Stay away from the USA. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

My first SBM article 5 years ago showed how Prasad was an unreliable ideologue. It aged very well. He’s forfeited his right to be taken seriously ever again and anyone who does so should be ignored as well.

“Tackling health misinformation + rebuilding public trust are top priorities for Canada's incoming chief public health officer Dr. Joss Reimer.” Stopping infectious diseases requires an assault on antivaxxer misinformation. Hope Dr. Reimer will do that. #CPHO ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/cp-news...

You gotta be kidding me gift link www.wsj.com/tech/persona...

"Canadians need to understand health data is another of our great national resources" Anderson Chuck, President and CEO of @cihica.bsky.social speaking at #FHLIP2026 final panel discussion touching on data sovereignty and value of health data

Nothing gladdens the heart of an early morning winter runner in Ottawa more than seeing the sky begin to lighten before 6:30 in the morning.

“AI cannot solve the fundamental structural fragmentation of Canada’s health systems, EMR isolation or the crushing administrative burden this causes clinicians." from a new report by leading Canadian medical organizations prich5757.wordpress.com/2026/02/18/n...

Fun fact: half of the “experts” who wrote RFK Jr’s new food guidelines—which push people to eat more red meat, saturated fats, beef tallow, & full fat dairy—have financial ties to the livestock & dairy industries Looks like RFK Jr & Makary CREATED a corrupt food pyramid

The EPA Just Made Our Air Less Safe to Breathe www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/clim...

"Nobody ever attacks my science" @drjengunter.bsky.social speaking at the recent @cmadocs.bsky.social session on health misinformation hosted by Empire Club of Canada

New @cmadocs.bsky.social survey shows increasing use of AI to search for health information and toxic wave of misinformation from U.S. adding to mistrust many Canadians have with online health info. sources.

AI an’ I: Not now thanks prich5757.wordpress.com/2026/01/31/a...

A new survey of the burden of administrative work faced by Canadian physicians conducted by CMA and the Canadian Federation of Independent Business shows how rapidly the use of AI scribes has entered into the equation as a potential solution. prich5757.wordpress.com/2026/01/26/c...

Sadly suppressing such a devastating report doesn’t make the risks go away - it just makes them even harder to deal with. Facing up to the truth is the first step to coping with it - it’s beyond scandalous that ministers tried to prevent this. They need to act - and fast

And so it begins. The payback for standing up to Trump is coming. Count on Trump and MAGA Maple attempting to tear our nation apart by reaching out to the false losers in the Alberta separatist party and Donbass Danielle Smith. Watch the traitors come out from under their rocks.

Amazing sob story: "ChatGPT deleted all the work I hadn't done" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

this is, literally, a wild ride

A memorable headline in this morning's Globe & Mail: www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

Hospitals and doctors are ignoring RFK Jr.’s new vaccine schedule and relying on pediatricians’ guidance instead www.statnews.com/2026/01/15/n...

To anybody still using X: sexual abuse content is the final straw, it’s time to leave www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... I've stayed on X (just posting) because of the (probably naive) belief important to ensure accurate content everywhere. But X just an abusive BS machine. Stepping away.

I have decided that sending butt plugs to US Army bases in Bahrain would be the stupidest pretext for the US to invade Canada, but then, that is probably a failure of my imagination www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...

NEWS: Postmedia suspends Toronto Sun parliamentary bureau chief after tweet applauding ICE killing of Minneapolis woman Postmedia says Bryan Passifiume’s tweet about ICE killing of Renee Good was ‘regrettable and insensitive’

New insights into the use of AI in healthcare by Dr. Bryan Vartabedian open.substack.com/pub/liminalm...

FA Cup holders Palace knocked out by non-league Macclesfield reut.rs/4qK6EKm

There’s a lot of despair in the world today and then there’s Macclesfield knocking Crystal Palace out of the FA Cup.

More institutions are deciding some platforms are no longer worth inhabiting. There’s a point where “staying to reach people” becomes "being shaped by the venue." This threshold passes silently. By the time the platform is shaping your tone and incentives, your decision is already made.

Greenland is not for sale. Statement by Premier of Greenland. x.com/ojoelsen/sta...

I have zero expectation that anyone will stand with Canada in the event of US aggression against us. Certainly not the UK or Europe. Not conscientious objectors in the American military. Not Democrats. Not the American people on the whole.

Mark Carney turns off geolocation on phone just in case

I sure would hate to be an oil-rich country whose sovereignty the US doesn't recognize within easy striking distance of US soil. That would be scary!

Being profoundly upset about the 51st state stuff was not an unreasonable reaction.

What is the point of social media? New post on online town squares and niche pubs: kucharski.substack.com/p/in-praise-...

Canada needs to take see the invasion of Venezuela for what it is - a deliberate attack on the international rules based order. We have a bandit nation on our border and we need to be ready for whatever comes next. charlieangus.substack.com/p/venezuela-...

It’s a dark night when you look at the news and are forced to admit that you no longer believe in the power of the FIFA peace prize

Bluesky has definitively taken the crown for realtime news from X/Twitter, especially watching the Venezuela crisis unfold. The new Discover feed and trending topics are excellent. Either Elon is suppressing coverage, or the algorithm is too focused on garbage, either way, well done Team 🦋!!

Dr. Glaucomflecken is doing ads for AI scribes? Whyyy 😭

AI showing signs of self-preservation and humans should be ready to pull plug, says pioneer

Update:

The Week Between Christmas and New Years

The newly opened Kìwekì Point panoramic viewpoint overlooking the Ottawa River behind the National Art Gallery has apparently been damaged by a snow plow

The Holiday Misinformation Survival Guide www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

The Atlantic suggesting, without evidence, that Canada's Global TV broadcasting the '60 Minutes' segment on CECOT that CBS distributed to it may have been an act of "treachery." 🔗: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Merry Christmas to all my #healthxph friends. Hope the weather behaves for you next year

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RFK Jr. has cancelled grants to the American Academy of Pediatrics because “they no longer align with departmental priorities”. The grants were on such topics as “reducing sudden infant death, rural access to health care, and mental health…” The AAP has criticized RFK Jr. That’s the real reason.

One reason Rob Reiner’s death was so shocking is that he was a living embodiment of a gentle, righteous, kind humanity. Trump’s reaction, meanwhile, was an embodiment of his inhumanity, vile as it is. We all get to choose which one we would want to be. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

Using colouring books to help medical students learn anatomy in a less anxious way: new @uottawa.ca study uottawa.scholarsportal.info/ottawa/index...