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Kristy Kirkup

@kkirkup.bsky.social
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National health journalist for The Globe and Mail, 🇨🇦’s national newspaper. Based in Ottawa. Contact: kkirkup@globeandmail.com. www.theglobeandmail.com/authors/kri…

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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Countries racing to contain spread of hantavirus after cruise ship outbreak. Three Canadians were among 150 passengers on ship with outbreak, and they are self-isolating. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl... via @theglobeandmail.com @kkirkup.bsky.social
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Countries race to contain spread of hantavirus after cruise ship outbreak
WHO is working on step-by-step guidance for when the dozens of passengers remaining on the ship disembark and travel home
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Andrea Woo @andreawoo.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Manitoba declares public health emergency after sharp increase in HIV transmission, @temurdur.bsky.social reports. New cases of HIV rose to 328 in 2025 from total of 90 in 2019 www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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Manitoba declares public health emergency over rising HIV cases
New cases have steadily increased over the last six years, with 328 detected in 2025, province says
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
A troubling reason you might not get CPR? Breasts. Bystanders less likely to administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation if you have breasts. Using an automated external defibrillator (AED) makes things worse, by @alisonmotluk.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com
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Opinion: One troubling reason you might not get CPR? Breasts
People need to get comfortable performing lifesaving chest compressions on female bodies, and training on breasted manikins needs to reinforce this
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 06/05/2026
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Committee report to inform Ottawa’s view of MAID expansion, Carney says
Parliamentary committee expected to issue report on whether to extend access to those with mental illness
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Ottawa prepared to halt plan to allow MAiD for mental illness if the parliamentary committee studying issue makes that recommendation -- which it is expected to do. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com
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Ottawa prepared to halt plan to allow MAID for mental illness
Federal government will follow recommendations of parliamentary committee studying issue, sources say
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 06/05/2026
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Ottawa prepared to halt plan to allow MAID for mental illness
Federal government will follow recommendations of parliamentary committee studying issue, sources say
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Advocates call on Ottawa to commit to mandatory anti-drunk-driving technology in new vehicles. MADD advocates for built-in alcohol-detection systems to become standard in vehicles, by @jillmahoney.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com
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Advocates call on Ottawa to commit to mandatory anti-drunk-driving technology in new vehicles
Representatives of MADD to meet with government officials to advocate for built-in alcohol-detection systems when the technology is ready
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 06/05/2026
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Ontario to lower colorectal cancer screening age to 45 in July
Province will join PEI in lowering screening age
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 06/05/2026
Public-private health care model coming to Alberta breaches Canada Health Act, legal expert argues www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/arti… ⦸ @alannasmith.bsky.social @theglobeandmail.com ↷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁
The emergency entrance of the Northern Lights regional health centre in Fort McMurray, Alta., on April 14.
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 05/05/2026
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Carney appoints former Supreme Court justice Louise Arbour as Governor-General
She also worked as a UN commissioner and prosecuted war crimes in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Why are drug overdose deaths rising in Edmonton, even as they fall across Canada? Dangerous opioids, declines in support services make Alberta’s capital an outlier, by @alannasmith.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com
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Why are drug overdose deaths rising in Edmonton, even as they fall across Canada?
Dangerous opioids, declines in support services and other factors each play a part in making Alberta’s capital an outlier
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Toronto woman with bipolar disorder asks Ontario court to grant her emergency MAiD access, saying she's tired of waiting for Ottawa to legalize assisted death for people with mental illness, by @kkirkup.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com
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Toronto woman with bipolar disorder asks Ontario court to grant her emergency MAID access
Claire Brosseau already suing federal government over ban for people whose only condition is mental illness
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
University Health Network recruits senior NIH investigator, more than 70 global scientists, as part of campaign to attract 100 early- to mid-career scientists from other countries, by @kkirkup.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com @uhn.ca
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University Health Network recruits senior NIH investigator, more than 70 global scientists
Campaign to attract best and brightest aims to bring in 100 early- to mid-career scientists from other countries
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 24/04/2026
Catholic leaders urge Carney government to bar MAID access for patients with mental illness www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/arti… ⦸ @kkirkup.bsky.social @theglobeandmail.com ↷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁
Canada is set to begin permitting MAID for patients with mental illness on March 17, 2027.
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 24/04/2026
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Canadian astronaut Kutryk to fly to space station this fall
Astronaut joins SpaceX mission launching from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 24/04/2026
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Catholic leaders urge Carney government to bar MAID access for patients with mental illness
Cardinal Frank Leo appealed to Prime Minister Mark Carney to ‘choose life not death’
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 23/04/2026
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Federal government urged to look beyond central Canada for next governor-general
Mary Simon was not fluent in French, but Prime Minister Mark Carney said her replacement will be fluent in both official languages
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Most doctors say they’ve had to intervene after patients accessed misinformation, survey www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... by @kkirkup.bsky.social w @cmadocs.bsky.social "...97% of doctors faced these challenges, including because of advice patients accessed through artificial intelligence."
