Merry Christmas, Canada.

Happy Christmas Eve, to everyone who celebrates this beautiful holiday of peace, joy, and love ✨️ Joyeux Veille de Noël à tous ceux qui célébrent cette fête de paix, de joie, et d'amour ✨️

Happy Holidays, everyone! 🎉 We'll be asking Santa Claus for a winning season for the Habs, and a return of the Stanley Cup to Montréal & the @canadiens.com 🏒 🏆

This is a problem that will potentially effect everyone in Canada & the US... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Have #ChronicPain & "brain fog"? Some simple diet tweaks may help - particularly for women - whether pre-, post-, or in menopause 🍽Iron-rich foods 🎯 "Iron-Rich Foods Dietitians Want You to Add to Your Plate: Red meat isn’t the only way to get your fix." www.prevention.com/food-nutriti...

#Disability "Technology has improved since the 50s and in the last five or six years especially, there has been a lot of progress. But the world is still too often designed without wheelchair users in mind" #bioethics #ChronicPain www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Do you - or a loved one - have #chronicpain? Create an original artwork on "How we feel pain"💥 Artworks can be collage, dance, drawing, music, poetry, painting, photography, sculpture, or any creative work that can be shared as a photo or brief audio/video clip✨️ Individual work, not group product 🎯

For the #healthcare related #STATMini puzzle, can you beat the time of someone with a Mild Cognitive Impairment, #ChronicPain, & two rare diseases? I solved the STAT Mini Crossword in 2 minutes and 33 seconds ⏱️ www.statnews.com/stat-mini-cr...

If you're in the Montréal area, these two #art shows are on now & continue until January 🖼 #ArtDespitePain

Several WIASC artists are participating in this exhibition at the Viva Vida Gallery in Montréal's West Island 🖼 Stop in before January 18th! 📅 ~~~~~ Plusieurs artistes du CAAOI participent à cette exposition à la Galerie d'art Viva Vida à l'Ouest-de-l'Île 🖼 Passez avant le 28 janvier ! 📅

I solved the STAT Mini Crossword in ⏱️ 2 minutes and 35 seconds. You should be able to beat my time! www.statnews.com/stat-mini-cr... #STATMini

“The bottom line is the massive problems created by spraying human medicine on food crops far outweighs the agricultural problems." #medicine #healthcare #bioethics www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Great piece, in French, on importance of taking care of our OWN health - with plenty of physical activity - to age well ✔️ And as healthily as possible, even with chronic illness now ✨️ = Why I bike despite #rarediseases FMD & CRPS, + #ChronicPain 🚲 In @lapresse.ca www.lapresse.ca/actualites/c...

No Canadian should DIE because of lack of access to healthcare. Canadians must fight this federally and provincially. Don’t give me the line that healthcare is only provincial: the federal Canada Health Act protects healthcare access and the provinces must ensure it. It’s both not just one.

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Happy Thanksgiving - from Montréal 🍁 - to all my friends in the US today! 🦃

Are you a Canadian living with #chronicpain ?💥 Pull out your fave musical instrument, paints, poetry pencil, shoes for interpretive dance... Whichever creative art interests you, you can submit an original piece to the @canadianpain.bsky.social Art Awards! ✨️ The theme for 2026: "How we feel pain"

Age-based screening for lung cancer? Low-dose CT scan = Approx 10 min, minimal radiation exposure for patients "Screen everyone ages 40 to 85, regardless of smoking history, & you detect 94% of cancers & prevent more than 26,000 deaths" @statnews.com #bioethics www.statnews.com/2025/11/25/l...

I swore an oath to the Constitution in 1986. I've upheld it through 25 years of service and every day since I retired. If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.

Mark Kelly: "I said something that was pretty simple and non-controversial, and that was that members of the military should follow the law. In response to that, Trump said I should be executed, I should be hanged ... it says a lot more about him than it says about me. I'm not going to be silenced."

Celebrating #WorldWatercolorDay with a look back at some 2025 media coverage! 📰 📺 This journalist reached out for my #ArtDespitePain initiative; to raise awareness of #chronicpain & encourage others living with pain to try creative pursuits to improve symptoms ✨️ montrealguardian.com/montreal-art...

Solved the STAT Mini Crossword in ⏱️ 1 minute and 12 seconds. Can you beat my time? A fun & quick puzzle, over AM coffee, from @statnews ☕️ www.statnews.com/stat-mini-cr... #STATMini

Quebec to test emergency alert system Wednesday at 1:55 p.m. montrealgazette.com/news/local-n...

Peanut allergies are plummeting in children, and you can thank science. Early exposure has turned out to be one of the best prevention methods, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com

DYK? WIASC founder & Disabled artist @sandrawoods_creative_arts is also a Veteran 🍁 ~~~~~~~~~~ Le saviez-vous ? La fondatrice du CAAOI et artiste handicapée Sandra Woods est également Vétérane 🍁

Remembrance Day 🍁 . My dad, HMCS Restigouche, Royal Canadian Navy . His aunt, WWII Canadian Women's Army Corps (CWACs) Pipe Band, shown in Germany . My uncle, WWII, Northumberland Fusiliers, many battles . Me as a Reserve officer, years ago, giving back ✨️

Honoured to attend today’s NDHQ ceremony: LGen Mike Wright announced Indigenous beaded poppies are now approved for wear by all CAF members. Grateful to buy a handmade poppy from my colleague LCol Catherine Askew (Moose Cree First Nation), a CAF chaplain.

