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Had to play this strategically, and take a rest, but I got there in the end.

People, please do the survey. @calgary.ca

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You know what? @calgaryphil.bsky.social is exactly what I needed tonight. The intensity, the beauty, the anxiety (my heart was pounding)... all the things music & fine arts make a peraon feel, for good. (And yes, that was totally me walking in the aisles making sure some kids had booster seats.)

I am so glad Dr. @syrusmarcusware.bsky.social was empowered to demand dignity, physical safety, and psychological safety in what is usually a dehumanizing process, airport screening and pat down. 🙏🏾🏳️‍⚧️

Absolutely cheering Jayden King as he skips Team Ontario in the Brier on the last day of Black History Month to make Canadian history. 👏🏾🥌🇨🇦 (Of course he has amazing Caribbean roots, too. Jayden's father immigrated to Canada from Trinidad & Tobago.🇹🇹) No barriers for Black talent in winter sports.

“A lot of politicians during Black History Month are talking about John Ware and Violet King and holding up these people as examples of Black excellence. If they are also participating in anti-immigrant rhetoric today, their words of praise for the legacies of previous immigrants ring hollow.”

Notes:
- immigrants use fewer health services than non-immigrants and cost the system less
- the referendum will deter immigration
- health is essential to the Charter right to life, liberty, and security of the person.

Thanks @alannasmith.bsky.social, @robertfalconer.ca, and Prof Sharry Aitken.

My MP for Calgary-Centre is hosting a fundraiser, $400/ticket, with the same guy who was instrumental in bringing Tucker Carlson to Calgary.

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Someone should make a drinking game for the event: drink every time one of them says or uses a racist dog whistle.

Just in time with a Black History Month post?! This year's theme is: "30 Years of Black History Month: Honouring Black Brilliance Across Generations — From Nation Builders to Tomorrow’s Visionaries."

What does your post have to do with Black brilliance & the enduring legacy of Black Canadians?

I received my @theglobeandmail.com today, I didn’t get it last week, and the redelivery failed too even after I endured the phone call to notify about the missed delivery.

Charles Daniels’s stand against racism: How Alberta history is repeating itself | The Sprawl In 1911, province feared ‘dark tide’ of Black immigration.

In the 1910s, when Charles Daniels was denied his seat at the Grand Theatre in Calgary, Alberta feared a "dark tide" of immigrants flooding its borders. "The rhetoric of today resembles the rhetoric of those years," says Cheryl Foggo. #ableg

Most artificial intelligence based facial recognition tools & systems can't tell most racialized people apart. In at least one study, the error rate is highest for Black women, at 35-45%.

Black women, who are already over policed & criminalized will be subject to more police violence.

Not good.

The work in artificial intelligence to legislate, research, and regulate must include women & specifically women who live the reality of intersectionality. Right now in Canada, the conversations on AI at a leadership level are held behind closed doors and the dominant voices are from men.

Not good.

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No Greg, in Alberta, where you live, eye exams are covered. www.alberta.ca/ahcip-what-i... Please do end this racist rhetoric & xenophobic scapegoating. As usual, your whataboutism, demonstrated above, is ridiculous. You've lost this one. Please work on a good Black History Month post by tomorrow.

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First row blowout, still solved in 3.

Novartis settles with Henrietta Lacks' estate over use of her 'stolen' cells to advance medicine Novartis has settled a lawsuit by the estate of Henrietta Lacks that alleged the pharmaceutical giant unjustly profited off her cells, which were taken from her tumor without her knowledge in 1951 and reproduced in labs to enable major medical advancements, including the polio vaccine.

Novartis has settled a lawsuit by the estate of Henrietta Lacks that alleged the pharmaceutical giant unjustly profited off her cells, which were taken from her tumor without her knowledge in 1951 and reproduced in labs to enable major medical advancements, including the polio vaccine.

Quote: "Women make up just 12 per cent of AI researchers and female founders receive only 2 per cent of venture capital funding. We are not the ones building this new world. But we will have no choice about living in it."

In Canada the artificial intelligence conversations are still held among men.

Bridgerton: Season four introduces first East Asian family Stars of the hit Netflix show talk about the importance of representation as part two of season four lands.

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Watch party tomorrow evening. I will hang with my friend, drink beer, eat takeout, and talk smack about all things Bridgerton. It will be joyful. My Lenten devotional cards tell me I am supposed to be surprised by joy. Let's go! Bring on some Shonda Rhimes curated joy!

A good one by @acoyne.bsky.social.

Flawed ‘Epstein Files’ disclosures undermine accountability for grave crimes against women and girls: UN experts GENEVA – The so-called ‘Epstein Files’ contain disturbing and credible evidence of systematic and large-scale sexual abuse, trafficking and exploitation of women and girls, UN experts* said today.Acco...

On the Epstein Files:
“So grave is the scale, nature, systematic character, and transnational reach of these atrocities against women and girls, that a number of them may reasonably meet the legal threshold of crimes against humanity,”

Things not on my post Winter Olympics bingo card: Flavor Flav, with a long history of domestic & intimate partner violence with women, coming to the table with a celebration in Las Vegas for the US Women's National Hockey Team after their gold medal in Italy & misogynist snub by the US President.

Laws? What are those to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith? She cannot abide rule of law, expertise, or ethics.

Well, now it's public. So I will say this: if you have a role in the Premier's Office, you also now have accountability for bringing hate, harm, and harassment to Canadians. And for my MP @gregmcleanyyc.bsky.social, this is what you have contributed to with your post.

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The racist rhetoric and xenophobic scapegoating of refugees, immigrants, asylum seekers, and newcomers by the Alberta government and the federal opposition has brought harm, hate, and harassment to Canadians.

A clear message from The Calgary Alliance for the Common Good. ✊🏾👏🏾🙏🏾

Urgent care doctor almost put me on morphine. (I'm probably the only woman in the history of the Sheldon Chumir to turn down morphine.) My white blood cell count = 0. They needed to get me out of the ER. If my temp had gone up by 0.5°C, I would have been on IV antibiotics & admitted to hospital. 2/2

Damn. Even as an outpatient, I still have access to the on-call oncologist. (I still take oral chemotherapy every morning & still see a medical oncologist every 6 months.) In my 4th round of chemotherapy I went to urgent care. Severe pain. With an 'active chemo' letter I was put in isolation. 1/

My Calgary-Centre MP shared a 5 post thread to support ol' Pierre. Just a wee bit of racist rhetoric and xenophobic scapegoating.

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