3 years ago today I was running in Stanley Park when I suddenly lost consciousness. I woke up 4 days later post-op from a 4-vessel bypass. Sincerest thanks to the bystanders who performed CPR, the paramedics and the staff at St Paul’s Hospital for my second chance at life

At a press conference today, a group of scientists announced that if a killer asteroid was about to strike Earth, it should be kept a secret to avoid panic. When asked why they were making this announcement they said “Oh, no reason”.

Prior to the 2015 election the Harper-era increase of the TFSA limit to $10,000 mostly benefited the top 25% of wage earners and cost $3.5 billion/year. @pierrepoilivere wants to bring back expensive take cuts that benefit the wealthy

If you like to read the newspaper in the morning and you have a cat it is vitally important to have access to the online version

Pierre Poilievre is engaging in blatant misinformation. Mark Carney will be debating in French. He is not participating in an event held by TVA because of the outrageous requirement of a $70,000 fee to participate. Facts matter

In 2022 Pierre poilievre was buying donuts for antivax protesters who were behind the movement that was, among other things, protesting hospitals and endangering health care workers, and is using that same violence that he helped facilitate as a campaign tool. He is clearly unfit for public office

The Canada Dental Benefit, that has already benefitted thousands of Canadians, is being expanded.

To Winnipeg West CPC MP Marty Morantz: Some clarifications: -much of the ‘reckless deficit spending’ was due to making people didn’t starve and businesses didn’t fail during the pandemic -taxes were only increased on the top 1%, and the carbon tax added 0.16% to the rate of inflation Facts matter

What Pierre Poilievre leaves out here is that the previous Conservative government cut military spending to 0.99% of GDP, and the liberal government was investing heavily in the military, and was on track to have it up to 2% by 2025 until the pandemic hit

Many Canadians are happy with the latest polls, but the Conservatives have a well-funded and organized apparatus to identify Conservative voters and make sure that they vote. There is only one poll that matters, and that is the election. Make sure you vote!

A free press is essential to a democracy, never more so than during a political campaign. This is suppression of the press. It is one of the first steps to fascism. Pierre Poilievre would take Canada down the same dangerous path that America is now on www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

I can’t believe that in 2025 we are having outbreaks of a disease that should have been eradicated years ago. And yet the anti-vax movement continues to gain momentum with the support of politicians like Pierre Poilievre and Danielle Smith www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Marty Morantz, MP for Winnipeg West: Pierre Polievre has appeared with Candice Malcolm , who just posted a poisonously hateful post about one of Mark Carney’s children. Will you publicly call for Pierre Polievre to denounce this person? Your constituents deserve an answer.

This is Pierre Poilievre with Candice Malcolm who posted a disgraceful and hateful post about one of Mark Carney’s children. Mr Poilievre has also been interviewed by this individual. If he does not denounce the actions of this person he proves himself unfit for public office.

Compare and Contrast This liberal government instituted: -Canada Child Benefit -school lunch program -child care program -pharmacare -dental care for low income Canadians A CPC government under Pierre Poilievre: -will get rid of all these things

Marty Morantz: When Justin Trudeau started his term as Prime Minister, he graciously thanked Stephen Harper for his service to Canada yet you and your party have done nothing but express scorn and derision. This is shameful Canada is better than this

5 years ago COVID was declared to be a global pandemic. Never forget that while health care workers like myself were caring for COVID victims in ICU, and the Liberal Government was procuring vaccines, Pierre Poilievre and CPC were actively supporting antivax terrorism

5pm in St James. The geese are back!

5pm in St James. The geese are back!

What has conservatism become in Canada? The next leader of Manitoba’s Conservatives defends not searching the landfill. Meanwhile, his opponent, who said “solve the homeless problem by releasing polar bears downtown” would have done it with ‘corporate funding’? WTAF? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

In 2013 I met Justin Trudeau while he was running for Liberal Party leader. I got to know him, and decided that I would run for MP. I left the only job I had wanted since I was 10, and have never regretted that decision. Thank you Prime Minister Trudeau for your service to Canada

In emergency we often receive so many handover patients that it takes the entire shift to safely reassess all of them without being able to see any new patients. I am certain that another preventable tragedy is imminent. How many more patients have to die before this is fixed?

An extremely contagious disease with the potential to kill, which could have been eradicated, is back because of those who promote antivax misinformation, and politicians (like @PierrePoilievre) who court their vote. This is inexcusable. www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

How can we believe @PierrePoilievre when he claims to stand up against Donald Trump when he bought coffee and Timbits for these people?

If you see me running in the community, I’ll gladly stop to say hi. I want to know what is important to the constituents of Winnipeg West.

