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Ian Mitchell, MD

@drivmitch.bsky.social

Emerg doc with interests in addiction, cannabis, ketamine and naloxone

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Future workforce expansion is good β€œvibes” , but doesn’t address the current lack of staff across all realms of health care in BC.

17.10.2025 18:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Identifying candidates is a long way from hired positions. You can imagine there is a limited pool of specialists doing locums or looking to move

16.10.2025 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Seven OB/GYNs at B.C. hospital resign, citing unsafe workloads, lack of support

Collapse of health care in #Kamloops

15.10.2025 05:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There are over 800 births per year by Kamloops residents. That doesn’t count all the surrounding areas which RIH serves as well. It’s not acceptable that those patients go out of town to give birth.

15.10.2025 04:21 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Seven Kamloops OB-GYNs resign in-hospital privileges from Interior Health, citing workload safety issues KAMLOOPS - Obstetrics care in the Kamloops area has taken another hit, with seven obstetrician gynecologists r...

An unfortunate development for health care in #Kamloops. All of the hospital’s OB/GYN staff have resigned cfjctoday.com/2025/10/14/s...

14.10.2025 23:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My parents loaded up my brother (3) and I (4) with phenergan when we immigrated to Canada in 1968 for the flight on BOAC

Apparently it had a paradoxical reaction and we ran around like demons

10.10.2025 16:19 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Let’s raise @mdbass.bsky.social call for a #kamloops sobering centre with the province again. We don’t want to be the IIOBC’s next investigation of a jailhouse death.

10.10.2025 05:11 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mayor of Chaos: How Kamloops Politics Became Infamous | The Tyee Car dealer Reid Hamer-Jackson won office with charisma and ideas. Then the wheels came off.

Today, Reid Hamer-Jackson could rightly be called B.C.β€˜s most notorious local politician, whose string of scandals has helped inspire the province to consider rewriting the rule book for mayors and councillors.

@tyolsen.bsky.social and Kristen Holliday report. #bcpoli

08.10.2025 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

08.10.2025 02:14 β€” πŸ‘ 17449    πŸ” 9472    πŸ’¬ 899    πŸ“Œ 734

Israel needs to go the way of Rhodesia. A failed ethnostate, an embarrassing stain on history, and hopefully a lesson learned.

05.10.2025 15:48 β€” πŸ‘ 77    πŸ” 30    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Watch to the end 😭

05.10.2025 14:42 β€” πŸ‘ 123    πŸ” 50    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0

Kinda wild Apple will kick ICEBlock out of the App Store on safety grounds but the Saudi government app that lets men track women (their β€œproperty”) and control their travel is fully allowed even after the Human Rights Watch AND members of the Senate begged them to ban it.

04.10.2025 00:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1358    πŸ” 467    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 21
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RCMP investigate alleged assault of woman who lives beside B.C. ostrich farm The RCMP are providing round the clock protection for a B.C., resident who lives next to Universal Ostrich Farms (UOF) after a masked man doused the woman in gasoline and punched her in the face.

A 72 year old woman in Edgewood, B.C. is doused in gasoline and punched in the face. RCMP say the suspect was associated with the protest camp at Universal Ostrich Farms and was arrested. www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

01.10.2025 10:45 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 4

The people at this ostrich farm are the same gang that opposed M-103, co-opted yellow vests, push UN / WEF conspiracies, opposed lockdowns, face masks and vaccines, occupied Ottawa, harassed people at drag story time events etc

It’s all the same far-right influencers and content creators every time

01.10.2025 13:33 β€” πŸ‘ 354    πŸ” 182    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 10
Therapeutics Initiative | [117] Gabapentin and pregabalin: Are high doses justified?

UBC’s TI recommends against the high doses of #gabapentin that are often prescribed www.ti.ubc.ca/2019/02/19/1...

01.10.2025 05:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Less of a drug than a criminal conspiracy journals.lww.com/em-news/Full...

01.10.2025 05:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ostrich farm owners connected to β€˜particularly abusive’ investment scheme that bilked $20 million from widows & seniors Even some β€˜freedom fighters’ first hooked in by Universal Ostrich Farms’ public calls for support are finding out the truth about the Bilinskis’ β€˜speculative, illiquid and highly risky’ securities sla...

From the beginning, I was absolutely baffled as to why Rebel News Obergruppenfuhrer Ezra Levant was so obsessed with a bunch of avian flu-stricken ostriches ... and now it all makes sense.

Grifters gonna grift.

www.pauljhenderson.com/ostrich-farm...

29.09.2025 09:52 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.

29.09.2025 03:10 β€” πŸ‘ 27423    πŸ” 6980    πŸ’¬ 2379    πŸ“Œ 1911

That is a lot of restrictions and monitoring imposed on Mike Hart, MD. No ketamine treatment, no testosterone prescribing, no iv infusions

Maybe he needs to go back on Joe Rogan to talk about the authoritative medical regime in Canada

28.09.2025 19:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I wouldn’t say a pioneer.

Unless you count talking about it on Joe Rogan…

More of an embarrassment

Clearly skipped his classes on evidence based medicine

28.09.2025 19:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
BREAKING
Kneecap Not Banned from Canada.
Sources Inside Prime Minister Carney's Office Confirm MP Vince Gasparro Went Rogue; Liberals Trying to Hush Story

BREAKING Kneecap Not Banned from Canada. Sources Inside Prime Minister Carney's Office Confirm MP Vince Gasparro Went Rogue; Liberals Trying to Hush Story

OTTAWA, ON - In a dramatic turn of events on a day already marked by major announcements - Canada's recognition of Palestinian statehood and the tabling of a new federal hate crimes bill
- sources inside the Prime Minister's Office have confirmed that Irish rap group Kneecap was never officially banned from Canada, despite Liberal MP Vince Gasparro's public statements.
According to a senior PMO insider, Gasparro went rogue in making the announcement, lied about receiving authorization from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), and may have committed a serious breach of the federal Privacy Act, an unprecedented scandal in Canadian history.
"The PMO explicitly asked MP Gasparro whether he had IRCC's authorization to make his announcement - he said yes.
That was false," the source confirmed. "No decision had been made by IRCC or the
PMO. His statement was completely unauthorized."

OTTAWA, ON - In a dramatic turn of events on a day already marked by major announcements - Canada's recognition of Palestinian statehood and the tabling of a new federal hate crimes bill - sources inside the Prime Minister's Office have confirmed that Irish rap group Kneecap was never officially banned from Canada, despite Liberal MP Vince Gasparro's public statements. According to a senior PMO insider, Gasparro went rogue in making the announcement, lied about receiving authorization from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), and may have committed a serious breach of the federal Privacy Act, an unprecedented scandal in Canadian history. "The PMO explicitly asked MP Gasparro whether he had IRCC's authorization to make his announcement - he said yes. That was false," the source confirmed. "No decision had been made by IRCC or the PMO. His statement was completely unauthorized."

Kneecap was never actually banned from Canada and the Liberal MP who announced it has GONE ROGUE??????

What the fuck!!!!

This is unhinged!!!!

27.09.2025 16:11 β€” πŸ‘ 705    πŸ” 236    πŸ’¬ 55    πŸ“Œ 54
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Terrorism case against Kneecap rapper Liam Γ“g Γ“ hAnnaidh thrown out Chief magistrate at Woolwich crown court rules that β€˜proceedings were instituted unlawfully and are null’ The terrorism case against the Kneecap rapper Liam Γ“g Γ“ hAnnaidh has been thrown out following a technical error in the way the charge against him was brought. The 27-year-old, who performs under the stage name Mo Chara, was accused of displaying a flag in support of the proscribed terrorist organisation Hezbollah at a gig at the O2 Forum in Kentish Town, north London, last November. Continue reading...

Terrorism case against Kneecap rapper Liam Γ“g Γ“ hAnnaidh thrown out

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Inch Levels Neli Hegarty

Inch Levels Neli Hegarty

Sorry, forgot the picture with the first post

23.09.2025 17:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

6. All this to say, heritage is complicated.

But immigration isn't. Our medical system would collapse without immigration and foreign workers. Our emerg is actively recruiting US immigrant doctors currently fleeing their repressive regime

Without immigration, our country will fail #Canada

23.09.2025 17:53 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

5. Even back in Ireland, my culture is Presbyterian Irish-Scot. My family's DNA is about 98% Scottish - so even though we have been in Northern Ireland for more than 200 years, my DNA links me much closer to a country I don't know much about and don't feel part of.

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4. But while I feel "Canadian", I am also aware of being an immigrant. And I am bothered by anti-immigrant sentiment, both in Canada and Ireland. My adopted country of Canada is a country made up of immigrants, outside of the First Nation people.

23.09.2025 17:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
mountain wedding scene

mountain wedding scene

3. It was a good move. We avoided the bulk of the Troubles, had a good life with a more diverse group of friends and I ended up marrying a French-Canadian woman of Irish Catholic ancestry.

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2. We emigrated to Canada in 1968 at a time where British immigrants were peaking and the rosters of Canadian doctors were stuffed with Irish, Welsh, Scottish and English physicians. I work as an emergency physician at the hospital now - my son volunteers there, starting his journey.

23.09.2025 17:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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