Jason Nickerson
@jwnickerson.bsky.social
Respiratory Therapist 🫁
Trail runner and adventurer🏃♂️
Public health, emerging infectious diseases, health systems researcher focusing on older adults ☣️
Humanitarian aid worker and former Humanitarian Representative to Canada for MSF 🌍
Trail runner and adventurer🏃♂️
Public health, emerging infectious diseases, health systems researcher focusing on older adults ☣️
Humanitarian aid worker and former Humanitarian Representative to Canada for MSF 🌍
Also don’t think we can ignore the fact that the pandemic created a scenario where several health professionals and academics who were vocal and active on Twitter became go-to sources of commentary on the media, whether they were right or wrong or accurate or not. Quite a few ppl drunk with fame.
November 30, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Also don’t think we can ignore the fact that the pandemic created a scenario where several health professionals and academics who were vocal and active on Twitter became go-to sources of commentary on the media, whether they were right or wrong or accurate or not. Quite a few ppl drunk with fame.
Agreed.
My gut - and I have no particular evidence to back this up - is that there’s an allergy to doing fewer, more focused things among the Canadian international dev community (government & civil society). But we can’t keep scattershotting it - it’s inefficient and doesn’t work. Good points.
My gut - and I have no particular evidence to back this up - is that there’s an allergy to doing fewer, more focused things among the Canadian international dev community (government & civil society). But we can’t keep scattershotting it - it’s inefficient and doesn’t work. Good points.
November 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Agreed.
My gut - and I have no particular evidence to back this up - is that there’s an allergy to doing fewer, more focused things among the Canadian international dev community (government & civil society). But we can’t keep scattershotting it - it’s inefficient and doesn’t work. Good points.
My gut - and I have no particular evidence to back this up - is that there’s an allergy to doing fewer, more focused things among the Canadian international dev community (government & civil society). But we can’t keep scattershotting it - it’s inefficient and doesn’t work. Good points.
What a time to be alive.
November 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
What a time to be alive.
The G&M headline is pretty aligned with what he said, in my opinion. CTV News 👇
We can debate whether this is an issue of semantics, or not, but I would argue there was value in the language Canada used to describe its ambitions. I also don’t think Canada lived up to those ambitions, to be fair.
We can debate whether this is an issue of semantics, or not, but I would argue there was value in the language Canada used to describe its ambitions. I also don’t think Canada lived up to those ambitions, to be fair.
November 24, 2025 at 3:48 AM
The G&M headline is pretty aligned with what he said, in my opinion. CTV News 👇
We can debate whether this is an issue of semantics, or not, but I would argue there was value in the language Canada used to describe its ambitions. I also don’t think Canada lived up to those ambitions, to be fair.
We can debate whether this is an issue of semantics, or not, but I would argue there was value in the language Canada used to describe its ambitions. I also don’t think Canada lived up to those ambitions, to be fair.
Adam are you suggesting you are not on Team Trudeau
November 23, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Adam are you suggesting you are not on Team Trudeau
Lots of time, energy, and money has been wasted over the last decade by organizations cozying up to this government and avoiding being critical of their shitty behaviour because they were saying good or “progressive” things. It didn’t work, folks.
November 23, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Lots of time, energy, and money has been wasted over the last decade by organizations cozying up to this government and avoiding being critical of their shitty behaviour because they were saying good or “progressive” things. It didn’t work, folks.
There was none. And far too many people and organizations let them get away with it.
No question that Canada funded many good and impactful things via the FIAP - but there was a lot of pomp that pretended as though Canada was actually delivering these programs/services as opposed to paying the bill
No question that Canada funded many good and impactful things via the FIAP - but there was a lot of pomp that pretended as though Canada was actually delivering these programs/services as opposed to paying the bill
November 23, 2025 at 5:08 PM
There was none. And far too many people and organizations let them get away with it.
No question that Canada funded many good and impactful things via the FIAP - but there was a lot of pomp that pretended as though Canada was actually delivering these programs/services as opposed to paying the bill
No question that Canada funded many good and impactful things via the FIAP - but there was a lot of pomp that pretended as though Canada was actually delivering these programs/services as opposed to paying the bill
Absolutely an end to performative foreign policy. Canada never meaningfully described what it meant by this foreign policy and far too many people and organizations let them off the hook and never held them accountable for actually doing useful things.
November 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Absolutely an end to performative foreign policy. Canada never meaningfully described what it meant by this foreign policy and far too many people and organizations let them off the hook and never held them accountable for actually doing useful things.
Did Canada’s feminist foreign policy ever really begin? I couldn’t tell you what Canada’s foreign policy of the last decade actually consists of.
November 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Did Canada’s feminist foreign policy ever really begin? I couldn’t tell you what Canada’s foreign policy of the last decade actually consists of.
Is there a PDF of this report available?
November 21, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Is there a PDF of this report available?
We’ve leaned on technology as a poor surrogate for social connection. I think you need to be able to sit across from a real person and share, defend, and validate your ideas (or have them shut down), over coffee, over beers, in the church hall, on the baseball dugout bench, wherever.
November 19, 2025 at 2:45 PM
We’ve leaned on technology as a poor surrogate for social connection. I think you need to be able to sit across from a real person and share, defend, and validate your ideas (or have them shut down), over coffee, over beers, in the church hall, on the baseball dugout bench, wherever.