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michellegamage.bsky.social
Health reporter for TheTyee.ca. Covering local research, sex, toxic drugs, what your grandmother is up to, and all the different ways you can (but haven't yet) become dead in B.C.
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Earthquake? From DT Van, two shakes.

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Spring break is coming up which means it's a good time to check if you're up to date on your vaccines. Remember, the measles vaccine can help prevent you from catching measles. Also there's a short-term vaccine for cholera so you don't have to bloody shit yourself a lot while vacationing. Science.

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Fantastic discussion of transphobia, situated in the Canadian legal and political landscape. Absolutely worth a read for anyone in the human rights space.

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Had the absolute delight of speaking with Michael Kwag, ED of the Community-Based Research Centre last week about online transphobia, reasons for political misinformation and the progress we've made to lift up and protect trans and queer rights in Canada. For @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/02...

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“How can we eliminate barriers for everyone? How can we work towards a more equal and free society that includes us all?” asks Michael Kwag of the Community-Based Research Centre. thetyee.ca/News/2025/02...

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BC restricts safer supply so all doses have to be supervised by pharmacists. This will be devastating for people in rural areas especially without reliable transportation, and for people who have jobs/ kids/ can't visit their pharmacy five times a day. Me for @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/02...

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Bird flu is terrifying. The fact that we're keeping on keeping on and just waiting and seeing if the current health measures hold is also frightening (but also so far mostly successful in keeping people safe). www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

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Damn taking home $450,000 annually would be nice. I remember when Dr. Sanjiv Gandhi was running for the BC Greens and he was hinting at cutting all these middle management jobs to save big money in health care. Anyway, Fraser Health CEO left www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

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BC's Hospital Employees’ Union warns 500 of its members will be forced to leave the country this year due to immigration cuts, hurting the province's already ailing healthcare system. By @michellegamage.bsky.social in @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/02...

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Really appreciated this @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social video laying out Trump's strategy of shock and awe and how it could come to bite him in the ass (the more overwhelmed you try to keep your opponents, the faster and faster you have to move to keep them overwhelmed). www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...

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“In the absence of legitimate fed programs there will be high levels of exploitation and vulnerability in the community. Ppl already prey on hope with recruiters making claims about how easy it is to access PR. That’s a big part of the ‘immigration consulting’ underbelly.” thetyee.ca/News/2025/02...

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Federal cuts to immigration are leaving hospital staff in the lurch. These are workers who came to Canada and got jobs with health authorities with the promise of a simplified PR application process. These cuts will push people to more vulnerable work, warn advocates. thetyee.ca/News/2025/02...

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"Both my gag comic about slave labor and the teary late night eulogy you posted about your deceased Nana are being mined so that a vacuous billionaire can pretend he invented something." On why we should all be saying "fuck AI." www.tcj.com/i-would-pote...

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I’m so proud to launch Debrief Communications (@debriefcomms.bsky.social) — a journalist-owned communications collective I’m co-founding with @brishti.bsky.social & @godfrey.bsky.social Check our site (debriefcomms.ca) or email us ([email protected])!

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A good illustration that helps show the sickening dread in my stomach as militarized police forces target and apprehend children and families. ICE, MCFD, 60s Scoop. History is repeating itself in new and horrible ways. This is wrong.

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is 2025 the year of worker-ownership? yes it is. excited to announce with @brishti.bsky.social and @davidpball.bsky.social that we're launching @debriefcomms.bsky.social, worker-owned collective doing communications work!

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"Research shows that tighter border policies don’t deter migration. Policing borders pushes migrants into more remote and dangerous crossing points, and difficult crossings lead migrants to rely more heavily on human smuggling operations." Yesterday on @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

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Two addiction medicine docs quit Island Health in protest, say they were treated unfairly after setting up unsanctioned OPS outside of hospitals in Vic, Nanaimo & Courtenay. They had to act if their employer wouldn't, they say. @andreawoo.bsky.social reports www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

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“The tools of prohibition often work well for politicians who find it valuable to make people afraid and then offer to protect people from this illusion that is being presented,” Haden said. “It’s a very old political strategy.” via @michellegamage.bsky.social @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/02...?

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This "Cannabis makes you kinda dumb" study is now competing for my other favourite well-known-fact-confirmed-by-science study where "teenagers eat a lot" was scientifically proven. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

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My bingo card for 2025 did not include Jasper maybe being on the cutting edge of a new sustainable way to build a city but hey let's go, I'm reading this with optimism. @ximenaka.bsky.social today for @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/02...

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Trump blames fentanyl for the trade war/ a need for tariffs to cripple Canada. Fentanyl isn't the problem. A failed war on drugs, and the catastrophic loss of life it causes, is. An explainer by me, today for @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/02...

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Being a journalist in Canada I only have like 10% of my brain to spare to keep an eye on what the fuck Trump is up to today. But... it seems so bad. Everything seems really bad? One of the richest men in the world has taken over the Treasury in an illegal way? WTF www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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i spoke w @michellegamage.bsky.social at @thetyee.ca about how drug war politicians want you to talk about fentanyl instead of prohibition — while they entrench militarized borders & attempt to increase police power thetyee.ca/News/2025/02... bsky.app/profile/tsk....

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As the new Sen̓áḵw goes up, a scholar looks back at how Vancouver coveted the urban reserve, how an AG coerced an illegal sale in 1913, and how the displacement of Sḵwx̱wú7mesh people sparked a political debate on how colonization should be packaged more nicely. @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

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Seeing reports of an incoming Trump executive order banning trans women and girls from school sports. Get the actual facts (and share them with people in your life who might need them) with our video breaking down the misinformation around trans kids and sports ⬇️ xtramagazine.com/power/xtra-e...

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American families considering fleeing to Canada after the US strips trans rights. We need to get busy setting up ways to support fleeing families and push the fuck back when Poilievre spews bullshit like how he's "not aware" of any gender but male/female. www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

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