Have you listened to the latest episode of PressProgress Sources? 🎧 In this episode, health reporter @brishti.bsky.social talks to @danyaalraza.com about how to save Canadian healthcare. Listen here 👇🏽 podcast.pressprogress.ca/2065306/epis...

Charging select groups more for health services is not the way to build a health system Canadians are proud of. That’s why the CMA is challenging the Federal government’s decision to charge refugees an extra 30% for essential health care services. Do you agree? Lend your voice: bit.ly/4sdVxdS

Celebrating free birth control 👏🏼 Reporting by @michellegamage.bsky.social thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...

What does social democracy have to do with universal healthcare? Quite a lot. Highlights from the @broadbent.bsky.social Progress Summit.

Here’s how you can help stop the cuts to refugee healthcare: CMA: www.cma.ca/get-involved... MRN: migrantrights.ca/actionslist/...

Health Canada says paid plasma clinic in Regina violated rules requiring at least two-days between a person donating https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/regina-plasma-clinic-grifols-donation-violation-9.7137143 @cbcnews.ca ↷ canadahealthwatch.ca 🍁

Time to correct the broken narrative. #BetterMedicare Via the recent @broadbent.bsky.social Progress Summit:

Next Friday, join @cdndrsformedicare.bsky.social for our annual Health Summit! www.canadiandoctorsformedicare.ca/better_medic...

Terrific interview with @danyaalraza.com about why protecting public healthcare is imperative & some practical solutions to delivering the care that our 21st century Canadian population needs

This week, healthcare workers and advocates have been protesting across Canada against Alberta's Bill 11 pathway for privatizing healthcare. I sat down with @danyaalraza.com to get into the details of privatization efforts, past and present, and potential solutions: pressprogress.ca/danyaal-raza...

Canadian healthcare is under threat. But what is the federal government actually doing about it? Dr. @danyaalraza.com explains how we save universal healthcare: pressprogress.ca/danyaal-raza...

Manitoba Health Minister says banning paid plasma clinics is an option after 2 deaths https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/minister-manitoba-plasma-ban-9.7125058 ↷ canadahealthwatch.ca 🍁

Why was the insurance industry given a seat at the table to draft Alberta's two-tier health care legislation while doctors and patients were ignored? Watch as Canadian Health Coalition Chairperson Jason MacLean exposes the influence industry lobbyists hold behind the scenes 👇 #Cdnpoli

🍞&🌹 today + every day.

One to watch: Groups call on federal government to review Alberta's Bill 11 health-care reforms https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/alberta-health-care-bill-11-9.7116512 @cassandrabell.bsky.social ↷ canadahealthwatch.ca 🍁

Time for federal leadership. Watch below. Read here: www.canadiandoctorsformedicare.ca/alberta_bill...

“Doctors across Canada are deeply concerned about the Alberta government’s proposal to expand private health care” www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...

Longer waits, fewer doctors, worse care. Time for the feds to shut down Danielle Smith’s attack on Medicare. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Today: @cdndrsformedicare.bsky.social, @cdnhealthcoalition.bsky.social, @cmadocs.bsky.social, stood shoulder to shoulder calling on @mark-carney.bsky.social & Minister Michel to stop Bill 11, enforce the Canada Health Act & stop Danielle Smith’s attack on Medicare. www.cpac.ca/headline-pol...

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The Health Minister said much last week canadahealthwatch.ca/newsletter/2... @nicktsergas.ca

They also don't belong in the US

US-style pharma ads don't belong in Canada. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Canada's health-care crisis is fueled by too little public spending, not too much www.hilltimes.com/story/2026/0... ⦸ @danyaalraza.com @hilltimes.com ⤷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁

What do income inequality & healthcare funding have to do each other? My latest, for the @hilltimes.com: www.hilltimes.com/story/2026/0...

A clear-eyed analysis of what’s at stake, from @cdndrsformedicare.bsky.social Chair, Dr Melanie Bechard. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Coming up February 18 at 12pm EST. Free Webinar about Alberta's Bill 11, which is opening the door to private, for-profit health and putting Canada’s universal public health care system at risk. Sign up below! @policyalternatives.ca us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

“We are compromising on our professional integrity for sales.” thelocal.to/shoppers-dru...

Here’s how we can improve (and speed up) health-care access in Canada. It has nothing to do with private companies like Telus Health

This is the way to keep our universal healthcare in Canada - we all pay our fair share to keep everyone safe and within the system.

Wealthy Canadians can & should pay for better + faster care. The way it’s done, matters.

Carney raised expectations of a well-being economy. His budget told a different story canadahealthwatch.ca/2026/02/04/c... @dlsphjournalism.bsky.social

Andy's first major report in this position, co-authored with @poliscirish.bsky.social, is a must read on the dangers for Medicare from Danielle Smith and Bill 11. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

This model of private clinic isn't new. It's based on bundling private pay services & publicly funded MD care and selling the whole package as a premium product. These clinics pop up alongside trending health care issues, eg: ADHD clinics. What's new here is that menopause care has made the cut.

Investors are betting big on virtual pharmacies selling lifestyle drugs, where a prescription can be just a few DMs away. This sector raises tricky questions about physician ethics, the role of profit in healthcare, and what happens when patients come looking for specific prescriptions. New from me:

Alberta's Bill 11 puts Canadian medicare at risk. By @alonghurst.bsky.social #abpoli #cdnpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

The purpose of Alberta’s Health Statutes Amendment Act is to destroy public health care as we know it. Not just in Alberta, but throughout Canada, by legislating two-tier health care. @djclimenhaga.bsky.social writes. #abpoli

*Privatization and outsourcing DO NOT reduce pressures on the public system*. The parallel for-profit stream is cannibalizing our public system capacity - and patients and healthcare workers are paying the price. 3/

To the extent that this massive redirection from public to private reduces wait times, it is exclusively for those low complexity, high volume, less urgent procedures. CIHI data shows that under ASI wait times for complex & urgent surgeries like hip fractures & cancer care have skyrocketed. 2/

When govt prioritizes contracted surgical volumes it directs more and more resources to that objective: money, OR time/space, staffing - even pressuring anesthetists and surgeons to prioritize shifts in CSFs over their roles in public hospitals. 1/

We never recovered from the cuts Harper made - this will only put us further behind and make it impossible to catch up. I've been emailing every cabinet minister about this.

Stephen Harper-era reforms via Mark Carney. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

No free passes. No matter who the PM is. #BetterMedicare

Launching our "Cost of Care" issue @thelocal.to today, about the places where money and medicine collide. Here's @alisonmotluk.bsky.social writing the best, clearest thing I've seen on what a routine surgery says about the possible future of care. thelocal.to/cataract-sur...

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

Lets make Medicare, better care! Join us for a @cdndrsformedicare.bsky.social Health Summit: www.canadiandoctorsformedicare.ca/2026_better_...

I was interviewed on @CBCOntarioToday about why Ontario is being left behind on pharmacare while BC & Manitoba push ahead. 1 in 10 Canadians can’t afford meds. Pharmacare would save BILLIONS + cover everyone. Time for leadership. Listen: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

We need to pay for healthcare in 🇨🇦 to work. Just not the way you may be thinking.

Do not do this. Do not share any biometric data with anyone voluntarily. Even if the Ts&Cs say they will keep the information confidential -- which I doubt -- they could change the terms at any time, by which time they have your data to share with others.