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For a while we had everything. Now we have a flu prevention campaign. Mom, wife, advocate, Wards 6&11 PDSB Trustee. Fighting for better. @4jude4everyone
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Today is Thomas and Jude's birthday. T is turning 4, but Jude isn't. He died on May 6/16 from flu B. He was a perfectly healthy two-year-old. Today I get to spoil T when he's home from school, but I'll never get to hug Jude again. Let me tell you about him. /1
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Today a child died from COVID-19.
This afternoon I drove by a protest at the hospital where my toddler died from a school flu outbreak.
I’m sick for that family. I’m angry for all of us. We’ve tried for 5 years to prevent stories like ours. What is this?
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I'm devastated by the confirmed
#COVID19
death of a Toronto child under 4.
Don't make this small. Don't look for reasons it happened to them. That child is gone and that family's world has fallen apart, and COVID-19 is why. Take every step you can to prevent stories like this.
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When influenza B broke out in my daughter's kindergarten class, we didn't know until nearly everyone had had it, until she got sick, until some were out for weeks and hospitalized. Later that week my toddler died.
We need to inform parents.
#onpoli
#onted
Ontario to stop collecting COVID-19 numbers from school boards, suspend reporting of cases in schools
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Her name was Julie Berman. She was an advocate who had already lost a friend to violence. Trans women, and especially trans women of colour, are disproportionately affected by violence. No one's life should be at risk for being who they are.
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
Utterly devastating. Condolences to her friends & to the entire Trans community. A brutal reminder that violence & the threat of violence against trans people continues.
To my trans friends & to the community - we see you. We love you. We will stand with you.
#onpoli
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My beautiful boy is in my memories today. What I wouldn't give to have my old life back.
Flu shots are now available across Ontario. Please plan to get yours as you're able. Your choice to protect yourself also protects your loved ones and community.
#ForJudeForEveryone
#FluShot
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My child didn't survive our school flu outbreak. He's an empty chair, a picture in a frame, a box of ashes.
We can't prevent every illness. That isn't realistic. We should take reasonable measures to reduce the spread of illness where we can. Why don't we?
#ForJudeForEveryone
My child had RSV at 10 weeks & again at 22 months. Both times resulted in multiple ER visits + hospital stay. Absolutely ZERO advantage for him to have had RSV at a young age, only risks (both acute & longer term). Anyone suggesting willful illness in children has lost their way.
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Ending licence renewal fees means a loss of over $1 billion in annual revenue, and we still have to renew. Where does that $1 billion come out of provincial spending?
Could we instead use that to properly compensate healthcare workers? Improve ventilation in schools?
#onpoli
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Hi everyone. Just a reminder that it costs you absolutely nothing to treat everyone with the same love and respect we all deserve. Another person's gender identity has absolutely no impact on you. Be kind.
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
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A reminder: If, at some point in this past year, you've said 'just the flu' to make COVID-19 big OR small, only one of these twins is turning 7 today.
#COVID19
is the more urgent threat, but the flu kills ~3500 Canadians in a typical year.
Happy birthday, Thomas and Jude. ❤️💔
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"If we run 24/7 in some of these large vaccine clinics they're gonna run out." -
@fordnation
Good! Yes! We should use our supply as quickly as we can. What are we saving them for? This isn't a store. There's no benefit to keeping them on shelves instead of in arms.
#onpoli
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4 years ago today. This is the last picture I ever took of Jude (left). Later that day the school called to tell me Isla had spiked a fever, and I first learned of the 'nasty bug' that had already affected almost everyone in class. Some kids out for weeks, 1 in the hospital. 1/10
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'What's the harm in giving Gwyneth Paltrow a health show on
@Netflix
?'
This morning I put two of my children on the school bus. The third is a box of ashes. Health information should come from experts, not celebrities. Stop giving them platforms. 1/5
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I hear calls not to politicize Emily Viegas' death.
My son died from failed public health measures.
I desperately wish every single politician in the last 5 years had taken Jude's death as a call to action so there'd never be another family like mine.
Fix what's broken.
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I remember when the flu killed my child.
Most people survive the flu and COVID-19. Not everyone does, and when we take steps to protect ourselves and others from unnecessary infection we save lives and protect healthcare resources. Our lives are worth it.
#ForJudeForEveryone
Remember when we treated the flu with tea, soup, and saltines instead of communism.
