Jennifer Francis
@jenniferfrancis.bsky.social
Tech champion in Ottawa
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Written by the father of a trans girl…
“When society tries to police and exclude trans girls, it ends up policing all girls.
Because transmisogyny does not just say, “Trans girls aren’t real girls.” It also says, “There is only one correct way to be a girl.””
“When society tries to police and exclude trans girls, it ends up policing all girls.
Because transmisogyny does not just say, “Trans girls aren’t real girls.” It also says, “There is only one correct way to be a girl.””
Why the War on Trans Girls Is a War on Girlhood
Excluding trans girls is controlling who can be girls, and who can't, further dividing children and causing harm
medium.com
December 29, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Written by the father of a trans girl…
“When society tries to police and exclude trans girls, it ends up policing all girls.
Because transmisogyny does not just say, “Trans girls aren’t real girls.” It also says, “There is only one correct way to be a girl.””
“When society tries to police and exclude trans girls, it ends up policing all girls.
Because transmisogyny does not just say, “Trans girls aren’t real girls.” It also says, “There is only one correct way to be a girl.””
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“Research on increased deaths in ER at private equity-owned hosp aligns with a 2021 study finding 11% ⬆️ mortality rates at NH owned by private equity. That study, concluded that ⬇️
nursing staffs & ⬇️ in compliance with care standards contributed to the increased deaths at financier-owned homes.”
nursing staffs & ⬇️ in compliance with care standards contributed to the increased deaths at financier-owned homes.”
December 28, 2025 at 1:56 PM
“Research on increased deaths in ER at private equity-owned hosp aligns with a 2021 study finding 11% ⬆️ mortality rates at NH owned by private equity. That study, concluded that ⬇️
nursing staffs & ⬇️ in compliance with care standards contributed to the increased deaths at financier-owned homes.”
nursing staffs & ⬇️ in compliance with care standards contributed to the increased deaths at financier-owned homes.”
Private equity should not be allowed near health care and long term carel
Emergency Department deaths in hospitals taken over by private equity rose by 13.4%
www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...
www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...
Hospital Staffing and Patient Outcomes After Private Equity Acquisition | Annals of Internal Medicine
Background: After private equity acquisition, hospitals may experience changes in staffing with implications for patients. Objective: To examine hospital staffing and patient outcomes in emergency dep...
www.acpjournals.org
December 27, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Private equity should not be allowed near health care and long term carel
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"We here at Bank of America remember a time when a woman couldn't get a credit card without her husband's approval. Wouldn't that be fun again?"
"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase
December 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
"We here at Bank of America remember a time when a woman couldn't get a credit card without her husband's approval. Wouldn't that be fun again?"
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White men are 30% of the US and if they look around the room and see it’s less than 90% white men they think it’s affirmative action.
85% of CEOs are white men.
All but one US President has been a white man.
65% of all elected offices are held by white men.
Roughly 30% of the population is white men.
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS TOPIC EVEN???
All but one US President has been a white man.
65% of all elected offices are held by white men.
Roughly 30% of the population is white men.
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS TOPIC EVEN???
December 19, 2025 at 2:55 PM
White men are 30% of the US and if they look around the room and see it’s less than 90% white men they think it’s affirmative action.
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Yeah, as I've been saying, we overcompensated because the media ran with the stupid 'GDP per capita' and 'immigrants hurt housing' framing. This is long-run damage to the economy by short-term thinking, feeding xenophobia, and helping to further destroy Canada's world class universities.
Canada’s population sees largest decline on record
Canada’s population sees largest decline on record
Statistics Canada attributes the drop to a fewer non-permanent residents. It's the largest decline since records began in 1946.
www.thestar.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Yeah, as I've been saying, we overcompensated because the media ran with the stupid 'GDP per capita' and 'immigrants hurt housing' framing. This is long-run damage to the economy by short-term thinking, feeding xenophobia, and helping to further destroy Canada's world class universities.
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Three Democrats (Cuellar, Gonzalez, and Davis) joined the Republicans to pass Marjorie Taylor Greene's federal ban on gender affirming care through the House of Representatives.
It is repugnant that the federal government won't give people health care, but it will TAKE IT AWAY from trans people.
It is repugnant that the federal government won't give people health care, but it will TAKE IT AWAY from trans people.
December 18, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Three Democrats (Cuellar, Gonzalez, and Davis) joined the Republicans to pass Marjorie Taylor Greene's federal ban on gender affirming care through the House of Representatives.
It is repugnant that the federal government won't give people health care, but it will TAKE IT AWAY from trans people.
It is repugnant that the federal government won't give people health care, but it will TAKE IT AWAY from trans people.
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Councillor Tim Tierney is wrong about ‘Chronic No-Voters’ in his Ottawa Citizen Op/Ed on Saturday.
His opinion would be easier to take seriously if the comments weren’t coming from someone with a 15-year track record of being a reliable yes-man for every budget. 1/21
His opinion would be easier to take seriously if the comments weren’t coming from someone with a 15-year track record of being a reliable yes-man for every budget. 1/21
December 9, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Councillor Tim Tierney is wrong about ‘Chronic No-Voters’ in his Ottawa Citizen Op/Ed on Saturday.
His opinion would be easier to take seriously if the comments weren’t coming from someone with a 15-year track record of being a reliable yes-man for every budget. 1/21
His opinion would be easier to take seriously if the comments weren’t coming from someone with a 15-year track record of being a reliable yes-man for every budget. 1/21
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To be very clear: Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the children who get it.
RFK’s Anti-Vax Team Readies Its Next Moves
“Their game is, let’s really destabilize trust in the vaccine, and make people really anxious about it.”
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
To be very clear: Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the children who get it.
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This is how a health system burns to the ground. How Alberta's dual practice plan would drain hospital staff and delay lifesaving care, by Dr. Paul Parks canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/28/t... via @canadahealthwatch.ca @nicktsergas.ca
This is how a health system burns to the ground
Dr. Paul Parks explains how Alberta's dual-billing plan would drain hospital staff and delay lifesaving care.
canadahealthwatch.ca
December 1, 2025 at 6:19 PM
This is how a health system burns to the ground. How Alberta's dual practice plan would drain hospital staff and delay lifesaving care, by Dr. Paul Parks canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/28/t... via @canadahealthwatch.ca @nicktsergas.ca
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Pedestrian struck by motorist on Parkside a block from the speed camera that vigilantes kept tearing down that caused ford to remove them from all Ontario. Drive as you wish Ontario. Nobody matters. This is what you voted for.
November 28, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Pedestrian struck by motorist on Parkside a block from the speed camera that vigilantes kept tearing down that caused ford to remove them from all Ontario. Drive as you wish Ontario. Nobody matters. This is what you voted for.
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As we await the pipeline MOU, a reminder that Alberta has 12% of Canada’s population and
• 38% of national GHG emissions
• 75% of oil and gas-related GHGs
• 51% of electricity-related GHGS
Source: 2025 National Inventory Report 1990-2023: GHG Sources and Sinks in Canada (ECCC)
• 38% of national GHG emissions
• 75% of oil and gas-related GHGs
• 51% of electricity-related GHGS
Source: 2025 National Inventory Report 1990-2023: GHG Sources and Sinks in Canada (ECCC)
November 27, 2025 at 1:45 PM
As we await the pipeline MOU, a reminder that Alberta has 12% of Canada’s population and
• 38% of national GHG emissions
• 75% of oil and gas-related GHGs
• 51% of electricity-related GHGS
Source: 2025 National Inventory Report 1990-2023: GHG Sources and Sinks in Canada (ECCC)
• 38% of national GHG emissions
• 75% of oil and gas-related GHGs
• 51% of electricity-related GHGS
Source: 2025 National Inventory Report 1990-2023: GHG Sources and Sinks in Canada (ECCC)
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"People drove 1.8 million fewer miles on city streets....City Council voted this summer to extend it [free transit] another year, paying for it with a 1 percent increase in utility taxes and by doubling most public parking rates to $2 from $1"
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:49 PM
"People drove 1.8 million fewer miles on city streets....City Council voted this summer to extend it [free transit] another year, paying for it with a 1 percent increase in utility taxes and by doubling most public parking rates to $2 from $1"
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
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Conservatives: “DEI unfairly rewards low-quality applicants.”
Also conservatives: www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
Also conservatives: www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
Low-scoring applicants averaged the highest payouts from Doug Ford’s Skills Development Fund
Until the Star obtained the database, scores were such a closely guarded secret the public didn't know the application scores of funding recipients.
www.thestar.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Conservatives: “DEI unfairly rewards low-quality applicants.”
Also conservatives: www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
Also conservatives: www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
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🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️ Huge crowds are out tonight at McDougall Centre in Calgary to rally against anti-trans Bill 9 and the Notwithstanding Clause.
#transrightsarehumanrights #ableg #abpoli #canpoli
transactionalberta.ca
savethecharter.ca
#transrightsarehumanrights #ableg #abpoli #canpoli
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savethecharter.ca
November 21, 2025 at 1:12 AM
🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️ Huge crowds are out tonight at McDougall Centre in Calgary to rally against anti-trans Bill 9 and the Notwithstanding Clause.
#transrightsarehumanrights #ableg #abpoli #canpoli
transactionalberta.ca
savethecharter.ca
#transrightsarehumanrights #ableg #abpoli #canpoli
transactionalberta.ca
savethecharter.ca
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“My own experience prescribing puberty blockers has demonstrated enormous psycho-social benefits in youth who feel a quiet desperation watching their bodies change in ways they can’t control […] A puberty blocker provides them with a pause […] with no effects on fertility, and is 100% reversible.”
Opinion: As a physician, I see how gender-affirming care benefits youth
Alberta’s moves to restrict treatment are based in ignorance and misinformation
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:12 PM
“My own experience prescribing puberty blockers has demonstrated enormous psycho-social benefits in youth who feel a quiet desperation watching their bodies change in ways they can’t control […] A puberty blocker provides them with a pause […] with no effects on fertility, and is 100% reversible.”
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The article I've been wanting to write.
Opinion | How to Utterly Miss the Point of the Jeffrey Epstein Story
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:24 PM
The article I've been wanting to write.
