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@omar
omar
8 months
@GraphicMatt No the car light won't stay red, it will show a right turn arrow ONLY.. or left too if that's allowed. I'm glad they are finally doing something about this, I do think many people who drive straight just don't know they can't
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@omar
omar
4 years
. @akchmiel and I did some examination of back to school data from the Toronto District School Board @tdsb . What we found (richer families in large numbers registering for In School learning) needs a deeper investigation..
@akchmiel
Anna K Chmielewski
4 years
My new blog post with @omar analyzing @tdsb parent registration survey data
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@omar
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6 years
Really excited to hear @_PMolnar from @IHRP_UofT talk about the Bots at the Gate report at @UofTEthics
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6 years
I'm so happy we've finally made it to the hearing! And a big hat tip to @IHRP_UofT @SamerMuscati @_PMolnar and all those working to make driving, especially as a job, more accessible to all refugees coming to Ontario
@TorontoStar
Toronto Star
6 years
Ontario’s driver’s licensing rules discriminate against refugees from war-torn countries by demanding written proof of their driving experience from their country of origin — something not required of others, a human rights tribunal has heard.
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@omar
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4 years
I've been lucky to work with formerly homeless people at the end of their lives who were given homes after their terminal diagnosis. In one case, my hospice client actually didn't die -- he made a remarkable recovery. Housing the homeless can be transformative:
@DakGlobe
Dakshana Bascaramurty
4 years
Love this: COVID-19 "ended up demonstrating a new, improved model for emergency shelters that allows homeless people the space and dignity they need to get their chaotic lives under control and prepare themselves for a life inside, off the streets."
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@omar
omar
3 years
This has happened and will happen again in Toronto unless we get ahead of it. I hope Hamilton can get a handle on this
@DavidElfstrom
David Elfstrom
3 years
There are now 214 total cases in three apartment buildings in Hamilton, Ontario. I'm making a delegation to the City of Hamilton Board of Health on Monday with suggestions for immediate actions.
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@omar
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6 years
I was at the memorial before this and the number of homeless people who died in Toronto in the last month.. the names just kept coming. It's appalling and preventable. @JohnTory the city needs to do more
@RoxiexRN
Roxie Danielson
6 years
104 hearts delivered to @JohnTory 's office to represent the approximate 104 #homeless lives lost each year in Toronto. That's two lives a week. Have a Heart for the Homeless. This is an emergency. #nomorehomelessdeaths #TOpoli
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@omar
omar
7 years
Go @niniane :"If I'm not going to bet my reputation on protecting other women, then what would I be hoarding it for?"
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@omar
omar
5 years
Dark days in Alaska, but they aren't getting enough attention. This thread is worth a read, especially for those connected to public education, which is most of us
@saraelizaj
Sara Eliza Johnson 💀🦌
5 years
we live in a red state in which Republicans just dismantled state university education. it takes years to build the infrastructure for viable higher education and all that has been undone in two weeks. thousands will be fired and the rest will leave. this is seriously evil shit.
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@omar
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6 years
Damn I should've finished my PhD
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@omar
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6 years
@draganakaurin sigh. can't they direct this energy to catch high income/wealth tax cheats? or other financial crimes? all rhetorical of course. we know it won't be. this power is always directed at the most oppressed.
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@omar
omar
3 years
@drandrewb @VaxHuntersCan This 1000x. I worked with a downtown resident who speaks English, was given the link for vaccines by family doctor, but couldn't do it. He needed a supporter to walk him through it. We got it done. Patients need navigators.. that's what some children are doing for their parents!
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@omar
omar
11 years
@JustinTrudeau Good point. We also need jobs solutions for poor, not just middle class.
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@omar
omar
7 years
My blog post on financial predators taking advantage of refugees just went up! Posted on the blog of the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies @_carfms :
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@omar
omar
3 years
@TPASN1 @nazerah99 @AmiraElghawaby @MKhilji27 @FMELAResource Thank you! Was a great opportunity to share what we've learned and discuss with community. Thank you for starting these conversations!
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@omar
omar
9 years
@AndrayDomise listened to latest @CNDLNDCMNS . here's an interview with @Snowden that lists things you can do online:
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@omar
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7 years
@IHRP_UofT @SamerMuscati @UTLaw @HRWcanada #DarkSideTO question: algorithms certainly aren't neutral. How does the panel see the responsibilities of Google (ie search) and Facebook (ie news feed) in the human rights domain? Do you see a role for regulation of such players?
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@omar
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4 years
@ShreeParadkar Great article, very on point. Do you have a reference for this point you make: "Some schools — the ones with rich parent councils — have raised thousands of dollars toward air filtration systems. "
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@omar
omar
5 years
@nedasoc @S_Nouman_Ashraf It was so great to meet you! We feel very lucky and look forward to more. Thanks @S_Nouman_Ashraf !
