How stupid is this??!!! Grant them an exemption and get on with it. It’s beautiful. They spent $$$. You can still use the sidewalks. #micromanagement ctvnews.ca/ottawa/article/ka…
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This lady needs help. Trying to get the word out. gofund.me/a3b937d3
My @CHEO story: 5 yrs ago took 15 yr old at 9:30 pm to get broken hand seen. ONE doctor on duty. Filthy waiting room filled with sick kids. Not seen till 8 am. I ended up sick X2 weeks, chronic cough ever since. And that is pre-Covid. Zero evidence it was an “emergency” room.
This Ottawa hospital has the longest ER wait time to see a doctor in Ontario
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Why can we not have walk-in clinics staffed primarily by NP’s attached to every hospital emergency room? #healthcare @fordnation cbc.ca/news/health/cihi-prim…
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And they “just” found it … methinks they’ve been paying rather too little attention …. @edmontonpolice
Police say it is one of most elaborate encampments they have ever seen, with a mini-power grid, including solar panels, and multiple home appliances.
The encampment was discovered last week by the City of Edmonton and Edmonton Police Service joint response encampment team. It was almost completely camouflaged and included four multi-level structures surrounded by a fence made of trees and broken branches.
The structures had been built without nails or other forms of support and were at risk of collapse. Inside, police and park rangers found fire-stoves with lit fires, a stone fireplace, stone/marble flooring, a working fridge and washing machine, and live electrical wires strung haphazardly.
Power was supplied by four generators, with solar panels powering a chop shop for stolen bikes.
15 weapons, including three guns, and about $8000 worth of stolen goods were recovered. Police have so far returned 2 backpack blowers and 1 mountain bike to their rightful owners.
20 violation tickets were written, and 10 warrants executed.
The encampment caused significant environmental damage to the trees and root systems, and the nearby creek was dammed in multiple places to provide running water to one of the structures.
The encampment has since been dismantled. Those living in it were offered access to services and supports, which they refused.
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interested Canadian retweeted
Did an extremely risky “hail
Mary” operation on a cancer patient, after he was declined by multiple other centers. Please read this heartfelt letter from his wife. Sorry to humble-brag, but if you’re a trainee, or anyone struggling to remember your “why”…
THIS. IS. WHY. ❤️
This is denying access to so many. Not only elderly, but anyone on low income as they may only be able to use wifi even if they have a phone. It further excludes those already marginalized. #inclusion
I was parking this morning (it’s a pay by phone carpark, you can’t pay card or cash), a visibly upset woman asked me how she could pay as she has no mobile. In the end I paid for her on my phone and she gave me cash. She said ‘I have to be at my daughter’s inquest in ten minutes’
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Put an end to politicizing #healthcare and allow doctors to prioritize health
My heart is broken💔: As friends & family know, my wife was pregnant with our 2nd child, & about to begin her 2nd trimester. A few days ago she had severe pains, & bleeding, and had to go to the emergency room. There, it was discovered that our baby no longer had a heartbeat. Devastated doesn't come close to what that feels like.
Unfortunately for people like us, because of the current laws in the state of Texas, that was only the beginning of this nightmare. Jess (my wife) had an "incomplete miscarriage", and what needed to happen, what was best for HER, and her health, was to terminate the pregnancy, and get the baby out.
The doctor gave her a medication that would move this process along, and sent her home. Where, apparently we would be handling it ourselves. We were told it might take a couple of attempts before it worked.
I'll let you decide how you feel about that.
After a long, painful night of the equivalent of early labor, the baby was still with her. So, we went back to the Emergency Center to get the 2nd dose. A new doctor was on call. He was an older man. You could hear him in the hallway as he said, "I'm not giving her a pill so she can go home and have an ab*rtion!". Being well aware that our baby no longer had a heartbeat. Then, he came into the room to say, and I quote: "Considering the current stance. I'm not going to prescribe you this pill". Then, just sent us on our way.
The "CURRENT STANCE"?! Did he really just say that?!
No one should ever have to hear their wife say: "Get this dead baby out of me!".
Can you even imagine how that must feel?
The pain, and the bleeding continued. So, we decided to go to another hospital, about an hour away. There was a female doctor on call there, and we thought we might have better luck.
I should probably mention, the procedure to get the baby out is called a D & C. It's scary, & traumatizing, but sometimes necessary in situations like ours. Especially in emergency circumstances.
So we get to the next hospital. They take Jess in, ask her a bunch of questions, do a new scan... confirm that the baby is still there, with no heartbeat, and then disappear... for hours. Only to come back in and keep asking the same questions over and over. It's becoming clear that they're primary concern is NOT my wife's health. Instead, they seem to be worried about the legalities involved.
So, they decide it is not "enough of an emergency" to perform the D & C.
