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Amy Ma - 馬錦華 - Settler on Indigenous land

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

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CorrinaLeeB 🇨🇦 @corrina.sheshed.rocks · 20/08/2026
Only in Russia 😂⛽️👙 In 2016, a gas station offered a free tank to customers who showed up in bikinis & heels. They apparently forgot to specify women. The men understood the assignment🤣 Never underestimate what people will do for FREE gas! #YouCantMakeThisShitUp #FreeGas #BikiniBoys #SheShed
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Amy Ma - 馬錦華 - Settler on Indigenous land @ctzenimprover.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.leadnow.ca/petitions/su...
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Aidez-nous à pérenniser le Kahéhtaien Jardin Lumb | Help us preserve the Kahéhtaien Jardin Lumb!
Chinatown's only accessible green space,and Montreal's only Indigenous-Asian community garden, is at risk. Kahéhtaien Jardin Lumb (KJL) has to leave its current site by 2026, and the City has only off...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
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Amy Ma - 馬錦華 - Settler on Indigenous land @ctzenimprover.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
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'.
Two women standing in a bookstore. I am holding a book titled: Fighting Feelings' between the two of us.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
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.
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.”
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Everyone is hope scrolling now
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Marco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
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
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Amy Ma - 馬錦華 - Settler on Indigenous land @ctzenimprover.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
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?...
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Transport in Canada: Insights from a National Travel Survey
YouTube video by Tram McGill
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Greenpeace Canada @greenpeaceca.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Every child matters. Here, there and everywhere #LANDBACK 🧡✊ #EveryChildMatters #FreePalestine #BreakTheSiege 🎨 fetchart via @mcmastersphr on IG
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Amy Ma - 馬錦華 - Settler on Indigenous land @ctzenimprover.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
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...
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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?
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Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
I think it’s okay if we start using the word regime more often now.
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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
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
A bear in the wild, smiling and posing coyly
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Necessary tools from the bad old days (or: the smallest taste of why marriage equality matters.)

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
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Club Announcement Spurs 🤦‍♂️ @markscrivens.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
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.
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First Nations Child & Family Caring Society @caringsociety.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
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 📑 fncaringsociety.com/publications...
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David Elfstrom 🍁 @davidelfstrom.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
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
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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).
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
They are treating people worse than mere numbers, not even bothering to track them once they’re in the system. Unacceptable.
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
"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."
"This transmission is just out of the box. It's impossible to contain at the present time," he said.

"The risk, right now, of your child getting measles in Alberta if they're not immunized is pretty high."

Gregson is urging parents who have opted not to immunize their children to rethink that decision.

