Assoc. Prof. U of Guelph. Former Director General at David Suzuki Foundation. Scientist working in solidarity with Indigenous Peoples. Tweets are my own.
(Guelph): Guest on the ancestral lands of the Attawandaron people and the Treaty lands and territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit.
Today is the first anniversary of downing of
#PS752
and the deaths of 176 people, including my dear PhD student and friend Ghanimat Azhdari. One only dreams of having a student as clever and passionate and inspirational as Ghanimat. I have written a few reflections about her🦋 1/
One of my wonderful PhD students, Ghanimat Azdahri, was on the plane that crashed in Tehran this morning. Ghanimat was on her way back to
@uofg
after visiting her family and traditional Indigenous territories in Iran over the December break. The students and I are in so much pain
Just got off the phone w my elderly dad who fought in resistance against Apartheid in S. Africa. He asked me what freedoms have
#FluTruxKlan
lost? - are they banned from public places because of their skin colour? arrested & tortured in prison? homes raided? loved ones murdered?
I was violently detained by police for carrying my sleeping infant daughter into my home w porch lights off. A white neighbour called the police on me for "breaking into my own home". The cops didn't hug me. They had me on the ground, screaming obscenities
#WhitePrivilege
Indigenous Peoples are at forefront of conservation & climate action around the world. But this latest atrocity is painful reminder of how vulnerable Indigenous Peoples are for standing up to protect their lands and waters. Global community must speak out:
The
#Greenbelt
is actually made up of number of sections, including Niagara Escarpment. It is the most biodiverse place in 🇨🇦 and designated a United Nations Biosphere Reserve. Today the organization in charge of the NE Biosphere Reserve told
@fordnation
hands off
#Greenbelt
Until a few weeks ago none of us knew
@fordnation
was about to hand over chunks of
#Greenbelt
to his billionaire developer buddies or gut broader environmental protections w
#Bill23
. If he gets away with this, none of protections we hold dear for clear air, water, nature are safe
Well
@PierrePoilievre
- I am now hell bent to personally work with my neighbours and friends and other Canadians to ensure you don’t come within an inch of power. Pathetic, petty and verging on an anti-Indigenous intolerance. We don’t need this type of politics in Canada. 👎
#Greenbelt
doesn't just include protected farmland & forest outside of cities, but urban river valleys in Toronto, Oshawa, Ajax and more. If
@fordnation
gets away with
#Bill23
what is stopping him from destroying the parks and greenspace in heart of our cities as well? see map 👇
@uofg
Ghanimat was a beloved member of our research group. Her PhD research was devoted to advancing the rights of Indigenous Peoples in conservation and protection of biocultural knowledge. Our
@ICCAConsortium
colleagues have released a beautiful statement: …
@uofg
@ICCAConsortium
14 other students at Sharif Industrial University (Tehran) perished on flight and there may be other Iranian students studying in Canada who were killed. My heart is breaking at the loss of so many precious young Iranian lives and their potential to make the world a better place.
He's honestly bewildered that some Canadians who are privileged live in one of the best countries in the world would purposely harass and harm their fellow residents because of vaccine mandates that keep us all safe. Dad says "they have no idea what it means to be oppressed"
I absolutely hate the Toronto airshow. No need to glorify and normalize weapons of war. As well as wasteful carbon emissions and the trauma and discomfort they cause pets and other animals. Time we finally canned this stupid thing.
While Canadians hold candlelight vigils in the memory of health workers murdered by the Israeli military in Gaza, CBC reports that some senior physicians in Canada are ratting out medical students who had the audacity to sign a letter calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Sickening 🤮
Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières
On December 19, we held candlelight vigils in solidarity with health workers in Gaza.
We gathered in cities across Canada to remember our colleagues who have been tragically killed since October 7.
We continue to call for an immediate and sustained ceasefire.
Only
@fordnation
and his developer buddies can come up with a plan of logging 800 trees on the Ontario Place waterfront and replacing them with a giant tacky glass box in the middle of a critical flyway for birds.🙄
Incredible diversity of birds visit Ontario Place, as part of the migratory birdway that is our waterfront. Can't see a glass spa being very good for those birds.
The experience of Black, Indigenous and other people of colour and the poor with the police in 🇨🇦 could not be more different from the nauseating displays of affection and support given to the white supremacists holding this country hostage. We have always known this.
Let's just admit it.
@fordnation
plan to create a giant tacky glass-covered spa on the site of our beloved
#OntarioPlace
is essentially a clearcut in downtown Toronto. 800 tress will be logged for this monstrosity in the middle of an important flyway for birds and butterflies.
Ontario's
#Greenbelt
is over 800,000 ha in size and is the largest protected zone of near-urban nature and farmland on the 🌎.
@fordnation
plan to open it up to development sets a terrible precedent. None of our protected areas, ecological sites are safe if he gets away with this
X is full of images of Palestinian kids blown to pieces by Israeli bombs. And apologists for genocide like
@BenMulroney
have the audacity to smear tens of thousands of Canadians calling for a ceasefire as terrorist sympathizers??!!!! You’re a useful idiot for warmongers Ben 😕
People are messaging me that I lied about my experience with the police to get likes. I didn't. This is the lived experience of Black, Indigenous and other people of colour and the poor. Just because you haven't experienced racism personally, doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
@marksaunders_TO
Your priorities are all wrong. If you truly wanted to make Toronto "safer" then announce a plan and budget to support much needed safe-injection sites, housing for the vulnerable and improved mental health supports.
Repeat again.
@fordnation
entire premise for taking protected farmland and forest out of the
#Greenbelt
to give to developers is based on a lie. There is more than enough land OUTSIDE of the Greenbelt that is already zoned to be built on. Carving up the Greenbelt is greed 🤑🤮
Govt own housing taskforce advised there is no need for more land for
#housing
but province doubles down on secret promises made to developers to remove land from Ontario's
#Greenbelt
#greenbeltgate
As an alumnus of
@DalhousieU
Biology's PhD program, I'm glad to see the department come out strongly in support of Mi'kmaw Fishers and against racism. I hope other academic units across Canada do the same, including my own
@CSAHS_UoG
#FightHate
#MikmaqRights
White people please watch. This is trauma that Indigenous, Black & other People of Colour face from our experiences w police. I still fear police from when they burst into my home, pushed me to ground, threatened me. My "crime": entering my own home at night w my child in my arms
Terrell Paci, a 23 year old black firefighter was RACIALLY PROFILED and held at GUNPOINT by PROVIDENCE POLICE.
He was on duty, in full uniform, infront of his work place.
FUCK THE POLICE!
BLACK LIVES MATTER!
My mom was an immigrant nurse for 30 yrs in Canada. She worked so hard, dealt w years of sexual harassment & abuse from patients that exemplified the same obnoxious behaviour as the assholes holding our communities hostage. Healthcare workers deserve respect.
#GoHomeFluTruxKlan
Imagine wanting to destroy the 2 things that make Ontario special - our precious green space and our public health care system - so you can make billions on top of the billions you already have. If there is one thing that we need to bury good + done in 2023 it's corporate greed👇🏾
The De Gasperis Family wants to dismantle the Greenbelt & our food security because a billion $$$ isn't enough for them.
The Westons want to dismantle our public health care because a billion $$$ isn't enough for them.
Ford + his PC MPPs will always put billionaires 1st.
Dear politicians.
No support for a ceasefire in Gaza. No vote from me.
I will no longer vote for any political party that provides political cover and support for war crimes.
