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The 2026 Canada budget plan sets aside $12 million over four years to acquire, preserve and make public the archives of the country’s 23rd prime minister, Justin Trudeau.
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In Budget 2026, we’re backing the Canadian artists who tell our stories.
That means if you’re a Canadian artist, you won’t pay tax on up to $45,000 of income derived from your creative work.
So in 1926 the Treasury set out to make the stolen alcohol lethal. It ordered manufacturers to add poisons, chief among them methyl alcohol, the kind that blinds before it kills, at up to a tenth of the volume.
On Christmas Eve 1926 the wards of Bellevue Hospital in New York filled with people convulsing, going blind and dying, and the poison in their blood had been put in the liquor by the United States government.
Prohibition had made drinking illegal, and America drank anyway. Bootleggers were stealing an estimated 60 million gallons a year of industrial alcohol, the kind made for paint, fuel and solvents, and redistilling it into gin. So in 1926 the Treasury set out to make the stolen alcohol lethal. It ordered manufacturers to add poisons, chief among them methyl alcohol, the kind that blinds before it kills, at up to a tenth of the volume.
Sixty people reached Bellevue that Christmas Eve. Eight were dead by Christmas Day, and more than twenty within days. That year in New York alone around 1,200 people were poisoned by alcohol and 400 died. The year after, it was 700.
On 28 December the city's chief medical examiner, Charles Norris, called in the press. He said the government knew perfectly well that poisoning alcohol was not stopping anybody drinking, and was carrying on regardless. He called it the national experiment in extermination. The head of the Anti-Saloon League replied that anyone who drank industrial alcohol was a deliberate suicide.
The Treasury went on poisoning it until Prohibition ended in 1933. The usual estimate of the dead is around 10,000.
The deaths stopped when people could buy a drink nobody had tampered with, and not because anyone in charge changed their mind.
A government that has decided what you may not consume will go a remarkably long way before admitting the rule is the problem. In 1926 it went as far as methanol.
Opposite Day
Opinion: If Canada wants economic security, it must tolerate a bigger government hand in business theglobeandmail.com/business…
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🚨 WOW. Gov. Ron DeSantis is GOING OFF right now post-blue tsunami:
"I see the ad, 'so and so voted against releasing the Epstein Files.' I'm like, that's a bad vote. We ran as Republicans saying we need to do that. And you have people in Congress voting against release when the Attorney General said she had all the all this horrific stuff on her desk and that people are gonna be held accountable?!"
"It's untenable when you have people going in trading stocks! I've never traded stocks since I've been in elected office. How do you have no investment acumen, and then all of a sudden get elected to Congress, and then you're outperforming Warren Buffett?"
"I saw how they were running and it was a rejection of what was going on in DC."
I am SO thankful Florida held the line. We avoided some of the MOST horrendous US House wipeouts (still losing some) and our statewide remained red. The legislature is still red
2028 is our only next chance to make a dent in this.
Great day for shitposting
A really bad day for Pierre Poilievre and the band of idiots around him who've been demanding that Canada sign a bad trade deal with Trump because Carney had the audacity to campaign on being the better negotiator.
Now even Trump's own trade representative and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick are reportedly pushing for renewed negotiations with Canada. Quite the role reversal.
The year is 2026
Doctors are calling on the province to reform access to specialist care, drop the use of fax machines and launch a province-wide central intake so they stop the process of finding specialized care for patients through group chats and social media.
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Imagine if
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis:
Some of these Republicans are saying, "Oh, well, the gas, don't worry. It's no big deal." Or they're trying to blame Biden.
No, no. Listen, we've just got to be honest. Gas is higher. It hurts people, working-class people, and it's higher because of the Iran conflict.
That's just the fact. If you can't admit that to voters, then you're gaslighting them, and they're not going to listen to you on other things.
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What if I told you there was a medication that could reduce the risk of dying from an opioid overdose to roughly ZERO.
Most Canadians have never heard of it.
It’s called buprenorphine.
At the Health Committee, I questioned Dr. Pouya Azar, an addiction medicine specialist with frontline experience treating substance use disorders, about this life-saving treatment.
Buprenorphine reduces opioid cravings and withdrawal symptoms, helping those struggling with addiction stabilize their lives and begin recovery.
Dr. Azar testified that this treatment is basically 100% effective at preventing death by opioid overdose.
This raises a serious question about the Liberal government’s approach to Canada’s opioid crisis.
Why has so much attention and funding been directed toward ideologically-driven “safe supply” programs while Canadians continue to face barriers accessing evidence-based addiction treatment?
Canadians deserve answers about why treatments like buprenorphine are not more widely accessible.
If we’re serious about addressing Canada’s opioid crisis, we need to make evidence-based treatment and recovery a priority.
andrew p guindon retweeted
MP Dr. Strauss is justified in highlighting the ongoing challenges of our opioid epidemic. I attend to opioid users pretty much daily. Let me outline the challenges: 👇👇👇
1. Some patients flatly refuse suboxone. That's pretty common.
2. Many patients have used opioids very recently and just aren't candidates for suboxone.
3. Like Dr. Azar said, they're homeless and there are no shelters. I'm sending the gambler right back into the casino.
4. There are no detox beds.
5. There are no medical detox beds.
6. Off banker's hours in ER there's just nurses and ER doctors - that's when a lot of patients come. Holding them until the morning in ERs bursting at the seams is not tenable.
7. There is not one magic cure for all patients. There's no silver bullet. Some need OAT (Kadian, Suboxone, Methadone) and yes, some with wrap-around support need safe supply (I don't prescribe that).
If I was to pick one magic silver bullet to all of this - it is unquestionably to me, as an experienced ER doctor - housing. Stable housing. This is 100% apolitical and we should be able to agree on this. @strauss_matt
What if I told you there was a medication that could reduce the risk of dying from an opioid overdose to roughly ZERO.
Most Canadians have never heard of it.
It’s called buprenorphine.
At the Health Committee, I questioned Dr. Pouya Azar, an addiction medicine specialist with frontline experience treating substance use disorders, about this life-saving treatment.
Buprenorphine reduces opioid cravings and withdrawal symptoms, helping those struggling with addiction stabilize their lives and begin recovery.
Dr. Azar testified that this treatment is basically 100% effective at preventing death by opioid overdose.
This raises a serious question about the Liberal government’s approach to Canada’s opioid crisis.
Why has so much attention and funding been directed toward ideologically-driven “safe supply” programs while Canadians continue to face barriers accessing evidence-based addiction treatment?
Canadians deserve answers about why treatments like buprenorphine are not more widely accessible.
If we’re serious about addressing Canada’s opioid crisis, we need to make evidence-based treatment and recovery a priority.
Not low work standards nor basic accountability for performance nor political will…
Public service cuts, retirements slowing down access to information system: watchdog ottawacitizen.com/public-ser…
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"Sexism, feminism and normal life?"
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