#Adrian Dix

[allthecanadianpolitics]

The B.C. Ministry of Health says a proposed bylaw change by the body that regulates doctors could allow physician assistants to work in provincial emergency rooms.

The ministry says the College of Physicians and Surgeons of B.C. has moved to make the change, which would require physician assistants to register with the college and work in hospital emergency rooms under doctor supervision.

A physician assistant is a medical professional that works under the supervisor of a physician. While they do not possess a medical degree, they are educated through a two-year graduate program under the same medical model used to train doctors.

Health Minister Adrian Dix says the ministry and the college have worked together to make the change, which will give patients better access to services while supporting other health-care workers.

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New Moi-Meme-Moitie vid out now!! :D

[manuelamordhorst]

Tipp: »Ich als Irrwisch«. Hommage zum 125. Geburtstag von Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler

[aurevoirmonty]

"Une élite qui n'est pas prête à rejoindre la bataille pour défendre sa position est en pleine décadence, et tout ce qui lui reste est de faire place à une autre élite ayant les qualités viriles dont elle manque. C'est une pure rêverie d'imaginer que les principes humanitaires qu'elle a pu proclamer lui seront appliqués: ses vainqueurs l'accableront avec le cri implacable Vae Victis [malheur aux vaincus]. Le couteau de la guillotine était aiguisé dans l'ombre quand, à la fin du dix-huitième siècle, les classes dirigeantes en France étaient occupées à développer leur «sensibilité». Cette société désoeuvrée et frivole, vivant comme un parasite sur le pays, discourait lors de ses élégants dîners de délivrer le monde de la superstition et d'écraser l'infâme, sans aucunement suspecter que c'était elle-même qui allait être écrasée."

Vilfredo Pareto, cité par Adrian Lyttelton dans Italian Fascisms: From Pareto to Gentile (1975)

[auressea]

BAD Leadership and failed Policy.

Predictable and Preventable deaths...

Public Health failures. You've been sold a lie. the government does not care about you.

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Currently on view at @DeichtorhallenHamburg: ‘Dix and the Present’, featuring works by Georg Baselitz, Marc Brandenburg, Adrian Ghenie, Anselm Kiefer and Ron Mueck.

[ms-mau]

Adrian Ghenie is one of the most significant contemporary painters today. His unique style is characterised by a remarkable wealth of pictorial fragments with a fluid and hallucinatory spatial arrangement, resulting in a collage-like assemblage of distinct pictorial motifs, a hedonistic sensuality and an innovative, radical and eclectic interpretation of the most diverse subjects. With a deep understanding of the dark side of human history, Ghenie explores the complex layers of our collective past and present. His artworks become visual time capsules, raising questions about human existence, complex developments throughout history and the limits of artistic expression. With this expressive painting and drawing technique, Adrian Ghenie demonstrates mastery of historical styles ranging from Baroque chiaroscuro to the lushness of abstract expressionism. His most recent works however show a new development in which he abandons his dark color palette for fresher tones. This shift is also noticeable in subject matter, where Ghenie moves away from his exploration of historical events to focus on the representation of the human body.

Adrian Ghenie: “I think it’s hard after so much figurative painting to just continue to depict the human body. So I have this need to deconstruct it, destroy it, put it back in this new type of silhouette, which I call ‘the impossible body’. There is no anatomy. There is nothing. But still something recognisable there. The twentieth century painting started with that, started with Picasso dismantling the human body and continued with other people, including Duchamp, or people like Bacon, of course. This deconstruction is also present in cartoons. There is a genius in there, which I totally respect. This is one of the best productions of the 20th century. I like the way Dix and the generation of artists of the Weimar Republic relate to the history of painting, because there were in the middle of the modernist revolution. Everybody was radical. If you think of people like Malevich, they were so eager to cancel the tradition. But the Germans knew how to relate with their own history of painting, the German Gothic, and I think I’m part of the same family.”

Adrian Ghenie was born in 1977 in the Romanian city of Baia Mare. He graduated from the Art and Design University of Cluj-Napoca and now lives and works in both Berlin and Rome.

[jpbjazz]

LÉGENDES DU JAZZ

RED NICHOLS, POUR UN PENNY DE PLUS

‘’Much of his vast recorded output was released in Europe, where he was regarded by early jazz critics as the equal, if not the superior, of Louis Armstrong and Bix Beiderbecke (...). Nichols' chief fault was an overly stiff, academic approach to jazz trumpet, but he did recognize merit as far as other jazz musicians were concerned and made some wonderful small group recordings.’’

-Michael Brooks

Né le 8 mai 1905 à Ogden, en Utah, Ernest Loring "Red" Nichols était le fils d’un professeur de musique. Enfant prodige, Nichols avait commencé à jouer du cornet à l’âge de cinq ans.

Nichols a joué avec le groupe de son père à partir de l’âge de douze ans. Nichols a été fortement influencé par le Original Dixieland Jazz Band puis par Bix Beiderbecke. Nichols avait entendu Beiderbecke jouer pour la première fois sur un enregistrement de George Olsen intitulé ‘’You’ll Never Get To Heaven With Those Eyes.’’ Nichols a également joué une transcription du solo de Beiderbecke sur le classique “Jazz Me Blues” qui avait été enregistré le 18 f��vrier 1924.

Durant une partie de l’année 1920, Nichols avait étudié à la Culver Military Academy, dont il avait été expulsé, à l'instar de son idole Bix Beiderbecke.

