Top Tweets for #YHMcc

2 months ago

Hamilton’s future is worth fighting for. I’m ready to listen, lead, and deliver results. Are you with me? https://t.co/BAsXskdeX2 #HamOnt #ONPoli #CDNPOLI #YHMVote #YHMCC @cityofhamilton Art: Robyn Lightwalker @Rlightwalker93 Graphics: Eddy Edgar

ScarlettG4Mayor's tweet photo. Hamilton’s future is worth fighting for. I’m ready to listen, lead, and deliver results. Are you with me?

https://t.co/BAsXskdeX2

#HamOnt #ONPoli #CDNPOLI #YHMVote #YHMCC @cityofhamilton

Art: Robyn Lightwalker @Rlightwalker93

Graphics: Eddy Edgar https://t.co/M1rZyLN6BM

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2 months ago

Thank you to the @NewVisionUnited Church for welcoming me to their congregation and for their support of my campaign for mayor in the @cityofhamilton. Thank you to Jennifer Hompoth for inviting me and for leader Erin for anointing me. #HamOnt #CDNPoli #ONPoli #YHMVote #YHMCC

ScarlettG4Mayor's tweet photo. Thank you to the @NewVisionUnited Church for welcoming me to their congregation and for their support of my campaign for mayor in the @cityofhamilton.

Thank you to Jennifer Hompoth for inviting me and for leader Erin for anointing me.

#HamOnt #CDNPoli #ONPoli #YHMVote #YHMCC https://t.co/v2fzpqur3g

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3 months ago

From Reverend Dr. @Cheri.DiNovo, C.M: “I am proud to endorse Scarlett Gillespie for Mayor of Hamilton and look forward to seeing the positive change her leadership can bring to Hamilton." #HamOnt #CDNPoli #ONPoli #YHMVote #YHMCC

ScarlettG4Mayor's tweet photo. From Reverend Dr. @Cheri.DiNovo, C.M:

“I am proud to endorse Scarlett Gillespie for Mayor of Hamilton and look forward to seeing the positive change her leadership can bring to Hamilton."

#HamOnt #CDNPoli #ONPoli #YHMVote #YHMCC https://t.co/vSRqoBY29v

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3 months ago

I learned a lot about localuse of force trends, especially as it relates to the disproportionate impacts on Black, Muslim, and racialized residents living in Hamilton at the @hamiltonpoliceontario Use of Force Community Information Session #HamOnt #CDNPoli #YHMVote #YHMCC #ONPoli

ScarlettG4Mayor's tweet photo. I learned a lot about localuse of force trends, especially as it relates to the disproportionate impacts on Black, Muslim, and racialized residents living in Hamilton at the @hamiltonpoliceontario Use of Force Community Information Session
#HamOnt #CDNPoli #YHMVote #YHMCC #ONPoli https://t.co/umwMyz563Z

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3 months ago

https://t.co/93f72W35FD. Scarlett for ARTISTS! The team had an incredible time speaking and connecting with neighbours and local artists and creatives. Video by @jadekosub @cityofhamilton #HamOnt #CDNPoli #ONPoli #YHMCC #YHMVote

ScarlettG4Mayor's tweet photo. https://t.co/93f72W35FD.
Scarlett for ARTISTS!

The team had an incredible time speaking and connecting with neighbours and local artists and creatives.

Video by @jadekosub

@cityofhamilton

#HamOnt #CDNPoli #ONPoli #YHMCC #YHMVote https://t.co/zwUgCns2Qi

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Hamilton Spectator @TheSpec

4 months ago · Hamilton

Now look into Sujit Choudhry's past: https://t.co/rSkgmfO7r4 https://t.co/ry6ktXdXss https://t.co/arkv335dPC #HamOnt #ONPoli #CDNPoli #YHMCC

4 months ago

Hamilton planning GM placed on leave amid Markham probe 👉 https://t.co/bFhYpYcZVS Arvin Prasad faces allegations he was paid for consulting for a developer while overseeing planning approvals in Markham.

