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Alex Z

@AlexZannis_

Social work, human rights, policy & coffee ☕️ | currently child welfare reform | formerly policy & comms @casw_acts | YYC ✈️ YOW | views = 🙋🏼‍♀️

 Unceded Algonquin Territory
Joined July 2011
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The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”. The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America. We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms. Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.
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Can we all agree the corporate workday should be 9am–3pm????
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This Orange Shirt Day, let’s protect the Indigenous children who are still with us @TanyaTalaga theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
Opinion: This Orange Shirt Day, let’s protect the Indigenous children who are still with us

Opinion: This Orange Shirt Day, let’s protect the Indigenous children who are still with us

The legacy of residential schools endures in Canada’s child-welfare system, and yet our leaders continue to fight rather than work on change

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"As far as Alberta is concerned, it is all First Nations land. We won’t sit back and watch it go." macleans.ca/politics/a-sover…
A Sovereign Alberta Is a Treaty Violation - Macleans.ca

A Sovereign Alberta Is a Treaty Violation - Macleans.ca

Alberta won’t be able to leave Canada if First Nations have anything to say about it

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unfortunately wearing sunglasses immediately takes away both my vision and my hearing. as well as my depth perception and spatial awareness
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This is so true.
hellbilly elegy (@hellbilly_elegy) profile picturehellbilly elegy@hellbilly_elegy17 Jul 2025
Greeks be like "okay it's 1230 AM time to hit the night club with my grandmother and niece"
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Funny thing about neuroplasticity is that yeah, trauma changes your physical brain, but so does being loved and living well.
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a girl and her sentimental necklace vs the world
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Image from hard feelings (@thesadbaby)
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There’s schools in New Mexico open 4 days a week bc they can’t afford Friday. Schools in Baltimore close when it’s too hot bc they cant afford AC. In whole counties in South Dakota people die a decade before everyone else. But there’s always money for bombs. Alway money for bombs
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Today on National Indigenous Peoples Day, we celebrate the cultures and languages of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples. Take time to learn whose land you’re on and listen to Indigenous voices - not just today, but every day.
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Image from sarah (@heavenbrat)
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Hi everyone. Reactivating twitter to share this I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA at the end of last week because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests I arrived back in Melbourne on Sat 6am and had my phone handed back to me upon landing
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Wow, what a stressful week of work. Time to relax by holding a phone beaming endless streams of horrific international news inches from my head
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ms rachel can eat at my house for free anytime
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“your receipt from apple” ok sure. whatever. i don’t even know what you’re charging me for anymore but whatever. sure.
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The kind of love everyone deserve💕
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If you’re hyper independent, do yourself a favor & date someone who shows love thru acts of service!
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lost my driver’s license and have no other mail in my name so just used a speeding ticket as proof of identity to vote!! no excuses!! #OntarioVotes2025
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