Neville Park
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n8chz 🩎
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Doug Ford’s frivolous yet mean-spirited attacks on people who cycle in Toronto is dangerous and divisive. But it’s certainly had its intended effect of distracting from his shady deals with property developers.
“Ahead of Wednesday's hearing, Longfield said the case was about ensuring the government respected the rule of law. ‘The Ford government is wasting time and public money on a bad-faith culture war, against the advice of its own experts, at a moment when Ontarians need leadership focused on real solutions for real challenges,’ he said in a statement.”
Doug Ford’s frivolous yet mean-spirited attacks on people who cycle in Toronto is dangerous and divisive. But it’s certainly had its intended effect of distracting from his shady deals with property developers.
“Ahead of Wednesday's hearing, Longfield said the case was about ensuring the government respected the rule of law. ‘The Ford government is wasting time and public money on a bad-faith culture war, against the advice of its own experts, at a moment when Ontarians need leadership focused on real solutions for real challenges,’ he said in a statement.”
So instead of doing anything to solve existing problems - like figuring out how to keep myself fed, to sort out health plan (OHIP doesn't cover half of what I need and that's destroying my finances), to build relationships w new doctors, to get help with the covid brain injury, to figure out how to do things without being able to drive, to just get home and systems set up so I'm not floundering All The Fucking Time..
I am putting out fires that never should have lit up.
This shit is so exhausting and demoralizing. This propensity to gate keep and withhold is counterproductive, and frankly, abusive.
It costs more money to keep people in constant crisis that to Just Fucking Help them.
I'm sure I've cost several months of ODSP just in ER visits alone.
Disabled people aren't failed humans to be tossed aside.
We are PEOPLE. We matter. We have lives and places in our community.
Stop making so fucking hard to exist.
#ONpoli
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Honoured to have the endorsement of CUPE Ontario, which represents 300,000 workers — 40% of the Canadian Union of Public Employees’ total membership.
I stand with their heroic members as they educate, care for us, and keep the province running every day — and fight to protect our precious public systems from privatization and underfunding.
Their full statement of support can be found here: https://cupe.on.ca/cupe-ontario-has-endorsed-avi-lewis-as-leader-of-canadas-new-democratic-party/
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Honoured to have the endorsement of CUPE Ontario, which represents 300,000 workers — 40% of the Canadian Union of Public Employees’ total membership.
I stand with their heroic members as they educate, care for us, and keep the province running every day — and fight to protect our precious public systems from privatization and underfunding.
Their full statement of support can be found here: https://cupe.on.ca/cupe-ontario-has-endorsed-avi-lewis-as-leader-of-canadas-new-democratic-party/
Chip Butty
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"Regarding remote work, Premier Doug Ford said, “how do you mentor someone over the phone? You can’t. You’ve got to look them eye to eye.” In this statement, Ford provides a perfect example of the first and most fundamental issue with the proponents of RTO mandates. RTO decision makers, like Ford, are digitally illiterate. They have never worked with or been trained in modern technology and are out of touch with how modern offices communicate."
https://brockpress.com/return-to-office-mandates-are-a-mistake/
"Regarding remote work, Premier Doug Ford said, “how do you mentor someone over the phone? You can’t. You’ve got to look them eye to eye.” In this statement, Ford provides a perfect example of the first and most fundamental issue with the proponents of RTO mandates. RTO decision makers, like Ford, are digitally illiterate. They have never worked with or been trained in modern technology and are out of touch with how modern offices communicate."
https://brockpress.com/return-to-office-mandates-are-a-mistake/
Anti-Palestinian racism at the #AGO: you are antisemitic if you are vocal about Israel's genocide in #Gaza, even if you are a high-profile Jewish artist.
The only way to justify this is to refuse to see us, Palestinians, as humans.
And this is not even the first time this happens.
- Anishinaabe curator Wanda Nanibush forced out in 2023
- Inuk curator Taqralik Partridge forced out in 2023
- Xiaoyu Weng left only 2 years after being hired in 2021
Claudius Link
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Today's Tariffs announcement by the #US is essentially a Financial Proclamation of War with all #Nato Countries over Greenland.
