This reminds me of when Jen Sookfong Lee connected me with my high school Creative writing teacher after 20+ years. 😭

One extra brave member of the Vancouver Coastal Health community has a message for kids who are nervous about getting their COVID-19 shots. 💪 Malia (pictured) sent this heartwarming and encouraging message to her cousin Orla after getting her first COVID-19 vaccine.

Hear an encouraging message from Malia, a Quilchena Elementary student on getting her COVID-19 vaccine 👇

Inspired by this tweet so much, we made our own micro booklets for @LeannePrain for her farewell 📚😭/ Deborah So

Omicron is moving quickly through our communities and could overwhelm our hospitals. If you're sick, stay home. Don't be the one who brings Omicron to your family holiday celebration, workplace, or worse — into our hospitals and long-term care homes. gov.bc.ca/COVID19restric…

I crocheted a Wordle 😂😂😂😂

Thank you to everyone who is registered as an organ donor; your selfless act helps others get new leases on life. If you aren’t registered, it only takes 2 minutes to complete the form online: taketwominutes.ca BC Transplant

I’m just a girl, standing in front of the internet, asking you, for the love of goodness to stop using ‘Click here’ to embed your links: it’s inaccessible. 🧵 (1)

It takes a monster to kill children. But to watch monsters kill children again and again and do nothing isn’t just insanity—it’s inhumanity.

Our bodies are not designed to absorb and process this much violence, loss, and grief.

Alabaster is in a part of town that is, shall we say, "generically bougie." The dining & retail here aren't actively *bad*, but they're generic w/ no history or connection to the neighborhood, interchangeable with every other place, only here b/c a profit loss calculation says so

As fall settles in, here’s our round-up of all the Halloween events and spooky things to do in Vancouver this month. ☠️ districtlocal.com/things-to-do-i…

I said goodbye to a patient a few years ago. She didn’t die, she just got old. I treat patients to age 21 and they move on. When they do, I joke, “well, I did my job! I kept you alive until adulthood!” With this kid, it was not a joke. 1/

I recently came across data on who we spend our time with over the course of our lives. The insights are simultaneously inspiring and depressing. Here are 6 graphs everyone needs to see:

Shredders gonna shred. 🏂 #Kitsilano #BCStorm

Snow is expected to turn to freezing rain lasting 12-36 hours across southern BC, creating extremely hazardous road conditions Thursday through Saturday. 🌨️🧊🌧️ Avoid travel unless absolutely necessary. Power outages may occur. Be prepared. news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2022E…

Broadway's beloved Congee Noodle House to reopen February, sources say.

It was 3 years ago tomorrow that COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic. #bcpoli

Joyful things on the Internet. 🧵