Monika Dutt
@monikadutt.bsky.social
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Health Policy PhD candidate (McMaster), Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Family Doctor (Ally Centre of Cape Breton); interests: labour justice, health/health care policy, public health
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Glad to hear the first caller on CBC Check-Up ask about why the genocide in Gaza was being glossed over/ignored (on this show and and in coverage in genera). Unfortunate that the question was avoided.
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Statistics Canada data reveals temp foreign workers in healthcare up 1,700% in 20 yrs. Insecure status = exploitation & worse care. As @danyaalraza.com says: bad conditions for workers = bad for patients. Permanent status for all = health for all. #Justice4Workers www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
Use of temporary foreign workers soars in Canadian health care
The number of temporary foreign workers in Canada’s health-care sector has soared over the past two decades, rising by nearly 1,700 per cent between 2000 and 2022, as the country
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Cuts coming to the Public Health Agency of Canada...this is not good.

v the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC)
Encouraging people to be a Fluwatcher (+ Covid-19 watcher). It's a weekly survey that takes less than a minute to do and helps create better data to monitor and understand the spread of respiratory diseases across the country.

Sign-up here: public.cnphi-rcrsp.ca/fluWatcher/r...
Great to see updated Core Competencies for Public Health! Developed by the National Collaborating Centres for Public Health. nccph.ca/projects/202...
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Workers defying back-to-work orders shows growing mistrust of a system stacked against them. Govt bias fuels militancy and pushes unions beyond legal labour action. My comments in @thestar.com #canlab #aircanadastrike #aircanadaflightattendants @cupescfp.bsky.social

www.thestar.com/business/air...
Air Canada strike: Union defies back-to-work order. ‘If it means jail, so be it’
CUPE union president Mark Hancock is refusing to obey Ottawa's orders.
www.thestar.com
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Defying an order to end the strike, the union's president proclaimed:

"If we stick together, they can’t fire us all."

Here's what Air Canada flight attendants are fighting for:

pressprogress.ca/air-canada-f...
What Air Canada’s Flight Attendants Are Fighting For
Defying an order to end the strike, union president Wesley Lesosky proclaimed,
pressprogress.ca
Where are they? By terminal 1?
I'm one of the many people who has had long-planned vacation flights completely thrown off this week...AND I completely support the flight attendants. It's Air Canada that has created this situation through paying low wages and demanding unpaid labour.
“No one should accept being forced to work for free, for hours and hours, every day. No one should accept being forced to work for poverty wages for years in a profession, just to earn a dignifying living. That’s what this is about,” said CUPE Air Canada Component president Wesley Lesosky.
Noooo.

Frustrating and maybe not surprising that airline attendants were so quickly prevented from acting on their right to strike.
I support Air Canada airline attendants, a workforce that is majority women, as they fight for a fair wage -- and not having to volunteer their labour.
Dr. Jennifer Turnbull on the current situation in #Gaza. They make the important point that the "hunger crisis" in Gaze is, in fact, a "manufactured condition of forced starvation".

www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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On August 5, @cdndrsformedicare.bsky.social is hosting a webinar to explore how to cope with heat—and how better medicare could save lives.
Can't wait to join 2 of my heroes, @monikadutt.bsky.social + @edwardxie.bsky.social, and all of you, in conversation.
Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Screenshot of registration page for Canadian Doctors For Medicare's Webinar on Heatwaves: protecting health in a climate crisis
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With most of Canada under heat 🚨 warnings this week, I'll be hosting a conversation on #heatwaves and #health with @drmelissalem.bsky.social & @monikadutt.bsky.social

Join us August 5 at 7pm ET / 4pm PT us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Thanks @cdndrsformedicare.bsky.social & @cape-acme.bsky.social
Webinar on Heatwaves: protecting health in a climate crisis

Canada is heating up twice as fast as the global average. Extreme heat is putting increasing strain on our health and health systems. Join us on August 5 at 7 pm ET to learn about ways to cope with heat and how better Medicare could save lives.

To register for the webinar follow the link

We’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Melissa Lem and Dr. Monika Dutt to the panel, with Dr. Edward Xie moderating the discussion.

We look forward to seeing you there!
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"Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is healthcare."
CBC's What On Earth turned 5 this week, and invited some of their favourite guests back to mark the occasion.
Honoured to join Anabela Bonda + Cat Abreu, hosted by @jasondsouza.bsky.social.
Listen: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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Screenshot of CBC Radio's What On Earth webpage showing the episode "What On Earth turns 5! What's changed in the climate fight?" Melissa, Anabela Bonada and Catherine Abreu in the virtual Riverside recording room after their interview for CBC Radio's What On Earth with Jason D'Souza
Should be fixed now! Thanks for pointing that out.
Please share and/or complete this survey if:

- you are a worker in BC who gained paid sick days through legislation in Jan 2022 OR
- you are a worker in ON without paid sick days

Link to survey here: redcap.link/paidsickdays or via QR code.

DM me for Spanish/Tagalog/Punjabi posters.
The possibility of universal pharmacare in Canada should factor into who you vote for this election.