To our #UK #France #Denmark #Germany #Norway #Netherlands #Finland #Sweden targetted friends.
Please join our 🇨🇦 successful #ElbowsUp boycott (Do Not Buy USA Products)
Let's make #ElbowsUp a #Worldwide boycott.
We all stand with #Greenland
#Canadian #Canada #cdnpoli #mbpoli #onpoli #skpoli #nfldpoli #bcpoli #abpoli #NSpoli
#KeepThoseElbowsUpCanada
Today's Tariffs announcement by the #US is essentially a Financial Proclamation of War with all #Nato Countries over Greenland.
To our #UK #France #Denmark #Germany #Norway #Netherlands #Finland #Sweden targetted friends.
Please join our 🇨🇦 successful #ElbowsUp boycott (Do Not Buy USA Products)
Let's make #ElbowsUp a #Worldwide boycott.
We all stand with #Greenland
#Canadian #Canada #cdnpoli #mbpoli #onpoli #skpoli #nfldpoli #bcpoli #abpoli #NSpoli
#KeepThoseElbowsUpCanada
The thing that always surprises me about people I know (off-Fedi) in the SF area who obsess over what private preschool their kids get into. Probably elsewhere too, but they are the ones who talk about it.
"We're moving into this very expensive neighbourhood to be in the catchment area for these 3 top-notch schools."
Anyway if you're wondering why people still work to build the torment nexus, it's sustained by the need to fund their kids' class status later in life.
Edit: Contrast to Ontario (next post)
One thing I LOVE about Ontario is that public school teachers are paid fairly well. (Although it's stagnated a bit, and per student capita funding has dropped at least 10% since Doug Ford.)
Some of the best teachers I've met in Toronto work in some of the roughest schools.
You can get a decent education anywhere in the city for free. A wealthier school might have more field trips and fundraised equipment, but otherwise, it's comparable.
Private schools aren't as much of a thing here as one'd expect from the financial capital of a country. Many higher income families still send their kids to public schools.
In order to maintain this level of equality, we need to maintain public school funding levels.
Neville Park
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The headline is wrong. Toronto alone saw 4M+ food bank visits.
2.8M Canadians visited a food bank this year.
1 in 10 people in Toronto visited a food bank this year.
1 in 4 Canadians live with food insecurity.
These are policy decisions. It's only gotten worse year after year. Why are we okay with people going hungry in this wealthy nation?
The headline is wrong. Toronto alone saw 4M+ food bank visits.
2.8M Canadians visited a food bank this year.
1 in 10 people in Toronto visited a food bank this year.
1 in 4 Canadians live with food insecurity.
These are policy decisions. It's only gotten worse year after year. Why are we okay with people going hungry in this wealthy nation?
When a community organizes and politicians actually listen, the outcome can be positive, as in this case. Kudos to Guelph city councillors for reconsidering a bad budget decision.
“Coun. Erin Caton thanked Guthrie and ‘the snow.’ 'I think that without seeing it in action, I don't think we would have been able to kind of visualize the actual impact, Caton said. 'There's a lot of things that I didn't think of until I saw it.’ Coun. Phil Allt said this would be like Christmas coming early for some in the community. 'We all understand that this was a safety issue that regrettably became a challenge at budget time. It takes a lot to take a step back and do what you did. And I know that many, many, many people in Guelph appreciate this,’ he said.
— Kate Bueckert, CBC News
Unnamed TNG skant beefcake
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Federal government ”needs to stop treating transit as secondary and start treating it as what it is: vital national infrastructure and an important driver of our economy.”
Federal government ”needs to stop treating transit as secondary and start treating it as what it is: vital national infrastructure and an important driver of our economy.”
Now that the Ford govt is directly running the OCDSB with a "supervisor" instead of trustees, and replaced the director of education, they are pushing Google Gemini into schools. "AI resources for students" is at the top of the resource list in today's communication from the OCDSB.
https://www.ocdsb.ca/news-events/news/post/new-ai-resources-for-students
Of course, I have no way of complaining as a parent, since there is no trustee, and the director of Ed and Supervisor will hide like the fucking partisan PC cowards they are