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Marian Leslie 🇨🇦 😷
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Trying to make sense of it all: Canada. Human Rights.
Refugees. Public Health.
Education. Literature and more
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Ontario has the fewest hospital beds per person of any province in Canada.

Ontario funds its hospitals at the lowest rate per person of all the provinces.

We deserve better.

#OnPoli #OntarioHealth
December 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Current levels of influenza represent a public health policy choice. @ipaccanada.bsky.social chose to demonize masks and fight against clean air rather than admit they royally f**ked up COVID AND buried #FluIsAirborne for decades.

www.canada.ca/en/public-he...
December 27, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Happy holidays to everyone who's in solitude today. You get to decide what this post-solstice 24 hours is like! You could mourn or reflect, give gratitude or binge-watch, join your chosen family or cozy up with your animals. You may not be surrounded by people, but a lot of us are in the same place.
December 25, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Bill Marler has worked on foodborne illnesses cases for decades — and he orders his steak cooked gray, never pink.

“I’ve been in too many ICUs. I’ve been to too many funerals,” Marler said. “I know too much.” https://wapo.st/48Rw01P
December 25, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsAV...
The Huron Carol - Canadian Christmas Chant
The Huron Carol - Canadian Christmas Chant
YouTube video by Farya Faraji
www.youtube.com
December 25, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants.

Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.

Do not.
December 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Educators are facing more violence than ever in our schools, and putting police officers in classrooms isn’t the solution. What we need are more caring adults to prevent violence and make schools safe for everyone.

#onted #onpoli
December 17, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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🧵1/ Flu is surging again, & patterns look uncomfortably familiar. The lesson from covid remains unchanged: individual responsibility isn’t enough. We need systemic measures that make protective behaviours easy. @profstevegriffin.bsky.social Stephen Reicher & I offer some thoughts @bmj.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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55% of Ontarians didn't vote in the last provincial election. People have lost faith in government because of politicians like Doug Ford.

That's my challenge. Getting out there and earning people's trust. Showing them government doesn't have to be corrupt. That it can change things for the better.
December 12, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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On the eve of the one-year anniversary of the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime, celebrating at a Syrian restaurant in Doha:
December 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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35 years ago today, 14 women went to bed thinking about their finals, future in STEM and the upcoming holiday season. They didn’t know that these dreams threatened a man’s sense of self worth and that they wouldn’t survive to see their goals and aspirations become a reality
December 6, 2024 at 1:03 PM
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Canada welcomes the positive steps taken by the Syrian transitional government since the end of the Assad regime towards a peaceful Syrian-led political transition. Canada stands steadfast with the people of Syria in their quest for an inclusive, stable and prosperous future.
Canada announces measures related to Syria
The Honourable Anita Anand, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Honourable Gary Anandasangaree, Minister of Public Safety, today announced measures taken by the Government of Canada in relation to Sy...
www.canada.ca
December 6, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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For instance, shouldn’t we be requiring, by law, that all daycares and kindergartens have supplementary air cleaners?

Shouldn’t employees be, at minimum, be supplied with and encouraged to use KN95, Q100 or N95 respirators? I’m not even saying to require them to be used. Just supplied.
November 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Seems like just about everyone I talk to these days knows a family member or friend suffering from COVID-induced heart problems.
Most recent guy's cardiologist tried to blame it on the vaccine.
Nope. Its always more likely to be a recent COVID infection (as it was with him).
#N95
#PreventCOVID
November 23, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.
www.politico.eu
November 17, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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The salary and expenses of just one Ministry-appointed supervisor (aka Doug’s buddies) could pay the salary of:
-8 educational assistants
-4 psychologists
-4 teachers
-over 900 Chromebooks to replace broken and outdated tech

Send a message here: www.fundourschools.ca/message-the-... #OntEd
November 15, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Doug Ford says speed cameras don’t work. Toronto data says speeding fell 45%. That’s like a man blaming his scale for being fat. If science offends him, he should ban gravity next, people keep falling for his nonsense.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Doug Ford to ban speed cameras in Ontario in populist appeal to suburban voters
Canada premier’s move prompts criticism from road safety activists and is likely to cue new showdown with Toronto
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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I love kids. I have two of them. They’re amazing. However, kids are the absolute least self aware, clumsiest little puffins on the planet.

Please don’t drive tonight unless you have to, and if you do drive, drive super slow and pay 100% attention at all times.

Happy Halloween! 🎃 👻 💀

#PublicHealth
October 31, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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This year for Halloween, I’m going to go dressed as someone who’s tired and simply wants some precedented times.
October 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM