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I'm heading home from the #CUTA2023ACTU conference in Saskatoon. Decided to take the train home because it was <1/2 the price of flying, and I thought I could work, relax, and read during the 14 hour trip.

It was supposed to leave here at 7 am and arrive in Winnipeg at 10 pm.
When I woke up this morning, it said it was delayed till 1:15 pm - over 8 hours! Then the estimated departure kept on getting earlier and earlier, so I headed to the station and made it just in time for the newly-estimated 11:45 departure.

The station is basic, but functional. ImageImageImage
The train finally arrived at 11:50, went past the station, sat there, and then backed in to the station.

I was finally able to get on board at 12:15, and I think we'll be leaving by 1:15. Image
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5 of my employees were sprayed with bear spray while at work yesterday. A first for us but it's way too common - did you know that #winnipeg will experience nearly 1200 incidents this year? Please read this thread on my perspectives and actions taken to reduce this crime /1
First, my team is OK but shaken. Bear spray only causes temporary physical irritation (for hrs) but they were attacked and the psychological aspect can be much more damaging. This person committed an illegal, senseless act and I will pursue it as far as I can /2
Full disclosure: I sell bear spray and have for 20+ years. I sell it as a controlled substance, locked away & in-store only. You must produce valid ID and sign a number of documents before purchasing. I hold a pesticide license and remit all information to the govt each year. /3
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I’ve talked a lot about Ontario candidates, but did you know that Manitoba elections are coming up on Oct. 26? Again, it’s important to know your local candidates, especially this year. Lets take a look at some school board candidates in #Winnipeg#mbpoli #wpgpoli #mbed
First, our friends at the Canadian Anti-Hate Network profiled a few far-right and covid-conspiracy candidates, antihate.ca/former_proud_b… 2/
Listed were:
Pembina Trails Ward 1 – Dick Eastland
Pembina Trails Ward 1 – Linda Karn
Pembina Trails Ward 2 – Todd McDougall
Seine River Ward 3 – Katie Howe
Winnipeg Ward 8 – Patrick Allard 3/
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Thread #3 below about the @cityofwinnipeg “Corporate Advertising Policy.” A 🧵 - the epilogue.

See the start of the second thread here:


#wpg22 #wpgpoli #mbpoli
"#People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

@energy106fm & Evanov tried to make me feel like I am disposable.

Does @cityofwinnipeg define them as reputable?

#wpg22 #wpgpoli #mbpoli 46/3🧵
#winnipegpolice makes me feel like they will only and always be #Winnipeg's fascist brotherhood.

@themarugroup tried to make me feel like I am insignificant to their global worldview.

Does @cityofwinnipeg define @wpgpolice and Maru as reputable?

#wpg22 #wpgpoli #mbpoli 47/3🧵
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Thread #2 below about the @cityofwinnipeg “Corporate Advertising Policy.” A 🧵, the story.

See the start of the first thread here:


#wpg22 #wpgpoli #mbpoli
3.2.e: "Only appear in reputable publications." How is it defined? Opinions: not part of #diversity & inclusion. Reputable is an opinion.

Ex: @energy106fm affirmed values & visions to be “one of the strongest media allies to the #LGBTQ community."

#wpg22 #wpgpoli #mbpoli 24/2🧵
Before that, #Energy hired Dave Wheeler, a host released from his last radio position. The release was due to #transphobic #comments after receiving suspensions for racist comments.

Does @cityofwinnipeg define @energy106fm as reputable?

#wpg22 #wpgpoli #mbpoli 25/2🧵
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04/28: I spoke to the @cityofwinnipeg supporting the SPIRIT of the "Corporate Advertising Policy.”

A randy night at the senior's centre has more teeth than this #policy.

It took #Winnipeg months to put "We prefer #kindness" in print.

This is long. A 🧵 …
(Actually, 3 🧵’s)
Watch -

Our elected officials are tone deaf to harm corporate #Winnipeg enables. Context is key to understanding and interrupting my presentation proved that.

Including #wpg22 for candidates. Please address this in your campaign.

#wpgpoli #mbpoli 02/1🧵
Report: clkapps.winnipeg.ca/DMIS/ViewPdf.a…
@ShawnNason moved, @KevinKleinwpg seconded.

Policy: clkapps.winnipeg.ca/DMIS/ViewPdf.a…

I didn't get to finish my presentation. I’ll share my notes here.

(Could have finished in ~9 mins, in full, with all relevant context 🤷🏼‍♀️)

#wpg22 #wpgpoli #mbpoli 03/1🧵
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Given Trudeau's response, I imagine Ill need to dedicate a separate thread to the Canada trucker convoy protest in Ottawa. Again.
"Broadcast Audio Visual Technician, City of Toronto" Image
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#Winnipeg -- we need to find just 160 people to support the LITE Hamper. Choose the buy-to-donate option, donate via CanadaHelps at lite.mb.ca or send an etransfer to gift@lite.mb.ca

Links below with more info on how special this gift will be for families! ❤️
You can read about the organizations involved in the making of the bulk of goods here: shop.lite.mb.ca/products/hamper

The hamper will have ALREADY created $31K of training and employment support before it reaches recipients hands!
The bulk of the food is in a grocery gift card, allowing recipients to choose the food they want to eat.

The card will be in this beautiful holiday card designed by @vincentdesignca -- with a message and the name of the person (you?) who purchased it to give. Image
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The first #woonerf, Tuinstraat in Delft was the result of citizen action against a traffic plan that turned a street in to a driving shortcut. Residents reclaimed the space for play & socialization by installing barriers & trees & the city conceded
-@modacitylife Curbing Traffic Image
Woonerfs are safe extensions of the home in to the street. They are designed to slow traffic & provide space for play & socialization between residents. These semi private spaces allow residents to personalize the front of their home with planting & seating
Photo: @mobycon Image
Another legacy of the #Woonerf is the #Geveltuin (facade garden) policy in Dutch cities. The policy encourages residents to remove a portion of paving stones in front of their home & replace them with green space.
From @modacitylife - Curbing Traffic
Photo: @Cycling_Embassy Image
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Ok #Winnipeg - need a Moderna #COVID19MB vaccine?
Waterford Pharmacy (204-219-4483) received a shipment today and is looking for eligible Manitobans.

(Please help amplify this.)

See gov.mb.ca/covid19/vaccin… and below to determine if you meet the eligibility criteria.

⬇️
Eligible for 2nd dose if 1 of the following:
*Received your first dose (Pfizer, Moderna) on/before April 13
*Indigenous age 12+ if Pfizer/Moderna 21/28+ days ago
*Received first dose AZ 8+ weeks ago
*Priority health condition as listed on webpage

Eligible for 1st dose:
*Age 12+
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Where’s Jordan? It has been a valid question from so many of you, and it has been difficult to hold back from responding. However, some things take time and here I am now. I do owe you an answer because you have graciously invited me into your home every morning for a decade 1/20
We have laughed together and cried together, and I recognize that I may hold a very special place in yours and your family’s hearts.
I came to Calgary on somewhat of a whim in 2011. An Opportunity! My amazingly supportive wife was 8 months pregnant with our second child. 2/20
On bed rest. But we picked up and left our beloved city of #Winnipeg to come west. And damn I love this city of #Calgary and this province of #Alberta. I have lived in many place and I have learned that people make a place an actual community and those of you that I have met 3/20
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A message from our publisher, Ron East @canadasheli: The Jewish community of #Winnipeg cannot trust @jfcuia @jewishwinnipeg to stand up for them as they are assaulted by Jew-haters: Israelis are second class citizens to Federation executives across Canada
thej.ca/2021/05/24/a-f…
"Our small gathering of perhaps 50 was standing against a line of a reported 400. For the Jewish people from Winnipeg amongst us it was a stunning experience. For the Israelis, our call to action proved what we had long suspected: the Jews of Winnipeg are no longer safe."
"It also proved another suspicion: the self-proclaimed “organized Jewish community” is operating from the same playbook as Jewish leaders in Europe did in the 1930s. We all know how that turned out."
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Roads are closing down in the area of the @RadyJCC as supporters of #israel for a car rally, organized by @canadasheli founder of the Israeli Canadian Council. The offices of @jewishwinnipeg, whose statement yesterday incensed Israeli Winnipeggers, is on the campus. 1/x
Cars are lined up down Doncaster with Israeli flags, music playing, no hate chants or anything of the sort. @wpgpolice coordinated closely with organizers to ensure a safe staging and route was planned. @RadyJCC lawyers tried to intimidate the ICC into moving the starting point.
At their rally on Saturday the pro-Israel group agreed to stand on the NW corner of Memorial at Broadway, observing pandemic precautions. Nakba 73 car rally crowd crossed from the Legislature, started an ruckus, and cops formed a line on the blvd of Memorial. It got ugly.
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📣Attention #Winnipeg 📣

@BrianPallister + @TravelManitoba just put out an RFP on how to start privatizing our provincial parks.

Public parks are to *preserve* nature, not be a revenue source. Shame on them for disrespecting our province this way.

#mbpoli #wpgpoli
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The RFP: bit.ly/3m3454Q

Some quotes:

➡️ "A new business model for Provincial Parks that increases visitor spending, revenues and cost recovery."

➡️ "Investment and divestment requirements for existing infrastructure assets."

