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Hello I wrote the feel-good book of the year, please read it. @PenguinRandomCA penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/…
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The poll found that 78 per cent of respondents want to see the CBC continue to operate, and 57 per cent would either increase or maintain funding. j-source.ca/majority-of-cana…
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Two people I love just booked their second AZ shots and it was easy: Just call the pharmacy where you got your first shot, then call 4 more, then say the secret password and sacrifice a raccoon fattened on sanitizer-soaked masks and paint a pop-up clinic's wall with its blood.
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I'm the only person wearing a mask at the bank/grocery store/other retail, save a coupla employees. Is there a plan to get people to mask up again this fall or do we have a secret stash of nurses somewhere?
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ok, a few things worth remembering:
1) there is no migrant or refugee crisis in Canada.
2) many (most?) of the refugee claimants in Ontario shelters aren’t border-crossers.
3) Toronto and other cities need fed/prov help to address longstanding - not new - shelter inadequacies.
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Just to be clear, that’s not how anything works. Canada still has international obligations to the most vulnerable people, even during a pandemic.
The government just confirmed they’re allowing illegal border crossings. Instead of turning people away, we’re letting them in and paying for their health care and quarantine. There are concerns about having enough equipment just for our own citizens. This needs to stop now.
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Half a million people in Tigray region have died of violence, starvation and lack of health care thanks to war, @geoffreyyork reports. theglobeandmail.com/world/ar…
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A man is in hospital with life-threatening injuries in connection with the blaze. Police, who earlier said they weren't aware of the fire that razed a lobster pound previously vandalized by non-Indigenous people, now say it's "suspicious." cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scot…
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POTUS "has repeatedly asked this Court to ignore evidence, circumscribe our own review, and blindly defer to executive action...we decline"
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I confess to having really mixed feelings about this day, when Canadians send out hashtagged tweets exhorting us to talk about mental health. When I was first wrestling with a diagnosis the self-congratulatory tone gutted me.
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First Nations children under age 10 are 86 times more likely to die in a fire than non-Indigenous children in Canada.
Eighty. Six.
And last week a nine-year-old, on his birthday, was one of them.
theglobeandmail.com/opinion/… by @TanyaTalaga
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Faith Goldy just walked past me shooting video of herself calling this a terrorist attack so I’m glad no one is jumping to conclusions.
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"There's paid sick leave from the federal government," Ford said.
No. The CRSB is not paid sick leave.
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Trump's Muslim travel ban "stands to cause irreparable harm," says appeals court judge, upholding injunction: assets.documentcloud.org/doc…
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Today marks a year since my 39th and final session of bilateral electro-convulsive therapy.
I'm still a psychiatric basket case and I'm still trying to regain years of memories but the good news is, I can work and function and somehow I'm still not dead.
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A woman woke up and went to work sick. She didn't want to - the "hurt in my heart like a knife" told her something was wrong. But she couldn't afford not to - couldn't afford to lose the pay. So she worked sick as a PSW, worsened, tested positive for COVID reuters.com/article/worldNew…
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Periodic reminder that, in Canada, abortion access - esp timely access - depends on where you live, your ability to navigate the health system and your ability to travel for care.
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What wouldn't I give for a morning radio show to give road conditions for non-motorized users. Are pavements icy? Are sidewalks clear? If rain turned to sleet, freezing rain and back to rain last night, is it safe to run/bike?
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guys. it's simple: you can have the rapid tests if you wait long enough in line at the right place but you can't rely on them for anything you would want to use a test for and also the other kind of test isn't readily available for most people any more and why are you crying?
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So we just got (a few) prior years’ numbers for asylum seekers crossing into Canada between ports of entry:
2012 - 600
2014 - 400
2015 - 300
2016 - 2,500
2017 - 20,000
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Imagine if we treated addiction like a public health emergency.
Toronto overdose deaths hit a grim new record in July, taking more lives than COVID-19 by @dmrider flip.it/.zRNht
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Imagine reading these tweets when you or your loved one can't get care, can't get a diagnosis, can't afford drugs or psychotherapy. That's where Canada is at. Still.
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Under Canadian and International law you have a right to make a refugee claim no matter how you came in and your mode of entry can’t prejudice your refugee claim. So border-crossers are NOT “illegal migrants” or “illegal refugees” or whatever.
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Ruling cites 11 of Trump's previous Muslim ban statements, both pre- and post-election, plus DJT quote that EO-2 was "watered-down" version
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@ivortossell this was surprisingly stressful to watch.
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"There is a direct link between the President’s numerous campaign statements promising a Muslim ban" and both executive orders, judge says.
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Twitter's ads-atop-your-feed model has me blocking a lot more advertisers, so if that was the goal then bravo.
