Monika Dutt
@monikadutt.bsky.social
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
Great op-ed clearly explaining the risks of Alberta's physician dual practice proposal and Canada Health Act considerations in the Hill Times by health policy expert @karenpalmeryvr.bsky.social www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...
Alberta’s hybrid health-care plan breaks the spirit—and likely the law—of Canadian Medicare
The safeguard Alberta seeks to eliminate prevents doctors from playing both sides at once, which would create a slower, second-class system for people who can’t afford to pay.
www.hilltimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Great op-ed clearly explaining the risks of Alberta's physician dual practice proposal and Canada Health Act considerations in the Hill Times by health policy expert @karenpalmeryvr.bsky.social www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...
[email protected] and I did an interview with the @cmaj.ca podcast on the research article we (and co-authors) published last week on how physician social identity can influence income.
The hosts were great and their reflections added to the conversation. www.cmaj.ca/page/multime...
The hosts were great and their reflections added to the conversation. www.cmaj.ca/page/multime...
Podcasts | CMAJ
www.cmaj.ca
November 23, 2025 at 12:06 AM
[email protected] and I did an interview with the @cmaj.ca podcast on the research article we (and co-authors) published last week on how physician social identity can influence income.
The hosts were great and their reflections added to the conversation. www.cmaj.ca/page/multime...
The hosts were great and their reflections added to the conversation. www.cmaj.ca/page/multime...
Reading through the AB Auditor General's report released yesterday on the AB government's attempt to contract community lab services to a private, for-profit company.
Spoiler: it didn't save money or decrease wait times. It did the opposite.
Full report: www.oag.ab.ca/reports/an-e...
Spoiler: it didn't save money or decrease wait times. It did the opposite.
Full report: www.oag.ab.ca/reports/an-e...
An Examination of Community Laboratory Services (Contract with DynaLIFE) - Office of the Auditor General, Alberta
Examination Overview In late 2019, Alberta Health Services (AHS) began the process to outsource community laboratory services for the provincial healthcare system. This led to a $4.8 billion contract...
www.oag.ab.ca
November 20, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Reading through the AB Auditor General's report released yesterday on the AB government's attempt to contract community lab services to a private, for-profit company.
Spoiler: it didn't save money or decrease wait times. It did the opposite.
Full report: www.oag.ab.ca/reports/an-e...
Spoiler: it didn't save money or decrease wait times. It did the opposite.
Full report: www.oag.ab.ca/reports/an-e...
Excited to be co-author on this study published today in @cmaj.ca looking at pay disparities between physicians based on social identity.
One possible contributor: doctors often adjust how they practice based on identity-driven expectations of patients. www.cmaj.ca/content/197/...
One possible contributor: doctors often adjust how they practice based on identity-driven expectations of patients. www.cmaj.ca/content/197/...
Family physician pay inequality: a qualitative study exploring how physician responses to perceived patient expectations may explain gender, race, and immigration status pay differences
Background: Pay inequality related to social identity has been observed among physicians, even after accounting for hours worked and specialty. Physician identity factors, such as gender and race, may...
www.cmaj.ca
November 17, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Excited to be co-author on this study published today in @cmaj.ca looking at pay disparities between physicians based on social identity.
One possible contributor: doctors often adjust how they practice based on identity-driven expectations of patients. www.cmaj.ca/content/197/...
One possible contributor: doctors often adjust how they practice based on identity-driven expectations of patients. www.cmaj.ca/content/197/...
This is disappointing...but we can regain #measles elimination status once transmission associated with the current outbreak is interrupted for at least 12 months.
Make sure you/your family are vaccinated! Information from NS Health: www.nshealth.ca/publi.../inf...
www.canada.ca/en/public-he...
Make sure you/your family are vaccinated! Information from NS Health: www.nshealth.ca/publi.../inf...
www.canada.ca/en/public-he...
Statement from the Public Health Agency of Canada on Canada’s Measles Elimination Status
Following over 12 months of transmission across the country, PAHO confirms Canada's loss of measles elimination status. We are coordinating efforts with provinces and territories to restore the status...
www.canada.ca
November 11, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This is disappointing...but we can regain #measles elimination status once transmission associated with the current outbreak is interrupted for at least 12 months.
Make sure you/your family are vaccinated! Information from NS Health: www.nshealth.ca/publi.../inf...
www.canada.ca/en/public-he...
Make sure you/your family are vaccinated! Information from NS Health: www.nshealth.ca/publi.../inf...
www.canada.ca/en/public-he...
Important research by Fuller et al on the impact precarious/unstable employment of parent(s) can have on child mental health and performance.
The recommendations are key: high-quality employment is essential, ie through employment standards and unionization.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40037834/
The recommendations are key: high-quality employment is essential, ie through employment standards and unionization.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40037834/
November 11, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Important research by Fuller et al on the impact precarious/unstable employment of parent(s) can have on child mental health and performance.