DÉBUTS DE CARRIÈRE

Au début des années 1920, Nichols s’est installé dans le Midwest. Le 25 mai 1923, à l’âge de dix-sept ans, Nichols avait fait ses débuts sur disque avec le groupe Syncopating Five d’Howard Lanin. Nichols avait éventuellement pris la direction du groupe qui avait été rebaptisé le Royal Palms Orchestra. Le groupe s’était particulièrement produit sur la Côte est, et plus particulièment à Atlantic City.

Même s’il avait enregistré deux chansons avec Howard Lanin en mai 1923, c’est surtout après avoir été associé au frère d’Howard, Sam Lanin, que la carrière de Nichols avait vraiment décollé. Après le démantèlement du Royal Palms Orchestra, Nichols a fait partie du Johnny Johnson Orchestra avec lequel il s’était installé à New York en 1923. À New York, Nichols avait rencontré le joueur de trombone Miff Mole, avec qui il avait joué durant une dizaine d’années. Avant de signer un contrat avec les disques Brunswick, Nichols et Mole, qui étaient devenus inséparables, avaient enregistré avec Pathé-Perfect sous le nom de Red Heads. En plus de Mole (qui avait participé à la plupart des enregistrements de Nichols en 1927-28 avant de se lancer dans une carrière de musicien de studio), Nichols avait également collaboré avec de futurs grands noms du jazz comme Glenn Miller, Jack Teagarden, Tommy Dorsey et Will Bradley au trombone, Pee Wee Russell, Benny Goodman et Frank Teschemacher à la clarinette, Bud Freeman, Eddie Miller, Babe Russin et Fud Livingston au saxophone ténor, Frankie Trumbauer au C-melody saxophone, Adrian Rollini au saxophone basse, Charlie Teagarden et Wingy Manone à la trompette, Dudley Fosdick au mellophone, Dick McDonough, Carl Kress et Eddie Condon à la guitare, Lennie Hayton, Joe Sullivan, Rube Bloom et Roy Bargy au piano, Joe Venuti au violon, Joe Tarto au tuba, Artie Bernstein à la contrebasse, Red McKenzie au chant et Gene Krupa, Chauncey Morehouse, Stan King, Dave Tough, Ray Bauduc et Ray McKinley à la batterie. Dans le film biographique ’’The Five Pennies’’, le personnage de Nichols prononçait souvent la réplique “Don’t worry, someday they’ll all be working for me.” Ironiquement, malgré le nombre impressionnant de futurs chefs d’orchestres qui avaient fait partie de son groupe, Nichols n’avait jamais vraiment connu de succès comme leader de ses propres formations à l’époque du swing.

Au début de sa carrière, Nichols avait également enregistré avec les disques Edison (1926), Victor (1927, 1928, 1930, 1931), Bluebird (1934, 1939), Variety (1937) et Okeh (1940). Parmi les nombreux artistes ou groupes avec lesquels Nichols avait enregistré de 1924 à 1926, on remarquait les Bailey’s Lucky Seven, les Charleston Seven, le Goofus Five, les Tennessee Tooters, le Lou Gold, les Melody Sheiks, les California Ramblers, les Lanin’s Red Heads, le Varsity Eight, les Five Birmingham Babies, Billy Wynne, les Little Ramblers, Bill Wirges, les Georgians, les Seven Missing Links, Ross Gorman, les Cotton Pickers, les Hottentots, Cliff Edwards, les Ipana Troubadours, les Walter Davidson’s Louisville Loons, le Original Memphis Five, les Broadway Bellhops, Bob Haring, Arnold Brilhart, Little Pilgrims Orchestra, Frank Signorelli, Jay C. Flippen, Jack Albin, Annette Hanshaw, Don Voorhees, John Clesi’s Areoleans, Evelyn Preer et Lee Morse, et on ne parlait que des formations orientées vers le jazz.

Nichols, qui savait lire la musique, avait facilement obtenu du travail comme musicien de studio. En décembre 1926, Nichols avait commencé à enregistrer avec Mole dans le cadre de différentes formations connues sous le nom de Red Nichols and His Five Pennies. En réalité, le nom du groupe était un peu trompeur, car très peu de ces formations étaient des quintets. Parmi les membres du groupe, on remarquait Jimmy Dorsey à la clarinette et au saxophone alto, Vic Berton (un batteur qui pensait comme un percussionniste et jouait parfois du tympani), Eddie Lang à la guitare et Arthur Schutt au piano.

Nichols a enregistré plus de cent pièces avec les Five Pennies pour les disques Brunswick. Même si la taille du groupe avait évolué avec les années, son nom était demeuré échangé. De 1926 à 1932, Nichols a également enregistré avec les Arkansas Travelers, les California Red Heads, les Louisiana Rhythm Kings, le Wabash Dance Orchestra, les Alabama Red Peppers, les Charleston Chasers, les Red and Miff's Stompers et les Miff Mole and His Little Molers. Nichols avait aussi dirigé des groupes plus importants sur certains enregistrements et dans le cadre des revues ‘’Strike Up The Band’’ et ‘’Girl Crazy.’’

Extrêmement prolifique, Nichols enregistrait parfois une vingtaine de pièces par semaine.

