Laura Connoy, PhD
@LauraConnoy
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Sociologist | Critical qualitative health research | Postdoctoral Associate @PeprPartnership @cope_study
Western University, Canada
Joined September 2019
Read women. Cite women. Credit women. Teach women. Publish women. Present women. Acknowledge women. Award women. Amplify women. Hire women. Support women. Promote women. Hear women. Believe women. Follow women. Pay women. Pay women. Pay women. #IWD2023
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Every day in my family practice, I care for patients whose access to healthcare is restricted due to their immigration status. Health is a universal human right. Follow @HealthForAllNow and speak up for #Healthcare4all. ✊🏽❤️🩹🏥
Did you know migrants are being asked to pay $$$ for healthcare in Ontario? Watch Dr. @Nisha_Kansal explain how these barriers lead to patients crowding the ER w/ preventable diseases. OUTRAGEOUS‼️ SHARE ➡️Let @fordnation know that not having #Healthcare4All is costing us all.
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Dr Warner explains why all in Ontario deserve medical care and why the Ford government policy change announced on a Friday night is wrong. It was established long ago that access to healthcare is a human right. @drmwarner
Cancelling health coverage for uninsured Ontarians harms the most vulnerable.
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Our op ed in the Star today on why we need to cancel Ford’s cruel cuts to healthcare for uninsured people. https://t.co/EVTIxLNa9C
#onpoli #healthcare4all
thestar.com
The Ford government is playing with people’s lives in cutting a small program with a huge impact. No one should choose between health care and rent.
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The Ontario government is set to cut access to healthcare for uninsured people on March 31. Act now! Tell Premier @fordnation to stop the cuts and ensure #healthcare4all
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Shameful move from @SylviaJonesMPP & @fordnation's govt to deny uninsured migrants access to healthcare. We cannot allow this govt to continue leaving behind migrants - who do essential & underpaid work in our communities. https://t.co/4MY1TYUrp5
#StatusForAll #Healthcare4All
thestar.com
TORONTO - Ontario doctors and the organization representing them blasted the provincial government on Saturday for its quietly unveiled plans to end a program that provides health-care services for...
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Can we please stop calling folks who have trouble accessing healthcare “hard to reach?" Remember that many people face real structural barriers to accessing healthcare (eg language, transportation, trauma). If anything, we in healthcare are the ones who are hard to reach!
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Paediatrician @shazeen_s & Family physician @vanessaredditt write: The COVID-19 pandemic has made it achingly clear how our collective health depends on protecting the health of all. A fair society means equal rights for all. #StatusForAll
https://t.co/PJuGl1Srw6
thestar.com
Under our current immigration policy, most people with precarious status are treated as expendable, exploitable labour with limited rights.
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Migrants face systemic health barriers due to: 👉 precarious immigration status 👉 public health insurance ineligibility 👉 inability to afford care Which results in: 👉 delayed care & inability to follow treatment plans 👉 poorer outcomes #StatusForAll
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Immigration status is a social determinant of health. Ensuring equal rights and access for all migrants is critical for closing systemic gaps in health inequities. A comprehensive regularization plan that includes ALL migrants is imperative to health. #StatusForAll
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.@JustinTrudeau @SeanFraserMP The data is clear: lack of status leads to worse health outcomes, barriers to healthcare & poor working conditions. Health workers urge you to grant full and permanent immigration status to all migrants w/o exception
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Powerful words and painful stories being shared. The Canadian immigration system wreaks havocs on people’s lives and access to health. We need #StatusForAll NOW!!
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My pain research colleagues are sending me texts, photos, and updates from #CanadianPain22... and the FOMO is so real over having to miss @FionaWebster1 and @LauraConnoy's critical sociology (my jam) focused chronic pain presentation this AM. Wishing attendees another great day!
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Standing room only in today’s symposium on Critical Social Science Approaches to Chronic Pain and Marginalization. Incredible to see the interest in this much needed work! #CanadianPain22 @LiseDassieu @FionaWebster1 @LauraConnoy @Therese_Lane01
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This is important. And also, to state the obvious, the world is a deathscape for many, and there are deadly wars and invasions in many more places. An end to displacement, misery, militarism, impoverishment, and detention for all. Safe passage for all. Open the borders for all.
NEW: Canada says it has arranged safe passage for citizens and PRs in Ukraine at land borders with Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania & Moldova and is prioritizing immigration applications for Ukranians who wish to come to Canada
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“all people, regardless of citizenship or immigration status, are deserving of care […] in order to ensure truly universal health coverage, the right to health should always be the value guiding decisions around entitlement.” #SDoH
#HHRJ paper in press: authors @lforman @RebeccaCheff & Monica Gagnon explore Ontario's move to extend healthcare to everyone in province to protect against #COVID & ask, why only in a pandemic? #healthrights #humanrights
https://t.co/Kd1rza9hJA
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Good morning and happy Tuesday to everyone who knows that immigrants work hard & make valued contributions that make this country awesome. If someone can explain this to the guy in charge of Ontario, that would be GREAT. 😉
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Beyond how degrading and xenophobic this is, the way this racist stereotype is framed tells you everything Immigrants don’t get to be human. They’re treated as either “good” or “bad” work machines
Premier Ford says he's looking for "hard working" immigrants to help fill the labour gap. "You come here like every other new Canadian, you work your tail off. If you think you're coming to collect the dough and sit around, not going to happen. Go somewhere else." #onpoli
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