Nick Tsergas
@nicktsergas.ca
Editor, @CanadaHealthwatch.ca
Reporting and analysis on the forces shaping Canada’s health system.
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Reporting and analysis on the forces shaping Canada’s health system.
Read my stuff >> know more stuff: canadahealthwatch.ca/newsletter
📁 https://muckrack.com/nicktsergas
Canada isn’t really reacting to Trump's Greenland grab.
The U.S. is actively eroding international norms that have held the global order since WWII.
We're reacting to that.
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The U.S. is actively eroding international norms that have held the global order since WWII.
We're reacting to that.
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With the U.S. threatening to take over the Arctic island, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said she shared the federal government's full support for the sovereignty of Greenland in a conversation with the Danish foreign minister.
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Anita Anand stands up for Greenland’s sovereignty
YouTube video by CBC News: The National
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December 26, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Canada isn’t really reacting to Trump's Greenland grab.
The U.S. is actively eroding international norms that have held the global order since WWII.
We're reacting to that.
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The U.S. is actively eroding international norms that have held the global order since WWII.
We're reacting to that.
1/5
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December 26, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Watching Ghostbusters Christmas it’s awesome. Haha
December 25, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Watching Ghostbusters Christmas it’s awesome. Haha
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Both in Canada and the U.S., governments explicitly chose to train fewer doctors. We’re still dealing with the fallout.
@canadahealthwatch.ca
@canadahealthwatch.ca
Canada’s doctor shortage is no accident
It was policy.
canadahealthwatch.ca
December 23, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Both in Canada and the U.S., governments explicitly chose to train fewer doctors. We’re still dealing with the fallout.
@canadahealthwatch.ca
@canadahealthwatch.ca
The U.S. is weaponizing global health aid.
Countries that agree to incarcerate "deportees" get deals. Those that don’t get cut off.
CECOT is the prototype.
Countries that agree to incarcerate "deportees" get deals. Those that don’t get cut off.
CECOT is the prototype.
After dismantling USAID, U.S. turns health aid into transactional leverage in Africa https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/us-signs-new-health-deals-with-9-african-countries-that-mirror-trumps-priorities/
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December 23, 2025 at 7:21 PM
The U.S. is weaponizing global health aid.
Countries that agree to incarcerate "deportees" get deals. Those that don’t get cut off.
CECOT is the prototype.
Countries that agree to incarcerate "deportees" get deals. Those that don’t get cut off.
CECOT is the prototype.
The Health & Media Tracking Survey examines how misinformation shapes public understanding and health behaviours.
It’s one of few consistent national instruments we have to track how Canadians experience the health information environment.
Feb 10: Ottawa (in person) or online.
It’s one of few consistent national instruments we have to track how Canadians experience the health information environment.
Feb 10: Ottawa (in person) or online.
Join us February 10, 2026 in Ottawa or online for the launch our 2026 Health & Media Tracking Survey results with the Empire Club of Canada. We’ll examine the growing influence of health misinformation and the actions needed to respond.
Register here 👇
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#HMTS2026
Register here 👇
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#HMTS2026
December 16, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The Health & Media Tracking Survey examines how misinformation shapes public understanding and health behaviours.
It’s one of few consistent national instruments we have to track how Canadians experience the health information environment.
Feb 10: Ottawa (in person) or online.
It’s one of few consistent national instruments we have to track how Canadians experience the health information environment.
Feb 10: Ottawa (in person) or online.
AI-generated “synthetic respondents” can now pass the vast majority of fraud, attention, logic, and CAPTCHA checks used in opt-in online survey-based polling.
They can do this cheaply and at scale.
Often without being detected.
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They can do this cheaply and at scale.
Often without being detected.
(1/3)
AI, Bogus Respondents, and the Integrity of Online Polling www.ekospolitics.com/index.php/20...
AI, Bogus Respondents, and the Integrity of Online Polling
[Ottawa – December 1, 2025] As AI tools become cheaper and harder to detect, non-probability, opt-in polls are becoming more vulnerable to synthetic respondents. This deck looks at what’s hap…
www.ekospolitics.com
December 13, 2025 at 10:09 PM
AI-generated “synthetic respondents” can now pass the vast majority of fraud, attention, logic, and CAPTCHA checks used in opt-in online survey-based polling.
They can do this cheaply and at scale.
Often without being detected.
(1/3)
They can do this cheaply and at scale.
