Birgit Umaigba-Omoruyi RN

The story of Black slavery in Canadian history | CMHR Canada celebrates being a destination for Americans who escaped slavery via the Underground Railroad. But slavery was also part of Canada’s history for more than 200 years.

Did you know that Canada was not just a safe haven, but also a site of slavery for over 200 years? Black and Indigenous peoples were enslaved in colonial Canada. This part of Canadian history is often erased. On this #EmancipationDay, take some time to do some digging.
humanrights.ca/story/story-...

On this day in 1834, slavery was officially abolished. Emancipation Day serves as a reminder for us to keep disrupting the status quo, and to keep breaking institutional chains.
Happy #EmancipationDay

Wow 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

According to the government of Canada, Black nurses are met with harsher treatment in the healthcare system than their white counterparts.

Let’s not even talk about the lack of representation in leadership and academia. Progress has been painstakingly slow.

Ontario MPPs set for 35% pay increase, ending 16-year salary freeze | Globalnews.ca On Thursday, Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy tabled legislation to bring MPP salaries to 75 per cent of their colleagues on Parliament Hill.

globalnews.ca/news/1120313...

Doug Ford froze minimum wage for years.
He froze wages for female-dominated professions for years.
He’s failed to boost ODSP for years.
He’s made cuts to education.
He’s grossly underfunded public healthcare.

Today, he gives MPPs a 35% raise & turns his back on the rest of us. #onpoli

Who else agrees that nurses should be at every table where healthcare decisions are being made? I do ✋🏿

Happy nursing week!

This nurses week, I challenge each of us to call out racism when we see it. Let us remember Joyce Echaquan, the 37yo Atikamekw woman who died in a Quebec hospital after being subjected to racist abuse by health staff. Stop being a passive ally & DO something.

Happy Nurses week!

Currently, Ontario has the lowest per capita healthcare spending in Canada, and hospitals are projected to be underfunded by over $21 billion by 2028.

We should all be concerned.

While I support free hospital parking in Ontario, it's important to recognize that hospitals are grossly underfunded and depend on parking fees to maintain services. To eliminate these fees without compromising patient care, Premier Doug Ford must increase hospital funding. #onpoli

The anti-woke Poilievre did not just lose the election, he also lost his own parliamentary seat. That’s not just defeat, but a full-blown political faceplant. I can’t get over it 😂

#cdnpoli

A beautiful thank you to all the people who did not vote for Pierre Poilievre. You are the real MVPs.

#CanadaElection #CanadaElections2025

The original meaning of woke is to be alert to social justice issues. To stay woke is to stay aware of what is going on in society. Politicians have colonized the word to criticize efforts around social justice & to spread anti-Black sentiments. We won’t let them. Forever woke 👊🏿

Pierre Poilievre says he’ll end ‘woke ideology’ — he isn’t saying what that means Pierre Poilievre is vowing to eliminate 'woke ideology' from the public service, federal funding for university research and military culture.

We should all be alarmed byPoilievre’s threats to pull back federal funding from universities if elected. Federal research grants are needed to fund cancer research, mental health, cybersecurity & many others.

Pierre plans to end life-saving & cutting-edge science.
www.ctvnews.ca/federal-elec...

My heart goes out to all those mourning and hurting after the senseless violence at the Filipino Festival in Vancouver, where a man drove a car right into the crowd, killing and harming people while they celebrated.

Such tragedy! I pray for healing in our society.

#Canada

Public health leaders, besieged and regretful, talk of re-establishing trust Public health leaders met to celebrate the field but also to talk about regret and strategies for re-establishing public trust, for example, empathetic listening.

Public health leaders talk of re-establishing trust www.statnews.com/2025/04/09/p...

“We advance conspiracy theorists over people who are scientists. We have experts silenced & public health workers being demonized for doing their jobs.”

Distrust was CREATED & weaponized by misinformation mongers.

Patient seen sooner after allegedly assaulting nurse at Winnipeg hospital Questions are being raised about how health officials handled a patient at Grace Hospital who allegedly assaulted a nurse.

A patient received priority care after assaulting a nurse. How is this not an example of rewarding violent behaviour? Does this mean that patients can attack nurses and get special treatment in return? This is sickening. Nurses deserve better!

www.ctvnews.ca/winnipeg/art...

When I wrote "Resilience is Futile", I never expected so many workplace speaking gigs.

But it seems that more and more employers are choosing "Building Resilience" band-aid BS solutions to what are actually systemic problems like burnout, pay inequity, discriminatory practises, etc.

A work environment that requires or even just relies on employee resilience is not only toxic, it is also doomed as it will quickly lose that invaluable resource, the discretionary effort of their employees.

I recently spoke at a conference where I explained how the word resilience has been weaponized by many employers to justify unhealthy and toxic work environments.

Please, don’t fall for it anymore. We don’t need resilience training. We need healthy work environments. Thank you.

During COVID, we learned the hard way that nearly all our hospital PPE i.e. masks, gowns, gloves comes from China.
A 104% tariff could send us straight back to pandemic-level shortages or drive healthcare costs even higher.🫠

I never knew that fighting for equity would be something to be reported for. This only strengthens my resolve - now more than ever, I want to enjoy the same rights and privileges as you.

You keep reporting. I’ll never stop speaking out.

To all the people who said “I don’t do politics”, tell me, how is politics currently doing you?

Return your teslas if you can.
Sell your teslas if you can.
Do not buy teslas.
Stop empowering a man that has absolutely no regard for you.

You can’t be vacationing in Florida and then say that you’re all for “buying Canadian”.

#tarriffwar #canada #unitedstates

It’s not okay to look at vulnerable people in the eye and say, well I’m going to vote for someone who will make your life even harder. That’s Doug Ford.

#OntarioVotes2025

I know change is hard, but 7 years of Doug Ford? Give me a break!
#OntarioVotes2025

The very strategic Doug Ford
- called a snap election in the middle of Winter.
- sent out $200 bribes to buy your vote.

Today, corruption won yet again.
#OntarioVotes2025

Funny people. They can’t stand Trump, yet voted for Doug. Goodbye publicly-funded healthcare, education, and other social services. Forget about ever getting a family doctor.

Hello to more healthcare privatization and more alcohol. #OntarioVotes2025

I highly recommend this book to educators across schools. I’m hearing that not much engagement with Black history is happening in many schools across Ontario. Educators must know better in order to do better.

Thank you #BlackHistoryMonth