Birgit Umaigba-Omoruyi RN

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“Leadership demands humility, courage, and the willingness to speak truth to power. Too often, I witness the resilience of Black nurses, clients, and colleagues navigating systems that have not always recognized our full humanity.”

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Are you a Black man living in Ontario? This is an event you don’t want to miss!
Research shows that Black men face higher health risks, but we can change that. There will be free blood pressure, blood sugar, sickle cell, & prostate screenings, + free food & community connections. #DurhamRegion

Open Letter to Protect Tri-Council EDI Data **Edited to add: we have received more than 5000 signatures for our letter but adding any more than 2000 names to this public page seems to be causing our Form to crash! Rest assured that we have all ...

What you can do -

1. Write to your MPPs
2. Sign this open letter to protect Tri-Council EDI Data (with over 4700 signatories from scientists/researchers across the country) and share widely 👇🏿

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#Urgent: Protect Researchers’ Data and Equity in Canadian Science

Honoured to call myself a CIHR scholar. Thank you to my community of supporters cheering me all the way. Grateful to be chosen by Queen’s University School of Nursing for this life-changing award. Looking forward to contributing to #blackmaternalhealth research in #Canada and beyond!

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White supremacy is violence.

The Washington Post Fired Karen Attiah, But They Only Elevated Her

The Post fired Karen Attiah, its last Black opinion columnist, because she posted about America's history of coddling white violence. Well, she's got a few things to get off her chest.

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Where did the U.S. ambassador to Canada park his emotions when Trump was busy calling Canada the 51st state?

Can’t say this enough - the discomfort of learning about racism is no way comparable to the trauma of experiencing it firsthand. Enough with the victim mentality.

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.
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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

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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.

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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.
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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!

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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.