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Aug 18, 2025 - Nurse-Patient Ratios: Saving Lives and Rebuilding Nurses’ Morale

By James T. Brophy and Margaret M. Keith

A new academic study is proposing a bold new solution for Ontario's hospital crisis - life-saving nurse-to-patient ratios. The authors of the study extensively researched the inadequate nurse staffing levels in Ontario, contrasting them with mandated nursing ratios in places like California and Queensland (Australia). The study found that nurse-to-patient ratios make a positive difference for patients and staff, while saving costs and improving the state of the healthcare system.

Source: The Bullet No. 3180

Aug 16, 2025 - BDS@20: Resilience, Resistance, and Regeneration

In the current most depraved phase of the US-Israeli livestreamed genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza, what Jewish Voice for Peace calls Israel's "final solution," we are marking the BDS movement's 20th anniversary to affirm our collective power in isolating Israel's 77-year-old regime of settler colonial apartheid against Indigenous Palestinians like never before.

Source: The Bullet No. 3179

Aug 14, 2025 - Unions in Tunisia Win a Victory for Public Energy and Worker Rights

By Elyes Ben Ammar and Lala Peñaranda

Over the past few days, there have been a series of power outages across Tunisia. During Tunisia's sweltering summer months, electricity demand often surges to record-breaking levels as air conditioning systems run at full capacity everywhere from homes and workplaces to grocery stores and hospitals - for those who can afford it. The state-owned Tunisian Electricity and Gas Company (STEG) is currently implementing electrical load-shedding, or "delestage" - a deliberate power-cutting measure.

Source: The Bullet No. 3178

Aug 12, 2025 - It’s Time to Confront Big Tech’s AI Offensive

By Martin Hart-Landsberg

Big tech companies continue to spend massive amounts of money building ever more powerful generative AI (artificial intelligence) systems and ever larger data centers to run them, all the while losing billions of dollars with no likely pathway to profitability. And while it remains to be seen how long the companies and their venture capital partners will keep the money taps open, popular dislike and distrust of big tech and its AI systems are rapidly growing.

Source: The Bullet No. 3177

Aug 9, 2025 - Wildfires Fuel the Climate Crisis

By John Clarke

Even in the early stages of Canada's wildfire season, it was already clear that this year would be the second worst wildfire in Canadian history, surpassed only by the horrific and unprecedented fires of 2023. On 12 June, the CBC reported that wildfires had already consumed 3.7 million hectares, while the ten-year average for early June is only 800,000 hectares.

Source: The Bullet No. 3176