(Jesse Watson = @jesseforyeg on Instagram)
Amy Kaler
@amykaler.bsky.social
304 Followers
498 Following
Writer, sociology professor, Canadian, feminist, internationalist. Concerns: public health, cats, gender, political culture, essays, place-knowledge, religion, survival on hot planet. More here: https://northofhere1.wordpress.com/
-
-
(also there’s weirdness going on w affordable housing or absence thereof, despite #yegcc acquiring many parcels of prime land which sit vacant or morph into high-priced rentals. Jesse Watson is doing a series of exposées; don’t know if he’s right abt everything, but doesn’t look good).
-
Salvador isn’t bad exactly, just MIA when it comes to pressing ward problems, esp safety & disorder (other than vague hand-waving towards the province’s delinquency). This leaves the political space open for NIMBYs & law-n-order types to come in with property-rights & cop-centric “solutions”.
-
The #AirCanada strike puts Canadian workers’ rights into focus - we show how everyone benefits when workers have the right to take sick leave & access workplace flexibility policies. Mandatory back-to-office rules create more problems than they solve.
🧵Doug Ford and major Canadian employers have been busy implementing blanket return-to-office policies that unions oppose. In the @theconversation.com , @mmaroto.bsky.social @amykaler.bsky.social and I show how these policies harm workers and contribute to our multiple ongoing public health crises.
As back-to-school season approaches, Canadian employers are making a mistake by mandating workers back to the office
Remote-work flexibility has supported workplace equity helped limit outbreaks of respiratory infections. Back-to-offices mandates could erase those gains, especially with lowered vaccination rates.
-
I’m not thrilled by my choices either (Ward Metis). It’s kind of like being a Democrat in 2016.
-
At the risk of sounding overly fussy, nobody should have to “pre-order” their own vax. Vax are part of basic public health supplies, not a consumer option. We don’t “pre-order” our own antibiotics or blood transfusions, we’re entitled to them. “Pre-ordering” is the language of privatization.
-
northofhere1.wordpress.com/2025/08/08/a...
As Cold As
(This is a retake of something I wrote last winter. I was revising it for an anthology when I realized it was becoming a bit skewed out of that anthology’s scope. So here’s version 2.0 …
-
🧵Why are seasonal childhood vaccination rates falling after the initial stages of the COVID-19 pandemic despite a mass increase of viral illness?
@mmaroto.bsky.social @amykaler.bsky.social and I add some new understanding to this in our new paper published in The Sociological Quarterly
-
#Vaccination & social trust in #Alberta: new research from @mmaroto.bsky.social @andiewinnipeg.bsky.social & me. #Measles outbreaks make this especially timely. @picardonhealth.bsky.social of interest to your readers?
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00380253.2025.2539348
-
Enormous ick factor. I think some form of consent is being violated - the dead can’t consent to their likeness being fed to an algorithm to generate a video that is intended to represent them. No one has the right to harvest someone else’s life in that way, no matter how good the cause.
https://I.no
