Rani @[email protected] @ranicruz.bsky.social

Transplanted vancouverite in montreal. on mastodon: @[email protected] bluesky: @ranicruz.bsky.social

[Vélo d’hiver - Montréal @velodhiver]

Tiens, tiens, la Ville de @Montreal n'a pas de budget en 2026 pour compter les passages des usagers à vélo ou à pied. Compteurs suspendus depuis le 18/03.
Comment rejeter la mobilité active? La supprimer des données disponibles. #polmtl #montreal

[Toula Drimonis @ToulasTake]

«Au Québec, selon les données récentes, on compte 510 605 enfants âgés de 0 à 5 ans. Parmi eux, environ 1 465 sont des enfants réfugiés. Cela représente environ 0,3% des tout-petits de la province.» Services de garde: le faux débat sur les enfants réfugiés https://t.co/bMBedzKQAD

[Jean-François Rheault @jfrheault]

Deux pistes cyclables à Montréal qui compétitionnent avec trois ponts de New York. Je pense que nous ne réalisons pas la chance que nous avons que le vélo prenne une aussi grande place dans notre mobilité collective à Montréal.

https://t.co/A8rJQdidCE

[Evan Roth Smith @TheRealERS]

Enough is enough. I was with Zohran on September 11th 2001. We were 9 years old at school in Morningside Heights.

By 9:30AM we realized something was really wrong, because the teachers looked scared and they had paused classes. They had us call our parents to come pick us up.

I remember looking at Zohran on his dinky Nokia phone with his dad, as I was on with mine. We both had the same look on our faces because we were realizing our dads were also scared. We were wide-eyed, frightened kids who didn't know the world was changing around us in that moment. We could hear fighter jets flying low over the Hudson.

I went home and got under the covers in my parents' bed. I bet Zohran did the same. The jets kept flying overhead as I watched the towers burn on TV, then collapse. The memory of that day is indelible, as it is for every New Yorker.

You can say whatever you want about Zohran and his politics. I have, both good and bad. But the sickening weaponization of September 11th against Zohran, who was just another scared kid on that day, isn't just beyond the pale. It's a betrayal of every child and adult who spent that day dizzy with fear and confusion.

No apology or retraction is sufficient.

[La Presse @LP_LaPresse]

Non, nous ne haïrons pas les immigrants et les musulmans ! https://t.co/4Nfnnrlv5L

[Tory Fibs @ToryFibs]

She walked into that one.

[Nicolas Marcotte @Taintin]

Je ne suis pas raciste mais… je fais campagne pour démanteler un moyen de transport écologique, économique, efficace et surtout qui diminue la congestion routière.

[Alexis Ohanian 🗽 @alexisohanian]

As the son of an undocumented immigrant (my mom overstayed an au pair visa for years before marrying my dad, a U.S. citizen), it’s deeply personal: Reddit wouldn’t exist if ICE had come for her.

I do think border security matters. But it shouldn’t come at the cost of crushing lives. A sensible amnesty / legalization policy (like what Reagan offered in 1986!!) could strike a better balance:

Path to citizenship for law-abiding, hard-working undocumented immigrants <<after background checks, waiting periods, and meeting clear standards>>.

Order and accountability; those who don’t step forward for the pathway should face enforcement under due process.

This isn’t open borders, it’s smart borders + humane immigration reform.

The guys up at the crack of dawn in the Home Depot parking lot <<looking for work>> or the women hustling their home-made food on the corner are <<exactly>> the men & women we want contributing to this great nation. We shouldn't be rounding them up at gunpoint.

[Andrew Boozary MD @drandrewb]

It’s been one year since we opened Dunn House — Canada’s first social medicine housing initiative. And this has been family over the past year.

The data is staggering. Emergency Department visits for the tenants have plunged by over 50%. And days spent in hospital have similarly plummeted by nearly 80%.

What started as a “radical” idea — turning a parking lot into 51 homes — became a place where people who were living inside and out of hospitals, shelters, or on the street could finally exhale.

But the real drive for change, I hope, is how human dignity and health economics are completely aligned in the stories we tell.

The first story is from @_VictoriaGibson at the Toronto Star — about Jason Miles, a man whose addiction and homelessness cost more than $260,000 through ER visits, shelters, and jail stays. Not because he wanted that path, but because there wasn’t another one.

The second is from @liamdevlincasey in the CBC, about our @UHN teams and community partners deciding to try something different and center those patients that been sidelined in the health system. The cost calculus is clear when it can be over $50k per month in hospital, $15k in provincial jail and $4k for supportive housing.

I believe both these stories show the cost of crisis — and the return on compassion.

It’s still early, and there’s a lot more to do across the province. But one year in, I’m certain of this more than ever:

housing is healthcare.
compassion saves lives.
and dignity has to be co-designed into the system — not left to chance.

[Sergio Da Silva @TurboHaus]

Banning public prayer is the kind of divisive politics that keeps us fighting each other over scraps. I’m not going to be scared of someone practicing their religion, and nothing you fucking cowards do or say will make me hate my neighbours. Fuck you.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

“Billionaires and millionaires will leave if you tax them” is a myth invented by billionaires and millionaires so you won’t tax them.

[Na’kuset S @NakusetS]

In the midst of this intense heat wave, the air conditioner at Resilience Montreal died. We are committed to supporting each resident who turns to us for food, shelter and services. We are looking for help! Please share🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏@ResilienceMTL

[Rani @[email protected] @ranicruz.bsky.social @ranic]

Third places are so important for community living.

[Montreal Gazette @mtlgazette]

Drimonis: Montreal’s multitude of ‘third places’ enriches our city and our souls https://t.co/UB90JD0CMY

[Andy Yan | @ayan604.bsky.social @Ayan604]

Union Gospel Mission gave out 150 food hampers per month to low-income families in 2020. This year that number has grown to 680.

"'Headed in the wrong direction': More B.C. adults, children are going hungry" as told by @loriculbert via @VancouverSun

https://t.co/j1tmwlJOnh

[Chris Gloninger, CCM, CBM @ChrisGloninger]

Wild how a poor person buying a $1 soda with food stamps sends you into a moral panic, but billionaires writing off private jets and yachts on their taxes? Not a peep. Your outrage is as cheap as that soda.

[Rani @[email protected] @ranicruz.bsky.social @ranic]

@etphonegemini @PBSNature @PBSKIDS This is a tragedy like most cuts we have been seeing since the inauguration.

[Ze 🇸🇩 @KushiticGyal]

The famine has reached level 5 in Sudan. It’s catastrophic to say the least. Worst famine in 40 years worldwide. But it’s barely making it into a single headline. I’m so fucking sick and tired of the world’s selective empathy and activism. You’d give a damn-

[Aaron Maté @aaronjmate]

The Washington Post has published the known names of the 18,500 children killed by Israel in Gaza since Oct. 7th. At every 500th child, the Post tells you how many names of dead children you've read.
https://t.co/ibKBJnirFM

[Tom Parkin @TomPark1n]

Now seniors are to blame for the housing crisis. Used to be immigration, but Canada ended that and the crisis persisted, so need a new scapegoat

Couldn’t be central bankers, free markets politicians and speculators, that’d be ridiculous

[Kate ☻ 🧡🖤 @_katecarr]

hey remember when hockey Canada got investigated it was found that they were taking from youth hockey membership fees and using it to settle sexual assault cases