Tamara Gignac

Calgary Herald city reporter. Mother, runner, Mad Men scholar. Wistful traveller always dreaming of the next flight. Stage IV Colon Cancer. I intend to survive.

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ICYMI from @newyorktimes: Behind a ’71 Coke Jingle, a Man Who Wasn’t Mad http://t.co/JRefD51mgD #MadMenFinale

[This Hour Has 22 Minutes @22_Minutes]

Susan Kent runs down the new book releases from your favourite (or maybe least favourite) politicians. http://t.co/NuKfdMBktP

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From the @washingtonpost: The best (and worst) countries to be a mother http://t.co/wNcQDuVNsd

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True love! #cancer @swervecalgary #yyc #terminalcancer https://t.co/zsrjntcANl

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Check out the new oil-emblazoned People's Republic of Albertastan T-shirts. #abvote http://t.co/UZoECTe2ZK #ableg

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Is this my last Mother's Day? On leaving your children motherless... and living life on borrowed time. #cancer http://t.co/smdZN5bIDu

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I am a glutton for spoilers. A glance at the always brilliant #MadMen tweets from @tomandlorenzo has me frightened. Heartbreaking tonight?

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From @perrystein: how barbers are helping raise #colon #cancer awareness among African-American clients http://t.co/wUhQjMKhG0

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Paul Wells in Alberta: Could Jim Prentice actually lose? http://t.co/2kwitl7zFI via @macleansmag

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Spending the day in the E/R and then in an operating room does not make me happy on a beloved #MadMen Sunday. #EndofanEra @MadMen_AMC

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Cable-cutter fans of #MadMen gather at local bars to sip Vodka Gimlets, watch show. Anywhere in #yyc? http://t.co/Z6TuRgmkwG

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You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying overhead, but you can prevent them from landing in your hair." -Chinese proverb #cancer

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What matters is not what life does to you but rather what you do with what life does to you. -Edgar Jackson #cancer #hope

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Here's one to start the day: "Better to fight and fail than to live without hope." #cancer

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Here they are: a list of the top 10 #books most likely to be pulled from library shelves because of complaints:. http://t.co/ktYyMiOH5q

[André Picard @picardonhealth]

Love, Death and Spaghetti: A hospice nurse on families' struggles to stop feeding dying loved ones, by @TheresaBrown http://t.co/FAYmd6Cmqw

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@MomBMW I agree, although I can see @VanHeathen really digging the Batman-inspired #Liverpool holiday. #differentstrokes

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Stilted cages, hobbit holes, Joker boats and buckets of slime: A bizarre twist on family #travel options. #parenting http://t.co/fsljLdVQg4

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The back of my #MadMen T-shirt reads "Sayonara my friend. Enjoy the rest of your miserable existence."

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Happy to report I am finally sitting down to #MadMen with my beloved paraphernalia. Here is my Roger Sterling mug.