Candy Chou

Math educator for the Peel District School Board. Proud owner of two beautiful cats. She/They. LGBTQ+.

[Candy Chou @themathchou]

Create more gender neutral washrooms in the Peel District School Board https://t.co/q6Vf7PsKVL via @CdnChange

[Katie Pennick @KatiePennick]

barbie’s wheelchair vs my actual wheelchair: a critical comparison

aka the best twitter thread i will ever post

strap in

#Barbie

[Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli]

Still can't believe in the year 2023 we have billionaires going to the US friggen Senate and saying they SHARE their wealth with their employees. The absolute gall.

[MichaelHurleyCUPE @HurleyOCHUCUPE]

Despite the evidence that privately delivered surgeries have higher death rates, worse outcomes, higher costs and bleed staff away from the public system, the Ford government has introduced legislation today. Our job now is to battle like never before for the public system.

[Jorts (and Jean) @JortsTheCat]

The real labor shortage is the shortage of good, safe, fair-wage union jobs. Shortage of affordable childcare. Shortage of labor protections. Shortage of healthcare leading to an excess of disability. These are real shortages

[Jorts (and Jean) @JortsTheCat]

All those op-eds about a “labor shortage” were trying to get us to accept stuff like letting kids work in meatpacking plants. Raise the wage and hire adults

[Randall Munroe @xkcd]

(Thread) In the first What If? book, I answered a question about cooking a steak by dropping it from space. At one point, I commented—jokingly!—that if anyone put a steak in a hypersonic wind tunnel to gather better data, I’d love to see the video.

Well, I have good news.

[Candy Chou @themathchou]

It's my second time getting covid in 4 months and both times from work. 🥲

[Zack Bornstein @ZackBornstein]

I don’t understand how COVID is spiking again after we’ve tried everything from pretending it’s over to pretending it never happened

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

When rail workers want to strike: “but it’ll hurt the economy!”

When nurses want to strike: “what about the patients?!”

When teachers want to strike: “what about the kids?!”

This is union-busting propaganda.

Strikes are hard on workers and are an essential part of bargaining.

[Teen Vogue @TeenVogue]

#OpEd: "When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure." https://t.co/yTjMCGkCne

[drewtoothpaste.bsky.social @drewtoothpaste]

the republicans and democrats will never hate each other as much as they both hate the working class

[margo steines @margosteines]

...sounds like it would be a MESS but i am here to tell you it is the BEST thing i have ever done at this work. they are SO appreciative. they do ALL the work. i spend ZERO time hassling ppl to turn stuff in. it feels HUMANE

[margo steines @margosteines]

this semester i tried a radical thing where i made every single deadline flexible for my college writing students. every single one! no "i almost died" note required. the policy is that if they aren't going to meet the deadline, they just propose an alternate one. i bet this...

[Jeff Hall @JHallinPeel]

People in political power talk about how difficult the past 2+ years have been for students in schools while never tying that to their own policies (or lack of) that didn’t mitigate the effects of COVID in the first place.

[Colin D'Mello | Global News @ColinDMello]

NEW: CUPE says it will not accept a two tiered wage increase — and that the reported offer of 3.5% is not what they received.

#onpoli #onpoli