Often without being detected.
(1/3)
This is a genuinely important genetics paper. It suggests many psychiatric diagnoses we treat as distinct are biologically entangled.
It should force a rethink of our diagnostic categories. It also creates new risks.
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It should force a rethink of our diagnostic categories. It also creates new risks.
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Supposedly distinct psychiatric conditions may have same root causes https://www.newscientist.com/article/2507900-supposedly-distinct-psychiatric-conditions-may-have-same-root-causes/
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December 13, 2025 at 5:04 PM
This is a genuinely important genetics paper. It suggests many psychiatric diagnoses we treat as distinct are biologically entangled.
It should force a rethink of our diagnostic categories. It also creates new risks.
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It should force a rethink of our diagnostic categories. It also creates new risks.
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Why the “immunity debt” narrative ultimately collapsed:
Over the past few months, the conversation has moved toward the conclusion the evidence has been pointing to for years.
Since 2022, immunity debt offered an easy explanation for the unusual patterns of illness we kept seeing.
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Over the past few months, the conversation has moved toward the conclusion the evidence has been pointing to for years.
Since 2022, immunity debt offered an easy explanation for the unusual patterns of illness we kept seeing.
1/7
December 8, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Why the “immunity debt” narrative ultimately collapsed:
Over the past few months, the conversation has moved toward the conclusion the evidence has been pointing to for years.
Since 2022, immunity debt offered an easy explanation for the unusual patterns of illness we kept seeing.
1/7
Over the past few months, the conversation has moved toward the conclusion the evidence has been pointing to for years.
Since 2022, immunity debt offered an easy explanation for the unusual patterns of illness we kept seeing.
1/7
This Alberta pediatrician captures something clinicians everywhere feel but rarely articulate this clearly:
Systems fail in patterned ways.
Families absorb the cost.
Governments sell “choice” while walking away from their duties.
Worth your time:
Systems fail in patterned ways.
Families absorb the cost.
Governments sell “choice” while walking away from their duties.
Worth your time:
New CHW Perspective:
an Alberta pediatrician describes how structural gaps in care are shaping families' lives, and argues that the province’s new “dual-practice” model risks making things worse.
Full analysis:
canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/12/05/a...
an Alberta pediatrician describes how structural gaps in care are shaping families' lives, and argues that the province’s new “dual-practice” model risks making things worse.
Full analysis:
canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/12/05/a...
Alberta isn’t fixing healthcare. It’s abandoning it.
“Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets.”
canadahealthwatch.ca
December 5, 2025 at 8:40 PM
This Alberta pediatrician captures something clinicians everywhere feel but rarely articulate this clearly:
Systems fail in patterned ways.
Families absorb the cost.
Governments sell “choice” while walking away from their duties.
Worth your time:
Systems fail in patterned ways.
Families absorb the cost.
Governments sell “choice” while walking away from their duties.
Worth your time:
Reimer is right about the near-term risk of losing US flu sequencing. It makes vaccine mismatch more likely.
But the deeper issue is epistemology.
Immunization decisions have always leaned on an assumption that the US science apparatus would remain politically insulated. That assumption is gone...
But the deeper issue is epistemology.
Immunization decisions have always leaned on an assumption that the US science apparatus would remain politically insulated. That assumption is gone...
Canada's Flu Seasons Are About to Get a Lot Worse macleans.ca/society/heal... @jossreimer.bsky.social @macleans.bsky.social
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December 4, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Reimer is right about the near-term risk of losing US flu sequencing. It makes vaccine mismatch more likely.
But the deeper issue is epistemology.
Immunization decisions have always leaned on an assumption that the US science apparatus would remain politically insulated. That assumption is gone...
But the deeper issue is epistemology.
Immunization decisions have always leaned on an assumption that the US science apparatus would remain politically insulated. That assumption is gone...
News framing casts this as another “experts disagree” moment.
But this disagreement isn’t really about prostate screening at all.
It's epistemic.
The real problem is a structural failure in the machinery that produces our screening guidelines.
(1/2)
But this disagreement isn’t really about prostate screening at all.
It's epistemic.
The real problem is a structural failure in the machinery that produces our screening guidelines.
(1/2)
December 4, 2025 at 3:40 AM
News framing casts this as another “experts disagree” moment.
But this disagreement isn’t really about prostate screening at all.
It's epistemic.
The real problem is a structural failure in the machinery that produces our screening guidelines.
