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According to the government of Canada, Black nurses are met with harsher treatment in the healthcare system than their white counterparts. Let’s not even talk about the lack of representation in leadership and academia. Progress has been painstakingly slow.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Doug Ford froze minimum wage for years. He froze wages for female-dominated professions for years. He’s failed to boost ODSP for years. He’s made cuts to education. He’s grossly underfunded public healthcare. Today, he gives MPPs a 35% raise & turns his back on the rest of us. #onpoli

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

Who else agrees that nurses should be at every table where healthcare decisions are being made? I do ✋🏿 Happy nursing week!

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

This nurses week, I challenge each of us to call out racism when we see it. Let us remember Joyce Echaquan, the 37yo Atikamekw woman who died in a Quebec hospital after being subjected to racist abuse by health staff. Stop being a passive ally & DO something. Happy Nurses week!

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

While I support free hospital parking in Ontario, it's important to recognize that hospitals are grossly underfunded and depend on parking fees to maintain services. To eliminate these fees without compromising patient care, Premier Doug Ford must increase hospital funding. #onpoli

submitted 52 days ago • 3 comments

The anti-woke Poilievre did not just lose the election, he also lost his own parliamentary seat. That’s not just defeat, but a full-blown political faceplant. I can’t get over it 😂 #cdnpoli

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

A beautiful thank you to all the people who did not vote for Pierre Poilievre. You are the real MVPs. #CanadaElection #CanadaElections2025

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

The original meaning of woke is to be alert to social justice issues. To stay woke is to stay aware of what is going on in society. Politicians have colonized the word to criticize efforts around social justice & to spread anti-Black sentiments. We won’t let them. Forever woke 👊🏿

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

We should all be alarmed byPoilievre’s threats to pull back federal funding from universities if elected. Federal research grants are needed to fund cancer research, mental health, cybersecurity & many others. Pierre plans to end life-saving & cutting-edge science. www.ctvnews.ca/federal-elec...

submitted 61 days ago • 44 comments

My heart goes out to all those mourning and hurting after the senseless violence at the Filipino Festival in Vancouver, where a man drove a car right into the crowd, killing and harming people while they celebrated. Such tragedy! I pray for healing in our society. #Canada

submitted 62 days ago • 3 comments

Public health leaders talk of re-establishing trust www.statnews.com/2025/04/09/p... “We advance conspiracy theorists over people who are scientists. We have experts silenced & public health workers being demonized for doing their jobs.” Distrust was CREATED & weaponized by misinformation mongers.

submitted 81 days ago • 2 comments

A patient received priority care after assaulting a nurse. How is this not an example of rewarding violent behaviour? Does this mean that patients can attack nurses and get special treatment in return? This is sickening. Nurses deserve better! www.ctvnews.ca/winnipeg/art...

submitted 80 days ago • 2 comments

When I wrote "Resilience is Futile", I never expected so many workplace speaking gigs. But it seems that more and more employers are choosing "Building Resilience" band-aid BS solutions to what are actually systemic problems like burnout, pay inequity, discriminatory practises, etc.

submitted 81 days ago • 3 comments

A work environment that requires or even just relies on employee resilience is not only toxic, it is also doomed as it will quickly lose that invaluable resource, the discretionary effort of their employees.

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

I recently spoke at a conference where I explained how the word resilience has been weaponized by many employers to justify unhealthy and toxic work environments. Please, don’t fall for it anymore. We don’t need resilience training. We need healthy work environments. Thank you.

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

During COVID, we learned the hard way that nearly all our hospital PPE i.e. masks, gowns, gloves comes from China. A 104% tariff could send us straight back to pandemic-level shortages or drive healthcare costs even higher.🫠

submitted 81 days ago • 18 comments

I never knew that fighting for equity would be something to be reported for. This only strengthens my resolve - now more than ever, I want to enjoy the same rights and privileges as you. You keep reporting. I’ll never stop speaking out.

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

To all the people who said “I don’t do politics”, tell me, how is politics currently doing you?

