Do you know an Ontario youth aged 16-30 who has ideas for how to reduce the stigma of #homelessness in Canadian communities? In May, 2024, submit your videos identifying #AtLeastFiveWays to reduce the stigma of homelessness. Find out more: peer2community.ca/atleastfiveways

#postdoc alert: The Western Academy seeks applications from experts in the study of interstate peace. Relevant areas of study may include law, international relations, political science, gender studies & more. More info: uwo.ca/academy/doc/th…

Hospitals that collaborated to add OR staff and time on weekends - show wait times for surgery like hip and knee replacements can be dramatically reduced. This program shows it works. So why pay private hospitals to do it? Toronto Star Megan Ogilvie Kenyon Wallace
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Ontario government releases new video showcasing what it’s accomplished over the past six years.

Police officer: I've been a police officer for over ten years and sometimes when I respond to a domestic call I say to the mother (who is the victim) 'how can you let your children go through this?'

Me: How many times in 10 years have a you said to the perpetrating father

I was at one of these encampments yesterday - I met a mother with a 20 year old daughter who said they had lived in the tent for 6 months after being evicted. In another was a woman who had bruises all over her face. It is heartbreaking and all of them -when asked what they

It’s all about the developers. Every day, our team wakes up to get paid way more than you do and gets to work to make life better and easier for every large corporation in Ontario and the US. We’re getting it done for the gravy.

New 📄 collaboration with Fiona Webster, PhD, Laura Connoy, PhD in Canadian Journal of Pain: ‘Attending to marginalization in the chronic pain literature: A scoping review’ Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing Centre for Health Equity and Social Inclusion Western Research Western University 🔓 buff.ly/4cJ3vUX

An overlooked aspects of the drug toxicity overdose crisis has been the emotional impacts of overdose on front-line harm reduction workers. Our new paper in International Journal of Drug Policy explores the devastating toll from overdose on the wellbeing of workers, and strategies to support them 🧵

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New 📄 collaboration with Carrie Anne Marshall, PhD, Corinna Easton in Soc Sci & Medicine looks into why some people get temporarily or permanently banned from emergency shelters and what happens to them afterward Centre for Health Equity and Social Inclusion 🔓 buff.ly/3vFkiI0

“A lot of this needs to become a bigger conversation about why this is allowed to happen and about the level of confidence that women and girls have with police and with the criminal justice system.' cbc.ca/news/canada/lo…

The Ford government is lying to us. Plain and simple. Their public healthcare sabotage couldn’t be any more blatant.

The Simpsons did in fact predict Pierre Poilievre.

New research led by #WesternU Nursing prof Richard Booth (Richard Booth) has shown the prevalence of dementia in unhoused people was almost 2x greater than in the general population. ICES @Lawsonresearch @WesternuFHS
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Honoured to be involved in this work led by Nick Kerman CAMH Research: 'Service restrictions from emergency shelters among people experiencing homelessness' - Check it out: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Western University Western Health Sciences CAEH Homeless Hub

'You would think that if a company is so bad at doing its job that you have to call in the military to take over, you wouldn't renew its licence to operate a care home, let alone entrust it with even bigger projects. But that's exactly what's happening.'

This is a thread of my all-time favourite literal translations, starting with this one…

In Hungarian, the word for a shark, hiszékeny, translates literally to “sea bastard”

REMINDER:Upcoming webinar about #domestic #family and #sexualviolence against #Australian nurses umich.zoom.us/meeting/regist… Dr Lata Satyen Dr. Susan Jack Nadine Wathen Johns Hopkins WHOCC for Nursing & Midwifery Canadian Nurses Association Global Qualitative Nursing Research Hopkins Nursing Nursing Now Challenge UVA School of Nursing DeakinQPS Deakin Research ANMF (Vic Branch) ANMF - Australian Nursing Midwifery Federation

An often overlooked form of intimate partner violence is economic abuse. I presented a petition in the House of Commons to raise awareness of this important issue, but Pierre Poilievre heckled me throughout the time I was speaking, trying to drown me out. We had economic abuse