En plus de Nichols au cornet, de Mole et de Jimmy Dorsey au saxophone alto et à la clarinette, le groupe de Nichols avait été notamment composé au cours de la décennie suivante de Benny Goodman et de de Pee Wee Russel à la clarinette, de Glenn Miller et Jack Teagarden au trombone,de Joe Venuti au violon, d’Eddie Lang au banjo et à la guitare et de Gene Krupa à la batterie. Le groupe avait connu un succès inattendu avec la pièce "Ida, Sweet as Apple Cider", qui s’était vendue à plus d’un million de copies. La pièce s’était aussi mérité un disque d’or de la Recording Industry Association of America. La composition de Nichols intitulée "Nervous Charlie Stomp" avait même été enregistrée par l’orchestre de Fletcher Henderson.

En 1927, Nichols avait passé quelques mois dans l’orchestre de Paul Whiteman. Son remplaçant était nul autre que son idole Bix Beiderbecke.

À la fin des années 1920, Nichols a également enregistré avec les Miff Mole’s Molers, Peggy English, Carl Fenton, Sophie Tucker, Art Gillham, Cass Hagan’s Park Central Hotel Orchestra, les Midnight Airedales, Irving Brodsky et les Red Hot Dogs. En plus de jouer du cornet, Nichols était un arrangeur imaginatif qui, un peu comme Jelly Roll Morton, avait le don de combiner des musiciens établis avec des groupes spécialement réunis pour l’occasion. Les arrangements de Nichols étaient si complexes qu’il devait souvent faire appel aux meilleurs musiciens disponibles.

Dans les années 1930, Nichols avait tenté de s’adapter au swing alors en effervescence, mais il avait beaucoup moins enregistré à partir de 1932. Nichols n’avait même pas enregistré du tout en 1933. L’année suivante, Nichols avait dirigé un groupe de onze musiciens appelé His World Famous Pennies. À la même époque, Nichols avait aussi dirigé des orchestres anonymes à la radio. Désormais considéré comme une relique du passé, Nichols avait été progressivement abandonné par ses musiciens qui avaient décidé de lancer leurs propres groupes. Le critique Michael Brooks écrivait:

‘’What went wrong? Part of it was too much, too soon. Much of his vast recorded output was released in Europe, where he was regarded by early jazz critics as the equal, if not the superior, of Louis Armstrong and Bix Beiderbecke. People who make fools of themselves usually find a scapegoat, and when the critics were exposed to the music of Duke Ellington, Benny Carter, Coleman Hawkins and others they turned on Nichols and savaged him, trashing him as unfairly as they had revered him. Nichols' chief fault was an overly stiff, academic approach to jazz trumpet, but he did recognize merit as far as other jazz musicians were concerned and made some wonderful small group recordings.’’

Durant la Crise des années 1930, Nichols avait gagné sa vie en se produisant dans des revues. Pendant un certain temps, Nichols avait aussi dirigé l’orchestre de Bob Hope, avant de s’installer en Californie.

Nichols avait épousé Willa Stutsman, une danseuse de la revue Scandals de George White, avec qui il avait eu une fille. En 1942, la fille du couple avait contracté la poliomyélite après qu’on lui ait diagnostiqué une méningite spinale. Jusqu’en 1943, on avait perdu toute trace de Nichols, qui s’était trouvé un emploi dans les chantiers maritimes afin de pouvoir mieux s’occuper de la santé de sa fille. Après s’être produit au Merry-Go-Round à Dayton, dans l’État de l’Ohio, Nichols avait fait son service militaire dans le cadre de la Seconde Guerre mondiale.

DERNIÈRES ANNÉES

En 1944, Nichols, qui n’avait rien perdu de son habileté au cornet à l’âge de trente-neuf ans, avait tenté un retour sur scène. Après avoir joué avec le Casa Loma Orchestra durant quelques mois, Nichols avait formé une nouvelle version de son groupe les Five Pennies, cette fois sous la forme d’un sextet qui s’était produit dans de petits clubs de Los Angeles. Le groupe avait joué par la suite dans de plus grandes salles comme le Zebra Room, le Tudor Room de l’Hôtel Palace à San Francisco et le Shearton de Pasadena, en Californie. À la suite du retour en force du Dixieland, Nichols avait aussi participé à des sessions avec Peggy Lee, Julia Lee, Phil Harris et Kay Starr. Il avait également fait des apparitions à la radio avec Bing Crosby.

Très populaires sur la scène locale, les Five Pennies mettaient souvent en vedette des artistes comme Heinie Beau ou Rosy McHargue à la clarinette et Herbie Haymer au saxophone ténor. L’une des pièces les plus populaires du groupe à cette époque était “Battle Hymn Of The Republic” (1949). Même si Nichols jouait parfois des arrangements innovateurs datant des années 1920, la plupart du temps le groupe interprétait une musique inspirée du Dixieland. Les Five Pennies s'étaient éventuellement dotés d'un son plus distinctif après qu’un saxophoniste basse et le joueur de trombone King Jackson se soient joints au groupe en 1949. Dans les années 1950, le groupe avait enregistré une série d’albums pour les disques Capitol, Jump et Audiophile et avait continué de se produire sur scène.

À la fin de sa carrière, Nichols a également joué le rôle d’ambassadeur de bonne volonté pour le Département d’État.

