Nick Tsergas
@nicktsergas.ca
Editor, @CanadaHealthwatch.ca
Reporting and analysis on the forces shaping Canada’s health system.
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Reporting and analysis on the forces shaping Canada’s health system.
Read my stuff >> know more stuff: canadahealthwatch.ca/newsletter
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What Canada’s new supplement labels still won’t tell you canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/21/w... via @canadahealthwatch.ca
Me: "The marketing of supplements has also become … one of the primary ways that the health misinformation ecosystem is funded."
🚩 Increasingly supplements = red flag for bunk.🚩
Me: "The marketing of supplements has also become … one of the primary ways that the health misinformation ecosystem is funded."
🚩 Increasingly supplements = red flag for bunk.🚩
What Canada’s new supplement labels still won’t tell you
The new rules don’t address the biggest gap of all.
canadahealthwatch.ca
November 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
What Canada’s new supplement labels still won’t tell you canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/21/w... via @canadahealthwatch.ca
Me: "The marketing of supplements has also become … one of the primary ways that the health misinformation ecosystem is funded."
🚩 Increasingly supplements = red flag for bunk.🚩
Me: "The marketing of supplements has also become … one of the primary ways that the health misinformation ecosystem is funded."
🚩 Increasingly supplements = red flag for bunk.🚩
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Everyone’s watching Quebec’s doctor revolt. For good reason.
The real story is in Alberta.
Both governments are testing how far political power can reach into medicine.
Here’s how it looks from 30,000 ft:
The real story is in Alberta.
Both governments are testing how far political power can reach into medicine.
Here’s how it looks from 30,000 ft:
Quebec bleeds doctors, as Alberta invents new methods of overreach canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/26/q... by @nicktsergas.ca
Quebec bleeds doctors, as Alberta invents new methods of overreach
Alberta’s project is qualitatively different. It goes further.
canadahealthwatch.ca
November 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Everyone’s watching Quebec’s doctor revolt. For good reason.
The real story is in Alberta.
Both governments are testing how far political power can reach into medicine.
Here’s how it looks from 30,000 ft:
The real story is in Alberta.
Both governments are testing how far political power can reach into medicine.
Here’s how it looks from 30,000 ft:
Everyone’s watching Quebec’s doctor revolt. For good reason.
The real story is in Alberta.
Both governments are testing how far political power can reach into medicine.
Here’s how it looks from 30,000 ft:
The real story is in Alberta.
Both governments are testing how far political power can reach into medicine.
Here’s how it looks from 30,000 ft:
Quebec bleeds doctors, as Alberta invents new methods of overreach canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/26/q... by @nicktsergas.ca
Quebec bleeds doctors, as Alberta invents new methods of overreach
Alberta’s project is qualitatively different. It goes further.
canadahealthwatch.ca
November 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Everyone’s watching Quebec’s doctor revolt. For good reason.
The real story is in Alberta.
Both governments are testing how far political power can reach into medicine.
Here’s how it looks from 30,000 ft:
The real story is in Alberta.
Both governments are testing how far political power can reach into medicine.
Here’s how it looks from 30,000 ft:
Parliament’s data-dive and Budget 2025 are not separate stories.
What Parliament’s data probe and Budget 2025 have in common
Canada's national curated aggregator for health news, policy updates and analysis.
canadahealthwatch.ca
November 26, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Parliament’s data-dive and Budget 2025 are not separate stories.
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"Fewer than a quarter of U.S. physicians are members of the AMA. Its financial stability now depends mostly on CPT royalties. Economist Matt Stoller notes that financial dependence on a single, government-supported revenue stream leaves the AMA highly vulnerable to political pressure."
The AMA is starting to fracture under political pressure. Our analysis explains what changed this week, and why it matters.
Why the AMA’s actions are raising alarms canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/22/w... by @codeblackamerica.bsky.social, @nicktsergas.ca
November 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
"Fewer than a quarter of U.S. physicians are members of the AMA. Its financial stability now depends mostly on CPT royalties. Economist Matt Stoller notes that financial dependence on a single, government-supported revenue stream leaves the AMA highly vulnerable to political pressure."
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Most kids ask for lullabies or bedtime stories. Tonight, to get him to sleep, my 5-year old insisted that I speak endless streams of nonsense in a Jamaican accent.
Seriously, this is what he wanted. And it worked. Out like a light.
Seriously, this is what he wanted. And it worked. Out like a light.
November 25, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Most kids ask for lullabies or bedtime stories. Tonight, to get him to sleep, my 5-year old insisted that I speak endless streams of nonsense in a Jamaican accent.
Seriously, this is what he wanted. And it worked. Out like a light.
Seriously, this is what he wanted. And it worked. Out like a light.
Reposted by Nick Tsergas
The AMA is starting to fracture under political pressure. Our analysis explains what changed this week, and why it matters.
November 23, 2025 at 4:02 AM
The AMA is starting to fracture under political pressure. Our analysis explains what changed this week, and why it matters.
