Journalists and academics know this as a daily irritant/barrier to our work, but I don't think most people have any idea.

@balkissoon Not to self-plug, but I took a swipe at this! Would be good to have more of both reporting and analysis, imho

@withfilesfrom Always self plug! Thanks for this.

@balkissoon So true. Data secrets persist when there's little leadership vision or will to invest in change.

@andreagunraj I mean, I've written about race and racism data and despite there being reams of it in the US, the core problem remains. So it doesn't fix everything. But still, Canadian govts refusal to even collect, analyze or share it is just arrogant and wrong.

@balkissoon At the provincial level, Canada is not a serious country. We prefer obviously dangerous shortcuts to doing analytical work, being patient, and thinking in the long term. The provinces mainly don’t have self-correction. A remarkable exception in the great COVID letter here:

@balkissoon @perreaux I’m not sure if you are aware @MoriartyLab work, but she has been tracking the differences in reporting from day 1.

@balkissoon Decades ago DFO cut a program to see how many Coho were returning to spawn on the west coast. Don’t have to publish data & information they refuse to collect.

@balkissoon AB reporting once a week. People pretending it's over.

@balkissoon @gail_sloane Not Canada! Only the CONservative Provinces Denise, only the Con provinces...

@balkissoon Don't forget about NB, weekly COVID data to disappear moving forward. No testing no COVID stupid mentality. Not having metrics will not stop the collapse of the health care system.

@balkissoon @beansprouts_mom Thanks capitalism, just another way you're fucking all of us over

@balkissoon @sshistorygal Add Alberta to denial of info and data collection. #ucp overlords figure if you don't count, then it doesn't exist

@balkissoon Alberta saying they’re going to once a week reporting, waste water only, but the website data being three weeks out of date. Firing the AHS CEO.

@balkissoon Do the research on Long Covid. Epidemiolists , virologists. You can be the lead writer and educate the citizens who are avoidant , apathetic and have no clue what the long term effects will be. The variants continue and the rest of us are at the mercy of those people.

@balkissoon Health data in Canada as a whole is sorely lacking. Not surprising that COVID data is not well done either.

@balkissoon No need to cover up any negligence or wrongdoings if witnesses are prevented from speaking. Canada is a very tightly managed kleptocracy.

@balkissoon @Kathy73921688 No data for Ontario bc there is an election coming!

@balkissoon Manitoba...con govt...no reports and when asked to report the wastewater said that that was run by the feds😳