Kristi (she/her)

Photographer, traveler, writer, adventurer. Outdoor enthusiast. Animal lover. Event planner. Grieving momma. Alysia💗

[Lindsay Warner @Lindsay_Warner]

Brace yourself. This is a tough image to see of Jasper- Maligne Lodge. Same eyewitness says PetroCan/ Brightspot were hit. This was over half hour ago.
(Please note, I did not take this photo and was personally sent it under the guise the photo capturer wants anonymity)

[ℳatt (matttomic.bsky.social) @matttomic]

Toronto sits in a basin surrounded by the Greenbelt, a system of woods and wetlands that perform a crucial role of absorbing water. The Ontario government recently voted to open them up to development, paving them over, giving rainfall nowhere to go.

It's only gonna get worse.

[Made In Canada @MadelnCanada]

Ontario right now

[George Stroumboulopoulos 🐺 @strombo]

Those who actively work to remove public spaces are the villains of a city.
Make no mistake—they work on behalf of the few and abandon the people.

[Kristi (she/her) @KristiGraham40]

Save Ontario Place https://t.co/cEOGgdytLt via @CdnChange
#saveontarioplace

[Instant Weather Ontario ⚡️ @IWeatherON]

#ONStorm #ONwx 🆕 SNOWFALL FORECAST UPDATE

📅 Thursday, February 15 - Friday, February 16, 2024

Good morning! After reviewing the latest data, we've made several adjustments to our final forecast map for the snowfall set to begin later this morning and extend into the afternoon.

The worst conditions are expected during the afternoon hours with strong wind gusts leading to blowing snow and reduced visibility on the roads. Conditions will improve by the end of the day for most areas, but snow squalls will develop off Lake Huron and Georgian Bay later tonight.

The primary update is that we now anticipate the higher snowfall totals, exceeding 15cm, to be more localized to Central Ontario and the Grey-Bruce region. This is where lake effect snow is expected to enhance snowfall rates. Consequently, we've adjusted the forecast range from 15-25cm down to 15-20cm, as the higher end of the range no longer seems supported by current data. While some areas may still experience local amounts up to 25cm, such occurrences will be relatively isolated.

Areas including Port Elgin, Hanover, and Chatsworth are predicted to see around 20-30cm, combining system snow on Thursday with snow squall activity beginning late Thursday night into Friday. This zone has been narrowed as models provide greater clarity on the specific areas likely to be impacted by snow squall activity.

For locations such as Kitchener, Guelph, Barrie, Peterborough, Smiths Falls, and Ottawa, snowfall totals are projected to be around 10-15cm. In the stretch from the Greater Toronto Area through to Kingston and into Extreme Eastern Ontario, we are forecasting 5 to 10cm of snow. Totals are expected to lean towards the 10cm mark further from the Lake Ontario shoreline, with those in closer proximity likely receiving closer to 5cm.

In the south, anticipated snow amounts for London and Hamilton have been revised downwards from 5-10cm to 2-5cm. Along the Lake Erie shoreline and into Deep Southwestern Ontario, minimal accumulation is expected due to a mix with rain.

We will continue to keep you updated with the latest information throughout the day. Stay tuned!

- Brennen

[George Stroumboulopoulos 🐺 @strombo]

Nova Scotia!

[Kristi (she/her) @KristiGraham40]

@VancouverSun @DavidEby @BCNursesUnion My sister was horrifically assaulted by a patient while at work in a hospital in Vancouver. She has not yet been able to return to work due to the trauma and the pain inflicted on her from her injuries from this event. Where’s the outrage for her? And other nurses like her?

[Kristi (she/her) @KristiGraham40]

@VancouverSun @DavidEby @BCNursesUnion Perhaps the state of our healthcare system would be improved and “kept running” if nurses actually felt safe going to work and did not have to leave their position on disability because of that fear.

4/4 @BCNursesUnion

[Julia Malott @AlottaMalotta]

Please share this widely! I couldn't be more terrified of our country's healthcare crisis and @ONThealth can do better!

Ontario healthcare is broken and we've long known it. It's been like this my entire lifetime, and I'm not exactly young.

This is my daughter's IV line, which she's been connected to since 2:00am this morning. She's been awake for well over 24 hours, as have I, as we await care at @StMarysGenHosp in Kitchener, Ontario.

We arrived shortly after 10:00pm yesterday evening after my daughter complained of excruciating abdominal pain. As usual, care took hours to arrive. She was given a bed where she squirmed and sobbed until finally, shortly after 2:00am, the doctor paid her a visit and ordered pain meds to make things bearable.

It was evident by 4:00am that we were almost certainly looking at appendicitis, as the pain was centralizing in the lower right quadrant. We all suspected this, but we couldn't confirm until 8:00am because... apparently we don't have ultrasound technicians during the evening. No one has medical emergencies in the middle of the night, I suppose?

For those who haven't had the pleasure of an inflamed appendix, appendicitis often leads to a ruptured appendix after a period of increasing pain, and that rupture can be fatal. Fortunately for us that hasn't happened yet, but time matters. There's nothing this hospital can do for us as 'we need to confirm it's appendicitis'. We wait until 8:00am

By 5:00am we are told that my daughter needs to give up her emergency room bed. Someone else needs it. She is still in pain, but will now make due sitting in the waiting room, putting pressure on her abdomen in the process. There's no negotiation—there are no beds available.

We wait until 8:00am. We wait until 9:00am. Some guy walks in with a Tim Horton's cup during our tenure and gets the first ultrasound slot. I'm sure his condition was just as severe.

By 10:00am the doctor confirmed what had been evident for hours—we've got a case of appendicitis on our hands and we need to move forward with emergency surgery.

...Except... they can't do that in this particular hospital and @grhospitalkw doesn't have any beds available either. No one knows when they will have a bed for my daughter who is both sleep deprived and in critical medical condition.

I inquire. An hour? A bed by noon? Will we even get one today?

No one has an answer. No one wants to have the conversation. I can tell I am a burden to the overworked staff.

We return to the waiting room and my daughter keeps sitting. She's been awake now since yesterday morning. Her pain flares up every few hours and—after being brought almost to tears the edge is subdued with another dose of pain suppressants.

She's refused a bed because there are no beds available, and I can't take her home to her bed because she needs surgery—though there's none of that available either.

She hasn't eaten in more than 18 hours and she's been told that she's not allowed one bite because she might have surgery any moment... Or perhaps never... so we sit and wait—watching her IV machine go into upstream occlusion every 5 minutes. The nurses don't have time to do anything about it.

This is a simple problem to fix. Fund our healthcare system! @SylviaJonesMPP, @fordnation, our citizens deserve better.

Fix it!

[Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy]

If you think carbon pricing is “making your life unaffordable” wait’ll you see how unaffordable your life gets with privatized healthcare.

Like, literally.

[Kristi (she/her) @KristiGraham40]

@Nancyjamrogiew4 Me too. Dating is brutal.

[Kristi (she/her) @KristiGraham40]

@AshleyAlready 10000% this. The number of ‘nice’ guys in my extended friend group who reach out to say ‘thinking of you’, or ‘you are stunning’, etc, etc, and when I don’t answer them, they block me. It’s absolutely wild.

[Kristi (she/her) @KristiGraham40]

@ianhanomansing 30% tip is absolutely outrageous, for anything, and I used to work in the service industry. Hard NO to that insanity.

[Kristi (she/her) @KristiGraham40]

@caseyjoloos @burgerspriest Hell yeah!!!

[Jennifer Keesmaat @jen_keesmaat]

Time for a Public Enquiry into the #EglintonCrosstownDisaster

- Years overdue
- $3 billion over budget (that’s nutty!)
- 98% complete with no open date
- corridor remains a construction mess, unsafe in key areas
- no accountability for the failure

In a city that urgently needs rapid transit, where taxpayers have invested billions in said transit, where it seems like leaders are shrugging this off, we need to demand an investigation. Something, anything to upend the apathy.

We need to get to the bottom of this, rather than taking it on the chin. This City deserves better.

[Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy]

So, Greenbelt parcels go back, and the developers may end up with millions or billions in compensation, compliments of us.

That's what you call making mad stacks in your sleep, folks.