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Richard Elliott

@relliotthhr.bsky.social

Health & human rights. Lawyer, independent consultant, former ED @HIVlegal. HIV, harm reduction & drug policy, COVID, 2SLGBTQ+, access to meds, SRHR, other health & human rights issues, #cdnpoli. Plus fantasy & SF. Halifax. #CanadaSky (he/him)😷 πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦

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Hootsuite: Cancel your contract with ICE Join me in signing this petition to Hootsuite's CEO calling on them to: Cancel their contract with ICE. Sign here: https://you.leadnow.ca/petitions/hootsuite-cancel-your-contract-with-ice

Join me in signing this petition to @hootsuite.com 's CEO calling on them to: Cancel their contract with ICE. Sign here: you.leadnow.ca/petitions/ho... you.leadnow.ca/petitions/ho...

10.02.2026 02:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Deported and Imprisoned Archives A case-by-case investigation that examines the Trump administration’s claims that these immigrants are all β€œsick criminals” and β€œterrorists” and that shows what they suffered during months in one of t...

CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was.

You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

22.12.2025 16:08 β€” πŸ‘ 4556    πŸ” 2267    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 46
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URGENT: Stop Two Tier Care. Prime Minister Mark Carney Must Act Now. We have to defend and promote Universal Public Healthcare before it's too late.

notwotier.ca/canadahealth...

22.12.2025 16:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is amazing. And it’s truly the stuff of nightmares.

27.10.2025 11:08 β€” πŸ‘ 19556    πŸ” 7715    πŸ’¬ 972    πŸ“Œ 837
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URGENT – Stop Alberta's government from overriding the Charter of Rights Alberta Premier Smith plans to use the Notwithstanding Clause to pass laws that erase rights and silence the courts.

Once one government learns it can override your fundamental rights, every government learns it can too. That’s the danger of the Notwithstanding Clause. It teaches power to ignore accountability.

Draw the line. Defend the Charter.
savethecharter.ca

24.10.2025 22:23 β€” πŸ‘ 59    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 6
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Tell the Canadian Government: Stop Funding Companies Supporting Trump’s Human Rights Abuses GardaWorld β€” a Canadian-based β€œprivate security company” β€” has million-dollar contracts to execute Trump's racist and inhumane immigration regime, which kidnaps people, tears families apart, and denie...

you.leadnow.ca/petitions/te...

13.08.2025 23:06 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A new bombshell report just dropped that exposes hundreds of Canadian arms shipments to Israel.

I reached out to the government about this...and their response suggested either further obfuscation or that they're uninformed about weapons exports during a genocide.

Here's what happened:

29.07.2025 23:59 β€” πŸ‘ 302    πŸ” 131    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 19
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A betrayal of the victims of the Holocaust A view from Israel
30.07.2025 00:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The air drop dropped 25 tons of humanitarian aid over Gaza.

That’s less than a truckload.

Thousands of truckloads are needed.

There are thousands of trucks ready to go in. They are not being *allowed* in.

The answer is not to drop from the sky. It’s to open the gates.

29.07.2025 10:37 β€” πŸ‘ 79    πŸ” 35    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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πŸ“’ Webinar: #Sustainability at the Edge
The impact of global health cuts on people who use #drugs

πŸ—“ 7 August 2025
πŸ•’ 3-4:30 PM CET
🌍 Online (with simultaneous interpretation in French, Russian & Spanish)

Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

28.07.2025 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

INPUD webinar, β€œSustainability at the Edge”, featuring our latest publication, No Fix Without Us.

Panel: UNAIDS, Global Fund, Zimbabwean MP from UNITE, and community members.

Thurs, Aug 7 | 15.00 - 16.30 CET

Interpretation: French, Russian & Spanish.

Register:
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

29.07.2025 11:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What are key elements of a sustainable response to HIV among people who use drugs? And what are some key processes and places to push for these?

Pleased to see the brief I prepared for International Network of People who Use Drugs @inpud.bsky.social now out in the world.
inpud.net/.../uploads/...

29.07.2025 11:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tell Minister Adams: Help Nova Scotia Home Care Workers Nova Scotia’s home support workers are underpaid, overworked, and at risk – demand the respect they deserve.

homecareishealthcare.ca

29.07.2025 04:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump’s Vicious Attack on the American Mind He wants America to be ignorant because ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny
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The betrayal of science and of public health continues.

