Hakique Virani🟠

Assoc Prof/MD @UAlberta. Recovering federal Medical Officer of Health.
Drugs, drug policy, social justice.
Bylines: @GlobeAndMail @TorontoStar @VICE @CBC et al

[Hakique Virani🟠 @hakique]

We spend Christmastime with the people we love most.
Like we do on birthdays.
My birthday happens to be Christmas Day.
And this one - the first without my dad - is the worst one of my life.

I feel like people on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside would understand.
(Story/Thread)

[Hakique Virani🟠 @hakique]

GM to everybody except @PurolatorInc @PurolatorHelp because they are horrible. They lost a laptop+ and pretended it's been stuck in a "rail delay" for over 3 weeks. Finally fessed up that they lost it, ("Sorry for any inconvenience," they said) AND SENT ME A BILL FOR SHIPPING.

[Hakique Virani🟠 @hakique]

Oooh bad sentence. I haven't tweeted in a while. I didn't mean I changed his poopy diapers while I gave a TED talk or that he gave a TED talk while I changed his poopy diapers. There were 15 years in between the two things and hopefully more before he changes mine.

[Hakique Virani🟠 @hakique]

Here's a kid whose poopy diapers I changed giving a @TEDx talk.

Zidaan Virani on how the answer to the world's grown up problems might be found in baby talk research.

https://t.co/U2kTccv6w1

[Hakique Virani🟠 @hakique]

Have you ever noticed how password recovery questions include "Who was your favourite schoolteacher?" but never "Who was your favourite Minister of Education?"

[Hakique Virani🟠 @hakique]

Everything I don't owe to my parents, I owe to my teachers.

[Hakique Virani🟠 @hakique]

That thing people say when someone dies..."I wish I would have told them _____ when I had the chance"... Dr. Darren Markland would never have to say that. He took every chance to lift people up.

We'll miss him desperately, but it'll be easier, I think, if we're more like him

[Darren Markland @drdagly]

So ... to @hakique, @kathryndong, @ehyshka @erdance and all the unsung hero’s who fight for social equity and support of our marginalized populations and for every social worker who’s dug deep for limited resources to the benefit of our patients, I get it. 🙏🙏

[Hakique Virani🟠 @hakique]

So, hypothetically, would the internet be more fussed about a grainy pic of two people cheating at a Coldplay concert or HD video of a state killing tens of thousands of innocent civilians?

[Hakique Virani🟠 @hakique]

DON'T: use urine toxicology testing to "fire" patients or make them feel untrustworthy
DO: use it for #AprilFools gags on pre-med students

[Hakique Virani🟠 @hakique]

Congratulations, @WabKinew and congratulations Manitoba for choosing Reconciliation over conceal-iation.
#SearchTheLandfill

[Wab Kinew @WabKinew]

We started our campaign believing in you – the people of Manitoba.

And in return, so many of you put your faith in us. You came out to support us – some for the very first time. You made calls & knocked doors. You voted.

From the bottom of my heart – Thank you. Merci. Miigwech.

[Global Strategy Lab @gstrategylab]

🗓️ Don't miss today's debate-style event ft. arguments in favour & against transforming the CMOH into a more independent position. Two debating teams include: @FafardPatrick, @ehyshka, @hakique, and @DrJaredWesley.
Learn more➡️https://t.co/ClnArVy2F8
@UAlbertaSPH @UofA_Arts

[Hakique Virani🟠 @hakique]

@drdagly Glad it dawned on you.

[Hakique Virani🟠 @hakique]

@ZoeDodd Well, it's been super duper for police budgets.

[Hakique Virani🟠 @hakique]

Hey @ViraniArif, congratulations on the cabinet thing. Listen, would you read this? Then we'll discuss it at Thanksgiving dinner. K, thanks,
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[Hakique Virani🟠 @hakique]

@zainvelji @sorayalakhani @RachelNotley May I introduce her to my 13 year old?

[Hakique Virani🟠 @hakique]

@EdifyEdmonton @princegarth Great job with Westbrook School tonight, Garth!

[Hakique Virani🟠 @hakique]

The compulsion to put a label on every difference: Diagnosis Use Disorder (DUD).

[Hakique Virani🟠 @hakique]

We spend Christmastime with the people we love most.
Like we do on birthdays.
My birthday happens to be Christmas Day.
And this one - the first without my dad - is the worst one of my life.

I feel like people on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside would understand.
(Story/Thread)

[Hakique Virani🟠 @hakique]

@rebeccajsaah Does this help?

[Brendan Little @blittle86]

Excellent new op-ed by @maiasz. It’s so important to contextualize our drug crisis in economic and political histories. Read this, and everything else she writes. https://t.co/e8BIgVfU7N

[Hakique Virani🟠 @hakique]

@CaulfieldTim @InglesDietitian Dupe feels like it could work, too.