A reminder that anti-Asian racism is very much alive in Canada, too. #StopAsianHate

Six Asian American women were killed in Atlanta today. We're still learning about the motive. However, you should know this: most racist attacks against Asian Americans this past year have targeted women, and Asian American women are on edge. (1/15)

I am in shambles. We live in the cruelest society

Tonight, we have made history.

Scotland will be the first country in the world to make access to free period products a legal right.

NEW: A member of Doug Ford's Greenbelt Council has resigned in protest of the government's move to fast-track a development in Pickering that would destroy a sensitive wetland. #onpoli

U.S. Election Graphics: See where Trump and Biden are leading, search by state and view the breakdown in the House and Senate | The Star thestar.com/news/world/202…

‘This is being done so wrongly’: Doug Ford’s government has fast-tracked a Durham development that will create new jobs — and destroy local wetlands thestar.com/news/gta/2020/… via @torontostar

Here's what else we learned today about Cadillac Fairview's use of facial recognition technology inside a dozen Canadian malls.

Privacy commissioner released a hefty report.

THREAD:

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I'm shocked how hard it is to generate text about Muslims from GPT-3 that has nothing to do with violence... or being killed...

Denis 🤔🤔🤔

An RCMP officer in Kinngait (Cape Dorset) has been removed from the community after a video was taken of the Mountie hitting an intoxicated man with his truck. There are now six active investigations of RCMP incidents in Nunavut.

In the States, problems are magnified, but in the GTA, we have our own examples of times when mental health issues, a Black person or POC and the police combine with a deadly result. thestar.com/opinion/contri…

For people who actively want to be support and be an ally right now, I have written a thread.

Re-upping this list of Black women who are writers, hosts and otherwise creative in Canada. Thank you Nana aba Duncan, who put it together. Hire these people all the time, not just when things are particularly traumatic. docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

Alright we're excited to #PitchYaGame !
We're a small indie team working on Venba. You play as an immigrant Indian mom in this narrative puzzle game about family, home and cooking!

#gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

For weeks, doctors have warned about a drop in ER visits during the pandemic. But how big is the drop? How many people stayed away?

In the absence of public data, Rachel Mendleson and I tracked down the numbers and found a stark, nationwide trend.

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We're bffs

Workers at Peterborough plastics plant have long worried their jobs were killing them - yet most remain overlooked by government statistics. Part 1 in my Michener series on #OccupationalDisease , with design by N8
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