On my 5th career: board member, blogger, skier. Before: Professor of Medicine, co-founder @UTJCB & @gchallenges 🇨🇦, Special Advisor to @WHO Director-General
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Outstanding editorial. To paraphrase: antisemitism is discrimination against Jews. Antizionism is discrimination against the Jewish state. I would add: there is a fine line between foreign and domestic policy and one bleeds, quite literally, into the other.
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76 health innovations each reached more than a million people in low- and middle-income countries. 11 are carried in full on public budgets. None of the 76 has its return to government on the books.
This week the Accra Reset panel set out how countries should take over from aid and build health sovereignty. It calls health an investment. But no finance ministry records what any innovation gives back: tax from people well enough to work, treatment that never has to be paid for, care delivered at lower cost.
Scale runs through four gates, each with a different owner. Innovators and funders originate. Gavi, the Global Fund and their peers deploy. Health ministries absorb the cost. Finance ministries should book the return, and none does.
Take the Friendship Bench in Zimbabwe: grandmothers delivering talk therapy on clinic benches cut depression by more than two-thirds in a trial. What it returns to government has never been written down.
Governments have a claim on innovation, and it is time someone staked it. As aid leaves, their health sovereignty may depend on it.
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The census, the four gates and the technical paper: singerp.substack.com/p/gover…
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Dr. Peter A Singer, OC retweeted
This is the ecosystem of lies that accelerates threats against Jews everywhere. Whether it was the nonsense of Israelis training dogs to rape prisoners, or “14,000 children will die within 48 hours”, it is all industrial scale bullshit intended to demonize.
Gaza is now largely out of mind for many around the world, but not if you're one of the 94 percent of Gazans who lack shelter as winter approaches. And of course the US provided weapons in ways that make us complicit in that nightmare.
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Dr. Peter A Singer, OC retweeted
💡 This is what it looks like when someone truly understands #GlobalHealth
@PeterASinger ’s idea that governments should recognize and measure their “claim” on health innovation is both simple and profound
We routinely count lives saved, costs incurred and innovations scaled. But who counts what those innovations return to the public purse?
A thought-provoking contribution from someone who understands that the future of Global Health will depend not only on innovation, but on making innovation work for countries and their health systems 🌍👏
#GlobalHealth #HealthInnovation #HealthSystems #HealthEquity #HealthSovereignty
Governments have a claim on innovation. Nobody has staked it., by @PeterASinger singerp.substack.com/p/gover…
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The Board of Peace’s policy as it relates to UNRWA’s involvement in Gaza is unchanged.
We will only work with trusted partners who will deliver for the people of Gaza and contribute to a deradicalized Strip.
UNRWA fails on those litmus tests.
Our approach is the right one to reduce perpetual dependency and lead Gaza towards a self sustained, thriving economy that delivers opportunity and better conditions for Palestinians.
apnews.com/article/lazzarini…
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Dr. Peter A Singer, OC retweeted
🎯 “🇨🇦 is at a precipice – one step closer to the tragedies witnessed in Bondi Beach, Manchester & Boulder – & our leaders must take urgent & concrete actions before it’s too late. Constable Smith & McCurdy stepped fwd when it mattered most. Our leaders must do the same,” @nshack
Belleville, Ont., synagogue shooting was a ‘hate-motivated’ crime, police say theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…
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Dr. Peter A Singer, OC retweeted
If this were aviation, we would see Belleville as a near miss (only because of the courage of Constable Smith), seek root causes, and fix them. But it’s not, so we get “this is not who we are” and “thoughts and prayers.” Time for the government to change course. Because near misses tend to be followed by mass casualty events if root causes are not addressed.
The Belleville Yom Kippur attack wasn't just predictable, but predicted. Multiple CSIS threat assessments warned of a lone actor with a simple weapon at an accessible target, fuelled by the normalization of antisemitism. Nobody can say they weren't warned.
michaelgeist.ca/2026/09/nobo…
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💯 there is a fine line between foreign and domestic policy. 👇🏻
AFTER BELLEVILLE ATTACK, CIJA WARNS GOVERNMENT FOREIGN POLICY DOUBLE STANDARDS HAVE CONSEQUENCES AT HOME
Following Prime Minister Carney’s co-chairing of a UN meeting on the two-state solution, and inflammatory comments by Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand at the United Nations, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) issued the following statement:
“We share the objective of a peaceful and secure future for Israelis and Palestinians. But Canada’s one-sided punitive approach diminishes Canada’s influence and its ability to contribute meaningfully to peace on the ground.
