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madelinenerdfighter · 7 months

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The richochet article is out

Also the journalist did a tweet thread with highlights from the article if that's something that you're interested on sharing Facebook and Instagram won't let you share a news links from Canada https://twitter.com/SpichakSimon/status/1707785829433618864?t=RowAITYe-W17QLiZRGTNMQ&s=19

@allthecanadianpolitics

#ableism #disabled #disability #Canadian #Canada #british columbia #myalgic encephalomyelitis #pwme #postviral #longcovid #canpoli #bcpoli

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semiotomatics · 6 months

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HEY

WAS ANYONE GONNA TELL ME BC EMPLOYEES CAN DISCUSS WAGES WITHOUT FEAR OF REPRISAL AS OF MAY 11th 2023 OR WAS I JUST SUPPOSED TO FIND OUT FROM A REDDIT POST MYSELF

ALSO

FUCKING BALLER MOVE

#bcpoli #this has been an original post #like???#this is incredible news #i know theres still work to be done before the culture/expectations change #and im sure employers will try to weasel their way around it #but STILL #fuck yeah!!

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violsva · 2 years

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Canadian Municipal Elections

In many parts of Canada, there are local and municipal elections coming up!

Specifically, all of British Columbia (this Saturday, October 15th!), Manitoba (October 26th), and Ontario (October 24th). Also some parts of other provinces and territories (see here).

For information about how to vote and who's running where you live, you'll have to google "[your city or region] election" or go to your local government's website. You can also check out your local library's website (or ask a librarian in person); they will probably have helpful information!

I recommend looking up the candidates ahead of time and writing down who you plan on voting for if there are a lot of them. You are totally allowed to bring notes into the voting booth, as long as you take them out with you when you go.

Local elections have as much or more effect on your life than national elections! Since they have fewer voters, they are also sometimes used by special interest groups to gain local power. This is why you need to vote! Since they have fewer voters, your vote counts for more.

And after the election, if your new city councillor or whoever seems cool, go back to their website and get on their mailing list! Learn about local issues and events!

EVERYONE GO VOTE!

#canpoli #cdnpoli #bcpoli #mbpoli #onpoli #canadian politics #ontario #manitoba #british columbia #election #everyone go vote

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fixomnia-scribble · 13 days

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These proposed changes would have prevented my being evicted in callously bad faith a year ago. A twelve year tenancy terminated to move the landlord's kid in...and it turned out they didn't even need my flat after all.

Apparently I'm still carrying around some bitterness...

I am unbelievably lucky I ended up on my feet, but that was due to the support of friends and family. And I am now living much farther away from them and from work, and above my means, because there isn't anywhere within range, geographically or financially.

#bcpoli #bc politics #tenancy #tenants rights #rentals

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ppcbug · 2 months

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Meanwhile in Canada…

Things like cigarettes are so villainized and taxed so high. Menthol cigarettes are even ILLEGAL. While in British Columbia narcotics are FREE and packaged nicely with warning labels for the homeless!

This Christmas a man sent all 87 B.C. MLAs magic mushrooms and politicians had the nerve to be angry. The same politicians who are mad about being gifted drugs are the same ones who allow organizations to freely dispense them!

We are living in clown world 🤡 so called “safe supply” will only lead to death and ruined lives.

#voteppc to oppose safe supply

#british columbia #bc #canada #cadpoli #bcpoli #ppc #people's party of canada #canada first #drugs #safe supply #dulf #meth #cocaine #heroin #death #genocide #mla #cigarette #menthol #voteppc

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iammadelinepod · 4 months

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Holiday magic and melancholy

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I've made a few videos to help better describe what's going on for me. they are of varying lengths and varying levels of brain function as I am so brutalized by attempting to stretch money on minimal treatments as there has yet to be any MSP category of coverage for my disease in any province in Canada. if the GoFundMe doesn't accrue enough money then I don't survive into January. I'm fighting to start a human rights case but I need to stay alive long enough to see it through.

I disabled comments as with my dyslexia combining with my myalgic encephalomyelitis and fibromyalgia it's too difficult for me to read or respond. if you want to connect with me Twitter is where you'll find me more often as a cope better with that short form text

Podcast 1st ep

https://anchor.fm/i-am-madeline/episodes/Ep--1---How-do-you-solve-a-problem-e110jks

general podcast link

https://anchor.fm/i-am-madeline

GoFundMe ( keep in mind that this money has been used up on minimal treatments and supports over the past 3 years)

https://gofund.me/cff39173

RICHOCHET article

https://ricochet.media/en/3991/Canada-MAID-policy-death-by-poverty

Also the journalist did a tweet thread with highlights from the article if that's something that you're interested on sharing Facebook and Instagram won't let you share a news links from Canada https://twitter.com/SpichakSimon/status/1707785829433618864?t=RowAITYe-W17QLiZRGTNMQ&s=19

#millionsmissing

op-ed

Dabc Nov 2022

Blog

https://disabilityalliancebc.org/article-im-fighting-to-live-but/

politics Nov 15 2021

https://ipolitics.ca/2021/11/15/the-disabled-are-choosing-to-die-because-they-cant-afford-to-live/

Gender bias in research med article

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33232627/

Twitter @IamMadelinePod pinned tweet has all the media pieces done so far

Facebook & Instagram @Madelinenerdfighter

#british columbia #canada #canadian #disability #disability pride #myalgic encephalomyelitis #podcast #pwme #canpoli #chronic illness #bcpoli #chronic pain #chronically ill #complex chronic disease #nerdfighter #nerdfighteria #project for awesome #p4a #Youtube

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stevemaclellan · 1 year

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The dissonance in returning to normal

We are living through a mass disabling event. Statistics Canada estimates that there are 1.4 million COVID-19 longhaulers in Canada. As the virus continues to circulate, our ranks keep growing. The World Health Organization estimates that 10 to 20 per cent of COVID-19 infections result in long COVID.

Many of those people recover after several frustrating months, while others, like me, develop potentially life-long chronic health conditions.

The B.C. government, eager to move on from COVID-19, barely acknowledges the growing crisis. At this point, I feel as though the silence must be deliberate. If our government’s current plan for long COVID is to literally let hundreds of thousands of British Columbians develop a chronic illness for which there is no treatment and minimal support, then it’s past time we had an honest conversation about it.

Long COVID is already affecting our labour market. While Canada thus far has made little effort to track its impact, U.K. government analysis suggests that long-term illness due to long COVID is driving a significant share of the decline in labour market participation.

In the U.S., long COVID could be keeping as many as four million Americans out of work. Harvard economist and professor David Cutler estimates the cost of their lost wages to equal US$1 trillion.

A Lancet study of longhaulers infected prior to June 2020 found that 22 per cent were unable to work, with another 45 per cent working reduced hours. Based on these statistics, we can reasonably assume there are hundreds of thousands of Canadians unable to work due to long COVID, and even more working reduced hours.

This calls for a long-overdue strengthening of our social safety net, as well as a cultural shift towards flexible accommodations to enable people with chronic illness to participate to the fullest extent they can in economic activity, among other aspects of public life.

#social issues #politics #covid #economy #bcpoli #cdnpoli

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atheostic · 2 years

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madelinenerdfighter · 6 months

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Recent article about what's happening to me.

Also the journalist did a tweet thread with highlights from the article if that's something that you're interested on sharing Facebook and Instagram won't let you share a news links from Canada https://twitter.com/SpichakSimon/status/1707785829433618864?t=RowAITYe-W17QLiZRGTNMQ&s=19

And this is a recent podcast episode where I talk about being turned down after 4 years of waiting by a pro bono clinic for help on starting a human rights tribunal case

And since I've been fighting week to week to have enough money for the very least amount of treatments and supports that keep me alive here's the GoFundMe link. You'll see various other articles because I know I'd want to know somebody had been verified. https://gofund.me/cff39173

The hard thing is that no mainstream Legacy Media in Canada has not been willing to tell my story. And indeed most anywhere else so far. Only small market niche publications outside of the Chatelaine article, which for reasons I don't understand had no impact on the GoFundMe at all outside of one donation. And if the larger mainstream population doesn't understand then not only how do I survive, but how do millions of other people like me both in Canada and around the world keep out of unnecessary disability, deterioration and early death.

