This is #TorontoDanforth
Alisha Brooks, shot to death Sunday night at a house near Jones and Danforth, was a devoted mother who was building a career helping others.
- @rajumudhar
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Thank you Janice Baker, former CAO of Mississauga and called out of retirement to be the CAO of the Region of Peel and getting us through Covid. I trust her opinion and advice, and respect her continued concern for our City, our Region and our stressed taxpayers.
12 Ontario Mayors are formally requesting that @fordnation invoke the notwithstanding clause to suspend encampment residents' Charter-protected rights so that they can be removed from encampments. The letter cites the Grants Pass Supreme Court decision in the U.S., which allows local governments to criminalize unhoused people in lieu of building housing and shelter, or offering services. It's Draconian and represents an abdication of government responsibility for the welfare of homeless people.
This letter comes a day after @fordnation told @ONBigCityMayors to "have the backbone" to formally ask him to use the notwithstanding clause.
Ford has invoked the clause three times, twice successfully to both force back-to-work legislation and to limit criticism of his government through third-party advertising. With the Mayors of Barrie, Brampton, Brantford, Cambridge, Chatham-Kent, Clarington, Oakville, Oshawa, Pickering, St. Catherines, Sudbury, and Windsor taking responsibility for the ask, Ford could very well table legislation that invokes the notwithstanding clause to evict encampments, without municipalities needing to offer resources like shelter.
Even if you don't care about homeless people, you should be greatly alarmed that entire demographic groups are being targeted to have their Charter rights removed. Who's next?
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An employee allegedly became pregnant & had a 15 year old's child. What the entire fuck? If true, how long has this been carrying on? How many youth have been victimized? They are dealing with criminal charges and now in custody being sexually assaulted?
Despite a mandatory evacuation order due to Hurricane Milton, a Florida jail has no plans to evacuate approximately 1,200 people currently incarcerated.
We can’t leave people in jails and prisons to suffer during extreme weather events.
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As part of @TheLocal_TO's life expectancy analysis, I spent time in Moss Park, where life expectancy is by far the lowest in the city. I dug into the reasons behind the stats, and tried to capture how those lost years reverberate throughout the community. https://t.co/kgWmjdwdiY
Welcome to Dunn House — a prescription for change that has been years in the making. Housing is health. And this is the power of partnership.
51 UHN patients with no fixed address comprised over 4,000 emergency department visits in the past year. This is driven by the pathologies of poverty.
For the 51 individuals moving in, this is more than housing—it's good health care. With primary care, Indigenous-led support, harm reduction and addiction treatment services, we’re redefining compassionate care for people experiencing homelessness.
The work isn't done until tenants are settled in—and won’t feel real until I’m seeing patients in the clinic room right onsite. While a month in hospital costs over $30,000, supportive housing costs just $4,000, promoting human dignity and sound health economics.
Grateful to our entire team, all partners and the advocacy of the Parkdale community for making this possible. This is just the beginning of showing the world that housing is healthcare.
NEW: Toronto police board is set to discuss the “gravely serious” claim by a Frank Stronach complainant who says she reported her alleged sexual assault to Toronto police in 2015 — 10 years before another police service charged him with raping her. https://t.co/kDcdGgWKin
@lawandchocolate@tonya_ck Conditions are worse now than at the height of COVID. CECC is quadruple bunked. OCDC is triple bunked in most ranges and 75% over capacity. Lockdowns are daily due to administrative constraints.
there is no politician i hate more on this earth than doug ford. just an evil, cruel, greedy, humourless, uncaring monster who genuinely thinks his constituents are stupid and sees no value in nature or beauty if he can't profit from it. a ghoul.
We wish we had better news. But as of now, #MarcellusWilliams is still scheduled to be executed by Missouri tonight at 6 p.m. central for a crime he is totally innocent of.
Don’t stop sharing his story. It’s not too late to save an innocent life. https://t.co/eofSDX66tC