jac d.b.
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jac d.b.
@desiredpaths.bsky.social
Patient-Oriented Research Communicator | Empowering ADHD Girls & Youth Through Information | Writing about Youth, Culture & Gender ✍️ 🎭 🌈

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"When it comes to understanding what’s going on with our bodies, who can we trust?" Read my feature in @thismagazine.bsky.social, about online reproductive health education, medical advocacy & what second-gen feminists can teach us about fighting for equitable, safer care: this.org/2025/05/05/v...
Vagina dialogues
When I learned I had precancerous lesions on my cervix and that my doctor was recommending I remove them surgically, my reaction went as follows: One, muted panic. Two, I’m definitely going to die. Th...
this.org
“Even if Bill 2 is being shelved, it has inflicted lasting damage on Quebec’s health-care system” : montrealgazette.com/opinion/colu... via @mtlgazette.bsky.social
Hanes: The bitter pill of a doctor deal at the 11th hour
Did it really have to come to this? Bill 2 has mercifully been shelved but it has inflicted lasting damage on Quebec's health system.
montrealgazette.com
December 13, 2025 at 9:13 PM
11 medical specialists withdraw from MUHC over Bill 2: montrealgazette.com/news/montrea...
11 medical specialists withdraw from MUHC over Bill 2
The hospital said it is actively working to get them to reconsider.
montrealgazette.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM
‘Disastrous’: One of Montreal’s largest pediatric clinics to close due to Quebec’s Bill 2 montreal.citynews.ca/2025/12/10/t...
Bill 2: One of Montreal’s largest pediatric clinics to close
Heartbreaking and devastating. Those are some of the words Montrealers are using to describe the closure of one of the city’s largest pediatric clinics. Tiny Tots Decarie in Côte Saint-Luc, a staple i...
montreal.citynews.ca
December 12, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Canada announced a $1.2 billion initiative to attract more than 1,000 doctors, researchers, and scientists in fields targeted by the Trump administration’s restrictive immigration policies and funding cuts.
www.thedailybeast.com/canada-launc...
Canada Launches $1B Plan to Lure Researchers Sick of Trump
The move seeks to position Canada as a safe haven for researchers and scientists targeted by the administration.
www.thedailybeast.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:26 PM
The key takeaway here isn't $$. It's how Quebecers are getting sick and dying because of the inability + lack of desire of gov to protect housing rights for all. Also: this is why "health care" is about more than ER visits. A broad perspective on health = focus on environment, prevention, community.
December 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Canada to open new fast track to permanent residency for 5,000 foreign doctors https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/diab-foreign-doctors-permanent-residency-9.7006937

𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter
December 8, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Des «attitudes anti-avortement» existent dans le réseau de la santé québécois : www.ledevoir.com/actualites/s...
Des «attitudes anti-avortement» existent dans le réseau de la santé québécois
Une étude recommande notamment de renforcer la formation médicale sur le sujet.
www.ledevoir.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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December 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
«Il faut casser l’hémorragie»: au moins 40 cliniques médicales menacées de fermeture www.journaldemontreal.com/2025/12/02/i... from @journaldemontreal.com
«Il faut casser l’hémorragie»: au moins 40 cliniques médicales menacées de fermeture
Au moins 40 cliniques médicales de partout au Québec sont menacées de fermeture ou mettront la clé sous la porte à cause de l’imposition de la loi 2.
www.journaldemontreal.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Experts warn merger of 2 Quebec health agencies could undermine public health. Government says merger will increase efficiency, but professors warn it could reduce preventive care: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Experts warn merger of 2 Quebec health agencies could undermine public health | CBC News
Experts are raising concerns over Quebec’s plan to merge two major health agencies as part of a broader plan to reduce bureaucracy. They warn the move could weaken public health, reduce preventive car...
www.cbc.ca
December 2, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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RFK Jr’s CDC posting lies about vaccines and autism on their website isn’t just misinformation, it’s intentionally weaponized eugenicist rhetoric that will kill people.
November 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency.

"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"

Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:
July 21, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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How can we call on this when we are still sending Israel weapons?!
July 21, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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July 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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"When it comes to understanding what’s going on with our bodies, who can we trust?" asks @desiredpaths.bsky.social in this important feature on AFAB health care from our Spring 2025 issue.

this.org/2025/05/05/v...
Vagina dialogues
When I learned I had precancerous lesions on my cervix and that my doctor was recommending I remove them surgically, my reaction went as follows: One, muted panic. Two, I’m definitely going to die. Th...
this.org
July 4, 2025 at 6:31 PM
"When it comes to understanding what’s going on with our bodies, who can we trust?" Read my feature in @thismagazine.bsky.social, about online reproductive health education, medical advocacy & what second-gen feminists can teach us about fighting for equitable, safer care: this.org/2025/05/05/v...
Vagina dialogues
When I learned I had precancerous lesions on my cervix and that my doctor was recommending I remove them surgically, my reaction went as follows: One, muted panic. Two, I’m definitely going to die. Th...
this.org
May 9, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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It's almost the weekend, and we have a Friday Feature to share!

In our upcoming Spring issue, @desiredpaths.bsky.social dives into the history of medical information-sharing amongst AFAB patients and asks "has the internet killed feminist health activism?"

this.org/2025/05/05/v...
Vagina dialogues
When I learned I had precancerous lesions on my cervix and that my doctor was recommending I remove them surgically, my reaction went as follows: One, muted panic. Two, I’m definitely going to die. Th...
this.org
May 9, 2025 at 2:29 PM