kariraymerbishop.bsky.social
Mom of fierce preemie, wife of kind professor, teller of stories, keeper of bees, and lover of cheese (Paris ON) (she/her) I love to talk about building community and making things better
🇨🇦 Vive le Canada 🇨🇦
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They wanted suggestions for traffic calming (reducing speeding) through our lovely neighbourhood. I suggested allowing parking on both sides of the street. Everyone moves very slowly when the street is very narrow. Have to wait for another vehicle to go through first? Good!!!
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Today we listened to a podcast about mysteriously dead great white sharks who appeared to have had their livers surgically removed. Spoiler alert: IT WAS THE ORCAS, KILLING THEM BY SLICING THEM OPEN FOR THEIR LIVERS. #TeamOrca amazes me. Just sayin'. 😱
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Dog beaches are the most joyful place. What a good person you are to your doggo!!!
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www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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That sounds awful! I don't know how people are expected to just live with a broken hip while they wait for surgery. I'm so sorry to hear that!
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I don't even have prescription ones, although the time will come! I just have cheap 2 for $20 readers that are bifocal sunglasses. I am so thrilled.
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I am so so sorry to hear this. We are spending as much time as possible there with him. And the nurses are being so good to him.
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We have a shortage of beds and nurses, so they are always triaging even on the ward — moving people into the hallway if they aren't as critical as others who need a room. But we are in Canada, so we aren't paying for it directly.
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Ontario
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It's not great. Conservative governments have made terrible funding cuts and are trying to privatize it. But it also doesn't bankrupt people. My baby spent five months in the NICU and we didn't receive a bill.
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Amazing!
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Well, we live in Canada — so he won't be charged anything.
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I didn't know they existed!! I am so thrilled!
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Thanks Joan ❤️
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I am someone who has cheap pairs of readers in every room of the house and in my car. Now I have 3 new cheap pairs of readers for the hammock, the deck, and the car 😎
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Thank you. I'm so worried about him because he doesn't know what's happened and sometimes needs to be restrained. Poor sweet guy is still so big and strong at 94, but he's so confused ❤️
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Oh no, I didn't take offense! It's just us. And my husband has taken such good care of his dad. It would have been easy for him to let me take on that extra caregiving role but he has been the main caregiver for his dad for the past 11 years. We are hoping for LTC spot soon.
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He has me, too. Kiddo and I just came back from visiting him in the hospital. We brought him here from Edmonton so we could take care of him and his grandkids could know him. So he is loved at his retirement home but doesn't have support beyond us.
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Yes. Ontario's healthcare system is underfunded and struggling, thanks to Ford.
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It's been rough because he has dementia. Every time he wakes up, he is confused about his surroundings. He pulls out his IV and catheter and tries to escape — with a broken hip. Poor guy. My husband spends so much time sitting with him and settling him.
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Wow. That's something.
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I remember taking students to Rome on a trip in a heat wave. They were swooning all over the Forum and I just kept pouring water over them and into them 🥵
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Agreed. Partisan accounts can be problematic. I'm going to need some more critical thinking and some more manners from everyone here if I'm going to last the summer 🤣 Or more food, pet, and garden pics to break it all up.
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I always take a moment to see where someone is from before I reply — even to see where in Canada or where in Ontario they are posting from — because context matters. I wish others would take a moment too instead of assuming we are more of them. Also, I am done with anyone joking about 51st state.
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YES!!! I tend not to follow back US accounts because I honestly just don't want my entire feed to be about their country. And the # of times people reply to my posts with the automatic assumption that I'm speaking about the USA is frustrating. I literally have 🇨🇦 beside my name for a reason.
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That's why it was more comfortable to teach in schools in Haiti and Kenya, where it was consistently hotter than Ontario. Classrooms were made of cement. They had walls of louvered windows that all opened and allowed for wonderful air flow.
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This is the only reason I run.
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I always wondered about the custodians. They told us that the offices were airconditioned when the rest of the school wasn't, because office staff and administrators worked for part of the summer. But custodians worked very hard throughout the entire school during the summer. Seemed very unfair.
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The board told us we were not permitted to bring fans into our classroom.
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Just a dark and light blue denim.
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Before the vaccine, close to 10% of measles infections resulted in deafness. It currently causes 100K children/yr to become blind. 1/1000 who recover completely will later develop a fatal encephalitis. Every infection disrupts the immune system, and can cause loss of all immunity to other infections
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I think @onschoolsafety.bsky.social looked into this at one point. The stats are terrible. There are A LOT of schools where the only A/C is in the office and library.
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I do think a weed and wine truck cruising past after bedtime would be very popular 🤣
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I was visiting a friend in the hospital the other day and watched him take a big drink after the nurse brought ice from the ice machine 😬 and then filled it up with water from the bathroom 😬 and I wanted to vomit in my mask 🤢 Thanks for that @barryhunt008.bsky.social 😆
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Oh I love this so much! Wish we could have seen you in person ❤️
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In our province, Ryan's Law requires schools to provide safe learning environments for kids with asthma. If every asthma parent pushed for the required protections, the improvements in air quality in schools would also reduce Covid infections. It would be a gamechanger. 🤷♀️
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"Nutrition policy"
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It was at least 15 years ago.
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Waterloo board told me it was against the nutrition policy.
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Years ago, I brought in freezies to try and help classes endure the final weeks on the 3rd floor without A/C. The board told me it was not permitted and I had to stop providing freezies. 😡