#CdnHealth is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 21 people shared 212 posts with it — around 7 a day. Activity is up 2% versus the previous week, peaking on Jul 10 with 18 posts.

Posts with #CdnHealth

Alanna Smith

@alannasmith.bsky.social

about 1 year ago

Canadian doctors are emphasizing that routine COVID-19 vaccinations are not only safe and effective but recommended for pregnant people, countering the approach taken by American officials. #cdnhealth @theglobeandmail.com

www.theglobeandmail.com

Canadian doctors continue to recommend COVID-19 vaccinations for pregnant people, countering U.S. policy change

Experts stress that immunization against COVID protects both parent and baby from severe illness

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁

@canadahealthwatch.ca

2 days ago

Testing is underway on vaccines to intercept brewing colon cancer before it takes root, Lauran Neergaard reports. This article and more at canadahealthwatch.ca #CdnHealth

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁

@canadahealthwatch.ca

6 days ago

mRNA vaccines proved safe and effective during COVID, review says. Cancer could be next: www.cbc.ca/news/health/... by Amina Zafar and @christinebirak.bsky.social. Find out more at canadahealthwatch.ca #CdnHealth #CdnPharma

www.cbc.ca

COVID proved mRNA vaccine technology was safe and effective, review says. Is a cancer vaccine next? | CBC News

The mRNA vaccines approved to treat COVID-19 are safe and effective and show promise in treating other diseases including cancer, according to a new review published in The Lancet Tuesday.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁

@canadahealthwatch.ca

2 days ago

Moderna authorized to launch its Ebola vaccine clinical trials in Canada, AFP reports. This article and more at canadahealthwatch.ca #CdnHealth #EbolaOutbreak

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Heather e^-1/x^2

@heathermoandco.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

#Conservative politicians and their propaganda media, have been spreading and grifting off anti-vax mis & disinformation, for some time. It has gotten people killed & will continue to cause harm so long as anti-vax sentiments can be exploited for their political gain. #CdnHealth #cdnpoli #Vaccines

David Hamer @davidhamer1951.bsky.social

Anti-vaxx ignoramuses are going to kill their children. And some of ours. 🙄🍁🙄 - in @theglobeandmail.com today

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁

@canadahealthwatch.ca

2 days ago

Quebec tops 200 diarrhea-inducing cyclosporiasis cases. What’s behind the uptick? By Kalina Laframboise. This article and more at canadahealthwatch.ca #CdnHealth #CyclosporaOutbreak

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Canadian Medical Association

@cmadocs.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

The Canadian Medical Association congratulates @mark-carney.bsky.social and @liberalca.bsky.social for winning the federal election. Now, the real work begins to fix #CDNhealth. We are ready to work with the government and all parliamentarians to move forward with concrete solutions.

bit.ly

CMA ready to work with the Liberal Party of Canada to improve health care for Canadians

The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) congratulates Mark Carney and the Liberal Party of Canada for winning this election. The important voter turnout speaks to the urgency of the moment and the need...

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁

@canadahealthwatch.ca

4 days ago

Health Canada authorizes Moderna clinical trial for new Ebola vaccine candidate, Nicole Ireland reports. Find this article and more at canadahealthwatch.ca #EbolaOutbreak #CdnHealth

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André Picard @picardonhealth

@picardonhealth.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

Canada needs tens of thousands of additional health workers, including 23,000 family doctors and 28,000 registered nurses, study finds, by @kkirkup.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/c…. via @theglobeandmail.com #nursing #PrimaryCare #cdnhealth

www.theglobeandmail.com

Canadian health work force needs tens of thousands of additional providers, study finds

Country not producing enough health care providers to keep up with demand; report calls for increases in education and training to stave off worsening shortages

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Edward Xie

@edwardxie.bsky.social

4 months ago

“Private facilities do not create new capacity; instead, they cannibalize it. As they expand, public operating rooms remain empty as staff are prioritized for private facilities” Drs. Kaylene Duttchen & Paul Parks #alberta #bill11 #cdnhealth

calgaryherald.com

Opinion: Cancer surgeries seen piling up while private-pay cataracts get done

Alberta's health-care system has lost the ability to keep people safe, argues two physicians who've observed troubling choices.

