Christina Frangou
@cfrangou.bsky.social
Journalist, writer, teacher. Likes bikes and books. www.christinafrangou.com
An investigation by The Guardian found influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births on mothers, many of whom lost their babies or experienced devastating complications. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
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November 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
An investigation by The Guardian found influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births on mothers, many of whom lost their babies or experienced devastating complications. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Tatiana Schlossberg, cousin of RFK Jr., was diagnosed with leukemia at 34, immediately after giving birth to her daughter. But the health system, the clinical trials, the research funding on which her life depends are being dismantled. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
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November 22, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Tatiana Schlossberg, cousin of RFK Jr., was diagnosed with leukemia at 34, immediately after giving birth to her daughter. But the health system, the clinical trials, the research funding on which her life depends are being dismantled. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The NIH is picking up Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s argument that a healthy immune system can keep even pandemic germs at bay, writes Katherine J. Wu. www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...
RFK Jr.’s Miasma Theory of Health Is Spreading
The NIH is picking up Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s argument that a healthy immune system can keep even pandemic germs at bay.
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November 22, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The NIH is picking up Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s argument that a healthy immune system can keep even pandemic germs at bay, writes Katherine J. Wu. www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...
At least half a million Canadians left emergency departments before being seen by a doctor in 2024, according to a data analysis by CBC’s Marketplace. In some provinces, it was as high as 12 -14 per cent of people who'd come to emerg. www.cbc.ca/news/marketp...
Canadians are leaving emergency departments before seeing a doctor — and coming back worse | CBC Shows
About half a million people left emergency departments across Canada before being seen by a doctor last year, according to data analysis by CBC’s Marketplace.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:05 PM
At least half a million Canadians left emergency departments before being seen by a doctor in 2024, according to a data analysis by CBC’s Marketplace. In some provinces, it was as high as 12 -14 per cent of people who'd come to emerg. www.cbc.ca/news/marketp...
Cervical cancer cases in Canada have plateaued after years of decline, and now more women are being diagnosed with advanced disease. It's a warning sign that the country may not meet its goal of eliminating the disease by 2040. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
Canada was on track to eliminate cervical cancer. Now doctors are alarmed by what they are seeing
New figures from Canadian Cancer Society confirm a troubling trend. “It’s frustrating to see this happen for a cancer that is completely preventable.”
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November 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Cervical cancer cases in Canada have plateaued after years of decline, and now more women are being diagnosed with advanced disease. It's a warning sign that the country may not meet its goal of eliminating the disease by 2040. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
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Union launches "Axe the Vax Tax" campaign in Alberta axethevaxtax.ca @cupescfp.bsky.social
Axe the Vax Tax: Health Shouldn’t Come With a Price Tag
Charging for vaccines means fewer people get protected. Families living paycheck to paycheck will skip vaccines. Workers will get sick, especially health care and education workers.
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November 8, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Union launches "Axe the Vax Tax" campaign in Alberta axethevaxtax.ca @cupescfp.bsky.social
The Editor Got a Letter From ‘Dr. B.S.’ So Did a Lot of Other Editors. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/s...
The Editor Got a Letter From ‘Dr. B.S.’ So Did a Lot of Other Editors.
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November 5, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The Editor Got a Letter From ‘Dr. B.S.’ So Did a Lot of Other Editors. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/s...
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We've just published the most comprehensive study of news creators to date covering 24 countries. Authored by Nic Newman @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social @richardfletcher.bsky.social, it identifies the most mentioned in each country
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🧵6 findings in thread
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October 28, 2025 at 7:48 AM
We've just published the most comprehensive study of news creators to date covering 24 countries. Authored by Nic Newman @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social @richardfletcher.bsky.social, it identifies the most mentioned in each country
📱Report buff.ly/bL6y8Hj
🧵6 findings in thread
📱Report buff.ly/bL6y8Hj
🧵6 findings in thread
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A Lot of Influencers Talk about the News. Not All of Them Are Journalists.
In my latest op-ed for @thetyee.ca, I encourage my fellow journalists to take a risk, show some personality, and hop on these platforms.
We have a responsibility to meet Canadians where they’re at — or someone else will:
In my latest op-ed for @thetyee.ca, I encourage my fellow journalists to take a risk, show some personality, and hop on these platforms.
We have a responsibility to meet Canadians where they’re at — or someone else will:
October 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
A Lot of Influencers Talk about the News. Not All of Them Are Journalists.
