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These highly effective BIA’s need help now because they make a difference. Everybody has had to pivot budgets, models and mindset. I encourage @TourismHamilton to pivot, put your budget where it will be effective, given that your mandate is on hold... it’s the right thing to do.
Tourism Hamilton’s mandate makes sense during non-pandemic times but not so much when trying to attract people from Peel/Toronto to Pearl Jam concerts at First Ontario when there aren’t any. The downtown BIA has a 400k budget and is doing so much with so little.
Here is an idea that will have tremendous impact on #HamOnt businesses during the pandemic... with council approval, Tourism Hamilton should shift a significant portion of their extraordinary budget to our local BIA’s across the city.
As an essential worker, it pains me to see the bullshit that Doug Ford has pulled. Me and many others are so mentally and physically exhausted from being short staffed and screwed over by the government. This only shows that he doesn't care, and never did. Thanks Doug 😑
Want to know why it’s so hard for #cops to be ‘good apples’...
It was 2007 and I was assisting a call with an officer I’d never met before. He was from another team working overtime. Right in front of me he broke a kids nose with a punch. The septum was clearly deviated and
I knew I had to speak with Soy Sros: a 30 y/o single mom who makes bags for brands like Michael Kors and Kate Spade, ARRESTED bc she vented on Facebook about anxieties re layoffs. We spoke the day after she was released (on bail). This is what prison did.