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Ritika Goel

@ritikagoel.bsky.social
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Family doctor and Activist. Immigrant and Settler. Mom of two. Posts on health, politics & social justice. Based in Tkaronto.

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Ritika Goel @ritikagoel.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
To all my fellow moms in cishet relationships, this Mother’s Day, I wish you a partner who doesn’t take the kids once a year to give you a break, but spends time with his children regularly alone as their primary caregiver for the benefit of you, the kids and himself. 🥰 #HappyMothersDay
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Palestinian paramedics shot by Israeli forces had hands tied, eyewitnesses say
Senior doctor who saw bodies says men appeared to have been ‘executed’, adding to evidence of potential war crime
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
This is, in large part, pandemic revenge. As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do. They can't keep spewing carbon. They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying. They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.
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Danyaal Raza @danyaalraza.com · 02/04/2025
What does a health-led, worker-first & Canadian response to the Trump tariffs look like? My latest, for @healthydebate.bsky.social healthydebate.ca/2025/04/topi...
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Health, wealth and no one left behind - Healthy Debate
Like the early days of COVID-19, tariffs have the country rallying together and governments promising decisive action to help us weather the storm.
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Ritika Goel @ritikagoel.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
As a healthcare provider in Regent Park, I joined the community yesterday in mourning and rage as the supervised consumption site Bevel Up had its last day of service. It’s truly hard to express the cruelty this represents for people who use drugs. /1 #onpoli #medsky #topoli #cdnpoli
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Most supervised consumption sites that were set to close won’t offer service despite injunction. Here’s why
Despite an injunction on Friday, provincial funding is contingent on transition to new model.
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HIV Legal Network @hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
We are teaming up with @tngcommunityto.bsky.social to debrief and discuss any decisions that come from the Court today and tomorrow. Join us for this virtual session at 12:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, March 26. Register in advance here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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HIV Legal Network @hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Applicants lawyer says that the correct question is whether Ontario’s law exacerbates risk to people who use drugs. The answer is yes, "unequivocally.” #SaveOurSites #CTSontario #CTSsavesLives #CTScourtchallenge #SaveCTS #Ontario #ONpoli #SayYesToHealth
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HIV Legal Network @hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Nobody disagrees that it is safer to consume in a supervised consumption site. Only Drs Bayoumi and Werb assessed the impact of SCS on needle disposal and even crime in Ontario. Ontario was restricted to only criticizing these experts as they did not present anything to the contrary.
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HIV Legal Network @hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Applicants lawyers are now introducing their experts and evidence. Dr. Ahmed Bayoumi is well regarded by the Government itself. Dr. Dan Werb is also the PI of investigating impacts of SCS on people who use drugs in Ontario. Both are published in peer-reviewed journals.
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HIV Legal Network @hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
We have prepared a backgrounder on this Charter Challenge, including a Glossary of Terms. Find it here: www.hivlegalnetwork.ca/site/backgro... #SaveOurSites #CTSontario #CTSsavesLives #CTScourtchallenge #SaveCTS #Ontario #ONpoli #SayYesToHealth
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Backgrounder – Charter challenge to the Community Care and Recovery Act, 2024 – HIV Legal Network
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HIV Legal Network @hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
The Applicants lawyers note that Ontario can't prove an increase in crime around CTS locations because there is no evidence that crime has increased.
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HIV Legal Network @hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Applicants lawyers now focusing on the major harm to service users that would be caused by relocation. Even if possible, moving could make sites inaccessible to clients. 90% of clients are experiencing homelessness and can't just jump in a car to get to another CTS. #SaveOurSites #CTSontario
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HIV Legal Network @hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Applicants lawyers are speaking to the difficulties of locating a CTS, noting the government invested significantly to hire six experts and 21 private investigators, but nothing to help impacted CTS find new locations.
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TNG Community Services @tngcommunityto.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Thank you for your support! Join us on Monday, March 24, at 12 PM at 330 University Ave for a rally in solidarity. There will be speakers as we stand together to support the charter challenge to save our sites. #SaveOurSites
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Ritika Goel @ritikagoel.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
This is incredibly important! Follow live updates here for the legal challenge looking to strike down Ford’s cruel and unscientific policy of shuttering any supervised consumption site within 200m of a school or daycare. #harmreduction #saveoursites
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 22/03/2025
Israel has blown up Gaza's only specialised cancer treatment hospital, the Turkish-Palestinian Hospital, along with an adjacent medical school, drawing condemnation for yet again targeting a medical facility ⤵️ aje.io/wpl2e4
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Israel blows up Gaza’s only specialised cancer hospital in massive blast
Destruction of Turkish-Palestinian hospital has been condemned as being part of Israel’s ‘systematic state terrorism’.
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freegrassy.bsky.social @freegrassy.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Join Deputy Chief Bear Copenace and Judy Da Silva on Tuesday, February 25th at 11 am, at Queen's Park for a Vigil to honour #GrassyNarrows community members. RSVP - freegrassy.net/doug-ford-co... FordNation has been invited. Will he be there? #FreeGrassy
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Ritika Goel @ritikagoel.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Vigils were held this week m in six cities acrosd thr province to condemn Doug Ford’s plan to shut down 10 supervised consumption sites. #onpoli #medsky www.thestar.com/news/ontario...
