Dirka Prout 🇨🇦 🇹🇹🌹

She/her. Civil/geotech #engineer dabbling in civics (#cdnpoli). 🏀🥍⚽
#STEM / STEAM Promoter, plantain lover, retired bee queen.

[Dirka Prout 🇨🇦 🇹🇹🌹 @DirkaProut]

From CWDO (Citizens with disabilities) NEWS

@cwdo

Advocating for Accessible Housing 🧵

#DisabilityRightsMatter
#HousingForAll
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[Paul Daniel @pdaniel2553]

Today is the start of #NationalAccessAbilityWeek. We need to raise awareness for a disability-inclusive Canada. It is doable. It is possible. It is right. We all have a right to belong. Be vocal! Be an ally! Be part of the solution. #disability #disabilitytwitter #inclusion

[Dirka Prout 🇨🇦 🇹🇹🌹 @DirkaProut]

No money to secure the lives and livelihoods of people who rely on the ocean or who live in coastal and hurricane prone areas with robust climate data & environmental protections but lots of cash for war, theft of resources and unfettered resources extraction benefitting the few.

[Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣 @rahmstorf]

I'm afraid that this is why the US administration wants to shut down ocean observations: they don't want the people to know what is happening in our oceans, as it does not fit their ideology and the interests of their fossil fuel industry funders.

https://t.co/G1E5zXdyid

[Dirka Prout 🇨🇦 🇹🇹🌹 @DirkaProut]

@SecRubio Only 1 country in the Americas is conducting illegal extra-judicial strikes in international waters, interfering in elections in sovereign countries and exacting collective punishment on another sovereign state. Only 1 country in the world has a department of war. It is not Cuba!

[Dirka Prout 🇨🇦 🇹🇹🌹 @DirkaProut]

Note that there is no parking on that section of Trafalgar Street, however, there is parking on side streets and some in the south section of Kiwanis Park.

Can't make it? Then take this action.

#onpoli

https://t.co/vceZJInCqx

[Dirka Prout 🇨🇦 🇹🇹🌹 @DirkaProut]

From @Ldn_Labour
#ldnont

TODAY June 4 5pm: LDLC Solidarity Rally with OPSEU/SEFPO Local 166 (Community Living London)

Join us for a solidarity rally with the members of Local 166 at 5 p.m. at the 1655 Trafalgar St.!

Read more from Antler River Press
https://t.co/gX6RSKs4NG

[Dirka Prout 🇨🇦 🇹🇹🌹 @DirkaProut]

"The Trump administration is systematically destabilising the region to secure resource access and maintain US monopoly, with compliant Caribbean governments providing political cover. "
Erica Caines

[New Afrikan❤️🖤💚 @Liberation_Blk]

“The case of Kaia Sealy, a 24 yr old hairdresser and mother, left paralysed after being shot by police has become a flashpoint for understanding how state power operates in Trinidad & Tobago.”

Important piece by comrade Erica Caines as protests demand justice for Kaia and Joshua Samaroo, and what the response reveals about state repression, crime panics and policing in T&T.

https://t.co/o1wLzzyHkY

[Dirka Prout 🇨🇦 🇹🇹🌹 @DirkaProut]

The adult versions of these cuties so competitive tonight, they may take it to game 7.

[NBA @NBA]

This is who is playing in the NBA Finals 🏆🥹

Don't miss these kids competing on the biggest stage in basketball starting Wednesday night!

Knicks/Spurs Game 1: 8:30pm/et on ABC

Jalen Brunson and Victor Wembanyama

[CTV London @CTVLondon]

‘Students have been abandoned by this government’: Thames Valley teachers call for more funding to support children with needs https://t.co/Zslk3G6VIG

[Cuban Americans For Cuba @Cubans4Cuba]

Miami is not a monolith. Gladys Canizares left #Cuba alone at 15, sent to the U.S. through Operation Pedro Pan. Years later in Miami, she became an organizer in the hardline Cuban American lobby. Today, she's one of the loudest voices to end the embargo she once defended.

