Lisa Starr

[Lisa Starr @brownowl21]

@MatinaStevis Long before Covid

[Lisa Starr @brownowl21]

@MatinaStevis Retired ON elementary teacher. Attendance monitored 2x daily with close monitoring. Problem: absolutely NO effective consequence for absences. Even for <40% of days. Actually expecting teachers to heavily accommodate. Worst cases are sporadic days missed.

[Lisa Starr @brownowl21]

@MmeLockhartLDSB @NumCogLab I made a point of asking at a PD session, where was the evidence that these strategies work. I got crickets….🦗

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

"It's hypocrisy to call yourself a Christian and chase away a refugee or someone seeking help, someone who is hungry or thirsty, toss out someone who is in need of my help... If I say I am Christian, but do these things, I'm a hypocrite."

- Pope Francis

[Anita Anand @AnitaAnandMP]

I just finished a productive meeting with the CEO of Honda Canada, Dave Jamieson. He confirmed that Honda remains fully committed to its operations in Canada and that there are no plans to shift production elsewhere.

Canada has the best workers in the world and is a global leader in auto manufacturing. We will continue to work with all auto manufacturers to protect Canadian jobs and to build a strong, resilient auto sector here in Canada.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: Thousands have flooded the streets of Boston for the massive anti-Trump “Hands Off!” rally—one of over 1,200 protests erupting across all 50 states.

From coast to coast, Americans are sending a message: Hands off our rights. Hands off our democracy. Hands off our future.

This isn’t a protest wave. It’s a political reckoning.

[Chris Miller, PhD 🇨🇦 @NSwilderness]

Americans need to denounce this 51st state crap. It's too quiet. Your closest ally, Canada, is watching closely. And we are noticing that not enough of you are speaking up.

[🇨🇦🍁Maple🍁🇨🇦 @1414Maple]

Just a reminder my Canadian friends. Many spring projects.

Home Depot is 100% American owned. The owner is Bernard Marcus is a huge Trump supporter.

Home hardware is 100% Canadian owned.

Pass the word repost.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Oligarchs are waging a war on the working class, and they are intent on winning.

But this is what I know:

The worst fear that the ruling class in this country has is that Americans come together to demand a government that represents all of us, not just the wealthy few.

[Stephen Maher @stphnmaher]

OK. We should stop booing on this side of the border.

[Deepak Chopra @DeepakChopra]

A quiet mind is more important than a positive mind.

[Neil Pasricha @NeilPasricha]

I agree with Carl on boredom!

[Tyler Watt 🇨🇦 @tylerwatt]

Premier Ford capped the salary increases of nurses and public sector workers at 1% for years and fought us in court to keep it that way. Meanwhile, he gave his brand new Conservative MPP a 12% raise and promotion before he even has stepped foot in the legislature. #onpoli

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

This clip went viral a while ago.

An American vlogger discovers a Ph.D candidate running a food stall, part-time.

What struck me as truly special, however, was the end, when he picks up his phone & the vlogger thinks he’s going to show him social media mentions of his stall—but instead, he proudly shows him online the research papers he has authored!

Incredible. Unique. Indian.

[Chandra Pasma @ChandraPasma]

Okay, folks. Let's talk teacher shortages and the premier's weird comments yesterday that there isn't one and if there was he would do something about it.
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[Craig Baird - Canadian History Ehx @CraigBaird]

Today in 1954, Hurricane Hazel hit Toronto, becoming the worst natural disaster in the city's history.

The hurricane was first identified on Oct. 5, 1954 off the coast of Grenada.
At 4:30 p.m. on Oct. 15, the hurricane began to dump heavy rain on Toronto.
At 7 p.m. there was a brief pause but it was not the eye, only a break before a true deluge began.

Heavy winds soon slammed into the city, coupled with torrential rain. The area around the Humber River had been deforested so water quickly flowed into the river causing it to flood.

Water levels rose by as much as six to eight metres during the storm.
Highway 400 was under three metres of water in some places near Bradford, Ontario.

At 11 p.m., the first death was reported when a car was swept into the Humber River, killing all the occupants.
As the flooding increased, passenger trains were knocked off their tracks and 40 bridges were destroyed or severely damaged.

At Woodbridge, the Humber River swelled to 107 metres in size at a narrow point, killing nine people and leaving hundreds homeless.

The hurricane dropped 214 mm of rain in Snelgrove, Ontario, including 90 mm in three hours.

A total of 81 people died, 30 of which were killed on Raymore Drive when the flooding river tore homes from their foundations. The homes were swept downstream. It also destroyed 366 metres of road in that area.

Two men, off-duty police officer Jim Crawford and building contractor Herb Jones, used a small boat to rescue 50 people through the night.

Over 800 soldiers were sent to Toronto to assist with cleanup and providing items for homeless residents.

After the hurricane, conservation authorities, municipalities and the province worked together to develop a plan for flood control and water conservation.
Large dams, reservoirs and flood control channels were built.

Regulations were also enacted to restrict developments in flood plains, so rivers could flow naturally.

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[Howllr 🇨🇦🍁 @howllr]

Ontario cuts conservation authority funding for flood programs in 2019 https://t.co/KgUBEI0Mdg

[Jennifer Keesmaat @jen_keesmaat]

Make no mistake: the flooding we see in the city today is no surprise. It is an outcome of politicians taking a very very very shortsighted view of infrastructure planning and investment.

Take a look at this vote from 2018 requesting an increase in stormwater infrastructure spending. It failed.

Disinvestment in the city leads to the mess you saw today. Same with traffic congestion. Both are an outcome of a broken approach to municipal infrastructure financing - and a lack of leadership.

Every politician who voted no to this - and many more similar votes that were about necessary reinvestment - should be held to account.

They made this mess. This is entirely solvable. We even know *how* to solve it and we have the plans to solve it. But politicians refuse to fund it. Now we will waste billions cleaning up the mess.

[Bonnie Crombie 🇨🇦 @BonnieCrombie]

The Finance Minister admits he has no idea how much Doug Ford’s schemes to reward his already rich friends will cost you.

#onpoli

[Sinead Bovell @sineadbovell]

This topic is very close to my heart.

An honor to sit down and discuss it with one of the most talented journalists in the game @namshine