Hey, so I worked in #LaLoche for almost 10 years post school shooting. Ditto for almost 10 years of trans care. None of my patients, who struggled with significant mental illness, many of whom had access to guns, and a ton who were trans, shot up a school.

I'm watching you in person AND talking to you in the ether @naheednenshi.bsky.social

Oooooh, human centered economic growth! (The only economic growth I care about).

Welp, the dignity of every human and their ability to thrive wherever circumstances they find themselves in sure encapsulates my political goals. Thank you for such a succinct summary of your stance @naheednenshi.bsky.social

@naheednenshi.bsky.social aren't you charming! Loved the leaders gala tonight. What a great first outing here for me in Alberta!

Teenagers are “too young” to make decisions on gender affirming care. They’re “too young to vote”. They’re too young to drink. But they’re not too young to be sex trafficked and raped by Epstein and all his rich pals? Be serious please.

WATCH: Sask. physician blasts province’s plans for involuntary addictions treatment www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Look at who gets to take a helicopter to work!

@ourfakehistory.bsky.social Finished your episode! And continue to be exhausted by society's tendency to use mental illness as the replacement for witchcraft. "Has this person done something incomprehensibly horrifying? Must be witchcraft, no wait, we're rationalists now, must be mental illness."

@ourfakehistory.bsky.social Oooooh, are werewolves real? I'm very excited about the new episode! Can't wait to hear some good vampire stories (joking aside your mythology episodes are my favourites)

So, does anyone remember Super Dave Osborne and his "genuines Saskatchewan seal skin" safety equipment? (I swear it relates to the below image).

You get to a certain point in parenting when you don't need to be offered much of anything in trade for your firstborn child. "An avocado? An acorn? The promise of a slightly brief nap?"

This is also why life is so much less fun for the kids without my wife home. She was always playing that role.

Canada's legacy of white supremacy captured in the haunting artwork of Indigenous artist Kent Monkman

Stop making me share the story of when my 28 week pregnant wife was confronted in the women's washroom because someone thought she was a man. Policing gendered spaces just polices gender roles.

Whenever I get a request from a DTC company, I immediately contact my patient directly and inform them they are being ripped off. I encourage every physician to do so. #medsky

For the last day of school I learned that one of my kid's friends told him it was illegal for someone with peach skin to marry someone with brown skin. So GREAT end of the school year.

On Aug. 28, 1971, the first large scale gay rights demonstration in Canadian history was held at Parliament Hill in Ottawa. The demonstration played an important part in the history of LGBTQ rights in Canada. This is the story of the We Demand Rally. 🧵 1/8

If you decide to tell more fairy tale inspired stories @ourfakehistory.bsky.social I'd recommend The Fairy Tellers. It's a really charming source book on fairy tale authors.

And on the 6th day she was once more promised an impending contract.

This is such a weird article. I can't decide if it's because the author doesn't know what they're talking about with doctor pay, or if the PEI government doesn't know.

We're down to 6 days. . . .

500 people in northern Saskatchewan are about to be without a psychiatrist if my colleagues and I don't get contracts in the next 10 days.

Saskatchewan’s 2 largest fires, as well as costing 100s of $M to fight & support evacuations, have burned through 40 years worth of SK’s total timber harvest. Forestry supports 12,000 jobs in SK.

It feels like a good time to rewatch DS9. Teenage me pined after the tragic love of outsiders Kira and Odo. But turns out I grew up into the wholesome but just regular messy work/home conflict of Miles and Keiko.

It's my last clinic in #LaLoche today. My heart might not make it through!

Maybe we could save the country by really pulling together to support the evacuees eh? And then when they get back home making sure northern Canada actually has adequate services.

One of the most effective anti-suicide interventions is reducing access to industrial pesticides because of how poisonous they are. I wonder how many suicides we'd prevent if we also limited access to guns? (Someone surely must have done some projections)

What a lovely conversation about potential and consequences.

I did not realize I was actually a new Zealand bat.

Oooph, as a super heteronormative (except for the gay bit) white cis-woman, I make it a fucking survival point to stand up for people's rights to be whatever flavour of queer they are. Because I know how damn fast society can decide that gay bit (even married with kids) is too much.

I've talked about Morocco, citrus fruit seasonality, and the best way to prepare fish. Falafel poutine. Goat farming. The intergenerational trauma of war. What it's like to live in a truly big city (and then move to Saskatoon). We are enriched by meeting different people.

Welp, I don't think I'm going up for my in person clinics to La Ronge in 2 weeks. . . .

Is Batman real? Here's a classic Green Arrow story to open it all up! (Fine, I'm petty, I don't care).

@ourfakehistory.bsky.social You opened your mermaid episode with a pretty classic selkie story. I'm pretty sure they transposed a mermaid into it, instead of it being an actual mermaid story. . . .

The "we've evacuated and we need our meds sent somewhere else" or the "he's not doing so well and I think he's missed his injection" calls are starting to trickle in. Tomorrow's clinic is 50% La Ronge folks which'll be interesting.

Religious Studies and Community Development. It was chaplain or cult leader. Thank goodness I got into medicine!

My dog got hit by a car, which sucks, but it's led to the sweetest interactions where northern patients have learned through the grapevine why my in-person appointments suddenly got switched to virtual, and now they're checking in on how my dog is doing

Listen, I'm single parenting 3 boys right now. He's gonna be lucky if I even hear what he's saying over three other guys asking me threw other ridiculous things.

"I'd crusade if the new Pope asked me to" wow, cool. What if he asked you to love and protect immigrants

A surgeons blessing: May your alcohol be weak, your ATVs slow, and your long weekend cold and rainy.

For some reason my wife doesn't agree that this is a reasonable blue print for our lives.

Actually the best life advice I ever got: Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly. A half-cleaned room is better than an uncleaned room. Occasionally flossing is better than never flossing. A 10-minute workout is better than no workout. When it’s all you can do to get out of bed, get out of bed.

Second last #LaLoche clinic and it's not getting less heartbreaking to say goodbye. I'm not a hugger, but these are the best hugs I've ever gotten. I'm going to end up crying at my last one.

UPDATE: white smoke has *also* been spotted in the city center of Avignon,,, bad news folks!!!

Welp, rules are rules.

I could be wrong about this but I really think most Americans do not want to be forced to “do their own research” about food & drug & product safety and would rather that the government agencies that have been sorting that all out for them for decades not be obliterated in the name of “efficiency.”

Yep I'm happy it doesn't look like the conservatives will win. I'm sad for the NDP (and deeply irritated that NDP split the vote for liberals in my riding so we have a conservative AGAIN).

It was amazing and if it doesn't get renewed I might set a dump on fire.

I appreciate all the people coming to my house to make sure I voted, but I would have loved it if they'd stopped letting my dog out (he likes to play keep away by the side of the road right now because we're still working on recall). I accept this irritation for the sake of democracy I suppose.