Tracy Powell, PhD, RN

1. As a consultant analyst that generally presents to the C-suite of organisations, I am often asked to produce short, concise explanations of both biological and geopolitical risks. Regarding Covid-19, I use the same summary with both C-level clients and friends:

This US Snitch Line Reports Canadians Providing Gender-Affirming Care | The Tyee It’s a ‘terrifying’ update on an old anti-trans strategy, one lawyer says.

Trans Care BC has removed clinician names from its website and notified staff about the U.S. initiative as a precaution.

US President Donald Trump has some words as Canadians go to the polls today.

Note the wording from @who.int saying that the pandemic is very much ongoing.

Ottawa Public Health (OPH) is asking for input on what respiratory virus info is important, how you use it, and if they should keep funding wastewater monitoring. Please help let OPH know this information is important ( opinion.ottawapublichealth.ca?e=446587&d=e... ). 🧵1/

What makes a good public health leader? Canada is searching for a new Chief Public Health Officer. Leadership matters, especially in a crisis.

What makes a good public health leader? canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/04/13/w... by @dfisman.bsky.social, et al

𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁

Pls don’t repost this or Trump will expode his depends!!

🚨TO ALL CANADIANS🚨

This is video worth watching. Pierre PoiLIEvre still refuses getting his security clearance.

Former CSIS director Richard Fadden has explained, a cabinet minister’s clearance has to be renewed.

#canada #elbowsup #markcarneyforpm #cdnpoli #tradewar #neverpoilievre #never51state

Does Columbia still merit the name of a university? | Rashid Khalidi Columbia has long been run more as a business empire than as an educational institution. Now it’s acting like Vichy on the Hudson

"Columbia has long been run more like [a] vast, wealthy business and real estate empire ... than as an educational institution. It is a place where trustees, donors and powerful professional schools dictate its policy, not the rest of its faculty.... Columbia barely merits the name of a university."

Screenshot of a flyer. Trans Clothing Exchange this week! This program connects trans folks with free access to try on & take home affirming & pre-loved clothing. EVENT: Sunday, March 9 | 10-1pmSunalta Community Centre (1627 10 Ave SW) Free & Open to all to attend.

PSA, via Skipping Stone

www.skippingstone.ca/donate

Sunalta Community Hall
1627 10 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T3C 0J7
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#Calgary #yyc

Why Are People Wearing Masks in 2025? a mental health professional’s perspective

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Hey Alberta! just a heads up that our FluA season is not behaving normally. Looks like a peak in Dec, and now rising cases in the last few weeks. Anomalous compared to previous years.
Could explain our recent rise in ER wait times.

The role of masks and respirators in preventing respiratory infections in healthcare and community settings The covid-19 pandemic saw frequent changes and conflicts in mask policies and politicization of masks. On reviewing the evidence, including studies published after the pandemic, the data suggest respi...

Anyone want to see our latest paper on #masks?
#healthpolicy 🧪

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A Close Look at Legal Battle that Stymied Alberta Podcast ‘The Breakdown’ | The Tyee A justice ordered mentions of MHCare and its owner scrubbed. We asked a top media lawyer to analyze her ruling.

One of Canada’s foremost defamation experts says a sweeping interim injunction granted by an Alberta judge against the Breakdown, a popular web-based political commentary show, “is vulnerable to either being set aside or significantly modified” in a court hearing Friday

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FDA cancels meeting to select flu strains for next season's shots The canceled meeting comes just days after a CDC vaccine advisory committee meeting was abruptly postponed.

Canada needs a game plan to overhaul our regulatory bodies and to invest what is necessary to protect our people.
The United States has ceased to be a trustworthy ally.
They are threat not just to us but to their own people.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

For Ontario physicians: On Mar 19, I will be participating in the Toronto District's annual medical storytelling evening, where the theme will be COVID stories, so please keep your eyes open for this Friday's OMA News for details and registration info. Looking forward to hearing your stories. Tx.

Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...

How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

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If you’re an Ontario resident, this website is essential this month.
It simplifies the voting process, ensuring your voice is heard with ease #ONpoli

🔗 Vote by Mail – Elections Ontario
votebymail.elections.on.ca

YouTube video by The Breakdown AB Breakdown Update - February 16, 2025

An update from the show…

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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Thank goodness for the American Medical Association. Here is their YouTube page. Please share far and wide. Right now bird flu is spreading throughout our country and most people have no clue. Please stay updated and bookmark this page for your health and well-being.

www.youtube.com/@americanmed...

Cambridge hospital’s mask upgrade appears to eliminate Covid risk to staff Hospital infection study shows use of FFP3 respirators at Addenbrooke’s ‘may have cut ward-based infection to zero’

www.theguardian.com/world/2021/j...
@rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social
Ffp3 masks eliminate airborne transmission risks. A good time to be talking about this.

Isle of Man on track to be first in the British Isles to legalise assisted dying as Bill passes final stage in Upper House The Isle of Man’s Assisted Dying Bill passed the final stage in the Legislative Council on Tuesday 28th January 2025.

“This is a historic victory for compassion as the Isle of Man takes a significant step towards giving the Manx people true choice at the end of life." @sarahwootton.bsky.social

#YesToDignity

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Masking required at all B.C. health-care facilities once again | CBC News Masks must again be worn in health-care facilities across B.C., according to the province's Health Ministry.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Good 😷news for those in BC.

Sadly, I can’t see this type of province-wide mandate being put in place here in Alberta 😵‍💫

FOI Shows COVID Is Still Striking Alberta’s Acute Care Centres | The Tyee More than 300 new outbreaks and 3,000 individual infections raise questions about prevention.

FOI Shows COVID Is Still Striking Alberta’s Acute Care Centres
More than 300 new outbreaks and 3,000 individual infections raise questions about prevention. #abpoli #Alberta

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Public Comment - Canadian Guidelines for Post-COVID-19 Condition (CAN-PCC) [...]Read More...

More CAN-PCC #LongCovid draft recommendations are open for public feedback. Topics include vaccines, exercise, rest/pacing, chest CTs & more. 
Do the 15-minute online survey until January 2, 2025 at 8:45 pm Pacific / 11:45 pm Eastern: canpcc.ca/public-comme...

Controversial COVID study that promoted unproven treatment retracted after four-year saga Paper on hydroxychloroquine led by French researcher Didier Raoult is second-most-cited study ever to be withdrawn.

More on the hydroxychloroquine BS

Controversial COVID study that promoted unproven treatment retracted after four-year saga www.nature.com/articles/d41...

@elisabethbik.bsky.social: "This paper should never have been published — or it should have been retracted immediately after its publication."

Alberta looks at changes to medically assisted death, some question why The Government of Alberta is exploring the idea of introducing limitations and provincial oversight to medical assistance in death.

Keep an eye on potential changes ⬇️ that could end up causing more suffering, family discord and distress
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A coworker of mine is urgently seeking a 1br apartment (under $1250/mo) for her and her young daughter - must be within 30 min of wolfville.
Urgent, like URGENT.

Health Canada has launched a questionnaire on advanced requests and medical assistance in dying (#MAiD). 💻 survey closes February 14, 2025 ✅

www.canada.ca/en/health-ca...

The Fifth Annual Report on MAiD in Canada, 2023 has been released.
I look forward to going through it

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