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Dr Kim Alexander 🍁

@drkimalexander.bsky.social
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Drkimalexander.com Canadian Gynecologist, Author, & Unitarian Universalist. Your smart, savvy, shameless sex educator & middle-aged queer mom. linktr.ee/GrownUUps

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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Vote NO to the nine 9️⃣ Smith must RESIGN❕
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David W (aka Flex NP) @rnflex.bsky.social · 17h
I see denying appropriate medical care continues to remain profitable 😐😐😐
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Frances @frances2023.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Not trying to shame anyone, but voting is so much easier now with advance voting, sometimes online voting, and mail-in voting (though not in all jurisdictions in Canada). If you don't vote, I assume you are in a coma. #Vote
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Dr Kim Alexander 🍁 @drkimalexander.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
😂 absolutely true
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If you want to read more for yourself, including detailed analyses of individual cases and lots and lots of stories from survivors and perpetrators about how they were treated, here’s a link to the book:
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On the Wrong Side: How Universities Protect Perpetrators and Betray Survivors of Sexual Violence
"Bedera dispels deeply ingrained campus rape myths and puts the innate violence of the campus sexual assault reporting process into focus."--Jezebel"The book's grim conclusions are tempered with a hop...
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I spent a year watching school administrators do their jobs—and interviewing the students most impacted. I spoke to @thecut.com in a long-form Q&A about what I saw. Mainly, a system designed to protect perpetrators and punish victims in each and every case.
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The Reason Why Colleges Still Fail to Address Sexual Violence
The “Cornell Seven” case highlights what’s wrong with Trump’s Title IX rules — and how the system was always designed to fail.
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Center for Media Engagement - UT Austin @engagingnews.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What makes people trust answers from systems they don’t fully understand? @TheConversation explores the parallels between AI chatbots and ancient oracles—and how the opacity behind AI-generated answers may shape the authority people give them.
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Nature @nature.com · 07/10/2026
None of this year's science Nobel Prizes have gone to women. The number of these prizes to go to women remains at 27 out of more than 600. See how many you can name in our quiz: www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh for goodness sake… DON’T TAKE 300 mg OF ASPIRIN IF YOU ARE MEANT TO BE ON THE MINI 75 mg DOSE (or similar). THERE ARE A GAZILLION STUDIES SHOWING THAT DOING THIS WRONG CAN MAKE YOU BLEED… A LOT.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Found this incredible project at the Green Party conference: Stitch their Names Hundreds of women stitching the names of the tens of thousands of Palestinians murdered by Israel. Red are women, Black are men, Green are kids. www.stitchtheirnamestogether.com
Long list of namesLong list of namesLong list of names
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Joe Public 🍁 @joepublic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
These Canadian universities are offering free online courses www.mtlblog.com/canadian-uni...
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These Canadian universities are offering free online courses this fall (no enrollment needed)
Want to improve your skillset?
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Edward Xie @edwardxie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In ERs, we see the impact of unsafe roads regularly. Cities with good bike infrastructure have fewer deaths and greater safety for all, regardless of whether they’re walking, cycling or driving. Ontario gov should reconsider how to spend $48 mil Improve lives - not put them at risk #bikeTO #onpoli
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Why hundreds of doctors are fighting Ford’s removal of Toronto bike lanes
YouTube video by CBC News Toronto
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Jack Cousteau ⚓️ @angrywaterman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Dr Kim Alexander 🍁 @drkimalexander.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Talk to any pediatric ER doc: Disaster isn't waiting, it's striking over and over again. Families devastated. These scooters are a whole new level of trauma.
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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Dreadful news about the peerless Michael Kiwanuka this week. 'He realises now that he was particularly at risk of a stroke because of the increased susceptibility to high blood pressure among Black African males. That’s also why he decided to go public.' www.theguardian.com/music/2026/s...
