Seeing two “outreach cops” and cop nurse bombarding ppl outside my clinic while the comms team takes photos, is disconcerting.
Why are people with guns doing outreach in Toronto?? And who is choosing to work with them?
Abolishing ICE is not enough, says Illinois Congressmember Delia Ramirez. "The entire agency of DHS needs to be dismantled."
“What the United States is planning for Venezuela is basically to run the country as a vassal state.”
NEWS: Canadian billionaire Jim Pattison was planning to sell a warehouse for use as an ICE detention and processing facility. After pressure from the public, and from B.C. Green Party leader @emilylowan.bsky.social, Pattison's company has cancelled the sale
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Yes. If abolish means something more than just disband.
Recognition of Palestinian statehood must be coupled with sanctions against Israel, says Palestinian politician Mustafa Barghouti.
This was a word AND he cussed 😂
#BREAKING | Chinese runner You Biao raised the Palestinian flag at the finish line of the “OCC” UTMB marathon, covering his mouth in protest against silence over the Gaza massacres.
@aircanada.bsky.social pay your workers what they are asking for. You’re a multibillion dollar company. Pay up.
As Palestinians returned from the U.S.-Israeli aid sites, ER doctors found gunshot wounds clustered in different body parts.
Dr. Nick Maynard, who just returned from Gaza, says the clustered injuries appear to be “target practice,” indicating that Israeli soldiers are “playing some sort of game.”
WASH POST: “Mass starvation stalks Gaza… Nearly 1 in 3 people are going multiple days without eating… rising deaths from malnutrition and starvation… Their small bodies are shutting down…”
These stories are less shocking to me for the evil of Trump etc than for the thousands of pathetic little cops and guards willing to do all kinds of crime and cruelty just because they're told to. The saddest little men on earth
Alex de Waal has worked on humanitarian causes across the globe for over 40 years.
“There is no case, over those four decades, of such minutely engineered, closely monitored, precisely designed mass starvation of a population as is happening in Gaza today.”
Caring about Palestine is not some niche political issue it’s like the absolute bare minimum of being a human being
You might be able to fool the Toronto Police 5 times, but the 6th time you commit the exact same crime in the exact same place?!! THEN you're in trouble!
Trump’s spending bill makes the largest-ever cuts to food assistance benefits and could cause the closure of nursing homes and rural hospitals across the country — all while delivering massive tax benefits for the wealthiest people in the country.
#Toronto releases devastating #streetcount #homeless report by media release & email. It’s bad. Over 100 pages.
Oct. 2024 - 15,418 homeless, 1,615 were outside, 9% Indigenous, 58% black, big increase in 2SLGBT.
Mayor Olivia Chow in Ireland.
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harm reduction agencies that accepted this money— should act with integirty and commitment to the community— RETURN THE FUNDS! Distribute life saving supplies. www.thestar.com/news/gta/mor...
So: the “Protect Bathurst / Dufferin” astroturf campaign run by Summerhill Market had videos of a guy talking about the neighborhood & RapidTO proposal. Real grassroots feel. Took a screenshot & put it into google image search. Guess what?
Gross human rights abuses at prisons in El Salvador have caused at least 368 deaths, according to Noah Bullock, executive director of Cristosal.
Anyone who has ever got delivery via bike should fight for safe lanes & infrastructure as a moral imperative. (Would love to see how many anti bike lane people also enjoy delivery)
Every tax cut is a wealth transfer from the public to the private and until journalists write about tax cuts like this, we will continue to beg to be owned by corporate Canada.
#Toronto warming centre numbers for long weekend:
Fri 14th: 253
Sat 15th: 297 *** the day the one surge site opened
Sun 16th: 316
Mon 17th: 307
Overall operating at ~ 105% capacity.
Re surge sites: Jimmy Simpson is open, Cecil St. is not due to use by Elections ON.
Nearly 280 Walmart fleet drivers in Calgary and Nisku have joined Unifor, marking the third successful organizing drive at Walmart in the last six months.
#canlab
