Others in Buffalo Narrows call them an inspiration.

"They're definitely mentors in the community," said Candice Waite, whose kids and their friends recently joined Mervin and Darlene to learn about filleting and smoking fish.

"When we pulled up there, they were eagerly waiting in their garage, literally fillet knives and hands with just an open heart," she said. They refused any payment, saying they just wanted to teach others, she recalled.

"I aspire to be Mervin and Darlene when I'm their age."

The joy the couple finds in sharing their traditions is plain in their smiles as they haul up a net full of fish in just half an hour. It's a gift Darlene doesn't take for granted, having been taken from her home as a child and having had to relearn her culture.

And for his part, Mervin doesn't take her presence in his life for granted.

"She's my best friend," he says.

"I just couldn't imagine living life with somebody else."

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/66558868

tl;dr: Healthcare workers in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada were taunted by their employer with the promise of one (1) paid day off, but it was a gotcha to teach nurses not to click links in their emails. Their IO and "VP of digital health" says he and the health authority are investigating themselves for wrong-doing ("not who we are blahblah").

“Our members deserve better than to be taunted with the promise of a day off after the incredible amount of work and sacrifice they made to get CorCare up and running," [Jerry Earle, president of Newfoundland and Labrador Association of Public and Private Employers] wrote in a statement.

He said members were denied vacation time and worked long hours due to the CorCare launch.

"To use those sacrifices as the basis for a phishing test is nothing short of cruel.”

...

“Nurses and other health-care professionals have worked through enormous pressure over the last number of years, including ongoing staffing shortages, burnout, organizational restructuring, and the challenges connected to the rollout of CorCare,” [Registered Nurses’ Union Newfoundland and Labrador president Yvette Coffey] said in a statement Wednesday morning.

“To use the promise of an additional paid day off as the hook for a phishing exercise was in very poor taste.”

...

Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services said [in the email they sent] in recognition of the work [employees had] put in during the recent implementation of the new digital health information system CorCare, all employees would receive a paid day off.

It came with instructions to register for the day off by June 17 by clicking on a link.

“Thank you for the care, professionalism, and commitment you continue to bring to N.L. Health Services and to the people and community we serve,” the email concluded.

tl;dr: Healthcare workers in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada were taunted by their employer with the promise of one (1) paid day off, but it was a gotcha to teach workers not to click links in their emails. Their IO and "VP of digital health" says he and the health authority are investigating themselves for wrong-doing ("not who we are blahblah").

“Our members deserve better than to be taunted with the promise of a day off after the incredible amount of work and sacrifice they made to get CorCare up and running," [Jerry Earle, president of Newfoundland and Labrador Association of Public and Private Employers] wrote in a statement.

He said members were denied vacation time and worked long hours due to the CorCare launch.

"To use those sacrifices as the basis for a phishing test is nothing short of cruel.”

...

“Nurses and other health-care professionals have worked through enormous pressure over the last number of years, including ongoing staffing shortages, burnout, organizational restructuring, and the challenges connected to the rollout of CorCare,” [Registered Nurses’ Union Newfoundland and Labrador president Yvette Coffey] said in a statement Wednesday morning.

“To use the promise of an additional paid day off as the hook for a phishing exercise was in very poor taste.”

...

Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services said [in the email they sent] in recognition of the work [employees had] put in during the recent implementation of the new digital health information system CorCare, all employees would receive a paid day off.

It came with instructions to register for the day off by June 17 by clicking on a link.

“Thank you for the care, professionalism, and commitment you continue to bring to N.L. Health Services and to the people and community we serve,” the email concluded.

[I]n May 2026, every single one of the 599 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,665 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

...

The Trump administration sees Afrikaners, an South African ethnic group descended primarily from European settlers, as victims of white “genocide”—a racist conspiracy theory promoted by many on the far right, notably Elon Musk.

...

A spokesperson for South Africa’s foreign ministry said to the New York Times that same month that “the resettlement of South Africans to the United States under the guise of being ‘refugees’ is entirely politically motivated and designed to question South Africa’s constitutional democracy.” And as my colleague Noah Lanard wrote at the time, the White House “has cut off aid to South Africa based on its specious claim about discrimination against white South Africans.”

Cuba's Health Miracles While Under Blockade (5 June 2026) Nuvpreet Kalra, co-ordinator for the international Bases off Cyprus campaign & CODEPINK’s Digital Content Producer [1,826 words]

Cuba makes these miraculous achievements for humanity while facing a blockade that causes shortages of medicines in pharmacies across Cuba, blocks researchers from accessing health journals, and prevents the entry of equipment, spare parts, and laboratory materials that could make it easier and faster to conduct research. The U.S. blockade should be seen as an attack on humanity itself. This is a genocidal act of war against a population that exports doctors across the world by an empire that exports bombs, fighter jets, and invading soldiers.