(1/2)
But this disagreement isn’t really about prostate screening at all.
It's epistemic.
The real problem is a structural failure in the machinery that produces our screening guidelines.
(1/2)
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Hyperscale data-centre expansion is outpacing the capacity of the local systems that support it.
The public health costs are falling to small municipalities with limited leverage and no oversight mechanisms.
This week we map out an emerging pattern:
The public health costs are falling to small municipalities with limited leverage and no oversight mechanisms.
This week we map out an emerging pattern:
Alberta’s data-centre push leaves health questions unanswered
Canada's national curated aggregator for health news, policy updates and analysis.
canadahealthwatch.ca
December 2, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Hyperscale data-centre expansion is outpacing the capacity of the local systems that support it.
The public health costs are falling to small municipalities with limited leverage and no oversight mechanisms.
This week we map out an emerging pattern:
The public health costs are falling to small municipalities with limited leverage and no oversight mechanisms.
This week we map out an emerging pattern:
We often treat measles immunity as a solved problem: "Childhood vaccination = lifelong protection"
Might be a lazy assumption.
A new Lancet study shows a slow, steady decline in measles antibody levels over the years.
Does our “once in childhood is enough” thinking still fit the evidence?
Might be a lazy assumption.
A new Lancet study shows a slow, steady decline in measles antibody levels over the years.
Does our “once in childhood is enough” thinking still fit the evidence?
December 2, 2025 at 4:02 PM
We often treat measles immunity as a solved problem: "Childhood vaccination = lifelong protection"
Might be a lazy assumption.
A new Lancet study shows a slow, steady decline in measles antibody levels over the years.
Does our “once in childhood is enough” thinking still fit the evidence?
Might be a lazy assumption.
A new Lancet study shows a slow, steady decline in measles antibody levels over the years.
Does our “once in childhood is enough” thinking still fit the evidence?
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We must not forget to thank ALL those who helped elevate these non-clinical elitist ideologues to the highest levels of power within the US Federal Government.
Why the AMA’s actions are raising alarms by, uh, me and @nicktsergas.ca
Why the AMA’s actions are raising alarms by, uh, me and @nicktsergas.ca
Why the AMA’s actions are raising alarms
Something is breaking inside of American medicine.
canadahealthwatch.ca
December 2, 2025 at 4:03 AM
We must not forget to thank ALL those who helped elevate these non-clinical elitist ideologues to the highest levels of power within the US Federal Government.
Why the AMA’s actions are raising alarms by, uh, me and @nicktsergas.ca
Why the AMA’s actions are raising alarms by, uh, me and @nicktsergas.ca
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This is how a health system burns to the ground. How Alberta's dual practice plan would drain hospital staff and delay lifesaving care, by Dr. Paul Parks canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/28/t... via @canadahealthwatch.ca @nicktsergas.ca
This is how a health system burns to the ground
Dr. Paul Parks explains how Alberta's dual-billing plan would drain hospital staff and delay lifesaving care.
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December 1, 2025 at 6:19 PM
This is how a health system burns to the ground. How Alberta's dual practice plan would drain hospital staff and delay lifesaving care, by Dr. Paul Parks canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/28/t... via @canadahealthwatch.ca @nicktsergas.ca
Alberta just opened the door to two-tier healthcare.
This is what that actually means.
New CHW piece by Dr. Paul Parks:
This is what that actually means.
New CHW piece by Dr. Paul Parks:
November 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Alberta just opened the door to two-tier healthcare.
This is what that actually means.
New CHW piece by Dr. Paul Parks:
This is what that actually means.
New CHW piece by Dr. Paul Parks:
In a study of more than 18,000 live births, 16.3% of babies received a neurodevelopmental diagnosis by age three, compared with 9.7% who were not exposed to SARS-CoV-2 in utero.
Amid Incorrect Vaccine Guidance from the CDC, Study Links COVID-19 Infection During Pregnancy to Autism www.propublica.org/article/covi... @deldeib.bsky.social @propublica.org
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November 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
In a study of more than 18,000 live births, 16.3% of babies received a neurodevelopmental diagnosis by age three, compared with 9.7% who were not exposed to SARS-CoV-2 in utero.
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This is exciting news for the Canadian media ecosystem. Love to see it! www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/national/new...