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Return your teslas if you can. Sell your teslas if you can. Do not buy teslas. Stop empowering a man that has absolutely no regard for you.

submitted 116 days ago • 0 comments

You can’t be vacationing in Florida and then say that you’re all for “buying Canadian”. #tarriffwar #canada #unitedstates

submitted 116 days ago • 0 comments

It’s not okay to look at vulnerable people in the eye and say, well I’m going to vote for someone who will make your life even harder. That’s Doug Ford. #OntarioVotes2025

submitted 121 days ago • 5 comments

I know change is hard, but 7 years of Doug Ford? Give me a break! #OntarioVotes2025

submitted 121 days ago • 4 comments

The very strategic Doug Ford - called a snap election in the middle of Winter. - sent out $200 bribes to buy your vote. Today, corruption won yet again. #OntarioVotes2025

submitted 121 days ago • 12 comments

Funny people. They can’t stand Trump, yet voted for Doug. Goodbye publicly-funded healthcare, education, and other social services. Forget about ever getting a family doctor. Hello to more healthcare privatization and more alcohol. #OntarioVotes2025

submitted 121 days ago • 6 comments

I highly recommend this book to educators across schools. I’m hearing that not much engagement with Black history is happening in many schools across Ontario. Educators must know better in order to do better. Thank you #BlackHistoryMonth

submitted 125 days ago • 1 comment

When your birthday falls on #BlackHistoryMonth, you know very well that you are meant to build a disruptive legacy. Happy birthday to me 🎉 Photo credit - Blissful Moments Creative ❤️

submitted 125 days ago • 6 comments

In 2023, the nurse who spoke up against the racist treatment of Black birthing mothers in the labour & delivery unit was fired. She had a mental breakdown from witnessing the mistreatment of multiple Black women in a maternity ward. It's 2025 and still no changes. sdvoice.info/black-nurses...

submitted 127 days ago • 1 comment

A 2020 study found that, even within the same hospital, Black women were at greater risk for maternal complications than white women. Implicit racial bias and institutional racism were reported as the main reasons. How are we disrupting the drivers of this unjust reality? #BlackMaternalHealth

submitted 128 days ago • 1 comment

Silence is not golden. Let’s develop a speak-up culture as closed mouths do not get justice.

submitted 129 days ago • 1 comment

I lost a friend who was pregnant with twins. They all died. The system continues to fail us Black women. My heart is broken💔 The prioritization of Black maternal health isn’t an option. It’s a must, & I’ll devote my entire being to advocating for Black maternal health equity. #BlackMaternalHealth

submitted 130 days ago • 15 comments

In 2022, nearly 60% of eligible voters did not vote. There’s no stronger way to make your voice heard than exercising your right to vote. If you can, help those in your circle to get to the ballots - offer a ride, help babysit, do something to get more voters out to #VoteFordOut

submitted 135 days ago • 1 comment

As you head to the polls, remember: 1. Doug Ford failed to end hallway medicine like he promised. 2. Over 2.3 million Ontarians have no family doctor. 3. In 2022, Doug gave 43 MPPs a $16000 raise & froze nurses’ wages at 1% increase for years. Doug cannot be trusted #onpoli

submitted 136 days ago • 12 comments

As you approach the polls, make sure you think of those made vulnerable by society, and vote in their best interests. This means that, we must VOTE OUT DOUG FORD because he despises those who are vulnerable and only panders to the rich #onpoli

submitted 141 days ago • 1 comment

Incredible that this still needs to be said. But it needs to be said. Vaccines do not cause autism. Here is how we know www.statnews.com/2025/02/03/v... by @matthewherper.bsky.social Part of the challenge is that this belief increasingly tied to political identity.

submitted 143 days ago • 7 comments

Doug Ford has repeatedly demonstrated his inability to lead the province. He has destroyed every portfolio under his jurisdiction. How much more proof do we need to vote him out? On top of that, he supports Trump, a man who openly expresses disdain for Canada. Time to go #onpoli

submitted 143 days ago • 5 comments

In 1851, an American physician, Samuel A. Cartwright violently claimed that Black people who desired to escape slavery were suffering from a mental disorder called drapetomania. Beware of the oppressor’s framing of the oppressed.

submitted 144 days ago • 1 comment

Here is the link to support the nurse who was violently burnt by a white patient. www.gofundme.com/f/help-tresh...

submitted 152 days ago • 0 comments

I am so angry. A nurse reached out to me - she was brutally scalded with hot coffee by a white patient, who waited until her face was up before pouring it on her. Then, he called her the n-word. She’s looking for legal help. Black nurses deserve to feel safe too. This happened in Ontario, #Canada.

submitted 155 days ago • 14 comments

A white nurse in Virginia went about breaking the bones of Black babies in the NICU. This is just one of many reasons why Black people do not trust the health care system. Those frail, innocent babies my God! My nursing mom & nurse heart bleeds 😢 www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

submitted 173 days ago • 4 comments

Yesterday, I watched several seniors pull out their wallets to pay for some blood tests that used to be free. Doug Ford keeps privatizing several aspects of public health care. So much for “patients will not have to use their credit cards for primary care”. #onpoli

submitted 192 days ago • 11 comments