As we near the final days of Ramadan, I hope we can support children and orphans in Syria celebrate this upcoming Eid with new clothes and gifts too.
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Something special during Chinese lunar new year is getting and wearing new clothes. I am grateful to have grown up with family members who did this for me.
Israel has decimated the healthcare system in Palestine by attacking all hospitals in Gaza, and targeting and killing Palestinian healthcare workers.
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The Ministry of Public Health in Lebanon started this type of report during the covid-19 pandemic, and now it is being used to update on an entirely man-made crisis because of Israeli airstrikes, including on healthcare. Israel continues to enjoy impunity to attack healthcare.
Supervised consumption sites are a healthcare service for people who use drugs. To deny and defund medically necessary healthcare services in the toxic drug crisis environment is abhorrent and deeply unjust.
Harm reduction saves lives. The Ontario government’s decision to cut all public funding for supervised consumption sites in the province is a deadly policy decision that will result in more deaths from overdoses.
This decision to withdraw all public funding for supervised consumption sites is a death sentence to likely many patients and people who access these services.
Having worked with patients who access safe consumption sites, I know that this is a life-saving healthcare service.
Some sites also offer drug checking services to determine whether the patients’ drugs have been laced with toxic substances. All of this is essential and medically necessary healthcare for people who use drugs.
They allow people to use previously-obtained drugs under the supervision of a healthcare worker. They provide sterile supplies, overdose prevention and management, as well as low-barrier access to other health and social support services.
Supervised consumption sites operate from a harm reduction approach with the primary goal of keeping people alive and preventing overdose deaths.
As a family doctor, I understand the important work of harm reduction as treatment, and the importance of other treatment services for substance use.
Yesterday the Ontario government gave notice to all publicly funded supervised consumption sites that their funding will be cut after 90 days, and thus will be forced to cease operations on June 13, 2026.
To deny and defund medically necessary healthcare services in the toxic drug crisis environment is abhorrent and deeply unjust.
Harm reduction saves lives. The Ontario government's decision to cut all public funding for supervised consumption sites in the province is a deadly policy decision that will result in more deaths from overdoses. Supervised consumption sites are a healthcare service for people who use drugs.
Israel is attacking and killing healthcare workers in Lebanon, like they have done in Palestine. Over the past two weeks, 26 healthcare workers including doctors, nurses, and paramedics in Lebanon have been killed by Israeli airstrikes. Killed for caring for their people.
My statement on Al-Quds Day:
Free Palestine.
Within our lifetimes.
Solidarity forever.
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Let us remain expansive in our capacity for remaining human in the face of incomprehensible suffering. Let us channel our rage and grief into solidarity as an act of love to fight for health and human rights for all. Grateful for the good people who work towards a better world.
I have cast my vote for @avilewis.ca today to be the next federal NDP leader. I have witnessed how his campaign is a spillover of a broader social political movement to fight against fascism. This struggle is rooted in love for a different world, and solidarity as love made visible.
When I visited northern Syria, I learned of the vital healthcare services like dialysis care for people with chronic kidney disease or kidney failure. This is lifesaving care for people, made possible because of helpers like SEMA.
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I keep thinking about this. “By standing in solidarity with Palestine, we are learning how to fight for life on earth” - Sally Rooney
The Canadian Boat to #Gaza is Sailing again, with the #FreedomFlotilla @freedomflotilla.bsky.social as part of the upcoming #Flotilla2026 this spring – and we need your help to #BreakGazaBlockade.
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Again, in 2026, we are sending a boat to join with many other campaigns in a joint and coordinated effort to challenge the blockade and to demonstrate that the people of Gaza are not alone in their struggle for justice.
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But above all, we have sent ships to challenge Israel’s inhumane and illegal blockade of Gaza.
The Canadian Boat to Gaza has been challenging the Israeli blockade since 2011. We have sent ships to raise awareness of the crimes being committed in Gaza and to provide humanitarian and medical aid to the beleaguered citizens of Gaza.
On this International Women’s Day, I am thinking of the women in my life who have helped shape me. Like my mom, they are gentle and fierce warriors. Their strength, courage, and love has informed me in the struggle against patriarchy and for gender equality.
Israel has been attacking hospitals and health facilities in Iran. Their policy and practice of targeting and destroying healthcare in Palestine as a method of unlawful and immoral warfare is being exported and used on Iran.
I think anyone with a heart would be truly against fuelling an economy of militarism and genocide if they actually understood the human and environmental costs of war.
Speak up and organize, despite fear and repression. Our courage to push through is what makes us human. Our commitment to human rights for all, is what makes us human.
Speak truth to power. Even if your voice trembles, and your knees shake. Believe me, I have been there.
