The health care version of this is like: "Do we have that x-ray report? No, the hospital switched its EMR from Cottontail to Flopsy, so for the next 9 months we have to query the Loopdeeloo system manually to activate the Foofen Fax Protocol for reports. It's just temporary until ZooZaZa takes over.

Definitely worth a read - this maps directly onto the way tone policing tactics have been used to shield public health and infection control leaders from accountability throughout the pandemic. They kill people, then talk about kindness and hide behind the claim that calling them out is uncivil.

Après le psycho-drame collectif de la réforme de la rémunération des MDs et les PL#106, PL#2 PL#16... ben y'a plus de premier ministre ni de ministre de la santé... Tout va très bien. L'ensemble du projet est un succès. Je n'anticipe aucun problème de mise en oeuvre www.awn.com/news/warner-...

Draw your own conclusions, but the president of Palantir Canada sits on Carney's council for Canada/US relations. And the feds also did a deal with Palantir, via a homegrown proxy.

I will accept no moral high ground from a government that refuses to ban a platform that is actively, in real time, right in front of our faces, creating child sexual abuse materials. They're not banning it and there are still government departments with official Twitter accounts. Fuck Carney.

A few things: 1. Read the room. 2. Crime is at historic lows in Canada. 3. Police do not prevent crime. 4. Funding for education, mental health, drug treatment, housing, youth programs, and other social programs reduces crime. 5. Canadians did not vote for this. #cdnpoli

My (truly terrible) union has been shouting from the rooftops for years that they would never strike. Now they’re bargaining and are all confused about why they don’t have leverage and why the administration ignores their requests. Who wants to tell them?

This is the best mainstream media piece on COVID I have read in quite a while. Depressing but worth a read.

I’m going with Dr Putrino on this www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...

Yes, hello? I don’t think 2026 is working properly. I’d like to cancel my free 5 day trial please.

That's the kind of crowd I would like to hang around with.

Cachaça, Campari and tonic water… I think I invented something that deserves to exist. 🍹

The Genocide in Gaza has not stopped. It has been rebranded. And that is enough of a linguistic subterfuge to get the world to ignore it.

Après une longue carrière (60 ans) dans le ring, les Fédérations médicales du Québec @fmsq.org @fmoq.bsky.social demeurent invaincues. Leur récente victoire, par K.-O. au 12e round, contre @cdubesante.bsky.social constitue clairement un sérieux avertissement à l’échelle du pays.

After the huge worldwide success of « public health is dead » ladies and gentlemen please welcome « research ethics is dead too »

100% totally this. Something the anti-vax nuts refuse to understand: the ETHICS of randomized trials. Of course, they're going to run it in a low income country, because they're also racist ghouls.

The Canadian media is an affirmative action program for right-wingers.

So chicken farms have started spending millions of dollars putting in state of the art air filtration and circulation systems - because culling whole flocks to mitigate avian flu is expensive - but we have done zero to improve air quality in schools - because kids are expendable I guess.

Spent Friday evening building two benches. Semi-temporary stuff. Once finished the two benches will have used exactly one plywood sheet. If the rain stops, tomorrow is sanding day. I hate sanding.

Say what you want about Epstein, but he took the concept of intellectual diversity seriously

Once upon a time I was part of a group of citizens who installed « unofficial » stop signs near a school. Cops showed up and confiscated the signs. Since I was the one with the tiewraps (woups :-) they told me I could go the station to reclaim the signs. Never tried to find out if it was a trap.

“Women for centuries breastfed their babies, modern women are selfish” Women of social status had wetnurses up until the time around WWI so they could attend parties and social events but sure, Dave.

1. La pandémie m'a fait découvrir des personnes extraordinaires. Parmi elles, la Dre Lyne Filiatrault. Elle est une urgentologue retraitée et une héroïne du SARS-1 où elle a empêché Vancouver de subir le mêmse sort que Toronto. Voici son dernier article: surreynowleader.com/2025/12/06/o...