Retrieved from production-like.nhsd.io/data-and-inf... @1goodtern.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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The AMA is starting to fracture under political pressure. Our analysis explains what changed this week, and why it matters.
November 23, 2025 at 4:02 AM
The AMA is starting to fracture under political pressure. Our analysis explains what changed this week, and why it matters.
Reposted by Nick Tsergas
If we ignore Canada’s mental health crisis, AI companies will exploit it canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/22/i... @spichaksimon.bsky.social
If we ignore Canada’s mental health crisis, AI companies will exploit…
Canada’s mental-health system increasingly pushes people toward AI “alternatives.”
canadahealthwatch.ca
November 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
If we ignore Canada’s mental health crisis, AI companies will exploit it canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/22/i... @spichaksimon.bsky.social
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Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
She called all of it a year and a half ago.
From the archives:
Politicians aren’t doctors, and they shouldn’t pretend to be. canadahealthwatch.ca/2024/02/20/p... @faejohnstone.bsky.social
Politicians aren’t doctors, and they shouldn’t pretend to be. canadahealthwatch.ca/2024/02/20/p... @faejohnstone.bsky.social
Politicians aren’t doctors and they shouldn’t pretend to be.
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November 20, 2025 at 4:59 AM
She called all of it a year and a half ago.
Alberta is moving to a "dual practice" model.
A pediatrician in the province sent me this scenario. It's a look at what healthcare becomes when physicians can work in two systems.
Hypothetical, but not speculative.
New on CHW.
A pediatrician in the province sent me this scenario. It's a look at what healthcare becomes when physicians can work in two systems.
Hypothetical, but not speculative.
New on CHW.
Public or Private? A conversation with your future doctor canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/19/p...
Public or Private? A conversation with your future doctor
Two-tier healthcare has officially arrived.
canadahealthwatch.ca
November 20, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Alberta is moving to a "dual practice" model.
A pediatrician in the province sent me this scenario. It's a look at what healthcare becomes when physicians can work in two systems.
Hypothetical, but not speculative.
New on CHW.
A pediatrician in the province sent me this scenario. It's a look at what healthcare becomes when physicians can work in two systems.
Hypothetical, but not speculative.
New on CHW.
Reposted by Nick Tsergas
Expert says Alberta’s proposed two-tier model would violate the Canada Health Act www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... @alannasmith.bsky.social @danyaalraza.com
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November 19, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Expert says Alberta’s proposed two-tier model would violate the Canada Health Act www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... @alannasmith.bsky.social @danyaalraza.com
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The US isn’t “at risk of losing” its measles elimination status. Just at risk of admitting it.
Canada lost its status earlier this month, and people treated it like an international embarrassment. But let’s be clear:
Canada still has functioning disease-surveillance. The US does not.
(1/3)
Canada lost its status earlier this month, and people treated it like an international embarrassment. But let’s be clear:
Canada still has functioning disease-surveillance. The US does not.
(1/3)
C.D.C. Links Measles Outbreaks in Multiple States for First Time www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/h...
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November 18, 2025 at 5:36 PM
The US isn’t “at risk of losing” its measles elimination status. Just at risk of admitting it.
Canada lost its status earlier this month, and people treated it like an international embarrassment. But let’s be clear:
Canada still has functioning disease-surveillance. The US does not.
(1/3)
Canada lost its status earlier this month, and people treated it like an international embarrassment. But let’s be clear:
Canada still has functioning disease-surveillance. The US does not.
(1/3)
The US isn’t “at risk of losing” its measles elimination status. Just at risk of admitting it.
Canada lost its status earlier this month, and people treated it like an international embarrassment. But let’s be clear:
Canada still has functioning disease-surveillance. The US does not.
(1/3)
Canada lost its status earlier this month, and people treated it like an international embarrassment. But let’s be clear:
Canada still has functioning disease-surveillance. The US does not.
(1/3)
C.D.C. Links Measles Outbreaks in Multiple States for First Time www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/h...
𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
November 18, 2025 at 5:36 PM
The US isn’t “at risk of losing” its measles elimination status. Just at risk of admitting it.
Canada lost its status earlier this month, and people treated it like an international embarrassment. But let’s be clear:
Canada still has functioning disease-surveillance. The US does not.
(1/3)
Canada lost its status earlier this month, and people treated it like an international embarrassment. But let’s be clear:
Canada still has functioning disease-surveillance. The US does not.
(1/3)
Quebec declared a war on doctors it can’t possibly win.
The rest of Canada is aggressively courting physicians, and national licensure is rapidly becoming inevitable.
And as we enter the most physician-mobile era in Canadian history, Quebec is broadcasting:
(1/3)
The rest of Canada is aggressively courting physicians, and national licensure is rapidly becoming inevitable.