Nichols a participé à de nombreux films au cours de sa carrière. En 1929, Nichols a joué dans un court-métrage de la compagnie Vitaphone qui mettait également en vedette son groupe les Five Pennies ainsi que les musiciens Eddie Condon et Pee Wee Russell. En 1935, Nichols a fait une apparition dans le film ‘’The Parade of the Maestros’’ aux côtés de Ferde Grofe. En 1950, Nichols a participé au tournage du film ‘’Wabash Avenue.’’ L’année suivante, Nichols avait partagé la vedette avec Mickey Rooney et Jeanne Cagney dans le film ‘’Quicksand.’’ La même année, Nichols avait également eu un petit rôle dans le film ‘’Disc Jockey’’ aux côtés de Tommy Dorsey. En 1959, Nichols avait aussi fait une apparition dans le film ‘’The Gene Krupa Story.’’

En octobre 1956, Nichols avait participé à un épisode de l’émission de télévision ‘’This Is Your Life’’, dans lequel il avait été réuni avec ses anciens collaborateurs Miff Mole, Phil Harris et Jimmy Dorsey. Ces derniers avaient d’ailleurs remercié plus tard Nichols de s’être assuré que tous les membres du groupe avaient été payés.

En juin 1965, Nichols avait obtenu un contrat pour se produire avec les Five Pennies au Mint Hotel de Las Vegas. Le 28 juin, quelques jours après avoir participé à son premier concert, Nichols avait éprouvé des douleurs à la poitrine durant son sommeil. Nichols avait appelé la réception pour obtenir du secours, mais il était déjà mort au moment de l’arrivée de l’ambulance. Il était âgé de soixante ans. Le soir-même, le groupe avait rendu hommage à Nichols en se produisant comme prévu, avec un projecteur orienté vers la chaise vide du trompettiste.

À la suite du succès de l'émission ''This is your life'', Nichols avait fait l’objet en 1959 d’une film biographique intitulé ‘’The Five Pennies.’’ Le film, qui reposait sur une vision très romancée de la vie et de la carrière de Nichols, l’avait décrit comme un musicien irresponsable qui était la principale cause de ses propres malheurs. Le film mettait en vedette l’acteur Danny Kaye. Nichols, qui avait joué lui-même ses propres parties de cornet dans le film, avait également fait une apparition comme membre d’un groupe fictif appelé les "Clicquot Club Eskimos". Heureusement, la complicité de Nichols avec Louis Armstrong, qui avait également joué dans le film, avait contribué à contrebalancer les nombreuses erreurs historiques de la production. Par exemple, contrairement à ce que laissait entendre le film, Nichols n’avait jamais été chanteur.

Tentant par la suite de capitaliser sur le succès du film, Nichols avait enregistré d’autres disques pour Columbia. La pièce-titre de son dernier album “The Battle Hymn Of The Republic” (1959) était d’ailleurs tirée de la trame sonore du film. Par la suite, Nichols avait continué de se produire avec les Five Pennies dans la région de Los Angeles.

Le film ‘’The Five Pennies’’ avait décroché quatre nominations au gala des Academy Award. L’épouse de Kaye, Sylvia Fine, avait composé la chanson-thème du film, ainsi que d’autres pièces apparaissant dans la production. La pièce "Poor Butterfly" de Nichols a été reprise dans le film de Woody Allen ‘’Bullets Over Broadway’’, qui a été publié en 1994. On peut également entendre l’enregistrement du standard "(Back Home Again in) Indiana" dans un autre film d'Allen tourné en 1999 et intitulé ‘’Sweet and Lowdown.’’

Red Nichols a été intronisé au sein du Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame en 1986. Compositeur prolifique, Nichols a écrit ou co-écrit plusieurs pièces, dont "Hurricane" (avec Paul Mertz), You're Breakin' Me Down" (avec Glenn Miller), "Five Pennies", "Sugar" (avec Jack Yellen, Milton Ager et Frank Crum), "Bug-A-Boo", "The Parade of the 'Pennies'", "The King Kong", "Trumpet Sobs", "Get Cannibal", "Junk Man's Blues", "Delta Roll", "Corky", "Bugler's Lament", "Nervous Charlie Stomp" (qui a été enregistrée par Fletcher Henderson), "Last Dollar", "That's No Bargain" et "Blues at Midnight".

Considéré comme un des plus grands cornettistes à avoir émergé dans les années 1920, Nichols avait été longtemps sous-estimé, à la fois en raison de sa personnalité controversée (il préparait parfois ses solos à l’avance) et parce que sa tonalité était peut-être un peu trop influencée par le style de Bix Beiderbecke. En réalité, Nichols avait une tonalité plus cool que celle de Bix ainsi qu’un style beaucoup plus réservé.

Certains musiciens comme Eddie Condon n’avaient pas toujours été très tendres envers le jeu de Nichols. Le fait que les enregistrements de Nichols du début des années 1930 aient été mieux connus en Europe que ceux de ses compatriotes afro-américains n’avait guère contribué à le faire mieux connaître aux États-Unis. Certains des musiciens associés à Condon semblaient aussi avoir porté rancune à Nichols de son succès.

Au cours des dernières années, les disques Jazz Oracle ont publié trois coffrets de CD comprenant la quasi totalité des enregistrements de Nichols comme leader de 1926 à 1932. Même si Nichols avait été bien loin d’être un innovateur de la trempe de Louis Armstrong et de Bix Beiderbecke, il n’en était pas moins un des plus grands musiciens de l’histoire du jazz.

