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Canada Hardcover 🇨🇦 @canadahardcover.bsky.social · Aug 16

HCWs need easy and free access to vaccines. Without the vaccine, there is greater risk that they will pick up Covid or the flu and pass it on to a vulnerable resident.

Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · Aug 16

Hey AB, let's talk about vaccine access - specifically what it used to be like for busy HCWs caring for sick ABs with highly infectious diseases🧵 :
- in the hospitals, roving vaccine teams would come around and give you a shot while on shift!
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New COVID-19 vaccine policy: Why we are concerned | AMA

The Alberta government has introduced significant changes to the way Albertans will access COVID-19 vaccines this fall. ...

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Corey Hogan 🇨🇦 @coreyhogan.ca · Jun 7

“From 1981 to 2015, there were an average of 18 smoke hours per year in the city of Calgary. No year had over 100.

Now we see hundreds of smoke hours routinely: 315 in 2017, 450 in 2018, 439 in 2021, 512 in 2023, and 2024 was ‘only’ 200.”

Debates (Hansard) No. 7 - June 3, 2025 (45-1) - House of Commons of Canada

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Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦 @shastingssimon.bsky.social · Jun 8

It’s really disappointing. The smoke has so many layers of bad - the health impacts, the reminder of the reality of climate change and the overarching reminder that the order we create out of nature is fundamentally so fragile - nature always bats last.
And so few seem fussed.

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · May 24

Fruit Shop, By-Ward Market, Ottawa
Kathleen Moir Morris
c. 1922-1927

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Brian Wirzba @bjwrz.bsky.social · May 23

I have many of his books but was only able to see one of his exhibitions. Standing in front of a massive Sebastião Salgado print is life changing. RIP knowing the world is more truly seen because of your vision🕊

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · May 4

Saguenay
Bobs Cogill Haworth
n.d.

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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · May 3

#SouthSudan: MSF strongly condemns the bombing of its hospital in Old Fangak, Jonglei State.

Bombing of only hospital in Old Fangak puts healthcare of 110,000 people at risk.

www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/south-sudan-...

South Sudan: MSF strongly condemns the bombing of its hospital in Old Fangak, Jonglei State | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) strongly condemns the bombing of its hospital in Old Fangak, South Sudan. The attack began at around 4:30am when two helicopter gunships first dr...

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Alan Drummond MD @dralandrummond.bsky.social · Apr 15

As dementia rates increase, experts warn hospital emergency rooms are underprepared www.timesunion.com/news/article...

As dementia rates increase, experts warn hospital emergency rooms are underprepared

An Associated Press and Side Effects Public Media data analysis shows one in six visits to...

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · Apr 12

Late Evening
Franklin Carmichael
1938

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Dr Joss Reimer @jossreimer.bsky.social · Apr 12

We’re seeing a huge increase in interest of U.S. medical graduates exploring options to practise in Canada. Recruiting doctors and health care workers need to be a priority, on a national level. www.cma.ca/about-us/wha...

Canada must act quickly to turn U.S. ‘brain drain’ into Canadian ‘brain gain’: CMA

Canada must act quickly to attract the American medical and scientific professionals who no longer feel valued in Trump’s United States with its mass layoffs and the elimination of health programs and...

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YoungPepDash @youngpepdash.bsky.social · Apr 6

😂😂😂Yooooooo they figured out that global warming is gonna be worse than we thought and in response they are “examining how to maintain profits” like seriously we are so screwed

Calgary Climate Hub @calgaryclimatehub.ca · Mar 31

"Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and an international banking group have quietly concluded that #ClimateChange will likely exceed the Paris Agreement's 2 degree goal and are examining how to maintain profits." www.scientificamerican.com/article/big-...

Big Banks Quietly Prepare for Catastrophic Warming

Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and an international banking group have quietly concluded that climate change will likely exceed the Paris Agreement's 2 degree goal and are examining how to maintain profits

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · Apr 5

Launching Greyling
Christopher Pratt
1992

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Steve Ricketts @stevericketts.bsky.social · Apr 3

it's as if we have an unhealthy dependence on O&G revenue

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · Apr 2

This is real. Trump appears to be suggesting his tariffs on Canada will result in fentanyl dealers getting dinged at customs.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · Apr 2

The last day on which a majority of the Supreme Court’s justices had been appointed by Democratic presidents was May 14, 1969.

One of the things we do in the legal academy is support our claims with facts.

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Charles Rusnell @charlesrusnell.bsky.social · Apr 2

My latest for @thetyee.ca

Bleeding Money: Alberta's Private Health Shift via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/04...

Bleeding Money: Alberta’s Private Health Shift | The Tyee

The UCP’s surgical initiative has crimped care and raised costs, concludes a report. It’s not a new pattern.

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josh boerman @bosh.worstpossible.world · Apr 2

val kilmer’s turn in TOP SECRET is one of the single best comedy performances ever committed to film, both in terms of comic precision and mechanical virtuosity. just watch this whole clip in its entirety; it’s stunning

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Brian Wirzba @bjwrz.bsky.social · Apr 1

Can confirm that admitting teams have been begging for supports to expand capacity and allow 4 safe care for years. Without it docs have left and fewer admitting teams result. Those teams have safety limits as well. The Frontline HCW is doing their best. We need execs to come, see, listen & act.

Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · Apr 1

Maybe with some actual leadership in the Acute Care Agency, the disintegration will slow, and someone can attempt to address this chaos?

Our HC teams have literally been begging for help to fix our ED overcrowding, yet govt decided "refocusing" was to get 100% of its attn
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · Mar 31

You have to see this.

PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.

20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow

YouTube video by PoliticsGirl

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Mar 29

Hiring your brother is the original affirmative action for white people.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Mar 29

Diversity initiatives were meant to overcome the old patterns of nepotism, so I guess it makes sense that the enemies of diversity are big fans of nepotism.

Jane Mayer @janemayer.bsky.social · Mar 29

Why is Pete Hegseth bringing his wife to top security meetings and hiring his brother at the Pentagon? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Charles Rusnell @charlesrusnell.bsky.social · Mar 30

Is this normal? I mean, journalistically.

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Lisa Kadonaga @tapirtrouble.bsky.social · Mar 29

This is from the Canadian Medical Association, not exactly a bunch of wild radicals.
(also, the chocolate is available online here)
peacebychocolate.ca/products/92g...

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · Mar 29

Breakwater
Christopher Pratt
1976

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Mar 28

Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.

ALL ROAD USERS.

And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.

For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.

Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA

Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.

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Tom Hawthorn 🇨🇦 @tomhawthorn.bsky.social · Mar 27

I'm just hoping Canada 2025 doesn't become France 1940.

Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · Mar 27

“Columbia was just such a warning,” he said. “I just became very worried because I didn’t see a strong enough reaction in other universities .... I see Yale trying not to be a target. That’s a losing strategy.”

Yale Professor who Studies Fascism Flees to Canada
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada

Jason Stanley, who says grandmother fled Berlin with his father in 1939, says US may become ‘fascist dictatorship’

www.theguardian.com

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