Sarah Slack
@sarahjslack.bsky.social
Human rights & community care
Anti-genocide 🇵🇸 & everywhere
Still 😷 + to prevent COVID
& other airborne disease
Curiosity, connection, and community at our common table
@commontable.bsky.social
Anti-genocide 🇵🇸 & everywhere
Still 😷 + to prevent COVID
& other airborne disease
Curiosity, connection, and community at our common table
@commontable.bsky.social
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HEY BC GREENS MEMBERS!
PLS REMEMBER TO VOTE for your Provincial Council reps!
Farrukh Chistie for vice chair
Kathy Porter for ombuds
Prym Goodacre for councillor at large
Maddy Kennedy-Parrott for Lower Mainland rep, OR Severin Odland for Van Is/Sunshine Coast rep (dep where you live)
#bcpoli 🧵
PLS REMEMBER TO VOTE for your Provincial Council reps!
Farrukh Chistie for vice chair
Kathy Porter for ombuds
Prym Goodacre for councillor at large
Maddy Kennedy-Parrott for Lower Mainland rep, OR Severin Odland for Van Is/Sunshine Coast rep (dep where you live)
#bcpoli 🧵
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
HEY BC GREENS MEMBERS!
PLS REMEMBER TO VOTE for your Provincial Council reps!
Farrukh Chistie for vice chair
Kathy Porter for ombuds
Prym Goodacre for councillor at large
Maddy Kennedy-Parrott for Lower Mainland rep, OR Severin Odland for Van Is/Sunshine Coast rep (dep where you live)
#bcpoli 🧵
PLS REMEMBER TO VOTE for your Provincial Council reps!
Farrukh Chistie for vice chair
Kathy Porter for ombuds
Prym Goodacre for councillor at large
Maddy Kennedy-Parrott for Lower Mainland rep, OR Severin Odland for Van Is/Sunshine Coast rep (dep where you live)
#bcpoli 🧵
That’s me 👇🏻
357: opposes draft. Exorbitant increases to police at expense if programs that prevent crime. Proud to stand in line in byelection. Proud to stand in people’s filibuster. We have potential, but not until we are all housed. Council your legal duty is to listen with open mind
November 13, 2025 at 11:55 PM
That’s me 👇🏻
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So ecxited that this article is finally out! When Olivia reached out to share her horror story on getting her wheelchair repaired my jaw was on the floor. The floor! Turns out her story isn't unique.
We get into it in this two-part series for @thetyee.ca
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
We get into it in this two-part series for @thetyee.ca
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
Why Is It So Hard to Fix a Wheelchair in BC? | The Tyee
Disabled people say companies are struggling to service their equipment, which can trap them in bed or at home.
thetyee.ca
November 13, 2025 at 7:34 PM
So ecxited that this article is finally out! When Olivia reached out to share her horror story on getting her wheelchair repaired my jaw was on the floor. The floor! Turns out her story isn't unique.
We get into it in this two-part series for @thetyee.ca
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
We get into it in this two-part series for @thetyee.ca
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
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Sudanese fighters accused of massacres use Canadian-made rifles www.cbc.ca/news/world/s...
Sudanese fighters accused of massacres use Canadian-made rifles | CBC News
The Rapid Support Forces in Sudan, accused of civilian massacres, have posted numerous images posing with rifles bearing the logo of a small B.C. manufacturer called Sterling Cross Defense Systems. Ex...
www.cbc.ca
November 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Sudanese fighters accused of massacres use Canadian-made rifles www.cbc.ca/news/world/s...
I registered to speak last night and I’m number 357. Let’s filibuster this absolutely horrifying budget Vancouver. You’ve got 1.5 hours left to sign up!
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I registered to speak last night and I’m number 357. Let’s filibuster this absolutely horrifying budget Vancouver. You’ve got 1.5 hours left to sign up!
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It's the start of cold and flu season which means RSV cases will also soon start spiking. A new study found half of all Canadians hospitalized for RSV are under six months old. Immunization options are approved but not readily available.
My latest for @thetyee.ca
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
My latest for @thetyee.ca
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
Infants Bear the Brunt of RSV Hospitalizations, UBC Study Finds | The Tyee
Researchers say the province should do more to protect the very small and vulnerable.
thetyee.ca
November 7, 2025 at 12:35 AM
It's the start of cold and flu season which means RSV cases will also soon start spiking. A new study found half of all Canadians hospitalized for RSV are under six months old. Immunization options are approved but not readily available.
My latest for @thetyee.ca
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
My latest for @thetyee.ca
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
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This is heartbreaking.
Fuck ICE.
Fuck hateful politics and policies.
Free Palestine.
Fuck weapons manufacturers.
