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@SURJto
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I’ve been torn up by the accounts of protestors infiltrating Mount Sinai Hospital, intimidating Jewish patients and doctors, and threatening our already weakened healthcare system.
These antisemitic actions are intentional attempts at destabilizing the safety and security of
welcome to canada where you can protest freely here in this democratic country! except you can’t protest outside that business. or inside that mall. or on that bridge. or on that street. or in that class. or on that campus. or at this event. or in that office. or at that park. or
THERE WAS NO DEMONSTRATION AT MOUNT SINAI IT WAS PASSED BY ON A MARCH ALONG THE STREET IT IS ON
if you cared more about hospitals being bombed than us walking beside one we wouldn’t need to be out in the streets you genocidal racist
The demonstration at Mount Sinai Hospital yesterday was reprehensible. Hospitals are places for treatment and care, not protests and intimidation.
I strongly condemn this display of antisemitism. In Toronto and across Canada, we stand with Jewish communities against this hate.
my rent is going up by $40/month this year but unlike a property tax that will go towards improving our city, that money is just going straight into my landlord’s pocket
where are the articles about that
Toronto homeowners may soon have to pay an extra average of more than $370 in property taxes every year.
Here's everything you need to know about property taxes as Toronto homeowners stare down a proposed double-digit increase.
the police are publicly stating that if you don’t “respect” them (something subjective that they get to decide the definition of) they have the right to beat the shit out of you
how was it targeted? where is your source on this? or are you just going to follow every other racist politician without fact-checking and putting more Palestinians at risk of hate-motivated retaliation?
Yesterday, the Mount Sinai Hospital was targeted because of its ties to the Jewish community in Toronto.
This is not okay.
Hospitals are a place for healing - not a target for protests.
Today marks 15 years since Iraqi journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi threw his shoes at US President George W. Bush at a news conference in Baghdad to express his rage towards America's illegal invasion of Iraq.
do these motherfuckers need someone to spray paint acab in the landfill for them to finally start searching it? imagine assigning MAJOR CRIMES to a bunch of graffiti when there’s a serial killer who admitted to where dead bodies are that no one is focusing on
#SearchTheLandfill
More than 65 phrases including profanity and acronyms used by police abolitionist groups were spray painted along the WPFG Half Marathon route. It is believed the graffiti occurred overnight. Major Crimes is investigating.
imagine you’re assaulted on the ttc and make a video about it and then you see this caillou looking fuck who voted for all the things that make ttc unsafe for you using your video for his mayoral campaign. just horrible
you’d never know israel was the one committing genocide by reading this statement. can’t even mention the 20000+ Palestinians that have been killed by israel
TPS 🧵 It is your obligation to pull over and exchange information in the event of a collision. It’s also the right thing to do to ensure the person you hit receives cautionary medical attention as they may be in shock. You don't just drive away officer...1/3
i made this tweet before tps almost ran over a group of people praying on the road.
when the cops eventually kill someone at these protests will that finally force mayor chow to denounce tps or once again is this only for spider-man climbing some fucking scaffolding
@jengerson
we are quite literally helping to fund israel’s military. do you genuinely believe that at the very least the canadian politicians who are sending funding to aid israel’s military has no control over making those decision?
so far under
@MayorOliviaChow
we have seen asylum seekers forced to the streets because of inadequate housing, anti-Palestinian racism & harassment, one of the largest encampment evictions since 2021, and now the breaking of one of her key campaign promises re: ontario place
@GumptionAndCo
it is one of the most common streets to take on marches in toronto & the nature of pacing along a march involves sections stopping along the way
also every fucking thing done in support of Palestine is being framed as antisemitic so i doubt another route would’ve mattered
if you’re posting videos on social media about toronto make sure to be holding up an “I HATE BRAD BRADFORD” sign so he can’t steal it for a campaign video 🫡
my trans identity is not something that can be debated by “the other side”. when the other side is transphobia it’s not a debate it’s fucking oppression
Does it have to impact my personal life for me to care about rights?
So I got attacked for a while from "the other side" for Tweeting pro-trans rights... maybe the two sides should consider their common opponents: those who hate all kinds of women?
Immigration Minister Marc Miller says he'll be scrutinizing the number of international students and other non-permanent residents coming into Canada, as political tension builds around the interplay between housing affordability and immigration.
