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BC Residents with Iron Deficiency & Anemia - Day-to-Day Impact

Looking to speak with people in B.C. living with iron deficiency/anemia (for a reported story) Hi everyone, Iโ€™m a Vancouver-based journalism student working on a reported feature about whatโ€™s itโ€™s actually like to live with iron deficiency and anemia in British Columbia. The piece is being developed with a Postmedia outlet, and Iโ€™m hoping to include real experience to reflect what people go through day-to-day. Iโ€™m especially interested in hearing from: women whoโ€™ve fealty with low iron and heavy periods mothers or people who experienced anemia during or after pregnancy -older adult whose symptoms may have been dismissed as โ€œjust agingโ€ -men living with anemia or iron deficiency -people with digestive or absorption issues (like celiac disease, inflammatory bowel disease or bariatric surgery) people who have struggles to get diagnosed anyone whoโ€™s needed infusions / anyone that is currently having a period of infusions university or college students with anemia people whose symptoms affected work, school or mental clarity honestly, anyone whoโ€™s needed infusions feels likes this has impacted their life in ways others might not understand. If you are open to sharing your experience (even briefly), Iโ€™d really appreciate hearing from you. A couple of notes: participants would need to be based in British Columbia this is for a published newspaper feature, so sources would need to be comfortable being quoted by name You can comment here or send me a message. Than you so much for your time.

Sextortion Victims in Canada - Tech Companies & Law Enforcement Response

Investigative reporter with the Winnipeg Free Press (Canada) looking into how tech companies respond to information requests from non-U.S. law enforcement agencies POST APPROVED BY MODS My name is Marsha McLeod, and I'm an investigative reporter with the Winnipeg Free Press, based in Winnipeg, Canada. We are an independently-owned, non-partisan daily newspaper. You can read my bio and previous coverage here (some of it is paywalled): https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/biographies/marsha-mcleod I am looking into how US-based tech companies, especially Snap Inc., respond to law enforcement agencies' requests for information about sextortion perpetrators, when those agencies are based outside of the U.S. I am also looking into how Canadian law enforcement agencies investigate sextortion generally and how they react when the perpetrator is traced to a country outside of the U.S. or Canada. I am looking to speak with people based in Canada who have been victimized by a perpetrator of sextortion. The types of questions I would want to ask are around how far law enforcement took the investigation into your victimization; if you are aware what information your local law enforcement agency received from the tech company implicated in the abuse (and how long it took for the tech company to deliver this information to law enforcement); whether you were told if the perpetrator was outside of Canada/U.S.; and whether that factor played a role in how far the investigation went and whether any charges were filed. Feel free to email me at [email redacted] or find me on Signal under the username marshamcleodwfp.30 I am completely OK with speaking with you anonymously, i.e. no name attached to the interview (we would select a pseudonym of your choice and decide the level of location detail that you are comfortable with), though I will say up front that I would be interested to view some documents in relation to your interaction with law enforcement.

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Cybersecurity & Workforce Development Leaders - Systems Gap In Skills

The digital transformation skills shortage is real, but the way weโ€™re addressing it may be missing the mark. Thereโ€™s a growing conversation around the shortage of digital transformation talent โ€” but I believe weโ€™re framing the problem incorrectly. This isnโ€™t just a talent gap. Itโ€™s a systems gap. Across North America, organizations continue to invest heavily in training and education, yet still struggle to find professionals with the right, job-ready skills. At the same time, many graduates are entering the workforce without clear alignment to real-world digital transformation needs. Cybersecurity is a clear example. According to ISC2, the global cybersecurity workforce gap exceeds 4 million professionals โ€” and continues to grow despite ongoing efforts across both Canada and the United States. Frameworks such as the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education have helped define roles and skills. But defining the problem is only part of the solution โ€” alignment across training, certification, and industry remains inconsistent. What weโ€™re seeing is not just a pipeline issue, but a structural misalignment across the ecosystem: โ€ข Training that isnโ€™t fully aligned with industry needs โ€ข Skills frameworks that are not consistently adopted โ€ข Limited integration between education, certification, and employers If we continue to treat this purely as a hiring challenge, weโ€™ll continue to fall short. Iโ€™ve started developing a structured body of work to explore this further โ€” focusing on how workforce development, training systems, and standardization can better align to produce scalable, job-ready talent in cybersecurity and beyond. This is the starting point. Over the coming weeks, Iโ€™ll be speaking with professionals across Canada and the U.S. to bring in practical insights and perspectives as I build this into a broader white paper. If youโ€™re working in cybersecurity, workforce development, or training โ€” Iโ€™d value your perspective. Iโ€™m also looking to feature a select number of contributors as part of this work. Feel free to reach out directly if youโ€™d like to be part of the conversation. #Cybersecurity #DigitalTransformation #WorkforceDevelopment #SkillsGap #FutureOfWork

