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Heather D

@hldca.bsky.social
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Living with metastatic breast cancer, these days I mostly putter, do family history research and walk the dog when I can.

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Heather D @hldca.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
A breast cancer researcher's life cut short by #MetastaticBreastCancer. Heartbreaking to think of how much more could she have contributed. Dr. Juliet Daniel's work focussed on triple negative disease and she also was a strong proponent for equity and inclusivity. breastcancer.ca/dr-juliet-da...
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Remembering Dr. Juliet Daniel - Breast Cancer Canada
Dr. Juliet Daniel’s passing from metastatic breast cancer is a profound loss to science, to McMaster University, to the Caribbean and Canadian communities that shaped her, and especially to the Black ...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/03/2026
Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Haileybury Legion, North Ontario. Robbie Burns Night. My mom had a Dutch boss. As a child he was in a bombed out farm house as the war raged. In the early morning his family heard a strange sound: It was Canadian pipers marching through mist bringing freedom. That is the meaning of the pipes.
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Heather D @hldca.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
I just learned that @anguspratt.bsky.social has passed. Canada has lost a remarkable & tireless cancer #research advocate. His @cancersociety.bsky.social video is so powerful. #lungcancer #redtoque #lcsm #malebreastcancer youtu.be/GtSQi7gjaTg?...
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Angus' Story
YouTube video by Canadian Cancer Society
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
In an age of toxic rhetoric and escalating political violence we need to conjure the spirit of D'Arcy McGee. He gave his life for the principle that our nation will survive if we focus on what binds us rather than on what divides. charlieangus.substack.com/p/rethinking...
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Rethinking D’Arcy McGee in a Age of Political Violence
As the world watches the frightening spiral of political violence in the United States, I have found myself thinking a great deal about D’Arcy McGee.
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Heather D @hldca.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
A comprehensive piece that just makes me mourn. And it's not even the worst thing that's going on. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...
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How the Trump Administration Is Dismantling America’s Cancer-Research System
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Heather D @hldca.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Maybe, one day, #MetastaticBreastCancer patients will be counted properly around the world. Kudos to #RethinkBreast @breastcancernow.bsky.social and #BreastCancerNetworkAustralia for banding together. #CountUsIn rethinkbreastcancer.com/take-action/...
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Advancing Global Visibility For Metastatic Breast Cancer - Rethink Breast Cancer
We are here to connect, listen, empower, support, heal and rethink breast cancer together.
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Healthy Debate @healthydebate.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Rethinking our stewardship of patient health data in the age of AI healthydebate.ca/2025/07/topi...
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Rethinking our stewardship of patient health data in the age of AI - Healthy Debate
Patients deserve to benefit from the power of their data, but they also deserve to know, to choose, and to trust.
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Healthy Debate @healthydebate.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
When advocacy overrides science, who benefits? healthydebate.ca/2025/07/topi...
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When advocacy overrides science, who benefits? - Healthy Debate
When it comes to Canada's health policies, are decisions being guided by science or the pressures of advocacy and lobbying efforts?
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Lobular Breast Cancer Alliance (LBCA) @lobularbca.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
LBCA is so sad about the passing of Christine McKay, she has been a force for advocacy for ILC research as a founding member of our patient advocate advisory board. We remain inspired by her work to raise awareness of ILC. ottawacitizen.remembering.ca/obituary/mar...
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Margaret Mckay (Christine) - 2025 - Ottawa Citizen Remembering
Share Memories & Support the Family.
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metupuk.bsky.social @metupuk.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Jo recently contributed to research with Oldham Healthwatch on the healthcare experiences of people with metastatic cancer. The report highlights both progress and gaps in care across the UK. Read report here: www.healthwatcholdham.co.uk/sites/health... #METUPUK #PatientVoice #Stage4NeedsMore
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metupuk.bsky.social @metupuk.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
@abcdiagnosis and METUPUK have long campaigned for MBC symptom infographics to be part of follow-up care. New research shows they improve wellbeing and help women feel more informed and in control after primary breast cancer. Swipe to see infographics. #MetastaticMay #METUPUK #Stage4NeedsMore
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metupuk.bsky.social @metupuk.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Tassia Haines helped drive major change for MBC care in Wales, campaigning for every patient to have a dedicated SBC Nurse. Thanks to her work, most health boards now do. Our Welsh volunteers reflect on what this means - and honour Tassia’s legacy. #MetastaticMay #METUPUK #Stage4NeedsMore
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Dawn Richards, PhD @dawnrichards.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
It's International #ClinicalTrials Day. Thanks to everyone who contributes to clinical trials 🙏. And an article co-written with patients on the research ethics review in 🇨🇦 - our thoughts and hopes for the future - healthydebate.ca/2025/05/topi... @healthydebate.bsky.social
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How do patients feel about research ethics review? - Healthy Debate
Research ethics reviews in Canada have come under the media spotlight, with claims the process is exploitative and calls for innovation or reform.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/05/2025
New from @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social: When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked even me.
