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Carly Whitmore

@carlywhitmore.bsky.social
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Nurse, health services researcher, dog mom There is no health without #MentalHealth 🚲 #HamONT | she/her

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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Why are public health care advocates and researchers concerned about Alberta's two-tier model? What happens in Alberta, won't stay in Alberta Quebec already musing that it will follow Alberta's terrible precedent #cdnpoli montrealgazette.com/quebec-elect...
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Fréchette says CAQ would allow more private health care to reduce wait times
The proposal would also allow doctors to work in both the private and public sectors, reversing a policy introduced by the CAQ.
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Carly Whitmore @carlywhitmore.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Danielle Smith does not speak for Canada or Canadians.
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Jun Nogami @jnyyz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Ghost bike for a cyclist killed in Hamilton A cyclist was killed Saturday August 22 around 11 pm in Hamilton He was cycling northbound on Upper Centennial Parkway (AKA Hwy 20) in the vicinity of Green Mountain Rd. A ghost bike in his memory was placed this morning. Picking the ghost bike up from…
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Ghost bike for a cyclist killed in Hamilton
A cyclist was killed Saturday August 22 around 11 pm in Hamilton He was cycling northbound on Upper Centennial Parkway (AKA Hwy 20) in the vicinity of Green Mountain Rd. A ghost bike in his memory was placed this morning. Picking the ghost bike up from Geoffrey. Proof that at least part of the ghost bike's journey to Hamilton was by bike.
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CHCH News @chchnews.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Hamilton Public Library opens temporary Indigenous-focused branch on waterfront.
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Hamilton Public Library opens temporary Indigenous-focused branch on waterfront
A new chapter is coming to Hamilton’s waterfront, one centered on Indigenous stories, culture, and connection.
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Jason Thorne @jasonthorne.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Forget the chief planner … one of the most important city builders in any city is your chief librarian! Great chat yesterday with one of the best … Toronto’s Moe Hosseini-Ara.
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Michael Druker 🇨🇦 @mdruker.app · 31/07/2026
Fascinating that the vehicles most explicitly designed to look and be aggressive end up actually being aggressive. Regulate this culture of vehicular murder out of existence
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Matt Jelly @mattjelly.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
[Emerges from the smoke, coughing] I don't want my tax dollars paying for a pipeline
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Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Riley O’Neil — who helped redesign roads to make them safer for pedestrians and cyclists in CDOT’s Complete Streets program — was killed on a part of Halsted lacking proper bike infrastructure, friends, advocates and a witness say. "Painted bike lanes don't stop anything" w/ @kwashburn.bsky.social
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Cyclist killed in Bridgeport crash was a champion for Chicago biking, worked on city’s safe streets program
Riley O’Neil, 35, was riding his bike Friday afternoon when he was hit with a car door and sent into traffic where an oncoming semitruck hit him. He is at least the third cyclist killed by a driver th...
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Robin Lennox @robinlennoxmd.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Yesterday, I had the honour of tabling the Save a Life Act (Naloxone Registration and Public Access Act, 2026). This legislation would co-locate naloxone kits where publicly available automatic external debrillators (AEDs) are in our communities. #harmreduction #opioidpoisoning #health #onpoli
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Carly Whitmore @carlywhitmore.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Listening to Dr Roberta Bondar talk about how Jeremy Hansen will inspire so many to follow their passions, and thinking about all the school projects Artemis II will spark, feels so full circle for me when I think about how many of mine growing up featured her.
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Joey Coleman @joeycoleman.ca · 19/02/2026
Moments ago, at a Special City Council meeting, Mayor Andrea Horwath (@mayorandreahorwath.bsky.social) reaffirmed her opposition to the Hamilton Public Library's budget request. Mayor Horwath has declined to comment on these matters. #yhmcc #HamOnt
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Data, data everywhere but nothing to connect it to health care. Canada spends billions on computer systems but sharing info is marred by a stunning lack of interoperability, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/0fc7a92... via @theglobeandmail.com
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Data, data everywhere but nothing to connect it to health care
Proposed new legislation aims to improve interoperability and patient access to data
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Nrinder Nann @nrindernann.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
ATTN: Ward 3 & Main St neighbours. Councillors who live no where near you are trying to stop Main St safety & complete streets interventions this budget. I know families who lost loved one or experienced critical injuries and will continue to fight for you. Pls email ward3@hamilton.ca to connect.
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Cycle Hamilton @cyclehamilton.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Winter Bike Day is NEXT WEEK ❄️! Join us on King William Street between James St N and Hughson St N (featured in this video) on Friday, February 13th between 7:30am-9:30am for a celebration of winter cycling 🎉. Hope to see you there 💙
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
If I were paid to do this job, I'd be in the media and on social media every day. I'd say: 1)get vaccinated for covid and the flu. 2) wear a respirator (N95) mask in crowded indoor spaces like public transit. 3) keep your holiday get-togethers safe by keeping things well ventilated and filtered.
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CHCH News @chchnews.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
For the second year in a row, The Hub will be providing a dedicated overnight drop-in space for vulnerable individuals experiencing homelessness in Hamilton. www.chch.com/chch-news/th...
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The Hub to provide overnight warming space for unhoused Hamilton hospital patients
For the second year in a row, The Hub will be providing a dedicated overnight drop-in space for vulnerable individuals experiencing homelessness.
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Carly Whitmore @carlywhitmore.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
This is an intersection quite close to one of the recently removed speed cameras. My heart breaks for his family and friends. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Senior walking dog killed by driver on Upper Ottawa Street, say Hamilton police | CBC News
An 83-year-old man is dead after being hit by a vehicle on Upper Ottawa Street on Thursday morning, while walking his dog, Hamilton police say.
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M. Natasha Rajah @mnrajah.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I only wish @picardonhealth.bsky.social mentioned: 1) Researchers filled this information believing it was private & for statistical purposes, 2) DEI info of apps was not shared with review committee (though app’s names are listed ) B/c some of the comments are pretty uninformed.
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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
by OpenAI’s own estimates, hundreds of thousands of ChatGPT users are showing signs of manic or psychotic crisis every week
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OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week
OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week
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Tab C @drtcombs.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
4'11, almost 12 years old, still not big enough to "be seen" #TruckBloat
Photo of a young girl, dressed in blue soccer kit, walking past a lifted white dually pickup truck next to a soccer field. The top of the girl's head is several inches below the truck's hood.
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Carly Whitmore @carlywhitmore.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Had fun covering a class for a colleague and seeing students I first taught in Level 1, now in their third year. It was so rewarding to see their growth and development. They were amused that I’m "still?!" biking to work. 🚲✨
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Hi, if you're new here, my name is Julie S. Lalonde and I am very passionate about Canada Post because I'm a socialist and I believe we're all entitled to services like it. Mutual aid at scale is taxation and that taxation should serve the people. ✌️
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Carly Whitmore @carlywhitmore.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
After almost being struck by a distracted man driving a jacked-up pickup truck downtown today, it seems like the right time to say licensing and taxation reform can’t wait.
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Alan Drummond MD @dralandrummond.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
My letter in today's Globe and Mail:
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Carly Whitmore @carlywhitmore.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
If you see this, post a redhead. My first born, Phoebe.
Strawberry blonde door looking at the person taking the photo.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/07/2025
BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.
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Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
In early March, I wrote about the proto-authoritarian attacks on science and universities by the Trump administration and listed some warning signs to look out for in the coming weeks. Now six weeks later and those warning signs are being realised. christinapagel.substack.com/p/warning-si...
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Warning signs realised: Trump’s war on science and the fight to save American academia
In early March, I warned of authoritarian like attacks on science and universities. Six weeks later and the Trump administration has gone even further than feared.
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Carly Whitmore @carlywhitmore.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The gutting of science in the U.S. isn’t something we can get used to. Repetition doesn’t make it normal. We can’t afford to be complicit. We can’t afford to be complacent.
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Carly Whitmore @carlywhitmore.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
A new peer review record for me: 7:54am - Receive request to review 1:42pm - Receive email from editor withdrawing same request as they have "yet to hear" whether I wish to review or not.
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AMS Healthcare @amshealthcare.ca · 08/04/2025
What’s holding back large-scale adoption of AI in healthcare? Our final #AMS2025 panel explores how health leaders can drive AI adoption while addressing the systemic, cultural, and ethical challenges featuring Abi Sriharan, Brian Hodges, Anna Foat (@annafoat.bsky.social), and Paul Woods. [1/n]
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AMS Healthcare @amshealthcare.ca · 09/04/2025
For 2025 AMS Fellow Development Day, we’re bringing together our Fitzgerald Fellows and Compassion & AI Fellows to tackle one of Ontario’s most urgent healthcare challenges—capacity! #AMS2025 🧵 [1/6]
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Carly Whitmore @carlywhitmore.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Kicking off the #AMSHealthcare2025 conference with Dr. Mark Daley (@westernu.bsky.social) sharing examples of the threshold we're approaching in “commoditizing intelligence” through AI. A provocative start to the day!
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Carly Whitmore @carlywhitmore.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
🔈 Calling all applied health researchers: Are you looking to deepen your skills in qualitative data analysis? This 4-day, in-person intensive will support you in advancing your confidence and skillset. ⚠️ We are almost sold out, register today! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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#qhrcpd25 #maccpd #qualitativeresearch | Continuing Professional Development, FHS, McMaster University
Register today for Qualitative Health Research Methods 2025 🔥 Summer Intensive Course – Advancing Data Analysis Skills in Applied Qualitative Health Research. 💻 https://lnkd.in/gN28uK2n Date: June 2...
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Hamilton Spectator @thespec1846.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
We shouldn't have to chose between compassion or safety
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We shouldn't have to chose between compassion or safety
If our libraries are becoming de facto shelters, we need to acknowledge that reality and equip them as such.
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
On average, Canada has recorded just 91 #measles infections annually since 1998, when the virus was deemed eliminated. In the first three months of 2025, Canada has already logged at least 510 cases of measles. The epicentre is southwestern Ontario. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Half of business owners on this Toronto street estimated that more than 25% of their customers arrived by car. In fact, it was 4%. And the % of customers who who walked or cycled? 72%. Retailers routinely overestimate the # of “car customers.” Via @carltonreid.com www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...
Toronto shopping street
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Carly Whitmore @carlywhitmore.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Dr. Sally Thorne is a light in these dark times: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... "[Nurses] are a force for good in this world, and we have always understood that as our mission and our privilege."
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We Were Made for These Times
Click on the article title to read more.
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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
So on March 9, a French scientist, on a visa to attend a conference in Houston, was denied entry to the US and subsequently expelled because his phone had messages decrying scientific policies put forward by the Trump administration: www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
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Etats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump »
Le ministre de la recherche français a dit sa « préoccupation », mercredi, après cette décision des autorités américaines. Le chercheur du CNRS aurait subi un contrôle aléatoire à son arrivée, avant q...
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Ameil J. Joseph Ph.D. @ameil-joseph.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Your life should be more liveable. Affordable, workable, loveable, joyful, pleasureable, fulfilling, striving. That life is what we should be aiming for. Not criminalizing, punishing, hating, war-ing, taking, ruining.
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Toon Dreessen @toondreessen.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
There’s a lot right in @picardonhealth.bsky.social piece today: and we know what the answer is: #HousingFirst is cheaper in the long run, better for quality of life and better for communities; so why don’t we do it? 1/ www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Opinion: Transit systems shouldn’t operate as shelters for the unhoused and mentally ill
Montreal’s transit authority, while being painted as the bad guy for wanting to clean up the metro system, has actually been too tolerant
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Melissa Barber @mbarber.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Foundations need to spend more, but many overestimate what they can do right now. NIH's budget is $47bn; USAID $22bn Gates' endowment is $44bn; Wellcome $49bn Spending down their entire endowments = 15 months of US spend. It's not nothing but it's far from enough. www.statnews.com/2025/03/18/c...
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‘No one can fill that gap’: Why a global health leader sees U.S. funding as irreplaceable
‘No one can fill that gap’: Why the head of the Wellcome Trust, the world’s fourth-largest charitable foundation, sees U.S. global health funding as irreplaceable.
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Cycle Hamilton @cyclehamilton.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
❄️💕TODAYS WINTER BIKE DAY 💕❄️ Join Hamiltonians this morning from 7:30-9:30am on King William Street for some cycling fun in the snow ❄️ 🚲Ride in on one of our group rides (link in bio for routes, meet up location, and times).
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Carly Whitmore @carlywhitmore.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Mary Oliver - "Invitation"
Text from Mary Oliver's "Invitation"

Oh do you have time
to linger
for just a little while
out of your busy
and very important day
for the goldfinches
that have gathered 
in a field of thistles 
for a musical battle,
to see who can sing the highest note,
or the lowest,
or the most expressive of
mirth,
or the most tender?
Their strong, blunt beaks
drink the air
as they strive
melodiously
not for your sake
and not for mine
and not for the sake of
winning
but for sheer delight and
gratitude --
believe us, they say,
it is a serious thing
just to be alive
on this fresh morning
in the broken world.
I beg of you,
do not walk by 
without pausing
to attend to this
rather ridiculous 
performance.
It could mean something.
It could mean everything.
It could be what Rilke 
meant, when he wrote:
You must change your
life.
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Isaac Bogoch @isaacbogoch.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
To our American friends who may now be struggling to find health information on US websites: Please check out the Public Health Agency of Canada's website for helpful resources, updated dashboards & practical health tips. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 canada.ca/en/public-he...
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Jane Liebschutz, MD MPH (she/her) @liebschutz.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
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Carly Whitmore @carlywhitmore.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
"So much more than books" Thank you, Chief Librarian Takala, for highlighting the critical community services provided by Hamilton Public Library branches across #HamONT every day. www.chch.com/morning-live...
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Hamilton Public Library plans for 2025 and beyond
Your Hamilton Public Library card gets you so much more than books. Paul Takala, chief librarian and CEO of Hamilton Public Library joined us with an update of their services.
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