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SOURCES:

‘’Red Nichols.’’ Wikipedia, 2023. ‘’Red Nichols.’’ All About Jazz, 2023. YANOW, Scott. ‘’Profiles in Jazz: Red Nichols.’’ The Syncopated Times, 1er février 2018.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

British Columbia has become the first province in Canada to sign a pharmacare agreement with the federal government that would help the province fund hormone replacement therapy and diabetes expenses. Federal Health Minister Mark Holland said B.C.'s portion of the $1.5-billion national plan is estimated to be $195 million, and under the memorandum of understanding, funding could begin by April once the legislation makes it through the Senate. "My objective remains, and I am confident that we can achieve it, to sign an agreement with every jurisdiction in the country, every province, every territory, prior to April 1 of next year, and to get drugs flowing in every jurisdiction in that timeline," Holland said at a joint news conference in Vancouver on Thursday. The coverage was to be for birth control and diabetes drugs and supplies, but B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix said oral contraceptives are already covered under a provincial program so that share will be used to cover hormone therapy for women.

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[antonjesus]

COVID-19 Update: Dr. Bonnie Henry and Adrian Dix compare Canadian and US...

[dbunicorn]

I think you should launder money through real estate and shitty education, maybe women's studies

The honorable Adrian dix

I'll be writing you a letter but...for my 16 followers.

Incompetence is so fucking annoying for people on the spectrum. Forest.

Your incompetence is how democracies die and turn into second world shitholes. Applause, applause applause. 👏👏👏👏

You just want to take the competent with you. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

A go fund me page idiots

[blogynews]

"B.C. Health Minister's Jaw-Dropping Interest in Curbing Cigarette Sales Abroad: What's the Big Secret?"

British Columbia’s Health Minister, Adrian Dix, expressed interest in the recent moves made by other countries to further restrict the sale of cigarettes to young people. He specifically mentioned New Zealand’s unprecedented legislation, which bans cigarette sales to anyone born on or after Jan. 1, 2009. The United Kingdom has also proposed a similar bill that would gradually raise the smoking…

[fdspodcast]

🎙 S1E8 / Emma Guajardo, régisseuse d'extérieur 🎙

Aujourd'hui nous terminons la première saison de La Feuille de Service avec Emma Guajardo, régisseuse d'extérieur ! 

Contrairement à ce que l'intitulé de ce poste veut vous faire croire, Emma ne travaille pas dans le département de la régie, mais dans celui de la décoration. Avec elle, on fait une brève présentation des corps de métier qu'on retrouve dans la ruche foisonnante qu'est la déco; on revient sur son parcours qui est un savant mélange entre des prises de risque payantes et une croyance inébranlable en elle-même, le tout saupoudré d'une merveilleuse passion pour les décors de cinéma. 

On a évidemment conclu cette discussion par le portrait filmois qu'on ne présente plus, un portait pop et riche en couleurs, à l'image d'Emma et de ses cheveux roses. 

Sur ce, je vous souhaite une très bonne écoute !

🎬 OEUVRES CITÉES :

Glee (Série TV, 2009-2015)

West Side Story de Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins (1961)

RomComment ? (podcast)

Ugly Betty (Série TV, 2006 - 2010) 

High School Musical, Kenny Ortega (2006)

Camp Rock, Matthew Diamond (2008)

Lemonade Mouth, Patricia Riggen, (2011)

Hannah Montana (Série TV, 2006-2011)

Les Sorciers de Waverly Place (Série TV, 2007-2013)

Hannah Montana : le film, Peter Chelsom (2009)

Astérix et Obélix : Mission Cléopâtre d'Alain Chabat (2002)

Dix Pour Cent (Série TV, 2015-2020)

Coco, Lee Unkrich & Adrian Molina (2017)

Toy Story, John Lasseter (1995)

Your Name. de Makoto Shinkai (2016)

The Truman Show de Peter Weir (1998)

Lolita Malgré Moi, Mark Waters (2004)

Interstellar, Christopher Nolan (2014)

Goliath, Frédéric Tellier (2022)

Les Invisibles, Louis-Julien Petit (2018)

Hors Normes, Olivier Nakache & Éric Toledano (2019)

🧡 LES RECOS :

Transfert (podcast)

Ex (podcast)

Les Pieds sur Terre (podcast)

Glee (Série TV, 2009-2015)

Mindhunter (Série TV, 2017)

📝 TRANSCRIPTION

[newsbites]

News from Vancouver Island, BC and beyond, 19 June.

Stephen Ewing, a Port Alberney man who was previously sentenced to 16 years in prison for sexual assault, pleaded guilty to new charges of sexual assault with bodily harm and strangulation.

2. The Cameron Bluffs Wildfire near Port Alberni, which has burned 229 hectares of forest, is now under control and suppression efforts have decreased fire behavior.

Highway 4, the only paved road connecting the Island’s west coast communities, is expected to remain closed until at least June 24, and a four-hour long detour route along logging roads remains the only way to reach the west coast.

Helijet is offering a daily round-trip helicopter flight between Nanaimo and Port Alberni starting Monday to circumvent the tricky detour, with a one-way fare costing $175 and booking must be done by calling the airline.

3. The Donnie Creek wildfire in northeastern British Columbia has become the largest individual fire ever recorded in the province's history.

The fire is still out of control and has resulted in evacuation orders for a sparsely populated region primarily used by the forestry and oil and gas industries.

The intensification of wildfire seasons in recent years has been linked to human-caused climate change.

4. BC Health-care unions say new whistleblower protections announced by Adrian Dix for British Columbia won't create conditions for staff to speak freely about the system.

Health-care workers must go through communications departments before speaking publicly or to the press, leading to concerns about narrative control and muzzling.

The new whistleblower protections are welcome, but concerns remain about the complexity of the reporting process and the need to extend protections to workers in private or long-term care facilities.

