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🚨 Today, we released the 2025 CAMH Monitor Report highlighting trends in #alcohol, #tobacco + other #druguse, & #mentalhealth among Ontarians.

In the latest report, more people reported their mental health as just fair or poor.

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January 12, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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Five years after the pandemic poor mental health and harmful alcohol use persist in Ontario
CAMH releases data from Canada’s longest-running population-level metal health and substance use surveys
www.camh.ca
January 12, 2026 at 5:56 PM
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‘Very fragmented’: These are the wait times for various surgeries and scans in Ontario
As the Ontario government plans to issue new licences for surgical and diagnostic centres to perform orthopedic surgeries in the province in an attempt to reduce wait times, experts say it’s important...
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January 12, 2026 at 12:45 PM
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Elevating an invisible role: co-designing solutions to optimize medical office assistants in primary care link.springer.com/article/10.1...
January 9, 2026 at 10:40 AM
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People age 70+ should not be taking aspirin at any dose for prevention. Results of randomized trials show higher risk of all-cause mortality, major bleeding events and deaths from cancer. p 153, SUPER AGERS book
January 1, 2026 at 10:12 PM
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canadahealthwatch.ca
American food safety likely headed for a breakdown amid funding cuts https://www.statnews.com/2025/12/22/american-food-safety-funding-cuts-foodnet/

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December 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Bluewater Health is the latest hospital to implement mandatory masking as flu cases surge https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/mandatory-masking-bluewater-health-sarnia-9.7025144

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December 22, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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‘This is preventative medicine.’ Toronto hospital starts $1-million fund to help patients with rent. Research shows a link between evictions and worse health outcomes, says Dr. Andrew Boozary of the University Health Network.
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‘This is preventative medicine.’ Toronto hospital starts $1-million fund to help patients with rent
‘This is preventative medicine,’ says Dr. Andrew Boozary with the University Health Network, as research shows a link between evictions and worse health outcomes. The fund will help patients on a case...
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December 20, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Ontario's family-medicine czar has been on the job for a year. What's changed, and what's next? https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-ontario-jane-philpott-family-doctor-medicine/

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Ontario sought out Jane Philpott, a former federal health minister, to overhaul primary care in the province.
December 18, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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What Should You Do About H3N2 Flu? There's a lot to worry about right now on the winter virus front, but get your flu shot anyway. Seriously. Get your flu shot, by @angierasmussen.bsky.social rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/what-you-s...
What You Should Do About H3N2 Flu
There's a lot to worry about right now on the winter virus front, but get your flu shot anyway. Seriously. Get your flu shot.
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December 18, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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One reason Rob Reiner’s death was so shocking is that he was a living embodiment of a gentle, righteous, kind humanity. Trump’s reaction, meanwhile, was an embodiment of his inhumanity, vile as it is. We all get to choose which one we would want to be. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
Bruce Arthur: Donald Trump’s reaction to Rob Reiner’s death is vile, even for him
The U.S. president's social media post hits a celestial level of narcissism, and is another implicit call to political violence.
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December 15, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Job seekers think AI gives them an edge. Instead, it’s wrecking trust, wasting time and breaking the hiring system. https://macleans.ca/technology-3/ai-has-broken-the-hiring-process/
AI Has Broken the Hiring Process - Macleans.ca
ChatGPT-written applications don’t fool recruiters. They just make hiring slower, harder and less human.
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December 15, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Newsom appoints ex-CDC officials to lead California’s new public health network
Dr Susan Monarez to head PHNIX, a response to Trump administration’s dismantling of public health safeguards
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December 15, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Here are the official pictures from the Order of Canada investiture ceremony.
December 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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She wanted a natural pregnancy and childbirth. It ended in tragedy. Why the growing reliance on unregulated birth attendants is raising red flags

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She wanted a natural pregnancy and childbirth. It ended in tragedy. Why the growing reliance on unregulated birth attendants is raising red flags
Authorities across the country have issued warnings to the public about hiring unregulated attendants, and in some cases have taken legal action.
www.thestar.com
December 14, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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Microplastics can spread dangerous pathogens: scientists https://www.sciencealert.com/microplastics-can-spread-dangerous-pathogens-scientists-warn

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The researchers submerged samples at four locations: upstream and downstream of a wastewater treatment plant, in a hospital sewage tank, and in a nearby harbor. (Stevenson et al., Environ. Int. , 2025)
December 14, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Canada announces new immigration measures for foreign-trained doctors - because process was just taking too long!
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Ottawa announces new immigration measures for foreign-trained doctors
Ottawa is introducing a new 'express entry' category for foreign-trained physicians in an effort to address health workforce challenges in Canada, the federal government announced Monday.
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December 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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More than half of Ontario doctors eyeing retirement in the next five years, survey shows https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-ontario-doctors-retirement-primary-care-physicians/

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A recent Auditor-General report said about two million Ontarians were without a family doctor as of March, 2024.
December 4, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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#FDA vaccines czar Vinay Prasad claimed in an email to staff late Friday that Covid vaccination had killed at least 10 children in the US. Experts suggest FDA should publish the data on the cases or put it to an independent body like the National Academy for study. www.statnews.com/2025/11/29/c...
Experts say top FDA official’s claim that Covid vaccines caused kids’ deaths requires more evidence
The FDA’s top vaccine regulator asserted in a staff email that the Covid vaccine caused at least 10 kids' deaths, but experts told STAT they are skeptical of the “extraordinary” claim because it was n...
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November 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Without evidence, FDA official claims 10 children's deaths due to COVID vaccine https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/health/fda-children-deaths-covid-vaccines.html?searchResultPosition=1

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Dr. Vinay Prasad, the F.D.A.'s top vaccine official, suggested in a memo that the deaths were related to vaccine-related myocarditis but did not offer data to support his conclusions.
November 30, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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Amid Incorrect Vaccine Guidance from the CDC, Study Links COVID-19 Infection During Pregnancy to Autism www.propublica.org/article/covi... @deldeib.bsky.social @propublica.org

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A pregnant woman receives a COVID-19 vaccine at a pharmacy in Pennsylvania in 2021.
November 27, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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'Jordan Peterson law': Alberta seeks to shield doctors, other professionals from discipline for off-duty conduct https://ca.news.yahoo.com/jordan-peterson-law-alberta-seeks-215052512.html

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Premier Danielle Smith and Justice Minister Mickey Amery introduced legislation protecting free expression for registered professionals on Thursday, November 20, 2025.
November 21, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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"Essentially Cassidy asked for a promise. And all he got was an asterisk." Former CDC senior leader Dan Jernigan on how, after promising not to do so, Kennedy's HHS has rewritten #CDC 's webpage on whether there's a link between #vaccines & autism. www.statnews.com/2025/11/20/c...
Under RFK Jr., CDC reverses course on stance that vaccines don’t cause autism
A CDC website now promotes the debunked idea of a link between vaccines and autism.
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November 20, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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AI bot recorded doctors’ meeting, sent patient info to dozens of current and former hospital staff. This is a cautionary tale for healthcare providers about AI and patient privacy, watchdog says, by @hannay.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com
AI bot recorded doctors’ meeting, sent patient info to current and former hospital staff, watchdog says
The transcription tool recorded the meeting on behalf of a physician who no longer worked at the hospital
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November 19, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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AI bot recorded doctors' meeting, sent patient info to current and former hospital staff www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... @hannay.bsky.social

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The hospital notified the Privacy Commissioner of Ontario of the breach on Dec. 17, 2024, and also notified affected patients that their medical information had been compromised.
November 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM