Leah Sandals

I'm thrilled to announce that I'm the lead producer for the CBC's Six Nations bureau! It will run until the end of March, 2022 and I'll be looking for stories from the community for a First Person essay series, I'll write some articles, and lead a series of journalism workshops.

Indigenous peoples have been telling the museum that its depiction of Indigenous peoples in the gallery is racist, dehumanizing and harmful. Articles have been written, letters have been mailed, meeting held, all to tell the museum to change and up until now it is has said no.

Today the @RoyalBCMuseum announced that it will be 'closing sections of the 3rd floor to start a process of decolonization'. This closure includes the First Peoples Gallery. Overall, this is good news but it took decades of work by Indigenous peoples across BC for this to happen.

In a rare step, the College is involving the Ontario Superior Court to compel four doctors to share medical records re: COVID19 exemptions. One doctor said College investigators would be "resisted physically". Another said she first requires the College to "define COVID19."

Boy sure is infuriating watching the most powerful people in the world pretend they can do nothing about anything

This Friday is the last day to pitch me @thismagazine on the theme of bodies. Someone tear down the idea that body positivity is the end goal. Someone write about death and dying. Also: make me less anxious by pitching well before the deadline!

So, shutting down before 8. 1,028 kids. Candy gone. Supply chain issues. Hiding in the kitchen.

This is Native American month and I want you to spend it looking for Indigenous people. Look for us in your theology. In your movements. In your circles. In your books. In your movies. In your towns and your streets and your parks. Notice us. Notice our absence.

Hospital bed: $700+/day Long-term care bed: $200/day Home care: $103/day Make no mistake: Investing in improving home care won’t just allow people to stay where they want to be...but it will also save money.

Prior to COVID, Ontario filled 95% of home care requests, but now can only fill 60%. Hundreds of thousands of people are getting reduced or no home care services. This is a crisis! Long before we build more LTC facilities, we MUST fund better home care.

This person has no place in a classroom. There is no excuse for this. Nonehttps://twitter.com/JoannaLavoie/status/1454810759775539213 …

My friend Liz Ikiriko has dedicated her career to Black art, creating so much space for Black and other racialized photographers across this country and beyond. She has worked so hard to show Black children they are valuable and loved and I am infuriated this happened to them.https://twitter.com/TorontoStar/status/1454823254271541253 …

I spent the day today with my best friend of 15 years at her home in Hamilton. Anyone who thinks subsidized housing via #OntarioWorks is living in luxury wouldn't last a day with what she puts up with.

Quite shameful that Canada continues to use Internationally trained workers as unskilled laborers. An Internationally trained doctor helped cash out my groceries at Walmart this week. Canada should be ashamed of this level of deskilling despite a glaring shortage of HCWs.

Good morning and Happy Saturday to everyone except the Ontario government, which has chosen to "fix LTC" by building even more taxpayer subsidized for-profit LTC institutions with 30 year licences rather than making LTC non-profit and better funding for home care.