[...]

The U.S. enforces its blockade on Cuba so that it can try to claim Cuba is a “failed state”, which also means its universal, free healthcare system “fails”; all so it can maintain its abysmal healthcare system that operates purely for profit, despite the level of death, bankruptcy, and suffering it causes to poor Americans.

The truth is that even with this genocidal blockade, Cuba maintains the principles of its revolution and the motivation to better the world.

A letter to intellectuals who deride revolutions in the name of purity, by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Pilar Troya Fernández, Ana Maldonado &Vijay Prashad (Posted to Monthly Review Magazine, Nov 20 2019)

3,223 words

excerpt:
Revolutions are not easy to make. They are filled with retreats and errors, since they are made by people who are flawed and whose political parties must always learn to learn. Their teacher is their experience, and it is those amongst them who have the training and time to elaborate their experiences into lessons. No revolution is without its own mechanisms to correct itself, its own voices of dissent. But that does not mean that a revolutionary process should be deaf to criticisms; it should welcome them.

Criticism is always welcome, but in what form does that criticism come? These are two forms that are typical of the ‘left’ critic who derides revolutions in the name of purity.

1. If the criticism comes from the standpoint of perfect, then their standard is not only too high, but it fails to understand the nature of class struggle that must contend with congealed power inherited over generations.
2. If the criticism assumes that all projects that contest the electoral domain will betray the revolution, then there is little understanding of the mass dimension of electoral projects and dual power experiments. Revolutionary pessimism halts the possibility of action. You cannot succeed if you do not allow yourself to fail, and to try again. This standpoint of critique provides only despair.

The ‘stubborn class struggle’ inside the revolutionary process should provide someone who is not part of the revolutionary process itself to be sympathetic not to this or that policy of a government, but to the difficulty—and necessity—of the process itself.

In Toronto: 12 p.m. Gather outside Union Station for a rally as the GO and VIA Rail trains come in, then march up to Queen’s Park for a giant protest. Groups will be joining in along the way.

https://www.stopforprofithealthcare.ca/

Some good news this morning: For anyone unfamiliar, Entropy is a white supremacist livestreaming and fundraising site, founded and run by Canadians (Chthonic Software, operating out of Tbilisi, Georgia). For more info, watch The 5th Estate's Business of Bigotry episode.

Entropy provided WS' like the GDL, Second Sons and the like with more financial stability because supporters could donate with debit/credit, so it's really fabulous that they're losing that.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/64797356

During a provincial procurement process for AI medical systems that transcribe conversations between doctors and patients, government evaluators found serious errors in transcripts generated by 20 programs, she said. [...]

The evaluators ran a pair of test conversations between hypothetical doctors and patients through the AI systems to test their capabilities, and uncovered the problems, the report said.

Evaluators found that nine of the systems had so-called "hallucinations," fabricating information or making suggestions to patient treatment plans not made by the doctors. Those included referring a patient for therapy or ordering blood tests, the report said.

Transcripts created by 12 of the 20 programs contained incorrect information like capturing a different drug than was prescribed by the doctor. Seventeen of the 20 systems missed key details about patients’ mental health issues. [...]

[Ontario Auditor General Shelley Spence] said she personally saw AI scribe systems in use during a recent doctor’s visit.

“I actually went to my doctor because you can hear that my voice isn't exactly what it normally is … and they were using AI scribe,” she said. “So, I kind of mentioned, ‘Please look at the transcript when you're done.’”

During a provincial procurement process for AI medical systems that transcribe conversations between doctors and patients, government evaluators found serious errors in transcripts generated by 20 programs, she said. [...]

The evaluators ran a pair of test conversations between hypothetical doctors and patients through the AI systems to test their capabilities, and uncovered the problems, the report said.

Evaluators found that nine of the systems had so-called "hallucinations," fabricating information or making suggestions to patient treatment plans not made by the doctors. Those included referring a patient for therapy or ordering blood tests, the report said.

Transcripts created by 12 of the 20 programs contained incorrect information like capturing a different drug than was prescribed by the doctor. Seventeen of the 20 systems missed key details about patients’ mental health issues. [...]

[Ontario Auditor General Shelley Spence] said she personally saw AI scribe systems in use during a recent doctor’s visit.

“I actually went to my doctor because you can hear that my voice isn't exactly what it normally is … and they were using AI scribe,” she said. “So, I kind of mentioned, ‘Please look at the transcript when you're done.’”