Reposted by Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her)Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 30/09/2026cc #BCMedia @thetyee.ca @ctvnewsvancouver.bsky.social @timescolonist.bsky.social @cheknews.ca @globalnews.ca @vancouversun.bsky.social @theprovince.com @pennydaflos.bsky.social @sobittersosweet.bsky.social @brishti.bsky.social @kehyslop.bsky.social @andreawoo.bsky.social @robshaw.bsky.social 121
Reposted by Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her)Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"It is unfair for me to look at my children, and tell them that 2/3 are not Disabled enough for supports... and it is inequitable that one of them should receive stable supports while the other two continue to fall behind after years of injustice and struggles." #BCPoli #Elxn #BCEd 002
Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 30/09/2026cc #BCMedia @thetyee.ca @ctvnewsvancouver.bsky.social @timescolonist.bsky.social @cheknews.ca @globalnews.ca @vancouversun.bsky.social @theprovince.com @pennydaflos.bsky.social @sobittersosweet.bsky.social @brishti.bsky.social @kehyslop.bsky.social @andreawoo.bsky.social @robshaw.bsky.social 121
Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Please Stop the Cuts to Disability Funding for Autistic Kids: An Open Letter to the Leader of the BC Greens @emilylowan.bsky.social @bcgreens.bsky.social #BCPoli #Elxn babybytes.wordpress.com/2026/09/30/p...babybytes.wordpress.comPlease Stop the Cuts to Disability Funding for Autistic Kids: An Open Letter to the Leader of the BC GreensHi Ms. Lowan, I am reaching out to you today as both [sic] a former (BC)NDP voter. Currently, the BCNDP is cutting stable Disability funding to thousands of Autistic kids in BC – and shocking… 172
Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Hey #BCEd: Does anyone know if @bctf.bsky.social endorses the FSAs now? Additionally: is it actually true that they are mandatory? Thanks! 000
Reposted by Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her)karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I am not at my best and if I get worse I will need some help to be on the safe side. a 30$ for safety ok that's vague. im doing very badly right now, ok cut off is 9pm (because bank) etransfer: thefool.ward@gmail.com 11012
Reposted by Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her)Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 27/09/2026👇 In all of this, those who I despise the most & respect the least are 'Orange MAGA' - who run interference for the BCNDP bet'n elxns (instead of pushing them as promised), & then tone police alienated & disenfranchised voters w valid criticisms of their party @ elxn time. #BCPoli 022
Reposted by Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her)Terri Brandmueller @tbrandmueller.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The sheer audacity of NDP supporters urging voters not to vote Green to avoid splitting the vote and handing the win to the Cons when their leader called an unnecessary, unwanted, opportunistic election. Sorry but Eby is the author of his own misfortune if the NDP loses their majority. Unbelievable 3199
Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Also, @bcgreens.bsky.social @emilylowan.bsky.social should be capitalizing on this, because the majority of the parents abandoning @bcndpcaucus.bsky.social are looking to move Green, not Con. #BCPoli 153
Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Honestly think @davidebybc.bsky.social @jodiewickens.bsky.social @bcndpcaucus.bsky.social = underestimating how many votes they've lost in parent community. In the past 5mins, in 1 grp alone, I've read 20+++ comments indicating ppl are no longer voting BCNDP. Wild to deliberately alienate so many. 021
Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Still cutting funding to Autistic kids, tho, @davidebybc.bsky.social @jodiewickens.bsky.social @nikisharma.bsky.social @bcndpcaucus.bsky.social? #BCPoli 001
Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 25/09/2026#BCPoli By the way? I'm among the former @bcndpcaucus.bsky.social voters who will never vote NDP (@ndp.ca), at any level, ever again. 032
Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Of course we don't know how this all plays out, but I will repeat: "Picked a really great time to disenfranchise 30k+ parents of Disabled kids, hey @bcndpcaucus.bsky.social?" Because there are so many former BCNDP voters in parents groups around the province looking not to vote for you ever again. 132
Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 23/09/2026#BCPoli #WhatTheNDPHaveWrought 000
Reposted by Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her)Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026So disappointing. There's a whole culture of dismissing masks as excessive here and I think the BCNDP helped reinforce mask wearers as being slow to get back to normal. Remember this? 191
Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 23/09/2026And they continue to do so. For example: No mask mandates in #BCPoli #BCMed last winter - even though other conservative provinces had them in their healthcare facilities. 2203
Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Observation: 'Dippers' attacking and/or blocking BCians, including former @bcndpcaucus.bsky.social supporters, who are critical of the BCNDP & have been alienated by the party's rightward shift, is peak 'Orange MAGA.' THEY are a massive part of the problem, and how we got here. #BCPoli 021
Reposted by Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her)Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I'm so tired of the BCNDP. Calling an election right now is undemocratic and leveraging our very real fear about Trump to advance their agenda seems manipulative. We need much better from a 'leftist' platform than 'not Trump' 242
Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 22/09/2026AT A GLANCE Broken @bcndpcaucus.bsky.social promises since 2017: ❌Properly fund classrooms & school equipment ❌Replace portables w classrooms ❌Seismically safe schools ❌Ensure faster access to school & public MH services ❌EAs in every elem. classroom ❌No cuts to funding for Autistic kids 2116
Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 22/09/2026If @davidebybc.bsky.social calls a snap elxn, remember: He & @jodiewickens.bsky.social, instead of correcting a decades-long injustice, & lifting up ALL Disabled kids in this province to ensure ALL of them receive equitable direct support, decided to deliberately cut supports to thousands. #BCPoli 031
Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Please consider donating to this GoFundMe, to fund a legal review of David Eby's BCNDP changes to Disability funding for kids in #BCPoli. While at first these changes most heavily negatively impact Autistic kids, other Disabled kids are facing cuts, too. gofund.me/9f00cd59egofund.meDonate to Fair Autism & Disability Funding BC — Legal Opinion Fund, organized by Fair Autism and Disability Funding BCStand With BC Families for Fair Autism & Disability Funding … Fair Autism and Disability Funding BC needs your support for Fair Autism & Disability Funding BC — Legal Opinion Fund 265
Reposted by Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her)Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Misinformation within the medical profession is a huge problem, especially within close knit subgroups like infection control and public health. Even major errors are routinely buried behind the Thin White Line in favour of protecting colleagues and the facade of infallibility. By putting the...whn.globalScience, Pseudoscience and Public Policy - WHNIn this presentation from December 2025, Mark Ungrin discusses “How did things get this bad, and what can we do about it?”—looking at how science and pseudoscience shape public policy, and what practi... 1369
Reposted by Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her)Colin Furness MISt PhD MPH @furnesscolin.bsky.social · 04/06/2026A final fun fact: By 2021 when I was being pretty horribly attacked on a daily basis for being a public epidemiologist, the truly nastiest ones ... were physicians. For real. They *aggressively* defend faulty foundational knowledge to protect their authority. Fixing this won't come easy. 10/10 615531
Reposted by Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her)Colin Furness MISt PhD MPH @furnesscolin.bsky.social · 04/06/2026We need to have more conversations about how to prevent physician expertise like this from causing mass harm. The most obvious move is to not let physicians be in charge. We need interdisciplinary leadership in public health. This requires calling out the harms of physician supremacy. 9/10 211832
Reposted by Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her)Colin Furness MISt PhD MPH @furnesscolin.bsky.social · 04/06/2026When physicians have faulty foundational beliefs (no symptoms = no disease being one of them), policy fails and people get sick. Because physicians protect each other, the status quo persists. That is what my Op-Ed was about (even if The Star watered it down against my objections). 8/10 111025
Reposted by Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her)Colin Furness MISt PhD MPH @furnesscolin.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Let that sink in. Shame on this doctor for his lethal ignorance. Shame on UBC for letting him anywhere near students. Shame on the Globe and Mail for platforming him. For the record, large crowds gathering from all over is called population mixing and it's damned dangerous, full stop. 7/10 214127
