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  • Otter@lemmy.caOPMtoCanada@lemmy.ca•Quebec drug maker recalls pain medicine amid potentially fatal health risksEnglish
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    16 days ago

    JAMP Pharma Corp., a Quebec pharmaceutical maker, is recalling one lot of JAMP-Pregabalin pain medicine because bottles labelled to contain 50-milligram capsules may contain 150-milligram capsules instead.

    Health Canada announced the recall in an unusual Saturday evening statement.

    The announcement said the company’s mix-up could lead to patients taking a much larger dose of the painkiller than prescribed, possibly resulting in an overdose that could “pose serious, potentially fatal health risks.”

    JAMP-Pregabalin is an adult prescription drug. It is used to treat pain caused by nerve damage due to diabetes, shingles or spinal cord injury. It is also used to treat pain associated with fibromyalgia, Health Canada said.

    The recall affects one lot of the 50-mg capsules bearing lot number 2305012747, which carries a 2026-08 expiry date, Health Canada said.

    Health Canada stressed that taking too much pregabalin or suddenly increasing the dose could potentially lead to patients overdosing, which can be life-threatening.

  • Otter@lemmy.catoBuy Canadian@lemmy.ca•Software alternativesEnglish
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    23 days ago

    I wrote up a detailed explanation to respond to each question, but in short, making a new post would be simplest. If you want to play around with it, you can try editing this post further since it is possible to make it identical to what you’d get by pressing the button.

    I see why I was stuck here. I was using https://lemmy.world/post/26364778 and I can’t see the two squares button.

    Yes, each instance is a separate “website”, managed by a separate team. Login details aren’t shared between instances with Lemmy.

    This article has a diagram of how it works:

    https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/detailed-overview#where-are-the-communities

    One confusing aspect is that the post ID (the numbers after /post/) is also different, since each instance manages the number separately. So on lemmy.ca, the original post has an ID of 40107104, while lemmy.world assigned a different ID to the post. There are discussions about changing that in a future version of Lemmy, but for now you will need to know the correct URL for the post.

    If you don’t have the local post link, you can find it by copy pasting the original link (https://lemmy.world/post/26364778) into the search on lemmy.ca

    I copied the source code to my post, but it didn’t show the count of comments in feddit.uk

    This is also normal. A crosspost behaves like a regular new post, and there isn’t any hidden information, only the contents that you can edit.

    Some apps and interfaces try to identify crossposts, but they do this by comparing the text in the title/link/post body.

    Here is a test post I made using the crosspost button, to compare what it looks like:

    As you can see, my post also doesn’t show any additional information on the official web interface.

    Meanwhile if you look at the same posts on the Photon theme/interface:

    My crosspost shows the extra information, while your post currently does not. I think it’s because the original post had an image link while your post doesn’t. Easiest would be to make a new post by using the crosspost button. If you want, you can also crosspost it (to !test@lemmy.ca for example) and then press edit to see what is different.

    Let me know if anything is unclear, I’m happy to clarify further! I’ll see about making an explanation article about this, since other people might be wondering about it as well.

  • Otter@lemmy.catoBuy Canadian@lemmy.ca•Software alternativesEnglish
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    24 days ago

    The formatted text:

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26364778

    Credit to https://www.reddit.com/user/lukakopajtic/

    There might be some changes that could improve it further:

    • Remove Brave
    • Maybe add Signal; It’s easier than Element, but it’s also centralized
    • Stop suggesting Linux Mint specifically
    • Recommend Hosted Nextcloud
    • Add GrapheneOS
    • Maybe add Delta chat
    • Maybe remove Bluesky
    • Remove Stremio and add Jellfyin (even though it’s selfhosted and not a direct equivalent)
    • Add ente because Immich is selfhosted
    • Add aurora
    • Add SearxNG
    • Add SimpleX
    • Add lichess
    • Add pCloud

    Any other suggestions?

    Temporary improved version:

    From To Compromise
    X, Threads Mastodon Bluesky
    Instagram Pixelfed
    YouTube PeerTube ReVanced (just blocks adds)
    Reddit Lemmy
    Netlix, Disney+ 🔨 Jellyfin
    Google Meet, Zoom Jitsi Meet
    Google Docs Etherpad
    Google Search 🔨 SearxNG Kagi, Ecosia
    Google Drive Nextcloud pCloud, filen, Proton Drive
    Google Photos, iCloud Immich Ente
    Google Chrome Librewolf, Firefox Ungoogled-chromium
    All messaging apps Element (matrix) Signal
    Google Home, Amazon Alexa Home Assistant
    Play Store F-droid, Aurora
    Google Android, iOS LineageOS, GrapheneOS
    Windows, MacOS Linux Mint

    🔨 = Self-Hosted only (requires running a server)

  • Otter@lemmy.catoBuy Canadian@lemmy.ca•Software alternativesEnglish
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    24 days ago

    The raw text that you’d paste in:

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26364778

> Credit to https://www.reddit.com/user/lukakopajtic/
> 
> There might be some changes that could improve it further:
> - ~~Remove Brave~~
> - ~~Maybe add Signal; It's easier than Element, but it's also centralized~~
> - Stop suggesting Linux Mint specifically
> - Recommend Hosted Nextcloud
> - ~~Add GrapheneOS~~
> - Maybe add Delta chat
> - ~~Maybe remove Bluesky~~
> - ~~Remove Stremio and add Jellfyin (even though it's selfhosted and not a direct equivalent)~~
> - ~~Add ente because Immich is selfhosted~~
> - ~~Add aurora~~
> - ~~Add SearxNG~~
> - Add SimpleX
> - Add lichess
> - Add pCloud
> 
> Any other suggestions?
> 
> Temporary improved version:
> 
> | From | To | Compromise |
> | - | - | - |
> | X, Threads | Mastodon | Bluesky |
> | Instagram | Pixelfed | |
> | YouTube | PeerTube | ReVanced (just blocks adds) |
> | Reddit | Lemmy | |
> | Netlix, Disney+ | 🔨 Jellyfin | |
> | Google Meet, Zoom | Jitsi Meet | |
> | Google Docs | Etherpad | |
> | Google Search | 🔨 SearxNG | Kagi, Ecosia |
> | Google Drive | Nextcloud | pCloud, filen, Proton Drive |
> | Google Photos, iCloud | Immich | Ente |
> | Google Chrome | Librewolf, Firefox | Ungoogled-chromium |
> | All messaging apps | Element (matrix) | Signal |
> | Google Home, Amazon Alexa | Home Assistant | |
> | Play Store | F-droid, Aurora | |
> | Google Android, iOS | LineageOS, GrapheneOS | |
> | Windows, MacOS | Linux Mint | |
> 
> 🔨 = Self-Hosted only (requires running a server)
  • Otter@lemmy.catoBuy Canadian@lemmy.ca•Software alternativesEnglish
    1·
    24 days ago

    This works :)

    How should I cross-post a page from another community properly?

    Which app are you using? Some apps have a cross post button. If you’re using the website (lemmy.ca), there should be a crosspost icon (two squares)

    You can also do it manually fairly easily. Copy and paste the post body into your new post, and paste in a link to the original post. You can then use the quote formatting to make it identical to what you’d get by using the button.

    I’ll reply to this comment with the contents that come up when I hit cross post on that original post

  • Otter@lemmy.caMtoCanada@lemmy.ca•Carney tells Assembly of First Nations Liberals are committed to implementing UNDRIPEnglish
    3·
    24 days ago

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_on_the_Rights_of_Indigenous_Peoples

    The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP or DOTROIP[1]) is a legally non-binding United Nations resolution passed by the United Nations in 2007 that delineates and defines the individual and collective rights of indigenous peoples, including their ownership rights, cultural and ceremonial expression, identity, language, employment, health, education, and other issues. Their ownership also extends to the protection of their Indigenous intellectual property.[2] The declaration “emphasizes the rights of Indigenous peoples to maintain and strengthen their own institutions, cultures and traditions, and to pursue their development in keeping with their own needs and aspirations.”[3] It “prohibits discrimination against indigenous peoples and promotes their full and effective participation in all matters that concern them, and their right to remain distinct and to pursue their own visions of economic and social development”

    Excerpt from the article:

    Carney opened Friday’s forum by reiterating a commitment to reconciliation, and admitted that there is much more to do on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) Act and its action plan, the calls for justice from the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s calls to action.

