Geneviève Lavertu

Geneviève Lavertu

@glavertu.bsky.social

Medtech | Healthcare Policy 🇨🇦🇪🇺🇺🇸🇫🇷🇩🇪🇬🇧| Digital Health, Health Tech | Life Sciences | M&A | Corporate Governance 🇨🇦, roaming curiosity for other ways to see the world: what does that look like for you? That’s why I’m here. “Be curious, not judgemental”

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Aaron Rupar
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Obama: "That well-known evil empire Canada. That historical adversary of ours. Canada! *laughs* It's your neighbor. It's a few minutes' drive over the bridge! These are the people who gave us Martin Short and maple syrup. They are the nicest people! And someone we've gotten them so mad."

Geneviève Lavertu
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Second #StandingStoneSunday from me today! Inspired by @tatuvaljakka.bsky.social‘s earlier post, I was already going to Uppsala today, made the detour. Thank you! 😜😉 The “Nonsense Runestone”: highly unusual, carved by an illiterate master or apprentice who used rune letters as … decorative elements

Tatu Valjakka@tatuvaljakka.bsky.social

These are most likely iron age, but still stones and standing. Lillängens Gravfält, Uppsala #StandingStoneSunday

Geneviève Lavertu
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Stone ship (Swedish: skeppssättning) at Sandviks Skans. Megalithic grave monument of large boulders arranged in the shape of a ship to symbolically carry dead chieftains, seafarers, or elites into the afterlife. “Prow stone” edge indicates 45’ NE. Near Rosersberg, Sweden #StandingStoneSunday

Geneviève Lavertu
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«All this presents a productivity puzzle. Some hospitals seem to be faring worse with more resources. Australia: workforce grew ~20% from 2019-24, elective surgeries are basically flat—the only difference is that the sick are waiting longer to be seen… in England, productivity is below pre-pandemic»

André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social

The diagnosis is simple: “Our health-care system broke in 2020.” Hospitals are stuck in a deadly doom loop. They never recovered from #COVID19. www.economist.com/internationa... via @theeconomistnews.bsky.social

Geneviève Lavertu
@glavertu.bsky.social

Scathing: “launched himself on Washington like a crowd-surfing frat brother” “Rarely has a man with more confidence and less experience held such power” “only public figure whose SNL caricature seems more sensible than the original” “may cause some women to throw up ever so slightly in their mouths”

economist.comChecks and Balance: Pete Hegseth and the risks of a macho militaryCharlotte Howard, our New York bureau chief, on why divisive machismo is at the core of the Trump administration’s military policy

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Jean-Noël Barrot
@jnbarrot.bsky.social

À la demande de la France, le Conseil de sécurité des Nations unies se réunira ce soir à 22h, heure de Paris, pour traiter de la situation en Iran et au Moyen-Orient.

Geneviève Lavertu
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250 years ago today, more than Elbows Up: Changed the course of history #OTD

Eileen Schnabel Author@eileenschnabel.bsky.social

December 1775. A brutal defeat after one of the Revolution’s harshest marches. 🥶🏰 History was unforgiving. #AmericanRevolution #1775 #ArnoldsMarch #Quebec #RevolutionaryWar #HistoryShorts #KepWestguard #HistoryOnTheBrinkhttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/-A-S4Y5XbIo

youtube.comDecember 1775. A brutal defeat after one of the Revolution’s harshest marches. 🥶🏰YouTube video by Eileen Schnabel
Geneviève Lavertu
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250 years ago today, more than Elbows Up: Changed the course of history #OTD

Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺?@benjamin.bsky.social

An American perspective on the Quebec campaign of late 1775. www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-...

smithsonianmag.comHow the Thirteen Colonies Tried—and Failed—to Convince Canada to Side With Them During the American RevolutionAfter peaceful attempts at alliance-building stalled, the Continental Army launched an ill-fated invasion of Quebec in June 1775
Geneviève Lavertu
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250 years ago today, more than Elbows Up: Changed the course of history #OTD

Jean Gauthier@jigo57.bsky.social

Québec se souvient 250e #anniversaire de la #tentative d’invasion #américaine! 1/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xjkb... Je me #souviens de 1775 #Québec #invasion #USA #États-Unis #indépendance #ingérence #annexion #insurrection #guerre #orangiste #colonie #colonisation #territoire #BebedictArnold

Geneviève Lavertu
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250 years ago today, more than Elbows Up: Changed the course of history #OTD

250 Years Ago News@250yearsagonews.bsky.social

Dec. 31, 1775: The Americans’ make-or-break attempt to capture Quebec City and with it all of British Canada opens at about 5 a.m. in a blinding snowstorm. The assault opens with Capt. Jacob Brown firing on the Cape Diamond bastion and launching two rockets as a signal to the rest of the army. 1/7

Geneviève Lavertu
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250 years ago today, more than Elbows Up: Changed the course of history #OTD

rudy.ca@rudydotca.bsky.social

#OTD December 31 1775, the Battle of Quebec, in which American general Richard Montgomery was killed, American general Benedict Arnold was wounded, and most American forces taken prisoner wikipedia article is thorough, as usual -- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_...

Geneviève Lavertu
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250 years ago today, more than Elbows Up: Changed the course of history #OTD

UNUM Ken Burns@unumkenburns.bsky.social

On this day in 1775, Benedict Arnold led the Continental Army's assault on Quebec City. He hoped to destroy the British stronghold and prevent potential attacks from the north. Everything went wrong. Watch our clip from THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.

Geneviève Lavertu
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250 years ago today, more than Elbows Up: Changed the course of history #OTD

Madelaine Drohan@mdrohan.bsky.social

#OTD Dec. 31, 1775, the newly-formed Continental Army tried and failed to take Quebec City and with it Canada or the Province of Quebec. American troops had already taken Montreal and Trois-Rivières and only needed to capture and hold Quebec City to make Canada the 14th colony.

theglobeandmail.comOpinion: Canada must remember its defeat of the Americans in 1775If we remembered this foundational event better, we would be better equipped to respond to our current moment
Geneviève Lavertu
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250 years ago today, more than Elbows Up: Changed the course of history #OTD

Tommy Byrne@tommybyrne.ca

#FunFact En cette veille du Jour de l'an de 1775, les troupes de Richard Montgomery et Benedict Arnold attaquèrent Québec. Arnold fut blessé à la jambe et Montgomery tué à quelques pas de la rue de la Barricade. Ce fut la dernière invasion étrangère dans la ville de Québec.

Geneviève Lavertu
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250 years ago today, more than Elbows Up: Changed the course of history

250 Years Ago News@250yearsagonews.bsky.social

Dec. 31, 1775: With their defeat in Quebec City the Continental Army suffers its worst defeat of 1775. Its casualties amount to nearly half the men on the battlefield: 48 dead, 34 wounded and 372 captured. The British have suffered just five dead and 14 wounded from a much larger force. 1/5

Geneviève Lavertu
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250 years ago today, more than Elbows Up: Changed the course of history

Revolutionary War 250@revwar250.bsky.social

31 DECEMBER 1775, ST. JOHN’S GATE, QUEBEC: In the midst of a blizzard, gunners manning the ramparts fire flaming shot to try to illuminate the approaches to the city walls. They see Continental soldiers running toward them.

Geneviève Lavertu
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250 years ago today, more than Elbows Up: Changed the course of history

jeandelong.bsky.social@jeandelong.bsky.social

The Death of General Montgomery in the Attack on Quebec, December 31, 1775, oil painting by John Trumbull 1786 It depicts the tragic death of the American General during the Invasion of Quebec, a major military operation by the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War. It was a failure.

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250 years ago today, more than Elbows Up: Changed the course of history

250 Years Ago News@250yearsagonews.bsky.social

Dec. 31, 1775: The main thrust of today's American attack on Quebec City comes from the 600 men led by Col. Benedict Arnold. As they mount their assault on the north side of Lower Town they are unaware that the rest of their army is being routed, and their commander has been killed. 1/8

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And being now able to read the calcinated scrolls of the buried library of Caesar’s father-in-law in Herculaneum - without unrolling them, thanks to the Vesuvius Challenge! www.theguardian.com/science/2024... To learn new things about Plato, for goodness sake !!! www.theguardian.com/books/2024/a...

theguardian.comAI helps scholars read scroll buried when Vesuvius erupted in AD79Researchers used AI to read letters on papyrus scroll damaged by the blast of heat, ash and pumice that destroyed Pompeii
Geneviève Lavertu
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And translating and putting together (all?) known cuneiform tablet fragments to decipher and stitch together an ancient hymn to Babylon, from many different fragments in different collections ?!? bsky.app/profile/arch... All these riches just blow my mind

Archaeology Magazine@archaeologymag.bsky.social

Researchers this year used AI to help translate one cuneiform tablet’s text. Now, about two-thirds of the hymn is known—it’s a love letter to the city of Babylon. archaeology.org/issues/january-february-2026/collection/hymn-to-babylon/top-10-discoveries-of-2025/

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Jesper Sjöström
@pjsjostrom.bsky.social

🧪🧵 Canada Impact+ Research Training Awards — now open 🇨🇦 A new federal program to attract outstanding PhD students and postdocs currently outside Canada (including Canadians abroad).

Geneviève Lavertu
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“Ratcliffe, a former Republican congressman from Texas, built his reputation as one of Trump’s fiercest defenders on Capitol Hill — particularly during the first impeachment proceedings, when he used his perch on the House Intelligence Committee to attack the inquiry.”

Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca

"CIA Director John Ratcliffe made a low-key stop in Brussels this week, meeting top EU foreign and intelligence officials to deliver a not-so-subtle message: You can still trust us." www.politico.eu/article/cia-...

politico.euCIA chief quietly meets EU officials to soothe US intel-sharing fearsTrump administration’s volatile foreign policy has shaken Europe’s confidence in Washington’s intelligence cooperation.

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Eric Chenoweth
@ericdchenoweth.bsky.social

This should be front-page news (as it is in The Netherlands). BTW, the Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD) was the agency that infiltrated Cozy Bear (APT 29) and gave crucial info to FBI (and relied on by Mueller investigation and SSCI).

Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca

The Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service has stopped sharing certain information with the United States: “Sometimes we no longer share things,” officials say, because the information has been finding its way into Kremlin hands. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

volkskrant.nlNederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...
Geneviève Lavertu
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El #Chavo del Ocho on #SNL!! All the characters! I could cry with nostalgia. It’s been so long, feels like remembering a dream. Bad Bunny as Quico 😂 ! Jon Hamm as Profesor Jirafales ☠️ ! 🫶

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Bill Robinson
@billrobinson.bsky.social

Canada has been sharing intel with the US on traffickers in the Caribbean since 1993. Enhanced intel-sharing has been underway since 2024. If the Avoiding Complicity in Mistreatment by Foreign Entities Act means anything, all sharing that might lead to extrajudicial killings must now cease.

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swop-usa.bsky.social
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Denmark is poised to grant citizens copyright control over their own faces, voices, and bodies The copyright amendment would give every citizen legal ownership over their physical likeness, allowing them to demand the removal of unauthorized AI-generated content www.myprivacy.blog/denmark-make...

myprivacy.blogDenmark Makes History: Your Face and Voice Are Now Your Intellectual PropertyEurope's First Digital Identity Protection Law Tackles the Deepfake Crisis Denmark is poised to become the first European nation to grant citizens copyright control over their own faces, voices, and ...
Geneviève Lavertu
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FWIW, these are the 2 headlines competing for my attention on latest Apple News notification. Coincidence? methinks not. Now transport yourself back to your 2015 self, and read this again. WTAF!? I can only shake my head in disbelief. Who wrote this dystopian script of a rotten tomato movie??

Geneviève Lavertu
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Quelle plume! C’est vu juste. “Ces guerriers de la nostalgie s’imaginent en croisés au champ d’honneur.” Les images et allégories sont celles les croisades. On reste à la fin avec une impression de Don Quichote contre les moulins…

Frederic Arnould@fredericarnould.bsky.social

Quand une chaîne de restaurants aux plats gras, salés et hautement caloriques émoustille l’esprit maga… Le woke est dans la saucisse www.unjourenamerique.fr/le-woke-est-...

unjourenamerique.frLe woke est dans la saucisseLa guerre culturelle bat son plein. Pour le monde MAGA, tout est désormais prétexte à attaquer l’autre camp. Exemple : le changement de logo de la société Cracker Barrel. Seigneur, que votre miséri...

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Andrew Coyne
@acoyne.bsky.social

My latest, on the bizarre sight of a clutch of European leaders rushing to Washington to prevent the president from doing something crazy to Ukraine: it wasn’t a summit, it was an intervention www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

theglobeandmail.comOpinion: The Ukraine emergency is far from over – because Donald Trump is the emergencyA hasty fly-in to Washington by European leaders may have averted a major crisis, but the core issues remain: Putin won’t cede an inch, and Trump is erratic
Geneviève Lavertu
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Getting a head start on Rose season with a side trip to Rose Garden in Parque del Buen Retiro, Madrid (May 18, 2025) Now i look expectantly at my small climbing rose stems … in Canada ⏳ ⏳ ⏰ 😂 🥲🌹🏵️ #Roses #Rosegarden

Geneviève Lavertu
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Loved reading such a quintessentially 🇨🇦 story. Even captures the feel of “The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz” on La Main, edgy Prohibition-era Montreal, its immigration mosaic, and Montreal’s fixation on brain health that endures & shines to this day ♥️ 🧠 ⚜️ ☘️ 🏵️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social

The men who left their mark on every corner of the brain. The story of the Montreal Neurological Institute is a quintessentially Canadian tale of teamwork, diversity, linguistic duality and the beginnings of medicare, by Eric Andrew-Gee www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... @theglobeandmail.com

theglobeandmail.comOpinion: The men who left their mark on every corner of the brainThe story of the Montreal Neurological Institute is a quintessentially Canadian tale of teamwork, diversity, linguistic duality and the beginnings of socialized medicine