Working as an ER physician, PhD candidate, and leadership of the Centre for Climate, Health & Sustainable Care at UofT. Interests in universal health coverage, well-being societies, and planetary health
climatehealth.utoronto.ca/fellow-profile/xie-edward
Edward Xie
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There was also hockey on?!?
Turns out the ‘brake pedal’ is very light touch: society should handle AI like it did oil over the past century.
Using the history of oil as a *good* example of regulating extreme wealth, power, and pollution is terrifyingly out of touch with reality.
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Dr. Vanessa Redditt 'describes the Carney co-pays as so “completely unaffordable” for most refugees and asylum-seekers that they amount to a “denial of care ...
People do not have that money. Not a day goes by in my clinic where I’m not seeing somebody who...”'
via @cdnhealthcoalition.bsky.social
New from me in @nationalobserver.com
Nearly all heat-related deaths occur indoors, but half the renters in Canada don't have cooling at home. Tenants need affordable and safe homes during #heatwaves.
with Anushen Selvasegar, amazing volunteer at C.R.E.W. crewresilience.ca @cape-acme.bsky.social
Large datacenters, some the size of small towns, can require up to 5m gallons of water a day, equivalent to the water use of up to 50,000 people, in order to provide cooling to arrays of humming networked computers.
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Many federal programs linked to the calls for justice have ended or are at risk, while spending on new programs is expected to fall by half. Co-authored by Naill Harney @ccpamb.bsky.social www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
NEW: Corb Lund says he expects Alberta's government to add his proposed coal mining ban to October's referendum ballot "precisely as it’s on the signature sheet.”
It would certainly add a different flavour to the premier's recent referendum-maxxing.
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On June 13, the Moss Park safe consumption site will be shut down, along with 7 other sites in Ontario. @emmapaling.bsky.social has been reporting from the site for 18 months. She goes inside Moss Park during the final days of the city’s first safe consumption site. thelocal.to/moss-park-sa...
Edward Xie
For renters, heatwaves are not just uncomfortable, but potentially intolerable and dangerous.
Health Canada axes requirement for industry to provide agricultural workers access to pesticides safety information https://ecojustice.ca/news/health-canada-claws-back-requirement-for-industry-to-provide-agricultural-workers-access-to-pesticides-safety-information/
The federal and provincial governments are engaged in a massive tax giveaway to the people that broke the housing market. By Jeremy Withers @policyalternatives.ca @ccpa-on.bsky.social #onpoli
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Corb Lund says he's not worried about industry's "heavy duty PR campaign."
