With respect @PierrePoilievre, these are not "drug dens", they are health centres. They save lives. In fact the staff have attended to about 50,000 overdoses & medical emergencies since 2017, with no reported fatalities onsite. Thousands of women and men are alive because of SCS.

https://twitter.com/picardonhealth/status/1811781740492394633

Data here about millions of visits & how people receive health & social services that include counselling, medical care, detox, treatment, mental health support, housing services. This is how a compassionate society cares for the most vulnerable among us.health-infobase.canada.ca/datalab/superv…

268 unfilled residency positions in family medicine in the CaRMS match yesterday. Highest number ever.

We have a serious problem to manage together. Why are med students not choosing a career as a family doc (best specialty ever😀)?

Many reasons - some of it is on us...🧵 That is, some of it is on med schools and the hidden curriculum which teaches that family medicine is a less desirable choice.

But more importantly, it's about the primary care system which needs a radical overhaul.

We need to create/build a new approach to primary care...

10 (of many) stories in my portfolio that made me happy in 2018:

1. We worked with First Nations, Inuit & the Metis Nation to develop federal legislation about keeping families together (to be tabled in January)
aptnnews.ca/2018/11/30/no-… 2. Last month I had the opportunity to speak at the @AFN_Updates Special Chiefs Assembly about our work to support children & families
cpac.ca/en/programs/cp…