In 2020, Ontario began pushing some of its publicly funded cataract surgeries into private, for-profit clinics. Why what happened next, writes @alisonmotluk.bsky.social, offers a window into the possible future of care in this province. thelocal.to/cataract-sur...

The rise in under-qualified hires at childcare centres has shot up more than 1000% in 5 years. Rather than addressing the ECE shortage by improving wages and working conditions, the Ontario government is choosing to "paper over the crisis," advocates say. My latest: thelocal.to/ontarios-day...

“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)

This awful story about a dying woman forced to endure a painful transfer to obtain MAID has a kernel of hope within it. This may *finally* be the beginning of the end of Catholic hospital impunity in Canada, which legally stands on very thin ice but hasn't been forcefully challenged. Yet. 1/3

What happens when ChatGPT meets a crumbling journalism industry meets, perhaps, an intrepid young person in Nigeria with few economic options? At least there are still writers/editors like @nickhunebrown.bsky.social out there.

There is often a very important difference between terror attacks in the US versus elsewhere and that key difference is not background levels of antisemitism, Islamophobia, misogyny, racism, political rhetoric etc. globalnews.ca/news/1146091...

Good questions. But I wish colleagues would stop assuming that a building is good because it is new. TDSB’s new schools are in fact very bad, and expensive, and their handling of their real estate portfolio has been abysmal.

What happens to $20 B worth of land under provincial supervision. The province didn't respond to my questions, the TDSB can't speak to media. My latest for @thelocal.to thelocal.to/tdsb-takeove...

The AI "enhanced" photos of the Utah shooting suspect tells me one thing - people don't understand how AI works.

In 2018, I investigated a story for the Globe about a doctor who didn't hire female physicians over a 16 year period, as emergency dept chief at two different hospitals in the GTA. Health workers shared discriminatory comments he had made to and about women, and allegations about his patient care.

A horrifying and preventable death. It's Ontario in 2025. Nobody should be dying from an abortion.

I've been 💔 about this case ever since I learned about it several months ago. Rheanna Laderoute deserved so much more than what she got at Southlake hospital. Terrific reporting as always from @wendyglauser.bsky.social, who has been holding Southlake and Marko Duic to account since 2018.

What's most concerning about the Ford government's takeover of school boards is that the provincial government doesn't seem to want to talk to media about it. thelocal.to/school-board...

Sometimes, it’s just best to hire a medical writer.

I wish American media would read Israeli media. www.haaretz.com/opinion/edit...

I don't often get to write about working conditions and pay issues in health care, even though they're massively important to wait times and care quality. It was an honour to work with @maddidellplain.bsky.social, Dr. Sahil Gupta, Nicole Naimer, and Dr. Maria Raveendran on this series.

Given the state of journalism, there are far too many stories we’re not hearing about the state of health care. I’m so glad for @monicakidd.bsky.social, an expert in both realms, and her journalism - thewalrus.ca/private-heal...

Enraging

Hospitals need to stay operational and safe, despite wildfire smoke, floods, and extreme heat. My CTV article describes how climate resilience drove the design of the new St. Paul's hospital. www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

I get pushback every time I say this, but I will die on this hill. Women are harmed when doctors refuse/defer indicated pelvic exams.

If only this moment of nationalism could be harnessed to save our health care systems…

Aha! They forgot 'people born with a female reproductive system'. insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

Cancer patients and chronic illness patients are often bombarded with unsolicited dietary and supplement advice from those around. The pressure is often so high, that some of these patients end up endangering their lives via taking said supplements. It is a nightmare. news.ki.se/antioxidants...

This is pretty interesting: Raw pet food contaminated with #H5N1 #birdflu recalled after a house cat in Oregon dies. apnews.com/article/cat-...

In light of the horrific images of a TTC suicide, let's recall that the city doesn't release numbers of track suicides each year, to avoid encouraging more. This policy would make sense if there was nothing we could do to stop people from jumping onto the tracks.

So Air Canada can cancel my direct flight, rebook me on a non-direct flight the next day, forcing me to pay for an extra hotel night and meals, and they don’t have to reimburse me for anything because it was a “safety” issue?

Yes, but no scary socialism and all the freedom fries you can eat! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"All the jokes, all the snark about the shooting, it's all a coping mechanism for a population of people who feel powerless in our health care system." @glaucomflecken.bsky.social www.tiktok.com/@drglaucomfl...

"There are few procedures in which patients routinely go under the knife without understanding their full range of options — or leave the operating room not knowing exactly which of their organs remain. But that is exactly what happens to many hysterectomy patients." www.nytimes.com/2024/12/02/h...

"A consultant researcher who helped conduct some of the drug’s foundational studies was charged with fraud by a federal grand jury for allegedly falsifying data to obtain research grants." www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/h...

Concerning to see continued spread of #H5N1 California reporting 62 more infected herds today- total of 398 since the end of August. The national total is 612. Given the widespread circulation of virus we need to enhance testing and mitigation measures. www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...

Even if you don't have it, you're paying for others to: private health insurance. Up to $4 billion/year! What if instead, we spent these billions in public subsidies for private care, on healthcare for everyone? My latest, for the @torontostar.bsky.social - www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Attorney General Matt Gaetz has brought down his first and last sex criminal, Attorney General Matt Gaetz.

Toronto doctor admits to drugging nurse; CPSO doesn't pursue sexual abuse allegation. I have so many questions, chief among them why the doctor hasn't been criminally charged. www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor...

Have you ever watched a baby die of pertussis? I have. This is what it looks like: A newborn baby can’t stop coughing. They can’t catch their breath. They can’t eat. They get dehydrated and stop peeing. They sometimes have pauses in their breathing. Parents are terrified so they come to the ER.

Deeply concerning news. More than 10% of malaria patients in Uganda had partial resistance to the best & only malaria cure we have, artemisinin. ht @globalhealthnow.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

"Such a case could be a one-off...but at the start of the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic, two sporadic cases of swine flu infection in children who had had no contact with pigs or with each other were the first signs that a pandemic had started." So don't press the panic button, but hover over it?

So many dermatologists are doing cosmetic procedures part-time or full-time. Partly as a result of this, the wait times for medically necessary derm consults are many months long. A friend is considering paying a cosmetic consult to "sneak in" her medical issue.

Basically: bsky.app/starter-pack...

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism. We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

New arrival here. I hear it's like the early days of Twitter except everyone is now jaded and cynical? Tell me who to follow.