pattythille.bsky.social
Feminist, sociologist, accidental urbanist. Associate Professor @UManitoba 🇨🇦 Critical physiotherapy network exec member. Collective care and justice are my focus.
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I really appreciate your thoughtfulness about framing, Chanda
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Such a waste of everyone's time! I just spoke with admin leadership about these issues here last week - the way different chunks of admin keep putting things onto faculty plates and the accumulated effects on the things they actually want us to do. Sadly, I doubt it'll make any difference.
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People who have problems physiotherapy can help often can't access it.
The above link is about learning from people with cancer in the last 10 years, to get a better sense of the need for physical rehabilitation supports. Two colleagues I work closely with are supervising this study.
Please share!
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We are starting to see the coverage of this privacy issue show up in the media:
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
To those who say "if you have nothing to hide, you needn't worry" look south for a government who would abuse these powers. We're only ever one election away from that risk. #cdnpolo
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In what sense? I know Notley's government better than I do Eby's , so I am genuinely curious about how you are making this contrast.
To me, Notley backed down on a royalty review, which seems consistent with Kinew switching his tune on oil & gas.
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Michael Geist (a law professor at the University of Ottawa where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law) has written about the digital privacy changes the Liberals have embedded in the Bill that go far beyond border security:
www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/06/priv...
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Or he's published this open access: www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/06/priv...
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You might want to invite Michael Geist: bsky.app/profile/mgei...
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I'm seeing, for example, rumors of some intense loss of digital privacy protections in this bill that are disconcerting (or perhaps it's a different one).
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Then consider being a bit more tentative in your language, if your intention is not to mislead or accidentally misrepresent the bill. You've said things very concretely (e.g. "the only people who should be worried...") when it's clear there's more nuance.
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I think you'll see a number coming out in the news-based journalistic media in the coming days.
This CBC article speaks about some of the content: www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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While I get your response, I think it's always good to remember we (via Carney) are under pressure to pass certain laws by Trump.
I come from the approach that every party should have their proposed laws scrutinized.
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There's more to this Bill than Mike's interpretation, so please read more fulsome analyses.
One thing, for example, that I'd flag from Mike's summary is that whether a proposed law would violate the Constitution is something the courts help figure out if there are constitutional challenges to it.
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CBC covers some of their concerns, which exceeds your framing of it: www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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And may we honor all who suffer, not with slogans, but with sustained efforts to make this world more humane, today and always.
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We need to stop approaching violence prevention as "Sexual assault is bad because you could go to jail" and instead, frame it all as "Sexual assault is bad because it harms another human being."
We need to make strong moral arguments. It's the only way to center women's humanity.
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This doesn't make any of us safe. This doesn't help any of us. My heart breaks every single day when I see what is happening in Gaza. I feel helpless. I know many of you do too.
But when people enact violence in our name, it makes everyone less safe and it makes peace less likely.
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Antisemitism breeds extremism, cruelty, and conspiracy theories. Equating Jewish people with Israel's far-right government inevitably leads to antisemitism.
It leads to innocent people getting hurt, more Jewish organizations being targeted, *and* Netanyahu using fear to gain more control.
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I don't want to see a single person saying this was warranted by the carnage in Gaza, that this was for Palestinians.
I am a Palestinian person and I do not want senseless acts of terror committed in my name. I don't want Jewish organizations to need extra security because of fear of violence.
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It really made clear what crucial *care* work they are doing in their communities, in the face of such heavy trauma (in all senses of the word).
The kind of session that stays with you for a lifetime. 🙏
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