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Tehseen Ladha

@tehseenladha.bsky.social
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Pediatrician + Assistant Professor @UAlberta | Director of Access and Pluralism for Medical Education | MPH @JohnsHopkins Advocacy: Social Justice, Refugee Health, Health Equity, Clean Air Passions: 🍜✈️📚

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Tehseen Ladha @tehseenladha.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Canadas score is abysmal - 19/36 countries in child well-being. There is an urgent need to address poverty, housing costs, food insecurity, and mental health access. www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
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Well-being of children and youth in Canada falling behind other countries, UNICEF says | CBC News
A global study from UNICEF suggests many Canadian kids are unhappy, with social struggles such as bullying and difficulty making friends among the sources of their anguish.
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Tehseen Ladha @tehseenladha.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
This evening within a span of 15 min, several friends/family members of varied backgrounds sent me a video of Dr Theresa Tam claiming COVID vaccines are lethal. Highly educated friends with medical backgrounds believed it. I debunked it in less than 5 minutes. Here’s how:🧵
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Tehseen Ladha @tehseenladha.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
ICYMI www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/w...
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Trump Officials Seek to Bring First White Afrikaners to U.S. as Refugees Next Week
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 07/05/2025
Scientists estimate higher rate of new-onset diabetes after COVID than in general population www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/sci... @cidrap.bsky.social 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁
a healthcare worker administers a fingerprick blood-glucose test
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 02/05/2025
The same minister just tabled a bill to push more dark money into Alberta elections. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...
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Alberta Justice Minister has personal relationship with man whose businesses are tied to AHS investigation
Mickey Amery told The Globe and Mail that he is a long-time friend of Sam Mraiche and ‘loosely related’ to him through marriage
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Meanwhile, in Canada…
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Duane Bratt🇨🇦 @duanebratt.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Alberta Justice Minister has personal relationship with man whose businesses are tied to AHS investigation www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... Amery and Mraiche are long-time friends and related by marriage. And Amery is involved in the AHS scandal in several ways.
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Alberta Justice Minister has personal relationship with man whose businesses are tied to AHS investigation
Mickey Amery told The Globe and Mail that he is a long-time friend of Sam Mraiche and ‘loosely related’ to him through marriage
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Dr Nili Kaplan-Myrth, MD PhD @nilikm.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Canada understood the assignment. #CanadaStrong
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Elbows up, Canada! 🇨🇦 Get out there and vote. Don’t let what is happening to us, happen to you.
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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes. We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 28/04/2025
Canada will be full of losers tonight. And winners. That's the way it goes after every election. But with disinformation, factionalism, and separatism in the air, this one feels different. Some things to keep in mind: open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
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Losing Matters
Like all of the elections before it, Monday will test our collective resolve.
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
A message from Filipino BC urging people to not share the horrific, graphic videos of the Vancouver ramming attack that are circulating on social media.
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
At least 9 dead and many injured as driver in black SUV slams into crowd at Filipino street festival in Vancouver. 30-year-old suspect believed to suffer from mental illness. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... via @cbcnews.ca
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9 people killed, others injured after vehicle drives into Vancouver street festival crowd | CBC News
Vancouver police say nine people have been killed and multiple others injured after a driver of a black SUV drove into a crowd at a street festival Saturday evening.
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Mike the Writer Guy @wordsmith66.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Due to the mass-casualty event in Vancouver, St Paul's, VGH, & Lions Gate hospitals have activated a code orange. These hospitals will be needing blood donations urgently. Blood clinics are closed Sundays, but please consider donating Monday if you're in the Vancouver area. #Vancouver
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
The simple metal box that could change the world. This quiet, repairable metal air cleaner is an inexpensive long-term disease prevention tool for public spaces, by @blakemurdoch.bsky.social, @davidelfstrom.bsky.social, Zack Deis healthydebate.ca/2025/04/topi... @healthydebate.bsky.social #COVID19
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The simple metal box that could change the world - Healthy Debate
This quiet, repairable metal air cleaner is an inexpensive long-term disease prevention tool for public spaces.
