This was me. 🪡 After weeks of unanswered emails/calls to Mark Carney’s team, I asked him why 🇨🇦 continues to send weapons to 🇮🇱 through the US to kill our community’s families. Just like when someone asked him this at another recent event, he did not answer and said 🇨🇦 is

Go to this spot any day of the week and you will see evangelical Christians preaching without issue. I’m glad to see our Canadian Muslim brothers and sisters exercising their right to religious expression. If this makes you uncomfortable, they aren’t the problem, you are. It is

Very honoured to receive the American Academy of Neurology 2025 Norman Geschwind Prize for my research trying to better understand complex disorders and phenomena at the interfaces of Neurology and Psychiatry Very grateful to all of my mentors and colleagues Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Temerty Medicine Harvard Medical School

I just got a notice that an academic conference for 2026 was being moved from the US to Canada because of concerns people have with entering the US. The cell phone searches and random detentions at the border of people with visas and valid reasons to visit are going to have

It is already a criminal offence to intentionally and wilfully obstruct access to all of those places. Perhaps resources would be better spent enforcing laws the government has deliberately ignored — such as the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act.

It has been 18 days since the Doug Ford government closed supervised consumption sites and bragged that their “Hart Hubs” are open. THEY ARE NOT OPEN. Orgs received funding agreements last night- no funding. Government still changing the terms to crush harm reduction.

Good job team America

In my first time writing for the Toronto Star, I shared why Gaza is the best lens to help Canadians decide which parties and candidates deserve our votes this Monday. This election, I'm voting for Gaza. But please don't call me a single-issue voter thestar.com/opinion/contri…

Jeopardy Masters time! Tune in tomorrow at 9 pm on ABC / CTV2

Dr. Zainab Abdurrahman installed as Ontario Medical Association’s first Black woman President. #onhelath oma.org/newsroom/news/…

She pled for her life for hours among the corpses of her family members. They sprayed her vehicle with over 300 bullets, then killed the medics who came to save her. I don't know how we continue to live in a world in which such war crimes go unpunished. RIP sweet Hind.

Recent NIH grant terminations have resulted in deep uncertainty among researchers🧑‍🔬& academic institutions🏫. In JAMA, we characterize the scope of terminations, types of grants affected, and differential impact of cuts across career stages Link: jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

It’s hard to overstate how extraordinary this is. Aid organization trucks are all lined up and ready to enter and Israel has not allowed them into Gaza for ~75 days. There is no way to describe this as anything other than the active, intentional, planned starvation of a people.

A UK Special Forces officer personally rejected 1,585 resettlement applications from Afghans because they might have witnessed war crimes committed by UK special forces. bbc.com/news/articles/…

Today Temerty Medicine, Canadian Medical Association, Ontario Medical Association received mention in the The Lancet. “many medical academies and health professional organisations that claim a commitment to social justice have failed to speak out. Their silence is morally unacceptable.” #FreePalestine

🚨 New preprint! 🚨 Inform and Do No Harm: A Novel Approach to Reduce Negative Effects of Mental Health Awareness My student Dasha Sandra tackled growing concerns about false self-diagnosis following awareness efforts and found a promising solution. Thread /1 With Zindel Segal

New study out JAMA Internal Medicine examining trends in self-reported mental and physical health among female parents in the U.S. We find a large—63% increase—in moms reporting fair or poor mental health from 2016 to 2023. jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…

So many actions that would not be accepted under any circumstance are deemed necessary, often purportedly “for security” when the victims are Palestinian. Substitute any other group, maybe for example your own, and ask yourself if this is ok

Great to be part of the first-ever Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) symposium Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation 🇨🇦🧠 While long over due, hopefully this is the first of many to come Sarah Lidstone, MD PhD Gabriela Gilmour Lauren Sham Adriano Mollica & Sarah Hanafi Temerty Medicine U Calgary McGill University