#Cdnhealth

Germany, a country about as affluent as Canada, has 4x as many hospital beds, more health-care workers and much more lab capacity. Those are choices they've made. Worth a post-#pandemic

#Indigenous woman Joyce Echaquan records slurs, taunts of Quebec hospital staff before her death, by @kkirkup @TuThanhHa https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-indigenous-woman-records-slurs-taunts-of-quebec-hospital-staff-before/?u

1/ We are at a defining moment of the #COVID19 pandemic & in the belly of the Second Wave in Ontario. Our public health system is strapped and governments have

Today I was joined by Albertans from constituencies represented by UCP MLAs opposed to public health orders to call on Premier Jason Kenney to take action against these caucus members

#Ontario keep this in mind when @fordnation tries to tell us that #Bill218 is supposed to protect "the little guy." These ties to for-profit LTC run deep. He's protecting these

CanadianMedicalAssoc

Earlier this week, @CMA_Docs conducted a rapid to collect feedback from #physicians on the frontline of #COVID19 about personal protective equipment (#PPE)In 48 hours, almost 5,000 members had responded.

THREAD: I'm often asked whether the #SDoH & upstream inequities impact people later in life, when they are in need of #palliativecare & end-of-life care. A newly updated @HQOntario report

New AHS documents, obtained through FOIP, show that Jason Kenney’s Health Minister Tyler Shandro repeatedly lied in the legislature about the growing number of Alberta doctors resigning from rural hospitals

Jαʂσɳ Kҽɳɳҽყ ιʂ ɱყ ԋყρҽɾϝσƈυʂ

What happened to Dr Deena Hinshaw? Where did you go? I miss you these days. The person who cared about each and every one of her patients, whose mentors spoke

Outbreaks at seniors’ homes linked to almost half of #COVID19 deaths in Canada, @CPHO_Canada says, as Ottawa introduces new guidelines, by @carlyweeks @jillsmahoney @l_stone @TuThanhHa https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-outbreaks-at-seni

There’s a wildfire of #coronavirus in seniors’ homes. If you can get your relatives out, do it now, by @picardonhealth https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-if-you-can-get-your-relatives-out-of-seniors-homes-try-to-do-so-as/?utm_medium=Refer

Andrew Longhurst

Alberta is paving the way for a for-profit hospital industry in Canada. $400 million will be flowing into for-profit surgeries. That’s huge. Private facilities currently perform 15% of AB’s surgeries,

Michelle Cohen, MD

The history of public health is also the history of women in health care. Let’s take a moment to reflect on how the discipline of public health arose out of