Widow calls for probe into treatment of husband who developed bedsores that led to #MAID | Montreal Gazette montrealgazette.com/news/local-new…

.Dept. of Agriculture reports +2 #H5N1 #birdflu outbreaks in dairy cattle, bringing the number of infected herds to 26 since the first report in late March. New reports from Texas & New Mexico, which have had the most detections. (graph mine, from USDA data) aphis.usda.gov/livestock-poul…

B.C. health officials announced a plan to move thousands of people off a provincial health-care waitlist and connect them with a family doctor or nurse practitioner. ⁦CTV News⁩ bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-announces-…

A Quebec man is provided MAID (medically assisted death) after bedsores develop - while waiting days on a stretcher in ER.
Powerful important and tragic story. cbc.ca/news/canada/mo… Radio-Canada Info Rachel Watts

Senior died after waiting 7 hours in an ER- now his family worries that if changes aren’t made quickly other patients may suffer the same fate | CTV News ⁦Laura Brown⁩ atlantic.ctvnews.ca/more/family-of…

I was at one of these encampments yesterday - I met a mother with a 20 year old daughter who said they had lived in the tent for 6 months after being evicted. In another was a woman who had bruises all over her face. It is heartbreaking and all of them -when asked what they…

24 cow herds in the U.S now test positive for Bird Flu #H5N1 ctvnews.ca/canada/the-u-s… CTV News

24 herds now. #H5N1

As of next week, nurse practitioners specializing in primary care will be able to take charge of patients waiting for a family doctor in Quebec - as the province tries to match patients in need of family medicine. montreal.ctvnews.ca/specialized-nu… CTV News

Despite having 149 people on the waiting list for a bed at this long term care home in Guelph Ontario,
the company that runs it -Pointe-Fisher Nursing Home - confirmed it will shut down on Nov. 29.
kitchener.ctvnews.ca/guelph-long-te… CTV News Daryl Morris

Then there were 7: NC joins the list of states that have reported detecting #H5N1 #birdflu in dairy cows. Though the Dept. of Agriculture website hasn't been updated yet to reflect this addition, this makes 21 affected herds in 7 states. h/t ProMED. ncagr.gov/news/press-rel…

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Why are 15 times more Canadians than Californians choosing assisted death? nationalpost.com/news/canada/wh…

US limits 'forever chemicals' in tap water for first time citing growing health concerns from PFAS ⁦BBC News (World)⁩ bbc.com/news/world-us-…

Concerns about Avian flu #H5N1 abound. The U.S. is preparing for the possibility it becomes a widely spread human illness. So what is Canada doing? Christl Dabu investigates ctvnews.ca/canada/the-u-s… CTV News

Coroner jury in New Brunswick probing death of 78 year old an in ER says that more work needs to be done to ease overcrowding in emergency - including appropriate staffing.
atlantic.ctvnews.ca/more/n-b-inque… Laura Brown

This senior has been homeless for two and a half years, living in his truck with his two dogs. The kindness of strangers (not our social system) is helping him find a home. kitchener.ctvnews.ca/they-re-saving… Hannah Schmidt #homelessness

This community group has done some remarkable work tracking hospital funding, deficits and more, in Ontario. Check out out how much your hospital is in debt and ask 'why'?

BREAKING: The government has agreed to support an NDP motion to declare intimate partner violence an epidemic. This gets a standing ovation in the house #onpoli