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@ThevoiceAlexa est l'une des journalistes les plus suivis au Québec. Au même niveau que le chef d'antenne de Radio-Canada si vous voulez un ordre de grandeur. Quand Sol Zanetti refuse de lui répondre en pleine conférence de presse en lui disant qu'elle n'est pas une vraie journaliste... il passe pour un looser. Il fait la même erreur stratégique que Trump qui est supposé être son contraire idéologique. Rebel News a sont angle journalistique bien particulier, ils on leurs objectifs comme les autres médias, c'est crue et ils ont ce côté militant qui les caractérise, mais ils n'inventent pas un narratif, ils nous montrent en image ce qui se passe dans la rue et ce que d'autres médias refusent de nous montrer. Oui ils dérangent, ils ne sont pas parfait, et c'est pour cela que leur travail est important pour la diversité de l'information. Et vous savez, c'est à un organisme tel qu'un Conseil de Presse de juger de la qualité de la presse, pas à Sol Zanetti ou à aucun autre politicien. Il va falloir repenser la structure et le rôle de notre Conseil de Presse au Québec. C'est dans l'intérêt de tous les médias, pour la qualité, la diversité et l'intégrité de l'information. À partir de là, les médias pourront que s'améliorer.
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Those going to college in Manchester "Modern Britain" are now being issued rape alarms. Completely fucking normal eh?!
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Philippe Rola retweeted
Rafiou Sow était lui aussi demandeur d'asile. Il a menti en prétendant qu'il serait torturé et tué s'il retournait en Guinée. Il a épousé une Québécoise pour faciliter l'obtention de sa citoyenneté canadienne, mais a finalement préféré l'assassiner et s'est enfui dans son pays d'origine. Quiconque ignore volontairement les aspects négatifs de l'immigration contribue à la multiplication de ces drames.
Les demandeurs d'asile, ce sont celles et ceux que François Legault appelait nos travailleurs essentiels, nos « anges gardiens », pendant la pandémie. Aujourd'hui, Éric Duhaime les qualifie de profiteurs et veut réduire les services qu'on leur offre pour, tranquillement, les renvoyer dans le pays qu'ils ont fui. Les demandeurs d'asile, ce sont des gens comme Kim Thúy et Dany Laferrière, dont la contribution à la culture québécoise est indéniable. Je demande à Éric Duhaime de nous dire sur quelles sources il s'appuie pour affirmer qu'il y a 70 000 demandeurs d'asile.
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Philippe Rola retweeted
Aucun drapeau du Québec visible. On l’a remplacé par celui de la Palestine. Gênant.
Maybe Québec solidaire should drop the “Québec” from their name? Or at least buy a few Quebec flags for their supporters
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Philippe Rola retweeted
Terry Newman: Concordia handbook teaches students to hate Canada, the West, police.... Its manifesto tells students that the university serves the "extracative settler colonial project of so-called Canada" nationalpost.com/opinion/ter…
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Twenty years ago, someone handed me a photocopied article about Stewart’s approach to acid–base. I needed an explanation that started several steps earlier. So I’ve written one. Whose hydrogen is it anyway? From first principles to the disorders a normal pH can hide. thedependentvariable.com/p/a…
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Philippe Rola retweeted
Twenty years ago, someone handed me a photocopied article about Stewart’s approach to acid–base. I needed an explanation that started several steps earlier. So I’ve written one. Whose hydrogen is it anyway? From first principles to the disorders a normal pH can hide. thedependentvariable.com/p/a…
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Philippe Rola retweeted
🚨 HALAL AU QUÉBEC : UNE PÉTITION QUI RISQUE DE FAIRE JASER La militante Mandana Javan lance une campagne pour réclamer des études indépendantes et un véritable débat public sur le développement du marché halal au Québec, ses impacts économiques, sociaux et culturels, ainsi que le rôle d’Ottawa. 👉 Découvrez la pétition ici : change.org/p/halal-au-qu%C3%…
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🚨 Montreal4Palestine is planning yet another demonstration on October 7, the anniversary of the Hamas attack in Israel that killed more than 1,200 people. Why are authorities allowing pro-Hamas activists to publicly celebrate a terrorist attack?
