Corey Slumkoski
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Was asked to resign as Chair yesterday because I, as an immuno-compromised faculty member with a medically-vulnerable kid, was unwilling to commit to attending on-campus events in an on-going pandemic.
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Universities: We, as institutions, are committed to the pursuit of knowledge.
Also Universities: Masks off everyone, pandemic’s over.
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Our medically vulnerable child is transitioning back to school for 1 hr a day. Her Dr. recommends anyone working with her wear a mask. Not one EPA at her school will agree to this for 15 the minutes a day they are scheduled with her! Not one! 1/
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I want to be clear - I am not interested in continuing as chair. But, I think the issues at play should be addressed so that immunocompromised folks or folks with disabilities that predict a more serious Covid outcome can chair their departments if they choose.
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While I agreed to step down as of July 1, I fear that this will have profound implications for MSVU on the EDIA and employment equity fronts, as it effectively bars certain faculty from chairing their departments.
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Recently tried requesting that an
@IWKHealth
clinic wear N95 masks to protect my disabled and medically vulnerable daughter. Here's how it went...
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@CBCNS
@CTVAtlantic
@globalhalifax
@Tim_Bousquet
@TwitCoast
@melizwalls
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I should also clarify here that it was at the request of my department and not administration.
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This is a shame. And all it would take for her to get this long-overdue EEG is a little flexibility and a little compassion on the part of the IWK. Sadly, like so many other things during the pandemic, both of these seem in short supply. 17.
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I 100% regret supporting
@CUPE5047
during the strike last spring. I won't make that mistake again. So much rhetoric during the strike about how they "love the kids" belied by the absolute lack of humanity they actually show in practice. 2.
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or 2. The IWK is deliberately misleading families about COVID transmission and the level of protection they offer to patients in hospital.
Frankly, I don't know which conclusion is worse. 15/
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I should also note here that the SLP, Learning Centre Teacher, and Principal have been great, and are willing to wear their masks around my daughter. It is only the EPAs who are refusing, so she will not be seen by her EPA.
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I was then told COVID spreads via droplets which surgical masks filter. This is outdated information; we now know that COVID is airborne and that surgical masks are less protective against airborne transmission than N95s. The federal government has several statements on this. 12/
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I should say I'm not upset with my colleagues. Chairing at a distance is harder for me and them. That is in part why I resigned. That said, it's my hope that policies and procedures will be adopted that will make things easier for everyone if this sort of situation arises again.
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This leads me one of two conclusions here. Either:
1. The IWK and the Infectious Disease Team is basing health policy around COVID on long-outdated science and practices around the virus and the idea of droplet transmission. 14/
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After this discussion she explained the IWK's decision. Here's where things go from interesting to alarming.
I was told that surgical masks provide the same level of protection as do N95s for COVID (and, implicitly, for other respiratory viruses). This is simply not true. 11/
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I was also told that N95s were only used in an "aerosol generating procedure." I asked isn't breathing itself aerosol generating? As before, she refused to answer this question. And let me remind you, dentistry used N95s for simple check ups. 13/
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Just to clarify some things:
I haven't lost my job. I am still an Associate Prof at MSVU.
I don't want to be Chair after July 1.
I'm in Canada, so the ADA doesn't apply.
MSVU is a good institution; they will take this seriously and work toward a solution going forward.
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When the acting chief medical officer for NS says that the 24 deaths this week were not unexpected, I hear them saying that they knew their policies would kill multiple Nova Scotians and they just didn't care.
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So, as it stands it looks like my daughter will not have her EEG. It is too risky to send her to this procedure in the cramped confines of the EEG room without staff wearing N95s when she cannot effectively mask or protect herself. 16/
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They called me yesterday and again said the policy was surgical masks and surgical masks only. I asked outright if the IWK was refusing to grant a reasonable accommodation to protect the health of a medically-vulnerable disabled child. She refused to answer. 8/
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She did tell me they believed the level of protection offered my daughter was adequate. I said I'd prefer the level be optimal and all it would take would be N95s. I even said I'd provide them! We then had a discussion of how adequate and optimal meant different things. 10/
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I was told that the policy was to only wear surgical masks. I explained the situation, and asked them if they could provide this reasonable accommodation (N95s) to protect my intellectually disabled daughter. I explained that the federal recommendation was for N95s. 4/
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This is wear it gets interesting. They said they wouldn't take this extra step, as the policy was for surgical masks. I again clearly asked for a reasonable accommodation for my medically-vulnerable and intellectually disabled daughter as she can't effectively mask. 6/
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I then asked who made this decision. She refused to answer that question as well. I asked if she had been told by administration or their legal team to not answer my questions. She - you guessed it - refused to answer that question. 9/
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Seems sort of ominous that Nova Scotia's new Minister of Housing is a landlord, the new Minister of Education is a lawyer with experience in "complex contested litigation" and "labour relations," and the new Minister for African Nova Scotian affairs is a 71 year old white guy.
