Radiation Oncologist (Ret), Undergrad Medical Educator x 20 years at Western University, Schulich SMD, Disability Rights, Living with Transverse Myelitis/CVID

Joined April 2011
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We need to ask @fordnation @PBethlenfalvy why they feel it is fine that they leave disabled Ontarians in extreme poverty struggling to survive, many with complex disabilities and significant care needs? @CBCNews @CBCQueensPark @CTVToronto @CTVWindsor @globeandmail @TorontoStar
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Christopher Leighton MD, FRCPC retweeted
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Buttigieg: Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that there have to be nine Supreme Court justices. That one doesn't even take a constitutional amendment. It just takes a readiness to set up a court that fits this country.  We could have 13 seats matching the district structure of the federal judiciary, but also a process that makes it less partisan. We cannot have partisan warfare every time there's an opening on the court
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Christopher Leighton MD, FRCPC retweeted
Hegseth removed Chappie James's portrait from the Air Force Art Gallery and left the wall empty. James flew 179 combat missions across two wars. First Black four-star general in US military history. Curry passed that portrait every day for a decade. When it came down, he retired. The wall is still empty.
Sec. Hegseth’s actions continue to be despicable – and they certainly aren’t representative of the Army I served in. We’ve repeatedly seen how this White House has disparaged and mistreated both active-duty service members and the veterans who raised their hand to serve this country. I’m glad that people are continuing to stand up and speak out. theatlantic.com/magazine/202…
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What a farce.
And thus marks the end of the legislative session. Premier Doug Ford is asking the Lt Gov to come to the Ontario Legislature to give Royal Assent. The legislature has only sat for 29.5 days and is wrapping up two days early. #onpoli
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Christopher Leighton MD, FRCPC retweeted
There hasn't previously been a treatment vs pancreatic cancer this successful. Striking improved (a > doubling) survival results @NEJM and @ASCO today with daraxonrasib, which also became available via an FDA approved early access program and began shipping to physicians this week @RevMedicines nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE…
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Christopher Leighton MD, FRCPC retweeted
Who's behind the massive lobbying campaign to expand the island airport? What I discovered should worry us all thestar.com/opinion/star-col… via @torontostar
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Christopher Leighton MD, FRCPC retweeted
The Health Minister is either ignorant or lying - and neither option is acceptable. She has personally overseen the expansion of private surgeries and private primary care in Ontario while claiming two-tier health care doesn't exist. Instead of fixing the staffing crisis and investing in public health care, this government keeps pushing privatization and hoping nobody notices. Ontarians aren't buying it. #onpoli thetrillium.ca/insider-news/…
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Christopher Leighton MD, FRCPC retweeted
This whole Billy Bishop expansion is being driven by an American bank that won't even disclose its role in the lobbying campaign. Doug Ford is destroying Toronto's waterfront to help out American bankers at our expense.
Who's behind the massive lobbying campaign to expand the island airport? What I discovered should worry us all trib.al/3EPUcXX
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Who's behind the massive lobbying campaign to expand the island airport? What I discovered should worry us all thestar.com/opinion/star-col… via @torontostar
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"It is up to Congress. Courts can't stop this. Courts weren't meant to stop this. ... It was intended that a corrupt criminal president like this one has to be removed by Congress. And it is not a question of politics, or polls, or talking points. It's a question of simple justice, and simply upholding our country as a nation of laws."
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Christopher Leighton MD, FRCPC retweeted
Not a single piece of legislation aimed at addressing our healthcare crisis in this entire session❗️ This government is serving themselves, not the people of Ontario.
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Samuel Alito’s son has worked as a lawyer inside Trump’s Treasury Department since early last year. The administration hid it. No public resume, no LinkedIn, no mention on the Treasury website, outdated bar listings. Four former officials confirmed it. The public was never told. Here is why that matters. Philip Alito served as an attorney-adviser in Treasury’s general counsel office, briefed on department matters across the board, while the Supreme Court took up a case in which the Treasury Department was a named defendant. The department never disclosed the connection in court. Justice Alito did not recuse. The federal recusal law is plain. A justice must step aside in any case where his impartiality might reasonably be questioned. That is the test. Not whether anyone can prove influence but whether a reasonable person looking at this would doubt it. A justice ruling on cases involving the very agency that employs his son fails that test on its face. And Treasury sits at the center of many upcoming issues, including the fight over Trump’s $1.776 billion dollar fund to reward the January 6th rioters he pardoned. That fight could be headed to the Court too. This is exactly why the honor system has failed. The Supreme Court is the only court in America with no enforceable code of conduct. I support withholding funding from the Court until the justices adopt a binding code with real recusal review. Congress holds the power of the purse. We should use it. notus.org/us-news/samuel-phi…
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Christopher Leighton MD, FRCPC retweeted
#BREAKING: Psaki: “…I have to start tonight with a story that in any other administration, would be grounds for opening an impeachment inquiry, because today ProPublica reported that the White House intervened to get a $620 million deal for a company tied to President Trump’s adult son @DonaldJTrumpJr…the deal in question involved a startup focused on rare earth magnet production called Vulcan Elements and last Summer, Don Jr’s venture capital firm took an undisclosed stake in that company, and wouldn’t you know…three months later, the Pentagon announced that it was giving Vulcan Elements a $620 million loan.”🙄🤦‍♀️
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🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) said in a yet-to-be-published proposed rule Friday that it’s drawing up plans to radically crack down on mail voting by sending ballots only to voters who are registered with the federal government. democracydocket.com/news-ale…
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Christopher Leighton MD, FRCPC retweeted
Federal judge in Miami makes a striking turnabout, reopening Trump’s $10 billion case against the IRS and saying that she wanted to investigate “grievous allegations” that the hasty deal to resolve it was “premised on deception.” @alanfeuer @aduehren nytimes.com/2026/05/29/us/po…
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Ontario Liberals launch petition calling for the disclosure of how much Premier Ford’s friend’s company was paid for air rights thetrillium.ca:443/insider-n…
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Christopher Leighton MD, FRCPC retweeted
Ford's attacks on special education students: ▶️ Increased diagnostic kindergarten class sizes ▶️ Closing 15 diagnostic kindergarten classes ▶️ Closing two high schools for special education students ▶️ Next year cutting an additional $6.4 million from special education services #ONpoli #OntEd
Provincial special education funding is closely tied to enrolment. The TDSB anticipates a reduction of about 5,000 students next year. thetrillium.ca:443/news/educ…
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Christopher Leighton MD, FRCPC retweeted
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MacFarlane: A whopper of a court filing just now from about three dozen retired former federal judges asking a court to stop this slush fund from proceeding and calling into question whether Trump and his own Department of Justice and IRS colluded to deceive the court
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Christopher Leighton MD, FRCPC retweeted
Former Transportation Secretary @PeteButtigieg says the Gordie Howe International Bridge is being blocked from opening due to "corruption." "The craziest thing about this is Mexico was never going to pay for the wall, but Canada actually did pay for the bridge," he adds. #MPC26
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Christopher Leighton MD, FRCPC retweeted
This Ebola outbreak has been a slow motion disaster - 900 cases and and now threatening the U.S.. We know how to stop outbreaks like this. But Trump chose not to stop it. He destroyed our global health team, deliberately exposing us. 1/ Here's the story of how this happened.
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The CDC sent an "urgent request" to its workforce to recruit personnel to help screen passengers coming from Central Africa for any potential signs of Ebola illness, according to an internal email to staff obtained by ABC News. abcnews.link/yji3ra3
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