Kaija Farstad
@KaijaF
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She/Her/They/Them, Single Parent, Librarian, Teacher, Author, Athlete. Collaboration, not competition. #ASD #MentalHealth White -Settler-Raised FN ancestry lost
Langley, British Columbia
Joined February 2011
My new students and community. Amazing people and a beautifully remote place.
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"When the 🇨🇦 govt invests millions of dollars into the expansion of food bank services, they are also investing in maintaining the status quo." Poverty is a govt policy choice. #EndDisabilityPoverty
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The first food bank opened its doors in Alberta in 1981. After the recession hit in 1980, food banks and similar emergency food support programs began to pop up as temporary responses to the increa...
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Does Mr Poilievre have any idea how much work it takes to prepare for Christmas in houses that are not fully staffed? Does he appreciate how much work most women put in to make Christmas "a relaxing time"?
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i don’t know who needs to hear this but please can we stop talking as if covid is in the past and climate change is in the future. people are dying from both now so we should start acting like it asap before we all die tbh
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Scott Moe likes to blame Justin Trudeau and Jagmeet Singh for everything that went wrong in Saskatchewan, but the reality is that Healthcare shortages, the record Covid Deaths this year, the reckless spending, hikes in taxes and utility bills was completely under his jurisdiction
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Nurses are not machines! It is unsafe to schedule a nurse for 8-12 hr shifts in a row with just one day off. Evidence shows mistakes will happen d/t exhaustion & fatigue. A critical incident is looming. #Patientsafety is at risk #nursingshortage #mentalhealth #burnout #onhealth
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As a physician, I can tell you that being without shelter in freezing weather is dangerous for your health. You shouldn't need to hear this, though. As a human being, I can tell you that we are morally corrupt as a society when we allow people to freeze in the streets.
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The Tories promised 40 new hospitals and shut 140 A&E departments instead. Now tell me again that unions have made a conscious decision to inflict harm on patients.
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This Christmas please don’t say we can’t afford housing for all. We can no longer afford the cruelty of the status quo. A month in provincial jail costs: $9,400 Month in hospital: $20,100 Month in shelter: $6,600 Social housing per month: $2,500 Housing is a human right.
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It's wild how many companies have experienced record profits, but still never have enough money to pay employees properly.
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Sunlight, 8 hours of sleep, nutrient dense meals, and a safe relationship are underestimated mental health interventions.
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Wow. Toronto Public Health advised the city to keep shelter hotels open until end of 2023. City said nah. "The system fails the unhoused: A voice from the frontlines" - Spring
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A lot of folks were wondering who the 5 senators were who voted against guaranteeing workers reasonable break time to pump breast milk. (It passed 92-5.) They were: --John Cornyn (R-Tex.) --Mike Lee (R-Utah) --Pat Toomey (R-Penn.) --Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) --Rand Paul (R-Ky.)
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Your periodic reminder that charity will never solve what public policy was meant to address. The generosity of strangers is not a substitute for good public policy.
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You all do understand that residents of China are people, right? Beloved sons, daughters, parents, grandparents, aunties, uncles, friends to those within & outside China. An incredible scale of loss & grief is unfolding. Maybe #COVID attacks our humanity.
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New Rule: A President who commits treason should have their Supreme Court Justices rescinded.
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Oil & gas companies are already making billions of climate-wrecking profits - yet Govt is giving them *massive* tax relief, straight from taxpayers' pockets, in the form of the so-called 'investment allowance' loophole. Why are Ministers refusing to say how much it's costing us?
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