These numbers speak for themselves. Over a three-year span, a surgical device (without AI) was reported to the FDA seven times for malfunctioning and once for causing injury (unconfirmed). Since AI was added in 2021 there have been at least 100 reports of malfunctions and adverse patient events.

I'm surprised there's this many football players attending this bad bunny concert

N.L. premier says 'fractured' federal approach to pharmacare creating inequities https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/nl-premier-says-fractured-federal-approach-to-pharmacare-creating-inequities/ ⤷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁

Key context on the American Medical Association's endorsement of restrictions on gender-related surgery for minors:

Insurers push Ottawa and provinces to clear regulatory roadblocks for virtual care https://www.benefitscanada.com/benefits/clhia-targeting-regulatory-barriers-ongoing-investment-in-virtual-care-solutions-in-2026/ ⤷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁

Kudos to premier @susanholtnb.bsky.social and the government of NB for following the science and moving policy beyond 2020-era disinformation. Literal breath of fresh air.

New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt's Liberal government will no longer use X for "routine" government communications:

Key context on the American Medical Association's endorsement of restrictions on gender-related surgery for minors:

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

Unsafe care delays are now routine across the country, and waiting room deaths have crossed the line from being tragic anomalies into policy outcomes. Dr. Paul Parks writes:

ICE halts 'all movement' at Texas 'detention facility' due to measles https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-dilley-center-texas-measles-cases/ ⤷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁

he is usually a man of few words. 1-line emails. two max. This is a departure

Maybe work-life balance is over-rated. www.them.us/story/story/...

So, now they're asking . . .

How a B.C. court case could change medical assistance in dying across Canada https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/how-a-b-c-court-case-could-change-medical-assistance-in-dying-across-canada-9.7067052 ⤷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁

Food-borne pathogen outbreaks have been rising in Canada in recent years. That trend predates the US' dismantlement of its food-safety regulations. This is a bad idea.

Food-borne pathogen outbreaks have been rising in Canada in recent years. That trend predates the US' dismantlement of its food-safety regulations. This is a bad idea.

If you are starting a new social media research project, start here: socialmedialab.ca/apps/social-...

Canada’s cervical cancer screening is unevenly implemented, with deadly consequences. canadahealthwatch.ca/2026/01/29/c... @anwilkinson.bsky.social

One to watch: Why Ontario hospitals are turning to bank loans to stay afloat ijb.utoronto.ca/news/why-ont... @blairbigham.bsky.social @ijbstories.bsky.social ⤷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁

A man waits nearly a year for regulated psilocybin therapy to ease end-of-life distress and is denied. He applies for MAiD and is approved in 3 weeks. Bureaucracy moves fast when it wants to.

A man waits nearly a year for regulated psilocybin therapy to ease end-of-life distress and is denied. He applies for MAiD and is approved in 3 weeks. Bureaucracy moves fast when it wants to.

In 2023 the WHO declared that there is no safe amount of alcohol-consumption. Health Canada's website defines "low-risk drinking" as: - 10 drinks per week for women - 15 for men

Canada will require refugees and asylum seekers to co-pay for health care starting in May https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/refugees-health-care/article_eec5044d-f310-48f8-84fe-d6095d13b4d0.html ⦸ ⤷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁

They typically get 3–4 in a month.

This is stunningly good reporting. News you can use. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Canada’s AI conversation is mostly about growth and productivity. What’s being missed is how algorithmic management is reshaping workplace expectations and power.

Canada’s AI conversation is mostly about growth and productivity. What’s being missed is how algorithmic management is reshaping workplace expectations and power.

Left, Russian politician Zhirinovsky in 2019 slicing a cake of Ukraine into pieces. Right, American politicians slicing a cake of Greenland into pieces. The direction the Trump administration is taking the US in is clear.

Families shoulder the costs in Canada’s failing care economy canadahealthwatch.ca/2026/01/13/f... by Cynthia Lien feat. @armineyalnizyan.bsky.social

This is an artifact. Doug Ford before he became Ontario premier, opposite Avi Lewis before he became leader of the NDP (probably), with Evan Solomon anchoring, before he became a federal cabinet minister.

Canadian government drafts plans to ban social media for children under 14 www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art... ⦸ @marcmillermp.bsky.social ⤷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁

This program is a model for the entire Western hemisphere.

Striking though unsurprising finding from research out of UofA.

While the U.S. is actively weakening the FDA, Canada is preparing to stop doing its own drug reviews and defer to foreign regulators. “Public service savings targets” in action.

The health insurance sector has increased lobbying efforts in New Brunswick in opposition to universal pharmacare according to government records.

Female family doctors in Ontario spend more time with patients, make less money: study https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/female-family-doctors-in-ontario-spend-more-time-with-patients-make-less-money-study/ News and analysis ⇢ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured

In light of recent events, I’ve been thinking about the psychology of the people who stayed on X after last winter's big exodus. Trying to convince them to move now is a totally different animal than it was a year ago. 1/5

The middle class is eroding. Unpaid care work, immigration policy, and demographic changes are pushing more families into economic precarity. Our latest CHW Analysis looks at how these forces intersect, and what it means for households and Canada's economy.

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.

Even in a near-perfect world where 95% of people vaccinate, there will still be fallout from what's happening in the US now. The less a virus circulates, the fewer chances it has to evolve. More spread ➡️ more replication ➡️ more mutation ➡️ higher chance of immune escape.

In February 2025, @nicktsergas.ca and I warned Canada to prepare for the anticipated influx of physicians immigrating north. The time has come, and Canada is finally ready. Thanks to all Canadians who helped make this happen. 🇨🇦

Paying people for plasma feels unethical. But Canada already gets ~80% of its plasma from the U.S. where the system is far more exploitative. We can't pretend there’s a standard of Canadian moral purity that we haven’t already broken. from @torontotoday.ca 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/m...

Wild to see my article become BMJ’s biggest piece of the year. I want to be clear about something going forward: My work is about getting important ideas in front of people who need to see them, and who might be able to do something about them. 1/2 🔗 www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Mehmet Oz recently visited the American Medical Association (AMA), where he threatened doctors to get in line, saying, “When the music stops and everyone has to sit down, guess who doesn’t get a chair? You.” @canadahealthwatch.ca

Ontario on path to lose 7,200 nurses and 2,400 hospital beds due to funding cuts www.thespec.com/news/hamilto... @jofrketich.bsky.social More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

Canada isn’t really reacting to Trump's Greenland grab. The U.S. is actively eroding international norms that have held the global order since WWII. We're reacting to that. 1/5

It's true. Over a year later, and the packs hold up. bsky.app/start/did:pl...

Both in Canada and the U.S., governments explicitly chose to train fewer doctors. We’re still dealing with the fallout. @canadahealthwatch.ca

The U.S. is weaponizing global health aid. Countries that agree to incarcerate "deportees" get deals. Those that don’t get cut off. CECOT is the prototype.