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Dr. Rita McCracken, MD PhD🇨🇦

@ritamc.bsky.social

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🇨🇦Family doctor & primary care researcher. Uninvited Settler on traditional & sacred territory (aka Vancouver, BC) Here to question health policy, share research, and push for real solutions in primary care. Supporting 🏳️‍⚧️🌈 She/her Posts my own.

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Dr. Rita McCracken, MD PhD🇨🇦 @ritamc.bsky.social · 19h

Big news in #Surrey this am.

SFU announcing the new School of Medicine is open, and accepting admissions.

www.sfu.ca/medicine.html

Classes start August 2026.

Dr. Rita McCracken, MD PhD🇨🇦 @ritamc.bsky.social · 1d

Need a hand?
#eastvan loves #halloween

Plastic hand that looks like it’s coming from a dead body rises out of a pile of leaves in front of a flower garden

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Guy Felicella @guyfelicella.bsky.social · 3d

Mandatory recovery treatment doesn't solve homelessness, building affordable housing does.

I CAN'T BELIEVE PEOPLE HAVE A HARD TIME UNDERSTANDING THIS .....

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Lucy Maloney @lucymaloney.bsky.social · 3d

Weekend reading...

Photo of me with an open book obscuring the bottom half of my face. My eyes show I'm smiling even though you can't see my mouth. The book is Women Changing Cities - Global stories of urban transformation by Melissa and Chris Bruntlett.

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Dr. Rita McCracken, MD PhD🇨🇦 @ritamc.bsky.social · 3d

Hey BC doctors.

It is not ok to charge palliative patients private pay fees for opioid prescriptions.

Like, ever.

This medication class is essential for quality of life. Changes in dosing are common & essential. Getting to the clinic when you are dying from eg cancer, can be complicated.

a man in a white shirt and tie is asking what is going on ?

ALT: a man in a white shirt and tie is asking what is going on ?

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Dr. Rita McCracken, MD PhD🇨🇦 @ritamc.bsky.social · 3d

In 2010ish I recall being at health system meetings where the “inevitable SHRINKING need” for hospital beds in the future guided long term planning, & bed closures an obvious 👀way to save $$.

Per my 🧠, no facts backed up the projected shrinking need.

Anyone have sharper memory of that time?

Heme Doc @labsandmabs.bsky.social · 3d

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Sask. man undergoes invasive medical procedures in hospital hallway due to overcapacity | CBC News

Kay Roberts never imagined he would receive invasive medical treatment in a busy hallway. He spent four nights and five days on a stretch bed while experiencing confusion and other cognitive issues.

www.cbc.ca

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Jen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social · 4d

TikTok doesn’t want the platform being used for journalism - even thought users expect to access it there.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4d

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Dr. Rita McCracken, MD PhD🇨🇦 @ritamc.bsky.social · 5d

Special before – the - rain sunrise glow on the east side of downtown Vancouver

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Rebecca Bollwitt @miss604.com · 6d

#Nonprofit leaders from across BC wrote this open letter in September with growing concern for the future of their sector and the communities they serve.

- 1 in 3 nonprofit workers is food insecure
- The average salary in the community nonprofit sector is 31% lower than the national average

Open Letter: The Safety Net Is Tearing — Funders Must Act Now — BC Poverty Reduction Coalition

BC’s nonprofit sector is in crisis. An urgent funding shortfall is threatening the survival of essential community services across the province, with over 200 nonprofit leaders calling for immediate a...

www.bcpovertyreduction.ca

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Dr. Rita McCracken, MD PhD🇨🇦 @ritamc.bsky.social · 6d

True marker of seasonal change in #eastvan.

Hello blundstones.
Goodbye Birkenstocks.

Pair of well worn black Blundstones boots next to an equally well worn pair of Birkenstock, Arizona sandals. On a fir floor.

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Dr. Rita McCracken, MD PhD🇨🇦 @ritamc.bsky.social · 7d

Ideas in the sky.
Window as whiteboard.

