Dr. Lesley Barron, MD, MPhil, FRACS

As we enter the summer season in Australia- a reminder to please not idle your engines. It’s bad for everyone, especially kids and those with cardio respiratory disease.

#NoKings Miami!

ABC not reporting on this is …an interesting choice.

Down under, guess which services are being cancelled in private hospitals courtesy of being non profitable (bc of a sexist schedule of benefits)? It’s all part of the same issue of the systematic devaluing of women’s healthcare.

Either aren’t enforced or are selectively enforced….

Tawny frogmouth named 2025 Australian bird of the year winner Perennial runner up finally claims the crown in the biennial Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll, ahead of Baudin’s black cockatoo and gang-gang cockatoo

www.theguardian.com/environment/.... Also the winner of the “Bird that most closely resembles a Muppet.” Congrats to the Tawny Frogmouth.

I would have thought in ANY jurisdiction it would be disqualifying. And the fact it’s taken SEVEN years? I think if we are constantly prioritising ppls right to drive over vulnerable road users right to be safe on the roads- these tragedies are going to repeat over and over.

Horrific.

A rogues gallery featuring four individual images of vehicles parked on pavements. One image shows a person walking with a pushchair into the road.

Is this a familiar scene?🤦

We're sharing more pavement parking pics uploaded by the public on our interactive map.

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Editorial in Saanich News titled Non-Motorists Need Infrastructure Too.

Nice editorial in the #Saanich News, from last week ICYMI. #yyj #yyjbike

an outdoor blllboard There will never be a bell loud enough, a helmet strong enough, or clothing bright enough to make up for poor infrastructure. Picture of child biking in a painted bike lane

Enough.

Awesome to see this billboard up in Vancouver.
Was really incredible to work with the people at @visionzerovancouver.ca to bring this to life.

Cardiff set to tackle SUV 'carspreading' in UK first Cardiff Council is set to become the first local authority in the UK to introduce higher parking charges for SUVs and other heavy vehicles, in a move campaigners say will make city streets safer and f...

Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."

3,500kg 🤯

generally used to move one healthy ≈90kg individual through public spaces

utter madness

this policy, along with 20mph speed limits, need to be introduced in the rest of the UK

A desperately needed community facility in Collingwood, that Labor have failed to support. 😭

Switching 50km/h speed limits to 30km/h would protect cyclists while barely affecting commutes, research finds One expert says a cyclist hit by a car travelling 50km/h has about a one-in-10 chance of surviving, while at 30km/h it is a nine-in-10 chance

“If you get hit by a car travelling at 50km/h, you’ve only got a 1.5-in-10 chance of surviving. If it’s going 30km/h you’ve got a nine-in-10 chance.”

“But it was not enough to put up a sign that says 30km/h…there also needed to be design changes to slow down traffic.”

Speed is always a factor.

It’s blamed on the housing crisis and the “tyranny of choice” in online dating in the article. Pretty sure there’s a bit more going on. I don’t think a ton of good choices are the norm for women in the online dating world.

I dunno- maybe women are waking up to the fact that society doesn’t support mothers? That their bodies take a lifelong hit, that their incomes never recover and that if they have a male partner, his life will be largely unchanged by having kids? (Except for the pay bump-for men w kids).

Robin Williams' daughter, Zelda Williams, also recently slammed people who are making Al-generated videos of her late father, calling the clips "gross." She added, "To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop pup-peteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it."

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Rental affordability report shows essential workers being priced out of housing Anglicare has issued a dire warning to policymakers after its latest report found nurses, teachers and paramedics can only afford a tiny fraction of rental properties across the country.

Anglicare has issued a dire warning to policymakers after its latest report found nurses, teachers and paramedics can only afford a tiny fraction of rental properties across the country.

In #Switzerland, fine for a speeding driver is based (1) on how far over the limit the driver is going
(2) on how much the driver earns.

One man caught driving his Ferrari at 137 km/h the in an 80 km/h zone in a village near St. Gallen was fined 300,000 Swiss Francs (today, $375,000 US).

🇨🇭🧵

Speeds from 154 to 119

"Safe Parkside" filed a Freedom of Information request to get top speeds from the ill-fated & much abused Parkside camera. The speed limit is 40km/h.

Killers, all of them, with the ear & heart of Premier Doug Ford.

A series of photographs of colourful pedestrian streets in Paris, Montreal, Barcelona, and Brussels, that feature murals and playgrounds, planter boxes and trees, and benches and terraces.

A series of photographs of colourful pedestrian streets in Paris, Montreal, Barcelona, and Brussels, that feature murals and playgrounds, planter boxes and trees, and benches and terraces.

A series of photographs of colourful pedestrian streets in Paris, Montreal, Barcelona, and Brussels, that feature murals and playgrounds, planter boxes and trees, and benches and terraces.

A series of photographs of colourful pedestrian streets in Paris, Montreal, Barcelona, and Brussels, that feature murals and playgrounds, planter boxes and trees, and benches and terraces.

“Mounting evidence shows cities designed for and by women take a more intersectional approach. At the same time, these measures are shown to contribute to more vibrant and flourishing places, focused on more inviting walking, cycling, and public transport and spaces.”

www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...

At RACMA conference. Jillann Farmer with a plea to include diverse voices a chance to speak on topics outside of diversity.

I’m not sure I’ve ever been asked to speak on a surgical topic at a surgical conference.

Dying mother loses life insurance after failing to declare UTI tests A terminal cancer patient is told her failure to declare a UTI has voided her insurance policies, leaving her struggling to pay her mortgage and care for her children in her final days.

A terminal cancer patient is told her failure to declare a UTI has voided her insurance policies, leaving her struggling to pay her mortgage and care for her children in her final days.

“The effects of these agents, especially to the lungs and heart, are much more pronounced in children.

Because tear gas is heavier than air, it remains in higher concentrations closer to the ground, consequently affecting children to a greater degree…placing them at greater risk for lung injury.“

An embarrassing backflip by Chalmers on super or a strategic shift? After two years of refusing to reshape his superannuation shake-up, the treasurer abandons the idea of taxing unrealised gains while agreeing to index a key tax threshold.

The Australian Tax Office no longer reveals the exact size of the top individual self-managed superannuation funds (SMSF). Perhaps it is too embarrassing”

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Demand Safe School Zones in Ottawa! Le francais suit It’s a common scene at schools for morning drop off and afternoon pick up times, speeding, distracted driving, close calls and tension on the streets . Many school zones lack…

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🚸Fund and build sidewalks and protected bike lanes in our neighbourhoods
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‘As new infections outpace new drugs, are we sleepwalking into a global health disaster?’ | Dr Manica Balasegaram Much of the political momentum around the antimicrobial resistance crisis has dissipated, but a new report shows the danger to our health has not

"...one year on and it feels like much of the political momentum around tackling AMR has already vanished."

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Median annual income in Australia is around $55 000. Average annual cost of running a car is $16000.

These figures mean transport costs are driving a lot of ppl into financial stress, especially with housing costs & the fact car use is almost always required to be able to function.