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Did you know Makary is using 45 year old, 34 year old, and 29 year old observational studies to spread disinformation about MHT? Ignoring newer, far better quality data is misogyny open.substack.com/pub/vajenda/...
Vintage Data, Modern Misinformation:
The FDA’s use of outdated studies and Makary’s inaccurate all-cause mortality claim, explained
open.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Did you know Makary is using 45 year old, 34 year old, and 29 year old observational studies to spread disinformation about MHT? Ignoring newer, far better quality data is misogyny open.substack.com/pub/vajenda/...
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Ontario's hospitals have been starved to the point of collapse, but sure, find more savings because Doug Ford refuses to fund the system adequately.
Just appalling.
Just appalling.
Ontario hospitals told to find savings; ministry doesn't rule out service cuts
TORONTO - Ontario's Ministry of Health has tasked hospitals struggling with deficits to come up with a three-year plan to balance their budgets, and service cuts and bed closures do
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca
October 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Ontario's hospitals have been starved to the point of collapse, but sure, find more savings because Doug Ford refuses to fund the system adequately.
Just appalling.
Just appalling.
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Doug Ford taking over our democratically elected school board trustees is yet another infringement of our democratic rights and very Trump like. Slowly, like waves eroding a beach.
October 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Doug Ford taking over our democratically elected school board trustees is yet another infringement of our democratic rights and very Trump like. Slowly, like waves eroding a beach.
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Deachman: Speed cameras aren't the enemy Doug Ford makes them out to be ottawacitizen.com/news/local-n...
Deachman: Speed cameras aren't the enemy Doug Ford makes them out to be
Bruce Deachman visits the 10 busiest speed cameras in Ottawa to see if they're all just cash grabs.
ottawacitizen.com
October 9, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Deachman: Speed cameras aren't the enemy Doug Ford makes them out to be ottawacitizen.com/news/local-n...
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OF COURSE SPEED CAMERAS WORK! There’s clear evidence of that. They save lives, and removing them will costs lives, including KIDS’ LIVES. The narrative of “cash grab” is a political tactic. Every dollar raised by such cameras is evidence of too much deadly speeding and the need for such cameras.
Parents, children rally against Ford's planned speed cam ban | CBC News
Concerned parents gathered with their children by a speed camera near Bloor and Dundas streets Saturday afternoon to protest a plan from Premier Doug Ford’s government to end automated speed enforceme...
www.cbc.ca
October 5, 2025 at 12:13 AM
OF COURSE SPEED CAMERAS WORK! There’s clear evidence of that. They save lives, and removing them will costs lives, including KIDS’ LIVES. The narrative of “cash grab” is a political tactic. Every dollar raised by such cameras is evidence of too much deadly speeding and the need for such cameras.
Hard to understand why so many want to bring back high infant death rates. Vaccines are safe, and life saving.
A baby in Mississippi has died of whooping cough for the first time since 2012.
The infant was less than two months old and was not old enough to receive the pertussis vaccine.
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The infant was less than two months old and was not old enough to receive the pertussis vaccine.
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Mississippi Baby Dies of Whooping Cough Amid Rising Cases
A baby in Mississippi has died of whooping cough for the first time since 2012. The baby was less than two months old—too young for vaccination.
www.mississippifreepress.org
October 1, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Hard to understand why so many want to bring back high infant death rates. Vaccines are safe, and life saving.
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The Ford government is forcing municipalities to ditch speed cameras. People will die.
I make the case for keeping the cameras, and saving lives.
www.davidmoscrop.com/p/life-in-th...
I make the case for keeping the cameras, and saving lives.
www.davidmoscrop.com/p/life-in-th...
Life In The Fast Lane: The Case For Keeping Speed Cameras
The Ontario government is forcing municipalities to ditch speed enforcement cameras. People will die. But, hey, that's the cost of saving drivers the inconvenience of a speeding ticket.
www.davidmoscrop.com
September 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The Ford government is forcing municipalities to ditch speed cameras. People will die.
I make the case for keeping the cameras, and saving lives.
www.davidmoscrop.com/p/life-in-th...
I make the case for keeping the cameras, and saving lives.
www.davidmoscrop.com/p/life-in-th...
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Thus far, in governments' quest to protect kids from the increasingly-evident harms of social media, we've tried:
-Befriending big tech
-Sending sternly-worded letters
-Pretending it's fine
-Nothing
None of it's worked! Let's try something else. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
-Befriending big tech
-Sending sternly-worded letters
-Pretending it's fine
-Nothing
None of it's worked! Let's try something else. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Justin Ling: Meta and TikTok say they take kids’ safety seriously. Their actions suggest otherwise
The official company line is often contradicted by the companies' own internal documents.
www.thestar.com
September 26, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Thus far, in governments' quest to protect kids from the increasingly-evident harms of social media, we've tried:
-Befriending big tech
-Sending sternly-worded letters
-Pretending it's fine
-Nothing
None of it's worked! Let's try something else. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
-Befriending big tech
-Sending sternly-worded letters
-Pretending it's fine
-Nothing
None of it's worked! Let's try something else. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...