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[The Associated Press @AP]

Across villages in Punjab, Sikh organizations are organizing community screenings of a movie blocked by Indian officials. “Satluj” tells the true tale of a slain human rights activist whose investigation exposed one of the darkest episodes of Punjab’s insurgency. https://t.co/ubbNdU72n8

[Alex Cosh @AlexCosh_]

$18.9 million in Canadian military exports to Israel in 2024 alone. https://t.co/82mN9jZmbE

[CBC Hamilton @CBCHamilton]

The city will look into what health effects residents living near a dump in Upper Stoney Creek could be facing, after air testing showed high levels of pollutants linked to sulfur at the location. #HamOnt https://t.co/UlOhCZ3b0p

[tara houska ᔖᐳᐌᑴ @zhaabowekwe]

She realized climate change is intersectional with dominion, greed, supremacy, gross human rights abuses.

Violence against the earth begets violence against one another.

[Mike Crawley @MikeCrawleyCBC]

NEW: Big Grocery vs. Big Beverage. In a battle with major financial implications for companies and major environmental implications for Ontario, the Ford government is siding with the supermarket chains.
👇🏻Here’s the inside story👇🏻

https://t.co/qdPmFqH4S0

[Yipeng Ge 葛义朋 @yipengGe]

Students and young people are the moral compass for social movements. They have everything to lose, and yet they put it all on the line for humanity. Shame on the complicit genocide sympathizers and enablers that sit in their ivory tower institutions employing state violence.

[Sabreina Dahab @sabreina_dahab]

When institutions feel like their power is threatened, they will revert back to what they do best: weaponize their rule book to shut down legitimate critique. It’s how you know they were never about change.

Thank you for your commitment to transparency, @CameronKroetsch

[pascal siakam @pskills43]

Toronto Forever ❤️ #PS43

[The Narwhal @thenarwhalca]

Vancouver did it. France did it. Why isn’t Ontario reducing food waste?

Over 60 per cent of the province’s food scraps end up in landfills producing methane, even though the fixes are right in front of us, @sarahbartnicka reports. #onpoli https://t.co/FODqysG0zk

[Michelle @Michelle3id]

+ something needs to be said about phosphorus’s effect on agricultural lands, which is the case in Palestine and South Lebanon. Its effects last for years and years: phosphorus severely pollutes the ground and groundwater and weakens the soil for agricultural production. 1/

[Jennifer Keesmaat @jen_keesmaat]

An informed public is the foundation of a functioning democracy.

My tweets have gotten longer as the #Greenbelt scandal has come to light, mostly because there is so much to talk about.

But also because I have always seen this platform, even in its changing form, as a mechanism to provide a window into good urbanism, municipal policy and governance, and the foundations of a liveable future (yes all of that usually leads to a lot of tweeting about bikes and affordable housing).

I’ve spent over 25 years advocating for the greenbelt, involved in research and policy development, and touting it on the world stage as foundational to our sustainable future. As Chief Planner I played a role in expanding it significantly through the inclusion of Urban River Valleys. The Greenbelt has made us the envy of the world. It’s something we’ve gotten right. We’ve linked it to policies focused on building housing in existing built up areas, intensification, transit expansion, access to nature, a safe and sustainable food and water supply, and creating complete communities.

The idea that a reckless, self-interested government can destroy it in a term or two is beyond comprehension to me. That they have done this using “deception” - the Integrity Commissioners words, is beyond the pale. That they have hid behind our truly devastating housing crisis, despite the Auditor General making it clear that “a shortage of land is not driving the housing crisis” is also beyond the pale.

But this is happening. And we need to get real about the fact that it is happening. Because the damage to our farmland, our regional centres, the impact on our commutes as a result of another layer of regional sprawl, and the distraction from building housing that we desperately need - it might just take us to our breaking point.

[The Narwhal @thenarwhalca]

Ontario Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk just dropped an explosive 95-page audit of the Ford government’s decision to open huge swaths of Greenbelt land to development. Turns out, developers influenced those cuts — and non-elected political staff led the way. https://t.co/CVs1JL6YqI

[Greenpeace Canada @GreenpeaceCA]

This is alarming news. As the climate crisis intensifies, so do wildfires. Our thoughts are with communities and first responders *already* impacted by the devastating wildfires across so-called Canada. How many more warnings before real #ClimateAction? https://t.co/lc5UYmCb2H

[The Narwhal @thenarwhalca]

“It feels like we don’t matter.”

“Once you turn farmland into concrete you can never go back.”

From Hamilton to Halton, Doug Ford’s decision to defy council plans and order sprawl has sparked a wave of frustration. Via @fatimabsyed #onpoli https://t.co/UbI1KmxEOR

[CBC News: The National @CBCTheNational]

How a group of urban farmers in Toronto are trying to make a better world through the food they grow.

[Bleacher Report @BleacherReport]

Scottie Barnes is the 2021-22 Rookie of the Year, per @ShamsCharania 🏆

[Ajit Niranjan @NiranjanAjit]

two of the most powerful sentences in the technical summary of the new ipcc report did not make it into the government-approved summary for policymakers

[Toronto Raptors @Raptors]

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[Toronto Raptors @Raptors]

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[Toronto Raptors @Raptors]

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