I remember early in my career getting the advice “don’t be the person something is always happening to,” and over the last few months it’s been haunting me as our family has crisis after crisis. I want to talk about how working parents have time poverty and the flywheel 🧵

The latest Canada Health Act Annual Report is out

It's one of the most interesting annual publications for health policy nerds like me

It provides an update on each province's compliance with the Canada Health Act, including unlawful extra-billing and user fees 🧵

Happy 20th wedding anniversary to this guy.

I had an entire apartment decor based on milk crates the previous tenants left behind. 🤷🏻

Clinical AND research experiences are much more easily arranged by ppl who have parents who are physicians themselves. My unpopular opinion is that neither should be particularly important.

Specialties who refuse to prioritise teaching off service trainees about referring appropriately to them aren’t allowed to complain about receiving bad referrals from anyone.

This is a parable about cars in cities.

Land the helicopter.

Young people are getting unhappier – a lack of childhood freedom & independence may be partly to blame theconversation.com/young-people-a… by Dr Fiorentina Sterkaj via The Conversation cc Let Grow

'The area where children are allowed to range unsupervised outside has shrunk…

Spent some time in an airport recently and can confirm. Suitcases need to go on a diet the same way cars do.

The importance of investment in high quality public public infrastructure

👋 fr Japan🇯🇵. Last 2 days - spotless cities, friendly ppl, reasonable prices, the public transit is *chefs kiss*- cheap, frequent, clean, easy to navigate, and the fastest way to get there. Yesterday- 2 1/2 hours to go 500 km btwn cities. I’ll tell you about the cycling later!

I’m starting to hate these events. Safe separated cycling infrastructure is what kids need, not yearly events. 😩

This testimony is a gem. Please watch and share widely!

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If you have a vacant home and don’t want it on Purplepingers’ list, there are two simple options:

1. Get $30,000+ per year in rent.
2. Get hundreds of thousands of dollars, or millions, for selling it.

The fact you’re turning these down, then complaining, is actually insane.

I’ve been the partner of an Australian for 20 + years now and I am really tired of talking about housing. It’s a human right to be housed. It’s not a human right for wealthy ppl to make $$$ off of poor govt housing policy, yet Australia prioritises the latter and not the first.