4) Pourtant, Santé Québec a refusé à plusieurs reprises mes demandes d'entrevue avec Mme Biron à l'occasion du premier anniversaire de Santé Québe. Et ce, malgré le fait qu'elle ait accordé des entrevues cette semaine à La Presse, Radio Canada et TVA Nouvelles.

1) Je pense pouvoir affirmer avec une certaine assurance que je suis désormais sur la liste noire de Santé Québec pour avoir demandé à interviewer la présidente et cheffe de la direction, Geneviève Biron.

Quelqu'un de ma famille qui travaille dans le milieu de la Santé a reçu un courriel à cet effet.

Il y aurait une rumeur à l'effet que les laboratoires Biron et Telus feraient des offres d'achat sur les GMF qui ferment à cause de la loi 2. Est-ce que vous avez eu des échos de cela de votre côté Bluesky ?

If I earned a buck every time I found a GenAI-hallucinated reference in my students' assignments, me would be rich... tenor.com/en-CA/view/s...

Now here's a surprise

On Dec. 4, 1969, Chicago Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were assassinated by Chicago Police and the FBI

Doesn’t this rhetoric sound familiar? In 1947, the U.S. Army released "Don't Be a Sucker" to show how a nation can be divided, reminding Americans that prejudice isn't natural and is created by those who gain from it. Via @builders on IG #Pinks

Almost everyone who touts the benefit of private healthcare is hoping to profit from private healthcare.

Ladies and gentlemen, make sure to keep your elbows firmly up while inside the vehicles bound for a country that's going to use them to illegally kidnap innocent men, women, and children share.google/ANhrgIX5WcIm...

Ouais... Alors, pro-tip pour le futur Elizabeth: c'est généralement une erreur de signer un document sans l'avoir lu.

Notre sociologue toujours très proche du vrai monde et loin des élites mondialisées dine ici dans une petite cantine modeste avec des ouvriers et des couturières d'une chaîne de montage. On y fabrique la haine et le ressentiment.

Danielle Smith Celebrates Her Glorious Pipeline Victory youtu.be/GVk54cla9zw

Et ben... il semble qu'il y ait des couleuvres que même Steven Guilbeault refuse d'avaler. Ça en dit beaucoup...

We Refuse: Health Workers Against Involuntary Care is now public. @hrna.bsky.social and DSDP are circulating a joint statement opposing BC’s plan to expand involuntary drug treatment. This approach is ineffective, increases overdose risk, violates autonomy, and harms marginalized communities.

What are the predictable effects of Alberta’s "Dual Practice Surgery Model" plan to allow doctors to work in both the public and private sectors? Here’s a map. Pay attention to the feedback loop at the center. That’s a noose for the public system. @alonghurst.bsky.social @lindsayhedden.bsky.social

With Doug Ford's government attempting to shred the last few protections renters have, I figured it was about time to bring back this video I made a few weeks ago! That way we can all laugh (cry) together! youtu.be/Q78KKgo1JQ4?...

I'm increasingly wondering if the Conservatives would have been worse. They would have been absolutely awful for sure. But so is Mark Carney, and to a hard-to-beat level.

This is scary stuff

Allowing doctors to practice in both public and private systems solves precisely two problems that conservative governments would like to fix: (1) barriers preventing the wealthy from line jumping; and (2) barriers preventing doctors from becoming more wealthy. @picardonhealth.bsky.social

The CMA spent a year studying public and private health models and consulting with more than 10,000 Canadians on the balance between the two. The evidence is clear: where a parallel private health system operates, both health outcomes and access to care are worse. Learn more 👇

When I was laid off, I spoke with the others who got the axe with me. We realized we had all had moments where we pushed back in editorial disagreements with our superiors. Turns out a culture of layoffs that targets those who are least deferential to authority has the expected impact.

This is interesting — a recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Picard management tip: As soon as you find out that a person is truly toxic, get them the hell off your ship.