➡️ "What assets should be divested?"
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TL;DR

➡️ Park services will be cut
➡️ Parks will be more expensive
➡️ Gov't jobs will be cut
➡️ Parks won't be owned by the public + protected for future generations

(👆🏽 That last point should really worry you)

Shame on @BrianPallister and @TravelManitoba for doing this.
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❗❗UPDATE on #COVID19 in #Canada for September 29.❗❗

(1/42) What it means and what you can do. Mega-thread below.🧵 🚨 Image
(2/42) We are now well into the second wave of COVID-19 in Canada. 🌊

Geographically, recent cases have been concentrated in Canada’s four largest provinces, particularly in and around #Montreal and the #GTA. But cases have been growing at an alarming rate across the country. ImageImage
(3/42) % change in 7-day rolling average of cases compared to one week ago:
MB: +95.6% 📈 (22.7/day ➡️ 44.4/day)
QC: +57.8% 📈 (409.4/day ➡️ 646.1/day)
ON: +37.2% 📈 (357.6/day ➡️ 490.7/day)
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1/ Today marks the 30th anniversary of the term Two-Spirit.

It was received in ceremony in #Winnipeg in 1990

I spoke to Two-Spirit individuals about what the term means to them. #Twospirit
2/ Dr Alex Wilson is a Neyonawak Inniniwak from the Opaskwayak Cree Nation and renowned Two-Spirit professor at @usask.

"The term for me means a recognition and validation of personal identities but also of a powerful movement that has impacted the lives of many people." #yxe Image
3/ @JarisSwidrovich is Canada's first self-identified Indigenous Doctor of Pharmacy.

"To me, the term Two Spirit is one collective way to represent the identities of Indigenous peoples who are gifted with a beautiful combination (...)" Image
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🇨🇦#Canada #FridaysForFuture International update #ClimateStrike #'s for #ClimateActionWeek:
🇨🇦1,000,000 people🇨🇦 Thus 1 out of every 6 strikers globally was Canadian🇨🇦 as well as we were 3rd globally for total # of strikes. Thanks to all local organizers & national supporters.
1000 #Calgary AB
15 #Cambridge ON
40 #Campbellton NB
20 #Camrose AB
15 #Canmore AB
15 #Cannington ON
150 #CapAuxMeules QC
300 #Caraquet NB
300 #Chambly QC
200 #ChathamKent ON
65 #Chibougamau QC
400 #Chillwack BC
40 #Clare NS
45 #Clinton ON
500 #Collingwood ON
80 #Compton QC
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In the early part of the first millennium CE, the #IndoEuropean language known as Proto-#Germanic diverged into an East branch (which included #Gothic) and a Northwest branch.

Northwest then split into West and North branches when Proto-#Norse developed in #Scandinavia. Image
Until the 8th century, #Germanic #languages, including Proto-#Norse, were written in Elder Futhark, the earliest #runic #alphabet.

The name #Futhark comes from the initial phonemes in the names of the first six #runes:
ᚠ ᚢ ᚦ ᚨ ᚱ ᚲ
F U Þ A R K

By the beginning of the #Viking Age around 800 CE, Proto-#Norse had evolved into Old Norse, and #Scandinavia's writing system transitioned from the 24 #runes of Elder #Futhark to Younger Futhark's 16 runes.

The #Swedish #Sparlösa #Runestone from ~800 CE features both #alphabets. Image
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So exciting!!!! Four years ago #AugustMoon commenced their #WiseOrNaked World Tour!
Gig 1 • 12 February 2015 • #Bogota #Colombia 😄 Follow the journey ▶️ pinterest.co.uk/tioyclub/augus…
#TheIdeaOfYou by @robinnelee 🖤 #TIOYclubWiseOrNaked ImageImageImageImage
#AugustMoon #WiseOrNaked World Tour • Gig 2 • 13 February 2015 • #Bogota #Colombia 😄 Follow the journey ▶️ pinterest.co.uk/tioyclub/augus… #TheIdeaOfYou by @robinnelee 🖤 #TIOYclubWiseOrNaked ImageImageImageImage
#AugustMoon #WiseOrNaked World Tour • Gig 3 • 15 February 2015 • #Lima #Peru 🖤 “I’ll call you when we get to Lima.” - @HayesCampbell_ #TheIdeaOfYou by @robinnelee 😃 Follow the journey on our Pinterest... pinterest.co.uk/tioyclub/augus… #TIOYclubWiseOrNaked ImageImageImageImage
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1. (re)learning Treaties:
In this presentation I will explore how Canada’s National History Society @Canadashistory has supported Canadians in their (un/re)learning of Treaties and the Treaty relationship #NCPHactive #cdnhist
2. My name is Jessica Knapp & I am a multi-generation Canadian & I am a settler. My relatives immigrated to Canada from Western Europe in the mid-18th century #NCPHactive
3. They lived, where I would be born, on the Traditional territory of the Three Fires confederacy of First Nations, comprised of the Ojibway, the Odawa, & the Potawatomie #NCPHactive #cdnhist This image shows a map of North America with treaty and traditional territories represented. There are black dots and lines connecting the 3 areas that are mention in this presentation: the Three Fires Confederacy of First Nations, Treaty 1 Territory, and the territory of the Kenien’keha:ka.
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3-3??? @Teddier must be breaking into a sweat. #Habs #Winnipeg
Damn!
That didn’t tale long.
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