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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 2h

OMA worried Ford's new policy could deter international physicians https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/politics/queens-park/article/oma-worried-residency-policy-change-could-deter-international-physicians/

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Sylvia Jones arrives for a cabinet swearing-in-ceremony in Toronto on Wednesday, March 19, 2025.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 2h

'Gold standard' radon testing kits now available at all 63 N.B. public libraries https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/radon-testing-libraries-9.6937952

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Ninety-day radon testing kits will be provided free of charge at public libraries.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 2h

Ontario has a new way of measuring how hard family doctors work. What does it mean for doctors and their patients? https://healthydebate.ca/2025/10/topic/ontario-measuring-family-doctors/

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 2h

IWK Foundation drops report on The Unspoken Burden of Women's Health https://www.saltwire.com/opinion/commentary-women-are-speaking-clearly-about-their-health-are-we-ready-to-listen

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More than 27,000 women responded to an IWK Foundation survey about frustrations with their health needs being taken seriously.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 12h

Physicians nationwide are burnt out https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/10/14/physicians-nationwide-are-burnt-out-canadian-medical-association/

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 12h

How the Ostrich Farm Cull Has Unleashed Threats of Violence https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/10/14/strich-Farm-Cull-Threats-Violence/

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 12h

Mother urges parents to get RSV antibody for newborns after son's harrowing experience https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/rsv-can-be-serious-in-infants-9.6937178

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Dr. Darine El-Chaâr says the availability of both the vaccine and the antibody meant there were fewer babies with RSV admitted to hospital last year.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 12h

Ontario still hasn't acted on advice to toughen rules around lead in drinking water https://nationalpost.com/news/lead-water

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Lead is a neurotoxin that reaches drinking water through corrosion in pipes and plumbing fixtures. No level is considered safe.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 12h

B.C. set to open Western Canada's first new medical school in decades https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/health/b-c-set-to-open-western-canadas-first-new-medical-school-in-decades/article_df4b952f-46f5-543c-bb4e-02810f1ca6f5.html

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Students watch as B.C. Premier David Eby speaks during a news conference at Clayton Heights Secondary School, in Surrey, B.C., on Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 14h

'As new infections outpace new drugs, are we sleepwalking into a global health disaster?' https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/oct/14/tipping-point-drug-resistant-bacteria-health-antimicrobial-resistance-report

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If the right antibiotics aren't developed or made available to treat infections, bacteria can spread and develop resistance.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 14h

Trump's immigration crackdown sparks fear in exam rooms and emergency departments https://www.axios.com/2025/10/14/trump-immigration-policy-hospitals-emergency

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 14h

Federal agency failed to track 'forever chemicals' in Newfoundland town's water, residents say https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-torbay-water-contamination-forever-chemicals-newfoundland/

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Dr. Karl Jobst at a PFAS water-testing site in South Pond. Torbay, Newf. PFAS have been linked to cancer, developmental delays and immune disorders.

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 20h

Mother urges parents to get RSV antibody for newborns after son's harrowing experience #Ottawa

50% of babies with RSV are hospitalized

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Mother urges parents to get RSV antibody for newborns after son's harrowing experience | CBC News

A mother is sharing the devastation she felt watching her newborn son develop respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and urging Ontario parents to get a newly available preventative treatment for their bab...

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 15h

It probably goes without saying, but if you worked in CDC HR, I'd LOVE to hear from you

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 1d

Thanks for the link. Watching the standard-development with interest. It's looking good

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 1d

Yep. Exactly. A large language model (LLM), is what people chat with when they "talk to AI" (nowadays often more than one LLM under the hood).

"AI," in this context, is actually a marketing term. It's the Kleenex of LLMs, truly.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 1d

AI could make it harder to establish blame for medical failings www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Where an AI system is used, patients could face difficulties showing fault in the event of a negative outcome, experts say.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 1d

Recent health spending comes from Trudeau era, but fits with current Liberal focus on health prevention, lowering costs, consultants say www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1... @tessiesanci.bsky.social @hilltimes.com

𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

Health Minister Marjorie Michel, pictured at a press conference in Ottawa on Oct. 2, has thus far made announcements based on funding set aside by the previous Liberal government. Stakeholders will look to this fall’s budget and this week’s health ministers’ meeting to have a deeper understanding of her priorities.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 1d

Too many trauma patients die before they reach the hospital. These doctors have an idea that would ‘shake up the system’ www.thestar.com/news/gta/too...

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