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Christine McNab

@christinemcnab.bsky.social
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Global health, pandemic preparedness, justice, human rights, Canadian, writer, photographer. Kindness is a virtue. Might is not right.

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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
If you’re in line when the polls close, stay in line. You can still cast your ballot. Your vote matters.
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
This is Canada — and we decide what happens here.
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
It’s Election Day, Canada. Go vote Canada Strong.
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Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Exercise your right to vote today, Canadians! Own your democracy! 🇨🇦🗳️
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Christine McNab @christinemcnab.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Canada, we have every reason to stay #CanadaStrong. Get out and vote today. Vote strategically. Vote pragmatically. Vote with your #elbowsup. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 #Never51. And we must simply move on from the relationship with the US. It's over.
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Even on Canada’s Election Day, Trump Again Insists Country Should Join U.S. (Gift Article)
The American president repeated his “51st state” talk on social media as voting began.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
“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 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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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Ontario #measles outbreak continues unabated, prompting New York state to issue travel advisory. There have been 816 cases in the province since October, including 155 last week, by @alannasmith.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com #vaccination
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Ontario measles outbreak continues unabated, prompting New York state to issue travel advisory
The past week saw 155 new cases reported in the province
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Now 816 #measles cases in Ontario from outbreak, up 155 in week. "The sharp increase in the number of outbreak cases and the geographic spread in recent weeks is due to continued exposures and transmission among individuals who have not been immunized." www.publichealthontario.ca/-/media/Docu...
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Tragic, but also notable that this 4th death in North America is someone who is either a child or a person over the age of 65. That does not describe the vast majority of confirmed cases, who are adults under the age of 50. We really don't want to find out what H5N1 would do at population scale.
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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Peter is a great scientist and an even better person. Wonderful to see him here
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Of course Poilievre is standing by a candidate who made despicable comments about Indigenous people. When people show you who they really are, believe them.
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Prof Jeffrey S Morris @jsm2334.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Opinion | RFK Jr. mimics AIDS denier Thabo Mbeki - The Washington Post apple.news/ABAVdBvCCRg-...
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Opinion | RFK Jr. mimics AIDS denier Thabo Mbeki — The Washington Post
The South African leader paid a price for allowing thousands of needless deaths.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 04/04/2025
The slow death of newspapers has led to a plunge in media diversity and local storytelling. When newspapers began shutting down in big numbers a decade ago, it was hoped that moving online would broaden news diversity and ownership. Sadly, the opposite has happened. New research:
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Newspapers are dying. News diversity died years ago.
New research by The Australia Institute has found the slow death of newspapers in Australia has led to a plunge in media diversity and local storytelling.
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Prof Danny Altmann @daltmann.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
www.science.org/content/arti... This can only be good news for pandemic-threat spillover viruses out there. What’s next after SARS, MERS, COVID-19..?
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Saying ‘pandemic is over,’ NIH starts cutting COVID-19 research
Grant terminations halt research on improving vaccinations and preventing future pandemics
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Christine McNab @christinemcnab.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Pierre Poilievre does have a woman problem - including a drop in the # of women candidates running for the Conservative party. About 75 of 332 - 22.5%, down from about 1/3rd in 2021. @robynurback.bsky.social, women don't want to run with them, or vote for them. Made their own bed.
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Diana Chan McNally @dianachanmcnally.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
What success? None of the HART Hubs have funding agreements. They didn't "open" — just a handful of services have been brought online, and none of these services are new. All that's happened is that supervised consumption sites have been shut down. www.torontotoday.ca/local/city-h...
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HART hub services missing as government touts 'successful transition'
Toronto still waiting for provincial money: board of health chair
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Gavi @gavi.org · 01/04/2025
If there are cuts to our funding, “the world's ability to protect itself against outbreaks and health emergencies will be compromised”. Dr @sanianishtar.bsky.social explains why: bit.ly/4caxXHO Via @afpnews.bsky.social
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Slashed US funding threatens millions of children: charity chief
A halt to US funding for Gavi, an organisation that vaccinates children in the world's poorest countries, will leave a dangerous gap threatening the lives of millions, its chief warned on Monday.
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Christine McNab @christinemcnab.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
The Canadian Conservatives now have almost a full field of candidates. Only just over 20% are women. That's down from 31% in the last election, which was still low. They've had a long time to plan.. and that's the best they could do.
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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
When NYU cancelled @drejoanneliu.bsky.social, former head of MSF International, it caved in just as Columbia did: www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...
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‘Climate of fear’: Montreal doctor says NYU cancelled her presentation
A Montreal doctor says her presentation at NYU was abruptly cancelled and believes the university did so out of fear of being pressured by the Donald Trump administration.
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Matthew Kavanagh @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
“Your silence will not protect you” Audrey Lorde www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...
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‘Climate of fear’: Montreal doctor says NYU cancelled her presentation
A Montreal doctor says her presentation at NYU was abruptly cancelled and believes the university did so out of fear of being pressured by the Donald Trump administration.
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Thiru Balasubramaniam @thirugeneva.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
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Une conférence de la Dre Joanne Liu annulée par NYU
L'université de New York allègue que son contenu peut être perçu comme antisémite, mais Joanne Liu croit que NYU craint en fait de déplaire à Donald Trump.
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Christine McNab @christinemcnab.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Ontario’s #measles outbreak is as large as the one in Texas yet very little said about it. 572 cases , most since February. 42 hospitalized. Two in ICU. Vast majority unvaccinated including unknown vx status. This is not good. Measles is amongst most transmissible and most preventable.
