Where the system has failed us during COVID, our seniors, families and essential workers have helped each other all day about accessing the vaccine and troubleshooting concerns. We know our only solution is organizing: A healthy community is an organized community.
Just listened to @theJagmeetSingh on @CBCTheHouse. He was asked a question about Palestinian rights. His answer: I’m against anti-Semitism. He would not mention even the word Palestinians. He’s the Canadian @Keir_Starmer. Absolutely pathetic.
Our Emergency Department is on fire with COVID. We have multiple patients with severe COVID with hypoxia and our ICU is full. I invite anyone who is in a position of authority who thinks things are ok to come for a tour of our hospital. I can help arrange.
1. Today with @Peoples_Defence we stand in solidarity with our neighbour and his 2 kids (1 and 6 yrs old) at 33 Gabian Way who were being kicked out of their homes by nonprofit landlord Vila Gaspar Corte despite being able to fully pay back their rent arrears.
Change in net worth, March 2020 to March 2021
Thomson Family(Globe & Mail): +$8.8B
Toby Lutke (Shopify): +8.1B
Weston Family (Loblaws): +1.7B
Chip Wilson (Lululemon): +$3.1B
Don’t tell me we don’t have the money to support working class Canadians.
It's a tale of two pandemics.
On the eve of a long weekend and in the middle of a pandemic, the police sent 23 cruisers to evict a father & his two young kids into homelessness. This is inhumane. This is wasteful. This is senseless. #NoCovidEvictions
Ontario's for-profit LTC homes have had 78% more deaths than non-profit homes during #COVID19.
Why do we continue to support a system that provides such poor care for seniors & keeps health workers poor, just so that it can maximize the extraction of profits for shareholders?
BREAKING: Ontario's Special Investigations Unit has determined there are no grounds to charge a Peel police officer in the fatal shooting of 28-year-old Jamal Francique. https://t.co/ySev01vOzq
5. Some will dismiss these concerns and say that a lockdown is not solitary confinement. Don't believe it. They can be even worse, because they often mean 24 hours locked in a cell. And even brief periods in these conditions can be torture, especially for vulnerable individuals.