Excited to announce 15th Advanced TB Diagnostics Course Fully online, June 15 - 19 With a fabulous array of speakers from around the world @mcgill.ca @mcgillspgh.bsky.social @mcgillghp.bsky.social www.mcgill.ca/summerinstit...

Most of the world doesn’t require a prescription for oral contraceptives. Why do Canadians still need one? Newer pills are safer — but Canada's health system still requires doctors to sign off. www.cbc.ca/news/health/... via @cbcnews.ca

What Alberta is doing with its health care is a threat to every Canadian All Canadians, especially Albertans, should say loud and clear that we want our federal govt to enforce the Canada Health Act to protect Canadians from out-of-pocket fees #cdnpoli #abpoli www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."

In 1793, Chloe Cooley, an enslaved woman in Upper Canada, was beat, tied up and forcefully taken across the border to be sold in the United States. The incident led to the first legislation in the British Colonies to restrict the slave trade. This is the story. 🧵 1/9

@markruffalo.bsky.social - "ChatGPT's president is Trump's biggest donor. Their tech powers ICE. It's time to boycott: QUITGPT."

It’s been a pretty good week-or-so. ☺️ ASHRAE 241 for all new GNB buildings, including schools. Then-current ASHRAE 62.1 for retrofits. CO2 monitoring in all schools by June.

Gambling has ruined the experience of being a sports fan.

I think it's cute that people are playing football at a Bad Bunny concert but my God, watching sports has been ruined by sports betting. The ads are relentless, the tie-ins are so awkward and celebrities should be shamed for promoting it.

From dependence to self-reliance: The future of the global tuberculosis response Our essay in @plosmedicine.org journals.plos.org/plosmedicine...

important nuclear thread

We need to do this New Brunswick!

. - DAY 2 - Security Clearance for Political Leaders Petition -------------------------- Over 18,000 signatures -------------------------- 👏👏👏

Bruce Fanjoy has launched a petition to require all federal party leaders to obtain and maintain top security clearance. It's open for a couple of months. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

4D musical chairs! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Psych of public health 🧵: Ok, this is a depressing one, so have some restorative chocolate at the ready: I was just reading an interesting 🧵 on measles, antivax attitudes & our abysmal public health response. As always happens in such convos, people starting talking about old cemeteries, with 1/12

The Birther-in-Chief's disgusting history of racism has its own page on Wikipedia. See for yourself, here: shorturl.at/UQaXQ

Alcohol consumption is so normalized that we have people discussing wine and drinking and tasting wine on the Saturday morning radio show à Radio-Canada Acadie. On est loin, très loin, du niveau d'éducation et de politiques que nous avons au sujet de la consommation du tabac au Canada...

I can’t emphasis this enough. Spending on health is an *investment*.

Soooo many gambling ads....

Trump isn’t just attacking election results. He’s attacking election administration itself—testing how much control he can exert over states, voter rolls, and the rules of voting. 🧵1/

If you or your loved ones are in need of a KN95 Mask (or like... many of them), drop by our office at 132 Main Street in Fredericton during office hours and fill your boots! Masking up is a simple way to help protect your community and lighten the burden on our health care system. #NewBrunswick

These are important steps toward healthier learning environments for students and staff. You can watch the whole session here, with Megan Mitton’s sections starting at 1:30:00 and 6:41:00 legnb.ca/en/webcasts/...

We’re encouraged to hear that new school builds new builds and ventilation retrofits will meet higher standards for air quality, and that DTI is considering Health Canada’s residential CO₂ guideline of 1,000 ppm as part of their work.

👏 A win for healthy air in our schools! 👏 This week, Green Party Deputy Leader and MLA for Memramcook–Tantramar, Megan Mitton, brought air quality in public buildings—especially schools—before the Department of Transportation and Infrastructure at Public Accounts. #NewBrunswick #AirQuality

Also, this paper puts the lie to all those “social distancing” measures we were told would keep us safe. There is NO SAFE DISTANCE for preventing respiratory disease transmission in an indoor environment. Ventilate, filter, mask up.

