Greg C

Loves - books, silence & walking Dislikes - greed, colonialism, capitalism & bad coffee

[Greg C @c_shadowspaces]

Anyone else horrified by the number of police on in the subways system today? My observation is they are either looking at their phones or roaming in groups of 10 kicking homeless people out of the subway stations.

[Azorean69 @Azorean691]

@Sarah_Colero The treatment of #PWD’s is a national disgrace, govts are literally nickel & diming all those on disability benefits + the long awaited #CDB is only $200 per month. It is beyond acceptable that we as a nation allow this. My salvation was turning 65 but some can’t wait that long

[Leigh Beadon @leighbeadon]

Gonna remind everyone that several major developers (incl. Fitzrovia who is behind the new towers at Bloor/Duff, and the Drimmer family that owns Canada's largest landlord Starlight) are Walk With Israel sponsors

Support for market housing in Canada is support for Israel. Sorry!

[Ted Rutland @TedRutland]

If we are going to call the cost of public services a “loss,” then Canadian police forces lost $20 billion last year while delivering no birthday presents and also killing a lot of people.

[Toronto Star @TorontoStar]

Are homeless people at Union Station victims of a World Cup crackdown? Here’s what’s going on https://t.co/4F53XcTfQH

[Lorraine Lam @lorrainelamchop]

so basically the host is still incorrect and anyone who tells you that “most people are matched to a shelter bed” implying they should just call -
pls tell them to call central intake for the full experience. day in day out several times a day.

[Lorraine Lam @lorrainelamchop]

i misheard. at the 18 minute mark, deb says that “a vast majority of callers are matched to a shelter bed” and only 85 are unmatched.

but if you look at the data, how is this a “majority of callers”when the adjacent column says only 20 get a bed?
https://t.co/u9HjifTP3A

[Toronto Underhoused and Homeless Union @TUHUnion_]

Press Coverage of our Foul Play Rally https://t.co/ew6mLjZFR7

[Kavita Algu @KavitaAlguMD]

‘“Unhoused people are not being removed because they are dangerous. They are being removed because their presence conflicts with the image @FIFAWorldCup demands,” the Toronto advocates wrote.

“All the money that we spend on that could actually be really successful money spent on housing and long-term solutions.” The Toronto Underhoused and Homeless Union is demanding that security guards at Union Station be replaced by harm reduction workers and that 24/7 respite centres be made available during and in the lead-up to the World Cup.

The group is also calling for an end to the closures of shelters and supervised consumption sites, arguing that without places to go, more and more homeless people will seek shelter in places like Union Station.’

[Kate Willett @katewillett]

Sometimes I feel like none of you lived through the de Blasio era. Nearly the exact same promises of public private partnerships and rezoning were made, down to the number of units.

It’s better than zero affordable housing units to be sure, but rents aren’t going down.

[Robyn Maynard @policingblack]

So excited about this new column by @aliyapabani ! Much needed in Toronto.

[lizydork @lizydork]

Everyone needs to read Melinda Cooper’s book, “Counterrevolution” to understand the role of tax credits in the neoliberal economy, and their role in the inflation of asset values (like real estate) at the expense workers via wage stagnation.

[Shit Nonprofits Say @nonprofitssay]

Every year we will announce a new 5-year strategic plan.

[Patrick Condon @pmcondon2]

This needs to be posted from time to time. Bottom line, the more you build the more housing costs. Correlation is not causation but my god!

[Progressive City: Radical Alternatives @pcityradical]

"The selling of a fabricated, idealized image of the city, as mobilized through empty discourses of diversity, facilitates an undemocratic politics of urban space"

Farida Rady and Jacob Roberts on the World Cup in Toronto in our latest article

https://t.co/FSQYtBbMy7

[Greg C @c_shadowspaces]

The Better Living Centre…

[Greg C @c_shadowspaces]

“In direct connection to the World Cup, the Better Living Respite Centre (BLC) closed on March 15th for the season—a month earlier than usual—leaving the 300 people who stay there every night scrambling for shelter. The early closure is due to the City of Toronto’s agreement”

[Greg C @c_shadowspaces]

effectively shutting down any dialogue to question the political relevancy of mega sporting events. Hollow statements of diversity and inclusion risk fabricating an identity of the city and shifting the way urban citizens experience their own city:”