@JustinTrudeau
@liberal_party
So to the assholes coming after me now:
#1
fuck off and
#2
get off your nazi chat groups and spend 5 minutes listening to
@DesmondCole
who was interrogated 50 times by the cops because he is black. His experience is not unusual
I have climbed, researched & advocated for trees all of my life. I've stood in the middle of clearcuts that extend to the horizon, but nothing has hurt more than losing a beloved mature tree next to my flat that was cut down by the landlord next door without any notice to tenants
@bonvivantnessa
@mattdellok
Forest ecologist here. Even if this tree was taken from the forest floor (which I doubt), a dead tree of this size contributes immensely to wildlife habitat, carbon storage, nutrients, forest structure. Ancient trees like this should be left in the woods not turned into decking.
What I find strange about
@fordnation
eliminating 50 Million Tree program is that it’s exactly type of land stewardship program conservatives should like as it supports volunteer action by landowners rather than impose regulatory req. to plant trees on private property
#WINWIN
#50MillionTreesProgram
is working and efficient! It incentivizes forest creation by reducing costs & barriers to landowners to planting trees in the area of the province where we need to increase forest cover most! And supports nursery/forest tech/restoration jobs & businesses!!
Everyday
@fordnation
announces something new that kills nature & the homeless and that makes the lives of teachers,nurses & other essential workers more miserable.This is a page ripped out of the Conservative-book of crisis rule. It’s meant to overwhelm/disempower us.Don’t let it
This is going to happen in Canada if
@fordnation
gets his way and builds his giant GLASS
#MegaSpa
at
#OntarioPlace
- a critical migratory flyway for birds.
Canadian environmental groups should be launching lawsuits federal Species at Risk Act, Migratory Birds Convention Act now.
Tragedy unfolding in Chicago: an unprecedented number of window collisions. Photos show nearly 1000 birds salvaged from a SINGLE building along the lakefront this morning, including mostly Tennessee, Palm, Myrtle, and Magnolia Warblers.
At what point does this become a crime?
This is a refreshing development. I have never seen such unity among diverse sectors: farmers, environmentalists, First Nations, planning organizations and businesses and the public,
#united
in opposition to
@fordnation
attacks on
#Greenbelt
and sensitive farmland & forest
Niagara Escarpment Biosphere Network has just put out a statement slamming
@fordnation
attack on
#Greenbelt
. This is big. NEBN maintains United Nation's
@UNESCO
mandate & designation of Niagara Escarpment Biosphere. Threats to Greenbelt are of global consequence
@JessicaBellTO
I'm not Irish, but like any decent person I'm disgusted by open displays of sectarian hatred against Catholics and the nationalist community in Northern Ireland happening now. It is reprehensible & needs to be strongly condemned by international community including UN
#FightHate
Imagine this said all blacks Muslims or lgbtq people are targets .. taigs is slang for catholics .. where’s the outcry and how is it allowed in this day and age 🤷♂️🤷♂️
I lost 6 family members to
#COVID19
in the first wave & before vaccinations were available. Today I received my third jab. Inshallah it will keep me safe and healthy so that my family doesn't have to go through any further pain and suffering than they already have
#GetVaccinated
Don’t forget that this is the same guy who travelled to Israel to meet with their military and cheer on the genocide in Gaza a few weeks ago. Several thousand more Palestinian kids have been slaughtered since his trip. Absolutely shameful politician on the wrong side of history.
I disagree with Canada's vote at the United Nations today. I do not support its call for Israel to agree to what is, effectively, an unconditional ceasefire. At present, that would only place in further jeopardy the safety and security of Israelis & Palestinians in Gaza.
@KingaSurmaMPP
@TorontoRBOT
@fordnation
Ecologist here. Trees last for generations.
Not crappy metal, plastic and glass structures that will kill birds and bring no joy to anyone except to the corporate lobbyists that are running your government.
Save 1,000+ trees at Ontario Place.
Literally everything
@fordnation
touches - dies.
