If you see me wearing a mask outdoors, itโs probably because
- Iโm en route from one public indoor space to another and itโs easier not to break the seal
- itโs keeping my face warm ๐ฅถ
- both of the above
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OK Iโm sorry but right now Ludwig and I are NOT friends
Iโm a second soprano, I did not sign up for sustained high As, much less high B flats #ChoristerProblems
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It is 2023 and I nevertheless just saw someone posting on social media about being sick but sucking it up and going to a (crowded public) place because her kids wanted to and I โฆ HOW have we survived as a species??
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Canadians are taking more sick days โ and it comes at a cost
"According to a new report from CIBC, work absences due to illness are up 40 per cent compared to before the pandemic"
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Provincial governments who issue individual cheques to constituents (effectively making government redundant) while radically underfunding health care have only one thing they care about and it sure ain't people.
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This is how it works in Canada, too. Every time I go to the US for work Iโm like, โMaybe this time theyโll have figured it outโฆโ and every time, Nope.
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Best part of going to Europe is being able to pay for your meal on the machine at the table. The American game of ask for check, get check, provide credit card, waiter picks up credit card, get receipt is absolutely ludicrous.
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Today marks the National Day of Remembrance of the Quebec City Mosque Attack and Action against Islamophobia, serving as a reminder of the work we must do as a nation to eradicate Islamophobia, hate, and racism. We each have a part in creating an inclusive ๐จ๐ฆ where we all belong.
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A flour sifter. A mezzaluna. A set of those stovetop espresso pots. An electric tin opener.
(My mum still has all of these in her kitchen, except the electric tin opener.)
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What did you have in your childhood kitchen that you donโt have now?
A chip pan, a pantry, something else?
I'd love to know.
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Hello Canada! ๐จ๐ฆ
A few things you might not know about the pandemic...
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โ[Ontario] spends less per person on health care than any other provinceโฆ Allowing more private health care wonโt solve underfunding. It will mean more health services carried out by profit-seeking entities that will pocket a share of the public money.โ
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Make no mistake: The violence we're seeing on the TTC won't be addressed by having more police present.
We need more housing. More mental healthcare. More harm reduction services. More public washrooms. More warming centres.
We need a City of Toronto that's more compassionate.
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This tweet brought to you by Ludwig van Beethoven, specifically the Missa Solemnis, specifically measures 306-472 of the Credo #ChoristerProblems
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What is it about the word โamenโ that makes dead white Christian men rub their hands in glee and go โLetโs write a hundred bars of music with no other words! And maybe a FUGUE!โ ??
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What is it about the word โamenโ that makes dead white Christian men rub their hands in glee and go โLetโs write a hundred bars of music with no other words! And maybe a FUGUE!โ ??
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Also now very curious if there's a lot of people out their falsely claiming to be allergic to potatoes and celery...
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I've told him all the fruit & veg allergies and I start to list the nuts ... and he goes "I'll just put 'nuts'."
Okay, bud, which is it -- you urgently need to interrogate my food allergies, or you don't care which nuts I'm allergic to? 2/3
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Got my bivalent booster on Friday (woot!) and pharmacist asked about allergies. I start listing my (many, but vaccine-irrelevant) food allergies. Are they *actually* allergies or just intolerances? Actually allergies. Am I *sure*? Have I been *tested*? Yes and yes ๐ 1/n
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I think rather than suing schools for not telling them about their childโs social transition, parents should ask themselves what they have done to let their children know that it is safe to open up to them about gender stuff, that they wonโt be judgmental or abusive.
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TIL that some parents put their small children in the closet or the bathroom to sleep (in a playpen, not on the floor, donโt worry!) rather than share a hotel room with them. How do you look your kids in the face and go โwhen you were two, we made you sleep in the bathroomโ?
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Oh look, the American Medical Association is saying N95 masks reduce risk of COVID transmission.
Very glad to read that. Now let's amplify that message, because those virus-laden aerosols are not going to make themselves visible.
#COVIDIsAirborne
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Itโs time to move on from COVID denial and make the rest of the world #DavosSafe
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Masks work.
Clean air is good for you.
Getting sick is not good for you.
Public Health isnโt about the individual, itโs about collective actions at scale.
Itโs not hard. Any HCW, manager or politician saying otherwise is compromised.
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Ivan Provorov was allowed to play in a game for the Philadelphia Flyers - the organization that was the first to say that you will be removed from the arena if you utter a homophobic slur - after refusing to wear a Pride logo for warm ups.
What an absolute disgrace.
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In advance of a forecasted imminent major โFlash Freezeโ storm, with possible blizzard conditions, the City of Toronto should open warming centres to ensure safe places for our cityโs homeless population. Iโm calling on the mayor and his city staff to take immediate action.
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Chanukah sameach! First night, one light, pushing back against the night.
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Guest Post -- 10 Quick Wins to Make Your Organization More Disability Inclusive scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2022/12/12/gue via
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Due to an ongoing surge in young patients suffering from respiratory viruses, an Ontario children's hospital has been so overwhelmed that they have called in the Red Cross...to help with staffing.
This is heartbreaking. ๐
Where is the Ontario government and what is their plan?
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I hate when the Leafs play the Bolts. Not for hockey reasons. Just because they wear almost exactly the same shade of blue and both their captains wear the same number and I just. Donโt like it
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So has LOST every court challenge and should repay the tax $ of ours he spent fighting them all. Retweet if you'd like to see those $ go to housing/healthcare/education...
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There they are: a list of the Ontario MPPs who sold out to DF and voted Yes on #Bill23, who failed to read between the lines and to stand up against raising our taxes, worsening the housing crisis, privately trading our biodiversity and farmland for industry donations and favours
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OK Iโm sorry ALL THREE people on thought Anne of Green Gables was born in New England and moved to the Prairies, and as a Canadian I am both gobsmacked and kind of offended (full disclosure: I didnโt get the correct answer either)
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An inside look at the ER of Canada's largest pediatric hospital as RSV surges
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Love to be lectured by the parents of 5yos on what a bad job Iโve done as a parent by not requiring my teenager* to let me snoop on her phone.
* no longer a teenager, has own apartment, in uni, has responsible job
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Back to Duolingo Yiddish, where I am not fluent enough to have this kind of problem ๐
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Wow, Duolingo French really doesnโt like the way I speak French. Apparently โtโas misโ and โtโas reรงuโ are completely unintelligible ๐ซฃ
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