Dear friends, if you're an adult, do consider asking your doctor to test your measles titres to see if you need to get an MMR booster. Ontario is in the midst of an extensive measles outbreak. Let's keep our kids safe(r) by creating a wall of immunity among adults, not just kids.

Today is #WorldTBDay.
Mark the occasion by reading #StopTBCanada's report "Access to Essential Tuberculosis Medicines in Canada: Insights from a National Survey of Healthcare Providers" static1.squarespace.com/static/5e987...

Under the House GOP’s budget plan, the lowest-income taxpayers would see a LOSS of $1,125.

The richest 0.1 percent of taxpayers, on the other hand, would see a more than $180,000 GAIN.

This is trickle down economics on steroids.

Just received this photo from a friend of a warehouse in Kinshasa. These are tuberculosis medications--ALREADY PAID FOR--that aren't being distributed due to the Trump Administration's stop work order.
TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)

When TB treatment is interrupted, patients are far more likely to develop drug-resistant TB, which is a catastrophe both individually (the disease becomes harder to cure) and societally (we're allowing the bacteria millions of new opportunities to develop further resistance). Many people will die.

Montréal en hiver
Helen McNicoll
1911

I'm excited to go see Stranger Sings soon. It's a privilege to be able to take a break from everything. www.broadwayworld.com/toronto/regi...

Trees and Snow Shadows
Pegi Nicol MacLeod
c. 1930

For years now, groups like Oxfam have warned us about a small number of men accumulating more wealth than half the world’s population

These men today are buying elections, backing fascists, and preparing to become trillionaires

By not taxing them, we invited the unfolding disaster

Truly devastating

Foreign Aid Freeze Leaves Millions Without H.I.V. Treatment

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/h...

In recent days MSF teams have treated a mass influx of war-wounded patients across #Sudan.

Even in a war like that in Sudan, it is rare that our teams witness such appalling violence affecting people so severely in different MSF projects simultaneously.

www.msf.org/mass-influxe...

Join Ontario Climate Emergency Campaign on Feb 13, 7pm for a virtual panel on Ontario's health, land use and agriculture, and affordability! Speakers from the National Farmers’ Union, Intact Centre, Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment ontarioclimateemergency.ca/so/97PIzvUOr...

Call in the bonobos.