Prime Minister @JustinTrudeau brought Canada through unprecedented challenges while being continuously sabotaged and defamed by Pierre Poilievre, a number of Provincial Premiers, and complicit members of the press, but through it all is still a true statesman. He will be missed

“Honourable Speaker, our government erred…….. We went forward and followed advice to emphasize prosecution above all.” As apologies go, ‘a day late and a dollar short’ doesn’t even begin to describe how inadequate this is. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Patients are spending days (sometimes over a week) on hallway stretchers, being cared for by a different doctor every 8 hours. (Those same doctors are managing a rapid influx of new patients requiring evaluation and care.) There is no way to provide quality care in this situation

As an emergency physician I am trained to manage large numbers of very sick patients. I am not trained to start my shift receiving large numbers of active patients that need continued management and multiple new critical patients. I fear an avoidable bad outcome is imminent

Marty Morantz, it says quite clearly in the article: ‘When he became Bank of England governor in 2013, Mr. Harper wrote that Mr. Carney was a “valued partner” and helped his government “steer Canada away from the worst impacts of the global economic recession.”’ It appears that Mr Harper is lying

Emergency shift yesterday evening. 40 patients in the waiting room, some waiting over 24 hours, the hallways jammed with patients waiting for beds (most still under the Emergency doctor), juggling too many critical patients. Doing it again tonight and dreading it.

Dear King Charles, Thousands of Canadians died defending your nation in 2 world wars, and yet now that a foreign government is threatening our sovereignty you remain silent. You are officially our head of state. Please act like it. www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...

Dear Prime Minister Kier Starmer; Thousands of Canadians died defending Britain in 2 wars. Meanwhile, you could not even bother to contradict President Trump over plans to annex Canada. You have desecrated the memory of every Canadian soldier who died defending your nation.

In the face of today’s disgraceful display the White House, it is clear that Ukraine cannot depend on the United States for support. Meanwhile, @pierrepolievre and CPC voted against a vital free trade agreement with Ukraine. Not MAGA Mr Poilievre? Canadians don’t believe you.

Nikolai making my morning ritual of news, coffee and breakfast a bit of a challenge.

Meanwhile, in Canada, Pierre Poilievre is on record opposing vaccine mandates and public health measures in future epidemics/pandemics, and openly supported antivaxxers who terrorized Ottawa and shut down borders. Pierre Poilievre is simply a danger to the health of Canadians.

So, Pierre Poilievre, you are on record of opposing: -CERB that kept Canadians fed and housed during the pandemic -pharmacare -dental care -child care -school lunch programs You are opposed to ‘spending’ that helps to improve the lives of Canadians.

When I served as MP I spent 2 years helping to develop a report that recommended a universal pharmacare program. I am very happy that this step has been taken, but more needs to be done. This is amongst the reasons I am running in the next federal election www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Canada Safeway: Canadians want to buy Canadian products, and you obviously know that. So maybe when you are advertising a product as Canadian it should actually be Canadian. (And if you claim this was an honest mistake, I don’t believe you). Canadians deserve better

Last night in emergency at midnight I was responsible for 32 active patients and there were 40 patients in the waiting room. I ended up going home at 4am because coverage was needed for a sick call. Now going to sleep before a night shift. This is NOT sustainable

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60 years ago today, this flag was raised for the first time all across Canada, including at the RCMP station in Headingley, Manitoba. That day we watched my father, an RCMP officer, raise our new flag. I am proud that this moment is part of my life

I grew up with movies like Cabaret and The Sound of Music, so I always thought that the rise of fascism would involve more show tunes www.cbc.ca/news/world/j...

@pierrepoilievre Now you’re claiming that Canada is great? You’ve spent the last 2 years telling everyone Canada is broken. Nothing like plummeting in the polls to make you change your tune.

One of my volunteers is 85, a Canadian citizen for decades, and still retains an accent. While making campaign phone calls she was abruptly told “I don’t want to speak to anyone who is not Canadian”, then got hung up on This is disgraceful Racism should have no place in Canada

To Marty Morantz and Pierre Poilievre: You may have heard of this little hiccup that started in 2020 (a pandemic that killed more Canadians than World War 2 and ground the world economy to a halt for 2 years). Would you have let people starve to avoid a deficit? Yes or no? 🤔

Is @PierrePoilievre actually basing his campaign on the same slogan as a foreign leader who is trying to destroy Canada’s economy? (BTW how’s that security clearance coming, Pierre?)

Honoured to have been invited to Toronto for the Heart & Stroke Foundation National Roundtable on Cardiac Arrest, and to give my perspective as an ER physician, a CPR provider (on a bus), and someone who is alive because people knew CPR. Thanks to Katie White for the opportunity

A Manitoba Conservative Party leadership candidate makes a sick joke about murdering homeless people in Winnipeg, implies that homelessness is their own fault, then describes himself as a ‘Christian’ and a ‘Pro-life kind of guy’. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...