5. Six of the 10 seniors injured in a bus crash near Carberry, Manitoba, remain in critical condition.

The Canadian Red Cross is providing mobile medical units to displaced people in central Ukraine affected by the war with Russia.

The governments of Ontario and Canada have proposed a $10-billion settlement with the Robinson Huron Treaty Litigation Fund over unpaid annuities for using their lands.

[awanderingcanadian]

A Little Rant

I read the above article and as a British Columbian I want to provide some context, as well as personal experiences to this scathing commentary. First off, no one would ever say our system is perfect, but having lived 11 years in the U.S. I can tell you which system I prefer, and that’s this one here in Canada. For someone from Ontario, (with it’s recent horrific foray into a two tier system), to criticize our province is rich, really rich.

I think we can safely say that healthcare, in many places throughout the world, is reeling and trying to recover from COVID and its fallout. I have a friend who works for an agency. She makes big bucks, has her housing and transportation covered as well as her salary, (they fly her from her home in Mexico to wherever the contract it), and we, the Canadian taxpayers, are paying for it. Do I like it? No. Yet most of her work thus far has not been in B.C….it’s been in Ontario. While I don’t like that B.C. is having to send cancer patients to the U.S. while we fix what’s broken, I applaud the decision to help people rather than play politics. I’m sure it was tough for Adrian Dix to swallow that bitter pill, yet he was the bigger person and did the right, (short term) thing.

I will now turn to a BIG drain on B.C.’s healthcare system: the retirees from all the other provinces who retire here. The transfer payments don’t catch up, so basically these people have paid into the system in the province where they worked, and now are drawing increased services in my province. I don’t begrudge people the right to move around and retire, but I do feel frustrated that the healthcare money doesn’t follow them.

That’s the rant part over. Now I will tell you some VERY recent personal B.C. healthcare experiences: last month, (May), my husband had a small medical emergency while in Mexico. We received wonderful treatment in Mexico, but it was a temporary fix until we could get back home. We called our doctor’s office from Mexico, told them we would be back in B.C. on Saturday evening, and had an appointment at 9:10 Monday morning. That appointment resulted in a referral to a specialist, whose office called about 90 minutes later, and set up a specialist appointment for Thursday morning. The result of that appointment was that surgery was needed. The next day, Friday, the surgery took place…at the hospital. Because it was a long weekend, they decided to keep my husband in for an extra day to ensure all was fine, (and it was), then two days later a home-care worker, (an RN), followed up. That’s the kind of ‘horrible service’ we experienced.

Today my husband had another specialist appointment, for which he waited 3.5 months to get, (he has carpal tunnel in one hand/wrist). After seeing the specialist, the surgery is set for June 27th, (just under two weeks from now).

I know that not everyone is getting this kind of care, but don’t paint everyone with the same unsatisfactory brush. Some of us are having wonderful healthcare services, and we are appreciative of all that our healthcare specialists do for us.

Rant over.

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Open Letter to Premier David Eby, Health Minister Adrian Dix, Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry, the Board of Vancouver Coastal Health

Protect our Province BC along with several other medical professionals, scientists, and academics are extremely concerned about misinformation spread by Dr. Patricia Daly, Chief Medical Officer of Health for Vancouver Coastal Health. We are calling on Premier David Eby, Health Minister Adrian Dix, Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and the Board of Vancouver Coastal Health to immediately remove her from her role.

On May 5th Dr. Daly made multiple incorrect assertions about COVID-19 in an interview on CBC’s “BC Today” radio show. None of her statements are supported by current science on the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and many of them contradict scientific findings from the Province of BC’s own health agencies. The misinformation that Daly spread could be grievously harmful to the health and safety of CBC’s listeners and to British Columbians in general.

Public Health leaders cannot broadcast unscientific misinformation that puts the public at risk. They must be held accountable for their actions and for their public communications.

Most of Dr. Daly’s incorrect statements about COVID-19, the most egregious of which are itemized below, amount to a contradiction of available data and a downplaying of the risks posed by this virus. Covid is not ‘like a cold.’ Saying this in 2023, when rates of death, hospitalization and Long Covid remain high and bear no resemblance to the impacts of the common cold, more closely resembles internet disinformation than science.

Dr. Daly’s statements vs. the science:

1.) On COVID-19 being ‘like a cold’:

As journalist Crawford Kilian reported in The Tyee, “Dr. Patricia Daly, chief medical officer of health for Vancouver Coastal Health, was on CBC Radio on May 5, the day WHO declared the end of the emergency. She encouraged listeners to think of SARS-CoV-2 ‘like other respiratory viruses,’ especially the coronaviruses that can cause common colds.”

If COVID-19 is just a cold, why did 42 British Columbians die of the virus in the final week of April 2023? If COVID-19 is just a cold, why does the BC CDC feature on its website a long list of COVID-19 symptoms and long term consequences, but no equivalent page for the common cold?

There are multiple harms from COVID-19 that have not been clearly established with common cold viruses. For instance, a BC study indicates COVID-19 is associated with an increased risk of diabetes.

So far, this is “the twelfth study linking COVID infections to later diabetes diagnoses.”

Just because BC public health stops looking (and counting) COVID-19’s impact after 30 days, does not mean SARS-CoV-2’s harmful effects magically stop thereafter.

In an April 21, 2023 interview, the Provincial Health Officer finally “acknowledged that while the acute symptoms of a COVID-19 infection are typically brief, the longer-term impacts are increasingly evident.

