Disappointed to see @berryonline.bsky.social and other Canadian Auto Mayors campaigning against Electrical Vehicle Availability Standards. I understand the desire to protect auto sector in new landscape. But undermining electric vehicles seems like a step backwards and a lack of vision.

Grieving today as Wilmot township reverses course and brings back the prime ministers path. Watching white supremacists campaign so heavily to undo the work of local indigenous activists is a sobering reminder of whitelash.

It seems oval politicians are committed to withering our community away.

“For Aaron Price, living in the downtown Kitchener encampment is more than just about shelter… It's been his community for more than four years.” Thank you to @ourjoymovement.bsky.social for helping me connect with residents of 100 Victoria. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Today, I released a letter, signed by 67 organizations working across Ontario, asking the Ford government to rescind Bill 6. We can't adopt Trumpian policies to punish encampments; people need proven solutions — especially housing. Read our letter: tinyurl.com/EJC-Bill6

Homelessness is not a crime, nor is it caused by "addiction." Homelessness is caused by a lack of housing people can actually afford, which Poilievre has no real plan to address — no plan for rent control, evictions, supportive housing. Nothing. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Next Wednesday from 7-9pm we are hosting another community power forum. Please share through your networks. Between CTS closure, encampment clearances, attacks on school boards, the genocide, and all the damn fascist energy; we need to build a strong vibrant resistance!

Government is afraid of government! Our release on tonight's #CTS #SCS vote:

I'm gonna run for council just to make this happen. I'm so tired of public golf and private housing when we should have private golf and public housing.

A question for @regionwaterloo.bsky.social Could you ask GRT pass buyers if they would like to opt-in for transit newsletters when buying their monthly pass? Could be a way to build a more educated empowered ridership. Maybe @tritag.ca could get involved?

Municipal elections launch in 2026. Building local power to uproot neoliberalism and replace it with joyful militancy is an everyday task in every crack and crevice. If you're interested in the long game of this work join @joyfulcities.bsky.social

My community of unsheltered advocates worked their asses off today to get folks to the polls.🌻🌻🌻 Please protect them from the conservatives.

Sarah and Jill...what a sad outcome.

Never stop dreaming for a better tomorrow. Our imaginations are sacred 🌻🌻🌻

If someone bought life insurance and disability insurance for people when they become unsheltered, we would see the homelessness crisis change real quick.

The professional class can be so cringe. Love them🌻

This is important: A prospective Ford government has signalled its intention to expand prisons and put homeless people in jail rather than build the housing that people need and that is their fundamental right. I don't want a province that makes people homeless then throws them in prison.

All these ads for ground news irk me. Why are folks so attached to this made up framing of left wing vs right wing? When you start talking about human rights and material harm words like left and right make no sense.

"I'm a woman working alone so I need security guards" "We close the bathrooms because people were spending hours in them doing drugs" Can we not imagine interventions that don't lead to the criminalization of poor people & the denial of human rights? We need to check our assumptions on safety.

Municipalities need to be incorporating social housing into every property they own. This includes the transit hub @regionofwaterloo.bsky.social 👀

The City of Waterloo has a car problem. Uptown is too busy and University Ave is a mess. The City needs to centre pedestrian experiences.

Just watched the Kitchener Market kick more Unsheltered people out. Last month they kicked out 20+ year food distribution program. This pattern of exclusion is apartheid like behaviour. Public bathrooms should be available to all! Public spaces should be open to all!

Get Shopify out of Waterloo Region. We do not need Nazi tech bros.

A room full of people figuring things out 🌻

A lot of us are scared right now, there is a lot of awful going on. What do you do when faced with fear, how do you cope? Do you have anything you would recommend other people do if they are scared? How do you find comfort and joy while you are frightened?

Please repost this event for folks in your network looking to organize locally!

Please come to this forum on building community power. Event details and registration here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/cutting-th...

So tax me to plow city sidewalks. Then tax me a little more to cover costs in low-income neighborhoods.

If politicians can't give a raucous defense of why taxes exist and are valuable they have lost the plot. We can't solve anything with neoliberalism.

I'll never understand this taxes bad mindset when companies and landlords freely increase prices to fuel their profits. At least taxes go to useful things.

Trying to watch White Lotus but I'm hung up on how they managed to fly "over the north pole" when they went from North Carolina to Doha to Thailand. The geography doesn't compute.

Neoliberalism is such a successful racket. To intentionally make government suck so people hate government so you can redirect the public purse towards the private sector. It's such a grift but the cultural disdain for government is real. How do rebuild trust in collective action again?

Ion stage 4 anyone?

How to cross the information/awareness gap that leads to Fords polling numbers?

Was watching European news and they mentioned that Canada only achieved independence 40 years ago😂

Today, I launched an advocacy group and election campaign with @ocrhp.bsky.social. We demand that the next provincial government: - Commit to building the housing people need/deserve - Uphold homeless people's rights - Have a compassionate plan to reduce homelessness homelessrights.ca/get-involved

Please come to this forum on building community power. Event details and registration here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/cutting-th...

Everyone in Ontario has human rights, regardless of their housing status. The provincial government and every political party must honour and uphold these rights. Our campaign launches tomorrow, February 14! #StandUpForHomelessOntarians

The lack of municipal sidewalk clearing is ridiculous. We're literally sending people to an early grave over heart attacks and back injuries This council has failed to deliver. Time to organize for elected officials who understand accessibility. #snowbilitywr

Abra kadabra Abra ooh nana

Howdy folks SDC is convening the first of several gatherings Feb 21st at 7pm to discuss building local power. If Trump or the federal/provincial elections or the rising hate has you anxious please come and lets organize together this spring.

Save the date: Feb 24 SDC IS HOSTING A LOCAL POWER FORUM

Winter makes our transportation priorities so clear. Street: well-cleared throughout snowfall Taxpayer subsidized “free” car parking: cleared within 24 hours Sidewalk & bus stop: untouched 48 hours later, w/ lots of footprints from all of the folks who rely on this sidewalk. #plowMPLSsidewalks

Kitchener Market denying low income people from access bathrooms and threatening to remove food distribution program. We need to confront the classist violence that is embedding itself in our governments. Public bathrooms, public spaces, access to food need to be protected.

I'm just scared that Waterloo Region has made too many concessions for tech bros who don't care about the people who live here. I'd like to see a local tech scene rooted in human rights and collective care.

Do folks in Waterloos tech sector have a sense how to combat the broligarchy that Shopify is jumping into?

I just helped revive someone in downtown Calgary. I saw people walking by a man lying flat on his back so I went to check and sure enough he wasn’t breathing so I started to shake him and his friend returned we took turns pumping his chest until he started breathing. My point is don’t just walk by.

Cambridge's #notwithdstanding Mayor using public dollars to bring Trump-style fact-free politics to Ontario c/o American rage-farmer Michael Shellenberger re: issues of mental health and substance use. 1/2 www.cambridgetoday.ca/local-news/c...