Christine Gibson MD
@christygibson.bsky.social
Physician - author ModernTrauma.com - speaker TEDx 2 - health equity - climate - transdisciplinarian. Treaty 7🏳️🌈🧡
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I wrote a book about trauma and how to heal at individual and community levels. It’s accessible, inclusive… well - maybe don’t take my word for it… order at ModernTrauma.com
What’s most at risk is food, water, clean air, and safety (physical and psychological). And no politicians are meeting their global commitments. Canada’s budget should reflect the climate-related polycrisis. There is no prosperity without a livable planet. @mark-carney.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
What’s most at risk is food, water, clean air, and safety (physical and psychological). And no politicians are meeting their global commitments. Canada’s budget should reflect the climate-related polycrisis. There is no prosperity without a livable planet. @mark-carney.bsky.social
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Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
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Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
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November 6, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
I mask outdoors anytime the AQI is moderate or high, but I am the only one doing so. We have become triggered by the sight of a mask in our society that people can no longer consider reasonable preventative health behaviors.
A peer-reviewed study says smoke from record-breaking Canadian wildfires in 2023 caused an estimated 5,400 acute deaths and about 82,100 premature deaths worldwide.
Study estimates 2023 Canadian wildfire smoke caused more than 80,000 deaths globally
A peer-reviewed study says smoke from record-breaking Canadian wildfires in 2023 caused an estimated 5,400 acute deaths and about 82,100 premature deaths worldwide.
cheknews.ca
September 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I mask outdoors anytime the AQI is moderate or high, but I am the only one doing so. We have become triggered by the sight of a mask in our society that people can no longer consider reasonable preventative health behaviors.
The wildest thing about it is he’s claiming that there’s a lack of corruption from the cardiac surgeon who promoted (branded?) raspberry ketones for weight loss. Just wow.
September 4, 2025 at 9:53 PM
The wildest thing about it is he’s claiming that there’s a lack of corruption from the cardiac surgeon who promoted (branded?) raspberry ketones for weight loss. Just wow.
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Mandating Indoor Air Quality in Public Buildings.
Our paper in Science.
🧪 #healthpolicy
Mandating Indoor Air Quality in Public Buildings.
Our paper in Science.
🧪 #healthpolicy
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September 2, 2025 at 1:32 PM
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
Mandating Indoor Air Quality in Public Buildings.
Our paper in Science.
🧪 #healthpolicy
Mandating Indoor Air Quality in Public Buildings.
Our paper in Science.
🧪 #healthpolicy
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3/8 The U.S. government recently made it illegal to include equity, diversity and inclusion requirements in medical school accreditation.
This policy shift gave Canadian associations "an enhanced duty to protect EDI principles."
Different values demand different paths.
#EDI #HealthEquity
This policy shift gave Canadian associations "an enhanced duty to protect EDI principles."
Different values demand different paths.
#EDI #HealthEquity
September 3, 2025 at 1:44 AM
3/8 The U.S. government recently made it illegal to include equity, diversity and inclusion requirements in medical school accreditation.
This policy shift gave Canadian associations "an enhanced duty to protect EDI principles."
Different values demand different paths.
#EDI #HealthEquity
This policy shift gave Canadian associations "an enhanced duty to protect EDI principles."
Different values demand different paths.
#EDI #HealthEquity
The Canadian north is on fire. Making it even more inevitable that can Inuit people along our Arctic coast will suffer the worst of this climate emergency, with rates of warming among the fastest in the world. We need to divest from fossil fuels. But when the AQI is high, we also need to #MaskUp
September 2, 2025 at 8:32 PM
The Canadian north is on fire. Making it even more inevitable that can Inuit people along our Arctic coast will suffer the worst of this climate emergency, with rates of warming among the fastest in the world. We need to divest from fossil fuels. But when the AQI is high, we also need to #MaskUp
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Choking smoke spewed by wildfires is far more dangerous than previously thought, a new study has found, with death tolls from short-term exposure to fine particulates underestimated by more than 90 per cent. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/02/n...
Wildfire smoke far more dangerous to health than thought, say scientists
Choking smoke spewed by wildfires is far more dangerous than previously thought, a new study has found, with death tolls from short-term exposure to fine particulates underestimated by more than 90 pe...
www.nationalobserver.com
September 2, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Choking smoke spewed by wildfires is far more dangerous than previously thought, a new study has found, with death tolls from short-term exposure to fine particulates underestimated by more than 90 per cent. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/02/n...
