I have my own gif! Courtesy of the @Royal_College !! I hope to be a meme someday. @uOSSC_CCSuO @ObsGynTOH

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Regardless of your hockey team, this Stanley Cup Finals intro is absolutely unbelievable… Ray Bourque interview, @TheKillers ‘All These Things That I’ve Done’ playing, Jon Hamm narrating… Just perfection. Made me tear up. Extremely well done 👏🏽👏🏽

This comes out in a month. Took 2 years of research and writing. Never did I expect the problem I write about to be as bad as it is right now. We are experiencing the biggest surge in antisemitism in 90 years – and the biggest explosion in propaganda, perhaps ever.

SIMposium2026 @uOSSC_CCSuO ! Registration is open for our June 12 conference. uottawacpd.eventsair.com/sim…  Register as a participant here uottawacpd.eventsair.com/sim…

Twenty-four hours ago there were seven countries in this conflict. Now there are twelve. By Monday there will be more. Here is the full picture no single news feed is giving you. Israel struck Tehran, Isfahan, Qom, Karaj, Kermanshah, Tabriz, and Lorestan in a single coordinated operation timed to the moment Iran’s senior leadership gathered in one room. Daylight strikes at 8:15 a.m. because the target was not infrastructure. The target was a meeting. Months of intelligence. One window. The first Israeli strike in history designed not to destroy a program but to decapitate a government. Iran answered by firing missiles at every American installation it could reach. Bahrain’s Fifth Fleet headquarters. Al Dhafra in the UAE. Al Udeid in Qatar. Ali Al Salem in Kuwait. Jordan shot down two ballistic missiles over its own territory. One civilian killed in Abu Dhabi from debris. Every Gulf defense system activated simultaneously for the first time. Most intercepts succeeded. Iran demonstrated range. It failed to demonstrate precision. And then the dominoes fell. Saudi Arabia, which four weeks ago personally promised Tehran it would never allow its territory to be used against Iran, released a statement pledging “all its capabilities” to support every attacked nation in “all measures they take.” Dubai shut down both international airports indefinitely. 280 flights canceled. Emirates, Etihad, Qatar Airways, Turkish Airlines, Air India, Lufthansa, British Airways grounded or rerouting. The busiest international aviation hub on earth went dark because Iranian missiles were crossing its airspace. Now watch what is moving in the shadows. Russia signed a 500-unit Verba MANPADS deal with Iran in December. China is finalizing CM-302 anti-ship missiles for the IRGC navy. Joint Russia-China-Iran naval drills ran through the Strait of Hormuz eleven days ago. But when the strikes landed, Moscow issued a statement. Beijing issued a statement. Neither moved a ship, a plane, or a soldier. Russia called it “unprovoked armed aggression.” China called it “extremely dangerous hegemonic bullying.” Then both sat on their hands while their ally absorbed precision strikes on its capital and fired missiles into six sovereign nations, building the very coalition Russia and China spent a decade trying to prevent. Iran needed its allies to act. They wrote press releases. This is the architecture of isolation. In 48 hours Iran went from a nation with diplomatic channels to Oman, trade ties to China, arms deals with Russia, and détente with Saudi Arabia to a nation that attacked its own mediators, exhausted its missiles against interceptors, and watched its partners choose words over weapons. The regime that survived the June war. The regime that survived 32,000 protester deaths. The regime that survived economic collapse. That regime now faces precision strikes, a six-nation coalition, closed airspace, frozen diplomacy, and allies who condemn on television what they will not contest on the battlefield. The war is 24 hours old. Iran is already alone. open.substack.com/pub/shanak…

"Jews out of McGill Med." This was scrawled on the bathroom wall at the @uMcGill Medical School building. Canadian universities are failing their Jewish students and society at large by not vigorously confronting vile racism on their campuses. #Antisemitism

Wow. New England @Patriots owner Robert Kraft has released a new advert to combat Jew hatred that will be aired during the Super Bowl. Thank you 🟦