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"People don't care where the money's coming from. They want action. They don't want to see a backlog of surgeries, which the majority of us are facing.' -Doug Ford
But Ontarians do want to know what happened to the missing $4.4 bn the federal govt sent to the province.
#onpoli
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Important clarification:
Teachers and education workers don’t have 131
#PaidSickDays
. They have 11 sick days. Depending on their union and contract status, they may be able to access 120 short-term medical leave days. They are not the same thing.
#onted
#onlab
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I am so tired of seeing every vaccination story accompanied by a screaming kid. What are you all doing with these pictures and videos? They're not helpful. Here are my kids getting their shots. Thomas was 3 in the Batman picture.
#forjudeforeveryone
#flushot
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People with massive platforms harass a leading expert and bully him (at home!) to try to get him to debate someone who doesn't believe in vaccines on a podcast.
Jude is gone because of vaccine-preventable disease with low community vaccine uptake.
#FathersDay
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Five years ago today we lost Jude to influenza B. He failed to develop immunity from his
#FluShot
and local immunization rates are low.
Today I got my first dose of
#COVIDVaccine
, and that could save someone else's family.
#ForJudeForEveryone
#VaccinesWork
#ThisIsOurShotCA
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@DrPChouinard
My son woke up with a low-grade fever and died that afternoon. Influenza B caused cardiac arrest. He was two and in perfect health. I knew the flu was serious. I didn't know the flu could do that.
#flustory
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I've seen too many comments dismissing and downplaying the rising rhetoric and violence during this election.
Please don't do this. It is happening, and every time it's brushed off as no big deal it becomes okay, and our window of acceptable behaviour shifts.
#Elxn44
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Stay well, all, and
#StayHome
unless essential. These days are hard, but it won't always be like this. Let's do everything we can now to prevent as many stories like ours as we possibly can, together.
I love you, Jude. ♥🦁
#forjudeforeveryone
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We couldn’t do it.
We’re keeping them home. I have no idea what’s ahead in the next weeks, but Peel is on fire and Doug Ford is doing absolutely nothing to reduce transmission in our communities. Educators are hospitalized and in comas. Transit’s affected.
We need help.
#onpoli
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4 of the 5 areas listed as 'hot spots' that have been less hard-hit by
#COVID19Ontario
are held by Conservative MPPs.
7 that have been left out but hit harder are held by Liberal and NDP MPPs.
Your access to healthcare should never be determined by partisanship.
#onpoli
These 'hot spots' getting vaccine priority are less hard-hit by COVID-19 than Ontario average
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@JaeB_so_nasty
Hi Joe. 3 years ago my toddler died from a flu outbreak at our school, where the vaccination rate was below 30%. He failed to develop immunity from his shot and was dead in hours. Vaccines aren’t a guarantee, but with high vaccination rates we prevent stories like ours.
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Many people had the flu before it passed to Jude in May. What if one of those people had taken an extra step in flu prevention? Whose life might you save by taking extra care this season? We can't know our impact, but people's lives are worth our effort.
#forjudeforeveryone
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@ShireenQudosi
@JessicaBiel
You didn’t lose your son. He’s right there. Go hug him and love him. Be his mom.
I lost my son. He died from the flu, after an outbreak in a school with <30%
#flushot
rate. He was perfect, and now he’s a box of ashes. Vaccines don’t cause autism. Vaccines cause adults.
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Reminder: there's a whole missing little boy here. Sometimes people fail to develop immunity from their vaccines, and low vaccination rates leave them at risk. When we all do our part, we protect ourselves and each other. Please see your doctor with questions.
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@ChelseaClinton
I have a box of ashes that used to be my perfectly healthy child. What kind of reason is he looking for?
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It's Thomas and Jude's birthday! Thomas is 8 and my once timid boy has grown into the funniest, most loving kid I've ever met. I can't wait for all the adventures ahead with him. ❤️
Jude is forever 2, but still changing the world. Miss you, buddy. Every minute, every day. 🦁
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He's blaming vaccine supply.
We never had to be here. We didn't have to expand indoor dining just weeks ago while building field hospitals.
All of this was preventable.
#onpoli
#COVID19Ontario
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They heard on the news that kids in Toronto would see their friends, kids in Halton would have a snow day, and here in Peel snow days are canceled forever now for more virtual learning. There were tears.
We made a choice.
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It's
#KidsVaccinesDay
.
Today I have two, not three, fully vaccinated kids at school. Six years ago we lost Jude to a school flu outbreak. We miss him desperately.