And as we enter the most physician-mobile era in Canadian history, Quebec is broadcasting:
(1/3)
Doctor shortage forces 48-hour closure of maternity ward in Saint-Eustache, Que. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/maternity-ward-saint-eustache-9.6980872
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November 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Quebec declared a war on doctors it can’t possibly win.
The rest of Canada is aggressively courting physicians, and national licensure is rapidly becoming inevitable.
And as we enter the most physician-mobile era in Canadian history, Quebec is broadcasting:
(1/3)
The rest of Canada is aggressively courting physicians, and national licensure is rapidly becoming inevitable.
And as we enter the most physician-mobile era in Canadian history, Quebec is broadcasting:
(1/3)
Told ya
Shoppers Drug Mart billed $81M for MedsChecks in 2 years when COVID services waned https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/shoppers-drug-mart-medscheck-billing-9.6981970
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November 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Told ya
Mazier says a national license for doctors is the way forward. The strongest indicator yet that this is becoming the default position in Ottawa.
The debate is no longer over "whether." It's when and how fast.
The debate is no longer over "whether." It's when and how fast.
Conservative health critic backs national doctor licensing in candid interview https://www.pentictonherald.ca/life/article_7f3853c2-3b18-4625-8399-b4ae9388287a.html
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November 17, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Mazier says a national license for doctors is the way forward. The strongest indicator yet that this is becoming the default position in Ottawa.
The debate is no longer over "whether." It's when and how fast.
The debate is no longer over "whether." It's when and how fast.
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The collapse of single-channel authority isn’t news.
People no longer wait for institutions to define what’s true or credible. They confer that legitimacy themselves and do it instantly.
It can’t be solved with a comms plan. You solve it by rebuilding trust across the actual centres of influence.
People no longer wait for institutions to define what’s true or credible. They confer that legitimacy themselves and do it instantly.
It can’t be solved with a comms plan. You solve it by rebuilding trust across the actual centres of influence.
Ideas of influence and impact are shifting under our feet quickly and the days of a single point of institutional truth is clearly gone. Yes, it’s disrupting traditional communications but it shouldn’t be paralyzing. We’ve got work to do h/t @nicktsergas.ca www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/art...
Influencers have more reach on 5 major platforms than news media, politicians: report
More than two-thirds of younger Canadians engage with political content from influencers — and influencers have significantly more reach on five major social media platforms than news media outlets or...
www.ctvnews.ca
November 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The collapse of single-channel authority isn’t news.
People no longer wait for institutions to define what’s true or credible. They confer that legitimacy themselves and do it instantly.
It can’t be solved with a comms plan. You solve it by rebuilding trust across the actual centres of influence.
People no longer wait for institutions to define what’s true or credible. They confer that legitimacy themselves and do it instantly.
It can’t be solved with a comms plan. You solve it by rebuilding trust across the actual centres of influence.
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Is getting a 'mismatched' flu shot still worth it? Yes, absolutely www.cbc.ca/news/health/... @laurenpelley.bsky.social @cbcnews.ca
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November 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Is getting a 'mismatched' flu shot still worth it? Yes, absolutely www.cbc.ca/news/health/... @laurenpelley.bsky.social @cbcnews.ca
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This one has really struck a chord.
Every government treated physician supply as someone else’s problem, until it became everyone’s.
Every government treated physician supply as someone else’s problem, until it became everyone’s.
The doctor shortage isn’t an accident. It was policy. canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/10/c... @codeblackamerica.bsky.social
Canada’s doctor shortage is no accident
It was policy.
canadahealthwatch.ca
November 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
This one has really struck a chord.
Every government treated physician supply as someone else’s problem, until it became everyone’s.
Every government treated physician supply as someone else’s problem, until it became everyone’s.
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My latest at Canada Healthwatch:
"Is the flu vaccine worth getting? (SPOILER: Yes.)"
canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/11/i...
"Is the flu vaccine worth getting? (SPOILER: Yes.)"
canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/11/i...
Is the flu vaccine worth getting? (SPOILER: Yes.)
If you cut your risk in half, isn't that a win?
canadahealthwatch.ca
November 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
My latest at Canada Healthwatch:
"Is the flu vaccine worth getting? (SPOILER: Yes.)"
canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/11/i...
"Is the flu vaccine worth getting? (SPOILER: Yes.)"
canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/11/i...
Hospitals across Canada are closing their ERs because there aren't enough doctors to run them. Millions don’t have a doctor. Millions more can’t get an appointment.
It didn’t used to be this way. Turns out it wasn’t an accident.
It didn’t used to be this way. Turns out it wasn’t an accident.
The doctor shortage isn’t an accident. It was policy. canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/10/c... @codeblackamerica.bsky.social
Canada’s doctor shortage is no accident
It was policy.
canadahealthwatch.ca
November 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Hospitals across Canada are closing their ERs because there aren't enough doctors to run them. Millions don’t have a doctor. Millions more can’t get an appointment.
It didn’t used to be this way. Turns out it wasn’t an accident.
It didn’t used to be this way. Turns out it wasn’t an accident.