Monica Kidd
@monicakidd.bsky.social
Author of THE CRANE (Breakwater, 2025) and 7 other books || Journalist || MD MSc MFA || associate editor at CMAJ || at work on a nonfiction book about coastal erosion globally || monicakidd.ca || represented by Aevitas
Just going to leave this right here.
January 31, 2026 at 3:43 AM
Just going to leave this right here.
Thank you @mongabay.com. Thank you Santo Sunset.
Published an interesting new analysis by author @monicakidd.bsky.social to Mongabay:
Vanuatu communities are reinvigorating taro as it’s more resilient to #climate shocks
Recent big storms have cut the islands off from food shipments but ones w/ healthy taro crops could feed themselves & others:
Vanuatu communities are reinvigorating taro as it’s more resilient to #climate shocks
Recent big storms have cut the islands off from food shipments but ones w/ healthy taro crops could feed themselves & others:
Vanuatu communities move to protect taro, an ancestral climate-resilient crop (analysis)
The packed-earth trail winds through the dense and tangled forest of Vanuatu, the ocean crashing just meters to our right. Richard Rojo’s feet don’t mind the stones and stumps, and he carries a bush k...
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January 26, 2026 at 10:58 PM
Thank you @mongabay.com. Thank you Santo Sunset.
This week, the man who drives the Calgary Transit bus my kid takes to school noticed one of his riders had left behind a binder. He took the binder to the school and made a point of talking to the principal to tell him how courteous the kids at his school are. This, in a city of 1.5 million. ❤️
January 24, 2026 at 2:07 AM
This week, the man who drives the Calgary Transit bus my kid takes to school noticed one of his riders had left behind a binder. He took the binder to the school and made a point of talking to the principal to tell him how courteous the kids at his school are. This, in a city of 1.5 million. ❤️
Hey look, it's another chance encounter with wild animal! Thanks to @canadianpoets.bsky.social for republishing.
January 19, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Hey look, it's another chance encounter with wild animal! Thanks to @canadianpoets.bsky.social for republishing.
A Humanites piece we just published over at @cmaj.ca about how war continues to gut a health care system decades later. www.cmaj.ca/content/198/...
When a stroke strikes in Syria
The stretcher burst through the ambulance doors on a sweltering coastal evening, its burden a fragile grandmother, with skin parchment-thin and breath like a candle about to gutter. I was the duty res...
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January 12, 2026 at 2:47 PM
A Humanites piece we just published over at @cmaj.ca about how war continues to gut a health care system decades later. www.cmaj.ca/content/198/...
My thoughts from the ecocriticism conference on "Erosion" I attended in Galway last summer, over on Substack. #coastalerosion #climatechange #Ireland
January 6, 2026 at 4:35 PM
My thoughts from the ecocriticism conference on "Erosion" I attended in Galway last summer, over on Substack. #coastalerosion #climatechange #Ireland
This guy. Mark Bragg had a stroke, nearly died, went through months and months of rehab, and fought his way back to the stage. We saw him last night at The Ship Pub in St. John’s with his band The Butchers. An incredible performance in a room filled with love. Look up his music. You’re welcome. :)
December 29, 2025 at 6:59 PM
This guy. Mark Bragg had a stroke, nearly died, went through months and months of rehab, and fought his way back to the stage. We saw him last night at The Ship Pub in St. John’s with his band The Butchers. An incredible performance in a room filled with love. Look up his music. You’re welcome. :)
Big sea on today in St. John’s.
December 27, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Big sea on today in St. John’s.
I’m honoured to have been chosen for the Writers' Guild of Alberta’s 2026 Mentorship Program. I’ll be working to help shape Ryan’s work of literary fiction.
December 18, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I’m honoured to have been chosen for the Writers' Guild of Alberta’s 2026 Mentorship Program. I’ll be working to help shape Ryan’s work of literary fiction.
Overheard while waiting in line at my neighborhood bookstore. Young man speaking to (?) father: “I didn’t think there were bookstores anymore.” Then paying for my things and having the clerk ask me if I’d like to sign copies of my book. How to smash a writer’s heart and fix it right back up again.
December 16, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Overheard while waiting in line at my neighborhood bookstore. Young man speaking to (?) father: “I didn’t think there were bookstores anymore.” Then paying for my things and having the clerk ask me if I’d like to sign copies of my book. How to smash a writer’s heart and fix it right back up again.
I love this article. open.substack.com/pub/thewalru...
Bro, Enough with the Protein. You’re Just Making Expensive Pee
Experts say the hype around the latest dietary must-have has become a farce
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December 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I love this article. open.substack.com/pub/thewalru...
This fall the govt of Alberta has trammeled the rights of trans youth and striking teachers. It’s ramming through an oil pipeline to BC in spite of opposition from most coastal First Nations. I could go on. Albertans have no right to feel superior to what’s happening south of the border.
December 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This fall the govt of Alberta has trammeled the rights of trans youth and striking teachers. It’s ramming through an oil pipeline to BC in spite of opposition from most coastal First Nations. I could go on. Albertans have no right to feel superior to what’s happening south of the border.
A must-read commentary about Alberta's new approach to involuntary treatment for substance use from Dr. Bonnie Larson. www.cmaj.ca/content/197/...
