Naomi Skwarna

Anne Frank died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen

As a woman in STEM I am equipped to answer the most pressing of scientific queries

A black truck with an illustration of an ice skate on it and text that says Skate Lending Library, located in Toronto Ontario

So curious about this truck I saw yesterday that I looked it up...turns out this is the 2nd or 3rd year that the city has been delivering free skates and helmets to specific Toronto rinks all winter! Details for Toronto's Skate Lending Library here: www.toronto.ca/explore-enjo...

for World AIDS Day, a 1988 cartoon from the Advocate's Gerald Donelan

Works of Care: Amina Cain and Lisa Robertson in conversation - Freud Museum London All registrants will receive their link to join via ZOOM. Attendees will also receive access to the recording on the Monday after the event, available to

Very much looking forward to this conversation w/ Lisa Robertson and curator Gemma Blackshaw (Wednesday eve London time) in conjunction with artist Cathie Pilkington's HOUSEKEEPER at the Freud Museum. www.freud.org.uk/event/works-...

I shall astrally project myself there

😳 I had no idea HIV cases in Canada surged by 35% in 2023, so recently! We have PrEP now, this shouldn’t be happening, except not everyone has access 💰 to those meds.

Novo Nordisk is a beautiful name for a baby girl who is also a pharmaceutical company

Delighted to announce that no

when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean

A Battle with My Blood When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.

Devastating essay about living with a terminal cancer diagnosis at 35, made more devastating by the author's relation to the health and human services secretary who's spent the past year cutting cancer research.

The Life and Legacy of Sion Assidon For the Moroccan Jewish leftist, the decolonization of his homeland and the liberation of Palestine were inextricably entwined.

"Assidon believed that, at its core, the Palestinian cause is a matter of human justice, that its rationale is one of righting wrongs—and, as such, does not allow for half measures."

Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.

A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...

Alberta plans to allow doctors to deliver public and private services Draft legislation would establish a model for medicine unlike any other in Canada

SCOOP: Alberta intends to allow doctors working in the public health care system to simultaneously offers services in a parallel private market, according to draft amendments obtained by The Globe and Mail
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...

The Emperor of All M'ladies

Potentially powerful new website launched today by the Canadian Cancer Society & Quebec–Clinical Research Organization in Cancer: a bilingual database of clinical trials that could be a valuable tool for Canadian cancer patients and their families. www.cancertrialscanada.ca

Israel killed at least 104 people in Gaza, including 46 children, in overnight strikes on the Palestinian territory.

The attacks came after Israel claimed its soldiers came under attack by Hamas militants, though the group denied responsibility.

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Remembering Hossam Shabat: Gaza Journalist Killed by Israel Was Placed on “Hit List” Before His Death On Monday, Israeli strikes killed two Palestinian journalists: Al Jazeera’s Hossam Shabat, who was 23 years old, and Palestine Today’s Mohammed Mansour, who was killed in his apartment alongside his...

Remembering Hossam Shabat: Gaza Journalist Killed by Israel Was Placed on "Hit List" Before His Death

Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

There should be another bed inside your bed that you can really get into

Put Down Your Phone and Head to The Theatre - Macleans.ca The art form is an antidote to our polarized, distracted culture

Really liked this smartly positioned piece by @crowstheatre.bsky.social AD Chris Abraham. Appreciated reading about the less obvious (economic) value of Canadian theatre + a nice argument for live performance tax credits: macleans.ca/culture/put-...

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For 2025, the colour of the year will be a living green (which is also a dying green) | CBC Arts While brat was a green for the screen, the earthy palette artists are gravitating toward now is a kind of memento mori — a visual reminder that death is coming.

I wrote about green as a colour that lives and dies www.cbc.ca/arts/for-202...

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How interesting

i'm ok watching these three perfect seasons for the rest of my life

Body so tea it keeps the score

haha yeah....that's what i'm talkin about