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Normalize not pressuring people to choose you. If they feel they can go on without you, whether they're family, friends, or partners, let them. @brokenquotes.in

Allowing people to work from home, whenever possible, would help.

Yes. 😔

No 'warm handover' to adulthood For kids in the child welfare system, the tran- sition to adulthood means the supports around them start to be pulled back at a time when their peers might still be living at home or relying heavily on parental support.

Agreed — it’s a tragedy.

Toronto police have identified a man accused of causing a fatal collision in North York last week, after a light pole was struck and fell on a pedestrian. Police said on Mar. 6, just before 6:45 p.m., a 19-year-old woman was driving a Volk- swagen Tiguan eastbound on Steeles Avenue West at the same time a male dri- ving an Acura MDX was travelling west- bound on the same street. The Volkswagen attempted to make a left turn at Gerry Fitzgerald Drive, police said, when the Acura allegedly "disobeyed a traf- fic signal," causing a collision in the inter- section.

Random mention or is this relevant? 🤨 Is this girl OK???

Ryan is 18 and homeless in Toronto. As with 1 in 10 homeless people in the city, he went through the child welfare system first — Toronto Star Roughly 10 per cent of Toronto's homeless population, as of a 2024 street needs assessment, spent time as children in foster care or group homes.

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”Across Toronto, roughly one in ten people who've wound up homeless were, at one point in their childhoods, in foster care or group homes. For some, that was an episodic experience: others aged straight out of child welfare into homelessness.”

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Driver who caused a collision that resulted in a light pole striking and killing a pedestrian identified Toronto police have identified a man accused of causing a fatal collision in North York last week, after a light pole was struck and fell on a pedestrian.

Is CTVNewsToronto.ca using #AI to write these reports? 🤔

Weird “run-on” sentence heading; and what happened to the woman in the Volkswagon??

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a man in a blue shirt and tie is sitting at a desk and says fair enough Alt: a man in a blue shirt and tie is nodding and says fair enough

Fair enough.

Probably right, but remember that BigBaby refused to even engage with Trudeau? 🤷🏻‍♀️

Though I’ll maintain that PM Carney does need to be very clear that Canada will NOT get involved in this war — so far, he has been noncommittal.

PM Carney’s official statements have been tepid — likely intentionally, since he still needs to tread carefully with the BigBaby. 😑

“It’s still not clear about where Canada stands on the fundamental issue of the rule of law, which says aggression is an international crime.”

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Tweet by Philip Proudfoot saying Switzerland stopped being neutral after condemning U.S.–Israeli attacks on Iran as a violation of international law, quoting an Al Jazeera Breaking News headline.

A Swiss kick in the ass.

Green shoots pushing out of the ground

Snow is melting, birds 🐦 are singing…. almost feels like spring 🌱 in #Toronto

The bombing of Iranian children is an unforgivable crime America has blood on its hands.

New in PN: The bombing of Iranian children is an unforgivable crime

"American disinterest in the lives of people abroad is a resource politicians use to justify cynical wars. It's hard to see on what moral grounds we claim a right to decide the fate of those about whom we clearly care so little."

Apparently, Lindsey Graham's drunken Fox News bullshit isn't working in the more clear-eyed Middle East.

The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free. - Margaret Atwood

The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.
- Margaret Atwood

Congrats!
#Ontario is jealous.

Increased flood risk expected in some regions of Canada: expert A flood expert is warning about the risk of flooding in some regions across Canada, as snow melts and temperatures rise with spring incoming.

This is why we need #Wetlands protections.
#Flooding #SpringThaw 🇨🇦

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They're going to poison a city with 17 million people

This can‘t possibly have been a legal attack… right?! 😣

Switzerland says US-Israeli strikes on Iran violate international law Defense Minister Martin Pfister urges both parties to cease violence, protect civilian population

Switzerland says US Israel war on Iran violates international law:

"The [US] and Israel have attacked Iran from the air ... they, like Iran, have violated international law." "There is a risk of terrorist attacks in Switzerland ... the war could trigger a wave of refugees that will also reach us"

My thoughts exactly. 😒
#WomensDay

This is what ecocide looks like.

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See this? ⬇️
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Why do women live longer than men? Why do women have menopause? Why are women more likely to get Alzheimer’s? Why do girls score better at every academic subject than boys until puberty, when suddenly their scores plummet? And does the female brain really exist? In Eve, Cat Bohannon answers questions scientists should have been addressing for decades. With boundless curiosity and sharp wit, she covers the past 200 million years to explain the specific science behind the development of the female sex. Eve is not only a sweeping revision of human history, it’s an urgent and necessary corrective for a world that has focused primarily on the male body for far too long. Bohannon’s findings, including everything from the way C-sections in the industrialized world are rearranging women’s pelvic shape to the surprising similarities between pus and breast milk, will completely change what you think you know about evolution and why Homo sapiens have become such a successful and dominant species, from tool use to city building to the development of language.

When we talk about sex, we talk about womanhood and motherhood, infidelity and exploitation, consent and respect, fairness and egalitarianism, love and hate, pleasure and pain. And yet so many of us don't talk about it at all. In this groundbreaking book, Gillian Anderson collects and introduces the anonymous sexual fantasies of hundreds of women from around the world (along with her own anonymous fantasy). The fantasies are extraordinary: they are full of desire, fear, intimacy, shame, satisfaction and, ultimately, liberation. From fantasising about someone off-limits to conjuring a scene with multiple partners, from sex that is gentle and tender to passionate and playful, from women who have never had sex to women who have had more sex than they can remember, these letters provide a window into the most secret part of our minds. Want reveals how women feel about sex when they have the freedom to be totally themselves.

Gorgeous, badass, and practically waiting to pounce, Good Woman: A Reckoning is acclaimed essayist Savala Nolan’s follow-up to her “standout collection” (New York Times Book Review) Don't Let It Get You Down. A lifetime of playing by the rules of female social conditioning is not what it’s cracked up to be for Nolan. The years of making herself smaller (literally and metaphorically); the sexual advances that led to more than she wanted; the bad marriage she fought like hell to keep; all the ways others questioned her identity or choices and she let it slide to keep the peace; her silence when requested; her body when desired—none of it worked. None of it protected her the way it was advertised to. Nolan noticed the same was true for the women around her and the women in history she read about. Across time and location, they were raised to be agreeable and “good.” Hyper-visible as sexual objects but invisible as full people. Living in a physical world created by men for men. Taking on the ultimate role of birth-giver and caretaker, yet seeing it remain an unsung act, even as it’s a God-like endeavor. Only in midlife did Nolan begin to realize she was capable of living outside these cages of conditioning so slyly insidious that they’re nearly invisible. Good Woman elegantly probes the knotty conditions themselves, the costs of adhering to them, and what happens when one refuses to comply. The twelve stunning and unforgettable essays blend memoir, reportage, and history to create a collection that is alternately bold, brash, and explosive ... and ravishingly tender, sensual, and joyous. Nolan takes aim at big and old ideas, and she does not miss. Hers is a testimony to witness and to savor.

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Books on my #WomensDay TBR list:
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Colin Jost is excellent as Pete Hegseth. Well done SNL.

EACH TIME A WOMAN STANDS UP FOR HERSELF, WITHOUT KNOWING IT POSSIBLY, WITHOUT CLAIMING IT. SHE STANDS UP FOR ALL WOMEN Maya Angelou Various drawings of women

#WomensDay

Already on it — helps with #migraines too!