Other cities have stunning naturalized waterfronts, green corridors and thriving urban parks and we get a giant glass-covered spa, 850 tree stumps and 2,000 more parking spots🙄
The most uninspiring pro-developer Premier ever👇🏾
Ontario Place redevelopment plan
- underground parking for more than 2,000 vehicles
- felling of around 850 trees.
A development that no one wants, except developers.
@fordnation
funnelling $$$ to private interests at the cost of the public good.
Again.
@uofg
We lost our dear friend and colleague Ghanimat Azdahri today on the
#IranPlaneCrash
. It’s been an awful day save for the knowledge that Ghanimat was a fierce defender of Indigenous Peoples and that the struggle continues - inspired by her passion to create a better world.
I have listened to
@NightShiftMD
show empathy to doctors and patients alike in his show. But his lack of any humanity for Palestinians is alarming and
@CBC
should rethink having him on air. Over a dozen Palestinian health care workers have been murdered by Israeli bombs to date
One only needs to look at the stats on racial profiling by the police
#carding
or actually talk to
#BIPOC
persons to know that our experiences with the police could not be more different than how the
#FluTruxKlan
are being treated. It reflects systemic nature of white supremacy
What
@fordnation
has planned for Indigenous territories in northern Ontario
#RingofFire
goes well beyond gutting the
#Greenbelt
. It must be as strongly opposed as well. Ontario residents must stand in solidarity & support First Nations on the front lines fighting for the land.
"Premier Ford and investors hear us, you will not cross the Attawapiskat River without our consent. If you get on your bulldozer our people will meet you on the land. There will be no road to the Ring of Fire without our consent." Chief Wayne Moonias, Neskantaga.
#LandAlliance
@anthonyfurey
Thanks for the head's-up. Now I know who not to vote for.
We're in a climate and air pollution crisis. Active transportation, like cycling and walking, are critical to reduce emissions that contribute to hundreds of premature deaths each year from air pollution.
There are federally registered non profits in Canada that are harassing and bullying Canadians from speaking out against Gaza genocide. They are targeting youth, students, Indigenous and minorities w intimidation. CRA needs to investigate, strip them of their charitable status 1/
Very important new piece from
@brish_ti
on the McCarthyite campaign to get people fired (or never hired in the first place) over moral expressions of solidarity with Palestinians under bombardment.
So much of this is cowardly whispers and screenshots.
I never thought I would read this type of headline. But then again I never imagined our leaders would support the genocide of an entire People
@JustinTrudeau
@POTUS
Gaza children being killed or mutilated in ‘very extreme numbers Australian doctor says
My family therapist reacted with shock & shade when I mentioned that my kids and I are having to downsize from a two bedroom to a one bedroom apartment in Toronto because I can't afford skyrocketing rent. Instead of empathy or understanding, he suggested "I talk to my accountant"
The NEBN maintains United Nation's
@UNESCO
mandate & designation of the Niagara Escarpment Biosphere, which is also part of the
#Greenbelt
.They have just put out a statement that
#Bill23
threatens the Biosphere. This brings much needed global attention to protection of
#Greenbelt
Simon Fraser University Prof. Dr. Mark Jaccard is a renowned climate change policy expert. The fact that he has endorsed the Liberal Climate Plan is telling.
This is what predatory capitalism looks like. This is not inflation but price gouging by corporations that have captured our Canadian food system while our politicians look away. Sickening.
Canada’s big three supermarket chains — Loblaw, Empire (Sobeys) and Metro — have continued to increase their profits on the back of record high grocery prices, a new Star analysis has found.
No way. You’re not pinning your environmentally destructive policies on us. 🤯. Guess what
@fordnation
we immigrants love nature too. We also eat local food grown in the
#Greenbelt
and we want it left alone. Cancel your corrupt kickbacks you promised to your developer buddies.
We can all learn a great deal from this behaviour shown by the incoming Vice President of Colombia Francia Marquez (who was a former housekeeper herself before entering politics). Always be kind and respectful to those who work so hard to make your day a little easier. 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾✊🏿
This is corruption plain and simple.