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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Current chaos and challenge needs.... greater global cooperation. In the area of multilateral & #globalhealth, we argue that Canada should take a greater leadership role. Me, Tim Evans & Kelley Lee in today's @bmj.com #cdnpoli #CanadaElection
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Canada should seize the opportunity to lead on global health challenges and cooperation
Greater cooperation in global health is needed to tackle challenges and to harness new opportunities. Canada should take a greater leadership role, write Jocalyn Clark , Timothy Evans , and Kelley Lee...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
"The researchers focused on viral families that include some of the most worrisome pathogens known, such as Ebola and Nipah virus. Scientists had discovered a number of promising molecules and were advancing toward clinical trials..." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...
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H.H.S. Scraps Studies of Vaccines and Treatments for Future Pandemics
Federal officials cited the end of the Covid-19 pandemic in halting the research. But much of the work was focused on preventing outbreaks of other pathogens.
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Nina Schwalbe, MPH, PhD @nschwalbe.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Tomorrow!
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
BREAKING: In past 24 hours, it appears that two journalists — Mohammad Mansour and Hossam Shbat — were specifically targeted and killed by Israel, simply for doing their job: reporting on the devastation. This is deeply troubling and not something I can remotely support as a supporter of Israel.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Today at noon EDT!
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
A healthy media is vital to our democracy. As the federal election kicks off, ask your local candidate where they stand on protecting Canadian newsrooms, by Dave Adsett ottawacitizen.com/opinion/dave... via @ottawacitizen.com #cdmedia #journalism
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Dave Adsett: News is vital to our democracy
Ask your local candidate where they stand on protecting Canadian newsrooms
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Christine McNab @christinemcnab.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
#PierrePoilievre likes to talk about the importance of 'unhyphenated' Canadians.. but his party even has a woman problem. Fewer than 1/4 of candidates so far are women. And Pierre's enormous shadow cabinet of 74 includes just 16 women: 21.6%. It's like they're not even trying. #CanadaStrong
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
NONE of this is normal
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Brooke Fairplay Nasty Canadian🍁🌻🎗🏳‍🌈 @brookefairplay.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
#MarkCarneyForPm #PierrePoilievreIsUnelectable
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Christine McNab @christinemcnab.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
First they came ..
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Vimy or Vichy - the choice is simple. We know where Danielle Smith and Pierre Poilievre stand. I stand for Canada. See you on the ridge my friends. #elbowsup
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Elbows up, Canada.
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
It’s the world’s most deadly infectious disease. But it strikes the world’s most downtrodden and neglected, including here at home. So we turn our eyes. Not you, @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social. You’ve made the story of TB personal. And your vivid, moving, vital book makes us grateful you did.
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Diana Chan McNally @dianachanmcnally.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
On the ground, every agency who applied for HART Hub funding, and who currently operates a supervised consumption site, hasn't received a funding agreement from the province — just start-up funding. And the Ford government is obfuscating this — why? www.torontotoday.ca/local/city-h...
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South Riverdale supervised consumption site closing before March 31 provincial deadline
Uncertainty around HART hub funding prompts Leslieville site to shutter 10 days early
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Diana Chan McNally @dianachanmcnally.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Is everyone going to ignore the ongoing $95 billion lawsuit by 10 Ontario first nations against the jurisdiction of provincial and federal governments over Crown lands in the Ring of Fire?
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
2023: mRNA vaccine scientists win the Nobel Prize 2025: US government cuts research on mRNA vaccines
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Christine McNab @christinemcnab.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
I would like to see Doug Ford actually stand up for all residents of Ontario the way he professes to do in American news interviews. Stop bullying people who are vulnerable, and knock it off on the bike lanes.
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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Abrupt cessation of US aid funding has plunged programs to fight #malaria, #TB, & #HIV into a crisis, #WHO said Monday. Director-General Tedros said while the US has the right to decide how to spend its money, if it is to withdraw it should do so in a planned way. www.statnews.com/2025/03/17/w...
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WHO issues starkest warning yet on fallout from U.S. withdrawal of aid for global health
Breaking: The WHO issued its starkest warning yet on the consequences of the abrupt cessation of U.S. global health funding, saying it is threatening to reverse years of progress worldwide.
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The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response @theindpanel.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
The IHR Expert Committee report on the #Mpox public health emergency is now published by @who.int The Committee heard that the freeze in USAID funds is affecting testing in the DRC, & that the conflict in the eastern provinces were also hindering the response. bit.ly/4kYzDIi 1/2
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Third meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) Emergency Committee regarding the upsurge of mpox 2024
Concurring with the advice unanimously expressed by the Committee during the meeting, the WHO Director-General determined that the upsurge of mpox 2024 continues to meet the criteria of a public healt...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17/03/2025
Trump trade wars are slowing global growth and fuelling inflation, says OECD
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Trump trade wars are slowing global growth and fuelling inflation, says OECD
Economic organisation downgrades forecasts for growth in UK as well as US, Canada and Mexico due to tariffs * Business live – latest updates Donald Trump’s trade wars are splintering the global economy and unpicking progress made to reboot growth…
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David Fisman. @dfisman.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Nice but could have written and run this before RFK was confirmed www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | A Reminder of What Pre-Vaccine America Was Like
The worst manifestations of preventable diseases have faded from public memory.
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Christine McNab @christinemcnab.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
This is what protest looks like.
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Health in Canada: a pivotal political moment. Canada must fiercely defend the integrity of its cherished universal health-care system. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... via @thelancet.bsky.social
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Christine McNab @christinemcnab.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Great to see a new strong Cabinet but very disappointed there is no Minister for Women and gender equality. Terrible signal at the exact wrong time.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
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