Garth Nicholas

Jeannie Hunter, Mark Sutcliffe, Liam West, Gregory Nicholas, Ethan Tam and Jeff Leiper in Council chambers.

The @mayormarksutcliffe.bsky.social and I were pleased to welcome to Council for a performance of the national anthem students from Nepean High and their teacher Jeannie Hunter. It rocked!

Having survived the first line of gardening, more resistant to the second line.

A hill to die on.

As the decades wear on it’s ever clearer that we’re living in a Thomas Pynchon novel. One more is an unexpected gift. Come on, Nobel Academy, you don’t have too much longer to do the right thing.

As the decades wear on it’s ever clearer that we’re living in a Thomas Pynchon novel. One more is an unexpected gift. Come on, Nobel Academy, you don’t have too much longer to do the right thing.

Thomas Pynchon to Publish a New Novel This Fall (Gift Article) Featuring a Depression-era private eye, “Shadow Ticket” will be the 87-year-old writer’s first book since 2013.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/b...

Though numbers are small, every patient who was MRD positive at baseline had DFS event.
Rather than longer treatment, could one argue for treating these people like asymptomatic metastatic: close surveillance and initiate therapy at the time of measurable/symptomatic disease?

The Canadian Neuro-Oncology meeting - Vancouver in May 2025

Many great speakers and topics - trainees especially welcomed (there are travel awards!)
www.cnomeeting.ca

I think TKIs can be excellent palliative agents, but are less useful in curative settings. The very best of them are debatable as adjuvant treatment, and will struggle more in neoadjuvant where the duration of exposure is shorter.

I don’t know what these are called, but a similar idea showing the change over time of relative proportions that add up to 100%

Weird. I’ve got one called Ozzy.

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Reminds me of this self portrait of Canadian artist Gerald Trottier.

An important and informed commentary on a specific GBM vaccination protocol, and on the general topic of experimental treatments administered outside clinical trials.

academic.oup.com/neuro-oncolo...