Huda Idrees
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Founder & CEO, @DotHealth . Words in @voguemagazine , @torontolife , @CBC , @GlobeandMail , @blogTO , @metromorning , @TorontoStar . Hint: it’s all about the people.
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Pakistan’s handling of the pandemic is remarkable and the fact that we don’t talk about it is puzzling.
🇵🇰 ~200M is at 10k deaths vs
🇨🇦 ~37M at 15k deaths.
The entire country has been reporting fewer daily new cases than the province of Ontario(!).
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Canada is the country where a teacher can be fired for wearing a headscarf and everyone has to walk into a liquor store to pick up a free rapid test.
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If someone paid me $346M a year and I point-blank refused to do my job, I should get fired. The Ottawa police is employed and rewarded with budget increases every year. We have this all backwards.
#DefundThePolice
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I love when people try to passive aggressively “correct” my pronunciations. Fam, I speak 4 languages. You can’t even pronounce my two-syllable name.
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This Christmas, I just want to remind everyone that Mary wore a hijab.
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Do we not have any economists working for the City of Toronto? It’s simple math. Police are wayyyyyy more expensive than community services.
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@cathmckenna
Don’t love this take, Catherine. There is rampant Islamophobia, anti-Black and anti-Asian racism on *the daily* everywhere here.
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Real q: How do anti-vaxxers explain the drop in COVID case counts with increased vaccinations?
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It is so embarrassing to be an Ontarian. Our government botched the COVID-19 appointment booking system and volunteers created Vax Hunters. They've now dragged their heels on a COVID-19 vaccine passport and volunteers have had to step up. Again.
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Bizarre. Nobody was protesting Sinai. The protest started on Bloor St and went down to the US embassy. Spreading misinformation like this leads to nothing but hate and a mischaracterization of the right to peacefully protest. //cc:
@Toronto4P
Mount Sinai Hospital is sacred ground. Leave it alone.
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Regardless of how you feel about
@ImranKhanPTI
, you have to recognize his unrelenting effort to take this seriously and not only execute safety measures but effectively communicate these guidelines to the public.
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If you grew up Muslim, you grew up knowing and learning about the Palestinian struggle. This isn’t an issue people are jumping on a bandwagon about. We’ve known this conflict intimately our entire lives. It’s disgusting how long it’s taken the rest of the world to catch up.
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You are condemning a make-believe incident.
@MatthewGreenNDP
- come get your people. The whole world is upside down today. It was not targeted, as per the statement by the hospital itself. Get a grip.
Yesterday, the Mount Sinai Hospital was targeted because of its ties to the Jewish community in Toronto.
This is not okay.
Hospitals are a place for healing - not a target for protests.
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In tick, tick... BOOM! when Larson has a song to write and is literally doing anything but — that is so me. Huge part of the reason why I love Andrew Garfield. His portrayal is perfect and I really really want this Oscar to go to him.
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Muslims are routinely targeted, discriminated against, and killed in this country. Two of the largest terror attacks in recent history in Canada were against Muslims: London in 2021, Quebec City in 2017. We have an Islamophobia problem.
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Again, the demonstration was not at Sinai hospital. Amazing how misinformation spreads like wildfire while Canada funding the decimation of Gaza’s healthcare infrastructure is responded to with shrugs and hand-wringing.
The demonstration at Mount Sinai Hospital yesterday was reprehensible. Hospitals are places for treatment and care, not protests and intimidation.
I strongly condemn this display of antisemitism. In Toronto and across Canada, we stand with Jewish communities against this hate.
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To my Muslim fam, I see you, I feel your pain, I sense your frustration and helplessness. I’m right there with you and I’m tired and in tears but committed to help end these cycles of violence. To my visibly Muslim fam, you are pure magic. Keep living your truth.
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They’re doing this without being able to institute a total lockdown because of its sheer number of daily wage workers. They’re also a much smaller/more crowded country. And of course, Pakistan doesn’t have the resources Canada does.
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They have a plan in place to vaccinate large swaths of the population prioritizing people over 65. There are procurement deals in place but also a plan to ramp up in-house manufacturing capacity.
