Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/o...

Bruce Fanjoy has launched a petition to require all federal party leaders to obtain and maintain top security clearance. It's open for a couple of months. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

72. Don't force federal employees back to the office. Not without clean air initiatives, not without work-life balance improvements, and definitely not while you're cutting public transit funding. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Media promises to only fall for the ‘maybe Poilievre has changed’ story 4-5 more times (podcast)

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

As I head to Milan for my 10th Olympics, here is my preview of a Games that was supposed to be a haven, but instead is perched on the edge of history, as a scattered Olympics in a broken - or breaking - world. www.thestar.com/sports/olymp...

I love the US. But if I were not American, I would not set foot in the US now. As long as Stephen Miller is in power, the US cannot plausibly host international sporting events. (And all the *foreigners* they would bring.)

At a minimum, this is criminally negligent, and far more likely, this is deliberate concealing of government activities and records. Either way, it's completely unacceptable, and Doug Ford's Conservative government needs to be held accountable. #ONpoli

New tests just dropped.

NOT GOOD. "I think Trump’s instincts are to do what he wants,& to hell with the consequences. I think the closest analogy to someone like President Trump is actually a monarch. In some ways, he’s like Louis XIV, the French king, who built Versailles, which also had lots of gold & lots of mirrors."

Showing up is an act of heroism in today's America. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

"It is an error of epic proportions to dismiss the obvious and explicit statements made by Trump and his administration about their plans to upend both America and the world." #GiftLink 🎁 www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

This song is playing on repeat in our home today. Solidarity with Minneapolis. Justice for all.

I wrote for The Star about Carney delivering a pivotal speech about new global partnerships, then immediately laying off the very people who build said partnerships www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

No more tone policing and kindness-washing. Everything that's happening in the US right now should be assumed to be a preview of the consequences of electing a Conservative Prime Minister in Canada, and of a separated Alberta under the UCP and the brownshirts they want to replace the RCMP with.

In the wake of the Denmark/Greenland leaders speaking clearly to their population about the risk of a US takeover, we are nearing the time when Mark Carney must speak openly to Canadians about the real and urgent threat they also face. It just hasn't been vocalized by Trump lately. But it's there.

If we stand aside when others are threatened, we can expect others to do the same when it's our turn over the barrel.

It will take direction from the federal govt to hospital GPOs, Mohawk MedBuy & HealthPro, to hospitals, & to Provinces. Feds have the power of the purse wrt transfer payments for healthcare to start, but really we need federal legislation. Buy 🇨🇦 for publicly funded healthcare

Dear @mark-carney.bsky.social, I believe most Canadians will agree that it is in Canada's best interests if you cancel all of Palantir's contracts with the Canadian government. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

This what a Hmong man, who came to the U.S. almost 30 years ago, told me about the atmosphere in his community:

📣 This is VERY BAD news. Some family doctors in North Bay appear to be de-rostering current patients (who then don't have a family MD) and replacing these patients with patients from the Health Connect Ontario (prov wait list) at $500/patient. www.nugget.ca/news/north-b...

"...sit now very quietly in some lovely wild place, and listen to the silence. And I say that this, too, is a poem." - Mary Oliver

Much like I have shared signs of increased avian flu risk, I have tried to share signs that help confirm the increased risk Canada faces from the south. Like bird flu, it is easy to ignore until it isn’t.

After the devastating loss of the 3 children in Ottawa, it was urgent to get info out re the additional ways avail to protect one’s loved ones from serious illness as we enter the holidays… and to remind young fams this amt of sickness ISN’T normal. #VaccinePlus ottawa.citynews.ca/2025/12/21/s...

This is a really good video about measles. I watched it so I could refresh my knowledge. Measles was eradicated by the time I became a doctor, so I haven't seen it.

"Jude, a tousle-haired toddler, later developed a slight fever, but was happy and playing just before Promoli put him and his twin brother, Thomas, down for naps. Jude never woke up... ...By talking about it, Promoli hopes “I can save someone.”

“Chances are someone you know is considered at risk for complications stemming from influenza. Start thinking of the people in your life … Are any of them older than 65 or younger than five? Pregnant? Maybe someone has asthma, diabetes or anemia? Get your #flushot -> stay home if sick. flu kills.

Looking for gifts for the elderly people in your life? Covid 19/Flu A/Flu B rapid tests probably aren't at the top of their list, but they could be a life-saver. It's a very bad flu season and early detection of influenza means that at-risk people can get flu antivirals to treat it.

“Vaccinations are especially important this season for children due to the rise in severe illness. Parents and caregivers can help protect children by being vaccinated themselves.”

“…three children between the ages of five and nine have died from influenza A-related complications in the Ottawa and Eastern Ontario Health Unit regions during the first two weeks of December.” www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...

If aliens ever asked me what good works humanity has done that would justify our continued existence as a species, I would explain the selfless kindness inherent in the concept of dementia villages to them. And then pray they don't have any follow up questions.

Here's my "appearance" on CBC radio last night youtu.be/t9_Xqtxi2GQ

I’ve talked to more doctors this year who are thinking about leaving medicine than ever before. The system is stretched well past its limit, as are those inside. Latest:

No Kings is a much-needed reminder: there are so many great Americans, smart Americans, brave Americans, big-hearted Americans. And the world needs them.

This whole situation is so disturbing, but the blasé responses of health officials, the way they brush off the total loss of OB/gyne care, their weak reassurance that it will be easy to replace these doctors - so chilling. #medsky #cansky www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

COVID and influenza are bad for you. Get vaccinated. Wear an N95 in indoor public spaces. Clean the air we all breathe.

I'm sharing this to help destigmatize therapy. It really can be life-changing. (Psychodynamic and Family Systems therapy is the bomb.)

[Adds to Christmas list.]

This is my neighbor headed home after our morning walk. Not a fan of making waves. Hasn't attended any protests, yet. This morning he said about Saturday, "I probably should go to this one". This Saturday, bring a friend to No Kings. Bring your neighbor. Numbers matter. Our voices matter. #NoKings

For a friend... Fall Song by Mary Oliver

I agree about Bruce Arthur. He's raising the red flags and trying to raise awareness. It's alarming to me that people aren't absorbing the changes that are happening with our provincial and federal governments. We point south but don't see the needle moving here as well.

His meddling serves as a distraction from the bigger scandals

Former US ambassador to Canada Bruce Heyman (Obama appointee) was there & spoke a bit. Said (not verbatim) Canada needs to stay true to our values and can lead right now as US spirals.

"Dr. Mount called his patients his “teachers of suffering,” and spoke eloquently of the need to address their “existential dread” as much as their physical symptoms."

More like Ukraine (see: Monroe Doctrine), but without any self-interested neighbouring countries to back us up. And we've pretty much wasted an entire year underplaying the enormity of this crisis, acting as if tariffs were the problem, not incipient fascism.

When youth get comprehensive sex ed they wait to have sex longer, have safer and healthier sex and face less sexual and physical violence in relationships. Which is why it's a problem that immigrant teenagers appear to be missing out on Canadian sex ed. Me for @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/09...

The question Canadians should be asking is this: "If Trump can falsely describe a peaceful city in his own country as "war ravaged" and order troops in with the authority to use lethal force, then how much of a leap is it for him to eventually do the same against Canada, using another fake pretext."

The narrative that needs to break through is that Ford will kill kids. Why? 95% of cameras (in Toronto) are in SCHOOL zones. The other 5% are in community SAFETY zones. Surely, even his base doesn't want to kill their own kids or grandkids.