Ottawa Tourism seeing the best summer for visitors since 2019

International Children’s Advisory Summit 2025 in Montreal - Ask the Experts Panel: Careers in Healthcare - a pleasure to share knowledge about my nursing clinical and research career and work in patient engagement with youth from around the globe. Brilliant questions too! @cantrain.bsky.social

Privileged to be present to listen and learn at the iCAN Global Summit in Montreal this week - hearing from trailblazing youth patient partners from around the world. Thank you Leanne, Sabina and Abby for the invite and to Brooke for attending with me. @cantrain.bsky.social

Brooke & @lhunter1310.bsky.social are proudly repping CANTRAIN at #iCAN #Summit2025 in Montréal — hosting our table + sharing insights at “Ask the Experts: Careers in Healthcare.” We're learning, connecting & amplifying patient voices in clinical trials! 👋 #YouthVoicesInResearch #CareersInHealthcare

As of Canada Day, Canadian medical schools will no longer be accredited alongside US ones. This will protect Canadian universities from US political interference in medical education and enable a nimbler response to homegrown issues. www.cma.ca/latest-stori... via @cmadocs.bsky.social #MedEd

An approach to implementing patient and public involvement in investigator-initiated clinical trials | Swiss Medical Weekly smw.ch/index.php/sm...

Advancing patient-led research and establishing a national IBD patient partner network in Canada: a call to action | Journal of the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology | Oxford Academic academic.oup.com/jcag/advance...

This is a great idea! Caregivers are under recognized - they help the system so much and help protect the safety of those that are vulnerable living with dementia. Wish we did this in Canada and especially at LTC Homes.

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Busy slides don’t make you look clever. They make your message harder to follow. Here’s how to say more — with less: 🔗 speakhuman.kit.com/posts/say-le... #PublicSpeaking #PresentationTips

Operationalizing the principles of patient engagement through a Patient Advisory Council: Lessons and recommendations - Nielssen - 2024 - Health Expectations - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I recently reviewed this impressive body of data for predicting Alzheimer's and why I consider it a breakthrough erictopol.substack.com/p/the-breakt...

Private, for-profit surgical and diagnostic facilities get $280m in the Ontario budget These investor-owned facilities cost the public purse 2-3x more than hospitals for the same procedure www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Another Meta-Analysis on Long Covid, But This Time with Controls. Here's What You Need to Know. 🧵

“I am the lane”! Priceless and I might steal it!

In this episode of #AmplifyNursing we talk w/ Dr. Margo Brooks Carthon, the new Director of the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing. Under her leadership, they aim to not only preserve the past but actively shape the future of nursing. www.nursing.upenn.edu/live/profile...

Pierre Poilievre no longer entitled to live at public mansion: Privy Council Office Poilievre ineligible to live at Stornoway after losing his own seat

My New Words for Your Dance of Reading: (Our Past Is the Heaviest and Oldest Suitcase We Carry Through Life's Newest Journeys) gurdeeppandher.substack.com/p/our-past

Reducing the risk of all-cause dementia with intensive blood pressure control, the results of a cluster randomized trial in~34,000 participants. @naturemedicine.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Humans will be trying a brand new drug in phase 1 trials that have never been studied in animals. What could go wrong?!?!

I recently spoke at a conference where I explained how the word resilience has been weaponized by many employers to justify unhealthy and toxic work environments. Please, don’t fall for it anymore. We don’t need resilience training. We need healthy work environments. Thank you.

Operating on a patient with gynecologic cancer? Check their D-dimer. High pre-op levels = 2.6x higher VTE risk post-op. Meta-analysis (n=15 studies) makes the case. 🔗 www.rpthjournal.org/article/S247...

“Harvard now faces one of the most consequential choices in its history: Submit to extortion and make itself complicit in the most profound assault on academic freedom and constitutional governance of our time—or go to court. The stakes are high, but the choice should not be difficult.” (Fixed link)

www.stalbertgazette.com/local-news/p... “The Alberta Surgical Initiative has cost Albertans $154M in facility fees paid to these investor-owned facilities to build private infrastructure when existing public operating rooms are sitting idle” @parklandsca.bsky.social @alonghurst.bsky.social

BREAKING: We're suing the National Institutes of Health over their politically-motivated purge of research grants. This is an unlawful attack on scientific progress that puts lives at risk.

Wow, folks...I am so incredibly grateful (and a lil overwhelmed, in a good way!) for the response to this. It's heartening to see how many care about an issue that is SO much bigger than any one journalist. It's a trend, and we have to stop it. You all give me hope we might be able to do that. ❤️

NEW: CTV cancelled a fact-checking segment in response to political pressure from Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives An audio recording obtained by PressProgress shows CTV cancelled an ‘election misinformation’ segment with journalist Rachel Gilmore after online backlash from conservatives

Thrilled to be on my way to the Canadian Respiratory Conference research day to talk about patient and community partnership in clinical trials. Beautiful Quebec countryside by train! #PatientEngagement #CommunityEngagement #PatientLeadership @cantrain.bsky.social

Mark Carney announced Monday that a reelected Liberal government would create a new entity called “Build Canada Homes,” which would act as a developer to build affordable housing, including on public lands www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Canadians, please put the pressure on @mark-carney.bsky.social to replace our healthcare leadership with individuals who take airborne transmission of viruses seriously. This will be essential as the next pandemic is looming

Peds has always been a forward thinking group

www.ottawaheart.ca/the-beat/new... Brilliant! Thanks for doing this @heartinstitute.bsky.social

Absolutely devastating 😢

Colorado…

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We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado. 11,000 people showed up. Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

The Canadian S.P.O.R. Refresh Strategy (aka "Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research") document is now available! This is not a funding announcement - this is the "Refresh" strategy document. Fingers crossed for fresh funding too! www.naphro.ca/spor

Alberta signed deal to import medication from Turkey despite recommendations against it and before receiving regulatory clearance from Health Canada, by @alannasmith.bsky.social @carrietait.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... via @theglobeandmail.com

So thrilled and humbled to co-lead this international initiative on patient engagement competencies for clinical trials!

So pleased to meet and chat with Bukun who works with @CBCN - #PatientEngagement peers working together in #Partnership to ensure that clinical trials understanding is spread to those who need it. Co-creation with patient partners is the way! @cantrain.bsky.social

big shoutout to all the standup for science events today, esp bay area folks... y'all really showed up first pic is crowd @ SF, second is at Berkeley

Today, more than 10,000 people across the United States and beyond Stood Up for Science. I feel deeply humbled, inspired, and energized—our work is far from over, but witnessing so many people unite to champion science and the hope it brings is truly incredible.

Here’s to all the fantastic, intelligent and supportive women I work with in the #PatientEngagement and #PatientandPublicInvolvement and #Research spaces - you make it all worthwhile for patients like me 😊

Lee Valley is a beloved Canadian business. If you need tools, gardening stuff and all sorts of other things, please consider ordering in person or online. #elbowsup ottawacitizen.com/business/lee...

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

During a time when Canadians are buying Canadian, and right after winning election campaigning on the promise to be Ontario’s voice against Donald Trump - explain to me why it was a smart decision to vacation in Florida? What message does that send to Ontarians?

www.bmj.com/content/388/... @cantrain.bsky.social