Fuck the oligarchs that create hatred and fear and cruelty to enrich their unspeakable wealth.
This is all settler colonialism and capitalism.
Fuck ICE.
Fuck hateful politics and policies.
Free Palestine.
Fuck weapons manufacturers.
Fuck the oligarchs that create hatred and fear and cruelty to enrich their unspeakable wealth.
This is all settler colonialism and capitalism.
Devastating— “I’m afraid for my parents to leave the house. They treat us like dogs because of the color of our skin. I shouldn’t be scared, I should be focusing on school.”
A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.
A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.
November 7, 2025 at 12:39 AM
This is heartbreaking.
Fuck ICE.
Fuck hateful politics and policies.
Free Palestine.
Fuck weapons manufacturers.
Fuck the oligarchs that create hatred and fear and cruelty to enrich their unspeakable wealth.
This is all settler colonialism and capitalism.
Fuck ICE.
Fuck hateful politics and policies.
Free Palestine.
Fuck weapons manufacturers.
Fuck the oligarchs that create hatred and fear and cruelty to enrich their unspeakable wealth.
This is all settler colonialism and capitalism.
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Full house at Museum of Anthropology tonight for ‘Beyond Fires & Floods, Indigenous narratives in an era of extremes,’ with Rick Harp, Judi Kochun, Tanya Talaga and Mark Trahant, and myself.
October 25, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Full house at Museum of Anthropology tonight for ‘Beyond Fires & Floods, Indigenous narratives in an era of extremes,’ with Rick Harp, Judi Kochun, Tanya Talaga and Mark Trahant, and myself.
Do you have any idea how much I love the Strathcona Community Centre?
Vancouver Park Board forever!
www.instagram.com/p/DQFHj3qCeR...
Vancouver Park Board forever!
www.instagram.com/p/DQFHj3qCeR...
October 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Do you have any idea how much I love the Strathcona Community Centre?
Vancouver Park Board forever!
www.instagram.com/p/DQFHj3qCeR...
Vancouver Park Board forever!
www.instagram.com/p/DQFHj3qCeR...
Mutual aid, forever.
So all this is said with the caveat that the conversion cushion has been included to reconcile our figures but
Crips for eSims for Gaza has officially spent over $3M CAD on eSims.
#ConnectingGaza
bit.ly/eSimsRUS
Crips for eSims for Gaza has officially spent over $3M CAD on eSims.
#ConnectingGaza
bit.ly/eSimsRUS
bit.ly
October 19, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Mutual aid, forever.
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Hey all - if you're in Vancouver and you want covid and/or flu vaccines*, Rexall is doing walk-ins. Info is on their website, call the pharmacy nearest you to check. I was in and out today with no wait. The Get Vaccinated system is a time-wasting boondoggle
*you really do. both of them.
*you really do. both of them.
October 15, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Hey all - if you're in Vancouver and you want covid and/or flu vaccines*, Rexall is doing walk-ins. Info is on their website, call the pharmacy nearest you to check. I was in and out today with no wait. The Get Vaccinated system is a time-wasting boondoggle
*you really do. both of them.
*you really do. both of them.
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For @thewalrus.ca, I wrote about the state of reconciliation 10 years after the final report of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission. thewalrus.ca/trc-introduc...
The Stark Reality Ten Years after the Truth and Reconciliation Report | The Walrus
“We have to wonder: should we just abandon ‘reconciliation’ altogether?”
thewalrus.ca
September 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
For @thewalrus.ca, I wrote about the state of reconciliation 10 years after the final report of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission. thewalrus.ca/trc-introduc...
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Canadian COVID Forecast: Sep 27 - Oct 10, 2025
SEVERE: none
VERY HIGH: MB, NL, NS, SK
HIGH: CAN, AB, BC, NB, North, ON, PEI, QC,
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 60 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
SEVERE: none
VERY HIGH: MB, NL, NS, SK
HIGH: CAN, AB, BC, NB, North, ON, PEI, QC,
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 60 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
September 30, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Canadian COVID Forecast: Sep 27 - Oct 10, 2025
SEVERE: none
VERY HIGH: MB, NL, NS, SK
HIGH: CAN, AB, BC, NB, North, ON, PEI, QC,
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 60 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
SEVERE: none
VERY HIGH: MB, NL, NS, SK
HIGH: CAN, AB, BC, NB, North, ON, PEI, QC,
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 60 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
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please read this story today from @moiradonovan.bsky.social, with incredible photos by Darren Calabrese, which considers the physical history of the residential school system and survivors' efforts to ensure this history is never forgotten
The last federally run residential school closed in 1997, but traces of the system are everywhere on the land. How to commemorate the dark, painful history of these places? Across Canada, survivors are taking the lead: thenarwhal.ca/truth-reconc...
