nilikm

nilikm, 10 days ago to Toronto

Hey, #Toronto friends:

Join us for the launch of our book, Breaking Canadians: Health Care, Advocacy and the Toll of #Covid19:

May 23, 6pm

Please book (free but have to register) and share with friends

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/book-launch-breaking-canadians-by-nili-kaplan-myrth-tickets-901850227307

Featuring @NightshiftMD @nightshiftmd @mstdn.social @DocMCohen @ImogenRCoePhD @dfisman and others

nilikm, 12 days ago to random

For the first time since 2007, it isn’t safe for Jews to raise the Israeli flag in Ottawa, Canada’s capital city, to acknowledge Yom Ha’atzmaut. Because police are warning us that we will be in danger if we gather.

If your response is, “yeah, but…” you are condoning Jew hate.

nilikm, 14 days ago to random

When I was sixteen I went on March of the Living to visit Poland—where my grandparents escaped but their families died in concentration camps—and then to Israel, where I was born.

Tonight is #YomHashoa. Jews globally are counting on you to unequivocally say #NeverAgainIsNow

nilikm, 24 days ago to random

Article about the daily antisemitic and anti-Zionist emails I received last week as a physician and school board trustee

https://www.thewhig.com/opinion/weve-lost-our-sense-of-safety-in-canada

nilikm, 1 month ago to random

At the ALSO fundraiser authors read from #ReadBannedBooks. My 15 year old daughter and I—in honour of #Holocaust survivors, and in defiance of the rise in #antisemitism and all forms of #hate globally—will read from Anne Frank’s Diary of a Young Girl.

ALSO is an adult learning program in English and ASL, focused on skills for employment, further education, civic participation.

https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/also-alternative-learning-styles-and-outlooks/events/banned-book-night/

nilikm, 1 month ago to random

May all people everywhere experience peace, health, happiness and safety. #ShabbatShalom, friends and colleagues.

nilikm, 2 months ago to random

As COVID-19 flourished, so too did disinformation campaigns, anti-vaccine rhetoric, sectarianism and politics aligned with anti-science populism.

Let's learn from COVID-19 as measles is making an inexcusable comeback. We have the tools — vaccines, masking, ventilation and testing — to stop the spread of airborne viruses.

My article in @ottawacitizen

https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/kaplan-myrth-lets-learn-from-covid-19-as-measles-starts-to-reappear

nilikm, 2 months ago to random

So cool! Back home in Ottawa to copies of #BreakingCanadians from @utpress!

HUGE thanks to the amazing Canadians who wrote chapters. Thanks @NightShiftMD @suerobinsyvr for foreword & postscript, and @PeterHotez @WriterWong @CheriDiNovo @cathyacrowe @deonandan @boiby for reviews.

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nilikm, 2 months ago to random

Happy International Women’s Day

May we live, speak, lead without violence or harassment. May we work & play without fear. May we have unfettered access to contraception, uncontested control of our bodies & reproduction. May we have equal pay & opportunity. May we never be targets in war.

Thank you to feminists who blazed trails for us.

#iwd is a commitment to walk arm in arm with the next generation.

nilikm, 2 months ago to random

Is this the garbage kind of post that Mastodon allows? Reported and ticked off.

nilikm, 2 months ago to random

Measles is highly contagious and serious. 30% of cases have complications. Pneumonia. Encephalitis. Immunosuppression that can last for weeks to months or years. Death.

#Measles is airborne (stays in air 2 hrs).

Immunize and #MaskUp.

Boost if eligible:
https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/publications/healthy-living/canadian-immunization-guide-part-4-active-vaccines/page-12-measles-vaccine.html

nilikm, 3 months ago to random

Transgender rights to gender-affirming care shouldn’t be up for debate in Canada or anywhere else.

Abortion rights shouldn’t be up for debate in Canada or anywhere else.

The importance of vaccines shouldn’t be up for debate in Canada or anywhere else.

Sad this has to be said.

nilikm, 3 months ago to Ottawa

Yes! Skating the Rideau Canal
#Ottawa winter fun!

nilikm, 4 months ago to random

Happy Canadian puppy romping through deep snow

Aussiedoodle running circles through deep snow

nilikm, 4 months ago to random

Another week, another Friday night to light candles for Jews who cannot.

‎To our shared humanity.

‎שבת שלום
‎⁦‪#ShabbatShalom‬⁩

nilikm, 4 months ago to random

Today is our wedding anniversary. Husband and lifelong friend, @andykm, thank you for laughs, support, love, adventure, and our three awesome children. We don’t know who will be PM when we reach our 50th, but cool to have a certificate signed by Justin Trudeau for our 25th.

nilikm, 4 months ago to Ottawa

I was just found guilty and sanctioned for speaking about antisemitism, for standing up against Jew hate at a public school board in #Ottawa Canada’s capital city.

Capitulating to the very people who have harassed and threatened me and called for my resignation.

This is education in Ontario.

Best of luck with democracy, my friends. Good people will not go into municipal politics.

nilikm, 5 months ago to random

Tonight is the first night of #Chanukah.

Lighting candles in our window.

May there be some light in the darkness in troubled times.

Love from our family to our Jewish friends, colleagues, neighbours, constituents, patients. Here’s to a safe holiday for Jews around the world.

nilikm, 5 months ago to random

14 women were shot at École Polytechnique, Montreal, December 6, 1989. They were killed because they were #WomenInSTEM. An act of #misogyny in Canada.

Women in science & medicine are still disproportionately targets of threats & harassment here and abroad.

nilikm, 5 months ago to Ottawa

This article is for students, educators, physicians, university faculty, and the broader Jewish community in #Ottawa and across Canada who face #antisemitism.

See you on Parliament Hill.

Please share/RT

@OCDSB @uOttawa @CIJAinfo @JewishOttawa @DARAdocs https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/kaplan-myrth-staring-over-the-edge-of-the-antisemitic-abyss

nilikm, 5 months ago to random

Next week #Chanukah starts. Although traditionally the menorah is put in a window as we light a new candle each night, last year we moved ours as we received threats daily.

Sending out homemade cards to Jewish friends now. When we say #NeverAgain, we mean it.

#ShabbatShalom

nilikm, 5 months ago to Ottawa

Working short-staffed this week. People go out recklessly while unwell, infect healthcare staff in the community. Fewer of us left to care for you.

#COVID19 wastewater levels haven’t gone down in #Ottawa since they peaked last April. Not good.

Please #MaskUp, test, isolate, boost.

nilikm, 5 months ago to random

In September, I asked you to imagine trying to explain to colleagues the trauma of antisemitic threats. And then the disappointment of their silence.

Since then, antisemitism has worsened globally, students and community are harassed and unsafe. Don’t be silent.

#ShabbatShalom

nilikm, 5 months ago to random

Popping in to say that patients are testing positive for #COVID19 in clinic.

So many. Sore throat, headache, cough, fever.

Don’t be the cause of a newborn, toddler, senior, pregnant person, essential worker, HCW, others ending up sick.

#MaskUp, test, isolate, get your booster.

nilikm, 6 months ago to random

Here for one day to share exciting news: Breaking Canadians, our fabulous book on #COVID19 in Canada, has gone to press! Will hold book launches this spring.

Preview and preorder here: https://www.book2look.com/book/RoyLhmUgdE

Please share.

Take care, and #MaskUp