30.05.2025 01:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Government Export Agency Noted 99 Israeli Crimes, But OK’d Arms Sale β€œIt is hard to really conjure a mitigation measure that could reduce the level of risk of arms transfers to Israel.”

Government Export Agency Noted 99 Israeli Crimes, But OK’d Arms Sale www.readthemaple.com/government-e...

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5 years since the start of the pandemic and it is frustrating that we still need to keep repeating: vaccines, masks, tests, and cleaning the air all play roles in reducing transmission.

Wrongly claiming that any of these layers isn’t important is an anti-science stance.

28.05.2025 00:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1021    πŸ” 258    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 13
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Don’t let the Canada Pension Plan abandon its net-zero commitment The Canada Pension Plan safeguards the futures of 22 million hardworking Canadians – from teachers and nurses to tradespeople and tech workers – and retirees who’ve paid in over a lifetime. With over ...

Take a moment to support more sensible, forward-thinking policy that is in our self-interest (as future pensioners) and the planet (without which there won't be much point to having whatever meagre public pension might survive the depredations of the oligarchs by then).

26.05.2025 21:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Every Harry Potter book or shirt you buy directly funds the persecution of trans people.

There's absolutely no excuse to support anything Harry Potter anymore unless you hate trans people.

24.05.2025 12:53 β€” πŸ‘ 9370    πŸ” 4224    πŸ’¬ 146    πŸ“Œ 119
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To the people of Palestine, Im sorry you have been utterly failed by the EU.
Never Again means Never Again for anyone.
#FreePalestine #StopIsraeliGenocide

22.05.2025 13:41 β€” πŸ‘ 143    πŸ” 73    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 5

What? Kieran Moore talking nonsense and betraying his obligation to protect public health? I’m shocked. Shocked, I tell you.

23.05.2025 00:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Canada discusses joining US Golden Dome missile defence programme PM Mark Carney's office says there are "active discussions" on the Golden Dome, but it's too early to say how Canada would join or pay in.

I'm legitimately curious, enough to open comments. All you folks who told us not to speak up yet, to give the new government time, to trust what they tell us: are you ok with Canada joining Trump's "golden dome"? Should we say anything critical yet or nah?

www.bbc.com/news/article...

22.05.2025 03:47 β€” πŸ‘ 83    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 4

Make a fuss. Be disruptive. Do whatever you need to do to get the care you need

Advocate for yourself, and when you have the health to do so, advocate for comprehensive healthcare coverage for all

Whenever possible, be the voice which so many people lack <3

Read the whole thread

22.05.2025 19:34 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œWe want them infected”

CC @joho.bsky.social

22.05.2025 03:39 β€” πŸ‘ 127    πŸ” 35    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1
β€œIt is obvious that many doctors and scientists are self-censoring,” said Dr. Jonathan Howard, a neurologist at NYU Langone and author of the book We Want Them Infected, which chronicles how certain doctors came to embrace the anti-vaccine movement. β€œGiven the purges at these agencies and vast canceling of grants, this is no surprise.” Indeed, a number of doctors to whom I reached out about Prasad’s appointment to head CBER either declined to comment or wished to remain anonymous. I did not receive responses from major medical associations I contacted, either.

β€œIt is obvious that many doctors and scientists are self-censoring,” said Dr. Jonathan Howard, a neurologist at NYU Langone and author of the book We Want Them Infected, which chronicles how certain doctors came to embrace the anti-vaccine movement. β€œGiven the purges at these agencies and vast canceling of grants, this is no surprise.” Indeed, a number of doctors to whom I reached out about Prasad’s appointment to head CBER either declined to comment or wished to remain anonymous. I did not receive responses from major medical associations I contacted, either.

So far, it seems that leaders of professional associations are valuing their proximity to power above sound and ethical public health practices. newrepublic.com/article/1949...

19.05.2025 20:44 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

According to the headline
β€œDiseases are spreading.
The CDC
isn’t warning the public
like it was months ago,”
and while l am accustomed
to keeping my expectations low,
evidently these days
it is expecting too much
to expect
the Centers for Disease Control
to control diseases.

22.05.2025 19:11 β€” πŸ‘ 54    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yep. There has never been any independent medical info released about the supposed injury, no medical records, nothing.

22.05.2025 21:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@relliotthhr is following 20 prominent accounts