Dr. Rita McCracken, MD PhD🇨🇦

The melted-snowman-cookie army is coming together nicely.

Family doctors need to allocate a portion of their pay for primary care infrastructure 🧐

Let’s make funding 🇨🇦 primary care a priority!

A 2023 long form take how public school structure can teach us about fixes needed for the 🇨🇦family doctor shortage.

(journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...)

Why we should care about fixing the 🇨🇦PRIMARY CARE ACCESS GAP.

The 🇨🇦family doctor shortage has been around for a loooooong time.

Some facts to consider about the 🇨🇦 family doctor shortage.

Hey, if you just can't get enough of me and @jmcelroy.bsky.social blabbing on about city budgets and the Vancouver mayor's race - then you need to hear our "This is Vancouver" podcast. This week's episode is epic.
Hear it here: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/f...
Or wherever you get your pods...

Also, check out @jmcelroy.bsky.social 's budget story on CBC News Vancouver.
As usual, he digs deep into the numbers.
VPD budget 2022: $349.6 million
2026: $497.1 million.
His story is here: www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Vancouver’s Last Sex Worker Drop-In Centre May Shutter in Spring | The Tyee The city is changing how it funds Kingsway Community Station. That’s ‘dangerous,’ its program director says.

The City of Vancouver is changing its funding model for the city’s last drop-in space for vulnerable sex workers, leading to concerns it may have to close.

Kingsway Community Station supports some of the most marginalized people in our city. by @michellegamage.bsky.social thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...

Squamish. Nature. Gorgeous.

YouTube video by CBC News: The National The real impact of Canada’s doctor shortage | Cross Country Checkup

The real impact of Canada’s doctor shortage, by @ianhanomansing.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5CI...
via @cbcnews.ca @ritamc.bsky.social @trevorjain.bsky.social

Canada! Our professional women’s soccer league final is on 20 minutes.

Tune in to the CBC or TSN enjoy the competition and to support women’s sports in the country ⚽️🏆

Living Wage BC finds hourly pay to live normal life much higher than minimum wage The living wage is designed to ensure households have enough income to cover basic needs.

Living Wage BC finds hourly pay to live normal life much higher than minimum wage

A city councillor live-posted today’s “unofficial filibuster” of speakers opposed to budget cuts in Vancouver to deliver a property tax freeze for homeowners (the councillor is opposed to the proposed budget) #vanpoli

This is an incredible marathon of posting on Bluesky from a City of Vancouver Councillor. He’s documenting an unofficial filibuster at City Hall as over 600 people have signed up to speak at the budget hearing. Over 200 have said their piece so far. Follow along.

#democracy #bluesky

Budget hearing continued after short recess. 157: environmental lawyer (?)Reads poem. 158: raised in east van. This is austerity and hasn’t been asked for. I’ve been lucky enough to use public services. Breaks my heart to think they won’t get same quality. Few people asked for this police budget.

I'm dropping in to Vancouver city council today and can't live-skeet everything, but it's worth noting that there are currently over 600 speakers signed up to speak to the budget, which proposes finding $120 in savings to support a 0% property tax increase. #vanpoli

💯agree.

Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.

Frustrated with how much garbage you see on Meta platforms?

Wonder why there’s so much of it?

It’s because it’s making Mark Zuckerberg et al, LITERALLY billions of dollars.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/investigatio...

AI’s medical diagnostic skills still need a check-up | Waterloo News You may want to think twice about using powerful artificial intelligence (AI) programs such as ChatGPT to self-diagnose health problems. A team led by researchers at the University of Waterloo found i...

“A team led by researchers at the University of Waterloo found in a simulated study that ChatGPT-4o, the well-known large language model (LLM) created by OpenAI, answered open-ended diagnostic questions incorrectly nearly two-thirds of the time.”

Don’t use AI for medical advice.

#Canada
#AI

Thanks for sharing! And here are the new spending commitments to 2029:

2025 federal budget analysis roundup - CCPA This page exists to bring together progressive policy organizations' responses to the 2025 federal budget. Keep an eye on this page, as it will continue to be updated in the coming days.

Check out responses to the 2025 federal budget from progressive policy organizations. (Keep an eye on this page, as it will continue to be updated in the coming days.) @policyalternatives.ca #Budget2025 www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

🚨I’d like to hear more from journalists & commentators about the multiple worrisome & aggressive anti-immigration elements of the #cdnpoli #budget2025

It looks like a blatant adoption of the (protectionist? racist?) approaches being championed in US and other alt right governments.

Am I wrong?

European countries.
And Australia.
And… 🇨🇦?

Vancouver Aquatic Centre closed indefinitely due to ceiling damage The aging facility is closed indefinitely to allow for a thorough assessment after a chunk of ceiling fell into the pool

I mean, who needs pools and community centres when you got cops #vanpoli vancouversun.com/news/vancouv...

Vancouver Police Board wants city to increase budget by $50M amid mayor's tax freeze promise | CBC News The Vancouver Police Board has voted to approve a budget request of just over $497 million in 2026, a $50 million increase over 2025's final budget.

The Vancouver Police Department has already gone $17 million over budget. Now they're asking for a $50 million increase. The park board, meanwhile, is bracing for $15 million in cuts. #vanpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Appreciate this accounting of generational benefits/penalties in the #budget2025 details.

Sun coming through the trees

Wild, growing mushrooms with orange red tops and a white dots

Morning dog walk in #eastvan seems extra beautiful today