Catherine Mac Neil
@neil_catherine
Former ICU Nurse. Writer. Obsessed with quality health care as a basic human right . Author of : Dying to be Seen: The Race to Save Medicare in Canada.
11 hours without care: Quebec coroner cites hospital's organizational failures in senior's death Yvon Brossoit died from heart failure after waiting in the ER for over 11 hours without being re-evaluated cbc.ca/news/canada/mo…
Well into the Canada Day weekend the ER called the surgeon to come in for an emergency. The surgeon came in 20 minutes and successfully completed the procedure. Canada's publicly funded healthcare system doesn't take holidays. We're not perfect, but do our best.
Brilliant commentary. What happens when you put wealthy people in charge of public health who don’t understand why public health exists.
RFK Jr.’s worldview reflects an idealized version of America - where everyone has access to healthy food, quality care, and the luxury to micro-optimize their wellness. But public health isn’t about serving those already thriving. It’s about protecting everyone: preventing…
Noam Chomsky reflects on the Iraq War 20 years later | The Mehdi Hasan Show youtu.be/2GFh4vZbjYc?si… via @YouTube
Last year, @Nike made $23 billion. Its founder is worth $35 billion. But Nike pays just dollars a day to the workers who make its products. Today I met Dinar, who sews 222 labels an hour onto Nike products. She is paid $202 a month. This is corporate greed at its worst.
Our doctors - the very best of us - are asking Canada, asking @MarkJCarney & @AnitaAnandMP, not to condemn more, to talk more, or to announce more, but to *act*, and act NOW to prevent genocide & the intentional destruction of an entire people in Gaza. Will they finally listen?
Stop what you’re doing and watch this immediately. Canadian doctors returned from Gaza and are sharing what they witnessed and lived. They are demanding action from Mark Carney. Their testimony is our failure.
All States must act now to end this atrocity.
Starvation. Dehydration. Malnutrition. The reality for children in Gaza is horrific. Aid at scale is urgently required in Gaza. With UNICEF spokesperson @1james_elder.
After 86 days of starvation, starving Gazans had to walk several KILOMETRES on foot in order to get a food parcel enough for only 24 hours!
Watching Jordan Peterson get decimated by simple logic is always fun. The guy tries to sound smart by bringing big words to the table but my goodness is he daft.
One reason Jordan Peterson is so poor at reasoning is he's surrounded by sycophants who don't give him feedback on his extremely flawed arguments. Here's what happens when he tests his ideas against someone who isn't in his close circle of salad brained pseudointellectuals
Dear Canada, I felt compelled to make something. To stick up for, and to honour. To show our strength, beauty, genius, empathy, light & heart. It's made with deep gratitude for the people and places of this beautiful land. Vive le Canada 🇨🇦❤️✌️💪 vimeo.com/1056619122/f6e…
Totally insane. First, a gym full of people. Then an overflow crowd. Then an overflow-overflow crowd, and an overflow-overflow-overflow crowd. More than 9,000 people came out in Warren, MI to say NO to oligarchy & NO cuts to Social Security, Medicaid, and VA programs.
We will persist. Long after Donald Trump leaves office we will still be here. We will be here as Canada. 🇨🇦 We will be here as Manitobans 🦬 We will still be the best nation when it comes to hockey. 🏒
A Justin Trudeau quote that will long be remembered: “𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙐𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙨 𝙡𝙖𝙪𝙣𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙙 𝙖 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙧 𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙩 𝘾𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙙𝙖, 𝙞𝙩𝙨 𝙘𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙣𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮, 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝙘𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙛𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙙. 𝘼𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙖𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚…
Our economy should be measured by how the bottom 30% are doing in the supermarket, not how the top 1% are doing in the stock market.
Today Dying to be Seen became the #1 Best seller in Health Policy. Now,more than ever, everything we cherish as Canadians must be celebrated. That includes rebuilding our 🇨🇦Medicare system. A system based on need—not greed . Here’s to hockey, Hortons & Healthcare! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
Red. White. And Golden! 🍁 Team Canada reigns supreme at the 4 Nations Face-Off, taking down the US in classic hockey fashion! 🇨🇦🏒 - Le Canada en or! 🍁 Équipe Canada s’impose à la Confrontation des 4 Nations battant les États-Unis dans la plus pure tradition du hockey! 🇨🇦🏒