1) The New York Times today has published a devastating and heartbreaking profile of a 20-year-old man who died after being sent home with the wrong diagnosis from a busy ER. Sound familiar? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/w...

BREAKING: File this under bizarre and morbid: Montreal police found a detached human head along the shoreline of the Rivière des Prairies on Sunday. Pending the outcome of the police investigation, here is something I wrote about this rare phenomenon: 👇 www.montrealgazette.com/news/article...

What a tragic story: An 18-year-old Innu man who was attending Dawson College — his whole life ahead of him — died because Urgences-santé paramedics took too long to drive him to a hospital that was only 700 metres away. www.montrealgazette.com/news/health/...

Will an A.I. Big Brother be coming to the Montreal General Hospital? Click on my story below to read more about efforts to reduce deadly superbug outbreaks by deploying "nodes" — but not cameras — in the ceilings of the rooms of patients and in hallways. www.montrealgazette.com/news/health/...

1) EXCLUSIF: Les étudiants en médecine et les parents sont furieux qu'un étudiant qui a fait l'objet de plaintes pour propos racistes, sexistes et antisémites ait été admis à l'Université de Sherbrooke. Voici mon texte ci-dessous. 👇 www.montrealgazette.com/news/article...

1) BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: The Quebec medical student at the centre of a social media storm — against whom allegations have been made that he has fomented hatred against Jews and other minority groups — finally speaks out. Below is my story on the subject. www.montrealgazette.com/news/article...

1) BREAKING: A first case of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever has been identified in Quebec. In this thread, I draw attention to how human-induced climate change contributes to the spread of tick-borne diseases like RMSF, as well as other harms to our health. www.montrealgazette.com/news/health/...

1) Il y a vingt ans, j'ai écrit une série de six articles sur la privatisation croissante des soins de santé au Québec. L'un des textes traitait de 90 médecins qui ne participaient plus au système public. Comme j'étais naïf à l'époque ! 👇

1) To hear my take on the intensifying exodus of Quebec physicians from the public to private systems, please click below to listen to my interview with the ever-insightful @eliasmakos.bsky.social‬. 👇 www.iheart.com/podcast/962-...

1) BREAKING: Santé Québec has authorized 246 doctors' requests since April to become "non-participants" of the medicare system — and thus legally allowed to charge patients from hundreds to tens of thousands of dollars for services. See my exposé below. www.montrealgazette.com/news/health/...

1) Montreal reported the worst air quality of any city in the world on Saturday, as The Gazette's ‪@hsnorth.bsky.social‬ revealed. But it was also bad on Sunday, especially in some east-end neighborhoods of the city. Please see Harry's insightful story below. www.montrealgazette.com/news/article...

1) BREAKING: Nearly two out of three Quebecers who need to see a medical specialist are now waiting past medical acceptably delays, raising concerns about their health and raising questions about the efficiency of Santé Québec. Please see my story below. 👇 www.montrealgazette.com/news/health/...

1) On the perils of private-for-profit care in the U.S.: The New York Times reports today that Encompass Health Corporation scores way below average on two key safety measures, drawing attention to chilling deaths of patients at some of its hospitals. archive.is/xdLk5

1) It's been a while since I've written about the crisis in chronically overcrowded — and therefore unsafe — emergency rooms from coast to coast. In this thread, I will focus on a B.C. ER doctor's plight, highlighted in the Vancouver Sun article below. 👇 vancouversun.com/news/local-n...

1) BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Record numbers of Quebec heart patients are dying while waiting for their surgery. This crisis has become exacerbated as the newly-created Santé Québec and the provincial health ministry squabble over jurisdiction. My exposé below.👇 www.montrealgazette.com/news/health/...

Given today's sad news regarding Marc Garneau, I had the pleasure and honor of interviewing him in 2015 for the @mtlgazette.bsky.social. Below is a story I wrote tonight which I hope illustrates his patriotism and humanity.👇 www.montrealgazette.com/news/article...

1) For those who enjoy reading murder mysteries — with ancient Roman history thrown in, along with a dash of Epicurean philosophy and a budding love story — I can't recommend highly enough a new book by Montreal writer Eric Siblin. See below. 👇 ecwpress.com/products/fat...

1) In the last few days, I've reported on Montreal police and Dawson College investigating med school applicants spewing racist epithets and violent threats. Puzzlingly, other news media aren't following this. Below is my interview with CJAD's @eliasmakos.bsky.social. www.iheart.com/podcast/962-...

1) BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Quebec's lieutenant-governor's office has reached out to Dawson College about its racism investigation into the antisemitic Discord channel used by med school applicants. Please see my story below.👇 www.montrealgazette.com/news/article...

1) BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Discord has deactivated from its social media platform a racist channel used by Quebec medical school applicants. But inflammatory rhetoric is popping up already on another Discord channel. Please see my story below. 👇 www.montrealgazette.com/news/article...

1) BREAKING: Quebec urges students to come forward in racism investigation to help identify those spreading antisemitic, homophobic, misogynistic and anti-Black slurs on Discord channel for med school applicants. Please see my story below. 👇 www.montrealgazette.com/news/article...

1) BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Dawson College confirms it has launched an investigation into the origin of racist posts on a Discord social media app channel used by Quebec medical student applicants. Please see my story below. 👇 www.montrealgazette.com/news/article...

1) Bravo to Marieke Glorieux-Stryckman and and Aidan Raynor for winning the 2025 Student Achievement Award from World Press Freedom Canada for their exposé on how universities across the country are far less than transparent when it comes to access-to-information requests.