“it’s about time for less talk and more action” -
@BradMBradford
, while wasting time talking to press about his mayoral bid in the middle of a literal council session
Councillor
@BradMBradford
, who made his mayoral bid official today, says Toronto is at a breaking point. “It’s about time for less talk and more action.”
police got away with kneeling on the neck of protesters months ago because no one in power did fuck all about it and lo and behold here we see them once again engaging in kneeling on the bodies of protesters.
when you treat the police with impunity they’ll continue to do this.
TPS and IOF exchange training tactics in surveillance & violent suppression of protests. They're all the same! Guardians of the racist system, silencing + violating our protected rights. Yesterday, we had a family-friendly rally, but TPS had no intention of keeping it that way.
if someone is doing drugs on the ttc i promise you Promise you nothing horrible is going to happen if you don’t take a video and send it to bl*gto…you can just be normal and go about your business without being a snitch
@MaritStiles
@OntarioNDP
@kernaghant
you can’t just post through the death of your party. do everyone a favour by apologizing to Sarah and then resigning from your position. you’ve signed the death certificate for
@OntarioNDP
and are unfit to lead this party
if
@MayorOliviaChow
had time to tweet out her racist and islamaphobic condemnations of pro-palestinian demonstrations a few weeks ago she has time to call for a ceasefire and condemn israel for their continued genocide against the palestinian people
i just want to remind people i wasn’t there protesting, i was there to support and defend my neighbours. the very act of that alone was enough of a threat to capital and the status quo that police were “justified” in the eyes of the city and our government
maybe instead of telling us to save money we don’t have for houses we can never realistically afford, why don’t you ensure there is actual affordable housing available for everyone
For many, the dream of homeownership feels like it’s moving further out of reach.
That’s why today, we are launching the new Tax-free First Home Savings Account, to help young Canadians and first-time home buyers save up to $40,000 – tax-free!
Learn more:
i love that the mayor of the city that i live in thinks that this level of violence against myself (on the left) and others was no indication of wrongdoing
From
@JohnTory
: “I think the traditional inquiry is an entirely inappropriate thing to do here. It suggests some wrongdoing on the part of our public servants who work so hard, including the police by the way.”
The Mayor does not think this resembles "wrongdoing."
he quite literally kneed the guy in the head/neck multiple times (using his entire body weight to bounce down multiple times!!!) while kneeling on his head/neck
it is crystal clear in the video this reporting is so dangerous and disgusting
"When one guy says it's raining and one guy says it's sunny, your job isn't to report both comments -- it's to go outside and see who is right"
I guess CBC never got the news of this classic journalism addage.
I've been paddling since I was 16, I love getting out on the water.
I can't imagine the city without public access to the lake, and I won't accept a future without it.
As your mayor, I'll stand up for Ontario Place.
“I did the work of reaching out to those who share my deep love for this city & tried to make things better.”
we begged you for housing but instead the cops brutalized us & when you saw photos & videos like the one of me below you said it was “protestors” at fault. get fucked
these MPs that are accusing everyone and their mother of antisemitism need to be reminded daily that they gave a standing ovation to a literal nazi months ago
IN-DEPTH: What is a no-fly zone?
A no-fly zone is the restriction of air space enforced by military means. It is established by achieving air superiority over an area, using fighter jets and anti-air systems to destroy all unauthorized aircraft in the designated area.
what is
@oliviachow
going to do about the escalating police brutality enacted by TPS ?with the budget coming up there is no way she can credibly make a case for anything but defunding the police who so brazenly beat the people in this city
i hope people understand that this movement spreading across provinces with conservative leadership towards “parents’ rights” re: pronouns and names is absolutely a dog whistle for transphobia and will escalate to more overt transphobia for kids and adults across the country
@MaritStiles
Sarah was one of the only MPPs in this party with integrity, compassion, and a vision for an equitable future. you are not fit to run this party and should resign immediately for treating her in this way and destroying the
@OntarioNDP
pride started as a riot against police and we’ve gotten so far from those origins that instead of investing in queer community safety initiatives the gov is giving more money to police who will absolutely end up harassing queer people at pride
In our first instalment of our new series The Capitalist Manifesto, we discuss how we spent the money in subsidies we received from the Government in the free market - The National Post
@CBCPitchbot
Joining
@GGCanada
, Lieutenant
@judy_foote
, and Indigenous Leaders during a solemn moment of reflection and prayer at the Heart Garden, in memory of all Indigenous children who were lost to the residential school system.
Thank you to the police and first responders who worked quickly to keep our kids, education workers and community in Scarborough safe from harm this afternoon.
All our hearts are with Scarborough right now. I'm so grateful no one was harmed. Guns have no place on our streets.
@MaritStiles
this message rings hollow because of your actions in the past few weeks but particularly because of your removal of Sarah Jama from the
@OntarioNDP
caucus. the only hope at saving this party is for a total change in the upper brass, starting with your resignation
@l_stone
@SarahJama_
it would be great if as a reporter you could include the context that that is not at all what she’s said in her statement so it’s clear he’s twisting her words
VIDEO: I asked Mayor
@JohnTory
why police and city staff will forcefully move people out of homeless encampments but aren’t using the same tactics on anti-vax protestors. He called the comparison “unfair.”
@CheriDiNovo
@cafreeland
she literally posed with a fascist flag days ago this isn’t someone who is being held to a standard of her grandfather it’s her own actions
@cityoftoronto
the deadline should be extended indefinitely until there’s been an actual effort to connect with the people on this list. this is a disgusting attempt to reduce wait list numbers so the city doesn’t look like such an embarrassment on their housing file
that’s a $480/year increase for renters compared to $370/year increase for homeowners (for those that find comparisons easier when they’re using the same unit lol)
cw: police brutality
“Nobody has called for an investigation into police behaviour, into the money spent, into the warped communications strategy.” i’d love anyone on city council to do anything abt what happened at recent encampment evictions
a reminder of what happened to me
#Opinion
: Violent encampment evictions, empty fenced-in spaces and broken fountains were among the many ways the city let down its citizens,
@shawnmicallef
writes.
@JoshMatlow
if you’re talking about the protest near the JCC that was protesting Chrystia Freeland outside her office. this has been said numerous times already and confirmed by organizers of the protest. stop spreading this lie
This morning, we held our office opening! Thank you to everyone in community who came out to check out our new spot. It's filled with local artwork, a kids area, and a full, unionized staff team. 1/
Mike, these unwarranted and intimidating arrests were made in your ward. now the police are threatening people in the city with this outrageous wanted press release. what are you doing to stick up to the toronto police and ensure they will stop harassing us?
@m_layton
Today, we arrested 3 people in connection with a protest outside
@TPS14Div
where crowds became hostile. We are looking for 8 more, all wanted for alleged offences including assault with a weapon.
See news release:
A young man calls the police to get help and ends up falling off his own balcony. The story sounds so familiar and we need to be honest about it.
We deserve better
1. Drop the notice against Khaleel; and don’t pursue future action to others who are providing aide
2. Expropriate hotels and buildings in the downtown core
3. Ban encampment evictions
4. Defund the police and Parks Ambassadors
#EvictTory
#HousingNotLawsuits
#TOpoli
#JohnTory
@The_Acumen
tax the rich is also not something new that she has been vocalizing ever since she’s stepping into politics. she’s already brought awareness to that. if she wanted something new she could have brought attention to the real-time protests that were happening right outside the gala
@Peace4all17
@HansMoletran
@Imani_Barbarin
if you spent half as much time successfully pushing democrats to prioritize disabled lives as you did on this dead end point you’d support disabled ppl’s right to live safely AND you’d get the democratic votes you’re bending over backwards to get lol
A 10-day UPS strike would cost the economy more than $7 billion and be the costliest work stoppage in at least a century, according to a new study by Anderson Economic Group, which researches labor disruptions.
Come down to the skate trail in Col. Samuel Smith Park between 1-4pm today for Skate with a Cop! Go skating with free skate rentals from the City of Toronto, learn how to DJ at Powerhouse Recreation Centre's DJ Booth for youth, and grab a cup of hot chocolate to warm up.
@Peace4all17
@HansMoletran
@Imani_Barbarin
it’s been stated multiple times that to get disabled people to vote democrats need to actually do things that will protect disabled ppl + democratic voters should support and amplify these demands. you refusing to see this is wasting everyone’s time lol
they are trying to frame this as if this is just 3 people who are not willing to comply with signing a form. but they still REFUSE to allow our people to speak to counsel so she can review what they are signing. they have a right to counsel - honour it.
