’re stretched… So when you add an emergency on top of regular operations, the system isn’t capable of handling it… It was a complete collapse.”
Many other first responder agencies activated their Emergency Operations Centres, according to Luca, but BCEHS refused to do so, despite pleas from several frontline managers and medical officers. He says doing so would have opened additional resources for setting up things like cooling stations and coordinating with partner agencies and hospitals, but the centre wasn’t activated until well into the next morning.
To make matters worse, Luca says the air conditioning in the Vancouver dispatch centre apparently cut out.
“They had to end up trying to find fans and stuff like that just to keep the centre cool. Yeah, no. No preparation of scenes whatsoever.”
Everyone remember when Joe Oliver said climate change would be good for Canada?: https://www.google.com/amp/s/financialpost.com/opinion/joe-oliver-heres-a-truth-few-dare-to-utter-canada-will-benefit-from-climate-change/wcm/190315ec-083d-489e-928f-ff742a7179b4/amp/
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Thursday, 1 July 2021 03:04 (three years ago) link
The story about emergency services is grim.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Thursday, 1 July 2021 03:24 (three years ago) link
joe oliver is a fucking moron
― symsymsym, Thursday, 1 July 2021 04:28 (three years ago) link
Oh god, I remember that column. The absolute cynicism.
― jmm, Thursday, 1 July 2021 14:17 (three years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/02/queen-victoria-statue-toppled-in-canada-amid-anger-at-deaths-of-indigenous-children
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 2 July 2021 09:21 (three years ago) link
The ongoing campaign on the right to somehow tar Pierre Trudeau, and by extension his son, because he was PM while residential schools never ceases to amaze; it's like if the GOP kept trying to argue that statues of FDR should be taken down because segregationist laws were in place while he was President. In this instalment, the National Post's Kelly McParland opines that PET should be condemned just as much as John A. McDonald because his government ... published a paper that was withdrawn a year later.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Friday, 2 July 2021 13:58 (three years ago) link
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/kelly-mcparland-turning-a-blind-eye-to-pierre-trudeaus-unseemly-indigenous-assimilation-plan
republicans never tire of saying things like "dEmOcRaTs sTaRtEd the KKK" while loudly protesting the removal of confederate statues, so I wouldn't look to the GOP for a model of coherence here
― rob, Friday, 2 July 2021 14:03 (three years ago) link
Haha, true enough. "Liberals interned the Japanese" or "PET sent troops to Quebec" would at least make sense. Not saying PET was a hero on this issue but not only did he not begin the programme, his government took it out of the hands of the Catholic Church and began phasing out the schools. The Kamloops school was closed in 78 when he was PM, for instance. It's p obvious that he's only being singled out vs every other pre-1996 PM because he was the father of the current PM.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Friday, 2 July 2021 14:22 (three years ago) link
yeah that headline should be about chretien
― symsymsym, Friday, 2 July 2021 14:55 (three years ago) link
has anyone talked abt the bottlemen podcast itt? it's kind of the canadian politics podcast that ive been craving
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Saturday, 3 July 2021 03:36 (three years ago) link
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/mary-simon-named-as-canada-s-first-indigenous-governor-general-1.5498146
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 16:37 (three years ago) link
https://www.vice.com/en/article/3aqvkw/qanons-are-harassing-people-at-the-whim-of-a-woman-they-say-is-canadas-queen-romana-didulo
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 13 July 2021 09:07 (three years ago) link
Many of Didulo’s followers seem to believe she’s holding tribunals behind the scenes, which are resulting in the executions they’re thirsting for. These followers use extremely tenuous scraps of evidence to prove Didulo is actually in power—including the fact that Romana Didulo is an anagram for “I Am Our Donald.”
Sounds legit.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 13 July 2021 09:08 (three years ago) link
And the kicker: 'Didulo has said that if the people who received the cease and desist orders from her followers break them, they will be executed.'
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 13 July 2021 09:10 (three years ago) link
Happening in Montreal now too:https://old.reddit.com/r/montreal/comments/oj2ooa/maskless_karens_appear_to_be_dropping_off_bizarre/
― sean gramophone, Tuesday, 13 July 2021 15:03 (three years ago) link
Heh, that's precisely where I got wind of it.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 13 July 2021 15:10 (three years ago) link
grammar isn't Qanon's strong point
― symsymsym, Tuesday, 13 July 2021 15:23 (three years ago) link
Jmm (anyone else in Ottawa Centre?), have you been keeping up with the federal NDP nomination race in this riding? The virtual meeting is Saturday and votes are being taken in electronically for 24h. We have two candidates to choose from. I just started looking into them today. Right now, I'm strongly leaning towards Lyra Evans (http://www.lyraevans.ca), for whom I previously voted for school board, over Angella MacEwan (https://www.angellaforottawa.ca). I'm not sure I agree with all of her stances (she would definitely be on the left of the party) but some are good and she seems to at least have clear stances and priorities.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Thursday, 15 July 2021 20:02 (three years ago) link
I mean, she might just be better at making a website, so I'll keep reading.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Thursday, 15 July 2021 20:12 (three years ago) link
I haven't been following it at all! Thanks for the links.