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Richard Peddie @richardpeddie.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
www.thestar.com/news/canada/... Eh 🇺🇸 it’s come to this
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Canadian academics warned to halt non-essential travel to the U.S. amid Trump’s crackdown, border tensions
The Canadian Association of University Teachers has issued a travel advisory for its members amid Trump’s crackdown and border fears.
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Alberta reports three more #measles cases, including one in Calgary. There have been 77 cases reported in the province since early March. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... via @theglobeandmail.com #vaccination
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Alberta reports three more measles cases, including one in Calgary
Alberta Health Services is warning that residents of Banff and Canmore may have been exposed to the highly contagious disease if they attended specific locations
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Courtney Theriault @ctheriault.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
NEW: CMOH Mark Joffe is out, as his contract is not being renewed. #yeg #yyc #ableg
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Mark Carney’s Liberals announce new Canada Strong Pass #Canada #cdnpoli #FederalElection The Canada Strong Pass will provide children and youth under the age of 18 with free access to Canada’s incredible national galleries /1 (Thread) liberal.ca/mark-carneys...
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Mark Carney’s Liberals announce new Canada Strong Pass | Liberal Party of Canada
With President Trump threatening our economy and sovereignty, Canadians are uniting to find new ways to discover and celebrate our beautiful country. So many Canadians are cutting back vacations to th...
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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Hope everyone realizes the dangerous precedent this sets. Khalil was abducted from his home & disappeared by the US govt for using his First Amendment rights. Any dissent against the US or Israeli govt will now place Americans in danger. We are all Khalil, whether we realize it yet or not.
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Court ruling saying Mahmoud Khalil can be deported condemned as ‘unjust and alarming’ – live
Columbia University graduate’s support team says decision puts at risk free speech after court says state department memo on beliefs was enough evidence for removal
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KrisBCanadian🇨🇦❤️🫂🌈🇺🇦☮️ @krisbcanadian.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 12/04/2025
www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/us-m...
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US measles total passes 700 as Arkansas reports first cases
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Tehseen Ladha @tehseenladha.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Like I said, viruses do bad stuff. #medsky #pedsky
MIS-C in children may be due to Epstein Barr virus reactivation
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 05/04/2025
Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 05/04/2025
Crowded classrooms mean kids are breathing in viruses and pollution. Parents are trying to make the air safer, but hitting roadblocks. www.thegrindmag.ca/airborne-dan... @desaima.bsky.social @theingredientslist.bsky.social @mjnabuurs.bsky.social 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁
The air quality monitor Heather Pun’s son takes to his school.
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 06/04/2025
@healthcareforreal.bsky.social is a project by @cmadocs.bsky.social that's deeply engaged in this work. If you want to help fight medical misconceptions and disinformation, engage with them here and on other platforms!
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Tehseen Ladha @tehseenladha.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Another preventable death in a child 💔
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Craig Spencer MD MPH @craigspencer.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Tragically, another child died of measles in Texas In 2 months of RFK Jr’s ‘leadership’ we’ve had more measles deaths than over the last 2 decades. This isn’t a coincidence. We will regret this.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 05/04/2025
I've already had two federal grants terminated and face a 33% pay cut due to future terminations. It's painful, but not as painful as the conversations I'm having every day with brilliant trainees in graduate school and postdoctoral positions who see little future for themselves in US science.
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Richard P Mercado @richiem929.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
We’re strongest when we’re united. So we must protect the things that bring us together — like CBC/Radio-Canada.
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Tehseen Ladha @tehseenladha.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Viruses do bad stuff. They’re linked to cancers, autoimmune diseases, and chronic conditions. We finally know the cause of Kawasaki disease in children. Surprise - It’s a virus. This is why mitigation like #CleanAir are essential. We must INSIST on progress in air quality in public spaces.
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Tehseen Ladha @tehseenladha.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
This is an imminent death sentence for some American people, and a future death sentence for so many others as we witness the fall of science. #medsky
Cancer clinical trials stopped mid treatment in the USResearch around intimate partner violence defunded
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I’m devastated, but I’m also angry. I’m angry because this is an attack on press freedom. If opportunities can be stripped from journalists simply because enough people repeat the same bad-faith narrative, how can anyone withstand the career impact of doing work that matters?
