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Amy Ma - 馬錦華 - Settler on Indigenous land

@ctzenimprover.bsky.social

Lover of chocolate and equity. access + equity + healthcare, ally, tea-drinking, babywearing educator. Opinions are my own.

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Everyone is hope scrolling now

05.11.2025 03:24 — 👍 6068    🔁 913    💬 93    📌 61
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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

22.08.2025 15:27 — 👍 43    🔁 3    💬 4    📌 0
Transport in Canada: Insights from a National Travel Survey
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.
youtu.be/mr9a7m7juZg?...

30.09.2025 22:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Every child matters. Here, there and everywhere #LANDBACK 🧡✊

#EveryChildMatters #FreePalestine #BreakTheSiege

🎨 fetchart via @mcmastersphr on IG

30.09.2025 16:30 — 👍 28    🔁 15    💬 0    📌 1
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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
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

23.09.2025 02:44 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A bear in the wild, smiling and posing coyly

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

10.09.2025 16:41 — 👍 18925    🔁 3881    💬 248    📌 353

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

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.)

15.08.2025 13:08 — 👍 2338    🔁 1459    💬 32    📌 45

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.

18.08.2025 19:21 — 👍 8    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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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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05.08.2025 14:07 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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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

31.07.2025 20:30 — 👍 110    🔁 58    💬 7    📌 4
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They are treating people worse than mere numbers, not even bothering to track them once they’re in the system. Unacceptable.

23.06.2025 22:55 — 👍 11075    🔁 3941    💬 708    📌 316

"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."

22.06.2025 14:30 — 👍 41    🔁 24    💬 1    📌 1
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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!

21.06.2025 20:27 — 👍 325    🔁 124    💬 9    📌 5

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.

29.05.2025 02:39 — 👍 121    🔁 41    💬 3    📌 0
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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.

16.05.2025 14:51 — 👍 22    🔁 19    💬 4    📌 4
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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!

www.desmog.com/2025/04/23/r...

23.04.2025 18:43 — 👍 62    🔁 47    💬 10    📌 5
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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

www.sfgate.com/food/article...

22.04.2025 21:05 — 👍 1158    🔁 438    💬 49    📌 14

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

23.04.2025 13:27 — 👍 40    🔁 27    💬 3    📌 2
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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.

20.04.2025 22:48 — 👍 1680    🔁 766    💬 96    📌 46
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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

cpj.org/2025/04/cpj-...

18.04.2025 04:15 — 👍 1138    🔁 498    💬 32    📌 20
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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
financialpost.com/news/economy...

17.04.2025 22:39 — 👍 81    🔁 39    💬 3    📌 1
Post image Post image 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.

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.

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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

18.04.2025 03:40 — 👍 161    🔁 84    💬 6    📌 9

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

18.04.2025 03:39 — 👍 5789    🔁 1712    💬 186    📌 122
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Just like Trump is doing to Harvard University.
This statement of his fits with the other fascist ideology he spouts. Every day it's becoming more obvious he's a fascist.
#NeverPoiLIEvre
#neverCONServative
#noCONtrumpAGENDAinCanada

17.04.2025 19:28 — 👍 174    🔁 126    💬 29    📌 17
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Write this down — AI scribes essential for overall success of AI in health care: Can... The use of AI scribes in health care is foundational for the successful implementation of other AI technologies to facilitate disease detection and diagnosis and optimize treatment. That was one ke…

Canada’s Drug Agency made AI the focus of its 2025 Watch List 🤖
PAN members @sandrashares.bsky.social @ctzenimprover.bsky.social @donnapp.bsky.social helped shape it—alongside other patient/caregiver partners.
📖 More via Pat Rich: bit.ly/3YxG1N7
#AI #PatientPartners #PatientsUseAI

15.04.2025 13:40 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Canadians increasingly want to age in their own homes rather than in an institution.

Canadians increasingly want to age in their own homes rather than in an institution.

After my surgery, I got a glimpse into the vast, hidden world of personal caregivers www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁

13.04.2025 04:08 — 👍 25    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 0

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