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David Keegan

@drdavidkeegan.bsky.social
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Academic family doc. I try to enable as much health and joy as possible. Against fascism. Lifter. Unpublished poet. Goalie. 🏳️‍🌈 (he/him) 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇬🇱 Same handle (@drDavidKeegan) on YouTube.

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David Keegan @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It has all the markers of the well-known strategy of: break the public system so that private is the only apparent solution. We had one of the most efficient healthcare systems in the world, and then it was broken up into pillars which burned time, and continues to cause confusion and chaos.
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DCapTO @dcapto.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Clean air in schools reduces infections for the WHOLE POPULATION. Why WOULDN’T we clean the air? The healthcare/missed work costs far exceed the infrastructure costs, don’t let them get away with “it costs too much”. Demand clean air in schools and workplaces!
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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Here is the Hansard text of my Senate speech, denouncing Alberta’s racist, risky referendum questions, scapegoating immigrants.
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Senator Paula Simons Topic Intervention 705278 - 39
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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I didn't mince my words. Alberta's anti-immigration referendum questions are racist. They are also a potential disaster for Alberta's economy. Last night, I rose in the Senate to denounce them - and to thank all the thousands of Albertans fighting against them. Please share. #notothenine #cdnpoli
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Watch: Senator Paula Simons denounces Alberta's anti-immigrant referendum questions
YouTube video by Senator Paula Simons
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MondoAB @mondoab.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Just under 10 minutes. Senator Simons brings facts. Immigrants are part of the backbone of Alberta!
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David Keegan @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
All human groups trigger concerns. That’s life. What we know: - immigrants do less crime per capita crime that born citizens - this govt has horribly broken our healthcare system and grossly underfunded education - this premier deliberately tried to increase immigration - immigrants are people too
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Pilar @pilaresme.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The best
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David Keegan @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
What she says. This is critical viewing. youtu.be/to7o-4rwHKQ?...
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Watch: Senator Paula Simons denounces Alberta's anti-immigrant referendum questions
YouTube video by Senator Paula Simons
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David Keegan @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
You’re welcome, but I really just used the website. Our healthcare system has collapsed. The question is do we let private health care just bulldoze the rest of it and replace it, or do we rebuild it? I think you know which I think we should do. So much cost and needless harm.
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David Keegan @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This was a chosen outcome for sure. So many people have been trying to get our government to choose health for all. @pfparks.bsky.social
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Marion Soublière @msoubliere.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Everyone should wear an N95 respirator mask at all times indoors, and in crowds outside." #WearARespiratorMask #COVIDIsNotOver #Canada #COVIDIsAirborne #MaskUp #COVIDIsntOver
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BJ🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @bonj.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yikes!! I work in healthcare and wear my @canadastrong.bsky.social Breathe Teq always. I really wish more in healthcare would wear a mask. It’s going to be another awful respiratory season.
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David Keegan @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
And heart-breaking. And exhausting. And painful. And tragic. And unfair. And immoral. And chosen.
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David Keegan @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Here is a screenshot of the covid waste water. Everyone should wear an N95 respirator mask at all times indoors, and in crowds outside. Demand air filtration and ventilation at schools and work. Get vaccinated. covid-tracker.chi-csm.ca
Graph of Calgary’s covid wastewater, showing a clear surge from mid July to now (early October).
Details at https://covid-tracker.chi-csm.ca/
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David Keegan @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The minimum wait time at ANY of the four adult Emergency Departments in Calgary right now is 11 hours and 36 minutes. Foothills 11h 36m PLC 12h 33m RGH 12h 17min SHC 11h 56 min Alberta, your healthcare system has collapsed. #abpoli Here’s the screenshot. H/T www.threads.com/@derekheisle...
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David Keegan @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
*2PM on Saturday, October 24th. Stand up. Show up.
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David Keegan @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Men, it’s time to stand up against sexual violence and gender-based hatred. Plan a demonstration for Saturday, October 24, wherever you are. Sign this change.org page to show that you are a stand-up man. StandUpMen.ca c.org/DkMrTmz6Dk
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This campaign needs you now
Stand Up Men
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David Keegan @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I had another gift article credit! www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/8951e71...
theglobeandmail.com
The elephant in the room
Alberta separatists have gone to D.C. offering fresh water and oil in exchange for American support – and Republican operatives have provided tactical assistance inside the province
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David Keegan @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is treason and foreign interference. The referendum needs to be stopped. @mark-carney.bsky.social @coreyhogan.ca @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social We need Canada to stop this obvious treason and foreign interference. Now. Gift article: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/8951e71...
theglobeandmail.com
The elephant in the room
Alberta separatists have gone to D.C. offering fresh water and oil in exchange for American support – and Republican operatives have provided tactical assistance inside the province
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Orlagh O’Kelly @orlaghokelly.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“A Globe and Mail investigation has found that Republican political operatives were on the ground in Alberta this year to assist the separatist campaign in its bid to leave Canada…” Can we stop both siding this yet? www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
theglobeandmail.com
The elephant in the room
Alberta separatists have gone to D.C. offering fresh water and oil in exchange for American support – and Republican operatives have provided tactical assistance inside the province
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David Keegan @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
He’s now doing great after surgery, getting stronger, and aiming to get back to playing HOCKEY by January. ✨THIS✨ is the power of healthcare. This is the power of challenging assumptions. Everyone deserves to live as full a life as possible. Protect public healthcare. #abpoli #ableg 2/2
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David Keegan @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I love it. I’ve got a patient in his late 80s who’s had miserable years of severe lumbar root entrapment pain and grief over the illness and death of someone close to him. Many people worked to recognize that his back condition was potentially amenable to minimally invasive surgery. 1/2
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David Keegan @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A text I just got (see pic): Excerpt: “I am ordering copies [of The Brink of Something Beautiful] today for all the men in my life and will also enjoy this read.” Here’s the IG post: www.instagram.com/reel/Dd5CAnd... Also on youtube: youtu.be/jVrj1nIC6Pk?... @bobbifrench.bsky.social
Hi David, I hope you are well. I just saw your reel on instagram about The Brink of Something Beautiful. Thank you. Your post made me stop short, listen, and commit to learning from this book. I am ordering copies today for all the men in my life and will also enjoy this read.
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David Keegan @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I forgot or didn’t realize that @bobbifrench.bsky.social was on BlueSky so tagging her here. 😃 #DomesticViolence #IPV #IntimatePartnerViolence #UniversityPrep #HeForShe #masculinity #SexualAssault #Sisterhood #Joy #CornellBookClub #Literature @harpercollins.bsky.social
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David Keegan @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Let’s start a #CornellBookClub where we share great books that can help young men gain insight into what women face and inspire them to act when a woman is being harassed or assaulted. I’ll go first: The Brink of Something Beautiful by Bobbi French. www.harpercollins.ca/978144347437...
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Books - HarperCollins Canada
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨 Watch for FAKE journals, FAKE conferences, FAKE societies! Exclusive: Sham scientific societies are misleading star researchers www.nature.com/articles/d41... "...a sprawling international constellation of suspicious academies and societies..."
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Exclusive: Sham scientific societies are misleading star researchers
A Nature investigation reveals a network of organizations that have been building their ranks through deceptive practices.
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“The senior boys had to participate in the disposal of some of these newborn bodies when the girls would get pregnant,” he said. Some of the bodies were thrown into the two furnaces that were on school grounds” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli www.timescolonist.com/local-news/s...
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Students were forced to dispose of newborns at Kuper Island residential school, says survivor
“They stripped us of our dignity. They raped us. They whipped us, and they did everything possible to … defeat us mentally, physically,” survivor says
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David Keegan @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It IS happening again. Covid continues to mutate and infect.
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Myra Batchelder @myrabatchelder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"More than 1 in 10 US healthcare workers report ongoing long-COVID symptoms, study finds" #COVID19 #LongCOVID www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/mor...
