Phil Pothen 🇨🇦 he/him

Environment & development law & policy. The Hands off the Greenbelt guy. Brown loyalist🍁🗳️. Tweets aren't advice or statements from my client. he/him

[Phil Pothen 🇨🇦 he/him @pothen]

How is Ontario spending more on a single sprawl highway through the Greenbelt than the Government of Canada is spending on a housing plan it claims will eliminate homelessness NATIONWIDE within 10 years?

What's going on, here?

[Finance Canada @FinanceCanada]

#Budget2026 creates the conditions for Canada’s next chapter:

📈Attracting new investment and helping Canadian businesses grow

🏠Addressing housing needs at all stages

💰 Making life more affordable for Canadians

[Phil Pothen 🇨🇦 he/him @pothen]

@Noahpinion Easter?

[Phil Pothen 🇨🇦 he/him @pothen]

This map shows the heartbreaking number of Canadians *in my immediate neighbourhood alone* who sacrificed their lives to liberate Europe from Hitler's racist, homophobic, mass-murdering, right-wing extremism. #cdnpoli (by data journalist Patrick Cain)

https://t.co/VaT9lMrD71

[Phil Pothen 🇨🇦 he/him @pothen]

@ProfVemsani Wouldn't the point of that kind of event be precisely to SEPARATE the festival of Holi from Hindutva, and prevent it from being co-opted by those who support it?

[Phil Pothen 🇨🇦 he/him @pothen]

@razibkhan "Punching down" vs "punching up" is indeed the appropriate criterion for progressives to use in deciding whether to speak out against a particular ethnoreligious nationalist movement.

[Colin D'Mello | Global News @ColinDMello]

NEW: The Ford government is facing political pushback after appointing Vaughan Mayor Steven Del Duca as the Chair of York Region, with another city mayor claiming the position creates a conflict of interest that could leave other municipalities with negative consequences.

https://t.co/qa3fbN8X81

#onpoli

[Phil Pothen 🇨🇦 he/him @pothen]

Even 20 years ago, I could sense the grifter vibes that were radiating from this person.

[Colin D'Mello | Global News @ColinDMello]

NEW: One day after being ousted as the chair of Muskoka Region, Jeff Lehman is calling out the Ford government's politics of "partisanship [and] patronage.”

“There is no Conservative or Liberal way to snowplow a road."

https://t.co/kHPcvYSFbd

#onpoli

[Phil Pothen 🇨🇦 he/him @pothen]

@JakeLandauTO I'm sceptical re: this explanation. It didn't prevent baby booms in countries where couples sharing a household with one spouse's parents was the norm.

[Phil Pothen 🇨🇦 he/him @pothen]

@charlessneed69 @FelicityKay My worries about/aversion to MAiD as it *actually exists* comes from my left/progressive values set. There's absolutely nothing in the current legal state of affairs re: assisted dying (referred to as MAid) that any libertarian could possibly object to.

[Phil Pothen 🇨🇦 he/him @pothen]

@charlessneed69 @FelicityKay I'm getting the impression that you just don't know what MAiD actually is, or what actual paliative care practices are, and that if you did know, you'd find I have a more negative/restrictive attitude than you have.

[Phil Pothen 🇨🇦 he/him @pothen]

@charlessneed69 @FelicityKay I also want a law that imposes a positive obligation on the state to provide whatever material support (personal care, devices) or paliative treatment (e.g., drugs) that a person who qualifies for MAiD says would make staying alive tolerable.

[Phil Pothen 🇨🇦 he/him @pothen]

@charlessneed69 @FelicityKay I personally oppose any proactive "MAiD policies" beyond the bare minimum exceptions to the ban on euthenasia legally required to avoid unreasonably violating patients' Charter-protected personal liberty.

[Phil Pothen 🇨🇦 he/him @pothen]

Cancel the 413. We can't afford to waste $18 billion in public money on subsidizing mcmansion sprawl developments.

[Phil Pothen 🇨🇦 he/him @pothen]

@charlessneed69 @FelicityKay Do you not understand that empathy with others is ultimate basis of right vs wrong?

The moral compulsion to help other people stay alive (and to refrain from killing other people) is an automatic outgrowth of those people's WISH/DECISION to remain alive.

[Phil Pothen 🇨🇦 he/him @pothen]

@LastOfThePagan @USDesiMom @Sturgeons_Law Who do you think you're kidding, buddy. As long as caste concrete enough to be used in marital discrimination (and even be a filter on marital platforms) it's concrete enough to be used a potential basis for workplace, housing, education, service discrimination.

[Phil Pothen 🇨🇦 he/him @pothen]

@kyomizuko @Michael56297223 @MikePMoffatt It's obvious from your timeline that your veneer of concern for affordability/liveability is just a fig leaf for racism. Let's skip some steps. Here's /ha population density map of that area from 1971, when <1% of Torontonians were of South Asian ethnicities.

[Phil Pothen 🇨🇦 he/him @pothen]

@USDesiMom @Sturgeons_Law @LastOfThePagan It seems entirely reasonable ensure that the prohibition on discrimination based on ancestry, race, etc. includes discrimination based on caste.

[Phil Pothen 🇨🇦 he/him @pothen]

@LastOfThePagan @Sturgeons_Law Part of multiculturalism and progressivism is (1) not accepting the any internal authorities to "define" faith labels (2) Recognizing that any assertion re: appropriate hierarchy, social separation, etc. is POLITICAL and thus fair game for criticism.