[Tamanisha J John @TamanishaJohn]

As Canadian companies — who don’t hold all shares in their corporations — pull out of Cuba, ppl should pay attn to the reasons given and understand that Canadian corporations would welcome US invasion in Cuba, so that they can maximise their profits

https://t.co/BTDMyQIrxS

[Dirka Prout 🇨🇦 🇹🇹🌹 @DirkaProut]

Pay attention to the evil that the US is doing to Cuba. It will not happen in the same way, but they will use similar tactics to get effective control of your economy; even here in Canada.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇨🇺 Major international companies are rushing to exit Cuba ahead of a June 5 deadline imposed under President Trump’s new secondary sanctions regime targeting GAESA, the military-run conglomerate that the U.S. government says controls at least 40% of Cuba’s economy.

🔹 Canadian hotel giant Blue Diamond is withdrawing from Cuba entirely, ending operations at 62 hotels across the island and abandoning one of the country’s largest tourism networks.

🔹 Spanish hotel operators are pulling back. Iberostar has reportedly ended management agreements tied to GAESA, while Meliá, Cuba’s largest foreign hotel operator, has cut its operations roughly in half after reporting a 68% drop in profits.

🔹 Canadian mining giant Sherritt International—one of Cuba's largest foreign investors— indefinitely suspended direct participation on the island following U.S. sanctions against its joint-venture partner, Moa Nickel S.A. Sherritt initially moved to dissolve the partnership entirely, but reversed course on May 19, opting to maintain a freeze on operations while exploring alternative options.

🔹 Global shipping firms CMA CGM and Hapag-Lloyd have suspended cargo bookings to and from Cuba, a move that could affect roughly 60% of the island’s maritime shipping traffic.

🔹 Airlines including Air Canada and Russia’s Rossiya have suspended service amid collapsing tourism and worsening fuel shortages.

Under Trump’s May 1 executive order, foreign companies, banks, and individuals that continue doing business with GAESA after June 5 risk U.S. sanctions themselves, including potential exclusion from the U.S. financial system. Faced with that threat, many firms are choosing to leave Cuba altogether.

[Carolyn Hinds 🇧🇧 #FreePalestine #CongoInCrisis @CarrieCnh12]

They did it in the Caribbean with countries like Jamaica and St. Kitts & Nevis, now Venezuela. This isn't just about punishing Cubans and their nation by forcing them out of paying jobs, it's also about making Caribbean and Latin and South American people weaker. This is genocide

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

The bird singing outside your window before sunrise hasn't eaten in 8-10 hours.

The dawn chorus is a seriously costly display to a bird. Most songbirds wake up at their daily energy low point and the first thing they do is broadcast their location, fitness, and territory ownership to every other bird, predator, and rival within earshot.

Why do it at the worst possible time? Because it's an honest signal. A male that can afford to sing first, loudest, and longest before he has eaten is telling every female in the neighborhood that he is well-fed, healthy, and has access to a good territory. You can't fake that.

Research has consistently found that males who lead the dawn chorus hold higher-quality territories and attract mates faster. Birds in noisy human environments sing earlier and harder to compensate, at real metabolic cost.

The half-hour of birdsong outside your window before sunrise is the most energetically expensive 30 minutes of that bird's day. It's not background. It's a fitness audition.

[Dirka Prout 🇨🇦 🇹🇹🌹 @DirkaProut]

For more information or assistance, please contact the National Housing Council Secretariat.
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[Dirka Prout 🇨🇦 🇹🇹🌹 @DirkaProut]

From CWDO (Citizens with disabilities) NEWS

@cwdo

Advocating for Accessible Housing 🧵

#DisabilityRightsMatter
#HousingForAll
1/9

[Paul Daniel @pdaniel2553]

Today is the start of #NationalAccessAbilityWeek. We need to raise awareness for a disability-inclusive Canada. It is doable. It is possible. It is right. We all have a right to belong. Be vocal! Be an ally! Be part of the solution. #disability #disabilitytwitter #inclusion

[Dirka Prout 🇨🇦 🇹🇹🌹 @DirkaProut]

What actions and solutions should be undertaken?

These questions will help the review panel develop clear and actionable recommendations to the Minister.

Have your Say! Share your feedback by June 22, 2026.
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