Bob Dylan quote of the day: "You got gangsters in power and lawbreakers making rules."

CTV Montreal has an exclusive interview with one of the three people of color who was ousted from the now-closed DEI office in the medical faculty at McGill University. See below. 👇 www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/vid...

Sadly, yes, actually.

1) Malgré nos divisions apparentes, beaucoup plus de choses nous unissent, francophones et anglophones, dans notre patrie, le Québec. Dans cette enfilade, je commencerai par notre amour de glorieux. www.montrealgazette.com/news/the-cor...

1) This story hasn't gotten as much attention this week as it deserves: the fresh exodus of family doctors from the public system to the private-for-profit sector in Quebec. Here below is my interview with @eliasmakos.bsky.social on the subject. 👇 www.iheart.com/podcast/962-...

1) BREAKING: McGill University is abolishing its office of diversity, equity and inclusion in its medical faculty, even though its marquee program in medicine has been put on probation again by accreditation authorities. Please read my exclusive below. 👇 www.montrealgazette.com/news/article...

1) BREAKING: Four dozen family doctors have quit Quebec's medicare network since last July and can now bill patients directly — an exodus that's straining access to the province's beleaguered public system as never before. Please click on my story below.👇 www.montrealgazette.com/news/health/...

"It's horrific when you think about it." My take below on Quebec's spiraling ER crisis, our rapidly aging population and Santé Québec's bizarre funding cuts. Always a pleasure speaking with Aaron Rand CJAD800.👇 www.iheart.com/podcast/962-...

BREAKING: Quebec’s rapidly aging population is largely behind the province’s spiralling emergency-room crisis, newly-compiled Health Ministry stats suggest. My story below. 👇 www.montrealgazette.com/news/article...

Consultants McKinsey & Company — which the Legault government used extensively during the pandemic — has agreed to pay the U.S. Justice Department $650 million for its role in "turbocharging" sales of Oxycontin that fueled the opioid epidemic that cost so many lives. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/b...

BREAKING: A Quebec judge has ordered an OBGYN to pay nearly $29 million to a family after the botched delivery of their child at Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital. It's the biggest award ever handed down in Quebec in a medical malpractice case.👇 www.montrealgazette.com/news/article...

This restores my faith — so sorely tested these days — in humanity. 👇

What local newspapers do best in the cruel age of echo-chamber social media: bridge communities together, give voice to the voiceless and inspire what is noble in us. Please support local journalism. 👇 montrealgazette.com/news/local-n...

What a lovely tribute to those amazing young woman who were slain 35 years ago. One of the students I taught last summer at Concordia University, Sara Mizannojehdehi, drew the illustration below. She writes in the @mtlgazette.bsky.social today that "these women remain constellations over Montreal."

"I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time." — Charles Dickens. What would Dickens, who had visited Montreal in 1842, have thought of this heartless travesty in our fair city? 👇 montrealgazette.com/news/local-n...

Quebec's French language watchdog, the OQLF, has expanded its list of bilingual hospitals in the province drastically. @mtlgazette.bsky.social health reporter @aaronderfel.bsky.social joined Aaron Rand to explain how it happened:

BREAKING: Quebec’s French-language watchdog updates and expands its list of bilingual hospitals across the province following a series of stories in The Gazette. 👇 montrealgazette.com/news/local-n...

1) A week ago, I wrote about Santé Québec considering as a last resort “a selective reduction of services” to the population to absorb a $1.5-billion deficit. Today, the health minister all but acknowledged he will use that last resort. montrealgazette.com/news/local-n...

BREAKING: Santé Québec is considering "a reduction of services" to the population in a four-phase plan to slash $1.5 billion in health spending in the coming months. Please click below to read my exclusive. 👇 montrealgazette.com/news/local-n...

Gazette gets results, Part 2: A day after news Montreal has axed a tax on homeless shelters comes word Santé Québec is cancelling its cost-cutting plan barring employees from working at two hospitals — days after Gazette reporter Harry North broke the story. montrealgazette.com/news/local-n...

EXCLUSIVE: How Trump cabinet pick RFK Jr. played a role in Montreal’s decision to stop adding fluoride to the drinking water on the West Island. Fantastic scoop by one of The Gazette’s young new reporters, Leora Schertzer. 👇 montrealgazette.com/news/local-n...

Montreal is finally abolishing its heartless tax on homeless shelters thanks to a Gazette investigation. This is why local journalism matters. Bravo to ace reporter Linda Gyulai, whom you can follow here @cityhallreport.bsky.social. montrealgazette.com/news/local-n...

For those interested in how I got the scoop on the horrific deaths of 6 patients at a Montreal hospital that were covered up - and the action taken in response to my series - click below for more info on my Q & A this Thursday evening with the great @pattisonntag.bsky.social . caj.ca/programs/eve...

Kind of like my life. 👇

Bluesky vs. Twitter: Posting same story, both platforms. Twitter, 138.2K Twitter followers (and falling): 14 interactions. Bluesky, 12.1K followers (and rising): 119 interactions. The Bluesky algorithm is way better. People who follow you actually see your posts, and they engage. @bsky.app

BREAKING: Quebec's health-care managers must chop $1.5 billion from their budgets, not the $1 billion previously reported. There are concerns U.S. bond-rating agencies might lower Quebec's credit rating, resulting in higher debt payments for the province. montrealgazette.com/_preview/new...

1) Hal Newman est un journaliste méticuleuse qui se spécialise dans la couverture en profondeur des soins préhospitaliers au Québec. En fait, aucun autre journaliste ne comprend mieux le sujet que Hal. ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/211...