So if you know of any news source that you think would be interested please share my story and feel free to tell them they can find me on twitter, hellscape that it is now it's still the easiest form for my dyslexia to navigate- *iammadelinepod*. The pinned tweet there has all of the articles if you or anyone is looking for them

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semiotomatics · 5 months

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BC Humanist Association has a petition to allow Humanists to perform marriages (like other religions are allowed to), i'm not expecting to get married but i am humanist and in bc so i still figured i'd share, they're aiming for 1000 signatures and they're at 817, so close!

#humanism #humanist #bcpoli #secular humanism #also humanism should be more recognized as a belief system just. in general #it is not “fringe”

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amatsuki · 9 months

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DriveBC says it exceeded temporary post rate limit while trying to tweet essential wildfire road information

Why are essential services relying on private infrastructure?!

#bcpoli #twitter

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dys-lexical-linguist · 1 year

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Ken Sim wasted millions of dollars hiring cops to violently steal poor people's belonging this week. They couldn't offer anyone in the encampment housing so all the people are still there, just without their survival equipment. The encampment is home for these folks, the city may offer SRO rooms, but as someone who works in a nicer one, they are often unsafe, bug/mould infested, and are such a hectic environment living there will make a sane person unwell. The province can offer no safe sutable housing in this city because all our money goes to useless police action. The Canadian charter of rights and freedoms ch8 protects a reasonable right to privacy in ones home. This decampment is unconstitutional.

#bcpoli #Vancouver #british columbia #vanpoli #this isnt even touching the colonialosm aspect of this which is so big #im not equipped to talk about the larger themes but an officer intentionally smashed a woman's smudge bowl shile she was using it #violence #abcparty #facism #cndpoli #ken sim

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persimmonlions · 2 years

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they are turning old growth forests — trees hundreds and hundreds of years old — into wood pellets for electricity

#ukpoli #cdnpoli #bcpoli #environment

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fumblesneeze · 10 months

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A small win for pride month. It looks like my local school district will be getting two new union endorsed candidates. Perhaps more importantly we are not getting any bigots.

The runner up (soundly defeated with half as many votes as the new trustees), believe that the First Nations kids were lying about widespread discrimination. He was going to fight and prevent action from being take on discriminatory practices.

One of the losers (who pulled early and spoiled 69 bigots advanced votes) was determined to stop education about Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity . To be clear the school board doesn't make curriculum decisions so he could only have engaged in petty sabotage. He insisted on ignoring a question about collective bargaining to instead rant about "parental rights" before getting shouted down by the town hall audience. He then stormed off saying he "Didn't have time for this".

Local Elections are the most important and the most impactful. Less than 7% of the population voted

#cndpoli #local politics #lgbtqia+#BC #prince george #SOGI #happy pride 🌈#pride 2023 #bcpoli

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survivingcapitalism · 2 years

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As a growing number of British Columbians are hospitalized with COVID-19, the stream of pandemic data from the government has dried up to the point that some of the most trusted analysts in the province say they'll need to largely give up their work.

The B.C. COVID-19 modelling group, comprised of professors from the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University as well as independent data scientists, mathematicians and other experts, has served a watchdog role by scrutinizing government policies and their impact on the pandemic’s trajectory, as well as warning the public about possible issues. Now, they say they can no longer do that work properly.

“Definitions have changed and aren't really comparable through time, the data we get is quite out of date at this point since we only get it on a weekly interval, and even then it's revisionary,” explained one of the group’s data scientists, Jens Von Bermann.

“Given all the lags, it's hard to do anything useful, and I think at this point … we just can't do predictions anymore for B.C. We'll still try to look at what we can say about where we're at broadly."

#BC #BCpoli #Covid

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