The attack on Oct 7 that so completely breached Israeli defenses and securities, was not an easy one to execute. The planning and coordination took years of thought and secrecy, leading up to that fateful day. They trained their terrorists, told them where to go, what to do, how to do it. They collected intel from Gazans who were working in Israel, they watched the routines of the IDF soldiers at the border, they found weaknesses in the fences and other border points. But do you know what else took careful planning and coordination? The reaction from the world. The protests that started up the moment Hamas and the other Palestinians attacked Israel were not organic. This was not a reaction by people with any morality or decency. This was all part of the Oct 7 plan. The moment the attack happened, protests erupted throughout the world. Groups in cities in almost every country were out with their keffiyehs and their Palestinian flags and their signs. Signs that accused Israel of apartheid. Of ethnic cleansing. Of genocide. And this started before Israel had fired a single shot in response. Because in addition to the Islamic Regime preparing their terrorists in Gaza - the Hamas, the PIJ, the UNRWA and other Palestinians who breached Israel's border that day - they had also prepared their terrorist supports in America, the UK, Canada, Australia, Europe, Asia, South America, across the world. Their sleeper cells, their soldiers, who had been waiting across the world for the wake-up call, received it on Oct 7. All planned and coordinated. And why? To rob you. To steal from you the chance to process what had happened in Israel. To take from you any opportunity you may have had to mourn with the victims of the barbaric attack. To try and turn you from supporting those who had been savagely murdered, who had been violently raped, who had been taken hostages by barbarians, to support those who murdered, raped and kidnapped. The instant it happened the bot farms exploded on social media, pushing the false narrative, sharing it, spreading it, amplifying it. You were robbed of the ability to think critically about what had happened. You were robbed of the opportunity to decide for yourself what had happend. You were robbed of the chance to determine who was the victim, and who was the attacker. And for way too many of you, they were successful. They convinced you that the victim was the attacker. They convinced you that the terrorists were the resistance. They convinced you that it was OK to rape. To murder people in their homes and at a music festival. To kidnap and murder a 9-month old, a 4-year old, their mother, and many others. They convinced you to rip down hostage posters, to call for the end of Israel. To demonize Zionists. To hate Jews. It's been 28 months now. Look at what's happened. Look at how things have been escalating during that time. Look at how the needle has moved. Look at how the rhetoric has constantly and consistently increased. How the violence continues to escalate. Look at the encampments, which sprung up simultaneously across North America. The praying on the streets that started in cities across the world at the same time. The way that the messages are always the same, almost word for word. This is not an accident. This is a meticulous, well planned, extremely well-executed strategy to brainwash you. And so far, far too many of you are allowing it to work.

An oral presentation at the #AAGL25 Global Congress described the development of a 3D-printed model used to teach a complex gynecological surgical approach during a bootcamp attended by pediatric and adolescent gynecology fellows. The presentation also outlined the dissemination of a structured surgical simulation curriculum and evaluated its effectiveness and acceptability. By @DumontTania, @gdposner, and team at @uOttowa. See the report in @AAGL’s Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology: jmig.org/article/S1553-4650(…

Congratulations to @KijekNatalie for being nominated for a SIM Citizenship Award! @uOSSC @TOHEducation @TOHNurses Looking forward to being there to support you at #SimExpo2025 mailchi.mp/simulationcanada/…

In the short term, this reckless decision destroys Canada’s credibility, shreds the international rules-based order, and abandons the Western values we once proudly defended. In the long term, the consequences are obvious: Hamas is rewarded, terror is legitimized, hostage-taking is vindicated, and the violent mobs who block streets, vandalize businesses, target synagogues, and even shoot up schools are handed a victory they don’t deserve. Canada just recognized a Palestinian state whose current “government” literally pays salaries to terrorists for killing people. That makes them a state sponsor of terror by Canada’s own definition. Canada is weaker, smaller, and more isolated from our allies. Mark Carney’s vacuous foreign policy based on “pretend conditions” is cold, calculated, and done entirely for votes. The Prime Minister has just written a cheque to terror and all its victims —everywhere.

I knew it! (Fine, I hypothesized it) Now to repeat this study in Canada at @OttawaHospital ! with @JDaleTam johs.org.uk/article/doi/10.5…

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Here's a piece of literature by me, suitable for seventeen-year-olds in Alberta schools, unlike -- we are told -- The Handmaid's Tale. (Sorry, kids; your Minister of Education thinks you are stupid babies.) John and Mary were both very, very good children. They never picked their noses or had bowel movements or zits. They grew up and married each other, and produced five perfect children without ever having sex. Although they claimed to be Christian, they paid no attention to what Jesus actually said about the poor and the Good Samaritan and forgiving your enemies and such; instead, they practised selfish rapacious capitalism, because they worshipped Ayn Rand. (Though they ignored the scene in The Fountainhead where “welcomed rape” is advocated, because who wants to dwell, and also that would have involved sex and would de facto be pornographic. Well, it kind of is, eh?) Oh, and they never died, because who wants to dwell on, you know, death and corpses and yuk? So they lived happily ever after. But while they were doing that The Handmaid’s Tale came true and Danielle Smith found herself with a nice new blue dress but no job. The end.

We examined medical residents’ emotions during simulation training & found that team leaders reported higher levels of shame 😔post-simulation compared to team members. Happiness & hopefullness 😁predicted perceptions of team performance & team mood. bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wil…

Can’t make this stuff up - in my feed this morning, the video of the Jewish father being beaten in Montreal is right before our PM wishing us a happy cat day.

One summer, @Montreal_Expos 3B @ArchiCianfrocco came up to Pripstein’s camp for the day (now @CampWingate) and spent time playing ball with the campers - I lobbed him a softball that he smashed onto New Beach from Upper Field. Great memory.

Dear Ob/Gyn Education Researchers. This one’s for you! Consider @FrontMedicine for the manuscript you are working on this summer.