Very excited for the release of this paper, mapping the emergence of a moral panic around safer supply prescribing. Led by Liam Michaud 🇵🇸, our team uses established criteria for moral panics to explore recent rhetoric around safer supply, diversion and youth drug use 🧵

Today, BC gov announced they're making public drug use illegal. Public use has not increased because of decrim. People use outside for lack of alternatives. We've been calling for more OPSs, treatment & housing for 25 yrs. If we'd been listened to, there'd be no issue today.

Sigh. Imagine the degree to which we could have kickstarted a Canadian clean energy revolution with CAD $34 billion.

propublica.org/article/cigna-… ProPublica has done it again. These terrifying glimpses inside health insurance corporations are so important. People need to understand what we're up against. These corporations don't care about you. Cigna Healthcare

I couldn’t agree more with this thread. Dr. Sarah Newbery 💙💛 is a gem — kind, generous, thoughtful, visionary, strong, and a fierce and tireless advocate for a better world. Sarah, congrats and 🙏🏽 for everything you do

We need to move forward with thoughtful collection of race-based data to understand inequities and close gaps in care and health outcomes theglobeandmail.com/canada/article… ft. Andrew Pinto & Dr. Aisha Lofters UofT Family Medicine Unity Health Toronto Here are some resources to support action 1/3

Remember, pepper spray is oil based. If you get sprayed DO NOT rub your eyes. Immediately blink as much as you can to wash out some of the oil with your own tears. Then, wash your eyes with baby shampoo or dilute dishwashing soap and rinse copiously. Water alone won't do much.

“When the world’s biggest exporter of oil and gas, and one of the biggest architects of the plastic expansion, says that it will ignore plastic production at the expense of the health, rights and lives of its own people, the world listens.” theguardian.com/environment/20…

Ignore the #GutHype! Are Direct-to-Consumer Microbiome Tests Clinically Useful? [Spoiler: NOPE] medscape.com/viewarticle/ar… medscape.com/viewarticle/ar… "....much work needs to be done before reliable applications based on that research are available." "Doctors should be advising

Three years ago Thomas Astell-Burt + Xiaoqi Feng reached out to BC Parks Foundation's #PaRx about an international research collaboration on nature prescribing. Today we got to co-design in real life University of Sydney. Loving this full-circle 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 moment for nature and health. #healthybynature

Appreciated this nuanced explainer article about what my kid actually means when I get these “mom” texts Think this one’s means “I am hungry.” mcsweeneys.net/articles/decip…

I love this op-ed from Jane Philpott Toronto Star It doesn't just set the vision for #primarycare for all but discusses tangible next steps a provincial or territorial gov't could take to make it a reality thestar.com/opinion/contri…

Just a reminder that good dental care improves pregnancy outcomes. One would hope that those claiming to support health of pregnant patients and newborns would support dental care. #abhealth #ableg myhealth.alberta.ca/Alberta/Pages/…

Remembering Lorraine Kendel - the beloved wife of Dennis Kendel and mother of Tamara and Stefan thestarphoenix.remembering.ca/obituary/lorra… André Picard Bonnie Brossart (She/Her)

It was an honour to be interviewed alongside Tzeporah Berman and Chief Judy Wilson for this stunning—and now international award-winning—CBC What on Earth documentary. Congratulations + deep gratitude to Molly Segal @mollyaudio.bsky.social for gathering and sharing our stories with such skill and compassion. @CAPE-ACME

Eby, Adrian Dix and Lisa Beare are sharing an update about the SFU medical school, which will start accepting students in summer 2026. Eby starts with a dig at former BC Liberal govt for selling the land in Surrey that would have housed a proposed medical school and hospital.

Eby says Dr. David Price will be the school's founding dean and says "sorry not sorry" to Ontario Premier Doug Ford for poaching Dr. Price from Ontario, where he was the department chair of McMaster University's Department of Family Medicine.

B.C. invests in family doctors through new medical school at SFU dlvr.it/T9N9ZK

Pls tell me about how you structure the discussion section of a research manuscript. I have gotten used to a way, and that is what I teach students. But I’m a lifelong learner, and there are many ways. I’d like to hear yours, please, if you don’t mind sharing.

#SFU’s medical school is moving forward! We are closer to training more family doctors with today’s announcement of an interim space at the Surrey campus, funding, a three-year curriculum model and a founding dean.  ow.ly/pTWz50SyhVT