Today is Trans Day of Remembrance, an opportunity to pause and memorialize those who have experienced violence and death as a result of anti-Trans violence. This day is also an opportunity to continue to draw attention to the violence trans folks experience every day. #TDOR

There is evidence learning has suffered among Hamilton students since the onset of the pandemic. But to what degree? thespec.com/news/hamilton-… via @thespec

WATCH LIVE | CBC Toronto News at 6 on Jan. 5 with your host Chris Glover and climatologist Ian Black. x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Canada is buying more sotrovimab! Well done and will support efforts to get drug into the higher risk patients reuters.com/markets/deals/…

BREAKING: All Ontario schoolchildren will return to in-classroom learning on schedule next Monday. Premier Doug Ford said last week the Jan. 17 date for schools reopening was the goal. Public health officials have signed off on the decision. #onpoli #COVID19 #onted

Should children return to the classroom during an Omicron surge? | CBC Radio cbc.ca/radio/checkup/…

A brand new #JAMA users' guide, hot off the press, on how to use the report of a platform #trial (very popular in #COVID trials such as #Solidarity and #Recovery and a number of others). bit.ly/31OFiNw

If this is happening in Canada, it's likely happening in all high-income nations Vaccine inequity is getting worse

To end the pandemic, Canada needs to lead vaccine efforts abroad: "getting a booster dose is a moment of privilege and more action is needed to get doses to countries which haven’t received their first shot." says Ananya Tina Banerjee #TRIPSwaiver ctvnews.ca/health/coronav… via CTV News

A school board in America banned Toni Morrison’s masterpiece The Bluest Eye. And now another board has banned the brilliant graphic novel Maus, and this is happening on the eve of #HolocaustMemorialDay Deeply disturbing the ongoing war against books, memory, knowledge & diversity

📢📢Your Black, Indigenous, Racialized, Muslim, and Jewish friends may not be ok right now. Confederate-waving, white supremacist, swastika-displaying people are hanging out in our nation’s capital. Allowed to freely spew their hate without impediment. Let 👏🏾That.👏🏾Sink👏🏾In👏🏾. 💔

Imagine the violent response if it was Indigenous people that caused a fraction of these damages in downtown Ottawa. Ottawa Police Full Riot Gear, Mace, Dogs, Water Canons, Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets, and Canadian Army on standby.

Thanks for this thread 🧵 D on the first day of #BHM . I will add the book to my reading list.

I’ve been thinking the last few days how it’s hard for non-specialists, watching a twitter spat between apparent experts, to know who to believe. Here are a few things I bear in mind when following people outside my own field. A far from exhaustive list 1/n

A true leader McMaster Children's Hospital MacPeds McMaster University

Mental Health Care Utilization Among Children and Adolescents Before and During COVID-19 in Ontario ja.ma/3sqZ8Ym via JAMA Pediatrics part of JAMA Network

I hardly tweet anything...maybe because I am a boring person...but this is important:

I stand by my long-time colleague and friend and call upon those attacking her character and integrity to immediately desist.

Congratulations to Dawn Bowdish, winner of the 2022 Women of Distinction Award for Health | Recreation for Hamilton, sponsored by Green Benefits Group ! #WODHamiltonHalton

To all the incredible #WomenInMedicine - Happy #IWD2022 🧠❤️💪🏼 @CdnWIM Canadian Medical Association FMWCanada Michelle Cohen, MD Tara Kiran #cdnhealth #BreakTheBias #healthcare Opinion: The future of medicine looks female. The culture needs to catch up /via The Globe and Mail theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…