#babybytes

Recently, as I’ve encountered people who are in favour of removing supports from some disabled kids because ‘they aren’t disabled enough,’ or questions about what these proposed changes will look like in reality, or statements that maybe need a little bit of fact checking, or deflections from the issues at hand because other governing parties would have been worse, etc, I’ve written various…

Danielle Smith: Good evening, everyone, and thank you for taking time to join us tonight. I know many of you are signing in at the end of a long day and just after Family Day long weekend, so I truly, really appreciate you being here. For those of you celebrating Lunar New Year, we also want to extend warm wishes to you and your families. We hope the season brings health, renewal, and good…

Today, I learned that that the MLA, Jodie Wickens, who is the face of a reduction in supports for some disabled kids in the province of British Columiba, is, herself, the parent of an Autistic child who has aged out (in the past year or two) of that same system she currently has on the cutting board. And that, in the past, she advocated for all Autistic kids to receive the support they need.…

December 12, 2024 Hello everyone, This week, after many months of advocacy, and a push for needed fair and transparent mediation, and after still being prevented from being able to actually actively do work within DPAC, we have received confirmation that mediation at Vancouver DPAC is, indeed, not on the table. Due to this revelation, and continued mistreatment within DPAC, Karen Tsang and I…

This 👆 is a topic that I think about a lot. We’ve seen many COVID-aware people lay out their plans about how they’re going to travel and eat in restaurants safely, to minimize THEIR risk (which, yes, might also minimize risk to the communities they visit/return to). They do it in such a way/with a tone so as to sound like they’re justifying why they’re making the decision to travel during a…

Date and time of email: May 24, 2023; 22h22 Hello Attorney General Sharma, Minister Singh, Minister Ma; Today, I am sending the three of you more information on the continued discoveries of potential health harms – many specifically in children – due to allowing COVID to continue to spread unchecked. Please note that none of you need to reply to this email; I do not require nor desire yet…

Nothing meaningful has been done to protect at-risk kids since I was given the opportunity to present this speech at the Safe Schools Rally at the Vancouver Art Gallery on the afternoon of August 14, 2021. Instead of dying away in the bowels of my computer, I present it here, as part of the documentation of how high risk kids have been failed, harmed, continuously throughout the SARS2/COVID…

How to thank you, John Horgan, on your retirement? (Originally, I wrote this letter to you for your 2022 birthday, but I missed the submission deadline, because I was busy trying to figure out how to keep my kids safe at school during a pandemic… for a third [pandemic] year… I’ve adjusted it a little, but much of it still stands, so here you go.) Thank you for letting thousands of people die…