What should happen to residential school sites? | The Narwhal
Across Canada, Indigenous communities are deciding how to commemorate these residential school histories on the land
thenarwhal.ca
September 29, 2025 at 2:03 PM
please read this story today from @moiradonovan.bsky.social, with incredible photos by Darren Calabrese, which considers the physical history of the residential school system and survivors' efforts to ensure this history is never forgotten
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Before Raphael Lemkin collapsed on 42nd Street in New York City and died at a local police station in 1959, he knew these truths about genocide that the world still cannot accept.
Andrew Nikiforuk writes.
Andrew Nikiforuk writes.
Raphael Lemkin Coined the Word Genocide. What Would He Say Today? | The Tyee
The haunting story of the refugee driven to name and prevent the greatest crimes of all.
thetyee.ca
September 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Before Raphael Lemkin collapsed on 42nd Street in New York City and died at a local police station in 1959, he knew these truths about genocide that the world still cannot accept.
Andrew Nikiforuk writes.
Andrew Nikiforuk writes.
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The BC Green Party's new leader is @emilylowan.bsky.social
The party used a ranked ballot and Lowan won handily on the first ballot with more than 3,000 votes #bcpoli
The party used a ranked ballot and Lowan won handily on the first ballot with more than 3,000 votes #bcpoli
September 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The BC Green Party's new leader is @emilylowan.bsky.social
The party used a ranked ballot and Lowan won handily on the first ballot with more than 3,000 votes #bcpoli
The party used a ranked ballot and Lowan won handily on the first ballot with more than 3,000 votes #bcpoli
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Here is an example list of medications with long-term safety data in pregnancy, helpful for treating common illnesses:
Fever/pain: acetaminophen
GERD: H2 blockers or PPIs
Nausea: Dimenhydrinate, metoclopramide, ondansetron
Hypertension: labetalol, nifedipine, methyldopa
Fever/pain: acetaminophen
GERD: H2 blockers or PPIs
Nausea: Dimenhydrinate, metoclopramide, ondansetron
Hypertension: labetalol, nifedipine, methyldopa
September 23, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Here is an example list of medications with long-term safety data in pregnancy, helpful for treating common illnesses:
Fever/pain: acetaminophen
GERD: H2 blockers or PPIs
Nausea: Dimenhydrinate, metoclopramide, ondansetron
Hypertension: labetalol, nifedipine, methyldopa
Fever/pain: acetaminophen
GERD: H2 blockers or PPIs
Nausea: Dimenhydrinate, metoclopramide, ondansetron
Hypertension: labetalol, nifedipine, methyldopa
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As a Maternal Fetal Medicine specialist, here are a list of exposures with conclusive evidence for adverse fetal & childhood outcomes:
Alcohol
Tobacco
Cannabis
Maternal suicide
Maternal homicide
Viruses (CMV, influenza, COVID, HIV, HepB&C)
Bacteria (syphilis, listeria)
Parasites (toxo)
Alcohol
Tobacco
Cannabis
Maternal suicide
Maternal homicide
Viruses (CMV, influenza, COVID, HIV, HepB&C)
Bacteria (syphilis, listeria)
Parasites (toxo)
September 23, 2025 at 10:53 PM
As a Maternal Fetal Medicine specialist, here are a list of exposures with conclusive evidence for adverse fetal & childhood outcomes:
Alcohol
Tobacco
Cannabis
Maternal suicide
Maternal homicide
Viruses (CMV, influenza, COVID, HIV, HepB&C)
Bacteria (syphilis, listeria)
Parasites (toxo)
Alcohol
Tobacco
Cannabis
Maternal suicide
Maternal homicide
Viruses (CMV, influenza, COVID, HIV, HepB&C)
Bacteria (syphilis, listeria)
Parasites (toxo)
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“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.”
Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!
Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!
September 23, 2025 at 9:53 PM
“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.”
Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!
Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!
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Let’s talk about why moving to the centre doesn’t work! ⚡️ (reupload)
September 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Let’s talk about why moving to the centre doesn’t work! ⚡️ (reupload)
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The teen made Frankie Maw’s Tomato Ginger Scallion Congee.
September 21, 2025 at 6:48 AM
The teen made Frankie Maw’s Tomato Ginger Scallion Congee.
Draw The Line signs.
September 21, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Draw The Line signs.
Neighbourhood signs.
September 21, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Neighbourhood signs.
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3 DAYS LEFT TO VOTE!!! You don't wanna miss this - get in here! emilyforbcgreens.ca/vote/ #bcpoli
September 21, 2025 at 12:42 AM
3 DAYS LEFT TO VOTE!!! You don't wanna miss this - get in here! emilyforbcgreens.ca/vote/ #bcpoli