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The feds released PiT Count preliminary findings yesterday. A few things popped out to me: 🚨 Homelessness up 12% - which *could* mean more than 263,000 people experience homelessness in Canada per year 🚨 Chronic homelessness is +11% 1/2 infrastructure.gc.ca/homelessness-s…

This is the beginning of the end for Tall and Sprawl, which is somewhat of a trademark in Toronto. It’s difficult to capture in words what a seminal policy change this is, for Toronto. And Council did it - no Strong Mayor powers needed! What a win!

Everyone's saying this but "He couldn't fit a whole woman in his head" is SO good, it's one of the main things writing is supposed to do, create phrases that don't make literal sense but still articulate something you often perceive but never heard quite put into words before.

when i watch selling sunset i feel like i am the feminist book store owners from portlandia

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one thing Alice Munro is going to do is have a woman divorce some guy before taking a train somewhere and observing things on that train

Canada's time tax is a huge public policy problem. Springboard Policy wants to talk about it. "Time tax" is the extra effort we all spend navigating bad program design, unnecessary paperwork, and administrative sludge in order to use public services. Read on here- #cdnpoli #onpoli

I've been hoping someone would write a piece like this- grateful but not surprised to see this op ed from my brilliant former supervisor Lisa Kerr. A) Prisons don't ONLY exist to punish B) Even if they did, higher custody rating doesn't always = "more punishment" #cdnpoli

Together, we can And today, we start.

Our team writing in The Hill Times today building on our project on reducing the time tax in Canada springboardpolicy.com/time-tax

I've updated the printable Toronto Homeless Resource List, which compiles indoor drop-in space, meals, supervised consumption sites, warming centres, and other vital resources. Access the living document here (agencies: please e-mail me with updates): tinyurl.com/TorontoHomeles…

I'm just coming home from this #encampment fire. Everyone is okay. But we need to talk more urgently about implementing the recommendations of the Grant Faulkner Inquest, incl. distributing fire-safe equipment to encampment residents.

9-8-8 Reaching out for help just got easier in Canada. Three digits. Simple as 9-1-1. 9-8-8 is now there for those in mental health crisis. Tell everyone you know. Repeat it until it sticks. It could save a life 💛 9-8-8

When asked what book I'd take to a desert island, I said, The Stories of Alice Munro. There is so much there that you can read + reread + always find more. I can’t remember when she wasn’t in my life or through her writing, revealing things to me about my life. Her loss is huge.

It makes me furious that Doug Ford can publish an interactive map to find beer after just one weekend but he won’t do the same thing to help any of the 2.3 million Ontarians who can’t find a family doctor. #onpoli #onhealth

With the exception of the sacred fire, Allan Gardens is being cleared today. No one is receiving housing. Seven people have accepted shelter beds. Two will simply be displaced to nowhere. I can''t stress this enough: in no way has homelessness been "solved" by this action.

Or we could staff hospitals 24/7 and accomplish more for less $$.

He’s 91 and facing eviction. Toronto’s housing crisis is playing out for this senior. Amid a heat warning in effect in Toronto, law enforcement and municipal political staff tried to find Isidoro Ventullo time, shelter space or another roof, to no avail. trib.al/2GCPXc6