Fatima Fihri
@fatimafihri.bsky.social
Seeker of knowledge. Trying my best to do what is right. 🇨🇦
"....whoever saves a life, it will be as if they saved all of humanity." Quran 5:32
"....whoever saves a life, it will be as if they saved all of humanity." Quran 5:32
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🔥"The creation of a public-private practice model will not only start unravelling Alberta’s public health-care system, but public health care across our country. The decisions made today will have reverberations far into the future." #abpoli #cdnpoli www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Alberta’s public-private model threatens health care all over the country
All a public-private surgical model will do is reallocate surgeries from those who need it the most to those who can pay the most. In the short term, patients will
www.thestar.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:37 PM
🔥"The creation of a public-private practice model will not only start unravelling Alberta’s public health-care system, but public health care across our country. The decisions made today will have reverberations far into the future." #abpoli #cdnpoli www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Scientists studied thousands of children born March 2020-May 2021.
Out of 800+ mothers diagnosed with COVID-19, 16.3% of their babies received a neurodevelopmental diagnosis by 3 years old, compared with 9.7% who weren’t exposed to COVID-19 in utero.
Out of 800+ mothers diagnosed with COVID-19, 16.3% of their babies received a neurodevelopmental diagnosis by 3 years old, compared with 9.7% who weren’t exposed to COVID-19 in utero.
Amid Confusing CDC Guidance About Vaccines, Study Highlights New Risk of COVID-19 During Pregnancy
A Harvard study found that the children of women who contracted COVID-19 while pregnant may be at an increased risk for autism and other diagnoses, raising new concerns about the CDC’s decision to sto...
www.propublica.org
November 30, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Scientists studied thousands of children born March 2020-May 2021.
Out of 800+ mothers diagnosed with COVID-19, 16.3% of their babies received a neurodevelopmental diagnosis by 3 years old, compared with 9.7% who weren’t exposed to COVID-19 in utero.
Out of 800+ mothers diagnosed with COVID-19, 16.3% of their babies received a neurodevelopmental diagnosis by 3 years old, compared with 9.7% who weren’t exposed to COVID-19 in utero.
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Andrew Coyne; ‘Just because you divide..1 line into 2 doesn’t change the # of patients or..the # of hrs in a dr’s day.All you’ve done is reshuffle the order in which the dr sees them,replacing medical necessity as the triage criterion with ability to pay’
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/d487a4a...
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/d487a4a...
Yes, the health care system is a mess, but Danielle Smith’s gambit risks failure
The solution to Canada’s health care woes is to create a market
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Andrew Coyne; ‘Just because you divide..1 line into 2 doesn’t change the # of patients or..the # of hrs in a dr’s day.All you’ve done is reshuffle the order in which the dr sees them,replacing medical necessity as the triage criterion with ability to pay’
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/d487a4a...
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/d487a4a...
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Imagine the hole in Alberta’s budget when the price & demand for oil is in long-term decline in 2030s as a result of the energy transition and increased demand for clean energy. Not nostalgia for the past, it’s about winning the future. Just economics, folks.
Alberta faces $6.4-billion deficit as falling oil prices and trade troubles take toll
This year’s budget represents a massive multibillion-dollar swing from an $8.3-billion surplus last year
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Imagine the hole in Alberta’s budget when the price & demand for oil is in long-term decline in 2030s as a result of the energy transition and increased demand for clean energy. Not nostalgia for the past, it’s about winning the future. Just economics, folks.
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Room in the same tent? Shouldn't you be asking what it means now that the UCP is fundamentally a separatist party? Smith encouraged the leopards and they ate her face.
December 1, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Room in the same tent? Shouldn't you be asking what it means now that the UCP is fundamentally a separatist party? Smith encouraged the leopards and they ate her face.
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Lots of sensible advice (exercise, wind down time, etc). In fact, I do lots of this.
But remember there is no magic formula. Find healthy rhythm that works for you!
Here’s my simple, science-backed schedule for a healthier day wapo.st/43WvWw7
But remember there is no magic formula. Find healthy rhythm that works for you!
Here’s my simple, science-backed schedule for a healthier day wapo.st/43WvWw7
Column | As a doctor, here’s my simple, science-backed schedule for a healthier day
Routines are linked to better health outcomes. Consider this a template for creating your own.
wapo.st
December 1, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Lots of sensible advice (exercise, wind down time, etc). In fact, I do lots of this.
But remember there is no magic formula. Find healthy rhythm that works for you!
