Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Monika Dutt

Decent Work and Health Network @decentworkhlth.bsky.social · Sep 8

Statistics Canada data reveals temp foreign workers in healthcare up 1,700% in 20 yrs. Insecure status = exploitation & worse care. As @danyaalraza.com says: bad conditions for workers = bad for patients. Permanent status for all = health for all. #Justice4Workers www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Use of temporary foreign workers soars in Canadian health care

The number of temporary foreign workers in Canada’s health-care sector has soared over the past two decades, rising by nearly 1,700 per cent between 2000 and 2022, as the country

www.thestar.com

4 4

Monika Dutt @monikadutt.bsky.social · Sep 8

Cuts coming to the Public Health Agency of Canada...this is not good.

v the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC)

7 9

Monika Dutt @monikadutt.bsky.social · Sep 6

Encouraging people to be a Fluwatcher (+ Covid-19 watcher). It's a weekly survey that takes less than a minute to do and helps create better data to monitor and understand the spread of respiratory diseases across the country.

Sign-up here: public.cnphi-rcrsp.ca/fluWatcher/r...

Monika Dutt @monikadutt.bsky.social · Sep 5

Great to see updated Core Competencies for Public Health! Developed by the National Collaborating Centres for Public Health. nccph.ca/projects/202...

Reposted by Monika Dutt

Stephanie Ross @stephross.bsky.social · Aug 18

Workers defying back-to-work orders shows growing mistrust of a system stacked against them. Govt bias fuels militancy and pushes unions beyond legal labour action. My comments in @thestar.com #canlab #aircanadastrike #aircanadaflightattendants @cupescfp.bsky.social

www.thestar.com/business/air...

Air Canada strike: Union defies back-to-work order. ‘If it means jail, so be it’

CUPE union president Mark Hancock is refusing to obey Ottawa's orders.

www.thestar.com

4 20 49

Reposted by Monika Dutt

PressProgress @pressprogress.ca · Aug 18

Defying an order to end the strike, the union's president proclaimed:

"If we stick together, they can’t fire us all."

Here's what Air Canada flight attendants are fighting for:

pressprogress.ca/air-canada-f...

What Air Canada’s Flight Attendants Are Fighting For

Defying an order to end the strike, union president Wesley Lesosky proclaimed,

pressprogress.ca

25 220 690

Monika Dutt @monikadutt.bsky.social · Aug 17

Where are they? By terminal 1?

1 1

Monika Dutt @monikadutt.bsky.social · Aug 17

I'm one of the many people who has had long-planned vacation flights completely thrown off this week...AND I completely support the flight attendants. It's Air Canada that has created this situation through paying low wages and demanding unpaid labour.

EmmaaaAHH! 🧟‍♀️ ArkHell 💀 @emmaarkell.bsky.social · Aug 16

“No one should accept being forced to work for free, for hours and hours, every day. No one should accept being forced to work for poverty wages for years in a profession, just to earn a dignifying living. That’s what this is about,” said CUPE Air Canada Component president Wesley Lesosky.

Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · Aug 16

www.ctvnews.ca/business/art...

1 5

Monika Dutt @monikadutt.bsky.social · Aug 16

Noooo.

Frustrating and maybe not surprising that airline attendants were so quickly prevented from acting on their right to strike.

2 3

Monika Dutt @monikadutt.bsky.social · Aug 16

I support Air Canada airline attendants, a workforce that is majority women, as they fight for a fair wage -- and not having to volunteer their labour.

Montreal Gazette @mtlgazette.bsky.social · Aug 16

Air Canada suspends all flights, locks out flight attendants

The airline locked out 10,000 flight attendants represented by CUPE at 1:30 a.m. Saturday.

bit.ly

3

Monika Dutt @monikadutt.bsky.social · Aug 15

Good job @ontariosdoctors.bsky.social for taking a step in the right direction.

What we truly need is #Healthcare4All regardless of immigration status. Healthcare providers shouldn't need to decide on who "deserves" health care based on immigration status. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Ontario doctors don't get paid when they treat uninsured patients. Here's how that might change | CBC News

Several times a week, a man comes to the busy ER in Toronto where Dr. Bernard Ho works — and the doctors treat him, despite the fact that they’re not being paid for it. The Ontario Medical Association...

www.cbc.ca

1 2

Reposted by Monika Dutt

Decent Work and Health Network @decentworkhlth.bsky.social · Aug 14

Doctors shouldn't have to choose who "deserves" care. As emergency physician @bernardho.bsky.social said, "This is a health equity issue for Ontario’s most vulnerable."

