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Dr. Rita McCracken, MD PhD🇨🇦

@ritamc.bsky.social

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🇨🇦Family doctor & primary care researcher. Uninvited Settler on traditional & sacred territory (aka Vancouver, BC) Here to question health policy, share research, and push for real solutions in primary care. Supporting 🏳️‍⚧️🌈 She/her Posts my own.

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Dr. Rita McCracken, MD PhD🇨🇦 @ritamc.bsky.social · 10h

True marker of seasonal change in #eastvan.

Hello blundstones.
Goodbye Birkenstocks.

Pair of well worn black Blundstones boots next to an equally well worn pair of Birkenstock, Arizona sandals. On a fir floor.

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Dr. Rita McCracken, MD PhD🇨🇦 @ritamc.bsky.social · 1d

Ideas in the sky.
Window as whiteboard.

Dr. Rita McCracken, MD PhD🇨🇦 @ritamc.bsky.social · 1d

New McSpadden park fence art, courtesy of artist, andrew bee

andrewbeecreative.com/contact/

Dr. Rita McCracken, MD PhD🇨🇦 @ritamc.bsky.social · 2d

I see these two friends out and about almost every morning when I get the dogs out.

They are always laughing and enthusiastically say good morning.

#goodneighbors
#walkablecommunities

Dr. Rita McCracken, MD PhD🇨🇦 @ritamc.bsky.social · 3d

Fall hydrangeas.
#bloomscrolling

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Dr. Rita McCracken, MD PhD🇨🇦 @ritamc.bsky.social · 3d

Fall is here.

Maple tree woth fall colours and with branches cut in way to allow powerlines to go through, but end up, looking like wings, reaching up to touch the sun

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John Bollwitt @johnbollwitt.com · 4d

Over on Mastodon, I've done a regular thing where I post some of my purchases for #BandcampFriday, where artists get 100% of what you buy.

I'll replicate that here with five purchases I made yesterday in the following thread...

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Dr. Rita McCracken, MD PhD🇨🇦 @ritamc.bsky.social · 3d

I am at a high school swimmeet and I just watched 100s of neurotypical kids cheer on their teammates/competitors with intellectual differences.

And the heartfelt goodness is just what I needed to see and feel.

a woman says " i don 't know why " in a skymed advertisement

ALT: a woman says " i don 't know why " in a skymed advertisement

media.tenor.com

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Dr. Rita McCracken, MD PhD🇨🇦 @ritamc.bsky.social · 4d

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Dr. Rita McCracken, MD PhD🇨🇦 @ritamc.bsky.social · 4d

#Eastvan has a new butcher shop in case anybody’s looking for some feet or eyeballs.

#halloween2025

On the side of the road by the sidewalk, a wooden vendors table has assigned saying butcher shop and then a price list for pieces, including eyeballs ears, fingers, hands feet 100 mils of blood 30 mils of blood and then there’s some plastic and rubber human body pieces.

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Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · 7d

RIP Jane Goodall. Fellow difficult women everywhere salute you.

A photo of and quote by Jane Goodall: “ it actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”

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Rebecca Bollwitt @miss604.com · 8d

“Today, there are more Indigenous children in care than there were at the height of the residential school system. This is a momentous problem, especially in a time where so many in Canadian society seek to reconcile...”

There Are More Indigenous Children in Care Now than at the Height of Residential Schools | The Walrus

Reconciliation simply cannot occur when children and families continue to suffer

thewalrus.ca

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Dr. Rita McCracken, MD PhD🇨🇦 @ritamc.bsky.social · 8d

'This Is Where You Belong' via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...

‘This Is Where You Belong’ | The Tyee

Learning Ojibway offered a new way of understanding myself and my place in the world.

thetyee.ca

Dr. Rita McCracken, MD PhD🇨🇦 @ritamc.bsky.social · 8d

A special young person in my life has challenges with math. And has internalized messages about “not being smart enough for xyz”

And I just saw this in one of their cookbooks…

Real time, real life math.