In US, proposed changes to Medicare coverage could end access to anesthetic blocks, or “peripheral nerve block” procedures for #ChronicPain 💥 #bioethics #healthcare www.statnews.com/2025/10/31/m...

Wishing you a Happy Halloween! 🎃 Vous souhaitant une bonne Halloween! 🎃

"better-than-expected sales growth in its third quarter, driven by strong customer demand at the Canadian coffee chain and its international franchises" 🇨🇦

Masking at health-care facilities mandatory starting Monday, says NLHS #Newfoundland #Labrador Health authority says it's an attempt to curb spread of respiratory illnesses www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Happy that this "haunted house" painting of a nearby historic home has found a new home in time for #Halloween! ~ Watercolour on cotton-paper

The WIASC was mentioned in a European art magazine - The Art of Watercolour, published in France! ~~~~~~ Un mention du CAAOI dans une revue d'art européene - The Art of Watercolour, publiée en France !

Have chronic low back (lumbar) pain? 😖 In Montréal? 🍁 Want to exercise, hopefully without making your back pain worse? 💥 The Mtl Gen Hospital & McGill Uni are researching a 12-week online exercise program 🎯 I'm not involved in this research, but think it's a great idea!

My watercolour painting isn't finished yet, but hopefully it's good luck for the @torontobluejays.bsky.social - from Montréal 🍁

How does chronic pain impact an artist’s style and craft? Check out this conversation between @napainschool.bsky.social Patient Partner @sandrawoodsmtl.bsky.social and Science Communicator @shirinshs.bsky.social discussing the creation of #ArtDespitePain bit.ly/4onsZMW #P#ArtDespitePain#PRF #NAPS2025

In US #healthcare, "the real culprits are huge profits for health care investors, a gigantic bureaucracy deployed to extract those profits, and health services skewed to what’s profitable rather than what’s needed... 1/2 #bioethics www.statnews.com/2025/10/21/h...

"Currently there's only one cannabis-derived medication with FDA approval... and it doesn't contain any THC" But experts "say THC seems to be one of the "primary" compounds responsible for cutting down pain and improving sleep" #chronicpain #bioethics 1/2 www.npr.org/sections/sho...

It's the final week of the inaugural #art show at the new Viva Vida Gallery in Vaudreuil, just outside of Montréal! 🎨 Two of my more experimental #watercolour paintings were juried into this exhibition; . a Tree frog contemplating its reflection in a pond 🐸 . "Tulip or Wineglass"🌷🍷 #ArtDespitePain

For Canadian #veterans & active #military personnel living with #ChronicPain, there's still time to participate in this fully-Canadian research study 🇨🇦 Help improve the lives of others, as they transition to civilian #healthcare for pain treatment - or can't find appropriate care! 🩺

Happy Thanksgiving! 🍁 [watercolour painting, with ground-mineral pigments; www.SandraWoods.art]

#NAPainSchool Interviews📰 Check out our interview with @sandrawoodsmtl.bsky.social, patient partner and artist, courtesy of NAPS Science Communicator @shirinshs.bsky.social from @mcgill.ca 👉 northamericanpainschool.com/journeying-t...

Going back to do the ones I missed, with my first coffee of the day ☕️ 🧩 = I solved the @statnews.com Mini Crossword in 45 seconds; Sept 15 edition ⏱️ Can you beat my time? 🎯 www.statnews.com/stat-mini-cr... #STATMini

Week 2 of "The Great Canadian Art Show" = Another chance to vote for my 2 paintings... or any that you like! 🗳 Click the link & choose a participating artist from the drop-down list (red box, after text) - or browse the entire show & vote for what touches you. artistsincanada.com/art-show/the...

I solved the STAT Mini Crossword on #healthcare in 1 min and 56 seconds ⏱️ Can you beat my time? 😉 There's even an #art question 🎨 #ArtDespitePain #ChronicPain www.statnews.com/stat-mini-cr... #STATMini

Ever wondered how a #watercolour #painting in progress looks? 🖌 The large unpainted echinacea or coneflower, most obvious in the 3rd photo, will be the focal point of this mostly circular 12" x 12" composition ... so I'll paint it last, after I've finished all the background 🎨 #ArtDespitePain

Two of my #chronicpain paintings in "Great Canadian Art Show" as part of my #ArtDespitePain initiative 🎨 🎯 Page 16, for the Ws! 🎯 People's Choice Award ⤵️ Vote online, once/week, to Oct 31! - Choose 3 artworks/week & VOTE - Images reshuffled Sunday = VOTE again! artistsincanada.com/art-show/the...

The world's lights are a bit dimmer today... Rest in eternal peace, #JaneGoodall ✨️ www.bbc.com/news/live/c9...

Researchers have found that ALS patients have autoimmune responses, a finding with the potential to reshape how scientists think of the devastating and complex neurologic disorder. www.statnews.com/2025/10/01/a...