Here’s my simple, science-backed schedule for a healthier day wapo.st/43WvWw7
But remember there is no magic formula. Find healthy rhythm that works for you!
Here’s my simple, science-backed schedule for a healthier day wapo.st/43WvWw7
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I've been thinking for a while that fighting the fossil fuel propaganda war is the most important climate fight to be having. The other side is well funded (and hence well armed) and we need to be as well.
Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I've been thinking for a while that fighting the fossil fuel propaganda war is the most important climate fight to be having. The other side is well funded (and hence well armed) and we need to be as well.
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6 years today the first COVID case was identified in a man in Wuhan marking the beginning of a global pandemic that changed the world. We are way less prepared today to face another pandemic than we were back then. This fact makes me sad.
November 30, 2025 at 10:52 PM
6 years today the first COVID case was identified in a man in Wuhan marking the beginning of a global pandemic that changed the world. We are way less prepared today to face another pandemic than we were back then. This fact makes me sad.
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Reminder that many countries where these migrants come from have higher vaccination rates than we do in the US. The call is coming from inside the house. (and whooops we exported #measles cases TO Mexico from our Texas outbreak).
November 30, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Reminder that many countries where these migrants come from have higher vaccination rates than we do in the US. The call is coming from inside the house. (and whooops we exported #measles cases TO Mexico from our Texas outbreak).
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🧵🦠🧪 --discussion of Prasad's assertion that 10 kids have died from COVID vaccines (using VAERS data).
Dr. Prasad send an email to CBER suggesting changes to the approval for respiratory vaccines based, apparently, on the conclusion of an unpublished investigation into VAERS report by unknown people. A few thoughts beyond what was already reported, based on the full email: 1/n
November 29, 2025 at 6:34 PM
🧵🦠🧪 --discussion of Prasad's assertion that 10 kids have died from COVID vaccines (using VAERS data).
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"In a world that no longer places much value on informed consent, masking can signal that you care about keeping yourself and others safe."
A great read, this. We've seen how bad things can get. Let's normalize self-care and community care before it happens again.
#healthcare #COVID #pandemic #N95
A great read, this. We've seen how bad things can get. Let's normalize self-care and community care before it happens again.
#healthcare #COVID #pandemic #N95
November 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
"In a world that no longer places much value on informed consent, masking can signal that you care about keeping yourself and others safe."
A great read, this. We've seen how bad things can get. Let's normalize self-care and community care before it happens again.
#healthcare #COVID #pandemic #N95
A great read, this. We've seen how bad things can get. Let's normalize self-care and community care before it happens again.
#healthcare #COVID #pandemic #N95
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A great morning read. substack.com/@dougfirby/n...
Privatization is no silver bullet to fix health care
Alberta's blind faith in a discredited ideology short-circuits creative solutions
substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
A great morning read. substack.com/@dougfirby/n...
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A horrendous story of an American suffering from alternative health treatment in Canada. Usually it is Canadians going down to access quacks in the US
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#medsky #als
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#medsky #als
American ALS patient died alone after paying $84K US in pursuit of healing at controversial Sask. facility | CBC News
A 70-year-old American ALS patient came to Saskatchewan chasing the promise of healing offered by the Dr. Goodenowe Restorative Health Center in Moose Jaw, Sask. But former Goodenowe employees say tha...
www.cbc.ca
November 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM
A horrendous story of an American suffering from alternative health treatment in Canada. Usually it is Canadians going down to access quacks in the US
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#medsky #als
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#medsky #als
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A thread on the MOU.
MOST IMPORTANT: Carney's move signals to the rest of Canada, and the world, that it's OK to keep building more fossil fuel projects.
Other countries will use this to justify doing the same.
Our children are watching, to see if we care about their futures. Do we? 1/22
MOST IMPORTANT: Carney's move signals to the rest of Canada, and the world, that it's OK to keep building more fossil fuel projects.
Other countries will use this to justify doing the same.
Our children are watching, to see if we care about their futures. Do we? 1/22
This is not a good take. Carney's move signals to the rest of Canada, and the world, that it's OK to keep building more fossil fuel projects.
Other countries will use this to justify doing the same.
Our children are watching, to see if we care about their futures. Do we?
Other countries will use this to justify doing the same.
Our children are watching, to see if we care about their futures. Do we?
November 29, 2025 at 8:37 AM
A thread on the MOU.
MOST IMPORTANT: Carney's move signals to the rest of Canada, and the world, that it's OK to keep building more fossil fuel projects.
Other countries will use this to justify doing the same.
