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Adrianna 🇨🇦 Lady Death Doula @adriannap.bsky.social · 6h

Grief Walks is about Community
Sharing grief with others helps with the weight of grief

Read more on my substack:
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Adrianna 🇨🇦 Lady Death Doula @adriannap.bsky.social · 17h

November is Make a Will Month in Canada and I’m chatting with Death Doula and former Funeral Director Greg Barnsdale on November 13 about all things Will and end of life planning because he wrote a book about it “Do not ignore your mortality” open.substack.com/live-stream/...

Adrianna 🇨🇦 Lady Death Doula @adriannap.bsky.social · 1d

We all wanted another season of Ted Lasso, and @torontobluejays.bsky.social gave us one ⚾️🤍🧢

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 2d

me nine innings ago / me now

a cute looking blue jay perches on a branch

a skeletal looking blue jay after molding his head feathers

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Adrianna 🇨🇦 Lady Death Doula @adriannap.bsky.social · 2d

This whole game is just a series of AHHHHHHHHHHHs

a man eating a sandwich with the words " our anxiety now " above him

ALT: a man eating a sandwich with the words " our anxiety now " above him

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murph @seabaitshop.bsky.social · 2d

bro did a death drop like he’s lipsyncing for the crown

Jill Krajewski @jillkrajewski.bsky.social · 2d

HANG IT IN THE LOUVRE

ernie clement with the most photogenic slide home, leg kicking, arm outstretched, and smiling

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MAiDHouse Canada @maidhouse.ca · 2d

Resharing from Bridge C-14's Facebook page:

🌟RESEARCH OPPORTUNITY: Inviting participants for a study on Doulas and MAiD — exploring how #deathdoulas can best support people & families through #MAiD .

⌚ 30–60 minute Zoom interview
💰 $45 honorarium

More info: www.facebook.com/share/p/1Loo...

A photo of a person using a laptop. Over the photo is written: "RESEARCH OPPORTUNITY: See post for details."

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Adrianna 🇨🇦 Lady Death Doula @adriannap.bsky.social · 2d

a man says instantly i 'm feeling this like deep aching sense of dread in front of a door

ALT: a man says instantly i 'm feeling this like deep aching sense of dread in front of a door

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Adrianna 🇨🇦 Lady Death Doula @adriannap.bsky.social · 2d

Join me on November 13 at 12pm EST with Greg Barnsdale talking about November is Make a Will month in Canada: open.substack.com/live-stream/...

#deathdoula

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Canadian Virtual Hospice @virtualhospice.bsky.social · 5d

Join Holly Prince, Betty McKenna, Albert McLeod, and Kathy MacLeod-Beaver on Nov 12 to learn about the unacknowledged grief. Canadian Virtual Hospice is honoured to partner in this Indigenous Voices webinar. Register here: buff.ly/UMPHNHV

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Adrianna 🇨🇦 Lady Death Doula @adriannap.bsky.social · 3d

Beautiful Samhain and Nos Galan Gaeaf to you and yours 🧡🍂🔥

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Adrianna 🇨🇦 Lady Death Doula @adriannap.bsky.social · 5d

It’s looking pretty wet out there, Toronto… My final grief walks might need to move online! Stay tuned I will check in closer to the walk time with weather updates and a link if necessary ☔️

Adrianna 🇨🇦 Lady Death Doula @adriannap.bsky.social · 7d

Final gathering for Grief Walks is this Thursday Oct 30th www.adrianna-prosser.com/2025/07/23/g... *weather permitting

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jenny (phire) @phirephoenix.com · 7d

The newsletter is later than normal because there was a LOT to yell about this week!! Fuck Bill 60!! And just because the government relented slightly does not mean we're backing down an inch!! Doug Ford is a garbage clown, with apologies to clowns!!
buttondown.com/showup/archi...

Show Up Toronto, October 28 2025

Hi friends and neighbours, It will not come as a surprise to you that this newsletter's official political stance is that Doug Ford is a nightmare human...

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Adrianna 🇨🇦 Lady Death Doula @adriannap.bsky.social · 7d

My friends do cool shit: buttondown.com/blog/jenny-z... and you should get on @showuptoronto.ca newsletter too! @phirephoenix.com 👑

How Jenny Zhang uses Buttondown

Jenny uses Buttondown to inspire readers to show up and show out for their communities.

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 10d

When Doug Ford spends $75 million dollars of tax payer money on a commercial in praise of Ronald Regan, all while trying to enable landlords to throw us out of our homes to protect their investment, he is telling us who he is:

Someone who will sell us all up shit creek so his friends can profit.

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Adrianna 🇨🇦 Lady Death Doula @adriannap.bsky.social · 9d

Today I led a small group through Samhain rituals and practices and we made our own memento mori - a small coffin with sigils and intention to work into our Turn of the Wheel

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · Dec 5

I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world.

This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵

OBSERVED EFFECTS OF UBI

No significant reduction in labor supply (38 studies meta-analysis)

Increased self-employment (301%) and part-time employment (17%)

Slight decrease in alcohol and tobacco use (31 studies meta-analysis)

New mothers extend their maternity leaves

Birth weights improve due to better maternal nutrition

Graduation rates and educational outcomes improve

Hospitalization rates decline (8.5%)

Crime goes down (15%–42%) especially illegal hunting (95%)

Domestic violence decreases (30%–51%)

Trust increases (13% in politicians | 6% in other people)

Home ownership rates increase (17%–26%)

Food security increases as does consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables

Improved cognitive functioning (43%) and personality traits (31%)

Savings go up, debts go down

Source: scottsantens

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Adrianna 🇨🇦 Lady Death Doula @adriannap.bsky.social · 10d

Oh hey I’m studying this in Systems Theory in my social work degree and yup, media 💯 impacts politics 🙃

The Hill Times @hilltimes.com · 11d

Gerry Nicholls: How social media impacts politics

www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

How social media impacts politics

A recent study by the Canadian Digital Media Research Network, noted that '[social media] influencers, not parties, or newsrooms, dominated distribution and attention across platforms during [this…

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 11d

The Ford Government Has A Special Message For Ontario Renters

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The Ford Government Has A Special Message For Ontario Renters

YouTube video by Clare Blackwood

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Adrianna 🇨🇦 Lady Death Doula @adriannap.bsky.social · 10d

Do you know how you “unlock” units? By going back to the 2018 rental cap ban and undoing the harms that Ford’s policies got us here in the first place.

Jonathan Goldsbie @goldsbie.bsky.social · 12d

At a press conference this afternoon, Attorney General Doug Downey said they want to move away from requiring "evergreen leases, that just go on with no end in sight":

Reporter: With respect to what we were told this morning about the government consulting on “alternative options” essentially that could allow landlords to end leases — I think this is a question best for the Attorney General? Just wondering what you are looking at there.

Attorney General Doug Downey: Well, we've heard from stakeholders that these evergreen leases, that just go on with no end in sight, may not be the appropriate — other jurisdictions, when we did a scan across the country, do different things. But we weren't confident that we had the answer, and we only want to move with confidence. So we're going to go back out and talk to landlords and tenants and organizations and see if there's a better way for the people of Ontario to unlock that housing that isn't happening now.

Reporter: But that's housing that people are in. They're tenants, right? It's hard to see a world in which, if you're giving landlords more power to end leases, that they're not gonna want to get in a tenant that will pay more. So is this not inevitably gonna end up with higher rents, more people getting kicked out of their rentals?

Downey: We're gonna consult widely on it. What we do know is there are a lot of landlords that are not putting their units on the market. We need to get those units. I'm convinced if we get the right balance, we'll unlock tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of new units, and those will be places that people that currently don't have a place to be will be able to rent.

Reporter: So, sorry, you're saying that if landlords, there are some landlords that if there are more flexible types of agreements that they would be willing to rent currently unrented spaces?

Downey: I’ve been told that repeatedly, for years, that some landlords are not entering the market because they don't have confidence in it.

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Jonathan Goldsbie @goldsbie.bsky.social · 12d

The Ford government has announced plans to shred a bunch of tenant protections: news.ontario.ca/assets/files... (pdf, see p. 13-15)

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Centre for Open Thanatology @openthanatology.bsky.social · 11d

New short article out now! -- Between life and death: what Halloween reveals about our fear of the afterlife -- www.open.edu/openlearn/he...

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Adrianna 🇨🇦 Lady Death Doula @adriannap.bsky.social · 11d

We braved it! Thank you so much to all that came out even with the threat of rain 🧡

Adrianna 🇨🇦 Lady Death Doula @adriannap.bsky.social · 12d

Weather might cancel our Grief Walks tonight: rain called for 5pm-7pm right when we are at the park! Let's check in at 5 pm to see if it's just a light mist or a downpour cancellation situation