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Bravo à Radio-Canada d’avoir accrédité Alexandra Lavoie pour le débat. La diversité des voix inclut celles qui dérangent et nous contredisent. elle a été la première à documenter les prières de rue, un enjeu sur lequel Québec a depuis légiféré. Ce travail mérite d’être reconnu. On peut être en désaccord avec un média et défendre son droit de poser des questions. Le pluralisme se mesure à la place qu’on accorde au désaccord.
I’M IN!!! 🎤🔥 I’m officially accredited by CBC/Radio-Canada to cover tonight’s leaders’ debate for the Quebec provincial election campaign! I’ll be there asking the questions — and bringing you the answers. Stay tuned for my full report! 👀
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Philippe Rola retweeted
Here @yudapearl @eliasbareinboim is another excellent critique. Here we see an example of critical care guidelines derived without causal formalism of the RCTs and massaged by meta analysis to tease out a treatment guideline based on a blunt, multi-parameter responsive, ratio (P/F). These are studies of paralysis of mechanically ventilated patients with ARDS, a 1967 synthetic syndrome defined by a guessed cause-agnostic threshold set gate.
The Case of the Obscured Bias. New post discussing the recent SCCM Guidelines on NMBAs in ARDS. emcrit.org/emnerd/the-case-o…
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Soy profesor universitario y considero importante compartir lo que me está tocando ver desde que arrancó el curso, porque es un verdadero desastre. Esta generación de estudiantes lleva IA, YouTube, Google y toda la información del planeta en el móvil y siguen sin saber nada. No saben dónde está Roma ni tampoco Huelva, no saben quién es Pérez Revere pero todos conocen a Lola Lolita, no tienen ni idea de historia pero sí de “stories”, no entienden el valor del dinero ni saben cómo funciona la inflación. Antes, para ser ignorante bastaba con no abrir los libros. Ahora, asisten activamente a clases para no enterarse de nada. Y encima son de cristal. Cualquier roce es un trauma, cualquier crítica es violencia, cualquier tarea es un atentado y cualquier suspenso es un «ataque» a su salud mental. Y si llueve no vienen a clases, no sea que se derritan. Han convertido los retos normales de la vida en un espectáculo de victimismo. En lugar aprender a gestionar los problemas que van saliendo en sus vidas, han aprendido a pedir soluciones a los demás y a deprimirse si algo no sale bien. Tantos años de progresismo abyecto ha resultado en esto, y después de años viviendo entre algodón, sin golpes y sin aprender a levantarse, han creado una generación de ofendiditos con mentes vacías que todavía intentan averiguar qué son. Eso sí, opinan sobre cualquier tema con una convicción, una superioridad moral y una pasión que asusta, pero con argumentos huecos y no sustentados que son el producto del lavado de cerebro que han recibido de la narrativa woke que han venido escuchando los últimos años. Si no fuese por ese puñado de estudiantes (con futuro) cuyos padres se preocuparon en formarlos con valores y principios, sería esta, una generación prácticamente perdida.
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Philippe Rola retweeted
Comme promis, Voici la pétition sur la Halalisation de l’espace économique et commercial au Québec! « Nous, citoyennes et citoyens du Québec, de toutes origines et de toutes convictions, demandons aux cinq chefs des principaux partis politiques représentés à l’Assemblée nationale ainsi qu’au prochain gouvernement du Québec de se pencher de manière rigoureuse, transparente et documentée sur le développement du marché halal et sur ses effets possibles sur la société québécoise. » Signez et partagez! 🤗 change.org/p/halal-au-qu%C3%…
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Philippe Rola retweeted
Amazing to see expert pathophysiologists push back on guidelines built from cause-agnostic RCTs with guessed and wide-open threshold set entry gates. When SSC guidelines fail (as they have so many times), they must interrogate the casual structure and engage in formal failure mode analysis. Instead they bring new guidelines out as if we don’t know their track record. Furthermore they do so without even trying to determine why the last decades of guidelines failed many after guideline associated harm. This has precipitated a deep mistrust in the SSC’s ability to engage in real science where failure mode analysis is required as part of the discipline . These are smart people but misled by their mentors to believe that the cause agnostic RCT is transportable to any condition that meets the gate. SSC dogma are based on 1980s thinking. It’s time for 21st century causal formalism of RCTs to protect patients. @yudapearl @eliasbareinboim @soboleffspaces @SCCM @CritCareMed @accpchest @Crit_Care @ATSCritCare @ATS_Assemblies @yourICM
The Surviving Sepsis Campaign has shaped sepsis care for decades. But do some of its core recommendations now lag behind the physiology and the evidence? Rory Spiegel @TheEMNerd led this new dissenting opinion, which I was very pleased to contribute to. We challenge: • fixed 30 mL/kg fluid loading • chasing lactate with fluid • fluid responsiveness as a sufficient reason to give fluid • pressure-centric resuscitation • the omission of POCUS from modern haemodynamic assessment • rigid bundle-driven care The argument is not for less treatment. It is for more individualised, physiology-driven treatment of shock. authors.elsevier.com/c/1npdk… The 2026 Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines: The dissenting opinion Spiegel et al. AJEM, just published.