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It is not Ukraine Russia war.
Russia invaded Ukraine. Media needs to frame it so it reflects facts and doesn’t minimize the invasion of a sovereign nation.
Slava Ukraine
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Russia invaded Ukraine. Media needs to frame it so it reflects facts and doesn’t minimize the invasion of a sovereign nation.
Slava Ukraine
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Viktor Kravchuk (@viktorkravchuk)
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August 21, 2025 at 9:06 PM
It is not Ukraine Russia war.
Russia invaded Ukraine. Media needs to frame it so it reflects facts and doesn’t minimize the invasion of a sovereign nation.
Slava Ukraine
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Russia invaded Ukraine. Media needs to frame it so it reflects facts and doesn’t minimize the invasion of a sovereign nation.
Slava Ukraine
substack.com/@viktorkravc...
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🔥 Wildfires have displaced tens of thousands, destroyed communities, & burned 7.3M hectares this year in Canada.
Our Signed, Seared, Delivered postcards show iconic Canadian landscapes at risk.
📬 Send yours to Ottawa to demand action for a climate-safe future: www.signedseareddelivered.com
Our Signed, Seared, Delivered postcards show iconic Canadian landscapes at risk.
📬 Send yours to Ottawa to demand action for a climate-safe future: www.signedseareddelivered.com
August 18, 2025 at 6:58 PM
🔥 Wildfires have displaced tens of thousands, destroyed communities, & burned 7.3M hectares this year in Canada.
Our Signed, Seared, Delivered postcards show iconic Canadian landscapes at risk.
📬 Send yours to Ottawa to demand action for a climate-safe future: www.signedseareddelivered.com
Our Signed, Seared, Delivered postcards show iconic Canadian landscapes at risk.
📬 Send yours to Ottawa to demand action for a climate-safe future: www.signedseareddelivered.com
These Guardian headlines are so incongruent. We need politicians to seize their ability to take collective action. Or we need a sufficiently alarmed community-based response. #ClimateChange is the biggest risk we face - the rest is distraction.
August 15, 2025 at 1:38 PM
These Guardian headlines are so incongruent. We need politicians to seize their ability to take collective action. Or we need a sufficiently alarmed community-based response. #ClimateChange is the biggest risk we face - the rest is distraction.
So many more places to sign the #ForeverCanadian petition in #YYC. We can sign enough to prevent Alberta separation from getting a vote!
August 13, 2025 at 4:51 AM
So many more places to sign the #ForeverCanadian petition in #YYC. We can sign enough to prevent Alberta separation from getting a vote!
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UPDATE:
Join us tomorrow, on Saturday, near Edmonton’s Strathcona Farmers’ Market, at the Gazebo Park, starting at 10am, and register as a signature collector. Also, sign the #ForeverCanadian petition.
You can register to collect signatures at Forever-Canadian.ca
#Yeg
Join us tomorrow, on Saturday, near Edmonton’s Strathcona Farmers’ Market, at the Gazebo Park, starting at 10am, and register as a signature collector. Also, sign the #ForeverCanadian petition.
You can register to collect signatures at Forever-Canadian.ca
#Yeg
August 1, 2025 at 7:11 PM
UPDATE:
Join us tomorrow, on Saturday, near Edmonton’s Strathcona Farmers’ Market, at the Gazebo Park, starting at 10am, and register as a signature collector. Also, sign the #ForeverCanadian petition.
You can register to collect signatures at Forever-Canadian.ca
#Yeg
Join us tomorrow, on Saturday, near Edmonton’s Strathcona Farmers’ Market, at the Gazebo Park, starting at 10am, and register as a signature collector. Also, sign the #ForeverCanadian petition.
You can register to collect signatures at Forever-Canadian.ca
#Yeg
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Globe reporter @carrietait.bsky.social was harassed online and followed and photographed.
This piece lists all the stories that Carrie and @alannasmith.bsky.social uncovered about Alberta's healthcare system, from the Turkish meds to the hockey tickets.
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...
This piece lists all the stories that Carrie and @alannasmith.bsky.social uncovered about Alberta's healthcare system, from the Turkish meds to the hockey tickets.
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...
