Amy Ma - 馬錦華 - Settler on Indigenous land

Two women standing in a bookstore. I am holding a book titled: Fighting Feelings' between the two of us.

Had a chance to meet @grcharania.bsky.social yesterday at L'Euguélionne bookstore for the launch of her book "Fighting Feelings: Lessons in Gendered Racism and Queer Life'.

Slide from Brent Toderian at @toderianUW.bsky.social that says “If you design a city for cars, it fails for everyone, including drivers. If you design a multi-model city, it works better for everyone, including drivers.”

Never forget, if you design a city for cars, it fails for everyone, including drivers.

If you design a multi-modal city that makes walking, biking & public transit attractive options, it works better for everyone, including drivers.

INCLUDING DRIVERS.

The “war on cars” has always been a lie.

Everyone is hope scrolling now

Oh, and don't forget the transformation of its scarce rail infrastructure with virtually no passenger service (does it sound familiar, Canada?) into a fast, electrified suburban train line, Metrotren Nos, running every 8-12 minutes, with a second line now under construction involving a 3 km tunnel

YouTube video by Tram McGill Transport in Canada: Insights from a National Travel Survey

I participated in the @handle.invalid TRAM study and am glad to see some preliminary results!

Active transport is the way to go for healthier cities and to combat the climate crisis.
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Every child matters. Here, there and everywhere #LANDBACK 🧡✊

#EveryChildMatters #FreePalestine #BreakTheSiege

🎨 fetchart via @mcmastersphr on IG

Opinion: As a heart surgeon, I chased excellence. It cost me my body and my mind What if you found what you were born to do, but lost your ability to do it?

How many more brilliant and talented doctors and surgeons will we continue to lose until the culture of medicine stops being so toxic to clinicians?

HT @picardonhealth.bsky.social cc @jillianhortonmd.bsky.social
#HumanityInMedicine
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I think it’s okay if we start using the word regime more often now.

A bear in the wild, smiling and posing coyly

I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot

Legal documents same-sex couples should have in case marriage equality is overturned Revocable Living Trust Last Will & Testament Healthcare Power of Attorney Durable Power of Attorney Living Will Hospital Visitation Authorization Form one for your partner & one for your Chosen Family Agent for Disposition of Remains Pet Care Directive Tangible Personal Property Memorandum

Necessary tools from the bad old days (or: the smallest taste of why marriage equality matters.)

What’s interesting about this is it’s not as if Air Canada is favouring customers or shareholders when it abuses its employees. The stock has been dead in the water for years, and no comment on its customer service or ticket prices is necessary.

It exists only to serve a handful of executives.

If your Jordan's Principle request has been denied or is stuck in the 140,000 request backlog, check out our information sheet for what legal avenues are available to you 📑

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Support a National Standard for N95s (and other respirators) in Healthcare The Canadian Standards Association is looking for public feedback on an update of a national standard for N95s (and other respirators).

There's a more fulsome instruction guide on how to comment on the proposed standard at donoharmbc.ca/national-sta...

Again, note that no other sector covered by the Z94.4 standard is attempting to undermine it in the way that IPAC managers are doing for healthcare. /6

They are treating people worse than mere numbers, not even bothering to track them once they’re in the system. Unacceptable.

"If you had made a decision not to vaccinate because measles was not circulating, that's no longer true. We don't have herd immunity."

Air filters in classrooms reduce sick days by more than 10 per cent Putting air filters in classrooms seems to boost student attendance, which may be due to them reducing levels of air pollution, pollen, pathogens or all three

New study finds that air filters in schools reduces the number of sick days kids take.

Clean air works wonders. It’s egregious that we haven’t adopted it in all public places by now.

It reduces risk of COVID & other viral infections, allergies, asthma and helps with pollution and wildfire smoke!

Remember when we told you abandoning disabled and immunocompromised people (while actively making more people disabled and immunocompromised) for a convenience-first “you do you” public health (eugenics) regime was actually just the first step? This is what we meant.

Hail, no: Northeast Calgary residents floored by insurance premium spikes - LiveWire Calgary Homeowners in northeast Calgary are banding together to raise awareness over the massive spike in home insurance they’ve seen, and in some cases, an outright decline of coverage. Northeast residents i...

"(The insurance broker said) well, because of the number of claims that they had in the northeast last year, they are declining any policies with the T3J, T3N postal codes."

The climate crisis is already here, it's just not evenly distributed.

Speaking of people’s clocks ticking, Pierre.

REVEALED: The Conservative Playbook for Bringing DOGE to Canada With a federal election looming, reps from Amazon and TC Energy discuss how a new Pierre Poilievre government could slash bureaucracy ‘more quickly’ than Trump.

~Woah! Big Scoop!

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California farm allegedly linked to E. coli outbreak; FDA stayed mum A deadly E. coli outbreak allegedly started at Taylor Farms in Salinas, California. The FDA redacted the name of the producer in its report.

This is why you don't cut the FDA

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Canada won't have a trade deal with the EU if we don't have a climate plan
What Poilievre is doing here is locking Canada into trade with Trump's US
It will screw us for generations
#cdnpoli

El Salvador proposes sending US-deported Venezuelans to Venezuela El Salvador President Nayib Bukele on Sunday proposed a deal to send 252 Venezuelans deported from the U.S. and imprisoned in his country to Venezuela, in exchange for taking "political prisoners" being held in Venezuela.

If you wondered whether PROOF was correct that Trump and Bukele are now in the international slave trade, here is breaking news revealing that Bukele wants to sell the 250 slaves Trump sold _him_ to Venezuela.

Unreal. Vile. And a Crime Against Humanity.

CPJ Safety Advisory: Traveling to the US - Committee to Protect Journalists A stated policy goal of the Trump administration is to significantly change U.S. travel and immigration policies. Foreign nationals whose countries do not meet U.S. vetting standards may be barred ent...

Are you a journalist traveling to or from the US? CPJ’s new border safety advisory outlines advice for how to protect yourself digitally from the Trump regime. #3E

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Pierre Poilievre says he would fire the Bank of Canada governor if elected prime minister Conservative leadership contender accuses Tiff Macklem of being an 'ATM' for Justin Trudeau's deficit spending

Did Pierre Poilievre say he would fire the Bank of Canada Governor if elected Prime Minister?
Fact check: Yes, he said that in May 2022.
#cdnpoli #canpoli
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In stark contrast to the Conservative record, the Liberals steered the Canadian economy through the worst global health and financial crisis in a century to deliver one of the strongest economies amongst developed nations.

Poilievre kept repeating talking points, saying “vote for change”. HE’S BEEN IN PARLIAMENT FOR 20 YEARS! He was part of the Harper gov’t in power for a decade with the worst economic record, worst jobs growth since WWII. The highest trade deficits in Canadian history! That’s not change! #Debate2025

Pierre Poilievre admitting in the debate that he's going to suspend the Charter of Rights and Freedoms so he can defend the charter rights of the people he deems to be worthy should terrify everyone.

Seeing what's happening in the US with ICE he wants the same thing in Canada