@fordnation
needs to be investigated by the Auditor General. The
#Greenbelt
is not his land to hand over to greedy developers.
Developers owning Greenbelt land now set to be developed appear to have given significant sums to Ford’s Progressive Conservative party, donation records show.
Forest ecologist here. This monoculture plantation is not a “forest”. More appropriately to describe it as field of giant broccoli 🥦 and about as ecologically useful as well 😕. Shame on a government agency for promoting such as propaganda.
Kilmurry Wood, Cork quietly absorbing carbon and dissecting the sun’s rays. Great photo snapped by a member of the EPA team while out and about doing fieldwork recently.
Have a good week everyone!
#mondaythoughts
Ontario's
#Greenbelt
is largest protected zone of near-urban nature & farmland on 🌎. We cannot allow
@fordnation
to hand out chunks of it to his billionaire buddies. We must speak out or we will lose this global treasure to greedy developers. Call your MPP to
#SaveGreenbelt
🌿
Okay to those people who think I’m not patriotic for opposing the air show or a killjoy. Biodiversity is in free fall. The waterfront is a an important flyway and habitat for birds. We need to prioritize nature over your desire to be entertained by war machines making loud noises
I absolutely hate the Toronto airshow. No need to glorify and normalize weapons of war. As well as wasteful carbon emissions and the trauma and discomfort they cause pets and other animals. Time we finally canned this stupid thing.
@NoColdWar
@JosepBorrellF
@JosepBorrellF
since you're fond of nature and gardens let me educate you. Botanists from the Middle East and N. Africa (the "jungle" as you call us) were publishing scientific texts on medicinal plants to heal the sick in 13th C and earlier. Manuscript of Farrukh-Nameh-i-Jamali
I turn 50 next month. I've spent most of my years sitting on either side of a classroom - either as a student or as a prof. I sure spent a lot of time in school, but I still think the most important lessons I've learned were from reading comic books as a kid
#LoveNature
👇👇👇
My immigrant parents would drop my siblings and I off at Ontario Science Centre every Sunday throughout our childhood in 80s. OSC inspired thousands of kids to become engineers, biologists, physicians and seek other careers in STEM, including the three PhDs & one MD in my family
This is bonkers. We need more science centre, not less. But
@fordnation
is set to spend a ton of $$ to move the Ontario Science Centre from a spot that, with the Ontario Line, will be at the intersection of 2 transit lines, to a half-the-size facility a 10-min. walk from transit.
Another Palestinian professor & his family have been murdered by the Israeli military. The IDF have destroyed every single university in Gaza, killed faculty & students, burned down archives. Their war is not just on the people of Gaza but on knowledge itself & those who share it
BREAKING| Israel kills journalist and professor of media Rizq Arrouq in an airstrike on his house in Gaza, killing him along with members of his family.
This is special week as fall term begins at universities across Canada. A sad one too as we remember the precious students lost when
#PS752
was shot down over Tehran 8 months ago, including my dear PhD student Ghanimat Azhdari who would have been returning to her studies today🦋
A few months ago 🇨🇦 helped negotiate global agreement to protect nature.The ink has barely dried on the paper and
@fordnation
& his developer buddies are salivating at prospect of paving over green space in Greenbelt, Ontario Place & floodplain where Science Centre is located 🌿
Do my fellow academics realize that if we lived & taught in Gaza & not the leafy campuses that we enjoy in Canada, US, Europe we too would likely be languishing in an Israeli prison or worse. We must speak out against the murder of our Palestinian colleagues and their families.
My colleagues & I submitted a scientific paper today for publication that is posthumously co-authored w my PhD student & friend
#GhanimatAzhdari
. Ghanimat was killed on
#PS752
along w dozens of students & other precious lives destroyed.Their families deserve peace & justice🥀🦋
Done.
