Wednesday in Toronto

3 years of consultation w/ staff, residents, public, stakeholders for a 30 year WestEnd waterfront vision: climate resilience, natural systems, sports courts, skate plazas, dog park, active transportation, placemaking,++
Killed by Ken Sim & ABC
More cars and traffic though😕

ABC’s legacy:
- ripping out an existing bike lane (stanley park)
- cancelling a planned bike lane (broadway)
- and now, wasting money (that could be spent on a million other things) ripping out and moving another perfectly good bike lane to make more space for cars🫠 (beach ave)

Quick thread on the Astra Zeneca (AZ) covid vaccine since it's been in the news today.

TLDR there isn't a new 'smoking gun', the AZ vax was one of first and cheapest, it saved millions of lives globally, there are better vax out there now, adapted to new variants 1/9

I'm not sensitive (at allll) about nuances of language where Mia is concerned. So much of that is subjective, and it's difficult to know what language is appropriate when the standards seem to vary based on person and context.

But the one thing I've become a little sensitive…

Writing a mixed method paper like

Review of calcium channel blocker overdose by Dr. Emily Austin. High dose insulin, high dose pressors. Call PC for advice about refractory vasoplegia - consider methylene blue, hydroxycobalamin, intralipid. NYGH's EM Update

medical school

Amazing talk by Katie Lin MD MPH 🇨🇦. Basilar artery stroke: 1) 1% of strokes, 90% of untreated die, survivors can be left with locked in syndrome. 2) Coma of unclear cause = look for voluntary eye movements (lift their lids). 3) CTA without delay. 4) EVT NNT = 4

IKEA now sells a cat house for the KALLAX shelving unit. Have a nice evening.
ikea.com/gb/en/p/utsadd…

👋 from Sault Ste Marie.
The 13k unrostered. The 6k about to come. And me and all my friends that have NEVER had a local GP.

Also was at SAH last week. Doctor explained the chaos that is being downloaded into EDs in the Soo and on the Island.

saultstar.com/opinion/opinio…

No no, the best one was the woman who quoted Joni Mitchell’s Big Yellow Taxi “don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you got till it’s gone”

to try to prove that they shouldn’t build a housing on a site that’s currently a parking lot but she didn’t finish the quote

Please join us today (May 7) for a memorial ride for
Ali Sezgin Armagan. Meet Bloor and Spadina 6pm.
The fourth cyclist killed in Toronto in 2024. #biketo #youneverridealone

Community note: that’s not how any of this works

Listening to a lecture in real-time when you got used to listening at 1.5x speed is ... a struggle

Screaming, crying, throwing up

A cyclist in east Hamilton had to be taken to hospital after they were struck in the city's east end on Tuesday.

Click on the photo below to read more.
chch.com/cyclists-leg-b…

On this day in 2001, Murat Badić was stoned to death by a mob of over 4,000 antimuslim racists.

Also today, 1992, at the beginning of the last genocide against Bosniaks, Serb nationalists destroyed all mosques in Banja Luka & killed/expelled all Bosniaks/Muslims. THREAD: