Udo Schuklenk

Time for federal leadership.

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Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

"The most effective consumer boycotts in history share two qualities: they are narrow and they are easy," writes @rutgerbregman.com

The MAGA Plot to Take Down Canada A growing movement of MAGA-pilled Albertan separatists would happily break up the country to be closer to Trump.

today's essential read for all Canadians.
all the more so because it is from 'merica.
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Podcast Jay is clear he will censor research he personally deems ideologically impure.

Nigeria cannot criminalise abortion while cutting contraceptive access Nigeria's policy to cut contraceptive funding while criminalizing abortion creates a dangerous paradox for reproductive health in Nigeria, risking more uns

Why would a country where abortion is criminal pull the rug from under its women& public health infrastructure by making family planning resources near impossible to get? My reflection for/to the Nigerian public based on related academic research that I just completed: punchng.com/nigeria-cann...

Must be true then! 😅

Trenchant paywall 😉.

Cities in Australia and New Zealand get the little things right. Why can’t ours? Usable public toilets. Attractive trash bins. Traffic lights that make sense. They all add up to a better urban experience

Cities in Australia and New Zealand get the little things right. Why can't ours?

Yep. I miss living in both countries and it's not just the weather.

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/toron...

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Toronto's @thestar.com sent a cease and desist letter to the creator of the podcast network that @indicator.media wrote about on Wednesday. He has promised to reverse course.

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Rising anger over ‘lop-sided’ and ‘immoral’ US health funding pacts with African countries Zimbabwe refuses to sign agreement and Kenya faces a court case over data sharing as new aid deals come under scrutiny

Are we reaching a tipping point on these bilateral health financing agreements? www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

In Health Policy, we propose an independent third-party institution to conduct rigorous, technology-enhanced monitoring of drug safety and effectiveness without relying on pharmaceutical companies www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Oil spill in First Nation’s traditional territory, company responsible downplays event | APTN News YouTube video by APTN News

On the second of January, 18 hundred litres of oil spilled into the ocean near Snuneymuxw First Nation in British Columbia and the local company, Environmental 360 Solutions, has been downplaying the severity of the spill.

Leaked documents show Meta cracking down on access to abortion information Its AI chatbot won't discuss the subject with teens—even as Meta fights claims it exposed kids to actual harm.

Grrr...

Leaked documents show Meta cracking down on access to abortion information www.motherjones.com/politics/202... @motherjones.com

"Data collected by Repro Uncensored shows that Meta more than doubled its removal of content related to sexual and reproductive health, the LGBTQ community..."

Unmasking Academe’s Gilded Boys’ Club The Epstein files reveal an elite, chummy, and venal scholarly network.

This is the swamp in which we work. To pretend that these men are exceptional mistakes the deep misogyny & racism built into American higher ed. These same men have fashioned themselves as heterodox thinkers against the world of woke but this is who they really are. www.chronicle.com/article/unma...

This is being repeated across the country, but the little this saves will cost the provinces & the country far more down the road as we reduce the number of needed skilled & educated people available for jobs. We are undermining 2 of the fundamentals that make #Canada great: education & healthcare.

Iranian Universities Reignite Protests on First Day of Reopening February 21, 2026, saw Iranian universities once again turn into arenas of protest, chanting, and confrontation. The first day of in-person classes after weeks of closures and online instruction co…

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Exclusive | OpenAI Employees Raised Alarms About Canada Shooting Suspect Months Ago The ChatGPT maker opted against informing Canadian authorities about Jesse Van Rootselaar’s descriptions of violence last June.

Absolutely wild. WSJ reporting that some OpenAI staffers thought the Tumbler Ridge shooter's use of ChatGPT raised the potential of real world violence but leadership decided not to alert RCMP. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

The Mississippi Free Press is looking for new Voices writers. Columns should be between 700-1,200 words and sources fact-checking the included information. Submit opinion columns to the MFP at voices@mississippifreepress.org.

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

Immunization registries: an essential tool for measles elimination in Canada Key points In November 2025, Canada lost its measles elimination status, which it had held since 1998.[1][1] From October 2024 to November 2025, more than 5000 measles cases associated with a large mu...

Immunization registries:
Canada’s ability to effectively manage and control its current multijurisdictional measles outbreak is impeded by a lack of a national network of interoperable immunization registries, among other challenges.
➡️ www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.251433

No water or electricity, and children begging in streets filled with rubbish – but this is why I won’t leave Cuba Whether you blame the US or the communist regime, there is no doubt that this is an island spiralling into tragedy

No water or electricity, and children begging in streets filled with rubbish – but this is why I won’t leave Cuba | Cuba | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

How pediatricians found themselves at war with RFK Jr. The AAP has become a leading opponent of MAHA and RFK Jr.'s vaccine agenda.

The American Academy of Pediatrics has become a leader in the effort to reverse RFK Jr.'s vaccine policies.

The success — or failure — of the group's approach will have consequences for kids' health nationwide.

Inside the AAP's plan for the MAHA age:

www.statnews.com/2026/02/13/a...

Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.

One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.

Abolish the billionaire class:

Ottawa gives Canada Post a $1.01-billion loan The federal government says it is making more than $1 billion available to Canada Post in the form of a repayable loan to help the Crown corporation.

The government is giving a loan to a Crown corporation that should just be a public service that we pay for because it provides an essential task that Canadians depend on.

We don’t provide loans to the health care system or schools; we just pay for them.

The top of the Waverley Steps - imagine coming up to see this as your first ever view of Edinburgh

With the US CDC now taken over by cranks and MAGA political operatives, Australia's responses to pandemic risks are now being assisted by China's evidence-based infectious disease teams www.themonthly.com.au/february-202...

How Alberta Plans to Kill Public Health Care Across Canada | The Tyee A new low opens the door for two-tier that would destroy medicare.

This is bad: How Alberta Plans to Kill Public Health Care Across Canada via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

NIH Grant Cuts Leave Hundreds of Clinical Trials, 74,000 Patients in Limbo, Study Finds Hundreds of federally funded clinical trials, enrolling more than 74,000 patients, were disrupted this year after the National Institutes of Health abruptly terminated billions of dollars in research ...

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Really? Carney picking up folks from all corners. 👍