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Kojo Easy Damptey

@EasyThePianoMan

6 months ago

Who you got for Mayor of Hamilton in 2026? #HamOnt #yhmcc #yhmvotes https://t.co/m774sQZjRU *This list is based on folks that have declared their intention to run*

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Fraser 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 @fp_905

12 months ago

Final Hamilton Ward 8 by-election results: (Top 5 candidates) Rob Cooper 19.3% Terry Whitehead 17.8% Barry Quinn 15.7% Lohifa Pogoson Acker 13.8% Asuf Khokhar 6.8% #HamOnt #yhmcc #onpoli

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Kojo Easy Damptey

@EasyThePianoMan

about 1 year ago

Glad to see how the @cityofhamilton City Enrichment Fund has gone through a number of changes to support community orgs addressing multiple challenges across #HamOnt #yhmcc Multi-year funding is a request that came from community. 🙌🏿 https://t.co/bHxA5HzNC5

City of Hamilton @cityofhamilton

about 1 year ago

Now in its tenth year, the City of Hamilton’s City Enrichment Fund (CEF) is celebrating a decade of transformative investment in local communities. Release>> https://t.co/QCNvNdTleK #HamOnt

cityofhamilton's tweet photo. Now in its tenth year, the City of Hamilton’s City Enrichment Fund (CEF) is celebrating a decade of transformative investment in local communities.

Release>> https://t.co/QCNvNdTleK #HamOnt https://t.co/a8tt65I1rm

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Kojo Easy Damptey

@EasyThePianoMan

over 1 year ago

The local Business Improvement Area — or BIA — has filed repeated complaints against a Food Truck company - Shuck Truck. Why penalize entrepreneurs trying to build a local business? #HamOnt #yhmcc https://t.co/K41qO0kOky

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Kojo Damptey @KojoDampteyONDP

over 1 year ago

The Ford government is planning to crackdown on municipal councillors found violating codes of conduct, introducing stiffer measures that could see a councillor forcibly removed. #HamOnt #onpoli #yhmcc https://t.co/kYFuhefWtS

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over 1 year ago

Most recently, @NrinderWard3 removed me as a friend on FB in retailiation for criticizing her inaction(s) and for organizing tenants in my building. Shame on you, Nrinder. Meet with me. It is a part of your duty of care to listen to tenants over which you preside. #YHMCC @cityofhamilton

IsisIntrepid's tweet photo. Most recently, @NrinderWard3 removed me as a friend on FB in retailiation for criticizing her inaction(s) and for organizing tenants in my building.

Shame on you, Nrinder. Meet with me. It is a part of your duty of care to listen to tenants over which you preside. #YHMCC @cityofhamilton

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over 1 year ago · Hamilton

Thank you to @rtleblanc for publishing my first Op Ed in today's @TheSpec! #HamOnt #YHMCC It's Time For Some Reflection Every year in Hamilton, hundreds of people gather for Take Back The Night, a rally and march organized by our Sexual Assault Centre of Hamilton and Area (@SACHAhamont) to protest sexual violence and affirm survivors' rights to safety. But few know that the origins of this powerful event are tied directly to the life of Angelique Kennedy—a Mi’kmaq woman, survivor, mother, and sex worker whose story catalyzed feminist outrage and grassroots mobilization in the city. As we mark the 40th anniversary of Take Back The Night, in 2025, it is time we remember the woman whose trauma and resilience helped spark the movement. It is time for Hamilton to do some reflection. Angelique Kennedy was just 13 years old when she was raped by a client at Toronto’s Warwick Hotel. Instead of being treated as a victim, she was arrested and detained under archaic laws that criminalized "sexual immorality." This pattern would repeat throughout her life: being victimized, criminalized, and discarded by a justice system that had no room for women like her—Indigenous, poor, and working in the sex trade. In 1985, Angelique was again brutally raped—three times—by a man named Robert McNab Wright. During the trial, Judge John Bowlby openly disparaged her in court, stating that she was of “a particular class of women” and that her work as a dancer “promoted lust.” The judge not only blamed Angelique for her own assault but denied her the basic dignity of anonymity, refusing to issue a publication ban that would have protected her identity and the unjust scrutiny of the public. The public backlash was swift. Feminist groups, civil liberties organizations, faith leaders, and community advocates condemned the judge’s remarks and rallied around Angelique’s case. Out of that outrage, Hamilton’s Take Back The Night movement took form, channeling collective fury into a demand for change. Yet somehow, in the retelling of this city’s feminist history, Angelique's name was quietly erased or - if we believe it - forgotten. To erase Angelique from this origin story is to erase the uncomfortable truth: that the women most impacted by sexual violence are often the ones least likely to be believed, protected, or remembered. Angelique wasn’t the “perfect victim.” She had worked in the sex trade. She was Indigenous. She had mental health struggles. More importantly, she was also a survivor, a mother, a business owner, and a relentless fighter against a system that tried to crush her spirit at every turn. Angelique’s story is not just a footnote in Hamilton’s feminist history—it is a mirror. It reflects the way our institutions, from the courts to child welfare agencies, continue to criminalize, surveil, and separate marginalized women from their children and communities. It shows us how social movements often benefit from the pain of the most excluded, while rarely centering or crediting them. As we gather this year to march in the streets and chant for a world without violence, let us say Angelique’s name. Let us acknowledge that Take Back The Night in Hamilton would not exist without the public cruelty she endured. And let us remember that the movement must continue to evolve—not only to fight for justice, but to repair the harms inflicted by the very systems we claim to resist. Angelique Kennedy is still alive. She lives with permanent injuries, PTSD, and the economic fallout of a life shaped by systemic violence. And yet, she persists. “They want people like me to disappear,” she said to me when I interviewed her. “But I’m still here.” We owe her more than silence. Jelena is a resident of Ward 3, the recipient of the 2024 YWCA Women of Distinction & Jose Julio Sarria Civil Rights Awards, and the executive director of the Sex Workers' Action Program (SWAP). She is a PSW in nursing school with geriatrics and palliative care certifications.

IsisIntrepid's tweet photo. Thank you to @rtleblanc for publishing my first Op Ed in today's @TheSpec! #HamOnt #YHMCC

It's Time For Some Reflection

Every year in Hamilton, hundreds of people gather for Take Back The Night, a rally and march organized by our Sexual Assault Centre of Hamilton and Area (@SACHAhamont) to protest sexual violence and affirm survivors' rights to safety. But few know that the origins of this powerful event are tied directly to the life of Angelique Kennedy—a Mi’kmaq woman, survivor, mother, and sex worker whose story catalyzed feminist outrage and grassroots mobilization in the city. As we mark the 40th anniversary of Take Back The Night, in 2025, it is time we remember the woman whose trauma and resilience helped spark the movement. It is time for Hamilton to do some reflection.

Angelique Kennedy was just 13 years old when she was raped by a client at Toronto’s Warwick Hotel. Instead of being treated as a victim, she was arrested and detained under archaic laws that criminalized "sexual immorality." This pattern would repeat throughout her life: being victimized, criminalized, and discarded by a justice system that had no room for women like her—Indigenous, poor, and working in the sex trade.

In 1985, Angelique was again brutally raped—three times—by a man named Robert McNab Wright. During the trial, Judge John Bowlby openly disparaged her in court, stating that she was of “a particular class of women” and that her work as a dancer “promoted lust.” The judge not only blamed Angelique for her own assault but denied her the basic dignity of anonymity, refusing to issue a publication ban that would have protected her identity and the unjust scrutiny of the public.

The public backlash was swift. Feminist groups, civil liberties organizations, faith leaders, and community advocates condemned the judge’s remarks and rallied around Angelique’s case. Out of that outrage, Hamilton’s Take Back The Night movement took form, channeling collective fury into a demand for change. Yet somehow, in the retelling of this city’s feminist history, Angelique's name was quietly erased or - if we believe it - forgotten.

