#CanadaDay 2026 at #Toronto City Hall seems to feature all major BIPOC groups (& a disproportionate # of "spoken word artists").
Aside from the utterly impressive DEI display, where's the celebration of Canada's history/origin - you know, what the day supposedly commemorates?🤔
#CanadaDay 2026 at #Toronto City Hall seems to feature all major BIPOC groups (& a disproportionate # of "spoken word artists").
Aside from the utterly impressive DEI display, where's the celebration of Canada's history/origin - you know, what the day supposedly commemorates?🤔
#CanadaDay 2026 at #Toronto City Hall seems to feature all major BIPOC groups (& a disproportionate # of "spoken word artists").
Aside from the utterly impressive DEI display, where's the celebration of Canada's history/origin - you know, what the day supposedly commemorates?🤔
WATCH:
TTC Chair Jamaal Myers warmly thanks Cameron Stewart for his presentation on “indigenous wayfinding.”
Myers’ smile fades as IntegrityTO executive director Daniel Tate dismisses the idea as “silly,” saying:
“No transit system in the world adopts animal pictures for wayfinding… there’s already a great global standard, it’s called ‘alphanumeric.’”
Tate draws nods and chuckles from some attendees when he points out that the TTC has much bigger problems to deal with.
Myers intervenes after Tate refers to Stewart’s work as a “school project,” saying:
“This was not a school project. This was a project in the fellowship… that was disrespectful.”
Tate corrects himself but quickly moves on:
“The bottom line is, why are we talking about decolonizing wayfinding. Like, what does that even mean? We have stations that don’t have working escalators, elevators, bathrooms.”
Tate suggests “ignoring the diversity department” to instead focus on “delivering a high quality, reliable, safe transit system.”
No board members follow up with questions.
📸 Jun 3, 2026
#Toronto #ProtestMania
I'm prepared to go to jail over this.
My grandmother Rita Pete went to St. Mary's Indian Residential School. She experienced terrible abuse. As a consequence, she struggled with alcohol use most of her life.
My mother was born with FASD as a consequence of her using alcohol to cope with her trauma.
I am Chief of my community Chawathil First Nation. I am working to address the longstanding impacts of these past policies through renovating homes, building new homes, creating childcare, and growing businesses through economic development.
I have interviewed people who went to Indian Residential Schools. I have interviewed people who believe Indian Residential Schools were awful, horrible schools, meant to remove the Indian from the child.
I've also interviewed people who believe they were well intended, generous investments by Canadian taxpayers meant to assimilate a society and had shortcomings.
Like with many things, the history is dark, complicated, and with any policy that existed for a long time, across a whole country - there were different experiences.
No one story tells us everything. No report shares the full experience of the individuals who went. No commentator today can disprove someone's lived experience with statistics.
The path forward is not to criminalize speech, questions, or debate.
The path forward is empathy for past attendees.
The path forward is truth based on facts.
The path forward is real conversations.
The path forward is to lean into complexity.
If the government criminalizes this, then I will be a criminal for having these conversations.
If I am a criminal by the laws definition, then I am committed to going to jail over this.
@thevivafrei@JoelLightbound There was a confederate flag ... held by the only "protester" who had his eyes/face fully covered and was asked to leave.
There was also a nazi flag.... curiously the nazi stayed blocks away from the protest crowd and left quick after pictures were taken.
@ShaziGoalie "Family home" my @ss. He's a realtor/flipper.
Dude was literally pumping condos into 2025 and pushing the lie of prices holding strong.
Cant make this shit up.
@liberal_party So nice that Mrs. Carney deigns to visit Canada for one weekend. Stepping away from her cushy job and luxurious life in the USofA must not be easy.
#elbowsup
@ShaziGoalie "Family home" my @ss. He's a realtor/flipper.
Dude was literally pumping condos into 2025 and pushing the lie of prices holding strong.
Cant make this shit up.
@ShaziGoalie "Family home" my @ss. He's a realtor/flipper.
Dude was literally pumping condos into 2025 and pushing the lie of prices holding strong.
Cant make this shit up.
@ShaziGoalie "Family home" my @ss. He's a realtor/flipper.
Dude was literally pumping condos into 2025 and pushing the lie of prices holding strong.
Cant make this shit up.
@ShaziGoalie "Family home" my @ss. He's a realtor/flipper.
Dude was literally pumping condos into 2025 and pushing the lie of prices holding strong.
Cant make this shit up.