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Edward Xie

@edwardxie.bsky.social

5 months ago

🚨 Today: Canadian Doctors for Medicare sent a letter to PM Carney expressing deep concern about Alberta's law allowing patients to be billed for essential health care. This policy endangers the integrity of Medicare for everyone across Canada. @cdndrsformedicare.bsky.social #cdnpoli #cdnhealth 🧵

Dear Prime Minister Carney,
We write to you out of deep concern regarding passage of Alberta’s Health Statutes Amendment
Act, 2025 (No. 2), and the threat it poses not only to Alberta’s public health care system, but to
the integrity of Medicare across Canada.
Canadians understand that provincial health systems are under genuine strain. We all share the
goals of reducing wait times to improve access to timely care and of recruiting and retaining health
care workers. We know that protecting and improving Medicare to enable healthy populations is
a vital nation building project. However, Alberta’s Health Statutes Amendment Act, 2025 (No. 2)
risks undermining these goals.
Instead, it proposes a system where patients face financial uncertainty and where timely access to
care will inevitably depend on ability to pay. Alberta’s law abandons the foundational principles
on which Canada’s health care system has been built, as enshrined in the Canada Health Act. By
formally enabling physicians to accept both public and private payment (dual practice) and
allowing patients to be billed for medically-necessary services, this legislation enables a multi-
payer, two-tier system of care that is confusing, inefficient, unfair, and expensive.
This shift is unprecedented in Canada. Since 1984, when the Canada Health Act was passed,
Alberta, like all provinces and territories, has upheld a single-payer model grounded in equitable
access to medically necessary care based on need, not ability to pay. The Health Statutes
Amendment Act, 2025 (No. 2) represents a clear departure from that shared national commitment
and raises grave concerns about Alberta’s compliance with the Canada Health Act.

We are deeply concerned that Alberta’s Health Statutes Amendment Act, 2025 (No. 2) will:
• Undermine equity by normalizing private payment for medically necessary care,
privileging those with financial means;
• Risk contravening the Canada Health Act which exists to protect universality and
accessibility;
• Exacerbate workforce shortages in the publicly-funded system by permitting physicians
to split their practice between public pay and private pay sectors;
• Set a dangerous national precedent inviting similar legislation in other provinces thereby
weakening Medicare across the country.
Beyond its domestic impacts, Alberta’s Health Statutes Amendment Act, 2025 (No. 2) raises
uncertainty related to national treatment and market access obligations under the current CUSMA.
If Alberta’s legislation opens a pathway to private duplicative insurance (covering the same
medically necessary services as the publicly funded system) and for-profit investor-ownership of
hospitals (delivering medically necessary care), we are concerned this could lead to US health
insurance companies and hospital corporations expecting to enter Canada’s
market. Notwithstanding the protections afforded by Canada’s sectoral reservations listed in
CUSMA related to health care, if the US were denied entry to Canada’s market, we are concerned
this could expose Canada to CUSMA’s investment and services disciplines.
As Prime Minister, you have a responsibility to uphold the Canada Health Act and protect equitable
access to care for all Canadians, regardless of jurisdiction. We therefore call on your government
to:
1. Conduct a formal Canada Health Act compliance review of Alberta’s Health Statutes
Amendment Act, 2025 (No. 2);
2. Urge the Government of Alberta to pause implementation of Health Statutes
Amendment Act, 2025 (No. 2) while its impacts are assessed by Health Canada’s legal
team and independent national experts;
3. Use the full range of federal tools available, including discretionary penaltie…

Yours sincerely,
Dr. Melanie Bechard
Chair, Canadian Doctors for Medicare
Signed and endorsed by:
Alberta Federation of Labour – Gil McGowan, President
Alberta Union of Provincial Employees – Sandra Azocar, President
BC Health Coalition – Ayendri Riddell, Director of Policy and Campaigns
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Peggy Nash, Executive Director
Canadian Federation of Medical Students – Bryce Bogie, President
Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions – Linda Silas, President
Canadian Health Coalition – Jason MacLean, Chair
Canadian Labour Congress – Bea Bruske, President
Canadian Union of Public Employees – Mark Hancock, President
Coalition Solidarité Santé – Geneviève Lamarche, coordonnatrice
Congress of Union Retirees of Canada - Michael MacIsaac, President
Friends of Medicare – Chris Gallaway, Executive Director
Independent Voices for Safe & Effective Drugs – Colleen Fuller, Director
Manitoba Health Coalition – Noah Schulz, Provincial Director
Médecins québécois pour le régime public – Dr. Xavier Gauvreau, Président
National Union of Public and General Employees – Bert Blundon, President
New Brunswick Health Coalition – Jean-Claude Basque, Co-Chair
Nova Scotia Health Coalition – Jennifer Benoit, Provincial Coordinator
Ontario Health Coalition – Natalie Mehra, Executive Director
PEI Health Coalition – Mary Boyd, Chair
Registered Nurses Association of Ontario – Dr. Doris Grinspun, Chief Executive Officer
United Nurses of Alberta – Heather Smith, President
United Steelworkers – Marty Warren, National Director

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁

@canadahealthwatch.ca

4 days ago

Health Canada authorizes mRNA vaccine trial for Ebola virus causing huge outbreak in Congo, Lauren Pelley reports. This article and more at canadahealthwatch.ca #EbolaOutbreak #CdnHealth