Vaccines aren't a guarantee, but they save a lot of lives. Please get yours as you're able.
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@Sflecce
I'm a parent who lost a child to an outbreak in a kindergarten classroom. I find it disappointing that, instead of acknowledging the real concerns of parents of 2 million children, you're choosing to pick fights with teachers. I wish you understood public education.
#onted
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Vaccination isn't a personal choice, it's a public one. Today marks the start of both National Immunization Awareness Week in Canada and World Immunization Week. Vaccines save lives, and they work best when everyone who is medically able does their part.
#NIAW2019
#VaccinesWork
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Honoured to share today that I’m your Ontario Liberal candidate for Mississauga—Streetsville! I love this province and I’m proud to join this team led by
@StevenDelDuca
working for better for all of us.
@OntLiberal
I’ll need your support. Let’s do this!
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I'd never known anyone to die from the flu.
Until I did.
You might not have been personally affected by
#COVID19Ontario
yet, but 7458 Ontarians have died, and the third wave is big and vicious. Please, take every step you can to protect yourself and each other.
April 6th, 2014
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This morning when I said goodbye to my kids I said, ‘have a great day!’
Another parent sarcastically said, loudly enough for them to hear, ‘yeah right, good luck when you have to wear a mask!’
Don’t do that. Kids internalize what we say. Set them up for success.
#COVID19
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Worse, his death was preventable. The flu is preventable when, as communities, we do our part to stop the spread. More
#flushot
.s, more people staying home when sick, more hand washing and covering sneezes and coughs. These things protect us all, especially higher risk people./13
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My FB memories today and filled with Jude and the beautiful life we had with him. Before we say COVID is 'no more dangerous than the flu,' please be mindful that we've never been very good at community flu prevention and ~3500 Canadians die from it each year.
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My boys popped up in my memories this morning, with that big pouty picture of Jude that made him belly laugh when I showed him the back of my camera.
T is so big six years later. I wish I could know Jude today.
Please stay well, all.
#ForJudeForEveryone
#VaccinesSaveLives
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Looking forward to hearing Doug Ford and Stephen Lecce share details of the actions they’ve taken while our kids have been home to ensure safer classrooms that can *stay* open. The health of our kids and educators, and their families at home, is important.
#onpoli
#onted
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"Thank goodness we put billions of dollars into creating more ICU capacity." -
@fordnation
What if we'd put some of that into prevention? Into schools? Into
#PaidSickDays
so our young essential workers could be safer at work and protect families and communities?
#onpoli
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Why am I telling you all of these things? Because these little things are all we have of him now. He's gone and there will never be more of him. /12
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@netflix
Could we have more
@CaulfieldTim
instead? Could you pick up
@DrJenGunter
's show? There's already a lot of misinformation about health. Can you use your platform to deliver quality information from experts?
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@DrJenGunter
My perfectly healthy two-year-old woke up with a low-grade fever and died hours later. Influenza B stopped his heart. I knew the flu was serious. I didn't know it could cause organ failure. I didn't know it killed ~3500 Canadians every year.
#flustory
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Both
@CaulfieldTim
and
@DrJenGunter
already have excellent shows about health. Do us all a favour,
@netflix
, and make them both available in all markets. They're fantastic and, most importantly, based in fact.
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This is an important reminder that Doug Ford and his government were warned by their own experts that we were heading in this direction two months ago.
They were not surprised. They chose not to listen to the science. This 3rd wave and our current situation was a choice.
#onpoli
Meanwhile in Ontario...
• Reporter:
“I’m a bit confused by this presentation … am I missing something here? Or is this presentation actually predicting a disaster?”
• Co-chair of Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table:
“No, I don’t think you’re missing anything...”
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One sick kid in a classroom became a classroom full of sick kids and cost us our child.
I know how hard it is when everything has to stop for a day for illness.
It's harder when everything stops forever.
We have to take public health more seriously.
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What's the most thoughtful gift you've received?
Several years ago Crayola announced they were discontinuing dandelion, our house favourite because it made us think of Jude. A friend heard the news and ordered a custom box so we'd never run out.
In my memories today:
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Today Thomas turns 6 without his twin brother, Jude. 6 years ago we had everything we ever dreamed of, a lifetime of chaos and laughter ahead. We had no idea the flu would take Jude from us and we'd have to do everything without him.
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Today is Thomas and Jude's birthday. T is turning 4, but Jude isn't. He died on May 6/16 from flu B. He was a perfectly healthy two-year-old. Today I get to spoil T when he's home from school, but I'll never get to hug Jude again. Let me tell you about him. /1
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Jude died from the flu on May 6/16. Everyone who gets the flu gets it from someone else. How many people had it before it came to our home in May? What if just one of them had taken more care to prevent contracting and spreading the flu?
What if?
#forjudeforeveryone
#flushot
The poll found 29 per cent of Canadians believed healthy people don’t need the flu shot.
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6 years ago today we were at Isla's school for her kindergarten holiday recital.
Jude (left) died 20 weeks later from a flu outbreak in Isla's class.
Your flu prevention measures today keep you well and can save lives months from now. Do your part.
#ForJudeForEveryone
#FluShot
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4 flu shots done today, with a sigh of relief and familiar ‘what if’s in the back of my mind.
What if vaccination rates had been higher? What if it were easier for people to stay home when sick? What if the flu had never reached us?
I miss you. 🦁
#ForJudeForEveryone
#FluShot
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I’m so, so sad to read this.
We have not done enough to prioritize children throughout the pandemic. This can never be made right.
#onpoli
#onted
#WhereIsDougFord
Breaking:
@ROWPublicHealth
says a child under 10 has died due to Covid 19 in Waterloo Region. More to come.
@CTVKitchener
@CP24
#onpoli
#COVID19
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We fight on. I’m excited to share that I’m running for English public school trustee in Mississauga wards 6 & 11.
I look forward to continuing to work for better in education, for my kids and yours. I hope to earn your support on October 24th!
#Mississauga
#onted
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@TheKidKidDoc
@ChelseaClinton
Thank you, Sean. I realize it's blunt and jarring, but it's our reality and we need people to understand that sometimes choosing not to vaccinate means that they or another family will bury or cremate a child. It's harsh. We can't pretend otherwise.
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@JaeB_so_nasty
Yes, you can have different beliefs, but at some point we need to stop indulging people who are actively putting
#publichealth
at risk because they've chosen not to believe facts.
@JessicaBiel
can believe the sky is orange, if she wants, but herd immunity saves lives.
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The province inspected Amazon in Brampton on Mar 10 and found nothing.
The next day Peel Region was forced to close this facility with 241 confirmed cases, including 10 VoC. Brampton also shut down associated bus routes.
How good are these inspections?
#onpoli
@MonteMcNaughton
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We’re all getting the
#flushot
because only two sets of school pictures come home, when there should be three. We can never have Jude back. ~3500 Canadians and ~36,000 Americans die from the flu each year, but they don’t have to.
Who is your flu shot for?
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My 9mo boys in my memories today.
Thomas is now in grade 3, loves Super Mario and reading everything he can get his hands on, and is endlessly empathetic.
Jude is with us in everything we do, always. I wonder who he'd be today. Please get your
#FluShot
.
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No, they didn't.
>9000 Ontarians died. Many more have experienced lengthy and ongoing health consequences. Small businesses have struggled, many will never reopen. Schools have been in chaos. We've all lost over a year of our lives.
It never had to be this bad.
#onpoli
#onted
Ontario's outgoing chief medical officer says province 'did a good job' during rapidly evolving pandemic
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It's hard to see a government make a decision that it's fine to allow infectious disease to spread in schools because most children will be fine.
I'm aware that I'm a walking reminder that most is not all.
I wish our children's health mattered more.
#onpoli
#onted
What strikes me after listening to this news conference is there is a shift from the government from trying to control covid in schools and closing them to accepting it will be there. Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Moore repeated that Omicron is not severe in most children
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This is the last picture I ever took of him. He died four days later and his story ended. This hilarious, brilliant loving little boy who surprised us constantly was gone without warning, and still today I don't have the words to describe this loss./11
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We've just received notice of chickenpox at one of the kids' schools. The varicella vaccine is extremely effective at preventing chickenpox. This is a good reminder to check in with your family doctor to ensure everyone in your household is up to date with all vaccines.
#onpoli
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“Show me a good doctor, a good lawyer, a good whatever and I will show you a good kindergarten teacher, a good high school teacher and a good university professor. There is no more important commitment that a government can make than to education.” ~ Bill Davis
#onted
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Sometimes illness in the classroom looks like this.
Their birthday is next Sunday. Thomas is turning 8, and Jude only got to be 2.
It affects kids forever when they lose a family member because of illness that came home from school.
