Leslie

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Leslie

Leslie

@WordJunkie12

Hiker. Reader. Volunteer. Mom. Active school transportation advocate🚶🏼‍♀️ 🚴🏾 👨🏽‍🦽 🛴.

Kitchener, Ontario Katılım Şubat 2012
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Lenore Skenazy@FreeRangeKids·
Extremely helpful, simple, FREE guide (with videos) of how to play 20 classic backyard games like Blind Man's Bluff, Spud, and Freeze Tag. Perfect for summer! From @LetGrowOrg, the nonprofit promoting childhood independence & free play! letgrow.org/backyard-games…
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Leslie@WordJunkie12·
I just signed the Cooperate for Canada Federal Voting Pledge to support cooperation of the progressive Parties for the next election. You can too! Visit : actionnetwork.org/forms/cooperat…
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Grand River Transit
Grand River Transit@GRT_ROW·
Due to extremely cold temperatures, ION train doors will remain closed while trains are waiting at Conestoga and Fairway Stations for the next few days. Press the red button to open the doors.
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Leslie@WordJunkie12·
The traffic scene close to schools is often so frightening that parents feel they can’t let their children walk. It’s a school traffic catch-22. Community Safety Zones can help.
Region of Waterloo@RegionWaterloo

More kids than ever are being driven to school because parents no longer feel safe letting their kids walk, or ride their bikes. Our latest epi of #YourRegionPod looks at Community Safety Zones. Tune in to learn what they are, why they're needed & how they're enforced.

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Leslie@WordJunkie12·
@AislinnClancyKC Thank you for being there for us when we can’t attend. I’m heading home from a Safe Routes to School conference in Ft. Collins, Co, and I’m bringing some new ideas with me - tearing up bike lanes is definitely not one of them.
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Aislinn Clancy
Aislinn Clancy@AislinnClancyKC·
Tearing up bike lanes won't solve the gridlock in our province. Ford knows that even as he ramps up his culture-war BS. I'm fighting for a safe ride to school for my kids and a safe commute for all cyclists. We can't let the Ford government get away with this. #onpoli
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Leslie@WordJunkie12·
Yes!!
Jennifer Keesmaat@jen_keesmaat

To put the bike lane debate in Toronto in perspective, more people commute by bike each day in Toronto than the entire population that lives in Barrie, Ontario. Or Kingston. Or Guelph. Or Sudbury. It's pretty rich that the Province wants to tell us how to get around our own city. If they don't like sitting in traffic when they get here, they should go fix regional transit. That is their mess - and the true culprit for congestion in the city. Anyone who understands physics knows that cyclists are part of the solution.

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Leslie@WordJunkie12·
@m2bowman @WR_Record Also, language matters. “Driver hits pedestrian” is more accurate and indicates person-to-person interaction.
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Leslie@WordJunkie12·
@itskeean @m2bowman The presence of CTS sites close to schools does impact parents’ choice to allow their children to walk to school, though I believe there are solutions to this problem that can ensure all citizens are supported.
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Keean
Keean@itskeean·
agree the timing seems like pre-election season pandering versus genuinely asking these questions to solve a serious nationwide epidemic, agree CTS are needed as part of larger support, and agree the specific distance may be a bit odd i do think though that both perspectives here have somewhat reasonable suggestions and a compromise is definitely needed, but far too often, specifically re: drug use and harm reduction, everyone is far too extreme and illogical lol
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Brent Toderian
Brent Toderian@BrentToderian·
Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s safer to NOT have them. Via @StreetsblogUSA usa.streetsblog.org/2019/05/29/pro…
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Federation of Canadian Municipalities
Federation of Canadian Municipalities@FCM_online·
We need more than houses to accommodate our growing communities. We need to invest in where we play and the roads that take us where we need to be.
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Leslie@WordJunkie12·
@JohnHil39912325 @farwell_WR When the eclipse peaks, a LOT of the 80,000+ students in the region will be on their way home…many unsupervised.
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John Hillman
John Hillman@JohnHil39912325·
@farwell_WR What educational experience are they going to have at 3:20 pm when it is supposed at its peak? It’s the end of the day and can be discussed the Friday before. Not like the ministry is going to fund for safety glasses to view it in anyway.
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Laura Mitchell
Laura Mitchell@LauraGMitchell·
To all of the working parents struggling to manage the logistics of a school day that doesn’t align with the work day, release days, the expenses of before/after care… I have a story about living in a walkable neighborhood & sending your kids to the neighborhood school. 1/8
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Darren Markland
Darren Markland@drdagly·
That pharmacists can prescribe therapies that they sell is a huge conflict of interest. More importantly, these measures further imperil family practices and fragment heath care, while increasing the referrals of challenging cases to overloaded ERs.
Adriana LaGrange@AdrianaLaGrange

Pharmacists are integral to the health system and the provision of high-quality care to Albertans. Shoppers Drug Mart’s investment in primary care firmly aligns with our government’s efforts to refocus our healthcare system and provide innovative, easily accessible care in Albertan communities. We appreciate Shoppers Drug Mart’s commitment to supporting Albertans.

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Blake Shaffer 📊🇨🇦🇺🇦
Blake Shaffer 📊🇨🇦🇺🇦@bcshaffer·
"But what if we had one million EVs??? 😱😱" Let's put 1M EVs in Alberta in context...
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Jennifer Keesmaat
Jennifer Keesmaat@jen_keesmaat·
This is something: an article in the Journal of Pediatric Medicine makes the case that the rise in anxiety and depression in children and youth is linked to the severe (and relatively recent) curtailing of independence. Roaming, making choices, getting into a little trouble, it turns out, is a necessary part of growing up. When you take this away, children become unable to navigate the ebbs and flows of the real world. I made this argument in my TED talk a decade ago about the importance of walking to school - arguing that walking to school is not frivolous, but rather critical, to childhood. Another blow against cities designed for driving. “Our thesis is that a primary cause of the rise in mental disorders is a decline over decades in opportunities for children and teens to play, roam, and engage in other activities independent of direct oversight and control by adults.” jpeds.com/article/S0022-…
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