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Brian Wirzba

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science and news junkie. lover of nature, music, art, movies & pop culture. seeker of mercy, justice, kindness, and peace. poster of typos and my own opinions.

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Addressing misleading medical information on social media: ebm.bmj.com/content/30/6... "...presence of misinformation on social media is testament to the fact that regulations are inadequate..." "We need multidisciplinary collaborations and effective means to enforce or implement interventions..."
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Addressing misleading medical information on social media: a scoping review of current interventions
Background Misleading information about medical products on social media may cause overuse. Objectives Explore interventions targeting the problem of misleading medical information and marketing on s...
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
"Routine childhood immunisations prevented an estimated 32 million hospitalisations and over 1 million deaths in the USA from 1994 to 2023." A risk to child health: confusion and concern over changes to US vaccine policy - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... via @thelancet.com
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A risk to child health: confusion and concern over changes to US vaccine policy
The control of severe and life-threatening infectious diseases of childhood through vaccination is one of the greatest triumphs of public health, with some 154 million lives saved through global immun...
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Alberta Medical Association @albertadoctors.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
The Primary Care Physician Compensation Model launched in April 2025. Since then, physicians on this model have reported benefits for both physicians and patients. Read about PCPCM impact on physicians and patient care in Alberta Doctors' Digest. add.albertadoctors.org/issues/janua...
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Primary Care Physician Compensation Model rewards good family medicine care | Alberta Doctors' Digest
A PCPCM physician profile
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Alberta Medical Association @albertadoctors.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Workforce solutions require careful design and are being appropriately addressed through the current physician master agreement.
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
To anybody still using X: sexual abuse content is the final straw, it’s time to leave www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... I've stayed on X (just posting) because of the (probably naive) belief important to ensure accurate content everywhere. But X just an abusive BS machine. Stepping away.
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To anybody still using X: sexual abuse content is the final straw, it’s time to leave | Marie Le Conte
It was hard for me to quit Elon Musk’s poisoned platform, but I urge others to do the same, especially in light of Grok’s imagery of women and children, says journalist Marie Le Conte
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Canada Hardcover 🇨🇦 @canadahardcover.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
HCWs need easy and free access to vaccines. Without the vaccine, there is greater risk that they will pick up Covid or the flu and pass it on to a vulnerable resident.
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Corey Hogan 🇨🇦 @coreyhogan.ca · 07/06/2025
“From 1981 to 2015, there were an average of 18 smoke hours per year in the city of Calgary. No year had over 100. Now we see hundreds of smoke hours routinely: 315 in 2017, 450 in 2018, 439 in 2021, 512 in 2023, and 2024 was ‘only’ 200.”
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Debates (Hansard) No. 7 - June 3, 2025 (45-1) - House of Commons of Canada
Debates (Hansard) No. 7 - June 3, 2025 (45-1) - House of Commons of Canada
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Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦 @shastingssimon.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
It’s really disappointing. The smoke has so many layers of bad - the health impacts, the reminder of the reality of climate change and the overarching reminder that the order we create out of nature is fundamentally so fragile - nature always bats last. And so few seem fussed.
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Fruit Shop, By-Ward Market, Ottawa Kathleen Moir Morris c. 1922-1927
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Brian Wirzba @bjwrz.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
I have many of his books but was only able to see one of his exhibitions. Standing in front of a massive Sebastião Salgado print is life changing. RIP knowing the world is more truly seen because of your vision🕊
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Saguenay Bobs Cogill Haworth n.d.
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 03/05/2025
#SouthSudan: MSF strongly condemns the bombing of its hospital in Old Fangak, Jonglei State. Bombing of only hospital in Old Fangak puts healthcare of 110,000 people at risk. www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/south-sudan-...
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South Sudan: MSF strongly condemns the bombing of its hospital in Old Fangak, Jonglei State | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) strongly condemns the bombing of its hospital in Old Fangak, South Sudan. The attack began at around 4:30am when two helicopter gunships first dr...
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Alan Drummond MD @dralandrummond.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
As dementia rates increase, experts warn hospital emergency rooms are underprepared www.timesunion.com/news/article...
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As dementia rates increase, experts warn hospital emergency rooms are underprepared
An Associated Press and Side Effects Public Media data analysis shows one in six visits to...
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Late Evening Franklin Carmichael 1938
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Dr Joss Reimer @jossreimer.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
We’re seeing a huge increase in interest of U.S. medical graduates exploring options to practise in Canada. Recruiting doctors and health care workers need to be a priority, on a national level. www.cma.ca/about-us/wha...
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Canada must act quickly to turn U.S. ‘brain drain’ into Canadian ‘brain gain’: CMA
Canada must act quickly to attract the American medical and scientific professionals who no longer feel valued in Trump’s United States with its mass layoffs and the elimination of health programs and...
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YoungPepDash @youngpepdash.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
😂😂😂Yooooooo they figured out that global warming is gonna be worse than we thought and in response they are “examining how to maintain profits” like seriously we are so screwed
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Launching Greyling Christopher Pratt 1992
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Steve Ricketts @stevericketts.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
it's as if we have an unhealthy dependence on O&G revenue
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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
This is real. Trump appears to be suggesting his tariffs on Canada will result in fentanyl dealers getting dinged at customs.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The last day on which a majority of the Supreme Court’s justices had been appointed by Democratic presidents was May 14, 1969. One of the things we do in the legal academy is support our claims with facts.
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Charles Rusnell @charlesrusnell.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
My latest for @thetyee.ca Bleeding Money: Alberta's Private Health Shift via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/04...
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Bleeding Money: Alberta’s Private Health Shift | The Tyee
The UCP’s surgical initiative has crimped care and raised costs, concludes a report. It’s not a new pattern.
