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For the 3rd in recent years, the federal government’s own experts have recommended a universal public pharmacare program.
So, where is it?
🛢️ is the new 🚬
Regulate the deadly advertising
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23.11.2025 21:11 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Get outside 🌲 ❤️
23.11.2025 17:42 — 👍 40 🔁 3 💬 4 📌 0🛢️ is the new 🚬
Regulate the deadly advertising
The climate crisis is more like being trapped in a car underwater with water coming in slowly than a bomb going off, pressure keeps building and it’s getting harder not to die if we don’t start opening window now.
For that reason I’m deeply hopeful we’ll see more climate action - it’s not too late!
"Too little was done too late”: New commentary with PIK director Johan Rockström warns of rising planetary risks after a missed decade of action. Climate & biosphere pressures keep increasing, but stabilising the Earth system is still within reach.
www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
My take on the CDC vaccine & autism move. 👇
Sum: A disaster... piled onto the other anti-science disasters we've seen from US.
CDC website suggests link between autism and vaccines, health expert warns of false information www.ctvnews.ca/video/2025/1... via CTV News
#VaccinesWork
How opioid deaths are hollowing out the construction industry. Workers in the skilled trades make up a large share of overdoses fatalities, at a time when their labour is needed more than ever, by @jasonkirby.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art... @theglobeandmail.com #ToxicDrugCrisis
22.11.2025 17:51 — 👍 17 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0
80 toxic drug OVERDOSES occurred within 24 hours with one shelter running out of naloxone.
This is why harm reduction services are vital in saving lives, and anyone who says otherwise is lying.
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A screenshot of a Facebook post where a person named Andy ask the Well now “What the hell is transgender?” The Royal Canadian Air Force account response with “That’s a pretty big question asked in a pretty small way, Andy. ‘Transgender’ putting describes someone whose gender – who they know themselves to be – doesn’t match the sex they were assigned at birth. It’s not new, and it’s certainly not a fad. People have lived this experience for as long as people have existed; we’re just finally talking about it openly. You don’t have to fully understand it right away, most learning takes time, but we can always start from a place of respect. That’s how decent folks handle things they’re still getting used to.”
Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
22.11.2025 01:03 — 👍 11663 🔁 3197 💬 99 📌 135
Big misstep by Carney. Fighting diseases elsewhere is the cheapest way to prevent us having to fight diseases, and the downstream effects of diseases, here.
www.timescolonist.com/the-mix/cana...
Hey, Canada! It’s the season…of flu. Be sure to roll up your sleeves and #GetImmunized against influenza! | www.immunize.ca/sites/defaul... #influenza #flu #VaccinesWork #VaccinesSaveLives #FluSeason #SleevesUpCanada
21.11.2025 16:52 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
What about those mysterious studies that RFK claims actually show a vaccine-autism connection, but that scientists "ignore"? Well here they are. Let's look at why real scientists discount them:
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RFK didn't kill public health in the USA all by himself. He had help from:
Vinay Prasad
Martin Kuldorff
Marty Makary
Jay Bhattacharya
You are all responsible for this travesty.
MULTIPLE studies show no causal link between vaccines and autism. This will not end well.
“The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) strongly condemns the Alberta government’s introduction of legislation invoking the notwithstanding clause to shield three laws that directly threaten the rights of trans and gender-diverse people in the province.”
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At COP30 Canada just got awarded the fossil of the day — first time since 2014 (the harper years). Clear sign of how Carney’s pro fossil fuel agenda and backsliding on climate policy is being noticed internationally.
18.11.2025 22:37 — 👍 271 🔁 163 💬 10 📌 28
Doctors dance to hip hop with giant lungs at COP30 to demand a fossil fuel phase-out
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Doctors across Canada are deeply concerned that the #Alberta government’s proposed private care plan will leave more Albertans waiting even longer to access health care. The CMA is calling on the government to reconsider this proposal, and focus on known solutions to support public health care.
18.11.2025 20:29 — 👍 43 🔁 25 💬 3 📌 6
Very glad to be at the @who.int #EndTB summit in the @whoeurope.bsky.social in #Copenhagen!
The summit opens with Hans Kluge and Tereza Kasaeva.
"Ending TB is not a question of science, we have the science, it's a question of courage and political will."
#TheUnion2025
The MacArthur "Genius" Award-winner was best known as the founder of the Disability Visibility Project, which highlights disabled people and disability culture through storytelling projects, social media and other channels. n.pr/47WGe0m
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Kudos to the team at the fifth estate. We especially appreciate the accurate description of the origins of safe supply prescribing. Many other things to like about this piece. We need multiple accessible forms of safe supply.
#notalladdictionmedicinespecialists
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It might be a good idea to build a tunnel (perpendicularly of course) under the 401.
16.11.2025 01:28 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Lots of #COP FOMO.
Thanks to everyone fighting for our planet! 🌎
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Sir Frederick Banting wasn't just the co-discover of insulin.
He was the youngest recipient of the Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine, an accomplished artist, and a decorated war hero.
This is the story of one of the greatest Canadians.
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Lung cancer report - brought to you Imperial Tobacco.
Alcohol harms report - brought to you by Anheuser Busch.
Healthy built-environment pedestrian safety report - brought to you by the American Petroleum Institute.
Companies don’t regulate and report on their own harms. Governments do.
When #health and #climate are left out of decisions about “nation-building,” physicians are left to pick up the pieces.
#cdnpoli #bcpoli
Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
We need political and social will, and a regulation/massive resistance to the misinformation H E double hockey stick-hole that the alternate universe on the web and social media have become.
13.11.2025 01:36 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0I’m hopeful we can get this back on track, but as I like to say, Hope’s a lovely town in BC but not a good strategy.
We need to get public health capacity back up to educate, vaccinate, test, trace and reverse the direction we’re in. It’s not a scientific challenge, we solved that 50+yrs ago.