We need a permanent program that provides #Healthcare4All regardless of immigration status.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Ontario doctors don't get paid when they treat uninsured patients. Here's how that might change | CBC News

Several times a week, a man comes to the busy ER in Toronto where Dr. Bernard Ho works — and the doctors treat him, despite the fact that they’re not being paid for it. The Ontario Medical Association...

www.cbc.ca

1 18 12

Monika Dutt @monikadutt.bsky.social · Aug 4

Dr. Jennifer Turnbull on the current situation in #Gaza. They make the important point that the "hunger crisis" in Gaze is, in fact, a "manufactured condition of forced starvation".

www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Reposted by Monika Dutt

Melissa Lem @drmelissalem.bsky.social · Jul 30

On August 5, @cdndrsformedicare.bsky.social is hosting a webinar to explore how to cope with heat—and how better medicare could save lives.
Can't wait to join 2 of my heroes, @monikadutt.bsky.social + @edwardxie.bsky.social, and all of you, in conversation.
Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Screenshot of registration page for Canadian Doctors For Medicare's Webinar on Heatwaves: protecting health in a climate crisis

4 4

Reposted by Monika Dutt

Edward Xie @edwardxie.bsky.social · Jul 31

With most of Canada under heat 🚨 warnings this week, I'll be hosting a conversation on #heatwaves and #health with @drmelissalem.bsky.social & @monikadutt.bsky.social

Join us August 5 at 7pm ET / 4pm PT us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Thanks @cdndrsformedicare.bsky.social & @cape-acme.bsky.social

Webinar on Heatwaves: protecting health in a climate crisis

Canada is heating up twice as fast as the global average. Extreme heat is putting increasing strain on our health and health systems. Join us on August 5 at 7 pm ET to learn about ways to cope with heat and how better Medicare could save lives.

To register for the webinar follow the link

We’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Melissa Lem and Dr. Monika Dutt to the panel, with Dr. Edward Xie moderating the discussion.

We look forward to seeing you there!

7 11

Monika Dutt @monikadutt.bsky.social · Jul 13

A call to strengthen communicable disease surveillance in Canada. #publichealth www.cmaj.ca/content/197/...

Tackling communicable disease surveillance and misinformation in Canada

www.cmaj.ca

1 1

Reposted by Monika Dutt

Melissa Lem @drmelissalem.bsky.social · Jul 6

"Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is healthcare."
CBC's What On Earth turned 5 this week, and invited some of their favourite guests back to mark the occasion.
Honoured to join Anabela Bonda + Cat Abreu, hosted by @jasondsouza.bsky.social.
Listen: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
@cape-acme.bsky.social

Screenshot of CBC Radio's What On Earth webpage showing the episode "What On Earth turns 5! What's changed in the climate fight?"

Melissa, Anabela Bonada and Catherine Abreu in the virtual Riverside recording room after their interview for CBC Radio's What On Earth with Jason D'Souza

5 14

Monika Dutt @monikadutt.bsky.social · Jul 6

Should be fixed now! Thanks for pointing that out.

1

Monika Dutt @monikadutt.bsky.social · Jul 6

Please share and/or complete this survey if:

- you are a worker in BC who gained paid sick days through legislation in Jan 2022 OR
- you are a worker in ON without paid sick days

Link to survey here: redcap.link/paidsickdays or via QR code.

DM me for Spanish/Tagalog/Punjabi posters.

1 1

Reposted by Monika Dutt

Danyaal Raza @danyaalraza.com · May 6

"Some health-data companies are selling access to patient records to pharmaceutical companies without patients’ knowledge, according to a new study."

Yes, a Canadian finding. Via @healthtechsoclab.bsky.social.

www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Health-data companies selling access to patient records, study says

Research paper highlights potential downsides when private companies are integrated into the health care system in crucial roles without enough oversight

www.theglobeandmail.com

4 22 35

Reposted by Monika Dutt

Danyaal Raza @danyaalraza.com · May 7

For @hilltimes.com,

@monikadutt.bsky.social & I break down why @mark-carney.bsky.social's call to "build big, bold & build now" must include pharmacare.

www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...

Time to make more pharmacare deals after election stalled momentum

Before the campaign, Ottawa secured agreements with only four jurisdictions: Manitoba, British Columbia, Yukon, and Prince Edward Island.

www.hilltimes.com

2 3

Monika Dutt @monikadutt.bsky.social · May 7

Now that the election is done, it's time to regain momentum and keep the commitment to #pharmacare.

Op-ed by @danyaalraza.com and I in the @hilltimes.com. www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...

Time to make more pharmacare deals after election stalled momentum

Before the campaign, Ottawa secured agreements with only four jurisdictions: Manitoba, British Columbia, Yukon, and Prince Edward Island.

www.hilltimes.com

3 9

Monika Dutt @monikadutt.bsky.social · Apr 12

The possibility of universal pharmacare in Canada should factor into who you vote for this election.

Canadian Doctors For Medicare @cdndrsformedicare.bsky.social · Apr 11

"I had been privileged. I had always taken health coverage for granted, and now my daughter's life depended on it.

It was the moment I realized: Canada's health-care system isn't truly universal — not until #pharmacare is part of it."
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

FIRST PERSON | My baby girl almost died. That's why national pharmacare will decide my vote | CBC News

Scott MacMillan was relieved when doctors were able to save the life of his daughter, Rosemary, who was in diabetic ketoacidosis. But when the hospital staff asked about insurance, he was filled with ...

www.cbc.ca

3

Monika Dutt @monikadutt.bsky.social · Apr 12

Ottaw: www.ottawapublichealth.ca/en/public-he...

Nova Scotia: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

www.ottawapublichealth.ca

Monika Dutt @monikadutt.bsky.social · Apr 12

Useful visuals on whether you need a #measles #vaccine (ON & NS). For adults born after 1970, check your own province's guidance as a 2nd dose for kids was started at different times.

If you don't know if you had a 2nd dose and can't find a record, just get a 2nd dose!

1 1 3