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Jesse Chilton🇨🇦🇺🇦@jchilton666· Feb 24

Ottawa to halt funding for tests to
detect deaths from Creutzfeldt-Jakob
disease
Kelly GrantHealth reporter
5 - 6 minutes
The federal government is scrapping a program that
performed autopsies on the brains of people suspected of
having Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the fatal
neurodegenerative disorder that came to public
prominence during the mad cow crisis of the late 1990s
and early 2000s.
The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) will stop
funding the brain autopsies at the end of next month to
save money, according to a copy of an e-mail sent to
pathology labs across the country on Feb. 13 and
obtained by The Globe and Mail.
“As you may be aware, increased fiscal restraint is being
experienced across the Government of Canada,” said the
message, signed by two senior offcials with the
country’s Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance System.
“After careful consideration, we will be discontinuing
Financial support related to autopsy services for patients
suspected of CJD.”

Ms. Maddison of PHAC said there are now reliable lab
tests that can be performed on patients suspected of
having CJD while they’re still alive. Those advances have
lessened the need for confirmatory brain autopsies, she
said by e-mail.
However, the experts The Globe spoke to said they were
concerned that live tests may not be able to detect a
CWD case since one has never been found in humans.
U.S. research funding cuts change landscape for
Canadian universities, researchers
As for chronic wasting disease, Ms. Maddison said the
expert consensus is that it is “very unlikely” to be
transmitted to humans. She added that testing performed
at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg, “is
sensitive for detection of almost all subtypes of CJD, and
surveillance for human prion diseases in Canada
(including potential novel forms, like CWD) will
continue.”
CWD and CJD are both incurable afflictions caused by
transmissible misfolded proteins called prions. People
who develop CJD can sometimes be mistaken for
dementia or Parkinson’s patients as their memories fade
and their movements become jerky. The disease is
progressive and usually kills in less than a year. There is
no treatment.
CJD is rare in Canada. Only 445 cases have been
reported since 2020. The vast majority are a type known

as sporadic CJD, where normal proteins in the brain
misfold into infectious abnormal proteins for no
discernable reason. A small number of cases are caused
by an inherited genetic mutation.
The least common, but most famous, type of CJD is
variant CJD, the kind caused by eating beef from cows
infected with the animal prion disease Bovine
Spongiform Encephalitis – better known as mad cow
disease.
Variant CJD ceased to be much of an issue after the mad
cow crisis, which hit hardest in Britain, was brought
under control by rules barring the feeding of meat-and-
bone meal to cows.
Gerard Jansen, a neuropathologist at the University of
Ottawa, runs the laboratory where the federally funded
autopsies were performed.
He learned about the funding cuts on Feb. 13, the same
day the PHAC message went out. At the same time, he
heard his lab would have to stop accepting brains or
brain biopsy samples for the CJD program immediately.
“That basically means that every patient after last Friday
is out in the cold, and that includes biopsies,” Dr. Jansen
said. His lab is sometimes asked to examine tissue from a
brain biopsy to confirm, rule out or subtype a CJD case,
he explained.
Dr. Jansen is also worried about the risk, however
remote, of missing an early case of CWD in humans. “I

think that would be disastrous, frankly.”
Valerie Sim, a neurologist at the University of Alberta
who sees patients with prion diseases, echoed those
concerns.
“In an era of funding cuts, when a disease is rare or not
immediately seen as affecting humans, it’s easy to look
away,” Dr. Sim said. “But my concern is for the potential
of a repeat of history. We didn’t do a very good job
protecting people from mad cow disease.”

Jesse Chilton🇨🇦🇺🇦@jchilton666· Jan 1

Pretty sure this is some type of threat. Just a feeling.

Jesse Chilton🇨🇦🇺🇦@jchilton666· Jul 31

Has anyone here ever used sushi ginger (or pickled ginger)? We had a jar (340g) given to us but have no idea what to do with it since we're not really sushi people. Looking for some ideas/recipes (hoping to use the whole jar if possible). Tried looking online but didn't have much luck.

Jesse Chilton🇨🇦🇺🇦@jchilton666· May 24

We're all gonna die gif from Atlantis movie.
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Jesse Chilton🇨🇦🇺🇦@jchilton666· Apr 6

Jesse Chilton🇨🇦🇺🇦@jchilton666· Feb 8

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Jesse Chilton🇨🇦🇺🇦@jchilton666· Jan 5

Jesse Chilton🇨🇦🇺🇦@jchilton666· Jan 1

"So, if for any reason you find yourself unable to put the needs of Canada above your own in order to take an active and decisive role in ensuring justice for Cdns and upholding your oath of office then please resign so that someone else with greater resolve than your may..."13/

To be clear, PP is just as much a threat to Canada as Donald Trump and Elon
Musk are to the U.S. and as Hitler was to 1930's Europe. Each of them either were or are about to be Fascist Dictators and we must do everything in our collective power to defend ourselves from them. In addition to the ever-rising threat of fascism and authoritarianism, our country is also facing multiple other crises with respect to the cost of living, housing, disease outbreaks,
ongoing pandemics, and foreign interference among others.Meanwhile, despite these existential threats to our country, Cdns, and indeed an international rules-based order, by following through with the promise in your letter you will be handing over Canada to PP and his Cons and their corresponding fascist and authoritarian regime. This means that any and all progress made by this government either of their own accord or via your support in terms of healthcare, dental care, free birth control, diabetes medication, and many other programs will be entirely lost all for the sake of political games and a pension. This is not to say that the Liberals are free of fault with respect to our current situation but for better or worse they are in the best position to counteract the hateful march of the Cons. Therefore, either way those of us who truly believe in the Cdn dream as you claim to, must present a united front against them. Specifically, the NDP, the Liberals, the Greens and the Bloc must put aside their political differences and work together, instead of fighting each other, to do whatever is necessary to protect Canada and Cdns in the coming fight against fascism as no one party will win on their own.Finally, just as I am sure PMJT is doing over the coming days, I encourage you as well to reflect on both your decision to not support this government and on your future in politics. The coming fight will not be easy and not everyone is built to withstand it. So, if for any reason you find yourself unable to put th…

Jesse Chilton🇨🇦🇺🇦@jchilton666· Jan 1

"Dear Mr. Singh, I am writing to you today because I am deeply concerned by the contents of your letter as released on Dec 20, 2024, which suggests you value your own pension or political aspirations over the wellbeing of Cdns or worse that you yourself are compromised ..."12/