Applications are now open for the University of Ottawa Summer Institute in Public Health Law, running June 1–5. This one-week (30-hour) online course equips you to understand & respond to key law and policy issues in public health.
For more information or to apply: www.ottawahealthlaw.ca/institute
Les candidatures sont maintenant ouvertes pour l’Institut d’été en droit de la santé publique de l’Université d’Ottawa, qui se tiendra du 1er au 5 juin.
Pour en savoir plus ou pour soumettre votre candidature : www.ottawahealthlaw.ca/institute
Suspected (not yet confirmed) #Ebola case in DRC.
Original article: "Santé : Ebola menacerait-il à nouveau Beni ?" www.netic-news.net/sante-ebola-...
h/t to #GPHIN, from whence I heard this first.
It was never the rules-based international order that wouldn't allow us to kidnap leaders, invade other countries, or bomb the everloving god out of poor countries
It was that we agreed not to, because it led to very bad outcomes. And we created the rules to reflect this
The rules are not your mum
Meme war.
Until Trump can claim that “L’Etat, c’est moi !”, he’ll satisfy himself with “L’Etat, c’est à moi !”
If you are in Edmonton or nearby and interested in the intersection of art and liberal democracy and especially Ostrom’s concept of ‘tragedy of the commons’ a show you may want to see:
The people who created international law weren’t pacifist ninnies. No, they had gone through war and were determined to never go through that again.
“Our government is treating the suffering of the Iranian people as a backdrop for our own entertainment, as if it’s just another piece of content to be swiped through while we’re waiting in line at the grocery store.”
💊 Relying on weight-loss drugs to tackle #Obesity would be a “societal and medical failure” says England’s Chief Medical Officer
"Is our answer to say ‘give up on #PublicHealth’ and then just rely on drugs to get us out of this hole?”
#Diabetes #Cancer #HeartDisease
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.
Cutting aid to spend on defence sounds great to the bloke down the pub
But it never works
Aid is a pittance compared to defence budgets. Cut the entire aid budget to buy two tyres on a fighter jet
Canada’s defence budget is ~$80bn or 16% of federal budget. Aid is $6bn or 1.2%
Gambling is being rebranded as “prediction markets” or “gaming." There are clear losers in the explosion of micro-gambling: Young men and boys, whose health is being harmed by having gambling dens on their phones, by @lizrenzetti.bsky.social www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... via @thestar.com
Très content de retourner à Tout le monde en parle dimanche soir, pour parler de la guerre en Iran:
After the trials for crimes against humanity will come the trials for crimes against logic.
You can also read the newly posted joint submission to the #HESA study on #AMR from @stoptbcanada.bsky.social & @resultscanada.bsky.social
EN www.ourcommons.ca/Content/Comm...
FR www.ourcommons.ca/Content/Comm...
More than a few of those people are doing other things at the very same time …
The supposed explosion of the federal public service looks less explosive if you put it in per capita numbers and draw a line graph back to the mid-80s.
"Canada has long been complacent about foreign policy and national security: it could afford to neglect the pressures and incentives of the realities of power, comfortably sheltered as it was by a mostly benevolent United States."
If the government gets to decide if you have them, they're not human rights.
Scattered multicolored capsules and pills on a light blue background with ample empty space in the center.
📄 Want to understand antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in humans, animals & food?
The EFSA–ECDC Plain Language Summary 2023–2024 explains key trends, high-resistance bacteria, and why careful antibiotic use matters — in simple terms 👇
link.europa.eu/Fmm6Bm
#AMR #EUFoodSafety | @ecdc.europa.eu
Be it resolved that Prime Minister Carney's government is a government like any other, weighed down by inevitable inconsistencies, internal disagreements and bureaucratic politics, and intractable trade-offs.
What is NOT on my news feed since the weekend:
Ukraine (about 50% of previous)
ICE (about 25% of previous)
Climate change (about 10% of previous)
Epstein Files (about 5% of previous)
The US/Israel war against Iran is, for obvious reasons, distracting me/us from many other issues.
And then GAC panicked when it turns out, nobody else can decode fine diplomatese, and the statement read to normies like Canada endorsed bombing Iran
Hence the clarification from Carney today that reads like a u-turn but I suspect wasn’t intended to be
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
March 19th 16h30 to 18h30 (EST)
Public lecture & online: "Ethical, epistemic, and effective: At the heart of transdisciplinarity in urban health"
Public health, ethics, transdiciplinarity, cities, and so much more. calendrier.umontreal.ca/activite/eth...
Après la pandémie, les institutions de santé publique de plusieurs juridictions ont perdu leur autonomie, voire ont été simplement supprimées. Autre exemple, le gouvernement du Québec propose de supprimer son institut de santé publique, l'INSPQ. Voir excellente analyse : kubernan.ca/2026/01/29/f...
Public health institutes are a key institution in several countries. Doing away with the INSPQ is a powerful signal of the downgrading of the #PublicHealth function in Quebec. An autonomous voice disappears. Here is hoping that a PH voice function can be preserved in the new, larger institute.
Post-pandemic #PublicHealth institutions in a number of jurisdictions have lost their autonomy if not abolished altogether. Another example, this time from Canada. The gov't of the province of Quebec is proposing to do away with its public health institute, the INSPQ.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Question for students of rhetoric, logic, and psychology:
what is the relationship between outrage and evidence?
