Activist CEO, former civil servant & union leader. 'When the going gets weird, the weird get going.' ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
Sep 29, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Tomorrow, September 30th, is the second National Day for Truth & Reconciliation in Canada. The "Orange Shirt Day" acknowledges survivors of (and those who died in) residential schools. The day was the TRC's Call to Action 80 and made a federal holiday last year. A settler's 🧵.
In the lead up to this year's holiday I was surprised (only a little) by the rapidity of the government's desire to re-embrace the 🇬🇧's colonialism. Particularly when the new sovereign is a religious crusader repeatedly rejecting calls to denounce the Doctrine of Discovery.
Sep 28, 2022 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
This just is about what is and what is not effective for preserving public health against a virus with severe short and long-term consequences. #CovidIsntOver, it is sensible to #BringBackMasks. The healthcare system is paying the price for appeasing ignorance and capitalism. 🧵
The #COVID19 outbreaks in hospitals are rising and "vaccine fatigue" suggests it is going to be a brutal flu & pneumonia season on top of rising COVID cases and more #LongCovid cases. 90 days masked and we could crush COVID rates and slow mutations. #BringBackMasks
Jul 2, 2022 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
Saturday Storytime...
As some followers know, I represented public servants including at ODSP where my job was for over a decade. I started getting 'in the room' around the same time as the Poverty Reduction Act, 2009 came into force. That unit came to our meetings to brief...
The main point of the Act required a target and a metric. Then programs got tagged for how they help meet the target. Ontario had no target and the prior government had gutted services. The Act made some sense. Without a goal and metric it is hard to measure pass or fail.
