Alex Schaffter

Birder, bicyclist, home healthcare and quality death care advocate. 🐦🚲🏡 Opinions and views are my own.

[Alex Schaffter @AlexSchaffter]

There was a ripple... a chill passing through the air as suddenly everything people knew about linen fabric changed. Our world will never be the same.
#Fabric #sewing #fashion

[Alex Schaffter @AlexSchaffter]

"Ford only helps his friends" FALSE.
He spent $225M to make this Yelper reviewer happy.

[TYR Labour Council @torontolabour]

Shame on @YorkRegionGovt for imposed 12-hour work shifts on LTC workers! Contact your representative today ⤵️

https://t.co/K1nBSWouZd

[André Picard @picardonhealth]

Toronto's @UHN hospitals reinstate masking😷requirements as respiratory diseases season begins. Patients, visitors and staff will need to mask while waiting, receiving care and in high-risk areas, by @ElissaMendes https://t.co/wlkPQAiYAn via @torontostar #influenza #COVID19

[OntarioHealthCoal'n @OntarioHealthC]

Awarding a massive expansion & new 30-yr license to a for-profit #LTC home with one of the worst records of negligence and death is absolutely not in the public interest.

https://t.co/vyXd73hSrx

[Alex Schaffter @AlexSchaffter]

@KevinRupasinghe Every listing with these floors makes be think "Rent Controlled"! With great storage space too! They don't build them like this anymore.

[Flemingdon Health Centre @fhc_chc]

Home care workers bring compassionate
care to your doorstep, yet are paid less
than their peers in other parts of the
health care system. Let’s work together to
close the wage gap. #ForUsForYou

[Chiara Padovani @chipadovani]

I can’t explain how ruthless both Barney River & Dream Unlimited have been in their attempts to lock out members of @YSWtenants.

I’ve seen this myself. It’s pure greed with no regard for humanity.

We organize & win back their homes, but we really shouldn’t have to.

[Kevin Rupasinghe @KevinRupasinghe]

2 equal size boxes on a map of projects done in Toronto's 2022-24 bike plan

West box: strong progress
East box: not one new build or upgrade (+ loss of Line 3 Scarborough RT)

What is needed to support a rollout of safe street & cycling measures citywide?#BikeTO #TOpoli #ScarbTO

[Y.Y. Brandon Chen @YYBrandonChen]

Josue woke up from a coma in hospital only to find Ontario’s Physician and Hospital Services for Uninsured Persons (PHSUP) program had ended last March; he is now stuck with nearly $90k in hospital bills.

A short thread. 1/

https://t.co/80HnGWquMR

[Kevin Rupasinghe @KevinRupasinghe]

I've got to commend @Metrolinx for doing the right thing & adding bike coaches to GO train routes that were overcrowded w/ bikes. If only @VIA_Rail would allow customers to travel w/ bikes in luggage cars after a 4-year ban...

CC Ministers @PrabSarkaria & @pablorodriguez

[Kevin Rupasinghe @KevinRupasinghe]

[1/3] As Toronto City Council rightfully considers increasing parking violation fines to $75 from $30, it should also fix the unfair residential permit parking rules that vary across the city. Read my op-ed in today's @TorontoStar: https://t.co/5eTQPWBxM8

#TOpoli

[Healthcare For All @HealthForAllNow]

Maria is a personal support worker caring for the elderly. She does not have healthcare coverage in Ontario because she does not have permanent immigration status. This International Women's Day, let's fight for equal rights for women like Maria and demand #Healthcare4All.

Our communities thrive when all of us are healthier. #StatusForAll #Justice4Workers #ONpoli
#IWD2024

[Jeff Slater 🍊 @jslaterTO]

Shocking, the people who ran the city’s finances into the ground are opposed to cleaning up their own mess.

[OFL @OFLabour]

Public healthcare is not for sale @fordnation is an epic fail!

Save our hospitals!

#OnLab #OnPoli

[Diana Chan McNally @DianaCMcNally]

A Toronto police officer, also a landlord, assaulted his tenant and stole $5,000+ of her belongings. He has been suspended with pay. As Torontonians, we must question a system that downplays violent offences among those supposedly charged with keeping communities safe.

[Kevin Rupasinghe @KevinRupasinghe]

This month I wrote a piece in the local paper about the proposed Eglinton East LRT. Line 7 could be transformational for Scarborough & there are many questions worth asking. Let me know your thoughts. #ScarbTO #EELRT #TOpoli

Page 2 January Bluffs Monitor: https://t.co/NjVLaq866w

[Diana Chan McNally @DianaCMcNally]

In 2022, ON hospitals spent $173,669,808 on nurses from private agencies, a 350% increase from 2020. OCHU/CUPE is asking for an investment of $250 million a year for the next five years for staffing. It costs almost as much money to break public health care as it does to save it.

[Toronto Tenant Union @TenantsUnionTO]

Sit-in continues! Join at 8am, we'll be rallying at 1440 Lawrence Avenue West until our neighbour is allowed back into her unit

[Hafeez A. @trainguy89]

It’s an honour to be featured as one of the inspiring changemakers in @Spacing’s 20th anniversary issue.

It’s a crazy, yet wholesome feeling I get when I realize people look up to me. They’re inspired by me and the stuff I do. I am extremely grateful.

[The Birdist @TheBirdist]

My yearly plea for eBird Wrapped