They do, however, prescribe another, stronger, final dose of the medication for us to try again... at home.
So, we go home to try again. Another long day/night of early labor pains. Only to discover my wife UNCONSCIOUS in the bathroom. Having to pick my wife's cold, limp body off of that bathroom floor, not sure if I was about to lose her, is something I will NEVER forget.
She had to be rushed to the hospital.
By this point she had lost so much blood, and bodily fluid, her body gave out.
They were able to stabilize her, give her the fluids she needed, and we came back home yesterday afternoon. We were also able to confirm that our baby was no longer with her.
Now, not only do we have to live with the loss of our baby... we have to live with the nightmare of what we just experienced because of political and religious beliefs. MY WIFE'S HEALTH SHOULD HAVE COME FIRST. PERIOD!
God knows what mental and emotional damage this has done.
If you consider yourself a staunch "pro-lifer" ... 1) You've never been through what we just went through, and 2) You should take a long, hard look in the mirror and reevaluate your reasons for supporting such a cold, barbaric, ignorant point of view.
It's not that black & white, and it's never going to be.
If you think your "Pray To End Ab*rtion" sign in your yard is "Christian", I suggest you revisit the teachings of Jesus and try again. If you support these laws that make ab*rtion illegal, and result in people being put through what we just were, you should be ashamed of yourself. I've never been so angry, or heartbroken... and the devastation I'm feeling must pale in comparison to what my poor wife is feeling.
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Last night, I stood in a ballroom full of people and got applauded alongside some powerhouse women from across the state.
I wore a suit and smartwatch. My nails were done, hair freshly highlighted by a woman who books out weeks in advance, and I sipped an overpriced cup of iced coffee for a boost of energy before I walked in.
All I could think about was my dad and wonder what he’d think.
He owned two watches — the gold one he got from his job to celebrate one of nearly five decades of service to the company, and a Tissot, the fancy one returned to me by the funeral home director.
His nails were always dirty and his suit of choice was the nicer leather jacket, the one I still breathe in sometimes when I really miss his hugs. He went to the same barber for years and wore hats any time he could. He drank the $1 coffee from a nearby gas station every drive into work before dawn.
He never stood in a ballroom and had people clap for him. He stood in a factory, wearing thick, elbow-length gloves to protect him from harsh chemicals, in sometimes freezing or sweltering conditions, for a full shift, every weekday — for nearly 47 years.
My dad only called in sick a handful of times in his entire career. He would come home with stains all over his clothes and shoes so dirty they shouldn’t have been allowed in the house, and sometimes he had a bad cough or limped from the ache in his feet, too, but he almost never called in sick.
In the 90s, he decided to help adopt this little girl who just lost her mom and needed a good dad.
I mean, really pause and think about that for a second. Here’s this guy, a pro billiards player with a ‘77 Chevy Nova, the skill to charm any room and a truly brilliant mind…and he decides to play dad for some kid whose mom might’ve been murdered?
That was my dad.
Not only would he make it in to work early every morning, he always made me breakfast before he did. Before therapy was a thing, he got me a dog and a bike, still the two things that can always help on my worst days. He read bedtime stories, learned how to do ponytails and preached the benefits of proper SPF in the summer. He still played pool and drove some fun cars, but he also played Dad pretty well, too.
He showed up at every school play, event and soccer game, got into a fight with a campus cop while moving me into a college dorm, took me to every appointment, helped with every project, hated almost every boyfriend and tolerated my endless rambling about every frenemy. He actually kept the 6th grade science fair experiment we worked on together, one of many memories uncovered in his basement long after he died.
I used to call Dad after my shift every night, back when I worked retail. He was the only person I knew who was always up late, answered their phone every time and never made me feel worse after a call. Looking back and knowing how hard he worked, I sometimes wonder if he just stayed up late for me.
People say I’m lucky I still have some of his voicemails, but all I can think is those were calls I wish I’d answered and can’t ever return. Not that I need voicemails; he’s been gone five years and I can still remember his voice when I close my eyes, but sometimes it’s worth the pain to actually hear his voice again.
He was never the CEO of anything and no one ever celebrated his career, but nobody ever inspired me more than my dad.
Anyway, it’s late, but I’m looking at leather jackets hanging next to suits and thinking the people who help build us stay with us in little, unexpected ways, so subtle most would never know they’re there — but they’re there.
Always.
interested Canadian retweeted
There is an absolute and real truth here. Change is needed urgently
Family doctors are speaking out.
The time to act is now before they vanish forever.
Everyone in Ontario deserves access to a family doctor.
Like and repost if you agree. #Onhealth
Today’s #healthcare experience. By way of background, I was stung on my arch by a stingray. Deeply. Painfully. I visited emerg for an assessment as I could not get in to my doctor. I could not weight bear so I resigned myself to a day at emerg …2
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