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Karen Balcom

@KarenBalcom

History & Community Engagement at McMaster U, Settler, Parent, Feminist

Joined March 2013
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I’m deeply grateful to my friends and colleagues for nominating me for a YWCA Hamilton Women of Distinction Award. I’ve been nominated in the Education and Training and Lifetime Achievement categories. #WODHamiltonHalton
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🎉Kick off your @supercrawl weekend with us! Join McMaster’s Office of Community Engagement for a pop-up of workshops, activities & community connections in downtown #HamOnt. Sept 12, 3–5:30PM @ One James North. ✨ RSVP & learn more: bit.ly/4mo8RJL
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📣 Only two days left to vote in the AHA Elections! Hear Sherene Seikaly, our candidate for Vice President of the professional Division explain how & why the democratization of AHA is about Palestine, queer liberation, black liberation, class politics, and protecting immigrants.
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.@McMasterU is harboring hate. Profs take $$ from an anti-trans hate org -- and they know it. Read and share this important piece from @theSpec in #HamOnt: archive.ph/ievJG @HCCI1 @EquityNetworkD @swaphamilton
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McMaster OCE@McMasterOCE5 Jun 2025
📢 Meet the 2025 Research Impact Canada Engaged Scholarship Award winners — including two winners from @mcmasteru! 🎉 Join @researchimpact's FREE webinar on June 26 to learn about their award-winning projects, which drive real-world impact. Register: lu.ma/tqclq7z2
Free Webinar: 2025 RIC Engaged Scholarship Award Winner June 26, 2025 | 12 PM - 1 PM ET | Zoom

ALT Free Webinar: 2025 RIC Engaged Scholarship Award Winner June 26, 2025 | 12 PM - 1 PM ET | Zoom

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Indigenous scholars & practitioners reflect on the C2UExpo theme, "Partners in Place." Grounded in the values of relationality reciprocity & respect for land & community. @MacEwanResearch @McMasterU @KarenBalcom @ajesusjoseph #C2UExpo #McMasterOCE
Indigenous scholars & practitioners reflect on the C2UExpo theme, "Partners in Place." There are five speakers in the picture.

ALT Indigenous scholars & practitioners reflect on the C2UExpo theme, "Partners in Place." There are five speakers in the picture.

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Manisha Sinha@ProfMSinha3 Apr 2025
Historian here you could call it happy tariff day or happy Great Depression day or you could call it late stage rapacious capitalism
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If you let the executive deport people to a foreign gulag just by pronouncing the word “terrorism,” then expect to be called a “terrorist” soon yourself.
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We're excited to announce that @SWAPHamilton was accepted into the @McMasterU's Community Engaged Research Days this month, March 27-28! 💕 @McMasterOCE @McMasteResearch #HamOnt – at Hamilton, Ontario
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Paul Fairie@paulisci7 Mar 2025
The next Canadian Prime Minister should appoint Justin Trudeau as Ambassador to the United States.
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You can’t take our country — and you can’t take our game.
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Brad Evoy@Brad_Evoy19 Feb 2025
Putting on my personal hat—just wanted to say how happy I am to support both @SarahJama_ and @KojoDampteyONDP out in Hamilton! Friends, we need strong voices in the Ont. Legislature and these folks will do the work we need. Want to voice your support as community workers? 1/2
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This afternoon I spent some time with post-secondary workers and healthcare workers to hear first hand how devastating Doug Ford has been for public education and public healthcare. We can't afford four more years of Doug Ford. #HamOnt #HamOntMtn #onpoli #OnElxn
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It is our great honour to endorse Kojo Damptey (NDP) @KojoDampteyONDP as the next MPP for Hamilton Mountain. Kojo is known for his leadership and ability to collaborate with community partners. Kojo’s approach has always been one that is solution-focused and humane. 1/4
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My @TorontoStar column: Doug Ford has found piles of cash for things like $200 cheques, vehicle fee cuts and a long list of bad deals, but just can’t seem to find money to seriously address the province’s homelessness crisis. It’s a choice. thestar.com/news/doug-ford-h…
Matt Elliott: Doug Ford has money for $200 cheques and a 401 tunnel — where are the funds to...

Matt Elliott: Doug Ford has money for $200 cheques and a 401 tunnel — where are the funds to...

The magnitude of Ontario’s homelessness crisis should make it a top election issue, but Doug Ford appears to be skating through without facing much blame.

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👀We can’t wait to watch! Tune in to #HamiltonLife next Wednesday to learn more about the #ResearchShop x @swaphamilton literature review on sex workers’ experiences in Canada. #CommunityEngagedResearch #ResearchImpact #HamOnt #McMasterU
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@IsisIntrepid14 Feb 2025
Thank you to @Cable14's @Val_Cole & @JasonSouliere for having @SWAPHamilton and literature review lead Anushka Rajaram from the @McMasterOCE Research Shop team on #HamiltonLife this morning! 💕 This will broadcast next Wednesday 😊 #HamOnt #CDNPoli #ONPoli CC: @HamiltonPolice @HamHealthSci @StJoesHamilton
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