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andrew kurjata

@akurjata

21 Nov

It's Friday night twitter so I'm gonna go on a little rant here about the government secrecy and COVID-19

Someone died of COVID- where did they live?

There is a care home outbreak. How many people have died there?

How many ICU beds are there in northern B.C.?

If you thought the public should have access to any of that information you'd be wrong, based on government patterns

How many cases in schools?

What about infections in healthcare workers?

Again, no.

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andrew kurjata

@akurjata

18 Nov

There is now a COVID-19 outbreak at Peace Villa in Fort St. John. This is the second care home outbreak in Northern B.C. Two people have already died at Rotary Manor in Dawson Creek where an outbreak is still active. #yxj #ydq

Northern Health says it's a single staff member with no evidence of transmission, which is exactly what was said when an outbreak was declared at Rotary Manor which spread to multiple staff members and residents and has killed at least two

So this is why rising COVID case counts are worth paying attention to, not just hospitalizations. Here's what B.C.'s Peace region looked like at the end of October. In the weeks since the virus has made its way into two care homes and at least two residents have died.

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andrew kurjata

@akurjata

13 Jun

I want to talk about how bizarre it is that there is even a debate about whether systemic racism exists in Canada when there are observable outcomes that make it self-evidently true. (thread)

First, because I think this is maybe where some of the confusion lies: What is systemic racism. It is *not* the belief that members of a society or organization are all secret Ku Klux Klan sympathesizers or overt white supremacists

It is instead the observation that the systems we operate in has racist outcomes. The individuals within it do not have to deliberately think or act in racist ways for this to work. Either by accident or design, it will still have racist outcomes.

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andrew kurjata

@akurjata

30 May

This is Dale Culver. The 35-year-old died after being pepper sprayed at taken into custody by police in Prince George in July 2017. He complained of shortness of breath, was taken to hospital, where he was pronounced dead. (1/?)

Six months later, in January 2018, the B.C. Civil Liberties Association said they spoke to witnesses who had filmed Culver's arrest. They allege that RCMP members told onlookers to delete the video footage. cbc.ca/news/canada/br…

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.@mckinnondeLEON and I spoke to family members at this time. They described Culver as a "happy go lucky" father of three who was in Prince George for training.

According to police, they were responding to reports of a man "casing vehicles" in a parking lot when he was arrested

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andrew kurjata

@akurjata

17 Apr

"We don't completely reorganize society to prevent traffic dea-" WELL MAYBE WE SHOULD

Traffic patterns, vehicle design, emphasis on safe modes of other transportation, accessible transit could all save lives! Every year! We don't need to accept current levels of traffic death as just the law of nature!

Car companies and bad urban design created the systems that we view as inevitable! "Jaywalking" was invented by ad agencies as a way to blame pedestrians rather than drivers for vehicle deaths! Freeways are not rivers, shaped by God and nature!

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andrew kurjata

@akurjata

10 Mar

This morning, Wet'suwet'en subchief Theresa Tait-Day is giving testimony in Ottawa to the Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs. Testimony was announced to press by a comms group representing the First Nations LNG Alliance. Livestream: parlvu.parl.gc.ca/Harmony/en/Pow…

So far Tait-Day is saying much of what everyone else has said: decision-making in Wet'suwet'en hereditary system is based on consensus. She says she's here as spokesperson for the Wet'suwet'en Matrilineal Coalition. Will get to that in a moment.

A couple of accusations from Tait-Day that I don't know sources for or have been verified.
She again says there are only five hereditary chiefs opposed to the pipeline (eight have signed eviction notice to CGL)

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