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Today is my first Canada Day as a Canadian citizen and it's the most conflicted I've felt about it. Canada is my adopted home and has given me so much. But there's no ethical way to overlook the fact that it has also taken so much away from so many.
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The Toronto Police budget is the single largest line item in Toronto’s budget at $1.2B annually. 40% of the calls to 911 do not need police intervention. Why are we spending tax dollars on a regressive, increasingly irrelevant service?
#DefundThePolice
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Honestly? It’s totally cool that people are only just joining in. Everyone has their own journey. Better late than never. Welcome to the movement, friends.
#DefundThePolice
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Yes, Canada should impose sanctions on countries for illegal occupation of land, no exceptions. So yes, impose sanctions on Russia, but also on Israel.
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Small plug for kindness. We've all had a rough year. The thing has personally kept me sane/afloat is kindness. The kindness of strangers and friends alike. You can always, always choose to be kind, no matter what the sitch.
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I've decided the appropriate response to the comment, "Your English is so good!" is, "My ancestors were colonized by the British." 💁🏽
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Excited/terrified/humbled to share more on my new venture today:
@DotHealth
's waitlist is officially open!
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This is roughly the path of the protest last night starting at 530pm. Starts at the Israeli Consulate at Bloor-Yonge and goes down to Simcoe to the US Consulate: two govts funding the massacre in Gaza.
The red pin is Mount Sinai Hospital. It’s on the way, not a stop.
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It’s one thing for people to have dangerous xenophobic views that equate women’s clothing to extremism. It’s another for a publication like
@CMAJ
to run it. How do you explain this,
@KirstyPatrick
@AndreasLaupacis
?
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At some point someone will write a book on how NOT to handle a pandemic and it'll actually just be an account of everything the Ontario govt has done to date. Ridic.
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On this very bleak Toronto afternoon, I would like to share my guide to hiring (and keeping) women in tech. Ready?
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The never-ending lockdowns maybe wouldn’t be so maddening if we actually used that time to scale up our healthcare system. But we are literally choosing to do the same things over and over again and expecting different results.
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Over the last few weeks, I've been at a few "Women in _____" events. A typical question at these events is, "What's the advantage of being a woman?" and I hear the same, short-sighted answer, "I stand out because I'm the only woman in the room." Here's what's wrong with that.
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The very first female Vice President of the United States of America is a woman of color.
Let. That. Sink. In.
Madam Vice President
@KamalaHarris
.
✨✨✨✨✨✨
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@iconovoxx
Right. You generated that QR code from which is a tool built by a group of volunteers because the Ontario government did not do its job. Thanks for making my point, Marc! Have a great day.
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Women have been hit hard this pandemic.
This
#IWD
:
1. Buy from women-owned businesses
2. Fund female entrepreneurs
3. Hire/promote women
4. Give up your spot in a speaker lineup for a woman
5. Give women access to your network
Rinse, repeat every day.
Action > words! 💪✨
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Learned about a cowardly anonymous letter attacking
@RitikaGoelTO
. Speaking up for Palestine and the violence against Palestinians is NOT anti-Semitic.
@UofT
is my alma mater and I expect them to do the right thing and express their unequivocal support for her.
#ISupportDrGoel
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Land back for us but not them, is that right? Do elected officials in Canada realize they not tweeting is an option?
This morning I spoke with members of the Jewish community in Manitoba to express my solidarity.
I condemn the terrorist attacks against Israel, the targeting of civilians, and affirm Israel's right to self-defense.
My hope is for a swift de-escalation of this conflict.
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The magic of
@TwitterSpaces
for me isn't the scheduled stuff, but the impromptu conversations you can have with people from around the world.
@WorldWideWob
doing a masterclass on these post-games.
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I remember being an intern and not being allowed to take a vacation day off for Eid. This year, we gave the entire
@DotHealth
team a day off for Eid!
#prosOfAMuslimBoss
#EidMubarak
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I want to talk about model minorities for a second. Brown people (like me!) are often placed in positions of power as moral licensing. This gives our orgs free rein to discriminate because they're shielded from criticism by our brown skin.
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Some of the most impactful jobs today rely on writing skills. Design, programming, content-creation, data science. And yet as employers, we continue to consider writing a nice-to-have.
When in a position to hire, hire the better writer.
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@KirstyPatrick
Appreciate your response and taking responsibility, Kirsten. I am expecting a full retraction of the letter from
@CMAJ
and a formal apology issued by you, the editorial staff, and the CMAJ editorial board.
/cc:
@drchikaoriuwa
@janephilpott
@snewbery1
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It’s a BIG day for me tomorrow. Please send me all your dua’as and best wishes and good vibes etc., please! 🙏✨
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This is beyond ridiculous. Cops investigating cops will of course result in no cops held liable for murder of innocent civilians. Oh and they get paid *in full* while they're under investigation because of a provincial legislation from *1990* Let that sink in.
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If there’s one thing I’ve learned being a startup employee and then a startup founder - it’s that everything always appears way easier when you’re an employee than when you’re a founder. There’s a reason not everyone is an entrepreneur. It’s hard af.
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It’s actually making me sick how easily we glorify white people for bearing arms to protect their country, but will call BIPOC terrorists for having a rock or a switchblade or anything that even remotely resembles a weapon to defend themselves.
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Canada’s treatment of Indigenous peoples is ethnic cleansing. We need to stop infantilizing our vocabulary. Call it like it is.
An "unthinkable loss." Remains of 215 children found at former residential school in British Columbia.
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If you had told 16yo Huda that in a little over a decade she would be spending her Wednesday night working on a contract for a major partner that would alter the trajectory of her business, she would’ve very much not believed you. Alhamdulillah.
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When people are like, “doesn’t the headscarf limit you?”
And I’m like uh...
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Is anyone else finding they are working longer hours at home than at the office? My eyes hurt from staring at my screen for 19 hours a day!
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@spaikin
@amanda_mccrobs
@OntarioHealthOH
Steve, we can’t be blaming children for this. Have you seen what the provincial government has been doing lately? They’re all grownups (as far as I can tell) acting and communicating like children. Actual 9-13yo’s aren’t to blame for our failure to contain this.
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The sheer number of people who are like, “So what if they have weapons and are honking all night???? They’re peaceful!” It’s the same ones defending the police for firing nine rounds at a teenager with a switchblade on the TTC. Y’all need to do some serious reflecting.
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So many more events are striving to have female speakers now!
Here's the thing though, PAY THEM.
You want a kickass female speaker for your ticketed event? Pay them. I don't mean pay them in chocolates or champagne.
Pay them in the green stuff.✨💸
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Having an Amazon customer representative read out the title of this book is part of the experience.
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Ottawa police annual budget: $346M
Ottawa police chief Sloly: "There may not be a policing solution to this demonstration."
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You probably don’t know that we closed two rounds of financing for
@DotHealth
last year. It’s because we made it a point to not announce it. Why? Because raising financing isn’t the work. It’s a small step in the journey to make healthcare better.
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88 years ago today, women were recognized as "persons" in Canada. Feminism isn't a fad, it's a fight that women have fought over and over.
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You know what’s wild? That it took the social platforms right up until the end of his term to ban him. How convenient.
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I live 5.5 km away from my office and right next to a streetcar stop.
$6.50 round trip to take the TTC. 45 minutes one-way.
$15 parking w/ 🚘 . 11 mins one-way.
2.3x more $ ~4x faster.
The only way we solve our congestion problem is to solve our transit problem.
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If this pandemic and our dreadful handling of it doesn’t create urgency for us to completely rewrite the 🇨🇦 health care “system” we take so much pride in, I don’t know what will.
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Unbelievably proud of
@MonicaLewinsky
for not only owning her story so bravely but also flipping the script. Can’t wait to watch this!
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Unpopular opinion:
There's a lot of "educate yourselves, don't ask racialized communities to educate you!" rn. And I get it. It's exhausting. I also know that a lot of good comes of helping each other learn. So I guess this is just an open invitation to AMA. DMs always open.
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Every time someone accuses me of being anti-white I’m gonna start listing off all my white friends. That’s how this works, right?
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I will never get Torontonians who “get away for the summer.” It’s Toronto. Get away in the 9 months of guaranteed miserable weather. Stay for the elusive beauty that is summer in this city!
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I routinely introduce friends who come to visit me in Toronto from Mississauga as friends “from out of town” and they get SO ANGRY about it.
Makes no sense. Mississauga is a whole other city.
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Can frank & oak and oak & fort just merge and call themselves frank & fort already.
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I wrote about creating cultures of inclusiveness for the
@globeandmail
:
I'd love to hear your thoughts!
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If women believe the major/only benefit of being a woman is that they're the only one - they are not motivated to let other women in. This is actually a pretty big issue. In the whisper network, we call women who perpetuate this notion "the old guard."
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All I want for Toronto is for us to have a non-corrupt, non-slutty, non-police-friend Mayor. Is that too much to ask?
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Chicago has a population of ~2.7M people. To date, they’ve vaccinated 1.26M with at least the first dose. That’s a whopping 46%.
Toronto, by comparison, has a population of ~2.93M people. We have vaccinated 600k people to date. That’s 20%.
How are we so bad at this?
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The one thing going for the PC party was their pro-business stance. Ironically, their constant non-lockdowns are hurting businesses first and foremost. If they were smarter about this, we could’ve been open and COVID-free *months* ago.
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A physically distanced Hajj is kinda sorta beautiful. ✨
VIDEO: 🇸🇦 Mask-clad Muslims began the
#hajj
on Wednesday, circling Islam's holiest site in Mecca along socially distanced paths in the smallest pilgrimage in modern history as the Saudi hosts strive to prevent a
#coronavirus
outbreak
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Eid Mubarak! 🌙✨ May your fasts and dua’as be accepted and your blessings increased.
My wish for you this Eid is that you eat all the things. You deserve it! 🥰
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A month ago, I offered 2x
@DotHealth
internships to 1st yr
@uoftengineering
students who could write me a compelling email. Anya joined our ops team shortly after and has become indispensable! Give interns real work to do. They will Blow. You. Away.
#dreamteam
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Bodycams do not prevent police brutality. Nobody needs to watch videos of people being murdered at the hands of police.
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Every century or so, humanity is handed a tool that has the power to transform our collective future. Agency over our own data is the tool of our generation.
P.S. You can now sign up for
@DotHealth
: ! ✨
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@JustinTrudeau
What are some tangible ways the federal govt can help initiate much-needed healthcare reform across Canada? What are some outcomes provinces have to be held accountable to?
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Giving up Victoria Day in exchange for abolishing the Monarchy in Canada would be a *steal* of a deal if you ask me.
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Canadian healthcare is a funny industry. It’s lack of transparency rolled up in bureaucracy covered in lack of political will topped off with a heavy sprinkling of self-promotion. No wonder we’re bleeding cash and providing poor value for taxpayer money. We need a reality check.
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Also, can I just say—the Catholic Church ran the residential schools that destroyed so many lives. Can you even *imagine* how many Muslims would be called upon to apologize had it been an Islamic school system?! The Pope/Catholic Church won’t even issue a verbal apology!
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Running a startup is a little ridiculous sometimes. The time delta between a major high and a major low is so short that you feel like two different people. My day started out incredibly stressful and has taken a huge turn for the better. How do I bottle up this feeling?
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Oh no is it IWD again? Cue every guy posting a picture with his daughter/how fatherhood taught him to treat women like human beings.
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The worst thing the only woman in the room can do is take pride in being the only woman in the room. Being the only one is working against us. There is real power in numbers.
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It goes beyond gender. If you're the only person of color, or queer person invited to a homogenous group - offer to double their diversity quota by bringing someone who is just as brilliant and underestimated with you.
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London, ON is often used as a test bed for new product launches by businesses in Canada for how perfectly it represents the country’s population. We launched Dot there. In the wake of the terrorist attack, I can’t stop thinking how this is so obviously not just a London problem.
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Honest question: does it perpetually feel like everything in the world is on fire to *everyone*, or just to people who spend way too much time on Twitter?
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