To erase Angelique from this origin story is to erase the uncomfortable truth: that the women most impacted by sexual violence are often the ones least likely to be believed, protected, or remembered. Angelique wasn’t the “perfect victim.” She had worked in the sex trade. She was Indigenous. She had mental health struggles. More importantly, she was also a survivor, a mother, a business owner, and a relentless fighter against a system that tried to crush her spirit at every turn.

Angelique’s story is not just a footnote in Hamilton’s feminist history—it is a mirror. It reflects the way our institutions, from the courts to child welfare agencies, continue to criminalize, surveil, and separate marginalized women from their children and communities. It shows us how social movements often benefit from the pain of the most excluded, while rarely centering or crediting them.

As we gather this year to march in the streets and chant for a world without violence, let us say Angelique’s name. Let us acknowledge that Take Back The Night in Hamilton would not exist without the public cruelty she endured. And let us remember that the movement must continue to evolve—not only to fight for justice, but to repair the harms inflicted by the very systems we claim to resist.

Angelique Kennedy is still alive. She lives with permanent injuries, PTSD, and the economic fallout of a life shaped by systemic violence. And yet, she persists. “They want people like me to disappear,” she said to me when I interviewed her. “But I’m still here.”

We owe her more than silence.

Jelena is a resident of Ward 3, the recipient of the 2024 YWCA Women of Distinction & Jose Julio Sarria Civil Rights Awards, and the executive director of the Sex Workers' Action Program (SWAP). She is a PSW in nursing school with geriatrics and palliative care certifications.

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over 1 year ago · Hamilton

Good advice from @karl_andrus to @AndrewCSelman #HamOnt #YHMCC @CityofHamilton

Karl Andrus @karl_andrus

over 1 year ago

So Andrew Selamn gave a rousing speech today about the city not cleaning up garbage and encapments at GIC. But I feel like he hasn't acknowledged the many community volunteers who clean Alley's and rail trails. Rent a dumpster, grab a shapes container and clean it up.

karl_andrus's tweet photo. So Andrew Selamn gave a rousing speech today about the city not cleaning up garbage and encapments at GIC. But I feel like he hasn't acknowledged the many community volunteers who clean Alley's and rail trails. Rent a dumpster, grab a shapes container and clean it up. https://t.co/UyBSfO3Kcj

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over 1 year ago

Hamilton councillor @JohnPaulDanko's controversial comments violated the @CityofHamilton code of conduct: https://t.co/CTVIvLHOfS #HamOnt #YHMCC #CDNPoli #ONPoli #CDNPolitics

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over 1 year ago

Second time someone is trying to poison dogs on CityHousing Hamilton property!!! @cityofhamilton @AndreaHorwath @NrinderWard3 @CameronKroetsch @alexwilson96 @karl_andrus @HamiltonPolice Occurrence #: 25-566879 (March 17th) 25-568644 (March 19th) #HamOnt #YHMCC CC: @TheSpec @JohnPaulDanko @DawnDankoOLP @WAWGHAMILTON @becky_buck @SACHAhamont @FilomenaTassi @Shaw_Sandy @RobinLennox @LisaHepfner @SarahJama_ @Ward1Wilson @JeffBeattie2014 @TedMcMeekin @ChadCollinsMP @EstherPauls2 @MSpadafora2022 @NeilLumsdenMPP @BCouncillor @JohnPaulDanko @TammyHwang @HamOntWard4 @McMasteResearch @mac_SW @StJoesHamilton @MohawkCollege @MTaylorNDP @FaeJohnstone @YWCA_Hamilton @anjali_menezes @EasyThePianoMan @PascaleHamOnt @BayObserver @TeviahMoro @jonjwells @EmilyNTayler @CHCHTV

IsisIntrepid's tweet photo. Second time someone is trying to poison dogs on CityHousing Hamilton property!!! @cityofhamilton @AndreaHorwath @NrinderWard3 @CameronKroetsch @alexwilson96 @karl_andrus @HamiltonPolice

Occurrence #: 25-566879 (March 17th)