“It’s not just affecting the lungs,” said Henry. “We know it can lead to heart disease, we know that people who have post-Covid symptoms have things like neurological issues, they have fatigue and brain fog and some of the other things that we have seen are related to things like diabetes.”

2.) On “Hybrid immunity”:

Dr. Daly stated that British Columbia has “such high population immunity against COVID-19” through a combination of vaccination and infection and “that strong hybrid immunity means that our population is now protected against severe illness and death.”

This claim is unsubstantiated. BC CDC’s own report, 2022/23 Respiratory Season Surveillance Report, Epidemiological weeks 35-17 (August 28, 2022- April 22, 2023) states: Hospitalizations, critical care admissions, and deaths among individuals with a positive COVID-19 test stayed relatively stable but elevated throughout the season, with highest rates among 60+ year olds.

In the week of April 23 to 29 2023 alone, there were 42 COVID-19 deaths. Whether these deaths are from or with Covid misses the point. It’s like asking whether SARS-CoV-2 is the culprit or the accomplice that led to an early death.

42 COVID-19 deaths is an undercount. It does not include all the deaths from post-Covid conditions occurring 30 days or more after an acute infection. Again, the damage done by SARS-CoV-2 does not magically stop after 30 days.

As of February 4, 2023, BC is the province with the third highest number of all cause excess deaths since the pandemic started. These are deaths above expected historical levels, and they exclude deaths arising from the toxic drug supply and the 2021 heat dome. What is causing excess deaths in BC? To provide an answer, our public health leaders must first acknowledge these excess deaths even exist.

Focusing on COVID-19 deaths reported to the Public Health Agency of Canada, BC saw more Covid related deaths in 2022 than in 2020 and 2021. So far in 2023, BC reported 635 COVID-19 deaths within 30 days of infection. At the same rate, we can expect COVID-19 deaths in 2023 to surpass those of 2022. Where is that strong hybrid immunity Dr. Daly talks about?

Dr. Daly’s claim of “strong hybrid immunity” (infection plus 2 vaccine doses) also completely ignores the low vaccination rate of BC children. Only 42% of children 5 to 11 years of age have received two vaccine doses, while that number falls to 15% in children 6 months to 4 years of age. What about clinically extremely vulnerable children? Do they have “strong hybrid immunity”? BC’s very own study showed that even after three doses of vaccine and the arrival of Omicron, CEV adults had significantly more “breakthrough hospitalizations” compared with matched non-CEV adults.

In addition, Omicron infection is a poor booster of COVID-19 immunity and cannot be relied on to confer “strong hybrid immunity”. This helps explain why Omicron reinfections are so common.

Not only do Omicron infections not provide significant immune protection from COVID-19 going forward, they actually carry a risk of immune dysregulation rendering one susceptible to other viral, bacterial and fungal infections, and the reactivation of dormant infections such as Varicella-Zoster virus, Epstein Barr virus, CMV and more.

Also not mentioned by Dr. Daly, is that one in every ten Covid infections leads to Long Covid, as stated by the WHO.

3.) On young people being at “low risk” from COVID-19:

Dr. Daly: “young people… are at very low risk by the way of COVID-19.”

COVID-19 has not been mild in kids over the past year, as BC CDC’s own situation reports showed. The number of BC children under 10 who were hospitalized from Jan 1 to November 26, 2022 was 3.6 times higher than the total admissions in 2020 and 2021 combined. The critical care admissions were 5.2 times greater over that same period compared with the total critical care admission in the first two years of the pandemic.

For the 10 to 19 year olds, admissions were 2.4 times higher during the same period while critical admissions were twice as high than the total at the start of 2022.

Let’s also remember that these numbers do not include Long Covid in BC children, nor new post-COVID-19 chronic medical conditions such as new onset diabetes in children.

4.) On LTC [Long Term Care] residents being no more at risk from Covid than from the common cold:

Dr. Daly: “Among the people most at risk, for example people living in LTC, the level of risk is about the same as those common cold viruses. The risk of experiencing severe illness and death is probably about the same.”

Imagine being a CMOH and making this egregious comment. As BC CDC’s own data shows, even with Omicron’s arrival, seniors continue to die and make up the majority of acute Covid related deaths. Additionally, dementia is both a risk factor for getting infected with Covid and for dying from it. SARS-CoV-2 accelerates the dementia process, effectively robbing residents and their families of precious remaining quality of life.

In 2021-2022, COVID-19 was the third leading indication for hospital admissions in BC. In the 65 and over, it was the 5th leading cause of admissions.

In Canada, for 2020, the first year of the pandemic, the common cold viruses did not make the top 10 list of causes of deaths in 65-74 year olds. Even influenza and pneumonia ranked 9th behind COVID-19’s 5th place as the leading cause of death in that age group.

5.) On Long Covid and post-Covid conditions:

Dr. Daly: “I know some people may be concerned about long term implications of infection, that is no different than other viruses, that may have longer term implications to people who are infected.”

Is that so? Unlike the common cold viruses, SARS-CoV-2 is associated with a long list of serious post-Covid conditions including Long Covid, heart attacks, strokes, kidney and liver disease, blood clots and much more, as the BC CDC’s own communication to primary care providers lays out.

If there were no significant long term health implications from COVID-19, why did the province start in April 2020 to develop a post Covid interdisciplinary clinical care network?