News publishers’ copyright lawsuit against OpenAI to go ahead in Ontario
OTTAWA - An Ontario court has decided a copyright lawsuit filed by Canadian news publishers against OpenAI will proceed in that province.
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca
November 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
This is exciting news for the Canadian media ecosystem. Love to see it! www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/national/new...
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What Canada’s new supplement labels still won’t tell you canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/21/w... via @canadahealthwatch.ca
Me: "The marketing of supplements has also become … one of the primary ways that the health misinformation ecosystem is funded."
🚩 Increasingly supplements = red flag for bunk.🚩
Me: "The marketing of supplements has also become … one of the primary ways that the health misinformation ecosystem is funded."
🚩 Increasingly supplements = red flag for bunk.🚩
What Canada’s new supplement labels still won’t tell you
The new rules don’t address the biggest gap of all.
canadahealthwatch.ca
November 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
What Canada’s new supplement labels still won’t tell you canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/21/w... via @canadahealthwatch.ca
Me: "The marketing of supplements has also become … one of the primary ways that the health misinformation ecosystem is funded."
🚩 Increasingly supplements = red flag for bunk.🚩
Me: "The marketing of supplements has also become … one of the primary ways that the health misinformation ecosystem is funded."
🚩 Increasingly supplements = red flag for bunk.🚩
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Everyone’s watching Quebec’s doctor revolt. For good reason.
The real story is in Alberta.
Both governments are testing how far political power can reach into medicine.
Here’s how it looks from 30,000 ft:
The real story is in Alberta.
Both governments are testing how far political power can reach into medicine.
Here’s how it looks from 30,000 ft:
Quebec bleeds doctors, as Alberta invents new methods of overreach canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/26/q... by @nicktsergas.ca
Quebec bleeds doctors, as Alberta invents new methods of overreach
Alberta’s project is qualitatively different. It goes further.
canadahealthwatch.ca
November 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Everyone’s watching Quebec’s doctor revolt. For good reason.
The real story is in Alberta.
Both governments are testing how far political power can reach into medicine.
Here’s how it looks from 30,000 ft:
The real story is in Alberta.
Both governments are testing how far political power can reach into medicine.
Here’s how it looks from 30,000 ft:
Everyone’s watching Quebec’s doctor revolt. For good reason.
The real story is in Alberta.
Both governments are testing how far political power can reach into medicine.
Here’s how it looks from 30,000 ft:
The real story is in Alberta.
Both governments are testing how far political power can reach into medicine.
Here’s how it looks from 30,000 ft:
Quebec bleeds doctors, as Alberta invents new methods of overreach canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/26/q... by @nicktsergas.ca
Quebec bleeds doctors, as Alberta invents new methods of overreach
Alberta’s project is qualitatively different. It goes further.
canadahealthwatch.ca
November 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Everyone’s watching Quebec’s doctor revolt. For good reason.
The real story is in Alberta.
Both governments are testing how far political power can reach into medicine.
Here’s how it looks from 30,000 ft:
The real story is in Alberta.
Both governments are testing how far political power can reach into medicine.
Here’s how it looks from 30,000 ft:
Parliament’s data-dive and Budget 2025 are not separate stories.
What Parliament’s data probe and Budget 2025 have in common
Canada's national curated aggregator for health news, policy updates and analysis.
canadahealthwatch.ca
November 26, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Parliament’s data-dive and Budget 2025 are not separate stories.
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Most kids ask for lullabies or bedtime stories. Tonight, to get him to sleep, my 5-year old insisted that I speak endless streams of nonsense in a Jamaican accent.
Seriously, this is what he wanted. And it worked. Out like a light.
Seriously, this is what he wanted. And it worked. Out like a light.
November 25, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Most kids ask for lullabies or bedtime stories. Tonight, to get him to sleep, my 5-year old insisted that I speak endless streams of nonsense in a Jamaican accent.
Seriously, this is what he wanted. And it worked. Out like a light.
Seriously, this is what he wanted. And it worked. Out like a light.
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The AMA is starting to fracture under political pressure. Our analysis explains what changed this week, and why it matters.
Why the AMA’s actions are raising alarms canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/22/w... by @codeblackamerica.bsky.social, @nicktsergas.ca
Why the AMA’s actions are raising alarms
Something is breaking inside of American medicine.
canadahealthwatch.ca
November 23, 2025 at 4:02 AM
The AMA is starting to fracture under political pressure. Our analysis explains what changed this week, and why it matters.