Union & social justice activist, socialist and BCTF rank and file member. Tweets are my own.
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Lisa Danielle retweeted
"Acute infection should no longer be treated as a short-lived episode with only temporary consequences. It can be an origin point for long-term chronic disease, a modifier of chronic illness and a possible accelerator of biological ageing"
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Lisa Danielle retweeted
Canada has a long history of government intervention in labour disputes. But the proposed change marks an escalation in the erosion of labour rights that has been underway since the 1970s. #canlab
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Lisa Danielle retweeted
Seeing the anti-Indigenous hysteria being fomented by the right wing is like watching footage from the integration of Black people into US public schools in the 1960s. #BCPoli
Lisa Danielle retweeted
BREAKING: Italy's largest union announces general strike over flotilla handling
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/e4f7v5?update=4000872
Lisa Danielle retweeted
Air Canada workers are striking against unpaid work. They are defying Carney's anti-democratic back to work order in the process. Workers have the power! #aircanadastrike – at Toronto, Ontario
Lisa Danielle retweeted
Reporting from Pearson Airport: flight attendants respond to decision by Patty Hajdu:
“Forced to fly we won’t comply”.
Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu orders Air Canada and striking flight attendants back to work - National | Globalnews.ca globalnews.ca/news/11337659/…
Lisa Danielle retweeted
Protect the Public Post Office!
Tell your member of parliament to stand up and protect our public postal service, and its jobs, before it’s too late.
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#HandsOffMyPostOffice #SupportCUPW #canlab #cdnpoli
ALT Protect the Public Post Office! Tell your member of parliament to stand up and protect our public postal service, and its jobs, before it’s too late.
Lisa Danielle retweeted
As we brace for the impact of tariffs, we need all levels of gov’t to act!
We’re spreading the word about why we fight for a workers-first agenda that leaves no one behind!
Join the fight here: justice4workers.org/tariffem…
#Justice4Workers
Wow- this article is a must-read for tenants' union folks and advocates for renters' rights. @YVRTenantsUnion
It’s been done before.
We can do it again.
Rent freeze NOW!
DON’T MISS THIS: article by @brunodobrusin @YSWtenants
#RentFreezeNow #Justice4Workers
#TariffCrisis #Election2025
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Lisa Danielle retweeted
🚨 Workers are already struggling to make ends meet, and now tariffs are making things worse. We need urgent action!
Join us for an Emergency Town Hall to learn what’s at stake & what we can do to demand protections for all workers.
📆Wednesday, March 12, 2025
🕖 7:00pm - 9:00 pm - Online
Featuring @DeenaLadd from @WorkersAC & experts from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
We need real solutions:
🔷 $600/week income support
🔷 Stronger EI protections
🔷 Rent freeze & food price controls
🔷 Public investment
📢 RSVP now: justice4workers.org/2025_03_…
#TariffsCrisis #Justice4Workers
This is very bad, folks. This is the strain of bird flu we have been most worried about.
This is a very big deal. D1.1 now in cattle.
D1.1 has put 100% of the people it has infected into the hospital - and killed 50%.**
BC teen had to be intubated on ECMO - despite age and no preconditions.
Louisiana man died in the hospital.
aphis.usda.gov/news/program-…
ALT On January 31, 2025, the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL) confirmed by whole genome sequence the first detection of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b, genotype D1.1 in dairy cattle.
Lisa Danielle retweeted
Today, for-profit child care operators are protesting Ontario’s funding model under CWELCC.
They say it’s about flexibility, but what does that mean?
❓flexibility to raise parent fees?
❓flexibility to make profits?
That’s not the “flexibility” I want for my daughter.
🧵
Lisa Danielle retweeted
It's beginning to happen. A big international union divesting It's pension funds from the genocidal and apartheid state of Israel. Will Canadian unions follow the example of the international Painters Union and divest their pension plans from Israel.
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Long thread, but worth reading. Here's the upshot: 'SARS-CoV-2 infection causes biological wear-and-tear to accumulate at a significantly faster rate than chronological aging. The best way to avoid this is to avoid infection!' #CovidIsntOver #Yallmasking
NEW STUDY! This one confirms A LOT of other results.
Turns out, SARS-CoV-2 infection can cause lasting EPIGENETIC MODIFICATIONS, which effectively results in ACCELERATED BIOLOGICAL AGING.
Let's dive in! (Breakdown thread written for a general audience...)
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ALT Published Aug 20, 2024 in "Clinical Epigenetics": "Epigenetic patterns, accelerated biological aging, and enhanced epigenetic drift detected 6 months following COVID-19 infection: insights from a genome-wide DNA methylation study" --- "Our study provides valuable insights into the epigenetic consequences of COVID-19. Results suggest possible associations with accelerated aging, epigenetic drift, and the disruption of critical biological pathways linked to insulin resistance, immune response, and vascular health. Understanding these epigenetic changes could be crucial for elucidating the complex mechanisms behind long-COVID and developing targeted therapeutic interventions."
Woah- look at that dramatic increase in cognitive disabilities since 2020. This is for the US, but no reason to think UK and Canada are any different. Is it #LongCovid? Dr. Al-Aly thinks that's likely.
A good short read on what is happening 'post-pandemic' (lol /s ) with #Covid #CovidIsntOver archive.ph/h9SVv
Lisa Danielle retweeted
Ottawa Pride was special. Amazing to see the connections between Queer Liberation, Palestinian Liberation and worker's power! #OttawaPride
#NoPrideInGenocide
#StandWithFredHahn
How can the Western media continue to suppress the news of the systematic r*pe and torture happening to P*lestinians in Isr*el? Even Zion*sts are admitting the truth. ( How is this not trending on X, btw?🙄)
I feel stupid and ashamed. In May, an expose came out on CNN detailing the abuses in Sde Taiman. Then, the NYT released their own article on it. Both were backed up with Israeli sources, crossed with Palestinian ones.
I dismissed them because my government sources and Israeli media denied them. My whole life I was told that the international media was out to get Israel. That they were all antisemites.
But today, I realized how much I was lied to. By my country. By my friends. By my media. Today, many of the people I talked to who denied these allegations admitted they were true.
And the worst part? None of this is coming to light because the IDF and government have changed their hearts about it. Its coming out because the pressure from the UK, ICC and ICJ was getting too great to ignore. This would get Netanyahu, Gallant and the Chief of Staff in serious trouble. So they finally said the truth. That Israel is routinely torturing inmates. That sexual abuse is fairly common there. That people have been tortured to death.
Worst of all, many of the people in this facility were innocent. Rounded up by accident. But there was no real verification process before they were subjected to this hell on earth.
This can't go on.