Still going! (I love that I can type "ice blocks" into Bluesky and find out what's going on out there window)

Lost Leuty lake house

Fog on streets close to the lakeshore #dlws

People are giving governments their power in exchange for maintaining their privilege, argues Dr. Ibram X. Kendi in his new book Chain of Ideas. #AnotherEarlyMorningTVquote

"We have to build community, not jails," if we want safer places to live, says author and U of O criminology professor Justin Piché, costing out the billions spent on jails vs. millions on supportive housing. #AffordableHousing

City council meeting: Monday is D-Day for Champlain Monument Council will also be asked to support a new direct, all-day GO Transit connection between Orillia and Barrie at Monday's meeting

Orillia City Council to decide whether and how to restore the waterfront statue with deeply colonial legacy. Reconciliation, especially with the Rama First Nation land, has become part of its civic discourse.
www.orilliamatters.com/local-news/c...

Enjoying this in so many ways, and can't help snickering that while we all enjoy these grand things, the leader of opposition is framed endlessly alongside those same visuals, whining.

"Security incident" at St. George so they tell us all after leaving Museum and now the crowding at Spadina is likely to provoke another one. @ttcalerts.bsky.social #TTC

And the #TDSB model schools, where extra resources support kids with fewer learning opportunities, also reportedly on the chopping block!! This government is picking on the poor kids. #ONpoli

The #TDSB model schools have heartwarming impacts on their students. I remember in the first year, as health screening was done, 3 students were found to be profoundly deaf, and dozens more needed eyeglasses. Bile rides and school trips to the lake for kids who had never been. #CdnEd #CanEd #ONpoli

#TDSB regularly tracked the performance of students attending Model schools and found that academic performance not only improved but narrowed the gap with peers from richer schools. The effects lasted into high school with more kids graduating! www.tdsb.on.ca/Portals/rese...

The #TDSB Model School program was set up to close the achievement gap for students with few opportunities. It was funded by dedicated provincial grants meant to address their socioeconomic need but often used by school boards to address other funding gaps. Where now? #ONpoli #OntEd

Some great ideas - actually a nice thread about civil society being strong! Sometimes you need to see it.

Throwing in @tngcommunityto.bsky.social still standing strong offering harm reduction services, and earlier days, @woodgreenorg.bsky.social sparking Community Hubs provincial work, Pop-Up Shop press for elimination of tax rebates for vacant stores, and provincial funding to fight bed bugs.

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Fun with Translation apps: See "Tax the rich" become Gen Z's "eat the rich fr fr" or Corporate speak "Leverage fiscal optimization strategies to right-size the capital contributions of high-net-worth stakeholders." (I love working with a knowledge mobilization team!) translate.kagi.com

Vicarious, so appreciating those sharing.

We'll see.

The provincial budget announced police in schools and special constables on transit. Lots of focus on highways. Little on housing or childcare. No hike in OW or further allowance of earnings exemptions. Biggest focus on businesses, jobs, workers. #ONBudget #ONpoli budget.ontario.ca/2026/index.h...

Asked how many apartment buildings with bad landlords there are in the city, staff say about 115 buildings are in the "red category" of about 3,600 total buildings.

Toronto's City Council has 183 items on the agenda for the March meeting. That's a lot of voting in the next few days. h/t @graphicmatt.com #TOCouncil #TOpoli

It's a trek I (and many others!) make to the beach every later winter to enjoy!

It's the gift of living in a place for a long time, to inscribe new experiences on old, sometimes painful, geographies. Now this corner marks a pain overcome. <3 #placemaking #PersonalHistory

Can't be near Morin Heights, 'cause the most northerly town marked on this map is Blainville, between Laval and Mirabel. Good question though.

New StatsCan report compares # of unemployed people (blue bars below in graph) to job vacancies (red bars): 3.1 people per job opening.
Folks with Bachelor degrees or higher are facing highest competition. Trades numbers more closely matched. #CdnEcon #CanLab
www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quo...

Couldn't resist matching my steps to the person who was walking head of me (then doubling back to grab the pic) #dlws

So good, I often have this, adding flax seeds, for breakfast!

"All adults are responsible for all children" h/t given to James Baldwin at the #Oscars, based on this actual quote "The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality."

Chart showing Total Need for subsided housing (1,045,273 households) broken down to 315,908 who received support ( and of those 229,970 who received sufficient support and 85,938 who did not). And 729,355 households who did not receive support, 397,881 because they were ineligible for support and 331,474 who did not because of Insufficient Program Capacity)

New Financial Accountability Office of Ontario report estimates that, of 1,045,263 households that were in need of subsidized #housing in 2024-25, 315,908 (30.2% households in need) received provincial housing support and 729,355 (69.8% of households in need) did not.
fao-on.org/en/report/su...

For most injured workers in Ontario, compensation for the wages lost due to work related injury or illness stops at age 65, whether they planned to coninue working or not.

We’re sharing the real stories of injured workers here:
tinyurl.com/RightsDontRe...

#RightsDontRetire #WorkersDeserveBetter

#NerdAlert: @iwhresearch.bsky.social's librarians publish a weekly list of the recent peer-reviewed journal articles related to #work and #Health, #OHS, #WorkersComp. #PublicHealth #CanLab #HiddenGem
www.iwh.on.ca/journal-arti...