Isn't it strange that a talk on th future of our public health care system is being given at a business school? Extendicare & other for-profit long-term care corporations need to stop focusing on #ExtendiPROFIT. Invest in #CareNotProfit! ona.org/nh #onlab

Homelessness has prematurely killed 21 people in Hamilton. Today we release our fifth dataset on deaths among people deprived of housing in Hamilton. The average age of death was 46. Full data is available at: hamiltonhomelessmortality.weebly.com.

The masks are coming completely off. This is about western powers that have a vested interest in a colonial project fuelling on ongoing Nakba but also their own domestic interests in the military industrial complex and a police state that doesn’t serve community wellbeing at all.

A thread all doctors and nurses should read! 👇

Happy Nurses Week! #Nursing #Nursetwitter #Nurse #Nurses #Ontario #Canada #Celebrate #Healthcare

Are any of my medical twitter friends attending the McGill International Palliative Care Conference in Montreal this year? mipcc2024.ca/home

Some of the top things my dying patients have told me are: “I wish I had done what I truly wanted to do, not what others expected me to,” and “I wish I enjoyed my life more.”

Today, I will be putting forward my motion to create a direct financial benefit for unpaid caregivers in the Province of Ontario. Over 3.3 million Ontarians report as having been an unpaid caregiver - and nearly 300,00 caregivers have reported financial hardship. 🧵#onpoli

With the behaviour demonstrated by public servants, how on earth can anyone from my generation take them seriously? How do you expect satisfactory voter turnout if there is a lack of faith and trust in the current political system and its candidates? #ONpoli #CDNpoli

I am asking people across the province to write to their MPPs & ask them to support my motion to create a paid benefit for unpaid caregivers in Ontario. Let's work together to support our caregivers. Send an email here: ontariondp.ca/motion-94

Nurses held my hand when I struggled as a new mom. Nurses treated my parents, tackling complicated health issues this year, with such care & professionalism. Nurses are the cornerstone of our public healthcare system, experts & leaders. So proud to work alongside Ontario's

Israel will go in the history books as the only state in human history to wage a genocide against children. No dispute. It is all documented and streamed live for the world to witness. #StopGazaGencide

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Thank you Monique Taylor for working on this incredibly important legislation that would protect and support vulnerable people in our province. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ #ONpoli

Can our bodies sustain the ongoing attack of plastic pollution, on top of all the other toxic chemicals in our water, air, and soil? Asking for a friend (aka all of humanity)... thebrockovichreport.com/p/the-ongoing-… #truthunfiltered #plasticpollution #microplastics

This apparently needs to be said.

I think at the end of the day I am led to the conclusion that the Premier of this province does not believe in government programs for healthcare, education, justice, the sciences, the poor, the disabled, or the elderly. All of the above are being eroded step by step.

I tied hard to stay away from politics while covering the pandemic, I even remained silent during the last election campaign, something I regret. But Doug Ford has dragged me back inch by inch with his regressive, wasteful, destructive, extreme, and possibly corrupt policies.