Birgit Umaigba-Omoruyi

Americans thinking Canadian wildfire smoke shouldn’t affect them and Canadians thinking FDA cuts won’t affect our food supply. We’re all on this continent together, buckos. Smoke, parasites and viruses don’t care about borders.

Northwestern Ontario is burning, and one First Nation community has reportedly been wiped out. Namaygoosisagagun First Nation, also known as Collins, Ontario, has burned to the ground. Because the remote community has no road access, residents were forced to flee by boat and other limited routes. An entire community is gone.

I am on call at the U this week. It’s bad- sick people in hallways, people who’d usually be admitted being sent out, HCW trying so hard to keep it safe in an inherently unsafe level of system overload. In JULY?!?! (From my view I don’t see system level administration engagement at all either.) It is genuinely bad.

20-year-old medical student created a handbook for diagnosing skin conditions on black and brown skin