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Most doctors say they’ve had to intervene after patients accessed misinformation, survey finds
Earlier this year, another survey found that people who followed health advice from AI were five times more likely to experience harms than those who did not
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
It's my work anniversary -- 39 years and counting at The Globe and Mail. A lot has changed over those four decades, but it's still the best place to work in Canadian media. www.theglobeandmail.com/authors/andr...
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Midwife barred from working in B.C. heads home to Scotland amid health care worker shortage. Advocates say it's a case of a foreign-trained worker getting entangled in bureaucratic red tape, by @kkirkup.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/briti... via @theglobeandmail.com
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Midwife barred from working in B.C. heads home to Scotland amid health care worker shortage
Advocates say it’s a case of a foreign-trained worker getting entangled in bureaucratic errors
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Not all B.C. health workers like the new regulatory overhaul but experts say it's a sea that will result in better protection of patients. Other provinces are watching the changes closely, by Jesse Winter, @kkirkup.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com
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B.C. health care workers question if regulation overhaul will mean more transparency
Nurse whose 11-year-old son died at a Vancouver Island hospital worries new laws may perpetuate systemic problems
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Ontario’s psychology regulator faces calls to scrap proposed training changes. Letter from more than 1,400 registrants and graduate students calls for removal of registrar due to fears patient safety compromised, by @kkirkup.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... @theglobeandmail.com
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Ontario’s psychology regulator faces calls to scrap proposed training changes
Letter from more than 1,400 registrants and graduate students calls for the removal of Tony DeBono as registrar of the College of Psychologists and Behaviour Analysts
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 11/03/2026
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The Globe’s Robert Fife to receive Lifetime Achievement Award from Canadian Journalism Foundation
The Ottawa Bureau Chief exemplifies the highest standards of political reporting, CJF says
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 09/03/2026
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PEI to collect voluntary info about race, ethnicity in health card applications
Project’s goals include better understanding differences in health outcomes, flagging gaps in care and improving services
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 10/03/2026
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AFN holds ceremony to mark repatriation of items from Vatican Museums
Embroidered leather gloves and a birch bark sap collector were among objects unveiled
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 12/11/2025
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Menopause awareness is growing, but patients still face barriers to evidence-based care
Removal of black-box warnings on hormone therapy products by U.S. authorities reflects sea change in how treatment is viewed
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 10/11/2025
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What to know about measles after Canada lost its elimination status
The highly contagious, airborne disease has made a comeback in this country
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Alanna Smith @alannasmith.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Canada has been stripped of its measles elimination status after failing to interrupt transmission within one year of an outbreak that continues to spread in parts of the country. @kkirkup.bsky.social @theglobeandmail.com #cdnpoli
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Canada officially loses its measles elimination status
The return of measles has been largely attributed to lower childhood vaccination rates
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 05/11/2025
Federal budget 2025: Health measures include $5-billion dedicated infrastructure fund www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... @kkirkup.bsky.social @mark-carney.bsky.social 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
The federal budget says the fund will complement existing health-related support provided to provinces and territories by helping to ensure their health infrastructure, such as emergency rooms, will be able to respond to Canadians' health care needs.
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Kristy Kirkup @kkirkup.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Miracle League of Ottawa: How a Blue Jays fan’s love of baseball made the game more inclusive for other kids www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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Miracle League of Ottawa: How a Blue Jays fan’s love of baseball made the game more inclusive for other kids
Bryce Desrochers, who lives with cerebral palsy, and his parents founded league to ensure all individuals can play ball
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 29/10/2025
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Miracle League of Ottawa: How a Blue Jays fan’s love of baseball opened the game to kids in wheelchairs
Bryce Desrochers, who lives with cerebral palsy, and his parents founded league to ensure all individuals can play ball
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 30/10/2025
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Advance requests for MAID ‘generally supported,’ national consultations find
Roundtable participants voice concerns about how to move ahead with procedure without final consent
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Closer to the heart: Doctors had to perform open-heart surgery on Julia Morris after she had a heart attack while 23 weeks pregnant. The procedure is believed to be the first of its kind in Canada, by @kkirkup.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com
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In groundbreaking procedure, Ontario doctors perform rare heart surgery on pregnant woman
Surgeons had to operate on Julia Morris at 23 weeks without endangering the fetus. The procedure is believed to be the first of its kind in Canada in the second trimester
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 03/10/2025
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Carney to meet with Trump in Washington next week as Canada seeks tariff relief
This will be the Prime Minister’s second trip to the White House since taking office this year
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 30/09/2025
Indigenous surgeon draws on lessons from her mother to make history www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... @kkirkup.bsky.social @theglobeandmail.com 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
Dr. Nadine Caron helped create Canada's first Indigenous-focused graduate certificate in public health at the University of British Columbia.