Alberta Insider: Globe journalist targeted online
Carrie Tait has been investigating allegations of political interference at the provincial health authority in Alberta
www.theglobeandmail.com
July 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Globe reporter @carrietait.bsky.social was harassed online and followed and photographed.
This piece lists all the stories that Carrie and @alannasmith.bsky.social uncovered about Alberta's healthcare system, from the Turkish meds to the hockey tickets.
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...
This piece lists all the stories that Carrie and @alannasmith.bsky.social uncovered about Alberta's healthcare system, from the Turkish meds to the hockey tickets.
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...
I’m so shocked that judges don’t have to study #ModernTrauma deeply - to understand how traumatic memories are stored. They’re fragmented, based on emotions and sensation, and often not chronological. The fact a witness is inconsistent may mean she’s more traumatized. They need mandatory training.
Ontario Superior Court Justice Maria Carroccia delivered her ruling today in the sexual assault trial for five former members of Canada’s world junior hockey team.
July 25, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I’m so shocked that judges don’t have to study #ModernTrauma deeply - to understand how traumatic memories are stored. They’re fragmented, based on emotions and sensation, and often not chronological. The fact a witness is inconsistent may mean she’s more traumatized. They need mandatory training.
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👏The Siksika and Kainai Nations are pushing back on the Alberta government's move to allow coal in the foothills and Rocky Mountains. AWA fully supports this challenge! The moratorium on coal should never have been lifted.
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#MountainsNotMines #Rockies #abpoli #ableg 🌎
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#MountainsNotMines #Rockies #abpoli #ableg 🌎
Siksika and Kainai Challenge Alberta’s Recission of Coal Mining Moratorium in the Eastern Slopes - JFK Law - Canada
On July 2, 2025, Siksika Nation (“Siksika”) and Kainai Nation (Blood Tribe) (“Kainai”) (collectively, the “Nations”) filed judicial review applications...
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July 8, 2025 at 8:13 PM
👏The Siksika and Kainai Nations are pushing back on the Alberta government's move to allow coal in the foothills and Rocky Mountains. AWA fully supports this challenge! The moratorium on coal should never have been lifted.
jfklaw.ca/siksika-and-...
#MountainsNotMines #Rockies #abpoli #ableg 🌎
jfklaw.ca/siksika-and-...
#MountainsNotMines #Rockies #abpoli #ableg 🌎
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A man with a scorpion bite.
A woman with cholera.
A diabetic who needed insulin.
A 3-year-old boy.
They all died when the U.S. stopped sending medicine to Sudan.
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A woman with cholera.
A diabetic who needed insulin.
A 3-year-old boy.
They all died when the U.S. stopped sending medicine to Sudan.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
June 29, 2025 at 9:19 PM
A man with a scorpion bite.
A woman with cholera.
A diabetic who needed insulin.
A 3-year-old boy.
They all died when the U.S. stopped sending medicine to Sudan.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
A woman with cholera.
A diabetic who needed insulin.
A 3-year-old boy.
They all died when the U.S. stopped sending medicine to Sudan.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
Withholding social services to immigrants would lead to longer ED wait times, lack of temporary foreign workers, and more racial inequity. Gross. Just gross.
Alberta Next survey asks if province should withhold social services for immigrants
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Alberta Next survey asks if province should withhold social services for immigrants
CALGARY — Whether Alberta should withhold social services from immigrants is among the issues Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is tabling for debate this summer when she travels the province to consult ...
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June 25, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Withholding social services to immigrants would lead to longer ED wait times, lack of temporary foreign workers, and more racial inequity. Gross. Just gross.
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Canadians family doctor shortage continues to worsen, “over six million people in Canada don’t have a regular family doctor … family doctors are highly valued by Canadians as an irreplaceable partner in health care.”
We complain and nothing gets done.
#Canada
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We complain and nothing gets done.
#Canada
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June 24, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Canadians family doctor shortage continues to worsen, “over six million people in Canada don’t have a regular family doctor … family doctors are highly valued by Canadians as an irreplaceable partner in health care.”
We complain and nothing gets done.
#Canada
www.cfpc.ca/en/News-and-...
We complain and nothing gets done.
#Canada
www.cfpc.ca/en/News-and-...
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Sometimes overlooked is what Indigenous peoples are doing for clean energy in this country. Something well worth celebrating this National Indigenous History Month
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4 innovative Indigenous-led clean energy projects | CBC News
In this week's issue of our environmental newsletter, we profile a few of the thousands of Indigenous-led clean energy projects across Canada, see the winning image from this year's Bird Photographer ...