Our children are watching, to see if we care about their futures. Do we? 1/22
MOST IMPORTANT: Carney's move signals to the rest of Canada, and the world, that it's OK to keep building more fossil fuel projects.
Other countries will use this to justify doing the same.
Our children are watching, to see if we care about their futures. Do we? 1/22
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Look around. The case for more, not less, liberal arts education - actual, real education in reading, writing, thinking, arguing, analyzing, & synthesizing by doing the actual hard work for which there is no substitute - is stronger than it’s ever been at any point in human history.
November 30, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Look around. The case for more, not less, liberal arts education - actual, real education in reading, writing, thinking, arguing, analyzing, & synthesizing by doing the actual hard work for which there is no substitute - is stronger than it’s ever been at any point in human history.
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We are supposed to believe that FDA paused and removed the J&J vaccine immediately after 6 cases of clotting, but they hid 10 kids dying from the mRNA vaccines until Prasad and Hoeg, who were always antivaxx, revealed the truth.
Checks out.
Checks out.
November 29, 2025 at 9:14 PM
We are supposed to believe that FDA paused and removed the J&J vaccine immediately after 6 cases of clotting, but they hid 10 kids dying from the mRNA vaccines until Prasad and Hoeg, who were always antivaxx, revealed the truth.
Checks out.
Checks out.
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November 29, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Gift 🎁 link.
Research demonstrates that vaccines can reduce the risk of cancer, dementia & heart conditions, as well as risk of acute disease.
Have you been vaccinated against HPV, shingles, hepatitis B, flu, covid, RSV, meningitis, & pneumonia? If you're eligible, get them now.
wapo.st/4p7cDsj
Research demonstrates that vaccines can reduce the risk of cancer, dementia & heart conditions, as well as risk of acute disease.
Have you been vaccinated against HPV, shingles, hepatitis B, flu, covid, RSV, meningitis, & pneumonia? If you're eligible, get them now.
wapo.st/4p7cDsj
The common vaccines that can prevent chronic disease or some cancers
In addition to cancer, a growing body of research has shown that vaccines can reduce the risk of developing dementia and heart conditions.
wapo.st
November 30, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Gift 🎁 link.
Research demonstrates that vaccines can reduce the risk of cancer, dementia & heart conditions, as well as risk of acute disease.
Have you been vaccinated against HPV, shingles, hepatitis B, flu, covid, RSV, meningitis, & pneumonia? If you're eligible, get them now.
wapo.st/4p7cDsj
Research demonstrates that vaccines can reduce the risk of cancer, dementia & heart conditions, as well as risk of acute disease.
Have you been vaccinated against HPV, shingles, hepatitis B, flu, covid, RSV, meningitis, & pneumonia? If you're eligible, get them now.
wapo.st/4p7cDsj
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Here's a gift link to a story that has more layers than a sack full of onions and somehow raises more questions on the story.
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/4c440ab...
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/4c440ab...
Who is Sam Mraiche? Inside Alberta’s health care controversy
A Globe investigation into the provincial health agency’s dealings with a company whose contracts have come under scrutiny
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Here's a gift link to a story that has more layers than a sack full of onions and somehow raises more questions on the story.
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/4c440ab...
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/4c440ab...
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The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
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UCP convention-goers voted to ban permanent residents and other non-citizens from being party members or voting to nominate candidates.
Saskatchewan Party grassroots did something similar; it could have a large effect on party base makeup in some ridings.
Saskatchewan Party grassroots did something similar; it could have a large effect on party base makeup in some ridings.
November 29, 2025 at 2:09 AM
UCP convention-goers voted to ban permanent residents and other non-citizens from being party members or voting to nominate candidates.
Saskatchewan Party grassroots did something similar; it could have a large effect on party base makeup in some ridings.
Saskatchewan Party grassroots did something similar; it could have a large effect on party base makeup in some ridings.
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A Cambridge-led study of 13.9 million children in England found COVID vaccines are the safest option. The very rare, short-term risk of heart inflammation from vaccination is far lower than the risks from infection, which can cause blood clots, heart issues and severe inflammation for up to a year.
New Data Shows COVID-19 Infection Much Worse For Children Than the Vaccine
"The risk following vaccination is substantially lower than the risk following infection".
www.zmescience.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:16 PM
A Cambridge-led study of 13.9 million children in England found COVID vaccines are the safest option. The very rare, short-term risk of heart inflammation from vaccination is far lower than the risks from infection, which can cause blood clots, heart issues and severe inflammation for up to a year.
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It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality
November 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality