Aaron Derfel
Health Care Reporter at Montreal Gazette
I'm a health journalist at the Montreal Gazette. You can also find me on Mastodon at https://t.co/bN8cuUa6ID and Telegram at https://t.co/FQuHM9YNSZ. Here's my bio: ↓
Articles
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1 week ago |
montrealgazette.com | Aaron Derfel
A record three dozen Quebecers have perished from sudden death since the start of the year while waiting for their heart operations, even as the Health Ministry and Santé Québec squabble over jurisdiction and resources, The Gazette can reveal.
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3 weeks ago |
montrealgazette.com | Aaron Derfel
In the last few of months of his fulsome life, Marc Garneau remained active on social media — a domain usually rife with tasteless trolling — choosing instead to post stirring tributes to the country he loved and staunchly defending Canada’s independence and economic interests. “In life, most of us are guided by what is right and what is wrong. When something is wrong, we must speak up and stand our ground despite what lies ahead. This is such a moment in Canada’s life.
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1 month ago |
montrealgazette.com | Aaron Derfel
Quebec Lieutenant Governor Manon Jeannotte’s office has contacted Dawson College about its investigation into racist trolling on the social media platform Discord by medical school applicants to determine whether to rescind a youth medal awarded to a student, The Gazette can confirm.
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1 month ago |
montrealgazette.com | Aaron Derfel
Discord, an increasingly popular social media platform based in San Francisco, has deactivated a controversial channel used by Quebec medical school applicants that was overrun by antisemitic and other racist messages, including threats of violence, The Gazette can confirm. Hours after the newspaper reported last Friday about a virulent stream of hateful content on the 1,400-member Med serveur channel on Discord, the chat forum suddenly disappeared.
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1 month ago |
montrealgazette.com | Aaron Derfel
Warning: This story contains offensive language and imagery. Quebec’s Higher Education Minister, Pascale Déry, is denouncing a virulent stream of racist and other hateful messages on a popular social media platform for medical school applicants after The Gazette broke the story over the weekend. “The calls for violence and expressions of hatred in these exchanges are totally unacceptable in Quebec,” Simon Savignac, Déry’s press attaché, said in a statement on Monday.
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Given today's sad news regarding Marc Garneau, I had the pleasure and honor of interviewing him in 2015 for the @mtlgazette. Below is a story I wrote tonight which I hope illustrates his patriotism and humanity.👇 https://t.co/Kxc6ZvA76h
1) BREAKING: Quebec urges students to come forward in racism investigation to help identify those spreading antisemitic, homophobic, misogynistic and anti-Black slurs on Discord channel for med school applicants. See my story below. 👇 https://t.co/UGSulaQ6FV