In my latest op-ed for @thetyee.ca, I encourage my fellow journalists to take a risk, show some personality, and hop on these platforms.
We have a responsibility to meet Canadians where they’re at — or someone else will:
In my latest op-ed for @thetyee.ca, I encourage my fellow journalists to take a risk, show some personality, and hop on these platforms.
We have a responsibility to meet Canadians where they’re at — or someone else will:
Reposted by Christina Frangou
“Some of us view social media as another tool to flex the reporting muscles we’ve carefully honed with our journalism degrees and years of reporting experience, others have come armed with nothing but a surplus of confidence and a dearth of critical thinking skills.”
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A Lot of Influencers Talk about the News. Not All of Them Are Journalists | The Tyee
Platforms like TikTok are flooded with content creators gabbing about current events. It’s time for journalists to join the fray.
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October 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
“Some of us view social media as another tool to flex the reporting muscles we’ve carefully honed with our journalism degrees and years of reporting experience, others have come armed with nothing but a surplus of confidence and a dearth of critical thinking skills.”
thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
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Heath Canada has approved lecanamab, a drug that slows the progression of Alzheimer's disease in some patients. It's the first drug in Canada approved to slow Alzheimer's. investors.biogen.com/news-release...
Health Canada Grants Authorization for Leqembi® (lecanemab)
/PRNewswire/ -- BioArctic AB's (publ) (Nasdaq Stockholm: BIOA B) partner Eisai announced today that Health Canada has issued a Notice of Compliance with...
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October 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Heath Canada has approved lecanamab, a drug that slows the progression of Alzheimer's disease in some patients. It's the first drug in Canada approved to slow Alzheimer's. investors.biogen.com/news-release...
A Plea From Doctors: Cool It on the Supplements www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/w...
A Plea From Doctors: Cool It on the Supplements
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October 8, 2025 at 5:49 AM
A Plea From Doctors: Cool It on the Supplements www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/w...
It’s Just a Virus, the E.R. Told Him. Days Later, He Was Dead. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/w...
It’s Just a Virus, the E.R. Told Him. Days Later, He Was Dead.
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October 7, 2025 at 7:37 AM
It’s Just a Virus, the E.R. Told Him. Days Later, He Was Dead. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/w...
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Alberta’s new tax on “high value wine” from British Columbia marks the latest clash in the two provinces’ long-running wine war. @cfrangou.bsky.social, The Walrus regional correspondent for Western Canada, reports on the fallout: thewalrus.ca/the-wine-wars-ar...
September 22, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Alberta’s new tax on “high value wine” from British Columbia marks the latest clash in the two provinces’ long-running wine war. @cfrangou.bsky.social, The Walrus regional correspondent for Western Canada, reports on the fallout: thewalrus.ca/the-wine-wars-ar...
"Now an extraordinarily successful scientific research system — one that took decades to build, has saved millions of lives and generated billions of dollars in profits for American companies and investors — is being dismantled before our eyes." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...
Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer
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September 21, 2025 at 12:32 PM
"Now an extraordinarily successful scientific research system — one that took decades to build, has saved millions of lives and generated billions of dollars in profits for American companies and investors — is being dismantled before our eyes." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...
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Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
Breaking News: Read three top CDC officials' resignation emails.
The end of an era.
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August 28, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
"To notice, we must care. And to care, we must be willing to be changed by what we see." Eric Markowitz required high-risk brain surgery. In its aftermath, he discovered a new way of seeing life. bigthink.com/business/bra...
What brain surgery taught me about the fragile gift of consciousness
After the trauma of brain surgery, Big Think writer Eric Markowitz discovered a kind of consciousness that lives in presence.
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August 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
"To notice, we must care. And to care, we must be willing to be changed by what we see." Eric Markowitz required high-risk brain surgery. In its aftermath, he discovered a new way of seeing life. bigthink.com/business/bra...
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Alberta announced today the COVID-19 vaccine this fall will cost us $100 per dose.
So for my family of four, that'll be $400.
Alternatively, we could spend $400 on an overnight trip to Golden or Fernie, B.C., get immunized for free, and make a little mountain vacation out of it.
So for my family of four, that'll be $400.
Alternatively, we could spend $400 on an overnight trip to Golden or Fernie, B.C., get immunized for free, and make a little mountain vacation out of it.