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‘Everyone can relate to pain and struggle. So I’m sharing mine’: Michael Kiwanuka on life after his devastating stroke
The Mercury prize winner hasn’t been able to go home since falling ill last summer. In his only interview, he opens up about the ‘poignancy’ of finally releasing the new album his stroke shelved
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Dr Kim Alexander 🍁 @drkimalexander.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Apt description of Poilievre, based on his latest idiocy.
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Dr Kim Alexander 🍁 @drkimalexander.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
That's what the rest of the world understood.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 16/09/2026
tfw you're so unpopular that people are disgusted by your attempt to bribe them
Screenshot of a tweet by the "Political Polls" account, dated 15 September 2026. It reads: "New - $5,000 Trump dividend. Oppose 63%. Approve 17%. Ipsos - A - 9/14"
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Terrific new review of flu & COVID vaccine recommendations in Vaccine from Jessica Breznik, Matt Miller, & @msmacrophage.bsky.social! They make a compelling data-driven case for expanding COVID vaccines & optimizing timing for COVID waves, as we do for flu.👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Rationalizing recommendations for influenza and COVID-19 vaccines
Influenza vaccination saves lives, reduces short-term and long-term health consequences, decreases healthcare utilization, and improves pregnancy outc…
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Dr Kim Alexander 🍁 @drkimalexander.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Like an incompetent mafioso, in that he made us an offer we could only refuse."
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/09/2026
In states with abortion bans, medical providers are hesitating or flat-out refusing to terminate ectopic pregnancies, lawsuits allege. “I genuinely thought I was going to die,” said Kyleigh Thurman, who couldn’t get care in Texas.
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Dr Kim Alexander 🍁 @drkimalexander.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
One of my colleagues has organized a continuing med event on a French cruise line leaving from St. Lucia. She wanted to make sure everyone was safe to go. 
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
One of the most powerful videos you'll see today. Dr. James A. Makokis speaking to the historic announcement that Saddle Lake Cree Nation will defy Alberta's anti-LGBTQ+ laws and provide a safe haven for trans and two spirit people on their land 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈❤️🪶
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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 08/09/2026
I have received news of a perfectly named cafe located on the waterfront of Nova Scotia's capital, if you know what I mean
"Broken Man cafe" sign on a big plate glass window, through which one can see cafe tables and chairs and backs of people's heads. In the distance, a sign indicates that this is Pier 22 on the Halifax waterfront
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This past week: CHINA: Announced the discovery of a probiotic that reverses diabetes. USA: Made up the name of a lake without any legal authority. CHINA: Invented EV battery with 600+ mile range. USA: Used AI to create silly video of a fake battle in unpopular war.
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Kimiko Shibata @eslfairy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
To be clear: there is no actual physical “Staples gift card” so teachers can’t just go to the store and get the cheaper price using a gift card. Teachers are required to order through the #OntEd Ministry of Education Portal. What a waste of taxpayer money.
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Kimiko Shibata @eslfairy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Our taxpayer dollars are being spent at an American company (in the middle of a trade war) that offers better deals to folks walking in off the street than to teachers ordering through the Ontario Ministry of Education portal. Make it make sense!!! #OntEd
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
#WheresMitch
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
9/11 recollection: I was a firefighter in upstate NY on 9/11 & watched the 2nd tower fall on the TV in my fire station. A few weeks later, I was visiting Ontario & moved to see the fire engines flying both US & Canadian flags in solidarity. (One reason the dumb US tariffs/threats are so galling.)
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Moderate Canadian position
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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
So maybe the U.S. and Canada reach a deal today. Okay. But how many hours until Trump gets annoyed at the way beavers build dams or Canada geese shit in upstate New York before he imposes 125% tariffs on Degrassi High reruns?
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scott daGHOSTtino @scottdagostino.ca · 21/08/2026
Don’t be complacent. As I’ve long said, by electing the same corporate shills, Canada always becomes America a few years later 🫤
@tessieheeter posts on threads:

