Monika Go

[Monika Go @GoMonika]

We do not truly have rights in this country as long as there is a notwithstanding clause.

[Diana Chan McNally @DianaCMcNally]

12 Ontario Mayors are formally requesting that @fordnation invoke the notwithstanding clause to suspend encampment residents' Charter-protected rights so that they can be removed from encampments. The letter cites the Grants Pass Supreme Court decision in the U.S., which allows local governments to criminalize unhoused people in lieu of building housing and shelter, or offering services. It's Draconian and represents an abdication of government responsibility for the welfare of homeless people.

This letter comes a day after @fordnation told @ONBigCityMayors to "have the backbone" to formally ask him to use the notwithstanding clause.

Ford has invoked the clause three times, twice successfully to both force back-to-work legislation and to limit criticism of his government through third-party advertising. With the Mayors of Barrie, Brampton, Brantford, Cambridge, Chatham-Kent, Clarington, Oakville, Oshawa, Pickering, St. Catherines, Sudbury, and Windsor taking responsibility for the ask, Ford could very well table legislation that invokes the notwithstanding clause to evict encampments, without municipalities needing to offer resources like shelter.

Even if you don't care about homeless people, you should be greatly alarmed that entire demographic groups are being targeted to have their Charter rights removed. Who's next?

[Noor Javed @njaved]

Look at those three young women watching. This picture is so symbolic.

[بسنت عماد الدين عبدالمنعم محمود مطر @Pacinthe]

"I don’t think we’ve been using it enough, but there’s a term for when you are in a profession and the integrity of the profession does not match the standard that you expect it to [meet]. It’s called moral injury, and it has a massive impact." -@royinori https://t.co/w120oNxWXG

[Monika Go @GoMonika]

@pskills43 always and forever, our beloved❤️

[Seven Stories Press @7StoriesPress]

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[Sera Koulabdara @SeraKoulabdara]

YES

[Monika Go @GoMonika]

no kid should need to plead for their right to live
what the hell are we doing

[Younis Tirawi | يونس @ytirawi]

Children of Gaza in a conference:

“We want to live. we want peace. We want food, medicine and education. Not bombs”

[ARCHIVED - NASA Voyager @NASAVoyager]

Status update: I'm currently 24.22 billion km (15.05 billion miles) away from Earth.

There's just something about the vastness of space that really makes you contemplate your place in the universe. -V1

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

let me stay tender-hearted, despite despite despite

[Vincent Bevins @Vinncent]

Every once in a while, the actual rules of the liberal international order become terrifyingly clear. This shocks people of good conscience in the First World, while billions of others, who do not have the luxury of this ignorance, see awful confirmation of what they already know

[Monika Go @GoMonika]

This is some bullshit. I just flew from Toronto to Halifax and back for $280.

[Sammy @S_ammerz]

There's a GO train outage and look at the Uber fare surge pricing. This is from downtown to Scarborough.

[Monika Go @GoMonika]

We should make him share Stornoway with Justin, there's your next Big Brother reality show

[CPAC @CPAC_TV]

"We don't need a new home for the prime minister. We need a new home for working-class Canadians," Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says when asked about report the federal govt is exploring alternative site to 24 Sussex to build new official residence for the PM.

#cdnpoli

[ℳatt (matttomic.bsky.social) @matttomic]

Under-the-radar bit about last night: Toronto just elected a mayor without a driver's license. In a city that's had its past decade shaped by driver culture, that elected Rob Ford based off his moaning about the "war on cars", this is a truly seismic shift.

[Monika Go @GoMonika]

@g_meslin @chloebrown4TO I can't vote (don't live in TO) but I donated! Chloe has been a revelation. We need folks like her in office.

[Monika Go @GoMonika]

@meakoopa welcome to our new supreme court justice

[Monika Go @GoMonika]

So many pieces of our common realm (libraries! schools! parks!) are being tasked with taking on more and more because of crumbling systems elsewhere.

[Nick Hune-Brown @nickhunebrown]

Here’s my @thewalrus feature on the public library's remarkable transformation—from simple book repository to “the last public place.” It turns out asking libraries, and librarians, to fill every gap in a fraying social safety net is kind of a disaster. https://t.co/pDZPtkFWvC

[Monika Go @GoMonika]

@RM_Transit What they all need is a big ass screen where they can tell you if the doors won't be opening at your stop. Overshooting your stop on GO is a woeful mistake on the Milton line. Ask me how I know 😭

[Monika Go @GoMonika]

if we are betting on municipal politics, somebody give me the over/under for every transit project in this region

[ethical hater @DijahSB]

what the fuck

[Monika Go @GoMonika]

@Sean_YYZ @shawnmicallef What it *has* eliminated is service to Dixie station. 😭

[Monika Go @GoMonika]

LOL exactly who is going to pay for the pleasure of having their name dragged every time TTC service fails?

[Transit Toronto @transittoronto]

04/14 #TTC considers selling naming rights of stations | via @CTVToronto https://t.co/1Wyt7SnLjz