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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

On this day in 1992, George Klein died in Ottawa. Born in Toronto in 1904, he was one of the most prolific inventors in Canadian history. He contributed to the creation of electric wheelchairs, the ZEEP nuclear reactor, the Canadarm, aircraft skis, and the STEM antenna.

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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Children face longer-lasting and higher risks of rare heart and inflammatory conditions after a #COVID19 infection than after getting vaccination against coronavirus, new research shows, by @alannasmith.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/life/wellnes... via @theglobeandmail.com

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Kids at higher risk of rare heart conditions after COVID-19 infection over vaccine

New study looked at health records from nearly 14 million young people who had coronavirus

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KimBearley @bearleykim.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Seriously folks - important note about Canadian culture. It's basically just Ontario that has bagged milk. Not all of Canada. And no, when you say Ontario, it doesn't refer to all of #Canada. LOL

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S. Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world. www.nobelprize.org

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The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org

The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Today is British Home Child Day. This is the annual day that Canada acknowledges and honours the over 100,000 children who were sent from the UK to Canada to work on farms and in homes. They were separated from siblings and many were abused. This is their story. 🧵 1/12

The black-and-white photo shows a large group of children and a few adults posing for a group photograph in front of a large industrial building with a "No Smoking" sign. The children, mostly girls, are dressed in coats, scarves, and hats, typical of early 20th-century attire, and are arranged in several rows, with some standing on the building's steps. The setting appears to be outdoors, possibly at a school or institution, with a utilitarian structure in the background.

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Courtney Theriault @ctheriault.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Here's Donald Trump in 2020 calling out cancel culture- saying it's wrong to drive people from their jobs, wrong to shame dissenters and wrong to demand total submission from anyone who disagrees.

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Rae Martens ♿️ @coffeeandresearch.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Can we have a conversation about #vaccines and #disability in #canada This is a #publichealth issue I hope the profile can be raised on. The ability for families to find neuro-affirming/supportive spaces to get their kids vaccinated is a laborious task where in some cases parents just give up. /1

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

🚨National Statement from Canada's Healthcare community: #ScienceMatters! Too often lies – about vaccines, COVID, ivermectin, etc. – harm patients, policies & the public. Canadian medical, research, clinical and healthcare organizations stand up for science!📢 Signed by over 20 leading orgs...👇

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

It’s wild living in the Information Age and the Dark Age at the same time.

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Misinformation reduced uptake of vaccines so lack of demand now used as justification for defunding. Huh? The reality is that COVID vaccines: - save lives & reduce hospitalization - reduce healthcare costs - improve pregnancy outcomes - reduce risk of long COVID - etc etc etc

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KimBearley @bearleykim.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Random question re: #covid19vaccine in #Alberta - #HealthCareWorkers are eligible for #Vaccine. What if a person has their #HCA degree (and is working in a private home as a #caregiver for a person with #disability)? Do they qualify for the vaccine? Define #HCW? #abpoli #abhealth

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

How Flu Shots Prevent Heart Attacks www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/feve... "Flu vaccines reduce heart attack risk by 18–30%, especially in people with heart disease." "...45% reduction in the death rate among those with a history of heart disease..." #VaccinesWork

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How Flu Shots Prevent Heart Attacks

Flu shots don’t just protect against fever and cough. Experts recommend them to reduce the risk of a heart attack.

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

From 1755 to 1764, over 11,000 Acadians were pushed off their land by the British and forcefully relocated elsewhere. Over 5,000 died of disease, starvation and shipwrecks. It was a dark time in our history. This is the story of the Acadian Expulsion. 🧵 1/15

The illustration depicts a scene from the Acadian Expulsion: a British soldier in a red coat, holding a musket with bayonet, advances on a group of distressed civilians in 18th-century attire. A child is pulled by the ear, a bearded man is restrained while raising an arm, a woman in a yellow-and-green striped skirt kneels in anguish, and others gesture in protest or despair amid a crowd in a grassy outdoor setting under a cloudy sky. The artwork is signed "Daley" in the bottom left.

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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Letters in response to Globe series on rural ER closures. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/lett... via @theglobeandmail.com #SecretCanada

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Measles cases are surging. This is what the anti-vax conspiracy theory has brought us www.theguardian.com/society/comm... "It’s probably the most depressing conspiracy theory there is ...because vaccination is the most concrete proof of how much we rely on one another’s care & rationality."

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Measles cases are surging in Europe and the US. This is what the anti-vax conspiracy theory has brought us

Nearly 30 years after Andrew Wakefield’s discredited study linking the MMR vaccine and autism, we badly need an injection of rationality

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Hear, hear! 🙏 Leading medical groups sue Kennedy over changed Covid-19 vaccine recommendations www.statnews.com/2025/07/07/d... The plaintiffs includ: - American Academy of Pediatrics - American College of Physicians - American Public Health Association - Infectious Diseases Society of America

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Leading medical groups sue Kennedy over changed Covid-19 vaccine recommendations

Six major medical groups, and a pregnant physician, are suing HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over changes he made to Covid-19 vaccine recommendations.