6.) On the Cochrane review on the efficacy of masks:

Dr. Daly: “There was a really great Cochrane review, and this is an organization that looks at the evidence around a whole bunch of interventions in healthcare, that looked at population use of mask and they did not find they were a lot of benefit in Covid-19.”

This is a gross misrepresentation of the findings of the Cochrane review. The Editor-in-Chief of the Cochrane Library, Karla Soares-Weiser, posted a response addressing similar misleading comments. “Many commentators have claimed that a recently-updated Cochrane Review shows that ‘masks don’t work’, which is an inaccurate and misleading interpretation.”

“It would be accurate to say that the review examined whether interventions to promote mask wearing help to slow the spread of respiratory viruses, and that the results were inconclusive. Given the limitations in the primary evidence, the review is not able to address the question of whether mask-wearing itself reduces people’s risk of contracting or spreading respiratory viruses.”

A recently published article, Masks Work. Distorting Science to Dispute the Evidence Doesn’t, provides a good explanation of why randomized controlled trials are not useful, and could even be unethical, when it comes to proven engineered solutions. We would not use such trials to evaluate seatbelts or parachutes, nor should randomized controlled trials be used to evaluate masks.

This misleading statement made by Dr. Daly regarding mask use during the COVID-19 pandemic, is also particularly concerning given that she is not only Vancouver Coastal’s CMOH but also a Clinical Professor in the School of Population and Public Health in the UBC Faculty of Medicine. She is responsible for the education of future public health leaders.

7.) On antiviral agents being made available to the public:

Dr. Daly: “…we also have antiviral agents that are available, that people can take if they’re at high risk for severe disease. Those are excellent tools and we should continue to use those going forward.”

Paxlovid is less available in BC than in any other province or territory in Canada. How can we “continue” to use tools that are available to almost no one in BC, because of severely restrictive eligibility criteria?

In summary, Dr. Daly’s public statements are not based in science and they minimize the real risks of COVID-19 infections. We expect public health leaders not to negligently misrepresent the accumulating scientific evidence related to SARS-CoV-2. We expect these authorities to protect all British Columbians who still put their trust in provincial public health leaders, not put them at risk of harm.

The undersigned call for Dr. Daly’s immediate removal from her current role as Vancouver Coastal Health’s VP of Public Health and as Chief Medical Health Officer.

We also demand a public retraction and correction of Dr. Daly’s May 5th, 2023, comments on CBC radio to limit the harm her false claims could cause to British Columbians. Trust in public health must be restored.

“WHN is in agreement with the scientific statements in this letter that challenge the misinformation that has been provided to the public.”

~ Yaneer Bar-Yam, Professor and President, New England Complex Systems Institute, Co-Founder World Health Network

Signed:

Protect our Province BC, including:

Dr. Elisabeth Crisci, Medical Director

Jaclyn Ferreira, Researcher & Disability Inclusion Advocate, Protect our Province BC

Dr. Lyne Filiatrault, retired Emergency Physician, Protect our Province BC

Jennifer Heighton BSc (Physics), BC Teacher, Safe Schools Coalition BC, Co-founder Protect our Province BC

Dr. Susan Kuo, Family Physician, Clinical Associate Professor, UBC Faculty of Medicine, Protect our Province BC

Dr. Karina Zeidler, Family Physician, Clinical instructor, UBC Faculty of Medicine, Co-founder of Protect our Province BC

Other Individual signatories:

Dr. Satoshi Akima, BHB, MBChB, FRACP, consultant physician Nephrology and Internal Medicine, South Western Sydney Area Health Service, Australia

Dr. Ric Arseneau, MD, FRCPC, MA(Ed), MBA, FACP, CGP, Clinical Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine, St. Paul’s Hospital, University of British Columbia

Yaneer Bar-Yam, Professor and President, New England Complex Systems Institute, Co-Founder World Health Network

Dr. David Berger, BSC(Hons), MBBS(Hons), MRCP(UK), MRCGP, FRACGP

Anne Bhéreur, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP Astrid Brousselle, Ph.D. in Public Health, Professor, School of Public Administration University of Victoria

Arijit Chakravarti, Ph.D., CEO, Fractal Therapeutics

Damien Contandriopoulos, Professor, School of Nursing, University of Victoria

Mauricio Drelichman, Ph.D.

Dr. Lauralee Dukeshire, MD, CCFP, Family Physician

Dr. Genevieve Eastabrook, MD, FRCSC, Associate Professor of OBGYN and Maternal Fetal Medicine subspecialist

Dr. David Fisman, Professor in the Division of Epidemiology, Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Colin Furness, Ph.D., MPH, Epidemiologist and Assistant Professor, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto

Malgorzata Gasperowicz, Ph.D., Developmental Biologist

José-Luis Jimenez, Distinguished Professor, Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry, CIRES Fellow, University of Colorado

Gabrielle Peters, Disabled Writer, Policy Analyst

Kimberly Prather, Atmospheric Chemist, Distinguished Chair in Atmospheric Chemistry, and a Distinguished Professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UC San Diego

Dr. Doreen M. Rabi, MD, MSc, FRCPC; Professor of Medicine, Cardiac Sciences and Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary

Laurence Svirchev, MA, BS, CIH, Svirchev OHS Management Systems, Vancouver, Canada

Mark Ungrin, Interdisciplinary Biomedical Researcher, Associate Professor University of Calgary

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Source: https://protectbc.ca/remove-dr-daly/ (Links to more context, including transcripts, available in original posting on PoP BC site)