When you see University of Alberta and U Calgary collaborating with Edmonton and Calgary police to spend $$$ brutalizing students on their campuses and know that the Alberta govt shortchanged wildfire fighting funding

As I head to Winnipeg for a critical criminology conference with warnings of smokey air caused by forest fires, I'm thinking about how incarcerated people are often left out of evacuation plans and how the PIC contributes to climate change.

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Perfect spot to sit & contemplate our place on the land, yaw^ko, northern lights!

8 years ago today should have marked the full implementation of #JordansPrinciple . Yet today, its implementation remains limited. This #BearWitnessDay , we call on Canada to eliminate health inequalities and service gaps for Indigenous peoples by fully implementing this principle.

I searched the word “Rafah”on Twitter and I was met with horrifying images of children killed in the last 12 hours that I can’t unsee. A reminder that this is what university students are protesting, and they refuse to allow their tuition dollars to be spent on a genocide

To declare a famine you need 2/3 benchmarks:

- 20% of households starving
- at least 30% children too thin for their height
- 2 adults or 4 children per every 10,000 people are dying daily of hunger

Strong explainer on politics from The Globe and Mail

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There’s an ongoing genocide against Indigenous peoples in Canada. Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQ+ people continue to go missing and are murdered at an alarming rate.

May 5 is #RedDressDay , a day dedicated to honouring the thousands of lives of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and Two-Spirit people.

Took an E-scooter ride this morning, was enjoyable and reasonably quick.

But the scooter ride costed the same as an Uber would’ve.

And we wonder why almost no one rides these?

Joint Statement from National Disability Network’s Response to Budget 2024 myemail-api.constantcontact.com/Joint-Statemen…

Feeding hungry kids, free contraceptives and support for renters secured by Singh and the NDP in #Budget2024 .

But Trudeau caved to CEOs by keeping Poilievre’s 60 billion dollar corporate handouts.

While they cater to the ultra-rich CEOs, NDP helps lower costs.

AH! #Budget2024 includes social workers in the Canada Student Loan forgiveness programme -- awesome news & the result of YEARS of CASW / ACTS advocacy!

We as Anishinabe people recognize that we are also a part of a Universal Family. We place great reverence upon our relationship with Grandmother Moon and Grandfather Sun. The Anishinaabemowin word for Solar Eclipse is “Aazowekidaadok Giizook” (sun and moon meet)🌙☀️

You can tell the Ottawa residents are irritated with Council by the ratio of this tweet. People care about transit, homelessness, affordability. Instead of promoting improvements to that we get a photo of two mediocre politicians and a photo-op with a shawarma.

Police should not have such an inflated budget that they then used to financially bully non profit organizations. Nothing TS Jelena Vermilion - 💉FULLY VACCINATED x5 💉MPx2 said was wrong or deserved a funding cut.

Policing isn't philanthropic. Take away their excess. Give it to organizations that need funding.

Loblaws' greed is not new. 26 years ago this Easter Saturday, Loblaws arrested me as an Easter Bunny (with 3 more bunnies) for handing out anti-greed chocolate eggs & leaflets on how Loblaws could work to end the root causes of inequality. It was part of a lengthy campaign to

Hi, I’m Naheed Nenshi. I’m running to be the leader of Alberta’s NDP and the next premier of this province.

I can’t do this without your support. Visit nenshi.ca to buy a membership and sign up as a supporter.

We can do this. Together. For Alberta. For all of us.

During the 2022 municipal election, I reported on Mark Sutcliffe’s past comments advocating defunding the Tulip Festival.

Despite Sutcliffe pooh-poohing the idea he’d defund the Tulip Festival, the City of Ottawa is now defunding the Tulip Festival 🤷‍♂️

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Friends and families love to spend time in the ByWard Market for its shops, restaurants, cafes, & vibrant public spaces.

However, cars dominate the market, making walking around often unpleasant and unsafe! Just today a driver drove into La Bottega.

Pedestrianize ByWard Market!