#SaferSchools
#onpoli
#onted
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Ugh. Okay everyone, confirmed measles in Mississauga. Measles has an incubation period of 7-21 days. A room where someone with measles has been remains infectious for up to two hours after they've left.
Please take these potential exposures seriously and click through.
Peel Public Health investigating a confirmed case of measles.
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These faces are together in my memories today, but only T (left) is now 9-years-old and in grade four.
Conversations re: vaccination have become more difficult after these recent years - making them more important.
I'll be here talking about the
#FluShot
-
#ForJudeForEveryone
.
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A senior scientist from SickKids and Executive Vice-President of Science and Research for UHN/Senior Scientist for Princess Margaret share they’ve pulled their kids from school this week as classroom cases rise.
#onted
#COVID19Ontario
#onpoli
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It's election day! Every last minute has been for them, for all of us, and for the better future we all deserve. These four years have been hard. The next four don't have to be. I hope to earn your vote today in
#MississaugaStreetsville
and I'll never stop fighting.
#OntarioVotes
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@michaelcoren
@AndyGibsonTV
Haha! It's also an acceptable alternative in the UK, but I'm enjoying his dismissal of your POV based on his ignorance of his own language.
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We've been here before. The 2006 election cost Canada a national childcare plan, and that has made life harder for families in the 15 years since, preventing parents - mostly women - from returning to the workforce.
I'm voting for families and our economy.
#ForwardForEveryone
Conservatives pledge lower deficits by cutting child-care spending, doubling workers benefit - from
@mark_rendell
and me
#elxn44
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In the years since Jude's death, we've seen countless claims he was killed by vaccines, rather than the flu as confirmed by his autopsy.
We're seeing similar claims often now with recent deaths, including with people who have died from long illnesses.
Don't. It's cruel.
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We begin another year without Jude, in the middle of a rough flu season. We'd give anything to have him back.
If you get your
#FluShot
now you can develop immunity by Jan 16th, helping to protect your family and everyone around you. Please go.
I miss you.🦁
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Please talk to an MD with your health concerns. Please. Make choices based in evidence, for yourself and for everyone you come in contact with. Misinformation is doing incredible damage to individual and
#publichealth
. 5/5
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One sick kid in a classroom quickly became a classroom full of sick kids who all took it home, and Jude died.
There are no perfect answers right now, but I hope we all come out of this with a better understanding of how much our health and lives depend on each other. 9/10
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I grew up in a lower-income situation in rural Ontario. Thanks to public education, I was able to attend university alongside students from schools like St. Mike's & Appleby.
Every kid in Ontario deserves solid ground to grow from. We must protect public education.
#onted
#onpoli
Opened my Saturday
@TorontoStar
and found a whole section devoted to Private Schools. At a time when
#OntEd
Public School teachers are fighting to make education post-Covid work, running this section seems like a poor choice.
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Some days are harder than others. Today is one of them.
Four years ago we received the call from the coroner telling us they'd conclusively determined Jude's cause of death: influenza B.
#forjudeforeveryone
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And our story isn't unique. Every year ~3500 Canadians and ~36,000 Americans die from the flu and its complications. Even more are hospitalized and there's a significant burden on facilities every flu season. This puts other patients at risk and can impact operations. /14
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People treating this like a game and we're missing a whole child.
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The Premier is on
@YourMorning
suggesting provincially funded
#paidsickdays
would mean 'double dipping' into the taxpayer's pocket. In reality,
@fordnation
has yet to spend billions in COVID relief funds meant to prevent community transmission and help businesses.
#onpoli
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This was predictable, based on the experiences of other regions that moved forward with vaccine certificates before us.
The only question is, why did we wait? Why do we *always* wait to implement strategies that have been shown to prevent community transmission?
#onpoli
Great news! Yesterday, bookings on the provincial system more than doubled. Today, we’re already seeing thousands more Ontarians roll up their sleeves, nearly half of whom are receiving their first dose.
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He loved lions. I made him a lion hat and he roared and giggled every time he wore it. One day while waiting for Isla's bus he found a dandelion and asked me what it was. 'Dandelion? Lion? Lion hat? ROAR!' And every dandelion after resulted in a fit of giggles. /7
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5 years ago today I had two little boys with terrible stomach bugs that ended up taking us to the hospital for fluids.
3 months later it was nearly-asymptomatic influenza B that killed Jude.
What feels minor for you could cost the next person their life.
#PaidSickDays
#onpoli
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