25-568644 (March 19th)

#HamOnt #YHMCC

CC: @TheSpec @JohnPaulDanko
@DawnDankoOLP @WAWGHAMILTON @becky_buck @SACHAhamont @FilomenaTassi @Shaw_Sandy @RobinLennox @LisaHepfner @SarahJama_ @Ward1Wilson @JeffBeattie2014
@TedMcMeekin @ChadCollinsMP @EstherPauls2 @MSpadafora2022 @NeilLumsdenMPP @BCouncillor @JohnPaulDanko @TammyHwang @HamOntWard4 @McMasteResearch @mac_SW @StJoesHamilton @MohawkCollege @MTaylorNDP @FaeJohnstone @YWCA_Hamilton @anjali_menezes @EasyThePianoMan @PascaleHamOnt @BayObserver @TeviahMoro @jonjwells @EmilyNTayler @CHCHTV

over 1 year ago · Hamilton

Someone from CityHousing Hamilton is trying to poison and kill my service dog, and CHH doesn't care about the negative impact it's having on me 😭 @cityofhamilton @AndreaHorwath @NrinderWard3

IsisIntrepid's tweet photo. Someone from CityHousing Hamilton is trying to poison and kill my service dog, and CHH doesn't care about the negative impact it's having on me 😭 @cityofhamilton @AndreaHorwath @NrinderWard3 https://t.co/sBg5AnbOXd

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over 1 year ago

International Women's Day Event, organized by @SACHAhamont in the @CityofHamilton March 7, 2025 10AM - 1PM Honouring The Circle 21 Rosedene Avenue -Light refreshments will be provided -Community tables will be present #HamOnt #CDNPoli #ONPoli #YHMCC CC: @TheSpec @AndreaHorwath @JohnPaulDanko @DawnDankoOLP @WAWGHAMILTON @SACHAhamont @FilomenaTassi @Shaw_Sandy @tammyhwang @CameronKroetsch @LisaHepfner @AlexWilson96 @NrinderWard3 @SarahJama_ @Ward1Wilson @JeffBeattie2014 @TedMcMeekin @ChadCollinsMP @EstherPauls2 @MSpadafora2022 @NeilLumsdenMPP @BCouncillor @JohnPaulDanko @TammyHwang @HamOntWard4 @McMasteResearch @mac_SW @StJoesHamilton @MohawkCollege @MTaylorNDP @FaeJohnstone @YWCA_Hamilton @anjali_menezes @ajesusjoseph @EasyThePianoMan @PascaleHamOnt @BayObserver @TeviahMoro @jonjwells @EmilyNTayler @CHCHTV @CHCHNews @CBCHamilton @KateMccullough @Peesker

IsisIntrepid's tweet photo. International Women's Day Event, organized by @SACHAhamont in the @CityofHamilton

March 7, 2025 10AM - 1PM

Honouring The Circle
21 Rosedene Avenue

-Light refreshments will be provided -Community tables will be present

#HamOnt #CDNPoli #ONPoli #YHMCC

CC: @TheSpec @AndreaHorwath @JohnPaulDanko @DawnDankoOLP @WAWGHAMILTON @SACHAhamont @FilomenaTassi @Shaw_Sandy @tammyhwang @CameronKroetsch @LisaHepfner @AlexWilson96 @NrinderWard3 @SarahJama_ @Ward1Wilson @JeffBeattie2014 @TedMcMeekin @ChadCollinsMP @EstherPauls2 @MSpadafora2022 @NeilLumsdenMPP @BCouncillor @JohnPaulDanko @TammyHwang @HamOntWard4 @McMasteResearch @mac_SW @StJoesHamilton @MohawkCollege @MTaylorNDP @FaeJohnstone @YWCA_Hamilton @anjali_menezes @ajesusjoseph @EasyThePianoMan @PascaleHamOnt @BayObserver @TeviahMoro @jonjwells @EmilyNTayler @CHCHTV @CHCHNews @CBCHamilton @KateMccullough @Peesker

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