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Toronto, this meeting is happening tomorrow. Please use this form now to send vital calls to action to the Mayor and your local representative. It's easy, it's awesome, it's clear, it helps: Take action to defund police in your city #WeKeepEachOtherSafe act.newmode.social/652216799t

Agree with Abdu Sharkawy and Michael Warner - mandate and normalize masks but leave fines / bylaw officers out of the equation. #MasksMakeSense #MaskUp #Masks4All

.Ana Bailão promised last week that she had heard her constituents and would vote for the police budget to be reduced. Today I see she went against that promise. I am so profoundly disappointed. What happened??

Find your city councillor, ask them to vote against body cams. They don’t prevent violence and they do increase police budgets. Let’s keep the pressure on!

If you’re a healthcare worker please consider signing this call to protect migrant workers from increased COVID-19 risk

So grateful for Zoë Dodd ‘s moss Park reports. These conditions are unconscionable John Tory City of Toronto 🇨🇦. Turn on the water, open the showers. This strategy won’t end homelessness. Ana Bailão showers in our area should be open, what gives?

Also, @bradrossTO , You got it twisted: shutting off water and closing toilets and showers certainly are extraordinary steps but they fly in the face of public health and safety. If you recognize the difficulties during a pandemic don’t deprive ppl of basic sanitation !

Because levity:

We only know about the Thorncliffe Park outbreak because of voluntary random asymptomatic testing. Imagine what we would find if we properly tested in schools?

Doug Ford cares about his base and even they want playgrounds for kids. However, he is a conservative ideologue. No amount of science will “change his mind” on paid sick days, a policy he *repealed* - only showing that he could be ejected from office can do that. #onpoli #covid

The Ontario government literally allowed 3700+ elders to die in LTC. The Ontario government talking about elder abuse is hypocrisy.

Encampment evictions are not a public health intervention #TOPublicHealthFail #NoEncampmentEvictions

ENCAMPMENT EVICTIONS ARE NOT A HEALTH INTERVENTION. FULL STOP. Our demands: -Dr. Eileen de Villa release a statement as MOH against evictions -Dr. Eileen de Villa use powers as MOH to STOP evictions -Provide basic health needs to encampment residents -Create an advisory board of shelter users

We also hand delivered our notices to Toronto Fire HQ and Jim Jessop this morning in North Toronto Encampment evictions are not a health intervention and must stop immediately. #NoEncampmentEvictions #TOPublicHealthFAIL

It should be common sense that evicting people, esp during a pandemic, runs counter to health and human rights, yet City of Toronto 🇨🇦 continues to do so. Health Providers Against Poverty and Street Nurses Network Toronto stand with @ESN_TO to demand an end to encampment evictions.

Evictions are not a health intervention! #EndEncampmentEvictions Dr. Eileen de Villa John Tory

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