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‘Havens of love and care’: Ontarians protest closures of supervised consumption sites
TORONTO - Dozens of people gathered outside Ontario's health ministry in Toronto on Tuesday, two days before the provincial election, to protest the province's plans to shut down 10 supervised
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Ritika Goel @ritikagoel.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Extremely disturbing development south of the border. Trump is systematically erasing trans and non binary people and enacting a policy of widespread censorship. Where are all those freedom of speech warriors now? #lgbtq #transcareishealthcare #translivesmatter
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Ritika Goel @ritikagoel.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Wondering why health workers across Ontario are raising the alarm about Ford’s closure of supervised consumption sites? Check out my interview with City News to learn more. #saveoursites #medsky
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Health advocates raise alarms over supervised consumption sites closures
Five supervised consumption sites are set to close in Toronto in March. Health care justice advocate Dr. Ritika Goel shares her concerns over the Ford government's decision to shutter the facilities.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
BREAKING: Philadelphia workers have won the first Whole Foods union under Amazon with UFCW. Since Amazon bought the chain, workers have lost benefits and felt the squeeze. Now they're fighting back against the multi-trillion dollar giant and hoping this win will be the first of many.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
This is completely NUTS! CDC ordered to stop working with WHO immediately www.statnews.com/2025/01/27/c...
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CDC ordered to stop working with WHO immediately, upending expectations of an extended withdrawal
U.S. public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately.
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 16/01/2025
2024 was a year of reckoning, testing the integrity of democratic institutions and the principles of international human rights and humanitarian law. With more rigor and urgency than ever, governments should respect and defend human rights. bit.ly/4gUvG5f #Rights2025
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Ritika Goel @ritikagoel.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
The level of suppression of speech we have seen across this country when it comes to Gaza is unprecedented. We should all be very concerned about this direction in our academic institutions and society more broadly.
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Academic Freedom at Canadian Universities Threatened as Schools Police Speech on Gaza, Canadian Organization for Faculty Associations Warns
Association representing 70,000 academic professionals says teachers and students are facing repercussions for speaking out about Gaza
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Ritika Goel @ritikagoel.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Thrilled to have the brilliant @dianacmcnally.bsky.social presenting to our team today on trauma-informed care. Such an important reminder that relationships are key, and being able to identify when the person in front of you is triggered, and responding calmly and supportively is critical.
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Ritika Goel @ritikagoel.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Great piece by BC family doctor and primary care expert @ritamc.bsky.social on the problem with boutique primary care clinics. These models deny care to those who can't pay, make it harder to access primary care by serving small numbers, and do unnecessary tests billed to the public system. #medsky
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Ritika Goel @ritikagoel.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
This is what free speech has come to in the West. In a dense urban area, “bubble zones” like this are tantamount to outlawing protest, which is often the most accessible way to register dissent. And yes, it’s about Palestine. But also has broader implications. www.torontotoday.ca/local/city-h...
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MAP: How a 'bubble zone' protest bylaw could cover most of central Toronto
A Toronto version of a bylaw in Vaughan that restricts protests near sites like schools and places of worship would largely cover the downtown core and also major streets across the city, as lines are...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 30/12/2024
Jimmy Carter Dead at 100: Fmr. Pres. Urged "Peace Not Apartheid" in 2007 DN! Interview on Palestine
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Remembering Jimmy Carter: He Urged “Peace Not Apartheid” in 2007 DN! Interview on Palestine
Former President Jimmy Carter died Sunday at his home in Plains, Georgia, at 100 years old. The 39th president served a single, tumultuous term in the White House from 1977 to 1981. As we begin our look...
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 30/12/2024
Human Rights Watch mourns the loss of Jimmy Carter, whose commitment to human rights left an indelible mark on the global human rights landscape. Read more about his human rights legacy:
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Jimmy Carter’s Human Rights Legacy
Human Rights Watch mourns the loss of Jimmy Carter, who made trailblazing contributions to the human rights movement during his US presidency and long afterward.
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Diana Chan McNally @dianachanmcnally.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
When I tell people I've met lawyers and real estate agents who have become homeless, they often don't believe me. But it's true — and former Councillor and MPP Lorenzo Berardinetti is sadly not an anomaly. I only wish him well — no one deserves to be homeless. www.thestar.com/news/gta/i-m...
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‘I may end up in tears telling my story’: How a former MPP and Toronto city councillor found himself living in a homeless shelter
Lorenzo Berardinetti, a former Scarborough councillor and three times elected MPP, shares his cautionary tale.
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Ritika Goel @ritikagoel.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
This is an extremely disturbing look into a private "addictions rehab," Muskoka Recovery, charging people $30-150,000 for stays while being run by individuals impersonating medical and mental health professionals, and dangerously allowing clients to withdraw without appropriate medical support. /1
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Fake nurses. No doctor on site. Staff who like to party: The inside story of this ‘luxury’ Muskoka addiction rehab
“Our unwavering priority has been the well-being of our clients and their loved ones as they navigate mental health challenges including substance use disorders,” Muskoka Recovery told the Star.
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Monika Dutt @monikadutt.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
“You can’t train yourself out of systemic racism, and that’s the core issue. The health system needs to look within to find out why these things keep happening." -- Dr. James Makokis www.aptnnews.ca/national-new... v @aptnnews.bsky.social
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Stronger action needed to prevent racist braid cutting according to Cree Doctor
Dexter Adams had his braids cut off by nurse at Royal Alexandra hospital in Edmonton in March. The nurse said the elderly Indigenous dementia patient gave his consent.
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Diana Chan McNally @dianachanmcnally.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
It was really nice to be able to write a (very short) piece about my friend and colleague, @zoedodd.bsky.social. She is one of Post City Magazine's 'Women of the Year'. She really did change how I think about advocacy and what it means to be both brave and just (really, a bad-ass).
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Monika Dutt @monikadutt.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Glad to hear the doctor talk about the environmental impact of metred dose asthma inhalers at an appointment for my son today. Great resources on Climate Conscious Inhaler Prescribing in outpatient care for primary care providers & patients -- via Cascades. #medsky cascadescanada.ca/action-areas...
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Ritika Goel @ritikagoel.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Finally!!!!!! #RIPtwitter
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