@thatheatherc
Same as before. Inspired, engaged, politicised, compassionate, engineer, and citizen of the world. Reader of banned books. Irascible spinster. Posts are usually awesome & always my own. Call me: she & her
Geoff Rohoman, a former 680 News reporter and my longtime friend, died last June after a long battle with colorectal cancer. He was 41. @nicireland.bsky.social wrote today about how the Canadian Cancer Society recommends lowering the age of testing www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Can't make it to tonight's public lecture featuring distinguished speaker Justin Ling, investigative journalist and columnist for The Toronto Star?
Justin's lecture, “Telling the Truth in Hyperreality: Journalism in a Time of Lies,” will be livestreamed here: https://bit.ly/4uii7Up
Don't miss it!
Ask a stylist: how do you pack for business travel? ft.trib.al/vV4oNI5 | opinion
Nearly 160 deaths recorded across the premier engineering colleges in past two decades - 69 of them in last five years.
Quote: "Court documents from the case alleged the pair helped Epstein manage 140 bank accounts." Follow the money.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
A poster for the Textile Museum of Canada's fabric sale, with roughly quilted pieces scattered about. The sale is March 27-28th 2026 from noon to 5pm, and tickets are pay-what-you-wish. The Textile Museum's address is 55 Centre Avenue, Toronto ON M5G 2H5. Comrags gave us bolts & bolts of fabric to sell when they closed, and we've cut some of it into 2-3 metre lengths for grab & go and also have some still on the bolt that can be cut to order.
Toronto people, the Textile Museum of Canada will be having a fabric sale on March 27-28 from noon-5pm. There is fabric from Comrags, some cut in 2-3 metre lengths, some still on bolts.
Tickets are here, pay what you wish:
textilemuseumcanada.ticketing.veevartapp.com/tickets/view...
When we support @sprawlcalgary.bsky.social, we support journalism that
- is meticulously researched, connects dots over time,
- uncovers stubborn assumptions or oft-used playbooks,
- seeks out perspectives that are unique or underrepresented, and
- fosters a deeper understanding of ourselves.
Quote: "Double denim, or the ‘Canadian tuxedo’, is the trickiest part of the cowboy uniform to master, but it, too, is making a comeback (though influential people such as designer Tom Ford never stopped wearing it after its peak in the 1980s)."
Stampede clothes will be less cosplay, more fashion.
Three brothers, including two of the nation’s most successful luxury real estate brokers, were convicted of sex trafficking charges Monday after a five-week trial over accusations that they used drugs and force to rape scores of women they had dazzled with their wealth and opulent lifestyle.
The family of one of the victims of the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge is suing OpenAI.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Go to jail, Marco Van Huigenbos. Go directly to jail. Do not pass go, do not collect $200.
As the White House posts videos blending real footage of its war in Iran with clips from movies and video games, this talk from @justinling.ca is incredibly timely.
It's this Wednesday evening, at Mount Royal University in Calgary. Also will be livestreamed.
And it's free!
Registration ends soon:
Why do we need International Women’s Day? Apart from misogyny and Christian nationalism, you mean? | Zoe Williams
Again, many of us in energy industry will not be travelling to Houston, TX. A booth from NRCan won't keep me safe from U.S. government authorities who would immediately identify me - a Black woman - a danger, a threat, an illegal, an alien, plus more names.
natural-resources.canada.ca/ceraweek-2026
Hi @scienceupfirst.bsky.social, you are being requested to grow your mandate and vision.
Young people:
1. Please read all of the banned books, on principle. Please go to your local library (until Minister Williams & Premier Smith get books banned from those public libraries too).
2. Be so knowledgeable & so creative that you write & produce more books worthy of being banned by the UCP.
Sir Sandford Fleming rolls in his grave.
Picture of Prelude, Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra program on my lap.
Yes! Dance Dance Disco was amazing. Thank you @calgaryphil.bsky.social!
1. Yes, I danced the entire show & sang along. No shame.
2. No, I'm not an actor, singer, or performer. This is what an engineer looks like.
3. Epic. That the orchestra did a Sylvester tune in front of Minister Fir, 🔥.
March 8 is International Women's Day. All over social media organizations will make performative posts about uplifting women & girls. Those same people voted for the political party led by this woman, Premier Smith, and should be accountable for the harm & risk to women & girls from her decisions. ♀️
Ooof. I told my church brother featured in this piece, Reza Dehaki, last Sunday: "I have no words...won't say thoughts & prayers, that's insulting...this is the worst kind of awful." I embraced him & his wife Ladi.
I worry for my former Edmonton based colleague who has her mother & sister in Iran.
This @cdnpress.bsky.social piece showed up on page 6 of the @theglobeandmail.com print edition in Alberta because it is a much bigger deal than the coverage it is receiving in the energy community.
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/alt...
"This isn’t about constitutional reform. It’s about politics. More specifically, it’s part of a broader and increasingly brazen [UCP] effort to either control the courts or, failing that, convince the public not to trust them. "
www.canadianlawyermag.com/news/opinion...
Not in my experience. I have had several family doctors + gynecologists (the outcome of moving cities for work). It wasn't diagnosed until the pathologist put it on the report of my uterus after a hysterectomy & oophorectomy. Even my late mother, a nurse, was trained to think 'just bad periods'.
This is giving me hope, inspiration, and perspective today. Thank you @barackobama.bsky.social for honouring the late Reverend Jesse Jackson with these words, all of them. ✊🏾🙏🏾
www.nbcnews.com/video/obama-...
The math doesn't lie.
Danielle Smith spent $17 million on "Alberta is Calling" to recruit new residents. But spent $0 on the infrastructure to support them.
Now that the bills are due and the services are failing, she’s pointing the finger at the very people she invited.
#ableg #canpoli #abpoli
Breaking news! I have my first opinion piece in the Toronto Star today! I got to make fun of John Tory AND make a joke about me playing for the Blue Jays, so it's safe to say that this was the most fun I've had writing something in a while. 💙 www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Endometriosis and adenomyosis are medical conditions where you are not believed. Where, in my experience, male doctors don't have the first clue and just keep prescribing you more pain medication. A film worth your time "This is Endometriosis". Award winning.
www.thisisendo.com/watch-this-i...
7/7
The day of my 2nd round of chemotherapy, adenomyosis came with avengence. Could barely walk, was so bloated & swollen I almost couldn't find trousers to fit. I couldn't take pain meds - I was in chemotherapy. My mother said, "you're not the first to get her period". I drove to the cancer centre. 6/
