Terry McDonald

“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas. Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.

This Texas woman developed preeclampsia, leading to still-birth. She DIED, leaving her young son behind.

This happens while an all-male panel in South Carolina is deciding whether women should be charged w/ murder for their pregnancies.

Abortion is healthcare.

How many more women have to die?
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In our household, we take to heart the message from wag who joked about writing a parenting book that would just communicate the following: "Good luck with that sucker, they're all different."

I was waiting for someone to say this!

It’s grEy in Canada too. We like to pick and choose our spellings from both sides of the Atlantic. It keeps things interesting.

Can methane cuts pull us back from the brink of climate breakdown? With temperatures breaching the Paris limit, experts say tackling the powerful gas could buy crucial time as the clean-energy shift stalls

“Methane emissions across the supply chain are a key indicator of poor environmental and operational practices in the fossil fuel industry. Reducing [them] in the energy sector is the most effective and rapid way to cut greenhouse gases in the short term.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Every Ford scandal is enraging but it's also brutal to see the absolute GIFT it gives his opponents and yet, neither the Liberals or NDP ever seem to capitalize on it.

The NDP got some traction around Ontario Place then squandered it.

Still traumatized by the character whose breath smelled of urine from the kidney he ate.

Ford has no business interfering in cities. He has zero idea or understanding of transportation or land use policy, nor the policy levers it takes to make cities work.

We're seeing lots of stories now with MDs urging Ontarians to get vaccinated. You know who we're not seeing in those stories? Ontario's public health leader, Kieran Moore.

He was quoted in a news release but has had no media availability. He should be playing a key role in promoting vaccination.

A photograph displaying the names of seven ancestors who died in rapid succession during the late 19th century.

I have an old memoriam marking the passage of a number of ancestors who died in rapid succession, likely of TB. I used to display it as a conversation piece, but their experiences now seem much less like a remote possibility these days.

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

I wrote about this too. Why isn’t Ontario hitting the barricades in rage? We’ve so little lake access. Entirely privatized shorelines. You could give the province away to oligarchs & people would be meh. Thx to Fatima for calling this early on.

www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.

We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.

We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.

It was said that the Air Canada flight 797 fire that killed folksinger Stan Rogers was caused by a cigarette left in the bathroom. It would have been hard to argue with banning smoking on aircrafts after that, and yet people remained amazingly selfish.

Gigantic SUVs are a public health threat. Why don’t we treat them like one? The anti-tobacco playbook could help turn the US public against their beloved oversized cars.

This is a good article, worth reading.

Gigantic SUVs are a public health threat. Why don’t we treat them like one?

The anti-smoking playbook is worth studying and learning from, and is completely applicable to oversized cars.

Via @davidzipper.bsky.social in @vox.com #CarBloat

things that arent the future of civilization

- chatbots
- crypto
- robot butlers
- cars that sorta drive autonomously as long as youre paying attention for when they fail and almost kill a bunch of people

things that actually are the future of civilization

- free clean energy

I heard story about A. going to his classmate’s family cottage and making fun of how small it was.

When a family member was part of a private law practice, he dealt with a number of cases involving farms with exotic livestock herds. He became convinced that most of them were pyramid schemes, with early investors hyping up the earning potential to sell the animals to others.

Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps.

McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.

Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.

See the problem?

“For years, facilities were designed around men’s schedules and men’s teams. Women were told to make do. And now, just as women’s hockey has earned the right to think bigger, the city is planning to think smaller.”

Lansdowne 2.0 is a bad deal for Ottawa on so many fronts.

The scavenger hunt campaign event was the type of community-building activity that's seriously needed right now. He and his team really get it.

The more I think about public education, climate change, science funding, the more I realize that Republican policy is predicated on the illusion that you can harm others in your environment without harming yourself.

if there was a rich person with the will, you could build the most incredible news organization that has ever existed just from the wreckage of this year alone.

Imagine how vile one would have to be to devise a policy banning grocery stores from offering discounts to their poorest, most desperate customers

He has a quota he has to fill.

I was at a house party in Toronto when the Jays won the pennant the first time and it seemed like the whole city let out a cheer,

Because of Mike Johnson, the American people currently have no representation in the House of Representatives.

One of the reasons I’m reluctant to do an ancestry DNA test is that, as a member of a sprawling Catholic family, I don’t need to find new relatives.

The Supreme Court has stated that Canadians have a Charter right to strike, and the Premier of Alberta just nullified that in order to end a teacher's strike that is entirely her fault.

She's such a coward that she walked out of #ableg as soon as she tabled the bill. #abpoli #cdnpoli

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.

Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.

The people who need help are not the problem.

It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.