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We asked the IWK if the staff in the EEG clinic - a cramped, windowless space - could wear N95s owing to our daughter's vulnerability and the fact that her intellectual disability means she cannot mask effectively herself. She needs adults to protect her. 3/
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I also asked for the names of the folks who had made this decision re. protecting, or not protecting, my daughter. These names were readily given. The person I was speaking with also said she wasn't aware my daughter couldn't effectively mask and would go back to the ID Team. 7/
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I let the IWK contact know that dentistry had readily agreed to N95s several times for check ups, so I was optimistic but surprised when she said she had to take this request to the Infectious Disease Team for approval. 5/
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My daughter, who has Down syndrome, epilepsy, a congenital heart defect, and a history of ICU admissions for respiratory viruses, recently started having seizures again. Her neurologist wants her to have an EEG. 2/
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What's becoming painfully clear over the course of the pandemic is how little government values people as human beings and how much they value them as labour.
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The Government of Nova Scotia has just announced that Hurricane Fiona, much like Covid, is over, and is encouraging you all to "get back out there" tonight.
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Lifting the school mask mandate when we're 4 weeks from summer, when the IWK is full of Covid, and when no public health official recommends it does not make any sense to me.
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@RohanMaitzen
What gets me is that administration has been outstanding throughout the pandemic in facilitating my ability to work from home and protect my and my daughter's safety. Every committee I'm on is hybrid. And every department event I organized was hybrid, and I was there online.
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@BoydMath
I realize I wasn't clear earlier that it was my department and not admin who wanted this. Admin has actually been supportive of my working from home. And the fact that it was my department - and I'm the administrative head - complicates things.
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NS Power is tracking Hurricane Lee and encouraging everyone to prepare a 480 hour emergency kit.
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@ShiraLurie
@melizwalls
One thing I’ve learned in 10 years with a disabled child is that people don’t care about other peoples children.
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In our meeting with HRCE/school officials no-one volunteered to mask around Quinn, but they said they'd work to help her mask. When I said that this was a bit self-serving, as the true beneficiaries of masking were those around the person wearing the mask, we heard crickets.
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In Friday's presser Dr. Strang said we should avoid/limit indoor Christmas parties, and if se do have them have them outdoors. Today I've already received three invitations to 3 indoor Christmas parties. Glad to see public health is really getting the message out there.
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The NS Covid presser - it's mild for most! - makes me realize that if my beautiful, sweet, funny daughter Quinn caught and died from Covid she'd be viewed as a list of comorbidities who's death was "unfortunate," "inevitable," and a small price to pay to keep the economy open.
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It seems clear the NS government really has no Covid plan for the coming winter wave.
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Breaking: NS Premier Tim Houston has lowered the requirement to become a pediatric cardio-thoracic surgeon to getting your grade 11 and taking one post-secondary micro-credit of your choosing.
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NS Public Health: Now is the time for personal responsibility with Covid.
Also NS Public Health: We will hinder your ability to take personal responsibility with Covid by providing no meaningful data.
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I love my province so much that I hired my friends was not the response I was expecting.
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Looking forward to Lynk and Strang acknowledging that there is a public health crisis at the IWK in today’s press conference and then pledging to take no meaningful actions to fix it.
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Amazed by the number of folks on Halifax Twitter who are firmly on the side of capital/the Superstore with regard to armed police patrolling the aisles. You know who shoplifts food? Hungry people who can't feed themselves or their families.
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Disappointed that Dr. Strang an Tim Houston told Nova Scotians that we will have to learn to live with Covid. For those of us with medically vulnerable kids, what we hear you saying we have to prepare to potentially have our kids die from Covid.
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And to be clear, the teachers who would work with her were in on the meeting. When we were expressing the importance of masking around Quinn neither of them said that they would mask when working with her. I regret not asking them directly "Will you mask to protect my daughter?"
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This is directly from an email from the executive director of HRCE to families:
"Unfortunately, there are very few people with training in personal care or complex medical needs available for hire."
Then why not pay those who are so trained (and are on strike) a fair wage?
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I want to be clear here that the request to resign as chair over my unwillingness to attend on campus events came from my department, and not from administration. Admin has actually been very supportive of my situation and has done much to facilitate my working from home.
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@CBCNS
Dear God! The next thing you're going to tell me is he isn't going to fix healthcare in this province!
