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  1. 🧵Doug Ford and major Canadian employers have been busy implementing blanket return-to-office policies that unions oppose. In the @theconversation.com , @mmaroto.bsky.social @amykaler.bsky.social and I show how these policies harm workers and contribute to our multiple ongoing public health crises.

    Remote-work flexibility has supported workplace equity helped limit outbreaks of respiratory infections. Back-to-offices mandates could erase those gains, especially with lowered vaccination rates.

    As back-to-school season approaches, Canadian employers are making a mistake by mandating workers back to the office

    Remote-work flexibility has supported workplace equity helped limit outbreaks of respiratory infections. Back-to-offices mandates could erase those gains, especially with lowered vaccination rates.

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  2. Canadian COVID Forecast Aug 16-Aug 29, 2025

    CANADA

    MODERATE (no change)

    About 1 in every 121 people infected

    Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada:

    -Infections ~5X higher -Long COVID ~5X higher -Hospitalizations ~5X higher -Deaths ~4X higher

    This image describes the Canadian COVID Forecast for the fourteen-day period between Aug 16-Aug 29, 2025, which is produced by COVID-19 Resources Canada. Canada’s COVID Forecast outlook is  MODERATE (no change) with a COVID INDEX SCORE of 4.2
About 1 of every 121 people is infected.
Estimated infections this week: 238,800-296,650
What these numbers mean: MODERATE 1-5, HIGH 5-10, VERY HIGH 10-15, SEVERE >15 COMPARED TO THE LOWEST POINT IN THE COVID PANDEMIC IN CANADA
How much higher are key indicators compared to the lowest point in the COVID pandemic in Canada?
Waste water, infections: MODERATE; 4.5X higher
Long COVID estimate: MODERATE; 4.9X higher
Hospitalizations, ICU: MODERATE; 4.6X higher
Deaths: MODERATE; 3.8X higher
HOW TO HELP:
EVERYONE:
UPDATE vaccines every 6 months
WEAR N95-type masks

Who is HIGH RISK?
People 60 and older, babies < 1 year, pregnant
ALL AGES: immunocompromised OR medically at-risk OR no vaccine or infection in the last 6 months
Recommendations are based on the COVID-19 Risk Index from the Peterborough ON Public Health Unit
COVID-19 Resources Canada is a grassroots organization of volunteer scientists supporting Canadian COVID responses. Sources, data and methods for the COVID Index are available at www.Covid19Resources.ca
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  3. “Although the video shows several individuals, Wright said at least five of them have been identified as serving members of the Canadian Army.

    Those soldiers have been suspended from military duties pending an investigation by the unit.”

    The Canadian Army is now dealing with another incident of alleged hateful conduct that involves Quebec-based soldiers caught on video allegedly partying while some people at the event delivered Nazi s...

    5 Canadian soldiers suspended after Nazi salute video emerges | CBC News

    The Canadian Army is now dealing with another incident of alleged hateful conduct that involves Quebec-based soldiers caught on video allegedly partying while some people at the event delivered Nazi s...

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  4. Air Canada's CEO admitting to the media that their entire plan for the flight attendants' strike was "have the government say they're not allowed" and that they have no other ideas about how to deal with the strike is really a "yeah this is how Canada REALLY works" moment if ever there was one

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  5. If you are suffering as a customer during a strike, that is because management is intentionally passing on the suffering to you, which means you have common cause with the workers. This is so whether the management is of an airline, a hospital, or a retail establishment.

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