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In December, 2021, when ten independent facilities and one private hospital were doing 18,200 surgeries a year in Ontario, the Auditor-General found "no provincial oversight of surgery providers to protect patients from being misled" about their rights. reuters.com/world/americas/c…
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"Not wanting to pay the going rate for labour is emphatically not the same thing as a shortage of labour." theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
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"I don’t see why they would refer to my son as a ‘perp’ — he had not committed a crime, he was not committing a crime and he was in his own home.”
"Who’s injured?” a police sergeant asks as she arrives at the apartment where Kawaski Trawick had just been fatally shot by an NYPD officer.
Two officers respond in near-unison: “Nobody. Just a perp.”
propub.li/39LegYE
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Pope's speech, in which he said he was "deeply sorry" for the Catholic Church's role in residential schools, did not mention the 15th Century "doctrine of discovery," which justified the dispossession and colonization of Indigenous people.
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People who ask for interview questions in advance are really overestimating my degree of preparedness in life.
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But I'll say it again: we need mental health care to be accessible - financially, logistically, culturally. We need care to be compassionate. We need voluntary care to be prioritized. We need care to be effective. Too often, for too many people in Canada, it's not.
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"you would expect that people would prefer [police] services with officers who are less violent, generate fewer complaints, and have higher levels of community trust." - @David_Moscrop tvo.org/article/ontario-does…
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I wrote about ketamine; our flawed, evolving understanding of depression; and chasing wellness when your brain doesn't remember what "well" means. theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
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60% of journalism is steeling yourself to talk to other people in a meaningful way when really your instinct is to run away and be alone.
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Sigh.
A) Refugees are more heavily screened than anyone else in this country.
B) Immigrants of all kinds are less likely to commit crime than native-born Canadians.
C) As @StephanieCarvin says, radicalization happens in Canada. vice.com/en_ca/article/wjm83…
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Daniel has done such important work over the past few years. (And also before that, as Canadian journos can attest)
I wrote a personal piece about what it was like to spend four years fact checking every word from Donald Trump: cnn.com/2021/01/19/politics/…
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The people we call "heroes" are on the brink of poverty - in a worse predicament now than at the start of the pandemic, @stuffaboutstuff and I find. mobile.reuters.com/article/a…
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i want it to not take a monumental feat of good fortune to get mental health care in this country.
Anna Mehler Paperny opened up about multiple suicide attempts and described what it feels like to live with the ongoing urge to harm herself. She struck me as the kind of searingly intelligent person, who might not be aware of their own strength. I hope this captures it. @amp6
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periodic reminder that mental illness is not, in the vast majority of cases, connected to violence. (except when being mentally ill makes you the victim of violence)
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For journo kidlets beginning summer internships: Remember you're a rockstar. Never introduce yourself as an intern - for the duration of your contract you're a reporter at that news org. Think of rest as a performance enhancer.
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Trudeau says Canada’s going to start returning irregular migrants that try to cross the border. That’s a marked departure and I’m not sure how it jives with Canada’s international obligations.
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Black people in Ontario spend longer behind bars awaiting trial than white people charged with the same crimes: reuters.com/article/us-canad…
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OK. You know how I feel about this day. But there are a couple of things I wanna emphasize.
Talking is important. Talking is essential. But
(a) talking, on an individual level, is not mandatory.
(b) talk is not enough.
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I asked @cblackst what she'd say to Canadians who think $40 billion is a lot of money:
“The reason the number is so large on compensation is because Canada hurt so many children.”
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Good morning, Canada is likely dotted with the mass graves of children but we don't know where they are because the government didn't want to pay to look.
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Asked by @mattgallowaycbc if Canada is going to follow US’s lead and ban travellers from Europe, @cafreeland says “We in Canada believe in science; we believe in listening to experts.”
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the stretch of Bloor between Dundas and Landsdowne has been a death trap long enough to merit its own Heritage Minute.
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Politician whose legislature features a huge crucifix doesn't like the idea of an observant Sikh political leader. m.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/09/…
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it's striking to see mask mandates depicted as a step down the slippery slope toward draconian lockdowns when they could be a way to avoid draconian lockdowns.
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Imagine: If we actually funded mental health care adequately we wouldn't need annual corporate hashtagstorms.
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Ok, so if Trudeau failed to get his majority, O'Toole failed to capitalize on an unpopular election call, Singh failed to capitalize on prominent progressive issues he could argue Trudeau failed on, and neither Paul nor Bernier wins their seat, does anyone last til next election?
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Talking is huge. Talking is vital. But today reminds us that when it comes to the world's leading causes of disability, talk is not enough.
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It's glorious outside and the streets are teeming and I can't stop thinking about how impossible it's going to be to get these people to lock down again.