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@omar
omar
9 years
this is old now (PATRIOT Act vote happened) but the first part of this show from @onthemedia is compelling history! http://t.co/6dV2JGrrfb
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@omar
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4 years
Pretty amazing statement from a Minneapolis city council member. The entire thread, top to bottom, is worth reading
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@omar
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5 years
@GraphicMatt Next they need to phase out the 50% tax exemption on investment property capital gains. Housing is different than other assets!
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@omar
omar
4 years
It took 3 years of fighting on this but we finally did it. Great news, thanks to all who helped with this over the years, especially the newcomers who put themselves forward to challenge the government on this
@hassahmad9
Hassan M. Ahmad
4 years
Victory! This week, the HRTO ruled that an @ONgov policy forcing refugees to wait at least a year to obtain a full driver's license is discriminatory. Thank you to all those who supported our fight for justice! @OntHumanRights @IHRP_UofT @SamerMuscati
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@omar
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7 years
"i am a thought leader" oh are you!
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@omar
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3 years
@taimhuynh This x100! I worry we'll forget about first dose harder to reach folks if we open up dose 2 too widely. Everyone is talking about 12+ now but there are still huge groups of older at risk people who don't have a first dose. Second dose for 80+, highest risk, keep eyes on 1st dose
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@omar
omar
5 years
This: "Showing up in blackface is reprehensible and hurtful, but if people are genuinely concerned about racism, I would much rather see them robustly and consistently challenging our leaders on policies that would materially impact the lives of those in the margins."
@ShreeParadkar
Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁
5 years
It’s been pretty annoying seeing all the hand-wringing around this news development and to see our media decide that *this* is the point the election becomes about racism. My first column after a year away. #blackface #trudeau
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@omar
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7 years
@DesmondCole @TorontoStar I made sure to find the Star on days your column appeared. Big loss for the Star and Toronto. Your voice needs to be amplified
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@omar
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3 years
@SafiahC @Ginella_M Agreed, "it" should be the rail yard moving. Lots of possibilities, this is just one:
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@omar
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5 years
@CWP_CSP @TorontoStar Everything you say here is true, and yet I know people who can't get a credit card or loan from the banks, and so they go to these lenders. That article doesn't really get into alternatives, which folks need to know about.
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@omar
omar
6 years
No heat for prisoners is a crime.. there's also a much bigger crime. Prisons, in the US and elsewhere, are places we can toss people and not actually work on the systemic issues incarceration let's us conveniently ignore. We only notice when it really goes off the rails.
@ShahanaFromBK
Shahana Hanif 🦾
6 years
I am outside of the Metropolitan Detention Center where prisoners are without heat. The banging noise is them protesting for all of us to hear. They are without heat for days. This is in BROOKLYN.
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@omar
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4 years
Important thread. @Metrolinx is inflicting unnecessary suffering on Thorncliffe, like they did to Little Jamaica on Eglinton. Going after a racialized community's businesses, with no consultation, when there are better alternatives. Systemic racism is alive and well in Canada
@nazerah99
Nazerah Shaikh 🇵🇸
4 years
I couldn't agree more, @JayeRobinson . I also have some thoughts...
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@omar
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4 years
The @TorontoStar on school return and elevator bottlenecks in high-rise communities: "biggest concern" of residents. It's going to be a "big mess," "contagion risk." @TOPublicHealth 's response: "leave earlier for school." CC @TorontosMayor @JayeRobinson @tdsb @MorguardApts
@TorontoStar
Toronto Star
4 years
Slow elevators in Thorncliffe highrises were a problem for schoolchildren before COVID-19. Now things are far worse: @donovanvincent
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@omar
omar
5 years
I know this family and the anti-Muslim stance of the Toronto Transit bus driver, and her terrorizing of children, are an extreme version of discrimination I've heard about from other women wearing hijabs who ride the TTC. @TTChelps you need to do way better
@nkeung
Nicholas Keung 姜巧樂
5 years
“I banged and banged on the doors. The bus was stopped at a red light, but the ( #bus ) #driver would not open the door to let Lulu off. I was horrified. I had no idea where she was taking my daughter and if I would ever see my girl again.” #TTC #complaint
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@omar
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2 years
@DavidElfstrom How did the air remain cool with so little ventilation? Must they have been cooling recirculated air?
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@omar
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8 years
“It’s like someone who robs a 7-11. If you can steal $1,000 and settle for $20 would you do it again? Probably.”
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@omar
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6 years
An excellent article by @TabathaSouthey . Everyone who has been thinking and opining about the Yonge Street Attack should read it
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@omar
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4 years
What about 30+ minute lineups in narrow hallways for an empty elevator? Is that safe? What about 30+ minute lineups in the lobby when families return from school at the end of the day?