― jmm, Friday, 16 July 2021 16:49 (three years ago) link
Evans impressed us a lot more at the nomination meeting too, although it looks like my own membership had lapsed. Anyway, MacEwan won; I might actually vote for the federal Liberals for the first time.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Sunday, 18 July 2021 19:37 (three years ago) link
Acc to two anonymous sources, the Greens are cancelling the confidence vote on Annamie Paul's leadership: https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/2021/07/18/green-party-to-cancel-vote-to-oust-leader-annamie-paul-sources.html
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Monday, 19 July 2021 01:06 (three years ago) link
yeah that vote didn't make any sense, what would they do if she lost right before an election was called
― symsymsym, Monday, 19 July 2021 02:23 (three years ago) link
the two remaining Green MPs have been pretty quiet while about the party collapsing huh? not that Annamie Paul stuck up for Manly or Atwin either
― symsymsym, Monday, 19 July 2021 02:24 (three years ago) link
Annamie Paul asked whether @ElizabethMay is involved in what she called a "one-sided campaign" to depose her as Green Leader.Paul responds that it's a "reasonable question" but that she would never talk about stuff like that in public.— Alex Ballingall (@aballinga) July 19, 2021
― symsymsym, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 01:41 (three years ago) link
A friend of mine is trying be the federal green for that Fredricton seat. They could do a lot worse.
― Kim, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 12:59 (three years ago) link
Glad I’m no longer in Alberta but deeply concerned about my family and friends still there, this is demonic and insane, I fucking hate the people who run things there with every inch of my being
Starting Aug. 16, isolation won’t be universally req’d if you test + except in some high-risk settings. Testing will continue to be important but we will no longer recommend testing for mild symptoms. (10/14)— Dr. Deena Hinshaw (@CMOH_Alberta) July 28, 2021
― bon ivermectin (Murgatroid), Thursday, 29 July 2021 04:32 (three years ago) link
Deranged
― rob, Thursday, 29 July 2021 12:46 (three years ago) link
I first thought the "+" meant "and", as in something like "isolation won't be required as a general rule if you have been tested (and are negative) but distancing will still be required in high-risk settings", which seemed somewhat reasonable. But I was filling in a lot there. I think, based on the comments, the "+" actually means "positive", which seems so inexplicable that I can see why I misread it.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Thursday, 29 July 2021 13:03 (three years ago) link
I made that same mistake, but it's definitely positive: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-covid-requirements-1.6121002
― rob, Thursday, 29 July 2021 13:06 (three years ago) link
I feel so terrified and helpless, which I guess is the default state of things in 2021
― bon ivermectin (Murgatroid), Thursday, 29 July 2021 14:09 (three years ago) link
Is any other province doing this? Why must Alberta aspire to be so much like the GOP?
― pomenitul, Thursday, 29 July 2021 14:13 (three years ago) link
Really disturbing to see a public health leader making "with vaccines, Covid = the flu" official policy
― rob, Thursday, 29 July 2021 14:18 (three years ago) link
that would make more sense if Alberta didn't have the lowest vaccination rate in the country
― bon ivermectin (Murgatroid), Thursday, 29 July 2021 14:24 (three years ago) link
For sure, though long Covid + no vaccines for children makes it p bad messaging even if the 12+ rate was ~95%. I get that we will probably need to adapt to a reality where covid is comparable to influenza, but surely we should consider waiting until after children can be vaccinated? (tbc: these points aren't directed at you Murgatroid)
And yeah, I'm seeing a lot of worried UCalgary people on my twitter talking about how effed this will be as there's no campus vaccine mandate
― rob, Thursday, 29 July 2021 14:31 (three years ago) link
This province is hell of messed up. They scooped out the CMOH’s brains and replaced them with a build-a-bear voice box programmed by Tyler Shandro. Zero emphasis on second doses, all celebrating the return of freedumb, R value 1.5, fun fuckin times.
― "The Pus/Worm" by The Smiths (hardcore dilettante), Thursday, 29 July 2021 15:34 (three years ago) link
vaccinate rates must be rock bottom in many areas of alberta also i guess
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 29 July 2021 18:14 (three years ago) link
Wow, this is a weird story.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/woman-body-sherbrooke-police-firefighters-container-1.6122481
― jmm, Thursday, 29 July 2021 19:59 (three years ago) link
Is it weirder than this?: https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/former-barwin-patients-children-will-share-in-proposed-13-3-million-settlement
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Friday, 30 July 2021 03:04 (three years ago) link
Oh Jesus, I didn't read the Sherbrooke story before posting. That's gruesome.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Friday, 30 July 2021 03:06 (three years ago) link
this is insane:https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/deena-hinshaw-covid-19-alberta-1.6123181
― scanner darkly, Friday, 30 July 2021 21:44 (three years ago) link
Alberta fighting hard to take the mantle of worst covid response back from Ford
― symsymsym, Saturday, 31 July 2021 04:39 (three years ago) link