Monica Kidd

Involuntary treatment for substance use: application of Kass’ ethical framework to Alberta’s Compassionate Intervention Act Key points In Canada, more than 50 000 opioid-related deaths have occurred since September 2024, mostly in British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario, where governments are all in various stages of develo...

A must-read commentary about Alberta's new approach to involuntary treatment for substance use from Dr. Bonnie Larson. www.cmaj.ca/content/197/...

Public and private health care The Canadian Medical Association conducted a series of national consultations to inform our policy on public and private health care.

The CMA spent a year studying public and private health models and consulting with more than 10,000 Canadians on the balance between the two. The evidence is clear: where a parallel private health system operates, both health outcomes and access to care are worse.

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Alberta’s private health proposal will leave more Albertans waiting longer for care: CMA 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.

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.

Alberta government undermined health authority to push lab privatization deal, A-G report finds Report details issues throughout the procurement process including miscalculated cost savings and failures to assess Dynalife’s financial vulnerabilities

Alberta government undermined health authority to push lab privatization deal, A-G report finds. There were issues throughout the procurement process, including a failure to assess Dynalife's financial vulnerabilities, by Matthew Scace www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... via @theglobeandmail.com

How many private-pay surgeries are being done? Where? On whom? By whom? For what? As @monicakidd.bsky.social explains, the lack of publicly available information about private-pay surgery raises serious questions about industry accountability. thewalrus.ca/private-health-c...

How did Canada go backwards on Measles prevention and what now?

Thanks to Ben O'Hara-Byrne for the opportunity to talk about Canada's recent loss of measles elimination status and the analysis I did for the December issue of The Walrus. @thewalrus.ca

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A family friend for decades, Arden came by today to collect scion from Mom’s apple trees to see if we can start a new generation.

What a deep honour it is to find a book I wrote included on a mural in St. John’s depicting books as buildings, and commenting on how central storytelling is to the fabric of the city and province and people. ❤️

Statement from the Public Health Agency of Canada on Canada’s Measles Elimination Status Following over 12 months of transmission across the country, PAHO confirms Canada's loss of measles elimination status. We are coordinating efforts with provinces and territories to restore the status...

This just out: Canada no longer holds measles elimination status. See my recent analysis in The Walrus. www.canada.ca/en/public-he... @thewalrus.ca

"Hope is more elegant than despair" Reporting on climate

"Hope is more elegant than despair"
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My cover story for @thewalrus.ca on the measles outbreak in Alberta, now in print for the December issue. Look for it on newsstands. #measles #vaccinations #publichealth

How an urban park is like a blowhole in the ice, but for native prairie. #nosehill #calgary

Cleaning out Mom and Dad’s house we came across these classics that Dad held onto for all these years. Suddenly they are SUPER cool. ⚾️ #bluejays

Please join me tomorrow at Pages Books in Calgary as we help celebrate the launch of a bold new book about mental health research and treatment by Toronto author Marianne Apostolides. We’ll be joined by Calgary playwright Clem Martini. Thurs Oct 23, 7-9. All are welcome. @bookhugpress.bsky.social

This fiberglass steer never stood a chance. At the Cochrane Ag Society gymkhana.

I’m looking forward to serving as a reveiwer for this. www.ipcc.ch/report/speci...

For Acadians in southwest Nova Scotia, the mysterious Belliveau apple is a tangible link to the past Untangling the roots of a hardy heirloom apple with ties to the Acadian deportations

Love this. ❤️ canadiangeographic.ca/articles/for... @karenpinchin.bsky.social

Thinking and writing about protecting coastal communities against storms and erosion, how could I not return to Eden Robinson’s Monkey Beach (2000)?

Emptying out the U-Haul of my mom’s household stuff at the Goodwill donation centre today, and the woman working there, realizing what’s happened, takes the last box and says, “Be brave.” At a time when so much sucks about the world, she was just a kind soul being kind. ❤️

I put the bees to bed for the winter. Fingers crossed they make it through their first Alberta winter. #Beekeeping

Driving through central Alberta. Dry sloughs everywhere. Wild.

In 50 years I have never not seen water in this slough.

My cover story in the next issue of The Walrus.

Her happy place.

Oh sure, Canada has maples and larches that do the fall colours thing. But what about the humble trembling aspen?

Oh, Alberta... #freedomofinformation

“We are not, of course, in dire need of roads, transmission towers, dams, reservoirs, and gas pipelines. We are in dire need of courtesy. We are in dire need of a broadly intelligent conversation about human fate.” Barry Lopez wrote that in 1996. If anything, it’s truer today, 29 years later.

Just imagine a “fossil-fuel non-proliferation treaty.”

I missed this in July! The International Court of Justice has ruled in favour of an action led by Vanuatu: countries could be in violation of international law if they fail to take measures to protect the planet from climate change, and those harmed could be entitled to reparations.

Wow. I made peach cobbler and one bite brought me right back to my dad’s lunch breaks from our family store and Hungry Man TV Dinners. You know, the ones with a triangles of meat-like product and instant mashed potatoes. I could almost taste the aluminum foil. What flavour brings you back?