The most insane thing about all of these food recalls is the people acting shocked it's happening. The FDA lost nearly 4,300 staff in the last two years. Inspectors were already stretched thin before the cuts, and now there's even fewer of them. The scientists who test food for bacteria are gone. Two federal advisory committees that existed specifically to catch foodborne pathogens before they became outbreaks got disbanded. CTV NEWS:

587 jobs to be cut at Canadian Food Inspection Agency

By Josh Pringle

Updated: January 30, 2026 at 11:53AM EST
Published: January 29, 2026 at 2:02PM EST
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Dr Kim Alexander 🍁 @drkimalexander.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I love the different ways this author conceptualizes sex variation within an individual.
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Dr Kim Alexander 🍁 @drkimalexander.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Absolutely.
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Dr Kim Alexander 🍁 @drkimalexander.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Misogyny is alive in politics. Let's spend party funds to try to catch a woman having fun, and villify her for it. Smdh
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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star
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Dr Kim Alexander 🍁 @drkimalexander.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
After driving all over campus, I eventually landed across the street at the @conradgrebel.bsky.social lot, which does have public chargers. Thanks Conrad Grebel!
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Dr Kim Alexander 🍁 @drkimalexander.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
@uwaterloo.ca I'm shocked and dismayed that a university renowned for its Environmental Science program has no EV vehicle charging for visitors! #waterloo
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Waterloo Region Health Coalition @health-wrregion.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Canada's ER doctor burnout crisis reaches a breaking point -CTV News 🤒 #CanadaHealth #ERDoctorBurnout #HealthcareCrisis #MentalHealthMatters #SupportOurDoctors
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I feel like if people would just listen to us the first, second, third, or fourth time, we wouldn’t have to keep doing this.
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
“Has the Me Too movement gone too far?”
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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Please enjoy this timely summer rerun cartoon 🇨🇦
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Dr Kim Alexander 🍁 @drkimalexander.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
😂 amazing luck to have bell hooks find her way to all of these people 
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
BREAKING: Canadian Politicians Are Openly Mocking And Threatening Trump As Carney/Canada Considers "Nuclear Option" Response To Trump's Tariffs. @deanblundell.bsky.social #cdnpoli open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...
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BREAKING: Canadian Politicians Are Openly Mocking And Threatening Trump As Carney/Canada Considers "Nuclear Option" Response To Trump's Tariffs
Source: The export tax is polled, studied, and sitting one arm's length from Carney's "all options." August 19 is the deadline. Canada is done screwing around.
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DocHackenBOOOOOsh @dochackenbush.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I have some bad news about your AI flyer #art #NoAI #capybara
Illustration of a capybara looking directly at the viewer with its head quizzically inclined to one side. Text reads “your AI flyer looks like shit”
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Dr Kim Alexander 🍁 @drkimalexander.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
www.theguardian.com/society/2026... This is a really good article about systemic response to the widespread crime of DFSA
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‘The bed you thought was safe, isn’t safe’: how Zoe Watts survived drug-facilitated rape – and fought back
For years, her husband was adding sedatives to her evening cup of tea. Now, with fellow survivor Amanda Stanhope, she is lifting the lid on a hidden and diabolical crime
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Alvin Finkel @alvinfinkel.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Lopsided distribution of wealth in the US: US is #2 globally in AVERAGE WEALTH per capita, Canada a mere #13. But in MEDIAN WEALTH per capita, Canada rises to #7 and the US falls to a lowly #28. Why? Because the ultra-wealthy in the US distort the average & medians reveal distribution of wealth.
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Nathan @nwylabour.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
This is backwards IMO. Green energy firms should want their workforces to be unionised because that will begin to shift the balance within trade unions away from the fossil fuel industry, and turn trade unions into better advocates for their own industries!
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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I don’t suppose they’d welcome a comparison to Jeanette Winterson’s adoptive mother but the question “why be happy when you could be normal?” does seem to lurk at the back of quite a bit of this.
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