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- Chief strategist demonized Jews, Muslims, immigrants
- Sec Adviser says Muslim pose global threat
- AG rejected as fed judge cuz of racism
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70% - 70%! - of Toronto COVID cases can't be traced. theglobeandmail.com/canada/a… via @l_stone @perreaux
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"A senior member of the Liberal government said the ease with which the convoy shut down the area around the parliament and the seeming impotence of police was a 'national humiliation.'" reuters.com/world/americas/p… @LarsHagberg @reutersLjungg
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Are Canadian police bringing a gentler approach to antivax protesters than Indigenous ones? cbc.ca/1.6171599?__twitter_i… by @AngelaSterritt
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From the Supreme Court decision foiling a previous Conservative gov's attempt to shut down Canada's 1st supervised consumption site: "Insite has saved lives and improved health without increasing the incidence of drug use and crime in the surrounding area" decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc…
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says supervised consumption sites are just “drug dens” and that he will close them if his party forms the next government.
theglobeandmail.com/politics… via @globeandmail #HarmReduction #ToxicDrugCrisis
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We have a tendency to make COVID control a personal responsibility - if only people followed the rules, we wouldn't be in this nightmare. And that's a factor. But often we leave people with impossible choices and then wonder what the problem is.
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That's called a sick day.
Many U.S. employees are unlikely to take a "sad day" for their mental health or are scared of being punished for doing so. If you’re among the hesitant, experts say it’s time to start thinking about how to protect your well-being. nyti.ms/3zU3x8B
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Have a few of these I should get rid of. Lemme know if you want a copy, and DM me your mailing address.
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Canada's chance at taming a surging third COVID wave depends on its ability to vaccinate frontline workers marginalized many times over. reut.rs/3g6197R
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it seems very 2018 that someone with a history of public intolerance demands support for racial purity and everyone argues over whether it’s ok to call her racist.
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"I felt that if people are going to stare at me, I might as well give them something to look at." gq.com/story/jagmeet-singh-i…
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ECT remains maybe the most effective treatment for treatment-resistant depression. The fact that something with such a serious side-effect profile remains the best we can do is a searing indictment of years of neglecting this research space.
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What must Green Party members be thinking, watching this debate after their party executive tried to jettison their leader going into an election?
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the rule is, if you're wondering whether you should have another coffee, you should have another coffee.
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Ontario’s associate minister of mental health and addictions @MichaelTibollo mentions CBT and psychotherapy as one of the best ways to treat mental illness, which is interesting because many Ontarians cannot access it.
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Ok but can we normalize free mental health care for everyone who needs it?
Can we please normalize FREE mental health supports (eg therapy, counselling) for every frontline health worker who has risked their life during #COVID19?
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Listening to @mattgallowaycbc talk to Chief Christopher Moonias of Neskantaga First Nation, which has been evacuated and has been under a boil-water advisory for 25 years, and thinking of all the times just this morning I've used the tap.
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Meant to post earlier, sorry: For the first time in Canada, a police officer has been convicted and sentenced to jail for failing to provide medical help to someone in their custody
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Whoah: Judge suspends Quebec niqab ban cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/mont…
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still reeling at the shooting death of Ejaz Choudry this weekend. anyone who's had the cops called on them while in mental crisis knows the awful destabilization that entails. you write about it, you think you're getting past the emotional wreckage but really you're nowhere close
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Can't stop thinking about the Angus Reid survey from March that found 73% of Canadians surveyed supported mask mandates.
It's pretty clear that if 80% of Canadians return to masking indoors we could reduce average daily COVID deaths and hospitalizations to a level similar to an average flu year.
Even with Omicron.
Why?
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ALT Image showing expected daily infections in Canada with and without 80% indoor mask wearing. Details of the effect will be described in the thread.
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Good news: Evacuation order lifted for Fukushima residents post-radiation contamination.
Bad news: Fukushima's been overtaken by wild boars.
Wild boars offer challenge for homecomers in radiation-hit Fukushima. See more: reut.rs/2mDrUoj
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"I was smiling bc I was trying to think of a way to change the chant." If only you had some kinda voice amplifier... cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/edmo…
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in honour of Ontario's public health advice i will spend Oct. 31 hurling mini chocolate bars at strangers and running away.
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thinking of the people we call at the worst moment in their lives to ask shamelessly nosy, probing, personal things in the name of a story we think the world needs to hear. we hear you. we see you. i wish empathy and compassion were enough to undo hurt.
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Official stats are out. As we reported, border-crossing asylum seeker numbers are down - at their lowest point since last June, in fact. canada.ca/en/immigration-ref…
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Canada's largest psychiatric facility is calling to remove officers from the front lines for people in mental health emergencies. cbc.ca/amp/1.5623907?__twitt…
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"Canadians may not be aware of this connection between the Christchurch massacre and their country’s fringe media – and that’s because Ezra Levant, the publisher of Rebel Media, went to great lengths to ensure that it stayed out of the press" theglobeandmail.com/opinion/… @DougSaunders
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