There's money and room for this, but not for the impoverished and unhoused?!

Dr. Joss Reimer is now the new Chief Public Health Officer of Canada.

Broken blender? Need your favourite jeans hemmed? Spots are still open for next Saturday's Repair Cafe taking place at Concession Branch (February 28, 1-4pm). Register at events.hpl.ca/event/15157688 to save your household items from the landfill and extend their use. #HamOnt #Libraries

"Democrats pushed forth training and oversight alongside short-lived lip service to Black Lives Matter as the pragmatic answer to stopping police-perpetrated killings." "We cannot let that happen again." "'Abolish ICE' is the floor, not the ceiling." #USA #Policing #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

Now they can turn them around and fly them right back, bearing fuel and humanitarian aid for people in need.

Consequences are the kindest thing you can give the rich and privileged. It's how they rediscover their humanity.

Check out the latest tragic report, covering June 2024 to May 2025, on deaths of homeless people in #HamOnt. 32 homeless people died in Hamilton over that time, at an average age of 48. hamiltonhomelessmortality.weebly.com/june-2024--m...

“'I feel terrible about the tenants involved in the program that depend on it,' Rose wrote. 'But I cannot continue, nor ask my volunteers to continue, walking these halls and stairwells.'” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #HamOnt

www.cbc.ca/news/world/g... ...arbitrary arrest of patients....

This would've been great if it'd addressed the serious problems with nuclear power. www.cbc.ca/news/climate...

$80m on new advertising for the fed. gov't. Yes. That's what's needed. Better commercials.

Humanoid robot workers are coming to the Toyota plant in Woodstock.

Perhaps these condos, in Stoney Creek and elsewhere in #hamont, should be expropriated and turned into public housing (with the cleaning staff and dignity required so First Place's issues which seem to be omnipresent in public housing are immediately addressed).

#hamont unemployment goes up as nat'l unemployment decreases.

From today’s #Toronto Star ⭐️ @lindamcquaig.bsky.social always offers a perspective worthy of our attention #Canada 🍁

Ontario accounts for half of Canada’s $2.2 trillion annual GDP and it’s government can’t keep public libraries from collapsing into drug consumption sites. Sickening.

I fear for the impoverished who are found within these 'cheer zones'.

'...An increase in tuition fees of about $1,250 per year would have raised about as much income as the planned assault on student assistance.... More to the point, the extra costs of the policy would have been borne by richer students who don't need student aid rather than those who do...'

“The National Lawyers Guild has likened the Prairieland case to the post-1945 Second Red Scare, the FBI’s persecution of the Civil Rights movement, and the Green Scare of the early 2000s that targeted the radical environmental movement, arguing that a modern “Antifa Scare” is playing out”

Bayard Rustin said, “If people do not organize in the name of their interest, the world will not take them as being serious… People will never fight for your freedom if you have not given evidence that you are prepared to fight for it yourself.”

Saw this project posted on LinkedIn, feel like a lot of folks here would find this useful. A database of independent journalists, searchable by topic/platform, and looks like there’s also a form to submit nominations. Cool stuff journalismatlas.com

#tdih 1797 Hercules became one of close to 50 people to escape enslavement by Pres. George Washington. Preceded by Ona Judge who Washingtons pursued. Never apprehended. Image below removed from Philadelphia exhibit by this admin. #America250 Read & teach ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/he...

Ford orders minister to ensure Ontario students can watch Canada hockey games during school hours

Poets are winged animals, & can cleave the air, like birds, with ease to themselves & delight to the beholders; but like those "feathered, two-legged things," when they light upon the ground of prose & matter of fact, they seem not to have the same use of their feet. - Hazlitt

Canada not sending aid to Cuba right now is a disgusting betrayal of an ally and yet another appeasement to America.

NEW - as of 6pm Hamilton's public school board, the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board, states it is in "storm watch" mode for Thursday. Potential for school closures tomorrow. #yhmcc #HamOnt www.hwdsb.on.ca/about/media/...

Mushkegowuk Council is hoping new recommendations to “immediately” enact environmental monitoring in the Ring of Fire and help communities “urgently” access health care will see the light of day — even if construction on access roads is planned to begin in four months: thenarwhal.ca/ring-of-fire...

*staring directly at the current Canadian federal policy agenda*

New 'elbows up' just dropped: Protecting our sovereignty by destroying our capacity to tell our country's history. Ask any Canadian historian and they will tell you that things were already extremely dire at Library and Archives Canada. Not sure it will even be functional after this.

The Carney doctrine: gut what's left of Canada's cultural output, replace it with garbage boomer nostalgia.

We need tuition-free college. And we need quality union jobs with good pay and benefits that don't require a college degree. And we need a free, universal health care system that isn't tied to you having a job to get quality care in the first place.

I’ve said it before, and I’m sure I’ll say it a thousand times more: If you believe you love freedom but don’t care if it applies to everyone, what you actually love is privilege.

We are swiftly sacrificing public goods and essentials to the ever-widening maw of policing services and its endless budget increases.

Politicians exist to be pressured because the system is constrained to almost never produce a politician who perfectly serves the people's will.

Raspberries, Jacques Le Moyne, c. 1586 (British Museum)

This sounds much like what #hamont Council did with much of this year's budget, too, at least so far.

Thank goodness the revised agenda is more correspondence and not last-minute motions.

New episode of Sandy and Nora! We talk about the tragedy at Tumbler Ridge, the way that the far right seized on it to create a frenzy, and how there's a straight line from declining social conditions to Carney's new military plans. sandyandnora.com/episode-162-...

"Republican lawmakers have put pressure on school administrators stop the demonstrations and discipline any educators who backed the protests. The sweeping disciplinary action taken against Mustang students is the first to come to public light since the walkouts." www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Thunder Bay has declared a humanitarian crisis over homelessness. According to a release, "This declaration will help bring together leadership from Anemki Wajiw (Fort William First Nation), Nishnawbe Aski Nation, the City, and other partners under a shared commitment to work toward system change."

Frank Stanford.

There's always money for tourists, never any for the impoverished. We need public housing for those rendered most in need.

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Heavens help us if he gets a majority gov't.