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@omar
omar
8 years
I've met this doctor and worked with his patients. He's great. Need more like him.
@CBCToronto
CBC Toronto
8 years
Doctor hits the road to deliver palliative care to Toronto's homeless
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@omar
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13 years
can the war on terror be over now?
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@omar
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5 years
This is a painful but important read. These facilities need to be shut down
@pbump
Philip Bump
5 years
What a pediatrician saw when she examined children held at detention centers.
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@omar
omar
4 years
This is a terrible repeat of what happened in the spring. Humanitarian crisis. This is needless suffering
@NaheedD
Naheed Dosani
4 years
🚨BREAKING🚨: I just spoke with the team at Tendercare Living Centre in Scarborough. >145 of 188 residents are #COVID19 positive. 26 have died! The government needs to respond to the needs of #LTC homes in outbreak ASAP. This is a humanitarian crisis, we need action now!
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@omar
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10 years
@HeatherMallick @craigdesson thank you for this article. please check out 'fired but unexploded,' it's very relevant http://t.co/4ZNt0lUiHQ
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@omar
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9 years
@TIFF_NET will The Boy and the Beast () for #TIFFKids be dubbed or subtitled? Considering for the kids
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@omar
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11 years
@instinctive @larsonite don't you want to sent out fleeting images like so?? http://t.co/LkPMCQgu8K
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11 years
@ggreenwald you, sir, are a hero. Your diligence in reporting these govt actions and your tireless analysis over the years are vital
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@omar
omar
7 years
This is amazing. ht @larsonite
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@omar
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7 years
@julieturkewitz Do you have any update on how he's doing?
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@omar
omar
11 years
"THVG LIFE"
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11 years
@Abokichi what's inside? maple syrup? politeness? canadian bacon? a lock of justin bieber's hair?
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@omar
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4 years
We need to make employers accountable for this: "The manufacturing sector saw the largest increase in cases between mid-November and early December, with a 77% spike. By contrast, the increase among the general population over the same period was 22%"
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@omar
omar
11 years
My bad! RT @forgetforevers : You are my heartbreaker. @omar
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@omar
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4 years
@imgrund @TOPublicHealth @tdsb This is a TPH priority school - no class above 18 students, I think. Also, 433 were tested of 700ish, and 18 students and 1 staff positive, the school closed 14 classrooms. How would those numbers factor into your analysis? It'll be good to get contact tracing follow up info
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@omar
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7 years
@neha Sigh. Terrible stress test.. people actually die, especially the homeless, if there's no where to go
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@omar
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7 years
This thread is worth a read from the start re guns in US, I start here at the end of the thread because it captures it all in a nutshell
@PatBlanchfield
inverted vibe curve: burgertown has fallen
7 years
And I can't imagine a more nutshell example of neoliberalism than this: demanding a nation's citizens - training our children - to throw themselves like human sandbags against a problem that shouldn't exist in the first place, but that does, because of profit. /end
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@omar
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10 years
@FahrenheitTO awesome! congrats! the giant eye in the TIFF photo below your mention is one of my Nuit Blanche projects
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@omar
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4 years
@sabaeitizaz @krushowy @njaved @Megan_Ogilvie I saw that all of you are doing a Star subscriber session on education restart.. you may find this article analyzing TDSB registration data interesting
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@omar
omar
6 years
@shawnmicallef This winter I've met so many people, especially elders, who have fallen or have decided to not go out and become isolated. This policy and politics have profound long term consequences. Terrible policy and politics.
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@omar
omar
7 years
Hoping we fix this policy @Kathleen_Wynne @OntHumanRights : #Ontario is discriminating against refugees by not allowing experienced drivers from war-torn countries to skip driving-test waiting period like other newcomers. #TestLikeTheRest #GforRefugees
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@omar
omar
5 years
Finally, the panda I know and love: clumsy, dirty, yet still adorable
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4 years
@BhutilaKarpoche @LauraMaeLindo @OntarioNDP @gordperks I haven't seen anything from you on this. As the local city representative, does your office have a statement?
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@omar
omar
6 years
This article is particularly relevant in Toronto now that @munkdebate actually had the fascist at their paid event.
@saptarishi_b
saptarishi bandopadhyay
6 years
"The practice of fascism supersedes its ideas, which is why people affected and diminished by it are not all that interested in a marketplace of ideas in which fascists have prime purchasing power."
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@omar
omar
5 years
Seems like there should be a criminal prosecution for this one..
@stephentyrone
Not a number expert
5 years
What, and I cannot emphasize this enough, the fuck?
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4 years
@taimhuynh Yes, but let's make sure it's done well -- to date, that's not true in most high priority areas. I see such a stark difference in targeting across the city. I know you're working on this, hope it makes our targeting better!
