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Excited to announce my thesis pub from @NTNU A collab w @WellLivingHouse + Seventh Generation Midwives Toronto in @CJPH_RCSP. The Our Health Counts Toronto study provides further evid. of sig burden discrim by hlthcare providers places on Indigenous people rdcu.be/bPGH8

It blows my mind that while our healthcare system is collapsing, the Ontario government is paying millions of dollars to private, for-profit agencies to provide temporary nursing...instead of just paying all nurses what they deserve, so Ontarians can get the care they deserve.

Join @hinterlandphpm & CAPE Toxics Campaign Director @JANEMCARTHUR11 tomorrow April 13 at 6PM for a webinar on the intersection of #airpollution and #health hosted by @CAPE_Ontario! Register here 👉 act.cape.ca/air_health

We’ve received thousands of questions on the Geneva Conventions. So, we’re going to break down the rules of war you need to know right now. All states have signed these – and are legally obligated to follow them. Thread 👇

I’m glad to be part of a growing group of medical staff and learners taking a deeper dive on anti-Asian racism in healthcare. Well timed release of our thoughts in @BMJLeader, after receiving hateful and racist comments in the past week due to protests in Ottawa. #AntiRacism

Just out in @CmejEditor, we establish the need to accelerate the integration of planetary health teaching into Canadian #MedEd to prepare future physicians to practice in a climate crisis by commenting on @CFMS_HEART's 2021 National Planetary Health Curriculum Evaluation. 🚨🌎1/3

@yipengGe This is super shitty @yipengGe Sending a big hug!

When calling out racist and hatred filled demonstrations making it feel unsafe to walk outside that are exhausting and disheartening to see as a healthcare worker because misinformation is prolonging the pandemic, more examples of racism comes pouring in.

Today is literally the anniversary of the Quebec mosque shooting, a day when we should all be thinking about how to stop Islamophobia & hate. Instead, you've got Confederate flags. You've got Swastikas. You've got politicians literally supporting this on Parliament Hill. Shame!

In response to Indigenous land rights movements, O'Toole committed to making it illegal to participate in infrastructure blockades, introduce legislation outlawing them all together, and removing charitable status from groups that support those actions.

Publication alert! First ever recommendations for Canadian EM physicians on addressing racism and colonialism... 1/9 @DominickShelto3 @phalpherMD @Halifaxconnie @Alavian_S @James_Liu99 @Dawn19660872 @rodlim00 @MHJudyMorris @CJEMonline @CAEP_Docs rdcu.be/cES6i

Over the last two months I've read dozens of studies about gas stoves and indoor air quality. I also installed monitors in our home and ran my own tests. Here's a thread on what I learned 🧵 #energytwitter

“That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.” — Noam Chomsky

We're now 2 yrs into the decisive decade. Emissions should be in an unprecedented fall, instead we're seeing the 2nd biggest rise ever recorded. We're wasting invaluable time pretending we can solve this crisis without treating it like a crisis. World leaders are still in denial.

The "I have been so careful but I still got covid" posts are a symptom of a society that was told that staying safe was within their control. Except it never was. These are systems-level problems!

Anyone born after 2008 will not be able to buy cigarettes or tobacco products in NZ in their lifetime, under a law expected to be enacted next year. "We want to make sure young people never start #smoking" Assoc Health Minister @drayeshaverrall said. bbc.com/news/world-asi…

This breathtaking speech by Maxida Märak, Swedish-Sámi artist introducing Chief Howihkat Freda Huson of the Wet’suewet’en for the 2021 Right Livelihood Award is absolute 🔥🔥🔥 Watch and be inspired

Whoa! My friend @jvipondmd is a key source of evidence-based information on #covid19 & a #healthyclimate. His account has been suspended after targeting by troll groups pretending to be him. @TwitterCanada @premiumbusiness please fix this. ⁦@CMA_Docs⁩ ⁦@picardonhealth⁩