A few of my favourite things: ☀️🏝🍟☕️✈️ Interests: healthcare, politics, reading, musicals M.Ed., BSc(PT)
Toronto, Ontario
Joined November 2018
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We have in sufficiently resourced system. We do not have enough hospital beds for our population. It has been a policy choice not to add enough hospital beds for our population.
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I'm going to make a thread of this with my comments.
First, lets look at the data on how many MD's Canada has relative to other countries. And I'm interested in decades long changes.
In this graph I've gone back to 1960 /1
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Toronto has water. Clean. Cheap
But Brad Bradford wants to give it away
To pay for a tax cut giving the most to those owning the most expensive houses
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John Tory on Brad’s water scheme:
“you do lose a degree of control when you send it off to one of these even publicly owned corporations…if it ain't broke don't fix it. I mean you know - if the water turns on, it’s clean, it's safe, it's among the best in North America."
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Stan Cho has never, to my knowledge, shown any proof that he reimbursed Ontario taxpayers for the thousands and thousands of dollars of our money he chose to spend on luxury downtown Toronto hotels, nor ever explained why he chose to stay downtown vs return to his home nearby!
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NEW: Stan Cho, who resigned as tourism minister in July over a hotel expenses scandal has been named parliamentary assistant to the Minister of Education
(pic from June)
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Honestly I’ve hit my breaking point. On call this week and just crushed. It’s insanity to do a specialist consult on a complex patient in 20 minutes. If I take longer then urgent care is delayed and the pile gets bigger.
Now Sechelt hospital has no physician capacity and patients are being sent over to me in the night. For the first time in 22 years of medical practice I said no. It felt terrible because the patient gets caught in the middle.
It’s unsafe. It’s hurting me. It’s hurting my family. It’s hurting patients. Leadership at the highest level in the VCH health authority need to lead. I have dedicated 22 years to Lions gate hospital. I’m seriously contemplating resigning.
Whoever forms the next government needs to make people in highly paid positions in administration accountable. Done with mediocrity. Politicians can’t fix the system but they can demand accountability from those they hire in to these roles.
Vicky Baum retweeted
Albertans voted overwhelmingly to stay in Canada. Thanks President Trump! I'm sure he didn't flip the vote but I am curious how much he moved the needle.
apnews.com/article/alberta-c…
Vicky Baum retweeted
Alberta separatists spent months telling Canada they spoke for Albertans.
Then Albertans spoke.
76% voted to stay in Canada. The separatists couldn’t even get a quarter of the vote for another referendum.
Turns out a few thousand angry guys with flags and Facebook accounts aren’t quite the national liberation movement they imagined.
And they’re already promising to keep fighting.
Apparently listening to Albertans was never part of the plan.
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There are no PRIVATE HOSPITALS. THE Dollars are taxpayer dollars. The people of ONTARIO have paid for these PRIVATE Hospitals. Bait and SWITCH by DOUG FORD. AGAIN.
Over 10000+ nurses have been laid off, fired, or removed since @fordnation @sylviajones created private hospitals. #onpoli #cdnpoli
Vicky Baum retweeted
The on/off revolving door of mask guidance in health care seems bizarre to me
😷 should be a fixture of patient care, just as gloves & hand hygiene are: not a seasonal precaution, but a fundamental part of our commitment to infection prevention, patient safety, and doing no harm.
Masks encouraged at all Health P.E.I. facilities starting Oct. 16
Masks will be available at entrances to Health P.E.I. facilities
cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-ed…
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I’m proud to have the endorsement of Kathleen Wynne, the 25th Premier of Ontario.
As Kathleen says, we come from different political traditions but we share a value system. We both believe that government exists to lift people up and to help them do the things they cannot do themselves.
This election is a choice between moving forward together to make our city more caring, or going backwards with cuts to the services families depend on. Kathleen is a leader that has always stood up for families, and I am committed to building a city that works for everyone.
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1) American subway cars
2) American nuclear reactors
3) American software and IT contracts
4) American hospital construction deal
5) American classroom supplies portal
We’re using Ontario’s purchasing power to support Ontario jobs.
Our PC team is putting Ontario businesses first, using $30 billion in annual public sector purchasing to buy more Ontario-made products and protect jobs against U.S. tariffs.
ontariopc.ca/2026/10/16/buyi…
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Ontario general strike until Doug Ford resigns.
#DougFordIsCorrupt #onpoli
NEW: The IESO, which manages the province's electricity grid, signed a contract with an American utility for power over the winter, despite the government's policies on shifting away from the US.
Critics say it undermines the Premier's buy Ontario / Canada plan.
#onpoli
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Respiratory season is back
It's time for:
✅ Covid shot
✅ Flu shot
✅ N95s
Signs point to influenza surge developing in Canada ctvnews.ca/health/article/si…
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Do you know how a minority lunatic wins elections? Everybody assumes the lunatic will lose and stays home. Don't forget that every single voter who wants separation is going to vote. That is what the rest are up against. GET OUT AND VOTE. Ontario didn't and they got Ford.
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#BREAKING: Ontario to move northwest regions to permanent daylight time. toronto.citynews.ca/2026/10/…
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