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Philippe Rola retweeted
Next up on The Dependent Variable: a two-part dive into acid–base physiology. Not Stewart versus Henderson–Hasselbalch. Both can be correct. The more interesting question is: Which variables are independent, which are dependent, and which equations are simply different descriptions of the same chemical state? We’ll get into: • why hyperchloraemia acidifies • what SID actually represents • why bicarbonate can raise pH even when the Na–Cl gap barely changes • what is actually happening to H⁺ • and why this is not simply a story of water dissociating into H⁺ and OH⁻ The aim is to make difficult physiology simple without making it less true. If that sounds like your kind of thing, subscribe here: thedependentvariable.com Part 1 coming soon.
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Don’t confuse guidelines with gold standards.
How strong is the evidence behind the Surviving Sepsis Campaign? In our new paper, we analyzed more than two decades of SSC guidelines, including 554 statements across seven publications. The result is striking. From 2008 to 2026, the proportion of recommendations supported by high-certainty evidence fell from 15.8% to 2.3%, while strong recommendations decreased from 69.7% to 18.0%. Perhaps even more importantly, in the 2026 guideline, one-third of strong recommendations are still supported by low- or very-low-certainty of evidence. This means we should be very careful about confusing guideline recommendations, implementation priorities, and certainty of evidence. Guidelines should support clinical judgment — not replace it. Happy to see this work published in the Journal of Critical Care. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Lactate yesterday along with Cr 188. today 3.3 and cr 164. Vasopressin weaning off. CRT was always under 3 when MAP/PP restored with vasopressors. Total fluid in last 24h after initial liter in ED was 675 of fluid creep, last evening lactate was 6.4. Abx and MAP/PP did the job, no need to chase the lactate, just use it to confirm source control.
The Surviving Sepsis Campaign has shaped sepsis care for decades. But do some of its core recommendations now lag behind the physiology and the evidence? Rory Spiegel @TheEMNerd led this new dissenting opinion, which I was very pleased to contribute to. We challenge: • fixed 30 mL/kg fluid loading • chasing lactate with fluid • fluid responsiveness as a sufficient reason to give fluid • pressure-centric resuscitation • the omission of POCUS from modern haemodynamic assessment • rigid bundle-driven care The argument is not for less treatment. It is for more individualised, physiology-driven treatment of shock. authors.elsevier.com/c/1npdk… The 2026 Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines: The dissenting opinion Spiegel et al. AJEM, just published.
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Philippe Rola retweeted
Break into a home. Threaten the owner with a knife. Steal the car. The two intruders escape. Getaway driver gets arrested and pleads guilty. His sentence: house arrest. No jail. This is Grand Theft Toronto. We need to keep you safe by putting repeat offenders behind bar and leaving them there: conservative.ca/cpc/jail_not…
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Philippe Rola retweeted
The Surviving Sepsis Campaign has shaped sepsis care for decades. But do some of its core recommendations now lag behind the physiology and the evidence? Rory Spiegel @TheEMNerd led this new dissenting opinion, which I was very pleased to contribute to. We challenge: • fixed 30 mL/kg fluid loading • chasing lactate with fluid • fluid responsiveness as a sufficient reason to give fluid • pressure-centric resuscitation • the omission of POCUS from modern haemodynamic assessment • rigid bundle-driven care The argument is not for less treatment. It is for more individualised, physiology-driven treatment of shock. authors.elsevier.com/c/1npdk… The 2026 Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines: The dissenting opinion Spiegel et al. AJEM, just published.
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Philippe Rola retweeted
The Liberals announced $1,000,000,000 spending on a “national school food program” back in April, 2024. I don’t know *any* students who got a free lunch in Kitchener or Hespeler. So I asked the government how many lunches were provided with this money. Turns out they don’t know!
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