Reposted by Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her)Colin Furness MISt PhD MPH @furnesscolin.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Kids and those around them were brutally harmed by asymptomatic COVID cases while public health docs insisted that taking people's temperature at airports kept everyone safe. That's how unchecked community spread went on to kill millions. Murthy is a pediatrician who teaches med students. 6/10 211028
Reposted by Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her)Colin Furness MISt PhD MPH @furnesscolin.bsky.social · 04/06/2026At the time, COVID minimizers insisted schools be open because kids were clearly "immune". (That was debunked by April 2020.) Remember that disease symptoms are caused by the immune system's response, NOT the virus. Any virus that evades the immune system can do massive harm without symptoms. 3/10 110728
Reposted by Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her)Pete Quily @pqpolitics.bsky.social · 04/06/2026If Medicine was truly evidence based, we would have public health officers requiring 95 masks for Covid and explaining why they’re better than leaky surgical masks or the inferior cloth masks that BC’s public health officer wore in public as an living example of how to increase your infection risk 1192
Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 05/06/2026In a world where BC's physicians, public health & government reps threw BC's kids to the viral wolves, I will always be grateful to the Ontario-based scientists who stepped into that void, and advocated for our kids. Dr. Furness was one who stood up for my kids. Please take a moment to read this🧵👇 1124
Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 19/05/2026If you live in #BCPoli, take a moment to watch the video linked below. And then ask yourselves: Why are @bcndpcaucus.bsky.social, @davidebybc.bsky.social, & @jodiewickens.bsky.social targeting the Autistic traits girls and those who are AFAB are more likely to exhibit, for exclusion from supports?youtube.comNo.1 Female Autism Expert: What Female Autism REALLY Looks Like (It's not what you think)YouTube video by ADHD Chatter Podcast 000
Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 29/04/2026And after age 70?.... (Hint, that's why politicians and public health types don't care to meaningfully protect elderly people from the ongoing pandemic.) Stat taken from Pg 17, here: www.childrenshealthcarecanada.ca/media/xbdp3t... 000
Reposted by Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her)@lizglab.bsky.social @lizglab.bsky.social · 26/04/2026This is Yaroun in South Lebanon. One of the oldest villages on Earth. Israel has annihilated everything. Every home destroyed. Every sign of civilian life erased. A village that stood for over 3,000 years — wiped off the map. 11618
Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Current status: ✔️Adopt white cat ✔️Realize you can never wear any piece of black clothing ever, ever again 060
Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 20/04/2026ICYMI: Update: According to government's published numbers of AFU kids, it's actually closer to TWENTY SEVEN THOUSAND kids being removed from stable, accessible funding, by @davidebybc.bsky.social @jodiewickens.bsky.social @bcnewdemocrats.bsky.social @bcndpcaucus.bsky.social. #BCEd #BCPolitiktok.comWho isn’t being honest @BC NDP, @Jodie Wickens? Less stone throwing in glass houses, more actual support for *ALL* Disabled kids, and kept election promises, please. #BCEd #BCPoli #Autism #FairFunding...TikTok video by Jac of Too Many Trades 🍉 031
Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 18/04/2026In 2022, @davidebybc.bsky.social promised that he would maintain stable funding for Autistic kids in BC. He lied. Another broken promise in a long line of broken @bcnewdemocrats.bsky.social promises. #BCEd #BCPoli #BrokenPromises #FairFundingForAll #SYKE @jodiewickens.bsky.social 010
Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Well I'll be damned. @bcndp.bsky.social MLAs *CAN* stop toeing the party line, display integrity, and stand up to inequity. Amazing. How about it, @bcndpcaucus.bsky.social? How about doing the same and standing up for the 26,000+ Autistic kids you're planning to shunt off of equitable funding?tiktok.comWho isn’t being honest @BC NDP, @Jodie Wickens? Less stone throwing in glass houses, more actual support for *ALL* Disabled kids, and kept election promises, please. #BCEd #BCPoli #Autism #FairFunding...TikTok video by Jac of Too Many Trades 🍉 031
Reposted by Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her)Tom Jackman @frozen.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Governments of British Columbia have never seemed fully committed to the reconciliation between the province and Indigenous peoples; rather, B.C. governments were and are committed to telling everyone how committed they are to reconciliation. www.timescolonist.com/local-news/b...timescolonist.comB.C. premier says changing DRIPA is 'non-negotiable' and will pass this sessionB.C. Premier David Eby says the process has been "rushed" and "incredibly challenging," but the government has no other choice because of the legal risk facing the province. 265