Dr. Rita McCracken, MD PhD🇨🇦 @ritamc.bsky.social · 7d

New McSpadden park fence art, courtesy of artist, andrew bee

andrewbeecreative.com/contact/

Dr. Rita McCracken, MD PhD🇨🇦 @ritamc.bsky.social · 8d

I see these two friends out and about almost every morning when I get the dogs out.

They are always laughing and enthusiastically say good morning.

#goodneighbors
#walkablecommunities

Dr. Rita McCracken, MD PhD🇨🇦 @ritamc.bsky.social · 9d

Fall hydrangeas.
#bloomscrolling

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Dr. Rita McCracken, MD PhD🇨🇦 @ritamc.bsky.social · 9d

Fall is here.

Maple tree woth fall colours and with branches cut in way to allow powerlines to go through, but end up, looking like wings, reaching up to touch the sun

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John Bollwitt @johnbollwitt.com · 10d

Over on Mastodon, I've done a regular thing where I post some of my purchases for #BandcampFriday, where artists get 100% of what you buy.

I'll replicate that here with five purchases I made yesterday in the following thread...

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Dr. Rita McCracken, MD PhD🇨🇦 @ritamc.bsky.social · 10d

I am at a high school swimmeet and I just watched 100s of neurotypical kids cheer on their teammates/competitors with intellectual differences.

And the heartfelt goodness is just what I needed to see and feel.

a woman says " i don 't know why " in a skymed advertisement

ALT: a woman says " i don 't know why " in a skymed advertisement

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Dr. Rita McCracken, MD PhD🇨🇦 @ritamc.bsky.social · 10d

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Dr. Rita McCracken, MD PhD🇨🇦 @ritamc.bsky.social · 10d

#Eastvan has a new butcher shop in case anybody’s looking for some feet or eyeballs.

#halloween2025

On the side of the road by the sidewalk, a wooden vendors table has assigned saying butcher shop and then a price list for pieces, including eyeballs ears, fingers, hands feet 100 mils of blood 30 mils of blood and then there’s some plastic and rubber human body pieces.

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Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · 13d

RIP Jane Goodall. Fellow difficult women everywhere salute you.

A photo of and quote by Jane Goodall: “ it actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”

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Rebecca Bollwitt @miss604.com · 14d

“Today, there are more Indigenous children in care than there were at the height of the residential school system. This is a momentous problem, especially in a time where so many in Canadian society seek to reconcile...”

There Are More Indigenous Children in Care Now than at the Height of Residential Schools | The Walrus

Reconciliation simply cannot occur when children and families continue to suffer

thewalrus.ca

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Dr. Rita McCracken, MD PhD🇨🇦 @ritamc.bsky.social · 14d

'This Is Where You Belong' via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...

‘This Is Where You Belong’ | The Tyee

Learning Ojibway offered a new way of understanding myself and my place in the world.

thetyee.ca

Dr. Rita McCracken, MD PhD🇨🇦 @ritamc.bsky.social · 14d

A special young person in my life has challenges with math. And has internalized messages about “not being smart enough for xyz”

And I just saw this in one of their cookbooks…

Real time, real life math.

🥹

📣Shout out to the teachers and parents out there that help all kids learn real skills.

Recipe from a cookbook where the solids are listed in grams. And a Post-it note that has been placed next to it that has been translated into cup measures.

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Pulpfiction Books @pfbvan.bsky.social · 14d

1. Both PFBs open today aka National Day for Truth & Reconciliation. As always, all profits from the day's sales benefit a few Indigenous-led organizations close to us: Native Education College; Vancouver Aboriginal Child & Family Services Society; and the Urban Native Youth Association.

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Bryan Johnston 🇵🇸 🇨🇩 🇸🇩 @bryankj.bsky.social · 17d

If you're going to wear an orange shirt on Sept 30 - and you should - at least buy it from an indigenous business. #TruthAndReconciliationDay #OrangeShirt
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

As Orange Shirt Day gains traction, concerns grow over its commercialization | CBC News

Orange Shirt Day encourages people across the country to wear orange to honour the Indigenous children who attended residential schools and their families. But as orange shirts become more commerciall...

www.cbc.ca

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