@fordnation
has just eliminated Ontario's Environmental Commissioner as well as Advocate for Children and Youth.They've gutted independent oversight and care for the most precious elements of our province: clean air, safe water and healthy and happy children
#disgusting
CONFIRMED CBC scoop: Doug Ford government is eliminating 3 of Ontario's independent legislative officers: Environmental Commissioner, Child Advocate, and French-Language Services Commissioner.
Their duties will be taken by Ombudsman & Auditor General
Never believe anything
@fordnation
tells you. He is quite literally dismantling the ecological, education and public health safety net that the citizens of Ontario built (doctors, nurses, teachers, farmers, conservationists, local residents) to benefit his billionaire buddies😕👇🏾
Ontario’s beloved
#Greenbelt
forms the heartland of the province’s agriculture industry producing billions of dollars in local food and employing thousands. Far from an “empty field with weeds in it” as our developer premier
@fordnation
calls it. You can’t eat money buddy.
Trees older than the most revered universities,monasteries & other monuments in Europe are being cut down & hauled away to be turned into roofing & decking in British Columbia,Canada. Cultural keystone species turned into timber for local DIY store😡
@RobGMacfarlane
@GeorgeMonbiot
The attacks on Palestinian community in Canada right now is sickening. It exceeds islamophobia and anti-Arab racism in lead up to Iraq war and after 911. Despite immense trauma of Nakba, Occupation they have enriched our communities immensely. They have a right to be heard
I used to be the Director General for a conservation org. I cannot tell you how hard it was to get a meeting w senior political leaders on important issues, like saving endangered caribou or
#Greenbelt
. Not so if you're a lobbyist for one of the Premier's billionaire buddies🤮
(2021) “Doug Ford’s ‘Director Of Pandemic Response’ Was a Private Health Lobbyist For Shoppers Drug Mart”
Do we not enforce laws concerning conflicts of interest in Ontario anymore?
The dehumanization of Palestinians is a strategy being used and swallowed hook, line & sinker here in Canada as well. Anti-Palestinian racism is so normalized that our politicians will sooner condemn Palestinian-Canadians' right to assembly than condemn Israeli war crimes in Gaza
@AndrewScheer
Nope
@AndrewScheer
. The Arctic belongs to the Inuit. It's revealing that you make no mention of the Indigenous stewards of these northern lands and waters whatsoever in your ridiculous statement
#cdnpoli
Minister
@cathmckenna
tweets about protection of nature w creation of 🇨🇦 first Urban National Park and is targeted w misogynistic abuse. My fellow scientists. We can't be silent!! Let's speak out when our female colleagues, politicians are harassed for standing up for environment
We tragically lost our colleague, Ghanimat Azhdari, on
#Flight752
. With her family's blessing we have set up a scholarship fund in her name at
@uofg
to honour her memory & life's work in Indigenous Conservation. Please follow link to donate
@ICCAConsortium
I spent all this week drafting oped on pervasive whiteness of environmentalism to pitch to papers.But there is nothing I've written that hasn't been better said already by
@wawagatheru
.
@ConversationUS
@nytimes
@TorontoStar
star reprint this brilliant piece
I paid $1 for a single ear of corn that I ate w dinner last night. Ramon and other farmworkers like him are paid far less ($1 for an entire heavy box he fills), despite backbreaking work under tough conditions. Farmworkers deserve our respect and a living wage for their service👇
Ramon shared this video of the corn harvest near Modesto CA. He uses a sharp tool to cut the ears of corn and for his labor he will be paid $1 per box he fills.
