how the heat relief network is going: civic centre closed. sunnyside pool, closed.

Lessons not learned from the #chicago heatwave and #toronto rooming house deaths. A chance to do the right thing today City Hall Mayor Olivia Chow 🇨🇦 Open cooling centres, enhance resources +++.

The paradox of health care spending: a $400 air conditioner can help prevent a $15,000 hospital admission for heart failure or heat stroke in the summer.

we need 24/7 centres. activate it now. not a review in a few months to tell us that the heat is dangerous.

Only a review of the cancellation of cooling centres in Q4 which is Sept-Dec. that means no cooling centres and it’s only June. Meanwhile huge, immediate attention to keeping pools open because of public outcry.

Spoke to CityNews today about the City's shamefully embarrassing response to the heatwave. Bring back 24/7 cooling centres, for starters. Council meets this week - write your councillor insisting on a way more appropriate heat wave response! youtu.be/nBSFe6w-_3U?fe…

We have power! Hail to the Goddess of Air Fryers for the provision of food. Please go bug Olivia Chow about 24/7 cooling stations, for all the people who need it, including the thousands of people kicked out of closed/ing shelters who don't deserve to be disappeared into jails.

Remember when we found unmarked graves if Indigenous children and had a reckoning with Canadian history for like five minutes?

"We don't need another review. We know the heat is dangerous. Just open up the cooling centres now," Lam said. "Frankly, I am very concerned that somebody might die in this heat." #CoolingCentreNow not another report. cbc.ca/news/canada/to…

Homelessness has been allowed to become a mass disabling crisis for too many disabled Ontarians. Recent data estimates as much as 45% of unhoused people have one or more disabilities. Legislated poverty & insufficient unaffordable housing stock are root causes. We need govt to

Mayor Olivia Chow 🇨🇦 Found you a cooling centre location! It’s empty, has a good air flow system and near TTC. Alejandra Bravo ausma malik Shelter and Housing Justice Network

Toronto has never managed extreme heat well. Let’s suggest cooling centre locations to Mayor Olivia Chow 🇨🇦 This one: the empty temp St. Lawrence market structure.

The very architecture of these concentration camps/cages are designed to be a form of torture towards those it contans, no solid separation = no sense of privacy hearing/seeing sounds & light from everywhere = no sleep/rest thin plastic roof = cold in winter, boiling in summer