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Ian Mitchell, MD
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Emerg doc with interests in addiction, cannabis, ketamine and naloxone
So often in the emergency department, people ask why there aren’t enough doctors. It was by deliberate policy.

Underestimating future aging of the population and changing working conditions has lead to this gross deficit
November 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Those animals were culled quickly because that ground zero for radicals could have blown up into a dangerous incident. An elderly neighbour was already assaulted, threats made, they probably had weapons on the property. It could have become convoy 2.0.
DON’T GIVE THOSE GRIFTERS A DIME. #MapleMAGA
November 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
This was what so impressed me about the faith. Enjoyed the experience of langur at Amritsar. All faiths should live up to their example
November 8, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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The world would be immensely better if more religions and their believers had even a tenth of the dedication the Sikhs do to doing good for people with no gatekeeping or expectations of anything other than "you are a fellow human in need and we can help you"
Folks, if you are hungry, please contact your local Sikh gurdwara. Or just show up for langar, which most gurdwaras do several times a week, for a free meal. Lots also do weekly or monthly drives giving out groceries.

No conversion necessary. Feeding anyone who is hungry is a key part of Sikhism.
A lady on TikTok has been calling churches pretending to be a mother with a baby who needs formula and several churches turned her away. But wouldn’t you know that when she called a Mosque (Islamic Center of Charlotte) they immediately said yes.

[Source: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMpoxsaW/ ]
November 8, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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🤣🤣🤣
November 8, 2025 at 3:07 AM
This is a disaster for a city that is already struggling with providing women with basic maternity care
November 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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"What are we to make of medical research in which some of the physician-investigators are licensed police, where [ketamine] may be administered at the direction of the police, and [a] main justification has been unmasked as a rationale for police violence?"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The Hennepin Healthcare Forced Ketamine Studies, Excited Delirium, and Police Violence
In the summer of 2018, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported clinical trials at Hennepin County Medical Center in which emergency medical personnel were injecting agitated individuals with ketamine, ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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did you know you can just like, forgive yourself? all that shit you punish yourself over and over for, you don’t have to do that you can set it down and walk away and breathe deep for the first time in decades
November 5, 2025 at 2:45 PM
That sounds very inappropriate.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
October 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Obstetrics crisis in Kamloops amplifies Canada-wide issue with doctor burnout https://globalnews.ca/video/11495096/obstetrics-crisis-in-kamloops-amplifies-canada-wide-issue-with-doctor-burnout/

𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter
October 26, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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BC Conservatives call for measures to ‘stabilize’ Interior Health following more resignations.

⬇️Details below ⬇️
www.kamloopsbcnow.com/watercooler/...
BC Conservatives call for measures to ‘stabilize’ Interior Health following more resignations
The BC Conservatives are sounding the alarm after four psychiatrists at Vernon Jubilee Hospital (VJH) announced their resignations this week....
www.kamloopsbcnow.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Okanagan Clinical Trials seeks volunteers for depression medication study (Sponsored Content)
Okanagan Clinical Trials seeks volunteers for depression medication study - Think Local
Okanagan Clinical Trials is inviting individuals living with major depressive disorder to participate in an ongoing medication research study.
www.castanetkamloops.net
October 24, 2025 at 7:10 AM
1. It is hard to believe that just over a year ago, Rob Schneider, a deeply stupid man with frankly anti-vax and anti-medicine viewpoints was asked to perform for the Hospitals of Regina Foundation
October 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
What charming people these PPC candidates are.

“I deployed to shit-hole countries to try to give little heretics what I thought I had in Canada.”
Former Cape Breton PPC candidate loses mask mandate appeal https://www.saltwire.com/cape-breton/cape-breton-man-loses-covid-mask-mandate-appeal

𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter
October 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Rob Schneider is sooo friggin dumb
October 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
So good

From Paul Lynde’s ABC Halloween special 1978 - KISS doing Detroit Rock City.

youtu.be/nkrzI2JRYxM?...
KISS Detroit Rock City Paul Lynde Halloween Special 1976 (Remastered)
YouTube video by Nrtoca99
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October 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Ob-gyns at Kamloops hospital cite 'extreme' burnout as reason for resigning en masse https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/kamloops-obgyns-burnout-9.6947488

𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter
October 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Well, you can finally cross “I’ve seen a handcuffed, inflatable penis” off your bucket list
October 19, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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This whole situation is so disturbing, but the blasé responses of health officials, the way they brush off the total loss of OB/gyne care, their weak reassurance that it will be easy to replace these doctors - so chilling.
#medsky #cansky
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
All ob-gyns at Kamloops, B.C., hospital announce resignations | CBC News
All seven ob-gyns working at Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops, B.C., have announced their resignation due to working conditions, according to a letter sent by the group. Interior Health says recruitm...
www.cbc.ca
October 18, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Future workforce expansion is good “vibes” , but doesn’t address the current lack of staff across all realms of health care in BC.
October 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM