Tracy Powell, PhD, RN
@proftlp.bsky.social
Registered nurse; Educator; MAiD Researcher; Western University (BScN), University of Calgary (MN) & University of Victoria (PhD) alum; ❤️ being a girl mom & 🐶🐶mom. Spicy-nice. Sour-talker. She/her ✌🏻🫶🏻✊🏻
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1. As a consultant analyst that generally presents to the C-suite of organisations, I am often asked to produce short, concise explanations of both biological and geopolitical risks. Regarding Covid-19, I use the same summary with both C-level clients and friends:
August 15, 2025 at 10:37 AM
1. As a consultant analyst that generally presents to the C-suite of organisations, I am often asked to produce short, concise explanations of both biological and geopolitical risks. Regarding Covid-19, I use the same summary with both C-level clients and friends:
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Trans Care BC has removed clinician names from its website and notified staff about the U.S. initiative as a precaution.
This US Snitch Line Reports Canadians Providing Gender-Affirming Care | The Tyee
It’s a ‘terrifying’ update on an old anti-trans strategy, one lawyer says.
thetyee.ca
May 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Trans Care BC has removed clinician names from its website and notified staff about the U.S. initiative as a precaution.
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US President Donald Trump has some words as Canadians go to the polls today.
April 28, 2025 at 1:53 PM
US President Donald Trump has some words as Canadians go to the polls today.
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Note the wording from @who.int saying that the pandemic is very much ongoing.
Ongoing @who.int pandemic situational reports www.who.int/emergencies/...
April 24, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Note the wording from @who.int saying that the pandemic is very much ongoing.
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Ottawa Public Health (OPH) is asking for input on what respiratory virus info is important, how you use it, and if they should keep funding wastewater monitoring. Please help let OPH know this information is important ( opinion.ottawapublichealth.ca?e=446587&d=e... ). 🧵1/
OPH Respiratory Surveillance Survey
opinion.ottawapublichealth.ca
April 24, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Ottawa Public Health (OPH) is asking for input on what respiratory virus info is important, how you use it, and if they should keep funding wastewater monitoring. Please help let OPH know this information is important ( opinion.ottawapublichealth.ca?e=446587&d=e... ). 🧵1/
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What makes a good public health leader? canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/04/13/w... by @dfisman.bsky.social, et al
𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁
𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁
What makes a good public health leader?
Canada is searching for a new Chief Public Health Officer. Leadership matters, especially in a crisis.
canadahealthwatch.ca
April 13, 2025 at 8:43 PM
What makes a good public health leader? canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/04/13/w... by @dfisman.bsky.social, et al
𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁
𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁
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Pls don’t repost this or Trump will expode his depends!!
April 6, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Pls don’t repost this or Trump will expode his depends!!
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🚨TO ALL CANADIANS🚨
This is video worth watching. Pierre PoiLIEvre still refuses getting his security clearance.
Former CSIS director Richard Fadden has explained, a cabinet minister’s clearance has to be renewed.
#canada #elbowsup #markcarneyforpm #cdnpoli #tradewar #neverpoilievre #never51state
This is video worth watching. Pierre PoiLIEvre still refuses getting his security clearance.
Former CSIS director Richard Fadden has explained, a cabinet minister’s clearance has to be renewed.
#canada #elbowsup #markcarneyforpm #cdnpoli #tradewar #neverpoilievre #never51state
March 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
🚨TO ALL CANADIANS🚨
This is video worth watching. Pierre PoiLIEvre still refuses getting his security clearance.
Former CSIS director Richard Fadden has explained, a cabinet minister’s clearance has to be renewed.
#canada #elbowsup #markcarneyforpm #cdnpoli #tradewar #neverpoilievre #never51state
This is video worth watching. Pierre PoiLIEvre still refuses getting his security clearance.
Former CSIS director Richard Fadden has explained, a cabinet minister’s clearance has to be renewed.
#canada #elbowsup #markcarneyforpm #cdnpoli #tradewar #neverpoilievre #never51state
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"Columbia has long been run more like [a] vast, wealthy business and real estate empire ... than as an educational institution. It is a place where trustees, donors and powerful professional schools dictate its policy, not the rest of its faculty.... Columbia barely merits the name of a university."
Does Columbia still merit the name of a university? | Rashid Khalidi
Columbia has long been run more as a business empire than as an educational institution. Now it’s acting like Vichy on the Hudson
www.theguardian.com
March 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
"Columbia has long been run more like [a] vast, wealthy business and real estate empire ... than as an educational institution. It is a place where trustees, donors and powerful professional schools dictate its policy, not the rest of its faculty.... Columbia barely merits the name of a university."
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PSA, via Skipping Stone
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#Calgary #yyc
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Sunalta Community Hall
1627 10 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T3C 0J7
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#Calgary #yyc
March 7, 2025 at 2:47 AM
PSA, via Skipping Stone
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Sunalta Community Hall
1627 10 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T3C 0J7
maps.app.goo.gl/tprCyV7AW7x9...
#Calgary #yyc
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Sunalta Community Hall
1627 10 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T3C 0J7
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#Calgary #yyc
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Hey Alberta! just a heads up that our FluA season is not behaving normally. Looks like a peak in Dec, and now rising cases in the last few weeks. Anomalous compared to previous years.
Could explain our recent rise in ER wait times.
Could explain our recent rise in ER wait times.
February 27, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Hey Alberta! just a heads up that our FluA season is not behaving normally. Looks like a peak in Dec, and now rising cases in the last few weeks. Anomalous compared to previous years.
Could explain our recent rise in ER wait times.
Could explain our recent rise in ER wait times.
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One of Canada’s foremost defamation experts says a sweeping interim injunction granted by an Alberta judge against the Breakdown, a popular web-based political commentary show, “is vulnerable to either being set aside or significantly modified” in a court hearing Friday
thetyee.ca/News/2025/02...
thetyee.ca/News/2025/02...
A Close Look at Legal Battle that Stymied Alberta Podcast ‘The Breakdown’ | The Tyee
A justice ordered mentions of MHCare and its owner scrubbed. We asked a top media lawyer to analyze her ruling.
thetyee.ca
February 28, 2025 at 3:50 AM
One of Canada’s foremost defamation experts says a sweeping interim injunction granted by an Alberta judge against the Breakdown, a popular web-based political commentary show, “is vulnerable to either being set aside or significantly modified” in a court hearing Friday
thetyee.ca/News/2025/02...
thetyee.ca/News/2025/02...
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Canada needs a game plan to overhaul our regulatory bodies and to invest what is necessary to protect our people.
The United States has ceased to be a trustworthy ally.
They are threat not just to us but to their own people.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
The United States has ceased to be a trustworthy ally.
They are threat not just to us but to their own people.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
FDA cancels meeting to select flu strains for next season's shots
The canceled meeting comes just days after a CDC vaccine advisory committee meeting was abruptly postponed.
www.nbcnews.com
February 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Canada needs a game plan to overhaul our regulatory bodies and to invest what is necessary to protect our people.
The United States has ceased to be a trustworthy ally.
They are threat not just to us but to their own people.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
The United States has ceased to be a trustworthy ally.
They are threat not just to us but to their own people.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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For Ontario physicians: On Mar 19, I will be participating in the Toronto District's annual medical storytelling evening, where the theme will be COVID stories, so please keep your eyes open for this Friday's OMA News for details and registration info. Looking forward to hearing your stories. Tx.
February 26, 2025 at 12:26 AM
For Ontario physicians: On Mar 19, I will be participating in the Toronto District's annual medical storytelling evening, where the theme will be COVID stories, so please keep your eyes open for this Friday's OMA News for details and registration info. Looking forward to hearing your stories. Tx.
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How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...
www.propublica.org
February 20, 2025 at 12:11 PM
How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
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Breakdown Update - February 16, 2025
YouTube video by The Breakdown AB
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February 17, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Thank goodness for the American Medical Association. Here is their YouTube page. Please share far and wide. Right now bird flu is spreading throughout our country and most people have no clue. Please stay updated and bookmark this page for your health and well-being.
www.youtube.com/@americanmed...
www.youtube.com/@americanmed...
February 12, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Thank goodness for the American Medical Association. Here is their YouTube page. Please share far and wide. Right now bird flu is spreading throughout our country and most people have no clue. Please stay updated and bookmark this page for your health and well-being.
www.youtube.com/@americanmed...
www.youtube.com/@americanmed...
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@rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social
Ffp3 masks eliminate airborne transmission risks. A good time to be talking about this.
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Ffp3 masks eliminate airborne transmission risks. A good time to be talking about this.
Cambridge hospital’s mask upgrade appears to eliminate Covid risk to staff
Hospital infection study shows use of FFP3 respirators at Addenbrooke’s ‘may have cut ward-based infection to zero’
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2025 at 9:35 AM
www.theguardian.com/world/2021/j...
@rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social
Ffp3 masks eliminate airborne transmission risks. A good time to be talking about this.
@rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social
Ffp3 masks eliminate airborne transmission risks. A good time to be talking about this.
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“This is a historic victory for compassion as the Isle of Man takes a significant step towards giving the Manx people true choice at the end of life." @sarahwootton.bsky.social
#YesToDignity
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#YesToDignity
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Isle of Man on track to be first in the British Isles to legalise assisted dying as Bill passes final stage in Upper House
The Isle of Man’s Assisted Dying Bill passed the final stage in the Legislative Council on Tuesday 28th January 2025.
www.dignityindying.org.uk
January 28, 2025 at 1:25 PM
“This is a historic victory for compassion as the Isle of Man takes a significant step towards giving the Manx people true choice at the end of life." @sarahwootton.bsky.social
#YesToDignity
www.dignityindying.org.uk/news/isle-of...
#YesToDignity
www.dignityindying.org.uk/news/isle-of...
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Good 😷news for those in BC.
Sadly, I can’t see this type of province-wide mandate being put in place here in Alberta 😵💫
Good 😷news for those in BC.
Sadly, I can’t see this type of province-wide mandate being put in place here in Alberta 😵💫
Masking required at all B.C. health-care facilities once again | CBC News
Masks must again be worn in health-care facilities across B.C., according to the province's Health Ministry.
www.cbc.ca
January 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Good 😷news for those in BC.
Sadly, I can’t see this type of province-wide mandate being put in place here in Alberta 😵💫
Good 😷news for those in BC.
Sadly, I can’t see this type of province-wide mandate being put in place here in Alberta 😵💫
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FOI Shows COVID Is Still Striking Alberta’s Acute Care Centres
More than 300 new outbreaks and 3,000 individual infections raise questions about prevention. #abpoli #Alberta
thetyee.ca/News/2024/12...
More than 300 new outbreaks and 3,000 individual infections raise questions about prevention. #abpoli #Alberta
thetyee.ca/News/2024/12...
FOI Shows COVID Is Still Striking Alberta’s Acute Care Centres | The Tyee
More than 300 new outbreaks and 3,000 individual infections raise questions about prevention.
thetyee.ca
December 30, 2024 at 12:58 PM
FOI Shows COVID Is Still Striking Alberta’s Acute Care Centres
More than 300 new outbreaks and 3,000 individual infections raise questions about prevention. #abpoli #Alberta
thetyee.ca/News/2024/12...
More than 300 new outbreaks and 3,000 individual infections raise questions about prevention. #abpoli #Alberta
thetyee.ca/News/2024/12...
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More CAN-PCC #LongCovid draft recommendations are open for public feedback. Topics include vaccines, exercise, rest/pacing, chest CTs & more.
Do the 15-minute online survey until January 2, 2025 at 8:45 pm Pacific / 11:45 pm Eastern: canpcc.ca/public-comme...
Public Comment - Canadian Guidelines for Post-COVID-19 Condition (CAN-PCC)
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December 24, 2024 at 2:08 PM
More CAN-PCC #LongCovid draft recommendations are open for public feedback. Topics include vaccines, exercise, rest/pacing, chest CTs & more.
Do the 15-minute online survey until January 2, 2025 at 8:45 pm Pacific / 11:45 pm Eastern: canpcc.ca/public-comme...