Practitioners On Major Public-Sector IT Failures - Book Chapter Review

๐‚๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฉ๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ก๐จ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค๐ž๐ ๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฌ๐ž ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฃ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ฌ I'm completing a book called ๐‘ญ๐’“๐’‚๐’ˆ๐’Š๐’๐’† ๐’ƒ๐’š ๐‘ซ๐’†๐’”๐’Š๐’ˆ๐’: ๐‘ฏ๐’๐’˜ ๐‘ณ๐’‚๐’“๐’ˆ๐’† ๐‘ฐ๐‘ป ๐‘ท๐’“๐’๐’‹๐’†๐’„๐’•๐’” ๐‘ญ๐’‚๐’Š๐’ ๐‘ฉ๐’†๐’‡๐’๐’“๐’† ๐‘ป๐’‰๐’†๐’š ๐‘บ๐’•๐’‚๐’“๐’•. It proposes a framework of fifteen dimensions of bid fragility, drawn from analysis of 528 troubled projects. The research is built primarily from public sources โ€” national audit office reports, parliamentary inquiries, royal commissions, court proceedings, and investigative journalism. What the public record doesn't always capture is what it felt like from the inside. The pressures, the trade-offs, the moments where people saw the problem but couldn't change the trajectory. If you worked on any of the following projects โ€” on the client side, the vendor side, or in an advisory capacity โ€” I'd welcome the opportunity to have you review the relevant chapter. I'm not looking for you to defend or relitigate what happened. I want to make sure I've got the story right, and the insider perspective matters. ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐ฆ๐š๐ซ๐ฒ ๐œ๐š๐ฌ๐ž ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฎ๐๐ข๐ž๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง๐œ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐๐ž: โ€ข Queensland Health Payroll (IBM/SAP) โ€ข myki (Melbourne transport ticketing) โ€ข NHS National Programme for IT โ€ข NHS Federated Data Platform / Palantir โ€ข HealthSMART (Victoria) โ€ข UK Post Office Horizon / NBIT โ€ข FBI Virtual Case File / Sentinel โ€ข UK FiReControl โ€ข BBC Digital Media Initiative โ€ข Emergency Services Network (UK Home Office / Motorola) โ€ข e-Borders (UK) โ€ข NHS Test and Trace โ€ข Universal Credit (DWP) โ€ข Phoenix Pay System (Canada) โ€ข Target Canada โ€ข Modernising Business Registers (Australia) โ€ข Robodebt (Australia) โ€ข Healthcare.gov (US) โ€ข Lidl / SAP (Germany) If you recognise a project you were close to, please connect with me here on LinkedIn and send me a message. I'd love to hear from you. And if you know someone who worked on one of these projects, I'd be grateful if you'd share this post or tag them. The more perspectives I can incorporate before publication, the stronger the book will be. The book is in final review and nearing publication. Follow me here for updates as it progresses. #GovTech #ITProjectManagement #ProgrammeDelivery #DigitalTransformation #ProjectFailure

Transgender Canadians Binary & Nonbinary - Lived Experiences 2026

Need your input for a canadian trans awareness poster Im working on a project: a series of posters on the experiences and challenges transgender canadians experience in present 2026 Altho i have imperical data from the government institutions it dosnt make up for the lived reality from real people. I want to know what your experiences are like with the medical industry, education, public life, housing, employment, family life, and with the police. I also want to know what you feel would make your experiences better in these respective subjects. I want to hear from any and all transgender people regarding of if you are a binary or non binary transgender person. Im a mere white hermitโ€™d trans woman, i cant speak for trans men or nonbinary people or other trans women or trans ppl of colour, but im happy to make their voices and concerns heard to the best of my ability. These posters once finished are going to be sent to medical hospital and education centres and my MP and government representatives (toronto) in my region of the country. Im not trademarking my work, everyone will be allowed to copy it and send it to hospitals and education centres in their region and their respective political representatives. Please share this post to people you may know and subs for transgender people in your area of the country. These posters once more people who know about this the more accurate i can make these posters on the lived experiences of trans people in the country. And how best to help/improve access to resources for trans ppl.