Important paper. Schools are high-risk environments for respiratory disease transmission MAINLY because classrooms are underventilated. This problem has a workable solution - it just needs political will. Air quality is as important as water quality for public health. MT @martinmckee.bsky.social

Among many concerning findings, this polling finds that British Columbians have the greatest challenge accessing diagnostic tests BC has run a mini-experiment in two-tier access by allowing private-pay diagnostic imaging, contrary to the Canada Health Act #bcpoli angusreid.org/health-care-...

An airborne virus is a virus that can infect other people through unseen particles in the air, sometimes for hours after the sick person has left the area! Masks and clean, ventilated air can reduce the risk of getting sick from airborne viruses or infecting others.

"In a global market defined by oversupply, high-cost LNG projects become high-risk propositions that can jeopardize investor returns, underperform government royalties’ projections, and fail to function as reliable economic engines."

Basic prevention strategies KEY! More than 1/3 of cancer cases are preventable, massive study www.nature.com/articles/d41... "Nearly 40% of new cancer cases worldwide are potentially preventable..." "...tobacco smoking was the leading contributor ... followed by infections & drinking alcohol."

A message from the office of NB's Child and Youth Advocate. Thank you @kellylamrock.bsky.social www.defenseur-nb-advocate.ca/post/stateme...

Sex offender groomed 10-year-old girl for sex while on release, court hears tj.news/fredericton-...

Radicalized N.B. youth on peace bond for terrorist activity: RCMP tj.news/new-brunswic...

UPDATE: Hepatitis A case confirmed at Algonquin Resort tj.news/new-brunswic...

Before MRI became widely available in the 1980s/90s, some MS patients, especially women, were told they had anxiety or even hysteria because their lesions couldn't be visualized Believe patients!

The result of a powerful research project developed in collaboration with young people. 'Long Covid Lives' - a 3-part graphic series exploring the lived experiences of young people living with #LongCovid. positivenegatives.org/story/long-c... #LongCovidLives #Research #PPI #LongCovidKids

Spin Doctors is a book about how the COVID pandemic played out in Canada during the first two years @nolore.bsky.social is a brilliant speaker too! Big lesson from the book: the pandemic exploited inequities within the society and worsened inequities

Snowstorms are more than just an inconvenience for wheelchair users. Inadequate snow clean-ups means a loss of autonomy for many. New for me at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

CERB offered $500 a week. "...about one-third of child care workers were making less than $550 per week before the pandemic" I wonder how many of them are now being chased by CRA. www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/202...

New report from me + @poliscirish.bsky.social The end of Canadian medicare? Alberta legislation opens the door to US health care by creating a private health insurance market #abpoli #cdnpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

This year’s lecture, “Who Gets Care When Systems Are Under Strain? Equity and Primary Care in Public Health Emergencies", examines how inequities shape access to primary care during public health emergencies. 🔗Register here: bit.ly/4br5M9m

Canadians, Please consider signing this petition asking for renewable energy to be funded equally well as fossil fuels via subsidies. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

I know you've heard that a federal judge ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Conejo Arias and his father, and that they're now home. But did you look at the judge's order? It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept." Link to pdf: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The NYT understands. What Canadians need to understand is how deeply Conservatives adore Trump and how much they yearn to make Canada into what we see south of the border right now.

Jeffrey Epstein did not stop raping children after his 2008 conviction. Jeffrey Epstein did not stop facilitating the rape of children after his 2008 conviction. He kept doing it. That is the context of people treating him as a normal person after his conviction. /1 www.cnn.com/2020/01/15/u...

An important thread. We say "rape culture" because it's never about individual abusers working alone in the shadows. There is so much complicity, yes, but there is also so much reward. Celebrities, athletes, politicians, etc. who think fame should give them judgement-free access to victims.