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More than 1 in 10 US healthcare workers report ongoing long-COVID symptoms, study finds
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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A really good long read from @charlesrusnell.bsky.social on the report on how the UCP / AHS / OHS failed to protect workers at the Cargill plant, including lack of appropriate PPE, which led to unnecessary deaths.
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Alberta’s Deadly Betrayal of Meat Plant Workers During COVID | The Tyee
A shocking report finds the UCP ignored evidence of high risk.
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David Keegan @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
a clear case of industry capture and regulatory failure.” #abpoli #ableg #publichealth 3/3
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David Keegan @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
health authorities, negligence, and incompetence all contributed to the tragedy. Further evidence suggests that government officials prioritized the interests of the meat-processing industry over the health and safety of meat-packing workers. Whatever the causes, their inaction represents … 2/3
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David Keegan @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is important but difficult reading. “We cannot fully explain why Alberta OHS abdicated its important responsibilities in response to the largest outbreak of COVID-19 in Canada. We can say that political pressure, deference to public …. 1/3 assets.nationbuilder.com/parklandinst...
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David Keegan @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’m not going for anything fancy, just trying to tame what could fairly be described as “eyebrow hedge”. 😂
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David Keegan @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Awesome!
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David Keegan @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’m sorry. I caution and do detailed informed consent about prednisone all the time. Super easy to prescribe, but one of the sharpest double-edged sword medications out there.
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David Keegan @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Decided I have much more important things to do. Not getting the microblading pen. 😁
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David Keegan @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Mine keep growing a lot which is exactly why I had to trim them in the first place. 😂
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David Keegan @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I have been advised that an actual eyebrow pen with a “micro-blading tip” is the way to go. 😁 I also have learned that such events are often referred to as “clipper guard incidents”. 😂
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David Keegan @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Huh. Who knew that you should always check to be sure the hair length sizer thing should be clipped into your clippers *before* you start trimming your eyebrows? 😂😂😂 (Will pick up some mascara today. It’s a trick I learned from when I played Gaston and had dyed my hair but not brows black.)
Close view of a guy with half of his right eyebrow clipped right down pretty much to skin.  This is in contrast to his pretty sizeable L eyebrow.
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David Keegan @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’m so proud of this patient. People with breast cancer can go through so much. It’s 💯 okay for people to want their body to be restored as much as possible following a cancer journey. I’m also grateful to the surgeon who listened and is exploring options with her. @cancersociety.bsky.social 2/2
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David Keegan @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’m catching up on patient reports and results today. One is for a survivor of breast cancer who had to have major (body-changing) surgery. In a years-later follow-up with the surgeon, the patient shared concerns about her residual appearance and that she “wants to look good in a bathing suit.” 1/2
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“This pandemic of disinformation and dishonesty, through the conduit of the Alberta separatist movement, is testing not our hospitals but our political institutions and our belief that Canada is worth fighting for.” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli thewalrus.ca/alberta-sepa...
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Alberta Separatism Is Built on a Big Lie | The Walrus
Danielle Smith has turned western grievance into a national unity crisis
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We’re in an era where the fight against fascism and authoritarianism is on almost every ballot. Voting has always been important, but never more than now. Vote like your rights, your future, your vote itself, and even your life, are all on the line. Because there’s a very good chance they are.
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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please don’t assume anything, Alberta. Vote against the Russian and American-fuelled separation self-sabotage. Send a strong message to the rest of Canada that we’re in this together. Foreign actors want you to vote for your own Brexit or Trump… or to help them win by just staying home.
bbc.com
US and Russia fuelling separatist debate in Canada, new report says
Researchers warn that foreign actors are meddling in the Alberta separatist movement in ways that threaten Canada’s "democratic integrity".
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David Keegan @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is a major plot point (or plot context) of Octavia E Butler’s “The Parable of the Sower”. Things are getting very bad.
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David Keegan @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy to have been of service! 😁
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David Keegan @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Your own body crew might too!
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David Keegan @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
*faces* (Gaah!)
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