As Canadians prepare for a busy holiday season—a time when the risk of impaired driving is high due to the increase in social events—we are ramping up efforts to prevent impaired driving with a special Campaign 911 ad blitz, generously sponsored by PEI Liquor and @peicannabis 🙌

The Taliban have banned women from studying at medical institutes in Afghanistan. Yesterday, female students bid tearful goodbyes to each other and their teachers. The ban doesn’t just close classroom doors; it shut downs a healthcare system for 20 million women.

I always laugh when a certain type of man asks me “why do feminists hate men so much?” My response is this … It’s never been about us hating men. 🧵

Yep. I had a bi-salp-oophorectomy in July & had to verbally agree & sign a form. Then they pregnancy tested me 'just in case'. FWIW I am now quite well acquainted with the IWK's complaint process, and they've been put on blast about the existence of childfree ppl. Dumbasses.

On the eve of Dec 6 Day of Remembrance I attended the book launch of Lynn Blackburn’s book on the murder of her sister Paula due to DV at the hands of her husband. Today is Paula’s 55 birthday and her life was celebrated under the cloud of rising DV in NS

Learn about the special project that brought Canadian artists together this holiday season curatedbyq.com/save-love-this…

Fallout and Philosophy Call for Abstracts  andphilosophy.com/2024/08/28/fal… via Wiley Philosophy

Getting the baking supplies out, which reminds me it's time for this reminder.

Find someone who loves you as much as a Maritimer loves discounted butter before Christmas.

All my loyal subjects got a free bag of spuds in their stockings this year. Sobeys will have them on Friday for the rest of you. Merry Christmas!

Happy Kwanzaa to all who celebrate! I believe this holiday is about embracing the power of quinoa. Let’s all eat healthy together! #Kwanzaa

Even if the gym is closed today, take this opportunity to go outside for a brisk walk. There is lots of benefits to outdoor physical activity during the winter blog.cwf-fcf.org/index.php/en/b….

Good luck invading Canada, we literally have militarized geese.

The Egyptian novelist and Nobel prize laureate Naguib Mahfouz said: “Home is not where you are born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.” I've had many homes. I wrote this for The Guardian about NYC, healing, and what home means to me theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Absolutely batshit that Pierre Poilievre, who will probably be our next PM, is sitting down with present-day far-right grifter Jordan Peterson. The alarm bells couldn’t blare any louder, folks!!!!!!

Grade 7 (78), we had 2 black sisters join our class halfway thru the year from Uganda. At my year end pool party..my mom started getting calls that if the black girls were at the party, their kid wasn’t coming. My mother told them “your kid is no longer invited”. Pierre is lyin

Let's help this family rebuild and I'd love to know who this woman is.

#Poilievre only ever mentions #women wanting to make & raise babies. I'm not even sure he believes we have any other thoughts.