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25 Dec 2019
We spend Christmastime with the people we love most.
Like we do on birthdays.
My birthday happens to be Christmas Day.
And this one - the first without my dad - is the worst one of my life.
I feel like people on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside would understand.
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Feb 19
GM to everybody except @PurolatorInc @PurolatorHelp because they are horrible. They lost a laptop and pretended it's been stuck in a "rail delay" for over 3 weeks. Finally fessed up that they lost it, ("Sorry for any inconvenience," they said) AND SENT ME A BILL FOR SHIPPING.
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Feb 2
Here's a kid whose poopy diapers I changed giving a @TEDx talk.
Zidaan Virani on how the answer to the world's grown up problems might be found in baby talk research.
youtu.be/mqKccZrUQoo?si=c2RK…
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Feb 2
Oooh bad sentence. I haven't tweeted in a while. I didn't mean I changed his poopy diapers while I gave a TED talk or that he gave a TED talk while I changed his poopy diapers. There were 15 years in between the two things and hopefully more before he changes mine.
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6 Oct 2025
Have you ever noticed how password recovery questions include "Who was your favourite schoolteacher?" but never "Who was your favourite Minister of Education?"
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6 Oct 2025
Everything I don't owe to my parents, I owe to my teachers.
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27 Sep 2025
That thing people say when someone dies..."I wish I would have told them _____ when I had the chance"... Dr. Darren Markland would never have to say that. He took every chance to lift people up.
We'll miss him desperately, but it'll be easier, I think, if we're more like him
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23 Jul 2025
So, hypothetically, would the internet be more fussed about a grainy pic of two people cheating at a Coldplay concert or HD video of a state killing tens of thousands of innocent civilians?
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Hakique Virani🟠 retweeted
1 Apr 2019
DON'T: use urine toxicology testing to "fire" patients or make them feel untrustworthy
DO: use it for #AprilFools gags on pre-med students
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4 Oct 2023
Congratulations, @WabKinew and congratulations Manitoba for choosing Reconciliation over conceal-iation.
#SearchTheLandfill
We started our campaign believing in you – the people of Manitoba.
And in return, so many of you put your faith in us. You came out to support us – some for the very first time. You made calls & knocked doors. You voted.
From the bottom of my heart – Thank you. Merci. Miigwech.
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Hakique Virani🟠 retweeted
25 Sep 2023
🗓️ Don't miss today's debate-style event ft. arguments in favour & against transforming the CMOH into a more independent position. Two debating teams include: @FafardPatrick, @ehyshka, @hakique, and @DrJaredWesley.
Learn more➡️bit.ly/3sG92Jt
@UAlbertaSPH @UofA_Arts
14 Sep 2023
📣@FafardPatrick will be visiting @UAlbertaSPH from Sept 25-Oct 4 as a distinguished visitor. Patrick will participate in several events, including a lecture on his recently published book 'Integrating Science and Politics for Public Health.' Learn more➡️bit.ly/3sG92Jt
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27 Jul 2023
Hey @ViraniArif, congratulations on the cabinet thing. Listen, would you read this? Then we'll discuss it at Thanksgiving dinner. K, thanks,
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23 Jan 2023
The compulsion to put a label on every difference: Diagnosis Use Disorder (DUD).
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Hakique Virani🟠 retweeted
25 Dec 2019
We spend Christmastime with the people we love most.
Like we do on birthdays.
My birthday happens to be Christmas Day.
And this one - the first without my dad - is the worst one of my life.
I feel like people on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside would understand.
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Hakique Virani🟠 retweeted
29 Sep 2022
Excellent new op-ed by @maiasz. It’s so important to contextualize our drug crisis in economic and political histories. Read this, and everything else she writes. nytimes.com/2022/09/29/opini…
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Hakique Virani🟠 retweeted
25 Sep 2022
This morning, my wife left Orlando, Florida aboard @SouthwestAir flight 1630 (MCO to PHX).
She sat behind this man. She had been attending the Grace Hopper Conference all week and was resting her head on her tray table, trying to sleep a bit.
Let me tell you what happened.
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Hakique Virani🟠 retweeted
12 Sep 2022
My latest…on bereavement camps for kids. How a summer camp which helped grieving children who lost parents in 9/11 is now helping grieving children who lost a loved one to COVID. @USATODAY
Immense thank you to those who shared their stories with me.
usatoday.com/story/life/huma…
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9 Sep 2022
You'll always remember where you were and what you were doing today when you heard. If you're a Pakistani kid, you were wading through sewage thinking how nice it would be to live till the weekend, let alone age 96.
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9 Sep 2022
Everyone in the global North is also crying today because at least 33 million people in Pakistan remain displaced by monsoon flooding related to anthropogenic climate change, right? Right?
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Is there a way to set up your Twitter account so other accounts are automatically blocked and reported if they tweet anything about pumpkin spice?
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