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From the archive: An emergency physician unpacks Canada's severe shortage of doctors and its roots in U.S policy-contagion. canadahealthwatch.ca/2026/03/21/can…

Public health agency says World Cup poses high risk of measles spread toronto.citynews.ca/2026/05/14/pub… @CityNews ↷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁

Ebola outbreak kills 65 people in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo theguardian.com/global-develop… @guardian ↷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁

Ontario's new anti-transparency law nixes request for health minister records thetrillium.ca/news/health/on… @Thetrilliumca ↷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁

Top doctor explains why number of 'low risk' hantavirus contacts in Canada has grown to 26 thecanadianpressnews.ca/national/top-d… @CdnPressNews ↷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁

Labour movement demands Prime Minister and Health Minister stop Alberta's two-tier health care law healthcoalition.ca/labour-movemen… ↷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁

Saskatoon community clinic says nurses are dealing with so many overdoses, they want knee pads cbc.ca/news/canada/sa… @CBCNews ↷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁

Canada's not ready for the next viral outbreak. We didn't even bother with an inquiry on the last one theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl… ⦸ @globeandmail ↷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁

26 more people in Canada tied to hantavirus outbreak identified but considered 'low-risk' thestar.com/news/canada/26… ↷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁

B.C. regulator asks courts to shut down cancer clinic run by unregistered personnel vancouversun.com/news/bc-regula… ⦸ @VancouverSun ↷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁

Danielle Smith admitted she wants to 'throw out' Canada's public health care law breachmedia.ca/danielle-smith… ↷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁

NHS GPs and hospitals to be forced to share patient data as Palantir is granted "unlimited access" to identifiable information bmj.com/content/393/bm… @bmj_latest ↷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁

GPs and hospitals to be forced to share patient data as Palantir is granted “unlimited access” to identifiable information bmj.com/content/393/bm…

I have experienced this. Completely fictitious sentences about health history added to my file. Things that were not even discussed but could impact insurance, benefits, prescribing.

AI can design viruses, toxins and other bioweapons. How worried should we be? nature.com/articles/d4158… ↷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁

Newfoundland and Labrador health minister pushes Ottawa to negotiate pharmacare deal ipolitics.ca/2026/04/28/new… @iPoliticsCA ↷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁

French hantavirus patient is critically ill as outbreak grows to 11 npr.org/2026/05/13/nx-… @NPR ↷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁

AI systems used by Ontario doctors hallucinate, auditor general finds globalnews.ca/news/11844349/… ↷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁

Advocates fighting to save National pharmacare program the health minister says will expire cbc.ca/news/canada/ne… @CBCNews ↷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁

Ottawa needs to stop saying it's not ready for the expansion of MAID, and actually get ready theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl… ⦸ @picardonhealth @globeandmail ↷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁

Most Ontario-approved medical AI scribes erred in tests: auditor general thetrillium.ca/news/health/mo… @Thetrilliumca ↷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