Involuntary treatment for substance use: application of Kass’ ethical framework to Alberta’s Compassionate Intervention Act
Key points
In Canada, more than 50 000 opioid-related deaths have occurred since September 2024, mostly in British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario, where governments are all in various stages of develo...
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November 26, 2025 at 1:11 AM
A must-read commentary about Alberta's new approach to involuntary treatment for substance use from Dr. Bonnie Larson. www.cmaj.ca/content/197/...
Reposted by Monica Kidd
The CMA spent a year studying public and private health models and consulting with more than 10,000 Canadians on the balance between the two. The evidence is clear: where a parallel private health system operates, both health outcomes and access to care are worse.
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Public and private health care
The Canadian Medical Association conducted a series of national consultations to inform our policy on public and private health care.
www.cma.ca
November 18, 2025 at 8:29 PM
The CMA spent a year studying public and private health models and consulting with more than 10,000 Canadians on the balance between the two. The evidence is clear: where a parallel private health system operates, both health outcomes and access to care are worse.
Learn more 👇
Learn more 👇
Reposted by Monica Kidd
Doctors across Canada are deeply concerned that the #Alberta government’s proposed private care plan will leave more Albertans waiting even longer to access health care. The CMA is calling on the government to reconsider this proposal, and focus on known solutions to support public health care.
Alberta’s private health proposal will leave more Albertans waiting longer for care: CMA
Doctors across Canada are deeply concerned that the Alberta government’s proposed private care plan will leave more Albertans waiting even longer to access health care.
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November 18, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Doctors across Canada are deeply concerned that the #Alberta government’s proposed private care plan will leave more Albertans waiting even longer to access health care. The CMA is calling on the government to reconsider this proposal, and focus on known solutions to support public health care.
Reposted by Monica Kidd
Alberta government undermined health authority to push lab privatization deal, A-G report finds. There were issues throughout the procurement process, including a failure to assess Dynalife's financial vulnerabilities, by Matthew Scace www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... via @theglobeandmail.com
Alberta government undermined health authority to push lab privatization deal, A-G report finds
Report details issues throughout the procurement process including miscalculated cost savings and failures to assess Dynalife’s financial vulnerabilities
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Alberta government undermined health authority to push lab privatization deal, A-G report finds. There were issues throughout the procurement process, including a failure to assess Dynalife's financial vulnerabilities, by Matthew Scace www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... via @theglobeandmail.com
Reposted by Monica Kidd
How many private-pay surgeries are being done? Where? On whom? By whom? For what? As @monicakidd.bsky.social explains, the lack of publicly available information about private-pay surgery raises serious questions about industry accountability. thewalrus.ca/private-health-c...
November 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
How many private-pay surgeries are being done? Where? On whom? By whom? For what? As @monicakidd.bsky.social explains, the lack of publicly available information about private-pay surgery raises serious questions about industry accountability. thewalrus.ca/private-health-c...
Thanks to Ben O'Hara-Byrne for the opportunity to talk about Canada's recent loss of measles elimination status and the analysis I did for the December issue of The Walrus. @thewalrus.ca
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How did Canada go backwards on Measles prevention and what now?
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November 17, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Thanks to Ben O'Hara-Byrne for the opportunity to talk about Canada's recent loss of measles elimination status and the analysis I did for the December issue of The Walrus. @thewalrus.ca
open.spotify.com/episode/1is9...
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A family friend for decades, Arden came by today to collect scion from Mom’s apple trees to see if we can start a new generation.
November 17, 2025 at 3:26 AM
A family friend for decades, Arden came by today to collect scion from Mom’s apple trees to see if we can start a new generation.
What a deep honour it is to find a book I wrote included on a mural in St. John’s depicting books as buildings, and commenting on how central storytelling is to the fabric of the city and province and people. ❤️
November 16, 2025 at 12:55 AM
What a deep honour it is to find a book I wrote included on a mural in St. John’s depicting books as buildings, and commenting on how central storytelling is to the fabric of the city and province and people. ❤️
This just out: Canada no longer holds measles elimination status. See my recent analysis in The Walrus. www.canada.ca/en/public-he... @thewalrus.ca
Statement from the Public Health Agency of Canada on Canada’s Measles Elimination Status
Following over 12 months of transmission across the country, PAHO confirms Canada's loss of measles elimination status. We are coordinating efforts with provinces and territories to restore the status...
www.canada.ca
November 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM
This just out: Canada no longer holds measles elimination status. See my recent analysis in The Walrus. www.canada.ca/en/public-he... @thewalrus.ca
"Hope is more elegant than despair"
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"Hope is more elegant than despair"
Reporting on climate
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November 5, 2025 at 5:12 AM
"Hope is more elegant than despair"
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My cover story for @thewalrus.ca on the measles outbreak in Alberta, now in print for the December issue. Look for it on newsstands. #measles #vaccinations #publichealth
November 3, 2025 at 10:00 PM
My cover story for @thewalrus.ca on the measles outbreak in Alberta, now in print for the December issue. Look for it on newsstands. #measles #vaccinations #publichealth
November 3, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Cleaning out Mom and Dad’s house we came across these classics that Dad held onto for all these years. Suddenly they are SUPER cool. ⚾️ #bluejays
October 26, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Cleaning out Mom and Dad’s house we came across these classics that Dad held onto for all these years. Suddenly they are SUPER cool. ⚾️ #bluejays