Julia Mitchell

Harvesting your own stem cells for rejuvenation therapies has been a very painful and expensive process. But now there is a startup in Canada that can get at stem cells just by plucking out some of your hairs. Skin and hair treatments today. Possibly treatments for all sorts of body parts in the future. They'll pluck you and store your youthful cells in a vault. Full story here - youtube.com/watch?v=J8eOvxHP…

The finance minister decided to interrupt my interview, so I challenged him on his billionaire’s budget. We won't make life affordable by giving more handouts to the 1%. It's time to tax the rich so we can all share in the wealth of this country. Add your name: ndp.ca/take-action/wealth-ta…

#Budget2026 is about building a stronger, more resilient Canadian economy while creating opportunities for businesses and workers across the country.   This morning, I joined business and community leaders at the Ottawa Board of Trade and Ottawa Business Journal’s Budget Breakfast to discuss the 2026 Federal Budget and what it means for Ottawa, our region, and Canada’s economic future.   These conversations are invaluable as we work together to build a more prosperous future for businesses, workers, and communities across Canada.

The population can shrink, it will free up space and resources for Canadians to start families. No animal population anywhere in the planet is always increasing. There are ebbs and flows.

🍁Brutal reality: Canada needs more immigrants at the exact moment voters have learned that more people didn’t make them richer. Around 2032, deaths overtake births. 👇 After that, all of Canada’s population growth must come from immigration. Without enough of it, Canada shrinks for the first full year since Confederation. But Canadians have already run this experiment. Since mid-2022, Canada’s economy grew more than 5%. Yet income per person fell about 1.4%. The country got bigger. The average Canadian got poorer. Since 2015, income per person grew 0.82% a year in Canada vs. 2.07% in the U.S. That’s why the backlash was brutal. When immigration hit 500,000 a year, 58% said there was too much: the fastest swing in opinion since 1977. Opinion only cooled to a 48/48 split after the cuts. So here’s the trap: raise immigration without raising output per person, and the backlash returns. Don’t raise it, and the country shrinks. Canada doesn’t need more people or fewer people. It needs each person to produce more. Productivity first, then population.

Canada needs to have a separate 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗜𝗺𝗺𝗶𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗢𝗻𝗲-𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀: 2026: 148,000 2027: 200,000 2028: ~300,000 2029: ~500,000 Don’t worry, the base number will stay at 380,000. All this while Canada is flooded with 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗽𝗵𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗜𝗺𝗺𝗶𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗙𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗔𝘀𝘆𝗹𝘂𝗺 𝗦𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀 with Fictitious Skills.

Unless there is some very quick action the answer is apparently, yes... AB needs to be taken to task for breaking the Canada Health Act. Many of us feel it needs reform. Not ignoring it. Has the federal government abandoned public health care?;url=policyalternatives.ca/news-r…

FDA has received over 100 requests to participate from sponsors and prospective Qualified Research Institutions (QRIs) for the Expedited IND Pilot Program, spanning a wide range of therapeutic areas and modalities. The application window is now closed, and FDA is reviewing submissions. Selected participants will be notified by December 18. Stay tuned as we take this important step toward modernizing the path to first-in-human trials.

The same meal can raise blood sugar very differently depending on the order you eat it. In a crossover trial of 33 young women wearing continuous glucose monitors, eating vegetables, then protein, then carbohydrate lowered the early rise, the peak, and the overall swing compared with carbohydrate first. An earlier crossover trial in 18 healthy adults found about 41% less glucose exposure and about 32% less insulin exposure over two hours when vegetables and protein came first, with the same foods and calories. These were small, short-term studies in healthy adults, not proof of weight loss or diabetes prevention.

Women in science have not always received the credit they deserve for their contributions. Patents help prevent that. AWIS member Savanah Saldaña-Shumaker and Dr. Lisa Matovcik explain the process and importance of protecting your intellectual property. awis.org/resource/patent-101…

Luke (@Dr__Riggan) is a rockstar. Hardcore scientist, deeply personable, and a doer. The Amplify Bio dream team is assembling!

Toronto Inflation-Adjusted Home Prices | 1946–October 2026 🌊 Kondratieff’s Fourth Wave: The Greatest Real Estate Mania in History? For nearly a century, real home prices remained within a remarkably stable historical range. Then, between 1996 and 2000, something extraordinary began: a global real estate mania, fuelled by falling interest rates, expanding credit and unprecedented leverage. 🏠 The boom culminated around 2021–2022 in several major housing markets, including Canada. Watch the blue trendline. A decisive break would signal the beginning of the second leg down in Toronto’s housing correction. The first leg was driven by higher borrowing costs. The second may be driven by deleveraging, deteriorating credit and forced selling. Deleverage before the economy forces you to.

Ottawa: 711 homeless families, 2,574 people, in June. The most since records began in 2014. Over 1,200 are children. Three in four live in hotels, for 11 months on average. $29.3M on hotel rooms, not homes. #Ottawa #HousingCrisis #EndHomelessness

What better way to kick off the #ASCyto2026 meeting than with a Cytopathology Masterclass led by our @IACytology President, @sza_jhcyto ?

After promising to bring immigration back down to more sustainable levels following years of record growth, Ottawa is now hinting that levels will rise again. At the same time, it’s dropping its target of building 500,000 homes a year, a goal that was meant to tackle a housing crisis made worse by the huge wave of immigration over the last few years. A recent poll found only 13% of Canadians support more immigration, and it’s hard to see the case for bringing in more people while Ottawa is also scaling back on the homes they’ll need. Do you think Canada really needs to raise its immigration levels again?