Karen Dar Woon

To all the people screaming about declining birth rates, let’s talk about Chelsea Walsh. She was pregnant, needed a work from home accommodation to prevent early labor, and was denied. She delivered prematurely. Her baby died. This is what happens when we fail mothers. You don’t get to panic about birth rates while refusing to create basic protections for pregnant people. Put your money where your mouth is or sit all the way down.

Equinox! Happy Spring / Happy Fall, depending on where you find yourself on this precious planet of ours. #equinox

Client was a VP at a large company. 62 years old. Was going to work until 65. January: called into HR. Severance package. Sign by Friday. He called me that afternoon. "I think I just got retired." No transition. No goodbye lunch. No plan. His whole identity was that job. His social life was those people. His purpose showed up every morning at 7:45am. The money was fine. We figured out the money in two meetings. The identity took a few years. He told me recently: "The hardest part wasn't losing the job. It was realizing I'd built my whole life inside someone else's building." Retirement that happens to you hits completely differently than retirement you choose. Millions of people in their 60s are navigating this right now and nobody is talking about it.

@yvessirae Success rarely happens in isolation, there’s often a network of care and effort behind it. And it also shows the importance of noticing, valuing, and sharing that work rather than taking it for granted.

Tonight, we cry tears of joy. 🥹 Congratulations to Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski, and to everyone behind THE GIRL WHO CRIED PEARLS, for bringing home the #Oscar for Best Animated Short! 🏆🇨🇦✨ Stream it for free → bit.ly/CriedPearlsNFB @TheAcademy #StreamCanadian #Oscars2026

@vitt2tsnoc How was this not standard practice? Maybe @TravelodgeUK could use this training video ... "Why Hotel Staff Shouldn't Say Room Numbers Out Loud" youtu.be/FFCXgz28o3g?si… via @YouTube

What a day for Canada at the Paralympics. There are only two team sports in the Winter Paralympics, wheelchair curling and para ice hockey. Canada will play for gold in both. Wheelchair curling gold Saturday. Para ice hockey gold on Sunday.

I often talk about "decoupling survival from employment." It’s the most important economic shift of our lifetime. If we don’t do this through universal basic income and healthcare, the rise of AI won’t lead to a "golden age of abundance"—it will lead to a crisis of survival.

CANADA 🇨🇦 FOR THE WIN PARALYMPIC HISTORY The Canadian wheelchair curling team defeats USA 7-3, becoming the first-ever team in Paralympic history to go through the round robin without a loss. What a team. What an achievement. Outstanding.

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If you tell women to change their behaviour to avoid being raped, what you’re really saying is, “make sure he rapes the other girl instead.” There will always be a woman who is more vulnerable less sober, less confident, with fewer friends around her, or walking alone in a darker part of town. She deserves to be safe just as much as I do. Safety shouldn’t depend on which woman was easier to target that night. The problem isn’t women’s behaviour. The problem is men who choose to commit rape as an act of violence.

For this year’s International Women’s Day, let me put it as simply as possible: Men should be glad we want equality — not revenge.

THIS is why we need feminism and International Women’s Day to highlight it.

Who’s gonna help me re-connect stagnant Lost Lagoon to the ocean? Vancouver’s biggest biodiversity opportunity. Monday night @ParkBoard #FreeLostLagoon @VanGreens

I’m a chemist. I need to say this - because it’s getting dangerous out there. The biggest health myth in the world isn’t about vaccines. Or GMOs. Or fluoride. It’s the root of all of them. It’s called chemophobia - and it’s killing science. Fear of “chemicals” now drives vaccine rejection, GMO bans, food hysteria, and entire political movements. From tampons to tap water, people have been taught to fear chemistry - the very thing that keeps us alive. Chemophobia tells us: “Natural is good.” “Synthetic is bad.” That’s a lie. Botulinum toxin is 100% natural and one of the deadliest molecules known. Aspirin is synthetic and life-saving. We’ve gone from banning harmful substances for good reason…to banning safe, well-tested molecules for emotional reasons. You’ve seen the slogans: “If you can’t pronounce it, don’t eat it.” “Paraben-free.” “Clean beauty.” They sound empowering. But they’re not science - they’re marketing. And they’re making the world dumber, poorer, and sicker. Your body doesn’t care if a molecule comes from a plant or a lab. Vitamin C is vitamin C. Formaldehyde is formaldehyde and your body makes more of it every day than any vaccine ever could. Dose matters. Source doesn’t. This fear isn’t harmless. It shapes public policy. It blocks innovation. It raises food prices. It slows down cancer treatments. Chemophobia is now mainstream and it’s costing lives. Scientists aren’t losing because we’re wrong. We’re losing because fear spreads faster than facts. Because influencers sell fear for clicks. Because lawyers monetize doubt. And because scientists are too tired to fight back. So here’s my message, as a chemist and as a citizen: Learn how toxicology works. Call out chemical fear-mongering. Support policies based on evidence, not emotion. Chemistry isn’t the enemy. It’s the reason you have clean water, safe food, and modern medicine. If we let fear win, we lose all of it.

RIP to one of America’s greatest songwriters. Pop classics, romantic ballads, rock and roll gems. Neil Sedaka connected across generations.

@SciInTheMaking and yet, i. the 90s, people called me A Tough Mom because we did math drills at the dinner table. Isn’t “math” normal dinner conversation? 🙃😉

I am a high school chemistry teacher. For years, I encountered students who did not know their multiplication tables and it interfered with their ability to understand chemistry. This year, I decided to take matters into my own hands. ⬇️

Alex Janvier was born on this day in the Cold Lake First Nation, Treaty 6 Territory, Alberta, in 1935. He became known as an innovative painter who combined Indigenous expression with modernist art, creating works with an unparalleled vision for composition and design.

Did you know as a woman, your lifetime risk of being attacked by a shark is about 1 in 3-4 million Your lifetime risk of being attacked by a man in 1 in 3 And yet our fear for sharks is justified but our fear for men is called paranoia.