Podcasts about Winnipeg Regional Health Authority

Cindy Gilroy has represented the West End ward of Daniel McIntyre for ten years. In Episode 30 you'll hear a fast-paced 20 minutes as we ask her about key issues facing Winnipegl. Part 1- Marty Gold speaks briefly about his exclusive report in the Winnipeg Sun on November 7th -Province, CFS won't discuss at-risk child reported at Mostyn Park encampment  7.20 Part 2- Cindy Gilroy isn't happy a council committee isn't acting on a report about a clean-up of the heaps of used needles, weapons and broken glass being found in kids playgrounds and inner-city parks. "Every kid, when they go to a park, need to feel safe.... we have to find the money to keep them safe for kids." Hear her comments about the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority abandoning needle return targets, yet maintaining discarded needles was "rare". 15.00- The safety of bus drivers and passengers has gone downhill but Gilroy believes the new transit service plan will help. She wants better lighting at stops, and getting cops and transit support workers riding the buses. 18.00- Asking about the future of the Arlington Bridge gets Cindy Gilroy fired up- "We need the bridge fixed". Citing population growth in the North End, suburban councillors opposing paying the costs "are wrong... we need to focus on the other side of the city" and is worried about the closure "dismantling the community." Noting the Louise Bridge is also disintegrating, she says "We have two bridges and we have no thought of even how we're going to deal with them." 20.25- Mayor Scott Gillingham is floating new fees and taxes to increase revenue but Gilroy isn't aware of the specifics. While she agrees in principle the city needs more cash, "I don't wnat to do it on the backs of people that are already struggling." The increased fees for residential parking passes unfairly punishes inner-city neighborhoods like hers that can't afford extra charges and wants it reviewed. Asked about the pattern of tax dollars being wasted by City Hall projects, Gilroy says "There's definitely room for efficiencies." 25.30- CBC distorted what Gilroy said about riverbank homeless encampments and she sets the record straight. "I have said we need a new encampment strategy that really dictates where we're going to allow them." She talks about the concept of a shelter system that would allows users to come and go but keep their belongings safe. Citing federal guidelines that forbids "just kicking people out," Gilroy wants more housing and services to address the underlying mental health and addictions at play. "The citizens of Winnipeg want us to figure this out." "It's not OK" for homeless camps to be interfering in the public's access to city parks. Gilroy wants to ensure "our parks are safe, our river fronts are free from fires... there is a way that we can do this but so far we haven't come as a council and had those hard discussions." Related: ⁠How would Mayor Gillingham deal with a homeless camp in his backyard? E-Transfers, sponsor inquiries, comments and feedback can be sent to martygoldlive@gmail.com 29.45- Marty Gold tosses an idea at Coun. Gilroy about where homeless encampments can be moved to. While Gilroy laughs at first, she stops laughing when told the province actually banned encampments on the Legislature grounds, shifting all emergency response costs to the city. It also shifted all the danger onto law-abiding residents along the Red and Assiniboine rivers, instead of Wab Kinew and the NDP government sharing the burden. 33.33 Part 3- The episode wraps up with a reminder of the importance of the ActionLine.ca platform covering public affairs and producing unique reports and substantive interviews with Winnipeg councillors and other newsmakers. Listeners can help close the gap and contribute in November to the Season 5 Funding Drive, which is now at 80% of the target goal. Support independent investigations and analysis - Use the Paypal link at https://actionline.ca/2024/02/donate-2/

Michael Benarroch sits down with Dr. Joss Reimer, Chief Medical Officer for the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority and someone who not only led Manitoba's COVID-19 vaccine implementation task force but has worked tirelessly to end the stigma around mental illness. Together, they explore how Dr. Reimer's personal experiences have affected her work around mental health, and why we all need to create more supportive environments in the workplace. For more information, visit the podcast's website. Read Dr Joss Reimer's article ‘Running because of — not away from — depression' in the Winnipeg Free Press here. About the host:Michael Benarroch became President of the University of Manitoba on July 1, 2020. Throughout his career, Dr. Benarroch has demonstrated his lifelong dedication to transformative higher education and has made significant contributions to the fields of economics, research, and post-secondary administration. A passionate teacher and researcher, he has taught economics at Canadian universities since 1989. His career includes serving as Provost and Vice-President (Academic) at Toronto Metropolitan University (2017-2020), Dean of the I.H. Asper School of Business (2011-2017) and 21-years with the University of Winnipeg, where he was chair of the department of Economics (1999 - 2007). About the University of Manitoba:For more than 140 years, the University of Manitoba has delivered life-changing learning experiences for students, conducted world-class research and shared knowledge and discovery to shape our province, country and world. UM is western Canada's flagship university, Manitoba's only research-intensive university, is located on the original lands of Anishinaabeg, Cree, Ojibwe-Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples, and on the National Homeland of the Red River Métis.An Everything Podcasts production. 

Our most popular episode in 2024 happens to rank at #3 all-time, and so back to the well we go for Episode 7! Dr. Joss Reimer- "Winnipeg's top doctor"- continues to provide ample evidence she's more focused on advancing her political views than on WRHA patients. 3:57 - After a New Year's Eve tweet dismissing the concerns about violence in downtown Winnipeg as being a by-product of "good old fashioned racism", the head of the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority heard firsthand from residents- especially women- how wrong she was. That was just a sample of the opinions Reimer has, making folks wonder how detached she is from the reality of life in Winnipeg. One commenter noted, "She continuously whines about misogyny while simultaneously thanking people for their support after being elected to president of something important. But she believes the medical field is misogynistic. Crying from her ivory tower." Among a bare minimum of online posts about Emergency Rooms and overworked health care employees- and offering a bureaucratic solution that will take 15 years to implement - Reimer is relentless in promoting a left-wing, climate alarmist agenda with a sprinkling of 'the dangers of misinformation" thrown in. In Episode 7, you'll hear about her far-out views on "surviving climate change", and her related obsession with electric vehicles. Dr. Joss Reimer wields a narrow interpretation of science, complains about 'misinformation' that challenges the medical establishment, and hates fossil fuels, even though thousands of prairie residents would have died this winter without it. To send in story tips, sponsor podcasts, or contribute to our costs via Interac: martygoldlive@gmail.com The Department of Natural Resources spent $76.1M to evaluate the reliability of electric vehicles in Canadian winters just to find the study to be "inconclusive", and warns of "negative unintended outcomes" of the mandates Reimer supports. Consumer Reports concluded EVs are 73% less reliable than gasoline vehicles, contrary to Joss Reimer's contentions, and are more expensive to maintain and repair. The costs of home chargers and power supply push EVs costs to the level of ICE vehicles- if not more- to refuel. Reimer ignores those findings, and instead endorses posts by 'visionary' urbanists who assert a reduced winter driving range (down to 250 km from 450) isn't important. Who cares if people can get to Brandon and back in a day? At least her car doesn't have to warm up, she bragged. Does she park it outside in the cold overnight? That was just one of a series of questions Dr. Reimer didn't answer: "Will an EV tow my camper trailer?" "How much do your batteries cost to replace?" "Why do you drive if you find vehicles dangerous on the streets?" As Marty Gold points out, when you make around $420,000 a year like her, the peons can be ignored. But what can't be ignored is Dr. Joss Reimer making no comment about a patient dying after a 5 hour wait in the St. Boniface ER on Friday, offering no condolences, but still finding time to tweet about how great EVs are. As one disgusted response put it: "ER wait times are insane. Go to fucking work." 21:37 Part 3 - A reminder all our podcasts and special reports are at ActionLine.ca. Unique content and investigations, supported by your donations. Join the crowd and support independent media by using our donate page.

Ontario's top doctor strongly recommended public masking today but stopped short of a mandate, as emergency rooms across Canada see more patients — many of them children — coming through their doors. Matt Galloway talks with Tammy DeGiovanni, the senior vice president of clinical services and the chief nurse executive at CHEO in Ottawa; Dr. Thomas Piggott, medical officer of health for Peterborough Public Health; and Dr. Joss Reimer, chief medical officer for the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority.

Marcia Anderson, MD, is Cree-Anishinaabe whose roots go back to the Norway House Cree Nation and Peguis First Nation in Manitoba. She graduated with her M.D. from the University of Manitoba in 2002 and has since served in a variety of leadership roles, including as head of the Section of First Nations, Métis and Inuit Health; medical officer of health for the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority; a past president of the Indigenous Physicians Association of Canada and executive director, Indigenous academic affairs, Ongomiizwin-Indigenous Institute of Health and Healing.As a medical resident, Dr. Anderson found the opportunity to connect with her cultural identity through experiences with healthcare for indigenous peoples. This journey also showed her firsthand the racism that is systemic in healthcare and how it can have marginalizing and even life-threatening effects on minority peoples. Dr. Anderson shares with the Center Stage audience her efforts to combat discrimination against and promote diversity, equity, and inclusion for indigenous peoples, their knowledge, and their traditions. She also challenges us to think about our biases and make ourselves uncomfortable in the pursuit of inclusiveness in our organizations and communities. Dr. Anderson is an advocate, researcher, and leader in the areas of Indigenous health, primary health care, and medical education. In 2016, she presented a TED Talk on Indigenous Knowledge to Close Gaps in Indigenous Health. In 2018, she was named as one of Canada's 100 Most Powerful Women by Women's Executive Network.

When you get sick and call an ambulance or you make your way to the local ER, the assumption is you're heading to a safe place. They'll greet you, treat you and heal you. But it's not something all Canadians can take for granted -- we were yet again reminded of that yet again in September, when Joyce Equachan, a 37-year old mother of five and member of the Atikamekw Nation, recorded and made public racist taunts she endured from staff at a hospital in Quebec. This week, White Coat Black Art revisits a show about the San'yas Indigenous Cultural Safety Program in BC, which aims to teach health-care workers to recognize and respect the history of Indigenous peoples, so they can access care without fear of being discriminated against. "It's the hardest conversation we can have as Canadians," says Cheryl Ward, who helped design the course. Dr. Marcia Anderson, a public health physician with the WInnipeg Regional Health Authority also speaks to the show about why she brought the course to Winnipeg, and her own family's experience with racism in the health-care system.

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In this episode, we continue our look at the 2019 Novel Coronavirus, specifically on infection prevention and control in Canadian healthcare settings. We chat with  Dr. John Embil, an infectious disease consultant at the University of Manitoba and Medical Director for the Infection Prevention and Control program at the Health Sciences Centre hospital and the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority.

In this interview, Dr. Davinder Singh and Dr. Marcia Anderson discuss the problem of racism in the justice system which is in in part responsible for the over-representation of Indigenous people among the those incarcerated in Canada. As a result, Indigenous people lose far more years of life to incarceration than to premature death from many common causes. Dr. Marcia Anderson is Cree-Anishinaabe, with roots going to the Norway House Cree Nation and Peguis First Nation in Manitoba. She practices both Internal Medicine and Public Health as a Medical Officer of Health with the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority. Dr. Davinder Singh is a recent graduate from the Public Health and Preventive Medicine residency program at the University of Manitoba and is currently midway through his law degree. They co-authored a commentary published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. Full article: www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.181437 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe to CMAJ Podcasts on Apple Podcasts, iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Overcast, Instacast, or your favourite aggregator. You can also follow us directly on our SoundCloud page or you can visit www.cmaj.ca/page/multimedia/podcasts.

The Infectious Diseases Society of America'sGuideline Update: Concise summaries of the most important IDSA guidelines. This episode discusses the 2018 Clinical Practice Guidelines for Asymptomatic Bacteiuria. For the full version of the guidelines presented, please go to www.idsociety.org or see the full article in Clinical Infectious Diseases 2018. Presented by: Neil Skolnik, M.D., Professor of Family and Community Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Associate Director, Family Medicine Residency Program, Abington Jefferson Health Lindsay Nicolle, M.D., Professor Emeritus, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba and Consultant in Adult Infectious Diseases at the Health Sciences Centre and Winnipeg Regional Health Authority  

Guest host Tristan Field-Jones joins Greg Mackling for this week as we broadcast from the rooftop patio at Santa Lucia's on St. Mary's Road. 00:00 - The latest on the sentencing of Andrea Giesbrecht. 09:17 - A dreadful call during the Bomber game Thursday night prevented Karen Kuldys of Winnipeg from becoming a millionaire. 22:53 - Hundreds of patients receiving physiotherapy and occupational therapy services free of charge at city hospitals will soon have to shell out their own cash at a private clinic as the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority tries to cut costs. 31:02 - Andrea Giesbrecht is sentenced to eight and a half years behind bars for concealing the bodies of six infants. 35:50 - Safeway, the CFL and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers are stepping up after Karen Kuldys was denied one million dollars due to a controversial call during a Bomber game. 39:14 - University students from Austin, Texas are cycling 4000 miles to Anchorage, Alaska as part of the annual bike ride for cancer and they're in Winnipeg for a brief break. 58:16 - The crisis of meaning and how to combat the triad of societal ills with Dr. Syras. 77:40 - Your feedback on the Andrea Giesbrecht sentencing. 86:37 - Ticket giveaway for Nazareth. 90:37 - A chat with Hal Anderson. 99:26 - A chat with Julie Buckingham.

Predictors of Emergency Department Use by Persons with Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: A Population-based Study Nugent, Zoann PhD; Singh, Harminder MD, MPH; Targownik, Laura E. MD; Strome, Trevor MS; Snider, Carolyn MD, MPH; Bernstein, Charles N. MD Background: To describe the patterns and predictors of emergency department (ED) attendance and post-ED hospitalization by persons with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Methods: We linked the University of Manitoba IBD Epidemiology Database with the Emergency Department Information System of the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority to determine the rates of presentation to the ED by persons with IBD from January 01, 2009 to March 31, 2012. Incident cases were diagnosed during the study period and all others were considered prevalent cases. Multivariate logistic regression was used to determine predictors of attendance in the ED and for hospitalization within 2 days of ED attendance. Results: The study population included 300 incident and 3394 prevalent IBD cases, of whom 76% and 49%, respectively, attended the ED at least once during the study period. Incident cases with Crohn's disease or with a history of opioid use were more likely to attend the ED. Those ...

Predictors of Emergency Department Use by Persons with Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: A Population-based Study Nugent, Zoann PhD; Singh, Harminder MD, MPH; Targownik, Laura E. MD; Strome, Trevor MS; Snider, Carolyn MD, MPH; Bernstein, Charles N. MD Background: To describe the patterns and predictors of emergency department (ED) attendance and post-ED hospitalization by persons with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Methods: We linked the University of Manitoba IBD Epidemiology Database with the Emergency Department Information System of the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority to determine the rates of presentation to the ED by persons with IBD from January 01, 2009 to March 31, 2012. Incident cases were diagnosed during the study period and all others were considered prevalent cases. Multivariate logistic regression was used to determine predictors of attendance in the ED and for hospitalization within 2 days of ED attendance. Results: The study population included 300 incident and 3394 prevalent IBD cases, of whom 76% and 49%, respectively, attended the ED at least once during the study period. Incident cases with Crohn's disease or with a history of opioid use were more likely to attend the ED. Those ...

Predictors of Emergency Department Use by Persons with Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: A Population-based Study Nugent, Zoann PhD; Singh, Harminder MD, MPH; Targownik, Laura E. MD; Strome, Trevor MS; Snider, Carolyn MD, MPH; Bernstein, Charles N. MD Background: To describe the patterns and predictors of emergency department (ED) attendance and post-ED hospitalization by persons with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Methods: We linked the University of Manitoba IBD Epidemiology Database with the Emergency Department Information System of the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority to determine the rates of presentation to the ED by persons with IBD from January 01, 2009 to March 31, 2012. Incident cases were diagnosed during the study period and all others were considered prevalent cases. Multivariate logistic regression was used to determine predictors of attendance in the ED and for hospitalization within 2 days of ED attendance. Results: The study population included 300 incident and 3394 prevalent IBD cases, of whom 76% and 49%, respectively, attended the ED at least once during the study period. Incident cases with Crohn's disease or with a history of opioid use were more likely to attend the ED. Those ...

Predictors of Emergency Department Use by Persons with Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: A Population-based Study Nugent, Zoann PhD; Singh, Harminder MD, MPH; Targownik, Laura E. MD; Strome, Trevor MS; Snider, Carolyn MD, MPH; Bernstein, Charles N. MD Background: To describe the patterns and predictors of emergency department (ED) attendance and post-ED hospitalization by persons with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Methods: We linked the University of Manitoba IBD Epidemiology Database with the Emergency Department Information System of the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority to determine the rates of presentation to the ED by persons with IBD from January 01, 2009 to March 31, 2012. Incident cases were diagnosed during the study period and all others were considered prevalent cases. Multivariate logistic regression was used to determine predictors of attendance in the ED and for hospitalization within 2 days of ED attendance. Results: The study population included 300 incident and 3394 prevalent IBD cases, of whom 76% and 49%, respectively, attended the ED at least once during the study period. Incident cases with Crohn's disease or with a history of opioid use were more likely to attend the ED. Those ...

Richard talks to Dr. Jitender Sareen, medical director of the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority's mental health program regarding how resources are stretched to the limit.

Richard talks to a cardiologist at the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority about new technology that's helping to save lives in Manitoba and around the world.

A new report indicates some Winnipeg hospitals are way over capacity. Guest host Kelly Moore asks the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority why that's the case.

The tragic story of the death of Brian Sinclair in a Winnipeg hospital emergency room waiting room. An inquest into the death of Mr. Sinclair, a double amputee, who died of a treatable bladder infection after being ignored for 34 hours, resulted in 63 recommendations for the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority. Mr. Sinclair's family point at "racism against aboriginal people in Canada's health care system" (Global News) as the cause and suggest the inquest was a "wasted opportunity" to get at the root causes of racism. In 2011, while I was hosting on Corus Alberta radio we were talking about a recent suicide at the Royal Alex hospital E.R. in Edmonton, when the mother of the 34 year old man who hanged himself called into the show. It was an emotion-filled call and resulted in many additional calls with stories of E.R. experiences in Canada. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on Hull on Estates, Paul Trudelle and Nadia Harasymowycz discuss whether estates can pursue charter claims. Specifically, they discuss Grant v. Winnipeg Regional Health Authority.