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June 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Sometimes overlooked is what Indigenous peoples are doing for clean energy in this country. Something well worth celebrating this National Indigenous History Month
www.cbc.ca/news/science...
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This is why we need to be collecting more race based data in healthcare. Often what we find is quite condemning of the system. But if we don’t look for it, we can’t change things. The CMA is modifying its code of ethics to be more overly anti-racist, specifically addressing anti-Indigenous racism.
Race-based data collected in Manitoba's health-care systems suggests Indigenous, African and Black patients are waiting longer in Winnipeg emergency rooms and often leave without seeing a doctor.
Manitoba looked at racism in healthcare
Racism can be a factor affecting wait times and care provided by Manitoba's emergency departments, report says
www.aptnnews.ca
June 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
This is why we need to be collecting more race based data in healthcare. Often what we find is quite condemning of the system. But if we don’t look for it, we can’t change things. The CMA is modifying its code of ethics to be more overly anti-racist, specifically addressing anti-Indigenous racism.
We have only experienced the tip of the iceberg as to how Covid affects the human body long term. There hasn’t been enough time to see the causal links. We should be doing everything we can to prevent it - especially in kids.
My latest in @edmontonjournal.com . The Journal of the American Medical Association recently advised Long COVID in kids may have now surpassed asthma as the leading paediatric chronic illness.
Danielle Smith's response: start charging for and limiting vaccines.
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Danielle Smith's response: start charging for and limiting vaccines.
edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
Opinion: UCP's COVID vaccine cuts put children at serious risk
A policy of ending pediatric COVID vaccination will disable, hospitalize and even kill Albertan children, leaving blood on Smith’s hands.
edmontonjournal.com
June 17, 2025 at 4:06 AM
We have only experienced the tip of the iceberg as to how Covid affects the human body long term. There hasn’t been enough time to see the causal links. We should be doing everything we can to prevent it - especially in kids.
Calgary! The DI is critically low on towels
Please donate all items to their donation center at 3640 11a St NE, Calgary, AB T2E 6M7. M-Su 9-5
Please also click the link below to see their Amazon wish list for other critical needs!
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Please donate all items to their donation center at 3640 11a St NE, Calgary, AB T2E 6M7. M-Su 9-5
Please also click the link below to see their Amazon wish list for other critical needs!
www.amazon.ca/hz/wishlist/...
June 14, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Calgary! The DI is critically low on towels
Please donate all items to their donation center at 3640 11a St NE, Calgary, AB T2E 6M7. M-Su 9-5
Please also click the link below to see their Amazon wish list for other critical needs!
www.amazon.ca/hz/wishlist/...
Please donate all items to their donation center at 3640 11a St NE, Calgary, AB T2E 6M7. M-Su 9-5
Please also click the link below to see their Amazon wish list for other critical needs!
www.amazon.ca/hz/wishlist/...
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Spotted near the Calgary airport for President Zelenskyy’s arrival. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
🌻🇺🇦Slava Ukraini. Heroiam Slava🇺🇦🌻
❤️🇨🇦🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧 WE STAND WITH #UKRAINE🇨🇦🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧❤️
🌻🇺🇦Slava Ukraini. Heroiam Slava🇺🇦🌻
❤️🇨🇦🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧 WE STAND WITH #UKRAINE🇨🇦🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧❤️
June 13, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Spotted near the Calgary airport for President Zelenskyy’s arrival. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
🌻🇺🇦Slava Ukraini. Heroiam Slava🇺🇦🌻
❤️🇨🇦🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧 WE STAND WITH #UKRAINE🇨🇦🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧❤️
🌻🇺🇦Slava Ukraini. Heroiam Slava🇺🇦🌻
❤️🇨🇦🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧 WE STAND WITH #UKRAINE🇨🇦🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧❤️
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For @thewalrus.ca, I wrote about this latest chapter for Alberta separatism and what makes this time a bit different. thewalrus.ca/alberta-is-t...
Alberta Is Talking about Separating—AGAIN | The Walrus
What's their problem?
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June 8, 2025 at 6:19 PM
For @thewalrus.ca, I wrote about this latest chapter for Alberta separatism and what makes this time a bit different. thewalrus.ca/alberta-is-t...