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Jen Christiansen @jenchristiansen.com · 25/06/2025

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

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Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science

These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults

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Rae Martens ♿️ @coffeeandresearch.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

One thing we have sorely lacked in Canada is a robust information ecosystem that is accessible to the general public when it comes to the subject of pediatric disability. (Adult too but for this post, the focus is misinformation.) While there’s always been a ton of ways to access misinformation on/1

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Tara Kiran @tarakiran.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

🎙️ In the latest Primary Focus episode, we meet Kris Arts—a Dutch practice assistant and, in my view, the secret sauce of primary care. Practice assistants don’t just answer phones—they triage, counsel, vaccinate & more, applying their training in empathy and de-escalation. 🎧 www.primaryfocus.ca

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Courtney Theriault @ctheriault.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Here's the letter from Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation and Mikisew Cree First Nation chiefs reiterating their call for Bill 54 to be scrapped, saying the UCP's 11th hour ammendment "means nothing", adding it does not recognize their treaty rights.

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Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

After paying Poilievre’s salary for 20 years and eventually his very handsome pension too, now we’re paying twice in a matter of months for elections to help him keep his job. Pierre was right when he told Jordan Peterson that we’re the stupid ones.

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Brittlestar @brittlestar.com · 29/04/2025

Poilievre losing his seat is almost Shakespearean: Pretender to the throne riles countrymen with anger, gets defeated by guy with Joy in his name. It’s basically Macbeth.

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Joel Klebanoff 🇨🇦 @joel.klebanoff.com · 27/04/2025

I voted in an advance poll. If you’re Canadian and haven’t voted yet, tomorrow is your only remaining chance. Be a good person. VOTE. Because the terrible people will (or already have). Don’t let them decide for you.

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KimBearley @bearleykim.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Wow. That was quite something to read.

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KimBearley @bearleykim.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

I had no idea what kind of history we lost when the St. Lawrence Seaway was built. And another slap in the face to the Indigenous people of Canada as well.

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Courtney Theriault @ctheriault.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

“The incorrect statements you made are not only detrimental to employees who make up the RCMP, but more importantly, they weaken public trust in the Alberta RCMP and leave Albertans feeling unsafe in their own province.” #yeg #ableg globalnews.ca/news/1114579...

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RCMP joins police union in accusing Alberta public safety minister of spreading misinformation | Globalnews.ca

Hill said when Ellis suggested some 911 calls were not being answered, the RCMP checked with its communications centres and found there is nothing to support that information.

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disabilityaction.bsky.social @disabilityaction.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Will you, @markcarneyforpm.bsky.social, ENSURE Poverty level financial support be provided to ALL Persons with Disabilities (PWD) across Canada? Will you END government-imposed POVERTY of 1.5 million Disabled Canadians in 2025? #NoMorePovertyPWD 🇨🇦

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

If ghosts were real, the shade of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who founded the Special Olympics, would haunt her eugenicist nephew RFK Jr and curse him to hell and beyond

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Michael Janz @michaeljanz.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

This is not about bike lanes, this is about distracting Albertans from the Corruptcare scandal. Stay focused. Call a public inquiry. Reach out to me and let’s talk about what we can do together. #ableg

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

The anti-science spiral continues… Alberta replacing top public health official as province deals with measles outbreak /via @globeandmail www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... “Ms. Smith came to power in part by harnessing angst from vaccine skeptics…” Dark Age 2.0

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Alberta replacing top public health official as province deals with measles outbreak

A statement from Alberta Health Services says that Mark Joffe’s contract expired April 14, and the government has launched a search for a permanent replacement

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Carolyn Brost Strom @carolynbroststrom.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

“Worse than the technical impediments are the political ones. Our health systems, in Alberta and elsewhere [ahem, Saskatchewan], are administrative disasters, because they are devoid of accountability and micromanaged by politicians.” We need vision and action & THAT is sorely lacking.

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Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

The goal of politics is to make us children. The more heinous the system the more this is true. The system works best when its adults - its men, in particular - are welcomed to stay at the emotional level of not-particularly-advanced teenagers. - Gary Shteyngart, Little Failure

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KimBearley @bearleykim.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Let's wait for it to be dire before we warn people about measles. By then it will be too late. I didn't realize Public Health only kicked in when the situation is dire. I thought Public Health was PREVENTIVE to avoid illness (kinda like vaccines) #abpoli #ableg #GetVaccinated #measles

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PressProgress @pressprogress.ca · 01/04/2025

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

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CTV Cancelled a Fact-Checking Segment in Response to Political Pressure From Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives

Audio recording shows CTV cancelled an ‘election misinformation’ segment with journalist Rachel Gilmore after online backlash from conservatives

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Liberal Party • Parti libéral @liberalca.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Mark Carney: 20 days as Liberal Leader Pierre Poilievre: 931 days as Conservative Leader

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KimBearley @bearleykim.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

She was not aware because she doesn't care enough to ask anyone on the front lines how her cuts would affect patients.

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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star

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Rae Martens ♿️ @coffeeandresearch.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

What’s painfully illogical about the governments stance on being the highest payment to disabled Canadians is that nationally we have been tracking poverty without regard for specific expenses associated with varied chronic conditions. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Disability Considerations for Measuring Poverty in Canada Using the Market Basket Measure - Social Indicators Research

Persons with disability (PWD) in Canada experience disproportionately high poverty rates. Poverty measures are often used to benchmark income assistance levels and social policies across Canada. The M...

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