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Nick Tsergas @nicktsergas.ca · Aug 20
The most important part of this article, to me, is the end.

It challenges a false binary between “long COVID” and “everyone else.”

Maybe it's a spectrum... 🧵 (1/5)

www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2
“Immunity debt,” a theory to explain the global surge in non-covid infections since pandemic restrictions were lifted, is increasingly being challenged by emerging evidence. Nick Tsergas reports Myco...
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canadahealthwatch.ca
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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A flu shot clinic set up at the Whitehorse Convention Centre in 2020.
November 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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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.
November 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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deonandan.bsky.social
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.)
If you cut your risk in half, isn't that a win?
canadahealthwatch.ca
November 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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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.
November 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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PHAC really doesn't like the word "epidemic" for some reason.
Snippet of the statement, which reads, "Canada is currently experiencing a large, multi-jurisdictional outbreak of measles that began in October 2024 with cases in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan, and the Northwest Territories. While transmission has slowed recently, the outbreak has persisted for over 12 months, primarily within under-vaccinated communities."
November 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Of note:

In April, as the US was starting to dismantle its health and science apparatus, a senior scientist said the country was underreporting its cases.

Today's coverage of the Americas losing elimination status "because of Canada" has shades of "Spanish" flu.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
November 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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lukelebrun.ca
Hi Bluesky 👋

Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP

It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history

I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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omg.

Meta clearly trying to polarize the issue of digital sovereignty by running this in the Hub.
Screenshot of an article in Canada's "centre-right" new-media outlet, with headline "AI sovereignty isn’t the answer for Canada’s economic future" A line at the bottom of this very lengthy commentary reads, "This article is presented in partnership with Meta."
November 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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omg.

Meta clearly trying to polarize the issue of digital sovereignty by running this in the Hub.
Screenshot of an article in Canada's "centre-right" new-media outlet, with headline "AI sovereignty isn’t the answer for Canada’s economic future" A line at the bottom of this very lengthy commentary reads, "This article is presented in partnership with Meta."
November 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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The budget.

It puts $5 billion into “health infrastructure,” which sounds like healthcare funding. But is it?

My breakdown for Canada Healthwatch looks at what’s new, what’s missing, and why health is now being framed as infrastructure.
November 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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drgorfinkel.bsky.social
1 in 5 patients found ERRORS when given access to their medical charts

Many were serious.

Yet most Ontarians lack access

It’s time to up our game.
canadahealthwatch.ca Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 7d
The price Ontarians’ pay for the lack of access to their medical records www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... @drgorfinkel.bsky.social @thestar.com

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Ontario must stop treating access to primary care records as a privilege and recognize it as a right — because patients' safety, trust and lives depend on it, writes Dr. Iris Gorfinkel.
November 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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canadahealthwatch.ca
The federal Health Minister said it’s “impossible” to release the $4B promised for national health projects, and won’t fund new team-based care programs.

canadahealthwatch.ca/newsletter/2...
Health promises walked back in run-up to Carney’s first budget
The federal Health Minister said it’s “impossible” to release the $4B promised for health projects, for now.
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November 2, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Wrote a thing canadahealthwatch.ca/newsletter/2...
Health promises walked back in run-up to Carney’s first budget
The federal Health Minister said it’s “impossible” to release the $4B promised for health projects, for now.
canadahealthwatch.ca
October 31, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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angusmaccaull.bsky.social
SOURCE REQUEST: Can anyone recommend an internationally trained doctor who could talk about licensing in Ontario through the Practice Eligibility Route?

I'm working on a story about financial arrangements for the period of supervision required.

I can respect anonymity in reporting. Thank you!
October 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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josephcox.bsky.social
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”
October 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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canadahealthwatch.ca
Canada's status as a country without endemic measles can now be revoked https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/health/canadas-status-as-a-country-without-endemic-measles-can-now-be-revoked/article_b7a44e92-80f8-5e56-a19c-1d4588b871c2.html

𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter
Warning signage for suspected cases of measles is seen outside the main entrance of Woodstock General Hospital in Woodstock, Ont., Thursday, May 22, 2025.
October 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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codeblackamerica.bsky.social
“The lives saved, the pain managed, the recoveries that looked like miracles — none of it came from celery juice or good vibes. It came from drugs. From ventilators. From the kind of brutal, unglamorous science these frauds now mock while calling doctors like me pharma shills.”
@canadahealthwatch.ca
Notes from the ER in an Anti-Science Age
These conversations are increasingly common. And increasingly exhausting.
canadahealthwatch.ca
August 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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youcaughtscott.com
Did you miss the new North State this week? Check it out!
youcaughtscott.com 🔫Scott Martin🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 22d
ICYMI: CBC released their 5-year plan. Though the rollout was weird, the strategy, an interview on Front Burner w/ the CEO & the current political climate reveal the CBC's priorities. How's it look for the public broadcaster? @lukelebrun.ca and I discussed it. Listen wherever you get your podcasts!
Diving Into CBC's Five-Year Plan ft. Luke LeBrun (The North State Podcast)
Where do they go from here?
readthecatch.ca
October 25, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Yep. Those ethical conflicts, they sure are underscored.

(Humans don't write like that)
NYT: Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases Senior department officials who were defense lawyers for the president and those in his orbit are now in jobs that typically must approve any such payout, underscoring potential ethical conflicts.
October 21, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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I’ve talked to more doctors this year who are thinking about leaving medicine than ever before.

The system is stretched well past its limit, as are those inside.

Latest:
October 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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picardonhealth.bsky.social
Alberta health agency broke own rules in Turkey medication, private clinic contracts, independent investigation finds. Two other investigations remain outstanding: The RCMP and Alberta’s Auditor-General, by @carrietait.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... via @theglobeandmail.com
Alberta health agency broke own rules in Turkey medication, private clinic contracts, report finds
Two other major investigations into the deals remain outstanding: One from the RCMP and a second from Alberta’s Auditor-General
www.theglobeandmail.com
October 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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canadahealthwatch.ca
Trump gets a COVID shot as access to them tightens for most Americans https://ca.news.yahoo.com/white-house-trump-gets-covid-024131079.html

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services, testifies about the health care agenda for the Trump administration in front of the Senate Committee on Finance in Washington, D.C., on September 4, 2025.
October 12, 2025 at 6:21 PM
nicktsergas.ca
I'm sure this would be "digitally sovereign" much in the way all the grapes at Loblaws are "grown in Peru."
ANALYSIS | Why OpenAI wants to help Canada build homegrown artificial intelligence | CBC News
OpenAI wants to help Canada build a sovereign digital infrastructure for artificial intelligence, putting the country in a tough spot as it tries to distance itself from overreliance on U.S. tech comp...
www.cbc.ca
October 12, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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This made me laugh for ~40 seconds.
Vehicles registered to Ford cabinet ministers caught by speed cameras more than 20 times | Globalnews.ca
Documents obtained by Global News reveal that, over three years, vehicles registered to Ford’s cabinet minister received more than $3,300 in fines for speeding.
globalnews.ca
October 6, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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EndeavourOS + Plasma / X11 is a really solid, really *Windows-y* setup.
freedom.press Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · Oct 4
Just as everything is getting more expensive, Microsoft plans to pull support for Windows 10 on Oct. 14, 2025.

The good news: There are free alternatives. Our digital security team talks through some options.
Warning: Time to move away from Windows 10
With Windows dropping support for Windows 10, you’ll need to upgrade — or consider another operating system entirely!
freedom.press
October 5, 2025 at 1:50 AM