#FreeThemNow
#FreeTheThree
UPDATE: "They could be out the door right now if they choose to be, but they choose not to," Toronto police Chief Mark Saunders responds to the protest outside 52 Division.
i never reported my SA to cops b/c the idea of them not believing me, forcing me to relive my trauma for a bunch of strangers, and their record of not seriously dealing with rapists was too much for me to handle. stop using survivors to prop up policing. defund & abolish forever
@birgitomo
this gofundme is organized by a former Conservative MP/RCMP officer. given the horrific relationship between RCMP and Indigenous communities is there another gofundme that is organized by members of the community affected?
@justinvandette
@BradMBradford
@anabailaoTO
@marksaunders_TO
they are literally outlining ways they have voted &/or maneuvered the city in the past (i.e. saunders letting a serial killer roam the queer community & then blaming that very community for what happened). why is it when confronted with negative truths ppl assume it’s an attack?
YES!
for those unfamiliar, this is a tactic commonly used by cops! get you on bogus charges so they can then give you conditions that further strip you of rights. it’s a suppression tactic by both removing folks from the movement & intimidating others with threats of the same
the amount of people in my mentions who think that possibly committing a crime or actually committing a crime warrants the police beating the shit out of you is indicative of the grip policing has on society because in what world would people be okay with something like that lol
Ontario NDP to pledge doubling of
#ODSP
rates in 2nd year if elected
The party has faced criticism from its supporters that the party's promise to increase ODSP rates wasn't enough.
#ONpoli
#RaiseTheRates
THESE WEBSITES ARE LITERALLY SHARING PUBLICLY AVAILABLE VOTING RECORDS
is the city of toronto website going to be investigated for sharing this information too ???
Websites taking aim at the council track records of some high-profile candidates for mayor may have run afoul of the city’s elections watchdog, sparking debate over what kind of campaign advertising could — or should — be allowed in the wide open race.
you can call
@DianneSaxe
at 416-392-4009 or email her Councillor_Saxe
@toronto
.ca to tell her how unacceptable it is for her to evict your neighbours and falsely accuse them of rape, stabbings, and starting fires
Last night at a keynote speech for a climate award ceremony, Saxe spoke about sustainable housing. When asked about St Stephen's she said it's the fault of residents who "rape, stab, & cause fires". She said she wouldn’t support a moratorium on encampment evictions.
#TOpoli
i hope cis people know now that transphobic policy is being dominated & supported by a vast number of politicians in canada that reproductive rights are next on the chopping block…gender care is healthcare & if they’re gutting this then reproductive care is the next logical step
“…CBS has merely decided to cut through the thin veneer of dignity that has clearly been able to misguide so many people for so long. It is like someone putting a mirror up to our world and us having the audacity to be shocked about what we see.” phew !
what an amazing piece
this is the “radical communist” mayor denouncing a protest that supports the rights of Palestinians who are brutally occupied and live in the world’s largest open air prison
A year ago today the lovely
@sailorm00d
proposed to me at this very event and two days ago we got MARRIED ! Thanks
#cloneclub
and
#orphanblack
for bringing us together 💖
people haven’t forgotten that you voted for no encampments in 2021 and as far as i’m aware you still have not apologized for that (correct me if i’m wrong)
While passing out water & socks in Allan Gardens, heartbreaking stories about renovictions, rent hikes & unsafe shelters explain why encampments are growing in Ontario. Ottawa, Niagara, Hamilton & Toronto have all declared homelessness an emergency. Time for Ford to do the same.
i remember sitting w/ my mom in a bakery watching you on cp24 telling the public not to use grindr & other apps for “risky lifestyles” so they won’t get themselves killed too. i held back tears as i explained how scary it was for our community atm, especially w/ cops saying that
they bombed a refugee camp they bombed a refugee camp they bombed a refugee camp they bombed a refugee camp they bombed a refugee camp they bombed a refugee camp they bombed a refugee camp they bombed a refugee camp they bombed a refugee camp they bombed a refugee camp they bomb
On the phone today, Prime Minister
@GiorgiaMeloni
and I expressed our support for Israel’s right to defend itself, in accordance with international law – and we agreed on the need for urgent access to life-saving humanitarian aid for Palestinian civilians.