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Estimated numbers of healthcare professionals with COVID-19, week ending Oct 14/23: CAN 60,477 NL 1,016 PEI 298 NS 1,966 NB 1,481 QC 14,013 ON 21,977 MB 2,329 SK 1,986 AB 7,697 BC 7,430 YK, NWT, NUN 141 This is professionals only--not PSWs, non-professional workforce.

The week ending Oct 14/23: About 9% of ICU beds were occupied by COVID-19 patients (average epidemic to date: 12%) About 21% of hospital beds were occupied by COVID-19 patients (average epidemic to date: 7%)

BTNX rapid Covid tests lack of effectiveness withheld. globalnews.ca/news/10183219/…

redpepper.org.uk/global-politic…

All Canadians need access to high quality primary care. "It’s time for everyone to step up, have the difficult conversations, take innovative risks and develop the system Canadians deserve." policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/apri…

Steven Lewis: Canada needs primary care manifesto to fix health system thestarphoenix.com/opinion/column…

557 Americans were killed by C0VlD last week. It’s the 42nd straight week with 500+ deaths. While transmission is currently lower, we’ll have an even harder time identifying when things get really bad again now that hospitals are no longer required to report C0VlD data.

**NEW** As confirmed by multiple sources, Peter Lougheed Hospital's NICU Unit currently has 2 COVID-19 positive preeme's. Masking requirements have been put back in place for the NICU Unit. /4

how is this even remotely acceptable in a health care system? This failure was predictable, therefore preventable.

ERs are closing, millions of Ontarians are without a doctor, shelters are at capacity, yet the gov’t is choosing to spend a quarter of a billion to fast-track beer sales. This is Ford’s priority… #ONpoli thestar.com/politics/provi…

PEI faculty of medicine shouldn't just be a medical school. saltwire.com/prince-edward-… by Steven Lewis Dr Ivy “Here to Address Inequity” Bourgeault Dale McMurchy

#HarmReduction and supervised consumption are evidence-informed approaches to mental health and addictions care, and part of the continuum of comprehensive primary health care. Our statement on closures of CTS sites across Ontario: allianceon.org/news/Eliminati…

The Ontario government’s decision to shut down supervised consumption sites runs counter to the expert opinion it sought, by Jane Gerster cbc.ca/news/canada/to… via @cbcnews Mike Crawley #HarmReduction #ToxicDrugCrisis

The Ford government gets it wrong on drugs. We know supervised consumption sites save lives: Toronto Star editorial thestar.com/opinion/editor… #HarmReduction #ToxicDrugCrisis

Re the administration of the US health care system: "It takes a huge bureaucracy to administer this grotesquerie. It is quite possibly the most expensively useless enterprise in world." thestarphoenix.com/opinion/column…

Wow. Dying is easy. Math is hard. “The most patriotic thing you can do for your country is your homework.” This is both funny and true:

While Trump is braying like an ass about annexing Canada, Canadians are in Los Angeles tonight dropping water on the Palisades fire.

This ain’t Ignatieff. And it sure ain’t Trudeau. youtu.be/zs8St-fF0kE

"Canadian woman stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, she was lucky theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m…

"Canada is not broken, but health care lurches from crisis to crisis, unable to right itself. It would be a big win were Team Canada to set its sights on decluttering health-care federalism — call it the chaos dividend. " Steven Lewis thestarphoenix.com/opinion/column…