PHEW! 😮💨
I am soooo relieved that @oliviachow won!! 🙏
Full results here: electionresults.toronto.ca/
#TOpoli #OliviaChow #TorontoMayor
Alice retweeted
Don't vote the way the wealthy want you to vote in Toronto.
Vote for a city that builds housing (unlike Ford) supports healthcare and education (unlike Ford)
Brad Bradford = Ford
Olivia Chow = Progress
Alice retweeted
Dear Torontonians,
Have we not learned from having Doug Ford as our Premier?
We cannot let Brad Bradford win this mayoral election.
Please vote accordingly.
Sincerely,
A concerned Torontonian ❤️
Alice retweeted
What bothers you about Toronto: ER waits, homelessness, crowded classrooms, empty storefronts, is because of Doug Ford not Olivia Chow
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As an ER doctor I can't stress enough how effective Mayor Chow has been to eliminate delays reaching 911. When she came to office it was up to 26 minutes. It's now down to 3 seconds. 3 seconds. That's effective leadership.
Alice retweeted
As someone whose job it is to care for people having a difficult time, I believe Mayor Chow is the best choice to have a caring Toronto.
My vision for the city is one that is a more caring, more affordable and safer city. One that builds on the progress we’ve made over the past three years.
But there's more to do. We need to keep going. If re-elected, I’ll freeze TTC fares for a fourth year and introduce a 10-week fare cap for riders. I already made the school morning meal program universal. Next, I’ll do the same for school lunches. I’ll crack down on more bad landlords.
I’ve delivered, and we need to go further.
Alice retweeted
If you belong to 1/2 of Toronto that pays rent, you'll want to vote for Mayor Chow.
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Congratulations to Toronto’s SickKids Hospital: the world’s best children’s hospital for the second year in a row.
Canada’s health care system is one of our greatest strengths. It’s a reflection of our values — powered by the incredible nurses, doctors, researchers, and staff who deliver world-class, life-saving care every day.
ALT Screenshot of an article from CP24. The headline reads: SickKids ranked No. 1 among 250 children's hospitals worldwide.
Alice retweeted
Canada just did the most sensible thing any American ally has done this decade. It looked at the man Americans put on the ballot three times, worked out that he is not a phase but the country, and started swimming. On Wednesday it reached the far shore of the Atlantic and found Ursula von der Leyen waiting with a towel and an offer no country outside Europe has ever been made. Trump called it a hostile act, which is what people say when the lifeboat leaves without them. New piece on what Canada actually gets, and why it is worth a great deal more than the headline. This 👇:
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Alice retweeted
.@realmikefox is one of the best people I know. He has always been this way, since the day I met him. Clever, funny, sarcastic, loyal, wicked smart, tireless, and fun. He doesn’t want pity. If you take anything from seeing him inside this body-that-has-other-ideas, remember what he once told me. “I got dealt a pretty good card hand. This was just in there.” He’s the same guy he ever was.
Love you forever, my brother Mike.
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Neurophysiologist Louisa Nicola trains NBA players' brains and studies Alzheimer's for a living, and she says this 5-minute drill can sharpen your brain:
"Using just a tennis ball and an eye patch, you can train your cognitive reserve, your processing speed, and your reaction time."
"Start by throwing the ball against the wall, right arm to right arm, then alternate hands. That alone engages almost all of your executive functions."
"Then put on an eye patch to block out 50% of your vision, so your visual system has to work under load and stress. To make it harder, stand on one leg and bring your cerebellum and balance into it."
"This is the same drill I used with NBA players to sharpen their reaction time."
PS. We post daily breakdowns on brain health and longevity, so if that's you, follow us @LxngevityLab for more.
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Alice retweeted
Every year on or right before 9/11, we show this video to our students. It’s not only powerful story-telling, it’s a reminder to a younger generation about how life altering 9/11 was for those of us who lived it. It’s only 10 min #themanintheredbandana
Alice retweeted
Adversity only makes us stronger. It always has.
Watch the new edition of Forward Guidance: youtu.be/eYAwioM3RQI
Alice retweeted
A Harvard neurologist told me:
“Sticking out your tongue for 40 seconds removes cortisol faster than any pills and breathing exercises.”
1. Your neck is what's keeping you anxious.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
No evidence supports the Harvard neurologist quote or University of Pittsburgh study claiming 40-second tongue protrusion rapidly lowers cortisol or doubles vagus tone versus meditation; fact-checks find these claims unsubstantiated.
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Netflix has over 8,000 titles in its library. Your homepage shows you roughly 200–300 of them on any given night.
That means 95% of Netflix's catalog is invisible to you hidden behind an algorithm that decides what you see based on what it thinks you'll click.
A former Netflix product manager who spent 3 years working on content discovery told me: "Netflix has over 2,200 internal genre categories. Your homepage shows maybe 30–40 of them. The algorithm surfaces the categories it thinks will keep you scrolling not the categories that would help you find something you'd love. There are micro-genres in the system so specific they'll match any mood you've ever been in 'Understated Romantic Dramas,' 'Visually Striking Mind-Bending Movies,' 'Deep Sea Horror,' 'Gentle British Reality TV.' These categories exist. The content is there. Netflix just doesn't show them to you."
"But every category has a numeric code. And anyone can type that code into a URL and bypass the algorithm entirely."
Here are the Netflix secret category codes how they work, why they exist, and the specific codes that unlock the content the algorithm will never show you:
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