🥹

📣Shout out to the teachers and parents out there that help all kids learn real skills.

Recipe from a cookbook where the solids are listed in grams. And a Post-it note that has been placed next to it that has been translated into cup measures.

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Pulpfiction Books @pfbvan.bsky.social · 8d

1. Both PFBs open today aka National Day for Truth & Reconciliation. As always, all profits from the day's sales benefit a few Indigenous-led organizations close to us: Native Education College; Vancouver Aboriginal Child & Family Services Society; and the Urban Native Youth Association.

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Bryan Johnston 🇵🇸 🇨🇩 🇸🇩 @bryankj.bsky.social · 11d

If you're going to wear an orange shirt on Sept 30 - and you should - at least buy it from an indigenous business. #TruthAndReconciliationDay #OrangeShirt
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

As Orange Shirt Day gains traction, concerns grow over its commercialization | CBC News

Orange Shirt Day encourages people across the country to wear orange to honour the Indigenous children who attended residential schools and their families. But as orange shirts become more commerciall...

www.cbc.ca

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Spudislander45 🇨🇦❤️🌎💪🫡 @spudislander45.bsky.social · 11d

On Tuesday, #Canada recognizes #TruthandReconciliationDay across the nation to honor the survivors of the #residentialschoolsystem, their families, and the children who never returned home.

#Canada’s Premier #WabKinew from #Manitoba #cdnpoli

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ᐋᐧᐳᐢ ᒥᓯᐟ @waposhpyii.bsky.social · 8d

ᓵᑭᐦᐃᑐᐃᐧᐣ ᒨᓴᐠ #TruthAndReconciliationDay

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Dr. Rita McCracken, MD PhD🇨🇦 @ritamc.bsky.social · Nov 24

Are you a health care provider ready to acknowledge the devastation+ongoing effects of government-created residential schools+Indian Hospitals on indigenous people?

Looking for a concrete first step?
WATCH THIS MOVIE
#TruthandReconciliationDay...

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Steve King @stevemking.bsky.social · 12d

With deep humiliation, i must repost this. Rent is due next week. Still a few hundred short for Sept.

Sold my comics/posters collections. I'll spend this afternoon digging out old Time and Fangoria magazines to sell.

SNAP application is moving forward, but it will take time gofund.me/69b70d372

Donate to We just need a little help with rent and bills, organized by Steve King

While I was overwhelmed by everyone last time, I admittedly was unfamiliar w… Steve King needs your support for We just need a little help with rent and bills

www.gofundme.com

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🜲 James @jamesskeets.blacksky.app · 12d

Through her creative platform, Saint Heron, Solange has launched The Saint Heron Library, a digital archive dedicated to making rare and out-of-print works by Black authors, poets, and artists accessible to all.

🔗 library.saintheron.com

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Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 12d

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE.

If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease!

Donate at blinkingguy.com

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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 9d

Happy "The Life of a Showgirl" release week!

In anticipation of Taylor Swift's newest album, I present the 2025 edition of "Taylor Swift as American politics books":

"Coverage Denied" by @mirandayaver.bsky.social

www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

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Gautham Rao @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 9d

Took about 20 years. And I never thought a book about enslavers using deputization to give themselves policing power would be relevant to our times. But we are where we are.

My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder.

a.co/d/29c7EIP

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Lucy Maloney @lucymaloney.bsky.social · 9d

It’s underappreciated just how radical ABC's budget proposal is. It requires deep, deep cuts.

If they are approved, it’s impossible to tell what’s on the chopping block. Libraries? Community centres? Investments that improve public safety?

I don’t know - and I don’t think ABC knows, either.

Vancouver Sun

Big cuts are coming to Vancouver City Hall. Will they be 'reckless' or the cost-saving efficiency Ken Sim has long promised?
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is directing city staff to find millions in savings, which could mean slashing hundreds of jobs. He says "there’s room to be more disciplined in how the city operates." His rivals call the proposed cuts "reckless."

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