Lisa Talone

mom, wife, sister, friend, registered dietitian-McMaster Children’s Hospital, Hamilton 🇨🇦

[Inter Xtra @Inter_Xtra]

RT if YOUR CLUB will play @ChampionsLeague football next season. 🇪🇺🏆

[JPGN @JPGNonline]

Rotavirus vaccine effectiveness 🌍💉

📉 Lower in chronically malnourished children
📏 Stunting mattered most

Nutrition may influence vaccine protection more than we realize
https://t.co/aT6c58wi4i
#pediatrics #pedsgi #Rotavirus #GlobalHealth

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

July 26, 2020. A beach near Collingwood, Ontario.

Sixteen-year-old Jamey Ruth Klassen was supposed to be enjoying a quiet family vacation beside the icy blue waters of Georgian Bay.

Farther out on the lake, a man named Christopher Robertson had taken his kayak out alone for a peaceful paddle. Then the kayak filled with water and flipped.

Suddenly, he was stranded in the freezing bay, clinging desperately to the overturned hull while shouting for help.

Jamey didn’t hear him directly.

What she heard instead were strangers nearby calling 911, panicking about a kayaker who had disappeared beneath the surface and wasn’t coming back up.

Most teenagers would’ve stayed on shore.

The water was brutally cold. The distance looked impossible. Lifeguards and paramedics were already being called. Waiting would’ve been understandable.

Jamey never waited.

She ran toward the water and dove in.

Alone, she swam nearly 600 feet through Georgian Bay — the distance of two football fields — pushing herself farther and farther from shore toward the empty kayak floating in the distance.

By the time she reached it, Christopher Robertson was gone.

Then Jamey looked down.

Through the clear Canadian water, she could see him lying motionless twelve feet below on the lake floor.

She took one breath.

And dove.

The cold tightened around her body instantly as she reached the bottom. She grabbed Robertson beneath both arms and forced herself upward, dragging his unconscious body back toward the surface.

He wasn’t breathing.

His body hung limp in the water.

Jamey refused to let go.

She turned him onto his back, balanced his head against her shoulder, wrapped one arm across his chest, and began swimming him toward shore using only one arm and her legs.

Every second became harder.

Her muscles burned violently. Her lungs screamed. She had no formal lifeguard certification because the pandemic had canceled the courses she planned to take that summer.

Still, she kept kicking.

Then fear hit her.

Jamey realized she might drown beside him before reaching shore.

Exhausted and losing strength, she used the last thing she still had left:

Her voice.

She screamed for help.

A nearby paddleboarder heard her cries and rushed across the water. Together, they lifted Robertson onto the board while Jamey, shivering and exhausted, swam the remaining distance alone.

Onshore, police officers and paramedics immediately began CPR.

Moments later, Christopher Robertson started breathing again.

He survived.

Nearly a year later, Jamey Ruth Klassen received the Carnegie Medal — North America’s highest civilian honor for heroism. Out of millions of people, only eighteen recipients were chosen that year.

But Jamey barely spoke about herself afterward.

Instead, she used the scholarship money from the award to attend nursing school at McMaster University, quietly continuing the same instinct that had driven her into the freezing water that day:

If someone needs help, you go.

No hesitation.
No spotlight.
No waiting for someone braver.

Just a sixteen-year-old girl who saw a stranger drowning… and decided his life mattered more than her fear.

[Sportsnet @Sportsnet]

It’s a Canadian thing 🇨🇦

20 years later, SGA joins Steve Nash as a back-to-back NBA MVP 🤝

[Lisa Talone @LisaTalone]

Fair Pay for Registered Dietitians: It's Time to Recognize Our Education, Scope, and Value - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/eB1iy7IAMz via @CdnChange

[CHCH News @CHCHNews]

New guidelines published online by Cancer Care Ontario say the province is lowering its colorectal cancer screening age from 50 to 45 in response to a “notable” increase in younger people diagnosed with the disease.

https://t.co/mEznWHUVTp

[Inter ⭐⭐ @Inter_en]

WE DID IT MILANO 🖤💙

[The Rundown @therundowntvo]

“Hospitals are slashing wherever they can… it does affect patient care.” — @BlairBigham tells @JeyanTVO about an @UofT_ijb investigation with Stacey Kuznetsova that found Ontario hospitals relying on bank loans to make ends meet. Tonight at 11pm | Producer: @carrletta

[Lisa Talone @LisaTalone]

@SJCEagles Do you mean Thursday April 16?

[Brittlestar @brittlestar]

Welcome to Sucker Punch Spring

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

The first astronaut in history to speak French while en route to the moon — Canada’s very own @astro_jeremy 🇨🇦

[Craig Baird - Canadian History Ehx @CraigBaird]

On this day in 1982, Violet King died.
She was the first Black Canadian to be admitted to the Alberta Bar and the first Black woman lawyer in Canada.

Learn more in my Deep Dive 👇
https://t.co/vPcgA96pr4

[Kevin C. Klatt, PhD, RD @KCKlatt]

The carnivore-not carnivore raw milk guy and the wellness protein bar industry are yet again scamming you.

Apart from the clickbait of grass-fed and beef tallow, and pretending added sugars in the form of coconut nectar and honey is uniquely good for you... this bar shouldn't really be counted as 20g of protein.

The tip off is 20g from a blend that is whey and collagen. Collagen is a poor quality protein, with a protein score of zero. They don't disclose how much protein is in the formulation from collagen but we can derive it using the daily value, which has to be corrected for protein quality. The %DV is derived using 50g per day of protein as the goal, meaning .24*50= 12g quality protein.

That's the ~amount of protein in 1/2c of greek yogurt or a Rx bar. Except these bars are 5.75$ each

[Lisa Talone @LisaTalone]

https://t.co/flx45613Gv

[Lisa Talone @LisaTalone]

FIX OSAP ASAP! - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/TmkA2X3iqc via @CdnChange

[CN Tower / Tour CN @TourCNTower]

Tonight the #CNTower will be lit purple for International Women’s Day / Ce soir, la #TourCN sera illuminée en violet pour la Journée internationale des femmes 💜

[Jennifer Sey @JenniferSey]

Having suffered from an eating disorder in the 80s as a young gymnast, I have written extensively on the toll this takes on the minds and bodies of young women.

It is not ok for the media to go back to glorifying emaciated women’s bodies. This is just as f-ed up as glorifying obesity.

She looks ill. Not “glowing.”

[grace. @marilynhacks]

by far the most devastating in memoriam.

[Canadian Food Inspection Agency @InspectionCan]

⚠️ Recall alert ⚠️

Kendamil brand Infant Formula with whole milk recalled due to cereulide toxin

➡️ https://t.co/qYGKZ0aGpk

[Michael Bublé @MichaelBuble]

Heartbroken doesn’t even begin to cover it.

Catherine O’Hara was one of a kind. A rare light in this world and her passing hits with a weight I can’t fully put into words.

She wasn’t just a legendary artist,
actor and comedian. She was an ambassador for Canada in the truest sense: brilliant, fearless, deeply original, and so full of humanity. She made the world laugh, but she also made people feel seen.

As an artist, she inspired me more than she’ll ever know. She set the bar for what it means to represent your country with excellence and grace and all without ever losing warmth or humility.

My heart is broken for her family, her loved ones, and everyone who adored her, both here in Canada and around the world.

If you’re grieving this loss, you’re not alone. We’re all holding a piece of this sadness together.

Rest easy, Catherine. Thank you for everything. 🇨🇦❤️