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"CTV Cancelled a Fact-Checking Segment in Response to Political Pressure." It was mine.
YouTube video by Rachel Gilmore
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PressProgress @pressprogress.ca · 01/04/2025
NEW: CTV cancelled a fact-checking segment in response to political pressure from Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives An audio recording obtained by PressProgress shows CTV cancelled an ‘election misinformation’ segment with journalist Rachel Gilmore after online backlash from conservatives
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CTV Cancelled a Fact-Checking Segment in Response to Political Pressure From Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives
Audio recording shows CTV cancelled an ‘election misinformation’ segment with journalist Rachel Gilmore after online backlash from conservatives
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Jason Markusoff @markusoff.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
NEW from my @radiocanadainfo.bsky.social colleagues: Edmonton Mayor Amarjeet Sohi will run for the Carney Liberals, in a bid to return to federal politics. ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/214...
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Amarjeet Sohi devrait être candidat aux élections fédérales
Radio-Canada a appris que le maire d’Edmonton Amarjeet Sohi devrait se présenter sous la bannière libérale aux prochaines élections fédérales
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Also you can wander through the vaccine data on this page. Some concerning downward trends. 5% absolute drop in MMR coverage for 2 year olds from 2020-2023. 2/2 healthanalytics.alberta.ca/SASVisualAna...
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Quick measles update for Alberta. First off the gov't has started doing daily updates for new cases. You can find that here: www.alberta.ca/measles 1/2
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Brigid Keely She/Her @brigid.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
This is one of the best pain severity scales I've come across. It's incredibly helpful to be able to say not just a number but to attach a description to it - I find I get a better response when I do so. We use this scale to record my kid's abdominal pain and nausea too.
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Tehseen Ladha @tehseenladha.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
I saw two families today that STILL cannot send their medically complex children to school. One family desperately needs respite and the other has a child that cries and asks for the school bus each day. #ableg
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Tehseen Ladha @tehseenladha.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
That “No other land” is an Oscar-winning documentary with no US distributor tells us everything we need to know about “freedom” in America.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 03/03/2025
Israel continues to block food and critical aid from entering Gaza. Netanyahu’s intention is to “change the terms of the ceasefire negotiations” by starving the people of Gaza, says former executive director of Human Rights Watch @KenRoth.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 03/03/2025
Basel Adra, the co-director of Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land,” says his intention with the film was “not the award itself but … to get to people’s hearts.” He wants the world to see what is happening in his community of Masafer Yatta in the West Bank.
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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
You can watch the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land – which no US distributor dares pick up because it documents Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestinians – on Britain's Ch4: www.channel4.com/programmes/n...
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No Other Land
(2024) Oscar-winning film offering an insider's view of the destruction of the West Bank
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Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 19/02/2025
The Public Health Agency of Canada says it has purchased an "initial supply" of 500,000 doses of GSK’s human vaccine against avian influenza. The vaccines will be targeted at "people who may be at increased risk of being exposed to the virus through animals infected with avian influenza."
Screenshot of a news release saying:

"The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) and its partners are focused on keeping people and animals in Canada safe and ensuring Canada is ready for any potential health threats. This includes taking proactive measures to protect the health of people in Canada by authorizing and securing the supply of a human vaccine against avian influenza as part of our readiness and potential use, as needed, based on risk conditions. Leveraging an existing agreement, PHAC has secured an initial supply of 500,000 doses of GSK’s human vaccine against avian influenza – ArepanrixTM H5N1 A/American wigeon clade 2.3.4.4b. This vaccine will be used as part of Canada’s contingency planning to protect people who may be at increased risk of being exposed to the virus through animals infected with avian influenza."
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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
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ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account
The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
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Dr Joss Reimer @jossreimer.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Canadian doctors should be able to work anywhere in the country. Artificial labour barriers between provinces do not benefit anyone. At a time when our health system is in crisis, we need to do everything we can to unify our country, and fill in the gaps. nationalpost.com/news/canada/...
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Canada's doctors can't practise anywhere in the country due to interprovincial barriers
The Canadian Medical Association has long pushed for a 'pan-Canadian approach' as part of the response to the health workforce crisis.
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