Between Toronto, Halifax, Hamilton, Vancouver, and other municipalities across Canada, #encampments are growing, as is the deployment of police use-of-force to inappropriately and violently address this humanitarian crisis. Why isn't this a federal election issue tied to housing?

If you or an unhoused person you know lives in either the Parkdale-High Park or University-Rosedale ridings, I can supply you with a completed 'Proof of Address' form you can use to vote! Get in touch if you need one!

This video was taken on Sept 4th, 2021. Anti-captivity activists entered MarineLand and observed Kiska, their last surviving orca bashing her head against the wall. Please watch and share. This cruelty must end. #FreeKiska

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NEW: The City of Toronto just announced it spent ~$2,000,000 to violently evict 60 people experiencing homelessness from park encampments this summer. This is class warfare. They'd rather spend money to hide people living in poverty than actually help people living in poverty.

$2 milly of our (taxpayers') money just to keep kicking this can down the road.

This election could have been an email. #Elxn44 #CanadaElection2021

This thread is highly entertaining 🍬

Immigrant women have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic - their only choice is VERY low wage work (in multiple jobs) or no paid work at all because of the cost of child care. Doug Ford might check out this recent piece in The Local Magazine thelocal.to/the-labour-of-…

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According to a March 2021 report, one-fifth of all anti-Asian attacks from March 2020-Feb 2021 happened in Asian restaurants/groceries/food spots. For our Oct/Nov issue, Ramona Leitao wrote about how Chinese-CDN restaurants are persevering chatelaine.com/food/chinese-c…

I'm pretty keen on the Lord Voldemort Rectangle Covered Casserole Dish myself.....✨ chatelaine.com/food/le-creuse… via Izzy Docto

Let your stocking stuffers do double-duty this year by buying Canadian-made products that also give back to charities 🎁❤️ Here are 10 ideas to get you started! chatelaine.com/food/canadian-…

Just thinking aloud here, but maybe, just maybe, they could have mailed every Canadian resident a rapid testing kit. It’s not like they don’t mail us census surveys every year or anything.

Let's talk about this moment, and why Trudeau invoking the Emergencies Act is a mistake. A thread. It's because the convoy isn't the enemy in and of itself -- it's a symptom. It's the vomiting caused by a different, more important health issue infecting our body politic.

From our World Central Kitchen team on the border of Ukraine and Poland: 1,700 hot meals of chicken, rice & veggies served here tonight! This is a 24-hour crossing and refugees from Ukraine are streaming through all night. This is just a start to WCK efforts on the ground! #ChefsForUkraine

Some thoughts on the scenes we're seeing on social media of armed Russians, confronted by unarmed, protesting Ukrainians, being pushed back. Again, these are just insights from someone watching from afar, who just happens to know Ukrainians and Russians and Soviet mythology 1/

As one reader recently put it, come for the recipes, stay for the journalism. In this issue, Amber Bracken on being arrested while covering the Wet’suwet’en pipeline protests + the lowdown on sustainable beef, how to get your home off gas & more. On newsstands & Apple News now.