Completely agree. Team-based primary care is the way to reduce the number of Albertans without primary care. AB missed a huge opportunity to move this forward with the new family doctor funding model. As often occurs, the focus has continued to be doctors. edmontonjournal.com/opinion/column…

80+% of our health is driven by public health - not health care. Somehow the UCP has convinced many Albertans that public health is dangerous. It’s time to change the narrative. Opinion: It's time to rebuild public health in Alberta | Edmonton Journal edmontonjournal.com/opinion/column…

Hard to argue with this... Breakenridge: Premier in lockstep with U.S. 'failure of policy and science' calgaryherald.com/opinion/column… via Calgary Herald

We should remove, not create, barriers to COVID-19 vaccination. Alberta government is making some misguided and misinformed decisions for public health. My commentary here: edmontonjournal.com/opinion/column…

Pay attention to this, Alberta. GoA cannot be allowed to use the law to avoid accountability to it's citizens. Let me give you a personal example of how this leads to uninformed decision making & wasteful spending. 🧵 1/7 calgaryherald.com/opinion/column… via Calgary Herald

Alberta needs to prioritize public health. We need a trained CMOH who is given the freedom to do the job..

American Academy of Pediatrics will continue to publish its own vaccine recommendations after new ACIP vaccine advisers sow distrust publications.aap.org/aapnews/news/3…

The Injury Prevention Centre (Injury Prevention Centre) UAlbertaSPH is hiring an Education Coordinator: apps.ualberta.ca/careers/postin…

Who’s afraid of academic freedom? - University Affairs universityaffairs.ca/news/whos-afra… University Affairs Robin Whitaker @rgwhitaker.bsky.social: "Politicians are comfortable publicly attacking academic freedom only because they think they can score points with their base without paying a political price." "...we must

Congratulations Stephanie Montesanti !

New WHO–UNICEF data show global childhood vaccination holds steady: 89% of infants received ≥1 DTP dose, 85% completed the full series in 2024. Encouraging—but 14.3 million children remain unvaccinated. We must reach every child. #VaccinesWork shorturl.at/3GinU

Fighting falsehoods at the speed of the scroll timeshighereducation.com/campus/fightin… via Times Higher Education "...teaching media literacy isn’t something university educators should do; it’s something they must."

Pharmacist advised that ONLY Public Health will be authorized to administer Covid shots after July 31st Approximate $110.00 per vaccine administered Pharmacies are frustrated because they have the infrastructure in place and would be ordering This is madness Parksy #ableg

An audit of Alberta medical clinics charging membership fees found no significant cases of patients paying out of pocket for covered medical treatment but paying members are likely getting more thorough care. burnabynow.com/alberta-news/a…

Danielle Smith’s bizarre and dangerous experiment in vaccine rationing begins. albertapolitics.ca/2025/08/daniel… #ableg #abpoli #COVID19

Nice article discussing the non-transparent approach of current AB government. Lack of transparency stretches across all areas of govt including health care edmontonjournal.com/opinion/column…

A just for fun thread. Impetus: GoA is funding vax for influenza (which is a good thing) but not covid. This makes no sense to me as contrary to (some) opinions covid is a much bigger killer than flu. They kill the same people (elderly, immune compromised). /1

UCP: Get rid of books with all the bad stuff we don’t want kids to see. Teachers: Have you read any books in school libraries that have this? UCP: We don’t read books Teachers: Okay, well what kind of bad stuff? 1/6

Let's talk about AB's HC workforce, a 🧵 : The graph is for all of Canada, but this trend continues and is getting worse in AB. Many reasons but key ones: - "refocusing" has eliminated any ability for our province to do workforce planning. NO COORDINATED work being done 1/7

Join me October 23rd at 11 AM M.T. to chat social determinants of injury ED visits. Register here: bit.ly/register_cb_iw…