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The Price of Remission
When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked ...
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Heather D @hldca.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Thank you @ccsresearch.bsky.social & Ottawa Hospital Research Institute for the #DaffodilMonth lab tour. Inspiring to meet young researchers & their research (oncolytic viruses, TILs etc). Such cool (but expensive) equipment. They had a hands on exercise for us (pic). #HelpHopeBloom 1/2
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 26/04/2025
In their silence against Trump, business leaders are saying their fear and idolatry of the dollar trumps all. Their silence is cowardice. www.profgalloway.com/breaking-the...
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Breaking the Silence | No Mercy / No Malice
Hello, Mr. President At different points, I’ve worked with 30 Fortune 100 CEOs. I believe 90% of them wake up in the morning, look in the mirror, and think, “Hello, Mr. President.” These are talented,...
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Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Dear Canada, Pierre Poilievre is Coming for Your Reproductive Rights vajenda.substack.com/p/dear-canad...
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Dear Canada, Pierre Poilievre is Coming for Your Reproductive Rights
A letter to my fellow Canadians
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Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
The Terry Fox Marathon of Hope Cancer Centres Network is now on BlueSky!!! @marathonofhope.bsky.social Find out all about this amazing program at marthonofhopecancercentres.ca
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Nathalie Provost survived the Polytechnique massacre. She knows that guns designed to kill people don’t belong on our streets.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Justice Sotomayor, writing in today's deportation case. How many times must she write, "With fear for our democracy, I dissent," before Republicans get the point? Perhaps only when, as the poem goes, they come for them.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 05/04/2025
100,000+ people marched at the #HandsOff rally in New York!
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Gurdeep Pandher of the Yukon @gurdeep.ca · 02/04/2025
Today's article contains a powerful story of resilience in life's final moments (The Medicine of Joy: A Story of Finding Peace in Life's Crucial Chapter) gurdeeppandher.substack.com/p/medicine-o...
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The Medicine of Joy: A Story of Finding Peace in Life's Crucial Chapter
For those who are wounded and hurting, joy can serve as a healing balm. For those who have lost faith, joy can rekindle their belief in possibilities.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
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Charlotte Moore-Lambert @charlottereads.com · 22/03/2025
being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 19/03/2025
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
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I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.
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...),  posted 6 hours ago. The post reads, "The people Attorney General Bondi is calling 'terrorists' have had no trial and no chance to defend them. We do not know they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril."
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Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
“We must be prepared to defend our sovereignty-not just with military spending, but with a population that is engaged, trained and ready.” Great piece by @petermacleod.bsky.social about how Canada needs a Civil Defence Force where every Canadian has a role to play. 🇨🇦💪 thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
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Canada Needs a New Civil Defence Corps | The Tyee
Trump’s aggression means it’s time to train thousands more civilians for disaster preparedness. Would you join?
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JennParker @jennparker27.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I think it's crazy that my biggest stressor is the state of the world and not the fact I have I have incurable cancer. Like I have to fight cancer AND fascism? WTF? #cancerBS
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Heather D @hldca.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
As someone who has been a guinea pig for pharma several times, and whose provincial health departments have dropped fortunes paying for pharma's products, I am just gut wrenched at their lack of support for science.
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
buy Canadian. Noble idea. an one I will pursue. But I think we need to really consider applying this tactic to perhaps the most important industry. Media. A thread... 1/
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a canadian flag with a red maple leaf in the middle
ALT: a canadian flag with a red maple leaf in the middle
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Janice Cowden @janicetnbcmets.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
It’s a privilege to be part of this meaningful work! The ASCO CDK Dosing Study has the potential to reshape clinical practice for older adults w/ #metastaticbreastcancer. Thnx to PCORI for funding this impactful project. @therightdose.bsky.social @oncoalert.bsky.social #bcsm #DoseOptimization #QoL
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Terry Fox will be the next Canadian featured on the $5 bill. The athlete and activist will be replacing Sir Wilfrid Laurier who will now appear on the next version of the $50 note, by Clarrie Feinstein www.thestar.com/news/terry-f... via @torontostar.bsky.social
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Terry Fox will be the next Canadian featured on the $5 bill
The athlete and activist will be replacing Sir Wilfrid Laurier who will now appear on the next version of the $50 note.
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Heather D @hldca.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I've been in 7 #MetastaticBreastCancer treatment #ClinicalTrials and no one yet has shared the published results directly with me (I found articles via patient grps and that old place X). #Oncsky It really should be common practice and the UK's NHS agrees: www.hra.nhs.uk/planning-and...
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Communicating study findings to participants: guidance
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