Reposted by Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her)Tara Moriarty @moriartylab.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Infections in Canada this week are expected to result in 2,000 hospitalizations, 380 premature deaths (people who die at least 1 year earlier than they would without COVID) and 13,000 new long COVID cases serious enough to limit daily life activities. 11610
Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 19/03/2026I mean. Duh. Same in #BCPoli, but obsequious, ladder climbing PH reps would have you believe that our excess deaths are all due to a different PH failure, and not the ongoing pandemic-even when datasets adjusted for other deaths prove otherwise. Misinfo to curry favour from their misinfo leaders. 020
Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Important reminder: @bcndpcaucus.bsky.social are removing EIGHTEEN THOUSAND disabled Autistic kids from AFU, into an inequitable, inaccessible, income-tested pgm; meaning many 'missing middle' families -earning $50K net/yr and up- will exp a CoL increase, and/or loss of long est. supports. #BCPoli 132
Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Gov't gfx show: @bcndpcaucus.bsky.social are removing 18,000 disabled Autistic kids from AFU, into an inequitable, inaccessible, income-tested pgm; many 'missing middle' fams earning $50K net/yr and up will exp a CoL increase, and/or loss of long est supports. #BCPoli www.tiktok.com/@clearancesc...tiktok.comAs always, further challenging @BC NDP rhetoric with regard to the harmful cuts to funding (and therefore supports) for thousands of disabled Autistic kids in British Columbia. #BCPoli #Disability #Ex...TikTok video by Jac of Too Many Trades 🍉 110
Reposted by Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her)Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Setting aside her early 2020 "you can still ski" BS, when every other province was like 'wait a second, maybe we should think about prevention here,' plus ça change (how many times does history have to repeat before either she is replaced, or she learns to follow science?): 041
Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Super encouraging that the science in #BCPoli still hasn’t advanced, and @bcndpcaucus.bsky.social’s PHO still believes we breathe through our hands (and that she controls all viruses, to service travel & tourism season)! 😆😆 BC continues to be a scientific backwater. 140
Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Heartwarming scene: Black Cyber Truck driving past local school, at the end of recess. A large amount of children run for the school’s fence, yelling “boo” and giving the thumbs down gesture. 🥰 0173
Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 03/03/2026. @davidebybc.bsky.social's @bcndpcaucus.bsky.social has never met a piece of evidence or science they didn't like to ignore, hey? COVID is Airborne; masks, clean air work✅ Safe Supply works✅ Decriminalization works✅ Early Intervention (Autism) works✅ Standard Time is the better option (not DST)✅ 121
Reposted by Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her)Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Please consider signing this petition. #BCPoli #BCEd actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe... 164
Reposted by Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her)Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 23/02/2026February is Inclusive Education Month. Seems like a good time to remind parents that: Integration does NOT equal Inclusion/Inclusive Education. Inclusive Education means disabled students having access to ALL of their needed educational supports, in order to succeed in their goals. #BCEd #BCPoli 073
Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 23/02/2026TikTok video pertaining to this important study, and highlighting why cutting supports to certain disabled kids in BC right now is so underhanded. #BCPoli #Disability #Exclusion #GreenScreen 👇🏻 www.tiktok.com/@clearancesc...tiktok.comImportant study highlighting why cutting supports to disabled kids in BC is so underhanded. #BCPoli #Disability #Exclusion #GreenScreenTikTok video by Jac of Too Many Trades 🍉 042
Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Leaving this here for the people advocating for a reduction in supports for disabled kids in #BCPoli. And yes, our politicians and public health reps are well aware of findings like this. (What’s that about early intervention?) H/t @dlingenfelter.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 095