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 24/09/2025
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Supreme Court of Canada grants stay on cull of 400 ostriches
Owners, one of whom was arrested yesterday when she and her daughter refused to leave the bird pens, have also filed for leave to appeal the order
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Kristy Kirkup @kkirkup.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Gynecologists prepare for questions about Tylenol and pregnancy after Trump’s unproven claims Story from @theglobeandmail.com: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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Gynecologists prepare for questions about Tylenol and pregnancy after Trump’s unproven claims
Political observers, medical professionals believe President and his administration taking ideological positions rather than scientific ones
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Kristy Kirkup @kkirkup.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
NEW: Nova Scotia’s approach to sepsis treatment offers life-saving lessons, advocates say www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-...
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Nova Scotia’s approach to sepsis treatment offers life-saving lessons, advocates say
By the end of October, ER nurses throughout the province will be able to administer antibiotics and IV fluids to anyone suspected of having sepsis
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Adriana Lacy @adrianalacy.com · 18/09/2025
For this young, scrappy newsroom of recent college graduates, freelancers, and local journalists who’ve never had a byline outside their home country, the funding is a recognition of their arrival onto Europe’s media landscape.
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The Gen Z newsroom covering Europe (and ruffling some continental feathers along the way)
Like all Cinderella stories, there’s an urgent carriage-to-pumpkin timeline looming for The European Correspondent.
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Call Auntie: How a pandemic phone line morphed into a clinic in downtown Toronto providing culturally safe care. Indigenous midwives and community health workers advise and support Indigenous patients, by @kkirkup.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-... via @theglobeandmail.com
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A phone line during the pandemic that morphed into a clinic providing culturally safe care in downtown Toronto
Group of Indigenous midwives and community health workers had launched the Call Auntie phone line to advise and support Indigenous patients
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Steven Chase @stevenchase.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
G7 seeks ways to boost financial support for Ukraine after Russian drone incursion into Poland www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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G7 seeks ways to boost financial support for Ukraine after Russian drone incursion into Poland
Finance ministers are increasing efforts to step up the use of seized Russian funds to backstop Kyiv, federal government says
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Andrea Woo @andreawoo.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
A 1.5-year-old boy is dead and six others ranging in age from 1.5 to 3 are injured, along w/ three adults, after an SUV crashed into a daycare in Richmond Hill, north of Toronto, ~3 p.m. ET York Regional Police say driver in his 70s was arrested and they do not believe the act was intentional
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 10/09/2025
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PHAC to take over running Vaccine Injury Support Program from private company
Funding agreement with OXARO Inc., an Ottawa-based company, will conclude at the end of March
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 09/09/2025
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Pharmacare law cannot be implemented in unfair, inequitable way, former advisory council chair says
Eric Hoskins had called upon provinces and territories to try and reach agreements before the election campaign
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 04/09/2025
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California, Oregon and Washington form public-health agreement to issue vaccine recommendations
West Coast Health Alliance emerges as the CDC, under RFK Jr., has fired senior leadership, lost staff and replaced members of a key vaccine recommendation panel
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 27/08/2025
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An Ontario woman died of an infection after an abortion. Her sister says doctors failed her
When Rheanna Laderoute fell ill, doctors failed to follow up on signs of sepsis. Her sister wants accountability
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 26/08/2025
How do we provide cool relief in a world that's heating up? www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... @picardonhealth.bsky.social 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
A woman sits next to an open window as a fan circulates air throughout her rental apartment. Some doctors have begun prescribing air conditioners to patients who would otherwise be unable to afford them.
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Kristy Kirkup @kkirkup.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
An Ontario teen died after waiting in agony at an ER. His family wants a discretionary inquest to examine the circumstances of his death to help prevent other fatalities. Unlike if someone dies in prison, inquests are not automatic if a child dies in hospital. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/bfcf272...
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An Ontario teen died after waiting in agony for hours at an ER. Now, his family wants an inquest
Finlay van der Werken’s parents have filed a lawsuit and are pushing to reform emergency care after their 16-year-old’s death
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Andrea Woo @andreawoo.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Two toddlers are among nearly 150 Canadians held in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody this year, data show From @saramojtehedz.bsky.social, Kathryn Blaze Baum, @mahima-singh.bsky.social, @janicedickson.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
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Nearly 150 Canadians held in ICE custody this year, including two toddlers, data show
One child was detained for 51 days, more than double the legal detention period, a Globe and Mail analysis found
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Andrea Woo @andreawoo.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Wildfires burn in parts of Europe as temperatures in some areas soar past 40C. "Europe is warming faster than any other continent, at twice the speed of the global average since the 1980s, according to the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service." www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
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Wildfires burn in Europe as record summer heat simmers
Scientists warn climate change is making parts of Europe more vulnerable to wildfires
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