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French woman was told by doctors hantavirus symptoms were just anxiety https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/11/french-womandoctors-hantavirus-symptoms-hv-hondius ↷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁

Public-private health care model coming to Alberta breaches Canada Health Act, legal expert argues https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-public-private-health-care-model-coming-to-alberta-breaches-canada/ ⦸ @alannasmith.bsky.social @theglobeandmail.com ↷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁

Canada's healthcare system must prepare for oil shocks and shortages canadahealthwatch.ca/2026/05/05/c... @dougaldlamont.bsky.social ↷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁

Traditional polling economy: Pay to manipulate public perception New "betting" economy: Manipulate public perception. Get paid 😎

Israel Said It’s Applying the Gaza Model in Lebanon. This Is What the Devastation Looks Like. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Our team received a report of intermittent app outages at about 11:40pm PDT on April 15, 2026. They worked through the night to mitigate a sophisticated Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, which intensified throughout the day.

It's not just gas prices. "Canada’s health-care system is monitoring the global shortage closely as liquid helium plays a crucial role in cooling down MRI machines."

France is switching from Microsoft to Linux "We must become less reliant on American tools and regain control of our digital destiny. We can no longer accept that our data, our infrastructure, our strategic decisions depend on solutions whose rules, pricing, evolution, and risks we do not control."

One last point: When governments talk about "age verification," they also mean "identity verification" So even if you're 55 years old, you will be virtually carded and all your social media activity will be linked to your identity. That means no online anonymity and raises privacy issues for adults

TOH is the latest in a growing list of urban Ontario hospitals to aggressively cut staff. As the aging boom continues to accelerate.

Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI. AI is starting a death spiral for human knowledge. We won't know what is fake and what is trust worth. This will lead us to make wrong decisions and cause substantial harm. AI risk centuries of progress.

Wild theory - PP is the next floor crosser.

So many terrifying charts for anyone working in the news industry in this report we published today, authored by my colleagues Craig, Amy, Mitali and Richard. Young people are less interested in news, consume news less frequently, and are much more open to alternative approaches (AI, influencers)

In BC, millions of taxpayer dollars are being poured into "innovative" programs with no transparency and little accountability How is that ok? What are the metrics for success? Crickets www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Hi, so my 6yo needed to go to the after hours clinic for an ear infection & fever (Covid negative on plus life) & they gave me a patient info sheet on viral illnesses and guess what? They are calling Covid a common cold now 🫠

From the archive: An emergency physician unpacks Canada's severe shortage of doctors and its roots in U.S policy-contagion.

US moving pregnant immigrant girls to Texas to avoid providing abortions, critics say https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/01/pregnant-immigrant-children-texas-abortion @melodyschreiber.com @theguardian.com ↷ canadahealthwatch.ca 🍁

An American physician, now practising medicine in Canada has some useful reflections "In Canada, where people don’t fear bankruptcy for seeking care, patients come in and they just talk to you, about doctor things. That’s a profound relief, for them and me" canadahealthwatch.ca/2026/02/15/i...

This is a pretty strong policy signal. I wonder if we're going to start seeing Ottawa take up the torch on this. abacusdata.ca/canadians-ar...

From the archive: Dr. Paul Parks on how Alberta's plans for two-tiered healthcare will delay lifesaving care. canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/28/t... @pfparks.bsky.social

Good words of warning here. AI models are generally designed to read and incorporate (and, in a sense, believe) virtually everything they find online, with very few guardrails. The information can get divorced from its original source, context, & rebuttals or retractions. That's a really big problem

MAHA-aligned research is entering the training data of AI models that millions of people (and increasingly governments) rely on.

MAHA-aligned research is entering the training data of AI models that millions of people (and increasingly governments) rely on.

Obvious but confirmed: people now read less news, more AI summaries of news.

"The posture of Health Canada was always protecting, protecting ... we added a lot of layers.” “This is why I am pushing my department … moving fast, removing the red tapes.”

The Canadian government intends to increase Health Canada's reliance on foreign regulators for drug approvals. The Health Minister has acknowledged that US institutions are no longer reliable, but it is not known if US regulators will be included in Canada's incoming regulatory schema.

In today's roundup: Ontario finance minister says rate of health-care spending is 'unsustainable' https://globalnews.ca/news/11669653/ontario-unsustainable-health-care-spending/ ⤷ canadahealthwatch.ca 🍁

@todmaffin.com @codeblackamerica.bsky.social 'I traded my U.S. medical career for life in Canada. Here’s how the two health systems stack up.'

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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.

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

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

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 🍁

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.

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.