A new Human Rights Watch report details the torture of Palestinian medical workers who suffered beatings, starvation, humiliation, amputations, electric shocks and more in Israeli prisons.

Check this out 👇 Despite being publicly funded, for-profits clinics tend to serve wealthier patients more. This means reduced access for low-waged patients who are already exposed to social and structural factors, such as precarious employment, that may determine poorer health.

Had to head to Hamilton early this morning so I stopped along the way for a run at one of my favourite places. I love the textured colours and layers -- and it was one of my mother's favourite places. Hendrie Valley: rbg.ca/gardens-trails…

As we head into September, this is a good overview on ventilation and indoor air quality in schools and daycares. Actions can help prevent exposure to air pollutants, particles, biological contaminants, and respiratory infections. Full document: vch.ca/en/document-li… via

A short life update: My son and I are staying in ON at least a week longer before heading back to Cape Breton. He's been ill much of the summer, with profound fatigue among other symptoms, and we're working our way through investigations. Grateful for care he's received from

Kids in Gaza, even if they receive a necessary polio vaccine through the planned campaign this weekend, "are still at high risk of getting killed, maimed, losing family members, losing loved ones, their communities" says Dorotea Gucciardo electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-bar…

The scale and intensity of Israel's four-day incursion in Jenin is very alarming. Israeli forces keep obstructing access to health facilities blocking and even targeting ambulances, delaying people’s access to care.

View from my last bikeride in Toronto this morning before moving out of the place me, my son, and our cat Samosa have rented the past 2 months. Thanks all who made our summer in the big city special <3

Our dedicated staff at Glia's Field Clinic helped launch the polio vaccination campaign in Gaza today, but in order to successfully administer the vaccine and address all health needs in the Gaza Strip we need an immediate cessation of hostilities. Too many lives are at stake.

As a public health MD I am both glad that children in Gaza are getting the vaccines that *they should have been getting routinely* as part of a functional public health & health care system -- and also dismayed that this campaign is at least partly motivated by concern that the

The 15-year-old boy from Samson Cree Nation who was shot and killed by RCMP Friday morning in Wetaskiwin, AB was Hoss Lightning. His maternal grandmother sent me this photo taken of him earlier this year (he’s asking his grandmother if he looks like his late grandfather in the

Happening tomorrow!

Officers were involved? Firearms were discharged and an individual was struck? This is vague way to describe the police shooting and killing of a 15-year-old boy from Samson Cree Nation.

I've had an ongoing project for several years to videotape stories about my father's life. There are always more stories, including tonight's focus on when he was in Shillong, India, after his father moved the family there in 1947 for a new job right after the Partition of

On this Labour Day, for those in the back... Front the lips of the late, great Barbara Ehrenreich. RIP

Last week, Larry Savage and I talked with Adam DK King about our new book Shifting Gears, the history of autoworkers and the state of labour politics in Canada today. The book is out today, Sept. 3! Check out our interview 👉 readthemaple.com/canadian-autow… #canlab #cdnpoli