    UNDRIP is a human rights instrument that acknowledges Indigenous Peoples have the right to give or withhold consent for projects that impact them. The Conservatives have opposed this policy as a “veto,” while the Liberals passed legislation in 2021 requiring federal laws be harmonized with UNDRIP.

  • Otter@lemmy.caMtoCanada@lemmy.ca•Sifting the Rubble After Rebel News Worked the Election DebateEnglish
    6·
    25 days ago

    Here is a more substantial discussion about the whole thing. I’ve pulled some excerpts, but the original article has the citations and links

    https://theconversation.com/we-fact-checked-residential-school-denialists-and-debunked-their-mass-grave-hoax-theory-213435

    Commentators circulating allegations of a “hoax” contend journalists have misrepresented news of the potential unmarked graves, circulating sensational, attention-grabbing headlines and using the term “mass grave” to do so. They also contend some First Nations, activists or politicians used this language for political gain — to shock and guilt Canadians into caring about Indigenous Peoples and reconciliation.

    Like the councillor in P.E.I., many people — in Canada and internationally, fuelled partly by misinformation from the far-right — are accepting and promoting the “mass grave hoax” narrative and casting doubt on the searches for missing children and unmarked burials being undertaken by First Nations across Canada.

    What did Canadian news outlets actually report after the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation made their public announcements about their search for missing children?

    To find out, we analyzed 386 news articles across five Canadian media outlets (CBC, National Post, the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star and The Canadian Press) released between May 27 and Oct. 15, 2021.

    What we found, according to our evidence from 2021, is that most mainstream media did not use the terminology “mass graves.” Therefore, we argue that the “mass grave hoax” needs to be understood as residential school denialism.

    After some public confusion over the specific details of the May 2021 Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation announcement, which named “preliminary findings” regarding “the remains of 215 children,” the First Nation clarified the findings as the confirmation of “the likely presence of children, L’Estcwicwéý (the Missing) on the Kamloops Indian Residential School grounds” in “unmarked burials.”

    The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation had already identified 51 student deaths at the Kamloops school using church and state records.

    Of the 386 articles reviewed in our study, the majority of the articles (65 per cent, or 251) accurately reported on stories related to the location of potential unmarked graves in Canada.

    A minority (35 per cent or 135 articles), contained some inaccurate or misleading reporting; however, many of the detected inaccuracies are easily understood as mistakes and most were corrected over time as is common practice in breaking news within the journalism industry.

    Of the 386 total articles, only 25 — just 6.5 per cent of total articles — referred to the findings as “mass graves,” with most of the articles appearing in a short window of time and some actually using the term correctly in the hypothetical sense (that mass graves may still be found).

    That means that 93.5 per cent of the Canadian articles released in the spring, summer and fall of 2021 that we examined did not report the findings as being “mass graves.”

    It appears that some journalists and commentators misunderstood a large number of potential or likely unmarked graves for mass graves in late May/June 2021. By September, denialists were misrepresenting the extent of media errors to push the conspiratorial “mass grave hoax” narrative online.

    Our research shows that the “mass grave hoax” narrative hinges on a misrepresentation of how Canadian journalists reported on the identification of potential unmarked graves at former residential school sites in 2021. And we hope our report sparks a national conversation about how important language is when covering this issue.

    Media needs to be precise with language and also acknowledge its errors (and avoid future ones), or clarify details in a way that feeds truth, empathy and more accurate reporting — not denialism, hate and conspiracy.

    There is also this:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamloops_Indian_Residential_School

    Preliminary findings announced in May 2021 by the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc suggested that 215 graves could exist at the site. The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation had officially documented 51 students who died at the school.[46] Their dates of death range from 1919 until 1971.[46] In July 2021, Beaulieu revised her estimate to 200 and noted that they should be considered “probable burials” or “targets of interest”, and said that only with an excavation could they be confirmed as human remains.[6] Beaulieu also noted that the apple orchard she surveyed constituted only two acres of the 160-acre residential school site.

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