#WeFeedYou
#July4th
This poem has brought me great comfort with the grief of losing my dear student Ghanimat and deep sadness for the other precious lives taken on
#PS752
. They remain with us in our memories, but also in their beautiful legacy and their impact to make the earth a better place. 🦋
I was too overcome w emotion when host Rita
@CBCOntarioToday
asked me to describe work of my student, Ghanimat Azhdari, who perished in
#IranPlaneCrash
. Ghanimat was proud member of Qashqai Tribe & expert in nomadic peoples. She had to come to🇨🇦 to work w First Nations in NFLD
Gutting the Greenbelt, running roughshod over Indigenous Peoples and their lands in the north, paving over the last bit of decent greenspace on Toronto’s waterfront
#OntarioPlace
for a giant tacky spa for rich people.
@fordnation
is waging a war on nature that must be opposed.
Today is anniversary of downing
#PS752
by Iran.Among victims were dozens of children & students, including my precious PhD student
#GhanimatAzhdari
. State sanctioned murder no different than massacre of youth at Tianamen Square, Soweto deserving of same international condemnation
Thank you for taking a little time to read about Ghanimat. Similar reflections and personal stories are being shared by the families of the victims of
#PS752
as part of a virtual memorial hosted by
@ps752justice
. You can watch as we mark this tragic day:
Universities and colleges across Canada must announce plans, financial support to welcome Afghan students (especially women, LGBTQ2 students) to continue their studies in safety. We must not abandon Afghan people and actively fight misogyny, homophobia, violence of Taliban thugs
The disrespect shown by
@fordnation
to First Nations and their legitimate concerns over mining in their territories is shocking. Thank you to Neskantaga Indigenous leaders for speaking truth to power! cc
@Sandra_Pella
Neskantaga chief-elect Chris Moonias and current chief Wayne Moonias disrupted Question Period after Indigenous Affairs Minister was asked about their opposition to the Ring OF Fire
#onpoli
Too often the only things we read about in western media about Pakistan are stories about corruption & violence, if media covers this beautiful country at all. This 📸 of brown bear in the country's Deosai plateau region brings me such joy.1
RT
@omar_quraishi
Gilgit Baltistan
In light of 🇨🇦 successful role in helping to host & negotiate a new global Biodiversity Agreement at
#COP15
, this would be like the best time for
@fordnation
to come out and say "hey folks I'm not going to destroy the
#Greenbelt
after all". 🌿🤩 cc
@s_guilbeault
@MargaretAtwood
The loss of Ghanimat Azhdari, as well as so many other similarly talented individuals in
#PS752
was devastating – particularly for university communities across Canada where many of the victims were studying or working as researchers and scientists. The loss has been catastrophic
Photo is of
@jjhorgan
w farmers opposed to
#SiteC
.This is why public is so cynical about politicians.
@jjhorgan
,
@bcndp
claimed to respect Treaty Rights,science, BCUC review of
#SiteC
when in opposition. Now poised to approve it despite everything they said they stood for
#bcpoli
I'm not really sure why I shared this personal story - many of my neighbours are in a much more vulnerable situation. But tomorrow my kids' teachers will be on strike to protest
@fordnation
savage cuts to education and I hope to join them. Capitalism is killing our communities.
It’s sickening that loudest voices for bombing of Gaza in the West have never known war themselves.I hope you never have to experience the trauma that is being inflicted on trapped population of Gaza right now. But may your conscience never be eased. You are complicit in genocide
We must never go back to the ways things were. We must
#ProtectWildlifeHabitat
,
#ClimateAction
and most importantly we must adopt a new relationship with nature. Respect and compassion for the non-human animals we share our precious 🌎 with
@Sandra_Pella
The fight to save our beloved waterfront in Toronto from the architectural & ecological nightmare that is being proposed for
#OntarioPlace
is going to become a defining issue in this city in 2023. Learn more, talk to your neighbours, call the mayor, get involved
#PeoplePower
👇🏾🌿
This hot take headline is so great, and the whole column is a wild ride.
“It’s the duty of everyone who cares about Toronto - starting with staff and leaders in government - to stop it dead.”
The gusto from
@alexbozikovic
is always such a fun (and informative) read.