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omar
5 years
@realstevenbaker This is great! "abolish single-family-home zoning and allow duplexes and triplexes to be built anywhere in the city." I'm actually flying there now. Excited to see MN, never been
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@omar
omar
7 years
This has happened to me with all kinds of tech. Thanks @ispraveendead
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@omar
omar
11 years
@CycleToronto i was taking the lane a bunch on beverley/st george, and that was yesterday. i can't imagine today. thanks for your advocacy!
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5 years
Well I think Bathurst is going to be closed for a while..
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3 years
@taimhuynh My partner was wondering if the percent of women in each workforce might explain this to some degree. The fertility concerns raised re covid vaccine (which have no basis in science) are something I hear quite a bit. Hopefully the local will dig in!
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3 years
Great article by @BenSpurr covering the injustice occurring in Thorncliffe Park that Metrolinx is trying to ram through in a neighbourhood hit hard by Covid, in the middle of Ramadan. For those wondering about alternatives, how about the industrial park??? Why crush community?
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@BenSpurr
Ben Spurr
3 years
‘I feel gutted …Why here?’: Thorncliffe Park dealt another blow as local hub to be demolished for new Ontario Line rail yard
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@omar
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6 years
@SamerMuscati I think an interesting point in this is that Amazon's system was replicating the biases that already exist at Amazon. Makes me think these systems might first be used as tools of reflection
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8 months
@brianbswizzle @GraphicMatt Ah that's interesting Brian. That definitely could be the clearest for drivers, though quite the number of lights
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@omar
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4 years
This requires a coordinated effort by tenants, building owners, schools, grassroots groups, community agencies, AND @TOPublicHealth . I'm hopeful that we have time to work together and figure something out! It won't be perfect but we can do better than just leaving early.
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@omar
omar
6 years
@ivortossell I'm also grateful. I bought three copies and am giving it to people because more need to read it. Like you, I thought I knew something of this story, but I knew so little.
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@omar
omar
8 years
Wow, read all these tweets. Given that the DA threw out the case, how can the officer not be reprimanded?
@greg_doucette
T. Greg Doucette
9 years
Need to rant briefly. You've been forewarned.
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@omar
omar
6 years
This isn't just a problem in Quebec. Glad CBC is highlighting this
@CBCMontreal
CBC Montreal
6 years
'I didn't come here to live this kind of life': Skilled immigrants on their desperate hunt for jobs in Quebec
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omar
12 years
I wrote "5am" and after I hit space the phone immediately suggested "drinking." I love you Android
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9 years
@JustinDiCiano my parents live in your riding, wondering why you support the hybrid option? They are against it. They asked me to tweet you
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4 years
@Justin_Noble_ @fhc_chc @TNOtoronto @HealthAccessTp @MGHToronto @ETHPnews Tomorrow at Iqbal's grocery, Justin. 930am til it runs out, for anyone living in Thorncliffe or Flemingdon
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6 years
@nedasoc I am so sad too! The spacing, and the reminders integrated into the inbox.. what will we do 😓
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14 years
@real_vijay I think con air (perhaps faceoff) was nick cage's best action flick. Though I hear he's an awesome superhero
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omar
5 years
This seems on point
@ByBlacks
ByBlacks
5 years
#Toronto please check yourself. Do you even know who Kawhi Leonard really is? #Kawineanddine #KawhiLeonard #Raptors #WeTheNorth
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14 years
Watch al-jazeera english. moving images, mubarak will give a talk soon: http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/
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4 years
@sflily The microcovid stuff is great! Very useful for thinking about risk
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7 years
@riceysu Come on, a thousand peppers in a bag is one sku code and weight! That's one item. Also I do this🍆
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3 years
@kwame_mckenzie To the last point in the report about not knowing how this distribution is going at an individual level within hotspots, there are as expected big gaps. Check out this image from ICES
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11 years
With my headphones on, I dance to a song you can't hear. You guess the song. #funnygames
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8 years
@Shitty_Future
Shitty Future
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9 years
@lifewinning ha I read that as MMA at first and was intrigued
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7 years
@sflily This is great! I do this with the boys and candy all the time
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12 years
@gleemie hahhaa that happened to me with 'the' once. I kept looking at it and saying te-huh
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12 years
my nephew, while playing with lego, just shouted LOUDLY. for unclear reasons. he's not upset, he just felt it. so i YELLED. felt good.
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5 years
@AnandWrites @RFS_Vista you almost say it here, and i know it's not the focus of your work on the how the plutocracy strategically deploys its wealth, but this story should also surface more needed discussion on the topic of reparations for slavery.
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8 years
@neha good luck and you owe me Bitcoin
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7 years
This is an informative thread.
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8 years
@GraphicMatt @metrotoronto great article. Min requirements on parking should go away, and max allowable parking should rule
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7 years
@TedOnPrivacy It's one reason I followed!
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