“Canada recognized a Palestinian state over a year ago. Yet there has been no accountability for the Palestinian Authority to deliver on the commitments Prime Minister Carney himself set out, including fundamental governance reform, elections in which Hamas can play no part, and demilitarization.
“Today, Foreign Minister Anand went even further, entertaining potential action against an Israeli aircraft travelling to the United Nations. It is another outrageous example of the extraordinary double standard at the heart of Canada’s approach to Israel.
“Following the attack on a Belleville synagogue on Yom Kippur, Canadian leaders have a responsibility to protect Jewish Canadians from the domestic consequences of a dangerous double standard toward Israel that gives extremists a green light to target Canadians.”
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Social Media Post by Belleville Police Officers Wife Expresses Her Gratitude to the Community
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Excellent Globe Ed Board editorial @PatrickBrethour
I worry that without a change in course by the government, far worse will come.
Globe editorial: The courage needed to face down hatred
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Dr. Peter A Singer, OC retweeted
Reem Alsalem is the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls - until the victims are Israelis.
At the UN, even protecting women comes with a double standard.
#UNtisemitism
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Another major advance from the UN
🔔 Preparations continue for #UNGA81 high-level week.
An updated seating chart for the General Assembly Hall for 22-28 September is now available.
Explore the latest seating arrangement 👇
ALT Seating chart for the General Assembly 81st session (22-28 September 2026).
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Another major accomplishment of #UN80
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Academic freedom is not a free pass from academic responsibility, rigour, institutional policies, or basic expectations of respectful and non-discriminatory conduct.
Serious concerns have been raised about a University of Toronto-supported Working Group and whether it meets those standards.
As the Network of Engaged Canadian Academics has pointed out, U of T’s own guidelines specifically address antisemitism directed at individuals identified as Zionist. The University now has a responsibility to examine whether this Working Group complies with those policies.
U of T should review this Working Group and its processes for establishing and approving such initiatives to ensure appropriate oversight, accountability, and safeguards are in place.
Read the full article here:
jpost.com/diaspora/antisemit…
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39 recommendations for Canada's life sciences sector.
None costed. None with an estimate of what it returns.
So I estimated them — on two ledgers, kept separate. What the treasury gets back. What firms and households get.
Four quadrants.
Both ledgers pay. Data and innovation. Vital, the health data platform going national, is the only item in the 39 that sits here. The other thing that belongs here isn't in the report: a domestic ARPA-H. Canada already runs one — in the international development envelope.
Economic only. $1B of public risk capital creates ~$7.8B of enterprise value. Canadians keep about $1B of it. In rounds above $50M, all-Canadian syndicates supply 12.7% of the dollars. Value created here, owned somewhere else.
Fiscal only. AI-enabled service delivery across the health system. Vendor-neutral — the treasury gains wherever the innovation is made.
Neither. Most of the regulatory recommendations. Cheap, so they'll be attractive. Fine, unless they crowd out what carries real weight.
Technical paper and workbook annexed, so you can check the arithmetic or run it on your own country's strategy.
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Former CSIS Director David Vigneault delivers a warning Canada's political leaders cannot afford to ignore.
Grievances over Israeli policies are being weaponized by extremist groups who don't know what they're talking about to radicalize individuals, fuel antisemitism and even to commit terrorist attacks against Canadians.
Our leaders must be unequivocal: nothing justifies violence against Canadians.
And they must carefully examine how foreign policy decisions are fueling threats at home.
🎧 Listen to the full BBC interview:
bbc.com/audio/play/w3ct98hf
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This will generate hate towards Jewish students. That’s a huge problem. But the even bigger problem for a University, because it goes right to its mission, is the undermining of truth.
Less than 24 hours after I spoke at @UofT about the civilizational dangers of antizionism, I've come to learn that the university has created a new working group to defend and actually legitimize this hate movement. Note the genocide reference on the page. Christ, I'm disgusted.
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