Jewish students Columbia University: “If we didn’t do everything in our power to end the genocidal violence Israel is unleashing upon Gaza, we would not have fulfilled the requirements of the Passover Seder.”

Watch/share this CNN report on Passover at the Gaza solidarity encampment.

1884: #IndianAct amendments banned the traditional ceremonies, dances and clothing of First Nations people. 140 years later they are banning traditional clothing in Canada again. This is shameful.

Blinken is 100% wrong. I researched this for over a year with many State Department lawyers. There is nothing illegal about Jews living in their biblical homeland. Indeed, Undersecretary of State Eugene Rostow, also the Dean of the Yale Law School (who negotiated UNSCR 242),…

The former patient has a conversation with his former doctor! Recovering from a life of pain, shame and trauma! #Wedorecover #Trauma

Carbon tax accounts for 0.3 percent increase in food prices. That's 30 cents on a $100 grocery bill.

Remember that next time you're promised affordability at the grocery store by axing the carbon tax.
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Housing for all is a matter of human dignity and sound health economics.

1 month in hospital: ~$30,000
1 month in prison system: ~$14,000
1 month in shelter: ~$6,700
1 month in supportive housing: ~$3,500

There is no health without housing.

We have partnered with the City of…

Why won’t Manitoba Premier Stefanson search the landfill? The federally funded feasibility study said it was feasible. Toronto Police Service spent months searching one of the city’s main garbage sites for the body of Nathaniel Brettell. They found him. theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

Homelessness is a public health emergency in Toronto.

UHN Social Medicine Housing is trying to help address this compounding crisis — but we will need every level of government to scale solutions across the country to save lives.

Leonard Benoit shares the benefits of attending to spiritual care needs for patients, families and health care providers #HPCO2023

Not just a concern. This is a public health calamity.

The Indigenous Health Program (IHP) and UHN’s Emergency Medicine Team have partnered to introduce the Indigenous Patient Navigators in the emergency departments, to provide support, care and resources to Indigenous patients. #NIHM2023

Read more → bit.ly/42tYGZm

University ethics boards are not ready for Indigenous scholars nature.com/articles/d4158…

“Non-compliant” is a term steeped in judgement and applied unevenly, blind to systemic barriers. In my experience, the phrase “non-compliant” in a medical record is almost never accompanied by an exploration of the barriers to “compliance.” There are barriers to accessing a HC twitter.com/drandrewb/stat…

ER physician's project uses donated cellphones to connect vulnerable with ongoing medical care | CBC News cbc.ca/news/health/ho…

Saw a patient recently without housing who was in and out of hospital. But how could we keep calling them “hard to reach” or “lost to follow-up” when they didn’t have a cell phone? Peer workers in the Stabilization Centre/ER set up a phone for him and the next morning I got a…

if believing in housing as a human right and human dignity for our patients paints you as “woke”, then I guess that’s perfectly okay with me.

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