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josh boo-erman 👻 @bosh.worstpossible.world · 02/04/2025
val kilmer’s turn in TOP SECRET is one of the single best comedy performances ever committed to film, both in terms of comic precision and mechanical virtuosity. just watch this whole clip in its entirety; it’s stunning
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Brian Wirzba @bjwrz.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Can confirm that admitting teams have been begging for supports to expand capacity and allow 4 safe care for years. Without it docs have left and fewer admitting teams result. Those teams have safety limits as well. The Frontline HCW is doing their best. We need execs to come, see, listen & act.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/04/2025
You have to see this. PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.
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20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow
YouTube video by PoliticsGirl
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Hiring your brother is the original affirmative action for white people.
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Lisa Kadonaga @tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
This is from the Canadian Medical Association, not exactly a bunch of wild radicals. (also, the chocolate is available online here) peacebychocolate.ca/products/92g...
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92g Elbows Up Canada Bar
Ingredients: Milk chocolate (sugar, whole milk powder, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, soy lecithin, natural vanilla flavour), Filling (Vegetable oil [palm and/or sunflower and/or rapeseed], nonfat dry milk...
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Breakwater Christopher Pratt 1976
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
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Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA
Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.
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Tom Hawthorn 🇨🇦 @tomhawthorn.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I'm just hoping Canada 2025 doesn't become France 1940.
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I traded my U.S. medical career for life in Canada. Here’s how the two health systems stack up, by @codeblackamerica.bsky.social (re-posting with better link) canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/03/25/i... via @canadahealthwatch.bsky.social
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I traded my U.S. medical career for life in Canada. Here’s how the…
The differences hit me immediately, and are profound.
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Icebergs Doris McCarthy 1972
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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 13/03/2025
'Just say thank you': Lutnick says Canada is acting like Ukraine nationalpost.com/news/canada/...
Lutnick: Think about it. The biggest trading partner in the whole world that is vital to Canada’s existence says, “I’m unhappy,” and they respond negatively, you know why? Because for 20 years, 30 years, they’ve gotten away with it. It’s like Ukraine. They came in. You imagine coming into this country, sitting in the Oval Office, having received $300 billion in aid from U.S. and military and NATO and all the rest, and the first words out of your mouth aren’t thank you. Just say thank you. God knows, just say thank you. When the biggest client, the biggest trading partner, the most important counter-party you have, who really, really matters to you, the first thing you do is showing immeasurable respect. Say, “Thank you. I want to work it out with you. I want you to be happy.”
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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
#NorvalMorrisseau, Man Changing into Thunderbird 1977 #art #painting #IndigenousArt #CanadianArt
A painting by Norval Morrisseau, also known as Copper Thunderbird, an Indigenous Canadian artist from the Bingwi Neyaashi Anishinaabek First Nation. It is typical of his “Woodlands School” style and is entitled Man Turning into Thunderbird and depicts that mythical bird in Indigenous images and motifs.
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Stephen F. Knott @stephenknott.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
The decline of the Washington Post captured in one political cartoon.
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Lake Oesa J.E.H. MacDonald 1926
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Alberta Medical Association @albertadoctors.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Day 1 of a "comprehensive and intensive" AMA Representative Forum has come to a close. Sessions included a compensation update, health care delivery models in Alberta, AI in health care and the historic establishment of a new Section of Indigenous Health. www.albertadoctors.org/about/govern...
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Representative Forum | AMA
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David Keegan @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Remember that the entirety of wokeness is a belief that everyone belongs. That's it. That no one should be discriminated against for being a woman, being Black or racialized, being Indigenous, being disabled, or being 2SLGBTQIA+. The only thing crazy about wokeness is that some disagree.
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Make A Wish Upon The Moon, Said Mother Bear (At Lake Louise) Jason Carter ~ Cree 2025
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Every time the CBC does something stupid, you'll hear even progressives calling for it to be defunded. But as someone who grew up in rurally, I can tell you that venture-capitalist-owned media is not going to small towns. They don't see money? They don't see value. The CBC is an essential service.
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Brian Wirzba @bjwrz.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Great news.
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Great news.
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Brian Wirzba @bjwrz.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Sexual Assault Center Edmonton lost @albertagov.bsky.social funding!! This is abhorrent news!! What have we become in Alberta. www.instagram.com/p/DHB3qpTyAK...
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Glad to see UK getting vocal. 🇨🇦🤝🇬🇧 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Guardian view on why Canada matters: a nation in the global frontline | Editorial
Editorial: Donald Trump has deliberately picked a fight with its northern neighbour. This malign strategy must be stopped
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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 04/03/2025
SCOOP: I got a copy of the Calgary police chief’s hand-written notes from May 9 and 10, which show that he discussed the dismantling of a 🇵🇸 encampment at UofC with three Cabinet ministers and the premier’s chief of staff. open.substack.com/pub/theorcha...
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How the UCP covered up police violence against the U of C Palestine encampment
The Orchard has obtained hundreds of pages of correspondence from the university's executive leadership team, campus security, Calgary police and the provincial government. Part II of II.
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Janis Irwin @janisirwin.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Pink Shirt Day is about more than being kind. It’s about speaking out against bullying. It’s about standing up to homophobia, transphobia, sexism, ableism, racism, and all hate. It’s about demanding better from yourself and others. And it should remind us that one day isn’t good enough. 👚🩷
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Catherine Griwkowsky @cgriwkowsky.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Premier Danielle Smith said the province have been giving additional billions to Alberta Health Services but AHS isn't doing more surgeries. But when looking at the government's chart, total surgeries are up from Nov. 2021 to Nov. 2024, but CFS surgeries are down
Total scheduled surgeries November 2021 15,982. Scheduled in CSFs 4,504
Total scheduled surgeries in Nov. 2024 20,602 CSFs: 4,208
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