“The evidence from around the world is clear: where a parallel private health system operates, both health outcomes and access to care are worse. Canadians were also clear in their resounding support where every Canadian has access to a publicly funded health care system.”

Residents of any Canadian postgrad training program: the Nor-Star program covers your travel and accommodation costs to complete electives in Northern Ontario

Check out the opportunities on the NOSM U Medical Electives website here: www.nosm.ca/education/me...

@snewbery1.bsky.social

Alberta's role in Canada's loss of measles elimination status embarrassing, former chief medical officer says | CBC News The latest federal data shows Alberta accounts for 38 per cent of Canada’s cases.

The impact that an anti-vax, anti-science provincial government can have on the entire country.

Share your tail story this rural health week!

Rural health professionals are more than providers, they’re neighbors, mentors, lifelines. Watch their stories & share yours! #RuralHealthWeek @rccbc.bsky.social

SRPC supports the CMA’s new policy on integrated health workforce planning and calls for urgent action on rural health.
Read Our Response: srpc.ca/srpc-welcome...
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This is really well done! Way to go @healthcareforreal.bsky.social!

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#medsky

Health professionals across Canada are calling on the federal government to act on the triple planetary crisis of climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss because our health depends on it.

Add your name to the open letter: planetaryhealthday.ca

Rural health systems matter. And there is a lot we need to do to improve them including creating a national rural health workforce strategy to help enable rural health workforce stability and ER predictability.

I’m glad to have worked w stellar teammates on this response.

Canadian Medical Association to file legal challenge over Alberta law limiting access to treatment for transgender youth Bill 26, enacted in December, prohibits doctors from prescribing puberty blockers, hormone therapies to those under 16

Doctors see patients in their offices who are vulnerable, and who have experienced challenges. Introducing an “ideological influence” does not help them.

Read more from CMA President Dr. @jossreimer.bsky.social in the @theglobeandmail.com.

Canadian docs coming home… what a gift to Canada… so sad for the US.

Health Summit 2025: The Politics of Change Just days into a federal election campaign, hundreds of physicians, medical learners, policy-makers and people with lived experience gathered in Ottawa and online to talk about Canada’s evolving polit...

What’s next for health care in Canada? At #CMAHealthSummit 2025, experts tackled policy shifts, AI, advancing Indigenous self-determination and cross-border impacts in the era of Trump. With an election already in motion, these discussions were more important than ever.

Catch the highlights here 👇

Full Episode | Zombie Ideas in the Emergency Department | S05-E09 YouTube video by Gateway Centre of Excellence in Rural Health

I hope administrators, politicians & the media will watch this video to finally put an end to the Zombie Idea that non-urgent patients are responsible for ED crowding and addressing these patients needs will fix the crowding problem. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4hZ...

Rural communities matter.

Rural docs and teams have come through the pandemic with new challenges, but also seeing new opportunities as championed by SRPC.
We are in this together... let's champion change for rural clinicians, teams and communities!

championingchange.srpc.ca

Eight in 10 doctors concerned about impact of tariffs on patients It’s hard to keep up with U.S. President Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again tariff threats. But according to a recent survey of physicians by the Canadian Medical Association (CMA), what is clear is t...

It’s hard to keep up with U.S. President Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again tariff threats. But one thing is certain: the health and wellness of Canadians will suffer as a result of any trade dispute, and this stark reality has raised alarms with physicians across the country.

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Congratulations to our newly matched residents!

To all those of you who matched to NOSM U programs, we look forward to welcoming you to N. Ontario!

To all our NOSM U students who have matched elsewhere, we look forward to welcoming you back when your training is done!

Such good work being done to support clinicians through advocacy and education re misinformation and many other things. Thanks @cmadocs.bsky.social for being in some positive SoMe spaces.

So grateful for women colleagues near and far in Canada … for their care, their friendship, their leadership, their courage. Thank you for all you do.
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Wonderful to see this! Pharmacare investments have the potential to change lives and decrease costs in other sectors! Let’s see more of this important work!
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B.C. trying to recruit U.S. doctors amid Trump health-care uncertainties | CBC News The B.C. government's throne speech last week indicated that the province would be targeting U.S. health-care professionals in a bid to shore up the provincial system — at a time when a Canada-based p...

There are myriad opportunities to work in Ontario. Like BC, we should be marketing hard to skilled doctors who need a new place to practice.

@ontariosdoctors.bsky.social

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Brilliant and beautiful!

Yep. Health care is an investment not a cost and #northerners need cardiac and obstetric care #closetohome #onpoli #onhealth

Heritage Minister proposes almost doubling public CBC funding, ending advertising and subscriptions Pascale St-Onge calls for new mandate for the public broadcaster to legally enshrine funding on a per capita basis

Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge proposes almost doubling public CBC funding, ending advertising and subscriptions. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art... via @theglobeandmail.com #cdnmedia #journalism

a young boy is covering his face with his hands while a man walks in the background . ALT: a young boy is covering his face with his hands while a man walks in the background .

Sorry about the waiting but every child unvaccinated for this year’s Influenza is now streaming in. 🤧😪

Thanks @tvotoday.bsky.social for the opportunity to talk about health care in Ontario today.
It’s a key election issue and it should be.

The EIS are the disease detectives who get dispatched around the world when the infectious disease shit hits the fan. They are an elite group (no coincidence that alumni are disproportionately represented in CDC leadership. The Navy SEALs of public health

Rebecca Solnit is a wise, clear voice in turbulent times and her “meditations in an emergency” is brilliant.