Not the Only One

Stephanie Cadieux, Canada’s chief accessibility officer, has taken to social media to call out an airline for leaving her wheelchair behind after she boarded a flight in Toronto. Cadieux says Air Canada didn’t load the wheelchair onto a flight she had taken from Toronto. “Well, Air Canada left my chair in Toronto,” she posted on X, formerly Twitter. “I’m now without my essential equipment. Independence taken away. I’m furious. Unacceptable.”

I learned you get nowhere advocating for yourself, but can have some luck advocating for someone else. All the women in our group got a 20% pay rise after I dropped a dime on the HR guy doubling down on a salary for a white male that was more than the Hispanic woman on a higher pay grade he'd report to. They did a salary audit taking gender into account, gave the women a raise, and a year later fired the HR guy.

International Nurses Day falls on Florence Nightingale's birthday. Whilst her nursing legacy is recognised, it's essential to acknowledge her flawed views on racism & colonialism. I’m celebrating my nursing colleagues past & present at Central Middlesex #IND2024. Photo from 2014 https://t.co/v6ehdC22C8 / X

So which country am I talking about: * increased death penalty * taking away woman’s rights * persecuting LBGT.

To sin by silence, when we should protest,Makes cowards out of men. The human raceHas climbed on protest. Had no voice been raisedAgainst injustice, i...