Heather Campbell

Internal reports shed light on lewd comments and behaviour at Canada's border agency | CBC News A series of reports into cases of sexual harassment raise questions about the workplace culture at the Canada Border Services Agency, where internal investigations found inappropriate comments were to...

Completely unsurprised, yet completely appalled. This is how CBSA has functioned for nearly 100 years. This is why Bill C-20, "An Act establishing the Public Complaints and Review Commission and amending certain Acts and statutory instruments" existed for CBSA & the RCMP.

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Also, really pleased that #Bridgerton show runners didn't abandon Benedict's pansexuality for his protagonist role in Season 4. The conversation with Sophie in the conservatory about love & his fluid sexuality, in all of its authenticity & honesty, is by far one of my favourites & is a highlight.

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Despise words like this. Ugh.

I have friends, both men, with hearing loss.
1. If you're offered a microphone in a public forum, use it. No, people can't hear your 'loud' speaking voice.
2. Consider adjusting noise, volume & communication style in open office situations. One of my friends reacted badly to even radio in my car.

More thoughts on #Bridgerton Season 4:
▪︎ extra love Joan of Arc costume on Eloise for the masquerade ball, 100% epic (as an amateur seamstress, I'm thinking future Halloween)
▪︎ Let's pay more attention to continuity issues in Season 5 please show runners. I spotted 6 issues in just the lake swim S4.

Strangest coincidence ever, my most recent breast reconstruction surgeries will occur at the start of water restrictions in Calgary. Breast reconstruction no.3 was June 4, 2024, the restrictions started June 6. Breast reconstruction no.4 is scheduled for March 12. Restrictions start March 9. Weird.

I missed the lack of smoking & drugs in Bridgerton Season 4. I totally wanted a Lady Danbury hosted gambling, drinking, and smoking night with the ladies. Francesca Stirling, Lady Kilmartin could of figured out the whole orgasm situation hella earlier before John died of an aneurysm. #Bridgerton

When I was a commissioner with the Calgary Police Commission, I would routinely ask for work to be completed or reviewed with a GBA+ approach and technique. Most often, I received blank stares in response from the Commission and the Calgary Police Service. Sigh.

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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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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,”