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Why is
@TimHoustonNS
and
@nsgov
refusing offers of federal assistance with the province's out of control forest fires? Can we put aside partisan politics for a moment and think about what is best for the people of this province just this once?
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Dal relaxing its Covid guidelines to correspond to provincial public health guidelines. Why do universities have to follow guidelines they know are inadequate? Why can't Nova Scotia's universities show leadership and protect the vulnerable?
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Strang/Lynk press conference: We've done nothing and we're all out of ideas.
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@TimHoustonNS
This isn't really a disavowal of privatization. You're really just saying that MSI funded health care will remain an option. Are you saying that there will be no privatization at all, and no sapping of money and resources earmarked for public healthcare to fund new private care?
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I hope that no
@MSVU_Halifax
Education or Child and Youth Studies students take up HRCE on their invitation to be scabs in the ongoing strike, as this would certainly fly in the face of the Mount’s goal of developing concerned global citizens as detailed in the strategic plan.
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@johnknefel
Canadian here, with a disabled and medically vulnerable kid. Our health care is great, and all I’ve ever paid for during her admissions is parking and chicken fingers from the cafeteria. And our taxes are less than US taxes + insurance fees, so we come out ahead on that front.
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@RohanMaitzen
Thing is, I truly am glad to be rid of being chair. That said, the rationale remains irksome.
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We have an appt at the IWK for an MRI. So the MRI tech will mask b/c we are, but the IWK can do nothing to protect my medically-vulnerable daughter from the entryway to the MRI room? How do I keep her safe in the waiting room,
@andrewlynk
@IWKHealth
? Makes no sense …
Nova Scotia Health and the IWK Health Centre are changing their masking guidelines beginning Monday.
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Taught my last seminar of the year yesterday. After class a student thanked me for my commitment to online learning and for continuing to teach online after so many of my colleagues went back to the classroom. “You allowed me to finish my degree after I got sick,” she said.
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Starting to think the only way that health care gets fixed in Nova Scotia is if a friend of Tim Houston gets sick.
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Largely nonverbal daughter has added a new word to her vocabulary: po-tay-tow!
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I had an honours student a few years ago write an excellent thesis on tenancy in Halifax and one of their key conclusions was that new developments and builds do nothing to alleviate the housing crunch since developers want to maximize their ROE which means higher rents.
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Had a meeting with school officials and HRCE folk about Quinn's potential return to school. They will do nothing to protect her in person, and the reason they gave is *checks notes* unions. When I called bullshit on that, the meeting was apparently over.
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The NS gov sent a letter to parents in an effort to calm fears, but also to begin the teacher strike spin. Maybe I'm pessimistic, but this signals to me the government is 100% unwilling to bargain in good faith and there's a 100% chance that NS teachers will soon be on strike.
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The NS ER wait time site is a joke. The max wait time listed on it for the QE2 is 4 hours, but I've been here for 9 and haven't seen the Dr yet.
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How nice of the NS government to cite not removing the cap on property taxes as a way of helping NSians combat inflation, because most NSians struggling to pay rent and utilities and to buy food are worried about the taxes on property they don't own.
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Wait a second ... Do you mean that the let Covid win strategy of the NS government is not just making NSians sicker, but making doctors burn out at an alarming rate? Is this all part of their big plan to fix healthcare in NS? Are they playing chess while we all play checkers?
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Strike Day 23: strike’s over and we have a new CA. Feeling equal parts relief that it’s over and anger that it came to this. The strike was 100% unnecessary. If the BOG had negotiated in good faith from the beginning we could have had an agreement by last Sept.
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@NC_Renic
It's got to the point where I make an obscure and dated pop culture reference and then I revel in the silence.
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Strike day 21: I’m pretty sure faculty and students at
@MSVU_Halifax
will not soon forget the complete and total lack of leadership shown by the senior administrative team. Congrats on overseeing the longest strike in MSVU history.
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The number of parents willing to risk their kid’s short and long term health - and potentially their lives - because they are “done with Covid” and they “want to see their smiles” is truly astounding.
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Barring a last minute agreement, MSVUFA is going on strike Monday at noon. The MSVU BOG has refused to grant strike exceptions to people on sabbatical and to people on sick leave. Truly horrible, unethical behaviour from the BOG.
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This is the second time this week that my daughter got dressed up for spirit week to show her teacher in her online school session, waited excitedly in front of her computer, and no one showed. Thanks
@HRCE_NS
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Took Quinn in for PCR testing.
Clerk: remove your mask and put on this (surgical) mask.
Me (very politely): I’ll keep my elastomeric P100 on.
Clerk: Your daughter will have to put in this (surgical) mask.
Me: No, thanks - she has an N95 on. It’s better than that. …
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Not one cop did anything to assist a little girl who was pepper sprayed. Not one.
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You know, putting a lawyer with no experience in the education sector in the education portfolio might have been a bit of a mistake.
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97% of MSVU faculty in favour of strike vote. And to be clear, this isn't a vote "about the money" since the University hasn't even tabled its financial proposals. This is about the university's refusal to bargain in good faith and the lack of respect toward faculty that shows.
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Strike day 19: As a Canadian historian, I’d have liked to be in the classroom talking to students about Mulroney’s legacy today. Instead, I’ll be fighting for a fair and equitable contract from
@MSVU_Halifax
.
#msvufa
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Strike Day 16: Took it somewhat easy and got 20,000 steps. Pondered life's great mysteries: if a tree falls in the forest and no one hears, did it make a sound? And if
@MSVUFA
is in week 3 of a strike and admin does nothing, does MSVU even have a senior admin team anymore?
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Medically vulnerable kids like mine, who it is recommended get 3 doses, won’t be considered fully vaxxed until April 6 (2 weeks after March 23, which is the earliest possible day to get dose 3 in NS). 1/
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Nurse: Most people just put it over their current mask when we ask them.
Me (still exceedingly polite but also firm): I understand that, but I am refusing to do that.
We flew through registration and testing after that!
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@SarahFischer__
Hi, professional historian here - there's no danger of destroying our history with the new passport. And no one's inventing a new history. We find new sources and evidence that give us a clearer picture of the past. If anything, the stuff you are holding on to is the invention.
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I am immunocompromised and was told that since I am not yet 50 I had to contact NS's Compassionate Exemption service to get a compassionate exemption for my booster. They told me I qualified, except I'm not yet 50.
@nshealth
@TimHoustonNS
@ChenderClaudia
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My social media is filled with pictures of kids with disabilities in NS being denied access to their education. Give CUPE 5047 a fair contract. If we cannot support kids with disabilities without them they are clearly essential workers and should be compensated as such.
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And now he's referring to Bonnie Henry. God save Nova Scotia.
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@PierrePoilievre
You do realize that Parliament does not have the authority do do what your bill proposed? You do understand how our government works, don’t you?
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Just over an hour before
@MSVUFA
hits the picket line. I'd hate to be one of the senior MSVU admins right now - new on the job and overseeing the first strike at the Mount in 35 years. Not a good look ...
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I suspect the government has a very good reason for this, like the numbers are horrible and more people have died than they've recognized and they want to cover it up. Something like that.
Nova Scotia hasn't reported excess deaths to national vital statistics for the Omicron period. That doesn't bode well.
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So the CPC has decided to ban gender affirming care, ban vaccine mandates, ban affirmative action policies, and ban diversity training in the workplace. Looks like their 2025 platform will be Trumpism in the north.
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@nilikm
@OCDSB
@CBCOttawa
@ctvottawa
@OttawaCitizen
As a former OCDSB student (and a relative of current students), I wanted to say I’m sorry you are experiencing this and thank you for advocating for Ottawa’s students.
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The fact that the NS government hasn't negotiated a fair contract with CUPE 5047 tells us 2 things: 1. They don't value school support workers, and 2. They don't care about kids with disabilities.
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Today in failures in policy, Nova Scotia government planning to AirBNB themselves out of the housing crisis.
In order to avoid doing their actual job of building houses for those who need them, the provincial government in Nova Scotia is instead spending $1.3 million on a home-sharing app.
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If I was bike shopping I would go to this shop, wear my mask, have them assist me by getting a bunch of bikes down for me, do some test rides, get a bike fit for best size bike to buy, pick their brains on future upgrades, and then go buy it from their nearest competitor.
Bike shopping in Edmonton. Just crossed Mud Sweat & Gears off my list.
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Can't decide if it's abhorrent or par for the course that a University that oversaw residential schools is now standing against entrenching EDIA principles in our collective agreement. I stand with
@MSVUFA
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Some thoughts on the letter opposing the CHA’s genocide statement. First, and I can’t emphasize this enough, it’s bullshit. It has 2 underlying premises: 1. There is no consensus among Canadian historians that genocide occurred. And 2. The CHA should not be political. 1/
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Hoping Tim Houston's New Year's Resolution is to start actually giving a shit about Nova Scotians. Not hopeful.
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@CTVAtlantic
Why are you covering this? There were less than a dozen people there, and less than 8 if you exclude their kids who they brought. And why don’t you provide any counterpoint to the misinformation they are spreading? This is nothing but shoddy journalism.
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This month we’ve lost three fine historians - Elizabeth Mancke, Bill Parenteau, and Natalie Zemon Davis - and what strikes me in all the online talk of them is that people keep coming back to how each of them was a kind and generous person.
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