"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. There's measles circulating in the community. And the best way to prevent your child from having a complication would be to get them vaccinated," he said.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
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!
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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
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
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.
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David William with a 'This IS my costume' pin @nrvscrcts.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
"(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.
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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...
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Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Speaking of people’s clocks ticking, Pierre.
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
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Occupy Calgary 🇨🇦 @calgaryoccupy.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
~Woah! Big Scoop! www.desmog.com/2025/04/23/r...
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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.
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Kris (Primalid) @primal-id.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
This is why you don't cut the FDA www.sfgate.com/food/article...
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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.
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Canadian In Alberta @canadianinalberta.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
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
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
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.
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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.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
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-...
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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...
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
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...
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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
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Heather e^-1/x^2 @heathermoandco.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
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
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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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
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
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🇨🇦 Made in Canada 🇨🇦 ELBOWS UP 💪🍁🦫🌈🦋 @canadianpride.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
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
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PAN - Patient's Advisory Network @patientadvisors.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
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
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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…
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 13/04/2025
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 🍁
Canadians increasingly want to age in their own homes rather than in an institution.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
The Trump administration pays El Salvador President Nayib Bukele's government $6 million to house prisoners it sends to CECOT. That’s the prison where Kilmar Abrego Garcia is currently being held. If the US controls the purse strings, then don’t pay El Salvador until Abrego Garcia comes home.
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
There are other ways to restrict abortion access besides submitting a motion to Parliament www.ctvnews.ca/federal-elec...
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Poilievre vows not to pass law restricting abortion if he becomes PM
Pierre Poilievre vowed Friday that a Conservative government would never impose restrictions on abortion.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
New Mexico made child care free for most families. Believe it or not, the good thing is good. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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New Mexico made childcare free. It lifted 120,000 people above the poverty line
The state, which has long ranked worst in the US for child wellbeing, became the first and only in the country to offer free childcare to a majority of families
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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
ICYMI, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops sued the Trump Administration over their unlawful suspension of funding for the refugee admissions program. The USCCB is *not* a liberal organization. (Would love to hear J.D. Vance answer a question about this.) www.courtlistener.com/docket/69649...
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UNITED STATES CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF STATE, 1:25-cv-00465 - CourtListener.com
Docket for UNITED STATES CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF STATE, 1:25-cv-00465 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open l...
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🇨🇦 Made in Canada 🇨🇦 ELBOWS UP 💪🍁🦫🌈🦋 @canadianpride.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Just a friendly reminder - before you blame the Feds, the provincial government or the municipal government - be sure who you should be directing your anger at. You missed the opportunity to punish the Ontario conservative government and Alberta's UCP. VOTE!!! #neverCONServative #NeverPoiLIEvre
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
the three of us are having a conversation
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11/04/2025
Following up on this. They just banned a Canadian trans musician from getting a visa to tour the US. They're straight up banning trans people from entering the US. www.stereogum.com/2303977/bell...
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Bells Larsen Forced To Cancel US Tour Due To Anti-Trans Visa Denial
Montreal-based indie-folk singer-songwriter Bells Larsen has a new album called Blurring Time set to come out in two weeks, and he was planning to head out on a quick run of US shows in June. That tou...
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Cédric Bélanger @cedricbelangerjdq.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Un succès extraordinaire. Plus de 1,7 million d'exemplaires vendus de la série «L'Agent Jean» quasiment à l'insu des grands médias. Thomas-Louis Côté, de Québec BD: «Il n’a jamais fait Tout le monde en parle. C’est un succès de cour d’école.» @journaldequebec.com @journaldemontreal.com
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
BREAKING: The country of Norway just entered a bill to give transgender Americans asylum in the country of Norway… LGBTQ+ STRONG! 🌈✨
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🇨🇦 Made in Canada 🇨🇦 ELBOWS UP 💪🍁🦫🌈🦋 @canadianpride.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
FACT CHECK: Canada Proud is run by Jeff Ballingall. These aren’t grassroots movements — they’re well-funded propaganda pipelines built to smear opponents and flood your feed with rage bait and falsehoods. They’re part of the same operation Poilievre’s team has brought on to run digital comms.
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Can we stop calling these atrocities "deportations." These people sold to El Salvadorian prisons were not deported. Deportation is a process that did not take place. They were rounded up and removed with no process. They were kidnapped, not deported.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 01/04/2025
Absolutely shameful that CTV caved to a disingenuous right-wing pressure campaign instead of standing their ground. It presents even more red flags about the state of the media in Canada. @rachelgilmore.bsky.social did not deserve to be treated this way.
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
What happened to @rachelgilmore.bsky.social is not just about CTV caving to Conservative pressures. There’s a larger issue: #cdnmedia are pushing out any female voices, voices of colour and Indigenous voices that aren’t centre-right or right. Even then there is very little representation
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Ann Petersen-Kane @anniegirl.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Danielle Smith's govt in Alberta is "cost-saving" by eliminating food and drink for patients in hospital settings. Her latest cost saving measure is to take away popsicles, crackers, and ginger ale from children receiving cancer treatments. The effort they put into their cruelty is truly stunning.
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Ryoa Chung @ryoa.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
My friend Dr. Joanne Liu, former international president of Doctors Without Borders, was cancelled at NYU. The vice-president in education asked to see her powerpoint, prior to her lecture. One slide showed the number of humanitarian workers who died in Gaza. NYU cancelled the event.
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