The recommendations are key: high-quality employment is essential, ie through employment standards and unionization.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40037834/
The recommendations are key: high-quality employment is essential, ie through employment standards and unionization.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40037834/
Important analysis in the @cmaj.ca looking at government partnerships with corporate virtual primary care.
Key points below, including responsibilities of governments when partnering with private companies to provide care.
Full article here: www.cmaj.ca/content/197/...
Key points below, including responsibilities of governments when partnering with private companies to provide care.
Full article here: www.cmaj.ca/content/197/...
November 3, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Important analysis in the @cmaj.ca looking at government partnerships with corporate virtual primary care.
Key points below, including responsibilities of governments when partnering with private companies to provide care.
Full article here: www.cmaj.ca/content/197/...
Key points below, including responsibilities of governments when partnering with private companies to provide care.
Full article here: www.cmaj.ca/content/197/...
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.
October 12, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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
www.thestar.com
September 8, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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/...
Cuts coming to the Public Health Agency of Canada...this is not good.
v the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC)
v the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC)
September 8, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Cuts coming to the Public Health Agency of Canada...this is not good.
v the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC)
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...
Sign-up here: public.cnphi-rcrsp.ca/fluWatcher/r...
September 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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...
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...
September 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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...
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
August 18, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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...
www.thestar.com/business/air...
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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...
"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
August 18, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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...
"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...
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.
August 17, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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.
Noooo.
Frustrating and maybe not surprising that airline attendants were so quickly prevented from acting on their right to strike.
Frustrating and maybe not surprising that airline attendants were so quickly prevented from acting on their right to strike.
August 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Noooo.
Frustrating and maybe not surprising that airline attendants were so quickly prevented from acting on their right to strike.
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.
Air Canada suspends all flights, locks out flight attendants
Air Canada suspends all flights, locks out flight attendants
The airline locked out 10,000 flight attendants represented by CUPE at 1:30 a.m. Saturday.
bit.ly
August 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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.
Good job @ontariosdoctors.bsky.social for taking a step in the right direction.
What we truly need is #Healthcare4All regardless of immigration status. Healthcare providers shouldn't need to decide on who "deserves" health care based on immigration status. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
What we truly need is #Healthcare4All regardless of immigration status. Healthcare providers shouldn't need to decide on who "deserves" health care based on immigration status. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Ontario doctors don't get paid when they treat uninsured patients. Here's how that might change | CBC News
Several times a week, a man comes to the busy ER in Toronto where Dr. Bernard Ho works — and the doctors treat him, despite the fact that they’re not being paid for it. The Ontario Medical Association...
www.cbc.ca
August 15, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Good job @ontariosdoctors.bsky.social for taking a step in the right direction.
What we truly need is #Healthcare4All regardless of immigration status. Healthcare providers shouldn't need to decide on who "deserves" health care based on immigration status. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
What we truly need is #Healthcare4All regardless of immigration status. Healthcare providers shouldn't need to decide on who "deserves" health care based on immigration status. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Doctors shouldn't have to choose who "deserves" care. As emergency physician @bernardho.bsky.social said, "This is a health equity issue for Ontario’s most vulnerable."
We need a permanent program that provides #Healthcare4All regardless of immigration status.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
We need a permanent program that provides #Healthcare4All regardless of immigration status.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Ontario doctors don't get paid when they treat uninsured patients. Here's how that might change | CBC News
Several times a week, a man comes to the busy ER in Toronto where Dr. Bernard Ho works — and the doctors treat him, despite the fact that they’re not being paid for it. The Ontario Medical Association...
www.cbc.ca
August 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Doctors shouldn't have to choose who "deserves" care. As emergency physician @bernardho.bsky.social said, "This is a health equity issue for Ontario’s most vulnerable."
We need a permanent program that provides #Healthcare4All regardless of immigration status.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
We need a permanent program that provides #Healthcare4All regardless of immigration status.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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-...
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
August 4, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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-...
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...
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...
July 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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...
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...
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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
Join us August 5 at 7pm ET / 4pm PT us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Thanks @cdndrsformedicare.bsky.social & @cape-acme.bsky.social
July 31, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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
Join us August 5 at 7pm ET / 4pm PT us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Thanks @cdndrsformedicare.bsky.social & @cape-acme.bsky.social
A call to strengthen communicable disease surveillance in Canada. #publichealth www.cmaj.ca/content/197/...
Tackling communicable disease surveillance and misinformation in Canada
[See related article at www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.250641][1]
A crisis of communicable diseases is unfolding in North America, just as Canada’s health systems’ responses are being hampered b...
www.cmaj.ca
July 13, 2025 at 12:24 PM
A call to strengthen communicable disease surveillance in Canada. #publichealth www.cmaj.ca/content/197/...
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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-...
@cape-acme.bsky.social
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-...
@cape-acme.bsky.social
July 6, 2025 at 11:37 PM
"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-...
@cape-acme.bsky.social
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-...
@cape-acme.bsky.social
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.
- 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.
July 6, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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.
- 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.