Shari Laliberte RN PhD

Locking people up for being poor, sick, or in crisis doesn’t solve the problem and in fact makes it worse. When people are detained instead of supported, they often lose housing, jobs, and vital connections. That instability drives desperation, which fuels crime and social harm. (1/6)

Friday, October 17, 2025 (12–2 PM EST): A Future Without Poverty: National Dialogue 2025 webinar marking the UN International Day for the Eradication of Poverty with NGO leaders to examine systemic poverty and inequality in Canada/solutions: Register here to join dialogue: lnkd.in/gzUPqPe6

2024/25 Health Care Excellence report re: diverse innovative health care to meet community needs from de-prescribing thru community education to innovative locations of primary care clinics in libraries, inter-professional practice www.healthcareexcellence.ca/en/about/abo...

Looking forward to this webinar on health co-ops and challenges/opportunities in delivering accessible, community-centered care through co-op/shared governance w Dr. Coralie Darcis Nov 5 10am PST hosted by the Canadian Centre for the Study of Cooperatives RSVP here: tinyurl.com/darciscoopco...

Societal inequality linked to structural brain changes in children Income inequality in society has been linked to structural changes in the brains of children who go on to experience poorer mental health.

"This isn't just about individual family income—it is about how income is distributed in society. Both children from wealthy and lower-income families showed altered neurodevelopment and we established that this has a lasting impact on well-being."

UBI trials can't test this. We need to just do it.

On this week’s cover of The Lancet, a new letter: “Gaza’s healthocide: medical societies must not stay silent.”

Here is link to their letter and more in latest issue: hubs.li/Q03M2Sqj0

“Economic democracy is a system where people share ownership and decision making over the power and resources in their communities. Rather than profit and pure self-interest, it is grounded in values of solidarity, cooperation, democracy, and sustainability.”

Opinion: B.C. has a revenue problem, not a spending problem Experience from early 2000s shows that underfunding public services and failing to address poverty leads to higher economic and social costs

BC folks! Outstanding piece here by @iglikaivanova.bsky.social, co-ED of @bcpolicy.bsky.social.

BC has a revenue problem, not a spending problem

The solution to BC’s fiscal challenges isn’t spending cuts. Instead, BC needs progressive revenue measures.

Read on 👇
vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...

Opinion: B.C. has a revenue problem, not a spending problem Experience from early 2000s shows that underfunding public services and failing to address poverty leads to higher economic and social costs

“B.C. faces record high income inequality: richest 20% hold 53%of disposable income, the highest in Canada, while the poorest 20% hold only 3%. The growing concentration of income and wealth creates a moral imperative & economic opportunity for progressive taxation” vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...

5th Annual Peter Jaffe Lectures on Ending Domestic Violence: Gender-Based Violence and Violent Extremism
Dr. Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Professor American University
Founding Director, Polarization and Extremism Wednesday, December 3, 2025 | 3:00 - 4:30 pm ET RSVP www.westernconnect.ca/site/Calenda...

On Sunday, the International Association of Genocide Scholars said that Israel’s nearly two-year military campaign in Gaza, which has killed tens of thousands of people and left swaths of the enclave in rubble, meets “the legal definition of genocide.”

US oil and gas air pollution causes unequal health impacts Air pollution from oil and gas is causing 91,000 premature deaths and hundreds of thousands of health issues across the United States annually, with Black, Asian, Native American and Hispanic groups c...

Research led by Prof Eloise Marais @uclgeography.bsky.social, Dr Karn Vohra @unibirmingham.bsky.social, and @sei.org, published in #ScienceAdvances @science.org, finds that air pollution from oil & gas causes 91,000 premature deaths & hundreds of thousands of health issues across the US annually…

BC isn’t broke!

Equip yourself with arguments to challenge austerity narratives in favour of more sustainable, progressive policy solutions like fair taxation & robust public investment.

Join our webinar with senior economist @iglikaivanova.bsky.social‬, Sep 17, noon PT.

💔 5 days before her surgery, Ontario cut healthcare for migrants. This put Maria & her baby's life at risk.

@ontariosdoctors.bsky.social is advocating to cover medically necessary care for uninsured patients like Maria 👏

Sign the petition to expand coverage: healthcare4all.ca

Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war Figures from classified IDF database listed 8,900 named fighters as dead or probably dead in May, as overall death toll reached 53,000 Figures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database indicate five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza have been civilians, an extreme rate of slaughter rarely matched in recent decades of warfare. As of May, 19 months into the war, Israeli intelligence officials listed 8,900 named fighters from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad as dead or “probably dead”, a joint investigation by the Guardian, the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and the Hebrew-language outlet Local Call has found. 8,900 Named fighters listed as dead or ‘probably dead’ in Israeli database as of May 2025 Continue reading...

Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war

www.ingauge.ca/current/cana...

Ontario’s colleges are a safety net for workers. It’s time the government funds them properly. - CCPA Ontario's colleges stand at a critical crossroads. For decades, the province's college system has endured severe funding shortfalls, with Ontario contributing less than 25 per cent of operating revenu...

College education significantly ⬇️ poverty rates—& those reductions are significantly higher for marginalized groups. Households led by non-racialized men are 5.4 percentage points less likely to be low-income compared to those with only high school education www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Fraserview housing coop accepting applications:

fraserviewcoop.ca

As a nurse I've signed this petition as part of advocating for Guaranteed Livable Basic Income (to draw on MP Leah Gazan's framing of BI) and Universal Basic Services to enable all citizens the resources for health, well-being, and thriving

Doctors who stand with Palestine. Human rights for all. ❤️‍🩹✊

The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women

"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."

Global firms ‘profiting from genocide’ in Gaza, says UN rapporteur Report by Francesca Albanese singles out companies such as Palantir and calls for prosecutions

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Deep respect for this life saving advocacy

To sit with fellow health workers and contemplate ways to bring love and compassion back into health and healing work & our relations with each other as health workers to enable healing for all beings and relations, join the 3rd Wed of each month here centreformindfulness.kelty.link/blog/2024/12...

Intergenerational Healing Intergenerational Healing Summit 28 July – 1 August 2025 A five day summit on using compassion to support ourselves and the next generation. Sign Up A Summit on Compassion between Generations Days of ...

Shared by Dr. Dzung Vo from BC Children’s hospital who also founded/hosts Wakeful Wednesday’s (see invite in next post): This is amazing to see their connections between mindfulness, inter-generational healing, and social Justice: www.globalcompassioncoalition.org/courses-2/in...

@medwma.bsky.social calls on #Israel Govt to ensure humanitarian aid reaches #Gaza. @ashokphilip.bsky.social WMA Pres. : “It is a matter of humanity not to let the people of Gaza face starvation or be denied health care"🔗 🇬🇧 ow.ly/Tmbk50VUN32 🇫🇷 ow.ly/yRWv50VUN31 🇪🇸 ow.ly/QHI750VUN33 #MedSky #IHL

I think about the people who have resisted against colonial violence and erasure - and it was not simply about fighting for what you are willing to die for, but fighting for what you are hoping to live for - an expression of love for your people, for humanity, for dignity.

📢 NEXT WEEK! There is still time to register for our upcoming webinar on community organizing. Invite your colleagues and networks!

Register now 👉https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SxgvqHvmTfOuO2EnMYrdiA

All invited to join in honouring & mourning children who have been separated from their parents and kinship circles in colonial child welfare systems, adoption, immigration & family court systems this Thurs Grandview park 5:30pm hosted by Keeping Families Together and West Coast LEAF