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Noelle Allen
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This is an amazing article.
A writer tried dating alt-right men as an experiment to learn about them. There is so much going on here I don't even know where to start

www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/...
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Medicine Hat emergency room physician Dr. Paul Parks is warning the public about what he asserts is a looming crisis in Alberta’s health-care system that will overwhelm the province’s already over-capacity and understaffed hospitals and lead to unnecessary deaths. #abpoli
‘Pure Chaos’: Warnings of an Alberta Health-Care Crisis | The Tyee
Experts say AHS data obtained by The Tyee further indicate the system faces being overwhelmed.
thetyee.ca
Some important work being done by The Breach
This is a wonderful article about student journalism!
The Mercury had been the official paper of The University of Texas at Dallas since 1980. That was until students running the Mercury broke off and formed their own paper in response to the university's crackdown on pro-Palestinian expression on campus.
unicornriot.ninja/2025/rip-mer...
RIP Mercury, Hello Retrograde! How Administrators Failed to Stop the Presses at The University of Texas-Dallas - UNICORN RIOT
Student journalists at The University of Texas at Dallas formed their own newspaper after being dismissed from their school's paper.
unicornriot.ninja
Interesting
California will start producing and selling its own supply of low-cost insulin in January.

The suggested price for consumers will be no more than $55 for a pack of five pens.

Currently even generic insulin typically costs about $260 for a pack of five.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
In shot across Big Pharma's bow, California will sell its own insulin
Delivery of the state-branded drug makes good on a longstanding promise by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
www.politico.com
A really good explanation of why today's demonstrations are struggling to create change:
we should all go out on October 18 and it's good that so many of us are planning to. but we should all start talking to each other about what we're going to do next, too - what we will withhold together if the abuses continue. we can go on offense, too!

time.com/collections/...
Why Protests Should Be Promises
Modern movements that aim to advance racial equity should withhold and promise, rather than perform, writes Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
time.com
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Blown away by how good an idea the costumes are. More shareable and fun than pics of a regular protest, and it’s immediately clear that the protestors are non-violent.
there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif
Isn't this what ended the last shut down?
npr.org NPR @npr.org · 25d
A dozen facilities saw air traffic control shortages on Monday, delaying flights at several airports. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy blamed "a slight tick-up in sick calls" due to the shutdown.
The government shutdown is snarling air travel. Officials say it could get worse
A dozen facilities saw air traffic control shortages on Monday, delaying flights at several airports. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy blamed "a slight tick-up in sick calls" due to the shutdown.
n.pr
Reposting to remember to read later.
A riveting tale, full of eccentric characters and in which - for once - the community wins out over the establishment. Thank you to writer @alighanimi.bsky.social for a fascinating article. You can support QueenSparkBooks to help keep their unique archive free and online here queensparkbooks.org.uk
Tales of a city: How a fight for a nursery sparked the UK’s longest-running community press
A 50-year old enterprise dedicated to local history, memory and community voice
sussexbylines.co.uk
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Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
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That thud you might have heard on Sept. 29 was the fall of a Canadian giant that has been staggering around for some time. But it was once Canada’s largest oil company, helping drive virtually every major innovation in Canadian oil and gas since the late 19th century, @rossbelot.bsky.social writes.
The fall of a Canadian giant
The new Imperial Oil is essentially a collection of operating plants run out of “global business centres.” That is, not run from Canada or by Canadians. This isn’t just a corporate restructuring. It’s...
www.nationalobserver.com
That's quite the correction...
BREAKING: The number of jobs created in August has been revised from 54,000 down to -3,000.
Perfect! Naheed Nenshi gives the student who dared to ask Danielle Smith a question about education back the mic they cut off.
They cut off his mic.
We’re giving him the floor.

Join Evan Li and me for a conversation tonight!

⏰ 8 PM
📺 YouTube Live: youtube.com/@naheednensh...
Fascinating.
A new study, based on a survey of 1,150 workers suggests that the injection of AI tools into the workplace has not resulted in a magic productivity boom and instead increased the amount of time that workers say they spend fixing low-quality AI-generated “work.”

🔗 www.404media.co/ai-workslop-...
AI ‘Workslop’ Is Killing Productivity and Making Workers Miserable
AI slop is taking over workplaces. Workers said that they thought of their colleagues who filed low-quality AI work as "less creative, capable, and reliable than they did before receiving the output."
www.404media.co
Way too on the nose. A perfect send up of how things are right now.
WELCOME TO NEWS
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"The labour market shortages that immigration is supposed to fix are not being addressed by the current system, which focuses on Temporary Foreign Workers, while leaving migrants with needed skills in fields like care work backlogged."

from "Shifting Borders": broadbentinstitute.ca/research/shi...