August 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Alberta announced today the COVID-19 vaccine this fall will cost us $100 per dose.
So for my family of four, that'll be $400.
Alternatively, we could spend $400 on an overnight trip to Golden or Fernie, B.C., get immunized for free, and make a little mountain vacation out of it.
So for my family of four, that'll be $400.
Alternatively, we could spend $400 on an overnight trip to Golden or Fernie, B.C., get immunized for free, and make a little mountain vacation out of it.
I'm one of the people who's lost access to their Strava account: all my training logs gone. 😭
August 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I'm one of the people who's lost access to their Strava account: all my training logs gone. 😭
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UCP government MLAs have submitted proposals to Alberta's independent electoral boundaries commission to redraw several urban ridings and blend them with rural areas:
Proposal to redraw Alberta election boundaries draws 'gerrymandering' claim in Lethbridge | CBC News
A proposal from United Conservative Lethbridge-East MLA Nathan Neudorf to carve Lethbridge into four new constituencies is being blasted by his Lethbridge counterpart in the legislature, NDP Lethbridg...
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August 21, 2025 at 8:11 PM
UCP government MLAs have submitted proposals to Alberta's independent electoral boundaries commission to redraw several urban ridings and blend them with rural areas:
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Renewed calls for Alberta to offer the COVID-19 vaccine for free to all who want it, after the government reinstates coverage for health workers
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Doctors renew push for free COVID shots for more Albertans, after coverage reinstated for health workers | CBC News
Doctors are renewing their call on the Alberta government to offer the COVID-19 vaccine for free to anyone who wants it, now that the province has agreed to cover health-care workers.
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August 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Renewed calls for Alberta to offer the COVID-19 vaccine for free to all who want it, after the government reinstates coverage for health workers
Latest from me👇
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Excellent work here from @nicktsergas.ca: Some scientists say that SARS-CoV-2 can have a lasting immune effect, and the global surge in non-covid infections after pandemic restrictions were lifted should not just be written off as "immunity debt”.
The most important part of this article, to me, is the end.
It challenges a false binary between “long COVID” and “everyone else.”
Maybe it's a spectrum... 🧵 (1/5)
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
It challenges a false binary between “long COVID” and “everyone else.”
Maybe it's a spectrum... 🧵 (1/5)
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2
“Immunity debt,” a theory to explain the global surge in non-covid infections since pandemic restrictions were lifted, is increasingly being challenged by emerging evidence. Nick Tsergas reports
Myco...
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August 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Excellent work here from @nicktsergas.ca: Some scientists say that SARS-CoV-2 can have a lasting immune effect, and the global surge in non-covid infections after pandemic restrictions were lifted should not just be written off as "immunity debt”.
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Break the mid-week slump with Feature Writing Long finalists @cfrangou.bsky.social & Rachel von Hahn in Summit (@mountroyalu.bsky.social), @klaszus.bsky.social for @sprawlcalgary.bsky.social, & Evan Osenton, Euan Thomson & @monicakidd.bsky.social in @albertaviews.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2j7ubp75
August 20, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Break the mid-week slump with Feature Writing Long finalists @cfrangou.bsky.social & Rachel von Hahn in Summit (@mountroyalu.bsky.social), @klaszus.bsky.social for @sprawlcalgary.bsky.social, & Evan Osenton, Euan Thomson & @monicakidd.bsky.social in @albertaviews.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2j7ubp75
The 2025 federal election was likely the “most poorly covered election in modern Canadian history” due to the erosion of local news and Facebook’s news ban, according to a report from @ppforumca.bsky.social. www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/why-...
Why the 2025 election was the “most poorly covered election in modern Canadian history”
A poll found 70% of Canadians said more local news in their area would have made them better informed about the election.
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August 15, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The 2025 federal election was likely the “most poorly covered election in modern Canadian history” due to the erosion of local news and Facebook’s news ban, according to a report from @ppforumca.bsky.social. www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/why-...
This story is so sad and shocking. Meta's standards for conversations between AI and kids would be unacceptable between human adults and kids.
A cognitively impaired New Jersey man grew infatuated with a Meta chatbot originally created in partnership with celebrity influencer Kendall Jenner. His fatal attraction shines a light on Meta's guidelines for its AI chatbots reut.rs/45DQIRj
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August 14, 2025 at 2:41 PM
This story is so sad and shocking. Meta's standards for conversations between AI and kids would be unacceptable between human adults and kids.