Thank you to ⁦TIME⁩ for this amazing honour! I’m so proud and humbled to be included in this incredible group. And huge thank you to ⁦the talented Julian Brave NoiseCat⁩ for your lovely words. 🧡 #TIME100 time.com/6964628/connie…

Now, medical students will HAVE to learn about anti-Black racism & Black health! MedCouncilCan just released Black Health learning objectives! Proud to have co-led this with DrDryden & Dr. Barb Black Health Education Collaborative ! Temerty Medicine U of T Public Health 🤓

This is huge. After so many investigations and inquests, after we have cried out for change in the City of Thunder Bay and who runs it, after Senator Murray Sinclair’s thorough report and then another one, the Ontario Prov Police act. 👇🏽

When I teach professionals, I sometimes put them in groups to discuss and take notes. I specifically name that women are overwhelmingly called upon to serve as recorders, so I ask that every group assign a man to do this. The reactions are *wild*. Regularly, one man makes a 1/x

🚨Stop Scrolling!

Let's pause & reflect a minute about what this shocking picture of Greta Thunberg 's arrest tells us about the current state of #climate politics.

A short 🧵on some key lessons we can take from this image

Many residents have reached out to me with serious concerns, which I share, about police conduct at the peaceful Land Day march in Toronto on March 30.

My council colleagues and I reaffirm our commitment to upholding the rights and freedoms of all Torontonians.

A Canadian with dual U.S. citizenship was among seven international aid workers killed in a strike while delivering food in central Gaza Monday for the charity group World Central Kitchen, the organization said. cbc.ca/news/world/gaz… .

HUGE NEWS

LifeLabs Ontario officially removes race-correction from calculations for kidney function

I cannot stress how essential this step is in eliminating #racism in medicine

Thank you for everyone who has worked on this!!

Now that all provinces say they'll stop jailing people for immigration matters, will Ottawa move forward with a ban? thestar.com/news/canada/no… via @torontostar

Today is the International Day to End Racial Discrimination. To address racial injustice Ontario must extend public health coverage to all regardless of their immigration status. Jose is an undocumented construction worker. This is his story. Share it widely #Healthcare4All

this hits so hard! ❤️‍🔥

Y’all!!

Afro-Indigenous Brazilian photographer Rafael Pavarotti did a story for British Vogue March 2024 with Anok Yai & Zaya Guarani paying homage to Brazil’s African & Indigenous spirituality

Every image has a backstory.

This thread will address a couple of them 🇧🇷🧵

Ewá 🐍

Some good news! AAD’s advisory board voted to reject a proposal that would “sunset” all DEI programs in dermatology, where <3% of all MDs are Black.

TY to the Black derms & their allies for their advocacy!

TY, CiCi Adams🌸, for this coverage!

Link: nbcnews.com/news/us-news/a…

It’s hard to comprehend the deaths of 12,800 children. We put up figures of children on our studio walls - one for each child killed in Gaza during the war.

They’re dying from airstrikes and now malnutrition and dehydration.

These are some of their stories.

Institutions told us they cared about racial justice and were “committed to change” but when the going got tough, racialized female academics in EDI positions were an easy sacrifice baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/johns-…

I have decided to seek the federal NDP nomination in Toronto Centre Toronto Centre NDP. We urgently need courageous voices in Parliament willing to take bold action to tackle the housing crisis, fight climate change, and end Canada's support for the genocide in Gaza. samanthagreen.ca

Health care needs to extend to undocumented migrants: policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/febr… - excellent piece by Dr. Wendell Block

Let’s never forget that Canada had the first basic income pilot (in 1970s Manitoba)- a roaring success but axed by Manitoba PCs in 1979. 40 years later, Ontario put in place another basic income pilot- also very successful- axed by Ontario PCs in 2018- vice.com/en/article/43p…

Residents and interns in South Korea have been protesting unfair working conditions and underinvestment in public healthcare services. Very concerning to see a crackdown in response threatening to suspend their licenses.