This would be catastrophic. Red alert for housing advocates. This is one of the few bulwarks left in the province for protecting existing affordability. This government refuses to focus on making *new* supply easier beyond bare minimum reforms, and this reads like we're being governed by a REIT.

If there really are a lot of units sitting vacant because landlords don't want to rent them out - and I'm pretty skeptical of that claim - hit them with a vacancy tax. Make it a money loser to hold on to investment properties that no one is living in.

Honestly, look at this shit. When tenants called for an end to LTB delays, they didn't call for an end to justice. That's what Bill 60 does: it eliminates backlogs by eliminating avenues for justice for tenants. When tenants called for an end to eviction loopholes, Ford widened them. Heinous.

As an advocate, I have years of experience talking privately and publicly about homelessness. So, I'm pleased to have worked with Social Planning Toronto on this resource to help people and orgs communicate across divides about homelessness! www.socialplanningtoronto.org/talking_abou...

This is violence.

For my birthday my friend who is Good At This Stuff is helping me get my apartment organized. Tonight she came over and put together a shelf for my teas.

Punishing encampment residents instead of providing the housing people need costs more than anyone wants to pay — ethically, morally, and fiscally. In Ontario, we can’t afford to import this cruel American approach. SPT co-signs this letter. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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

We heard there was interest in building A Better City. We’ve compiled some of our favourite tips on how to create a city that works for everyone for budding activists at every commitment level. www.socialplanningtoronto.org/bettercity2025

This man has access to nuclear codes and his brain is completely melted. He's beyond gone.

Everyone watching Pierre Poilievre eat absolute shit in Carleton and respecting Canada's bilingual culture.

Unironically , my politics.

My two-year-old niece is obsessed with Chappell roan so I’m trying to make this commemorative magazine I found more appropriate.

"Witches got due process" is why we use the term "witch hunt" to refer to the process of investigating credible allegations of witchcraft, which are then advanced as charges only if and when there is sufficient evidence to charge and a public interest in their prosecution and/or burning.

Local nimby group wants you to be concerned that your local parking lot might be targeted for housing next

How many women are trapped in abusive dynamics they can’t afford to leave? Investing in affordable housing—real, meaningful affordable housing—will do far more to reduce domestic violence than whatever this is

As a woman, I do not want to be invoked to justify consecutive life sentences that let people die in prison without any chance of redemption. You want to make me safer? Tackle the root causes of misogyny and violence. Start within your own ranks, pundits, and supporters.

My cynical take is that nobody listened because it was Toronto and people enjoy Toronto getting hit with crap. But all of Ontario is paying billions, and it's their Ontario Place too (and their Science Centre, and their Greenbelt and...). Useless Canadian internecine bullshit strikes again.

Why does Bluesky keep showing me posts like this, what am I doing wrong

The most down bad thing I’ve ever been: when I was 25 I was texting a man who lived in another city. Started to absorb all my attention. I thought, “I gotta distract myself.” Decided I wouldn’t text him again until I read Infinite Jest, which is how I read the book in 3 days

Great news! Today at the Planning & Housing Committee, Rexdale residents deputed four to one *in favour* of this supportive housing project. NIMBYs take note: we have the numbers, and we will use them to ensure housing for every Torontonian who needs it! secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...

oh to be nuns in a convent meowing

My two year old niece loves dictating stories and I’m not exaggerating when I say she is her generation’s Gertrude Stein.

Started watching the Pitt. It stresses me out that these doctors don’t eat.

It’s @haleymelodic.bsky.social & @bananafitz.bsky.social at First Wives Club tonight.

When I was a tween I went to modelling summer camp, which I realize only now was a scam targeting the parents of tall children

Hate it when everyone is tweeting about a tv show I’m not watching. You should instead be tweeting about a tv show that I am watching (sex and the city season 4 on dvd).

can't normalize without normies. make your peace with this now

If u have a library card and a dvd player you have a million dollars

When friends tell me about the weird or public places where they’ve had sex I’m like. But how did you fit a mattress in there.

Anyone who has ever got delivery via bike should fight for safe lanes & infrastructure as a moral imperative. (Would love to see how many anti bike lane people also enjoy delivery)

Food Stamps: Myth Vs. Fact theonion.com/food-st...

I asked my elderly downstairs neighbour if he knew why there were a dozen unbroken chicken eggs scattered in the backyard and he said, “don’t worry, I’m digging a hole to put them in.”

Norm rules, gotta love Norm

every 90s children’s cartoon created to sell toys will eventually be rebooted either as a serious comic about trauma and identity or a retro video game. even odds on which one mummies alive gets

Turning up the volume on my “The Lifechanging Magic of Tidying Up” audiobook to drown out noise of neighbours having sex

Look, all i'm saying is that I have a book coming out on May 6, it's called The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman, and if you want to have me on your podcast, or interview me or whatever, I'd likely be down for that. Send me a DM here, or email me : niko at nikostratis dot com

[hegseth] Just CONFIRMED w/CENTCOM we are a GO for mission launch. [friend who once got a text from hegseth where he accidentally called the grinch the grink] was the grink there?

Brad Bradford is also spearheading a proposed by-law, modelled after the City of Vaughan's, which would make protests within 100-metres of a childcare centre illegal with up to $100K in fines. There is a childcare centre located at City Hall, which would make this demonstration illegal.

Respectfully, some of you need to stop doomscrolling and start organizing.

I love my neighbours @maggiehelwig.bsky.social

who up reflecting on mistakes from their past

Rewatching bring it on, as one does, and struck by absence of any adults in this world. Elite, nationally ranked competitive sports teams coached by amateur teenagers. Gold standard trope for teen movies.

Can somebody with nothing to lose just….do it

Reading a history book about a European town that managed to build a dense, walkable, amenity-rich neighbourhood with abundant affordable housing and access to nature in under two years. Feels like a lot of American cities could learn something from this *checks cover* Chernobyl

Ty @dianacmcnally.bsky.social for my new swag (non-Larry David category)

Killing hundreds of people in a mass bombing campaign "imperils the tenuous ceasefire."

Another day featuring some of the most horrifying sentences I’ve ever read www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-res...