Former Ontario NDP candidate for Scarborough Rouge Park 2018 & 2022. Labour & community activist. I ❤️ Scarborough!
Scarborough, Ontario
Joined September 2017
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Felicia Samuel retweeted
So… apparently Ontario residents are paying $400 per household to subsidize an expensive spa that most of us will never use.
I’m SO NOT OKAY with this.
How many Educational Assistants could we provide to vulnerable children with complex needs for this money in #OntEd?!?
Felicia Samuel retweeted
A huge congratulations are in order for the 10k #LCBO workers who organized a first ever strike & fought back against a bully govt who undermined them every step of the way. This deal is a testament to the sheer strength of solidarity - organizing for power gets the goods! ✊🏻
LCBO workers have voted to ratify a new 3-year contract that protects good jobs and public revenues. “Our members stood strong. They held strong lines, they talked to their communities - and they won.” Colleen MacLeod, Bargaining Team Chair bit.ly/4fb9DH0 #OnLab #OnPoli
ALT LCBO workers hold picket signs that say "LCBO workers on strike" outside an LCBO store. Text: LCBO workers vote to ratify new contract Logo: OPSEU/SEFPO Liquor Board Employees Division
Solidarity with @OPSEU workers ✊🏾Day 2 in #Scarborough was 🔥 Spirits were high and the honks in support from the community was amazing! One customer joined the line immediately when he heard about @fordnation attempts to privatize the LCBO. #scarbto #SupportLCBOWorkers #onpoli
Felicia Samuel retweeted
Doug Ford is responsible for the 1st ever strike by LCBO Workers.
An alcohol system that generates $2.5 Billion in annual revenue should have never gotten here.
Contact your @OntarioPCParty MPP including @fordnation to let them know that you support the LCBO and its workers.
Felicia Samuel retweeted
From day 1 these workers showed up with a plan for convenience that wouldn’t jeopardize our public services, & what did @fordnation say? Hell no.
When you wake up to a picket line in your community, remember: #LCBO workers are fighting for the future of Ontario. Come join us!
So happy for this crew! 👏🏾
Congratulations to @ATUlocal113 for mobilizing successfully for a new CA with the TTC after achieving the right to strike once again earlier last year.
Congratulations once again!
Together we win! #Solidarity
Solidarity ✊🏾
Our members can legally strike as early as June 7th. No date has been set yet, however, we now have the legal right to withdraw services.
Watch Local 113’s President, Marvin Alfred on @CP24
cp24.com/news/thousands-of-t…
Felicia Samuel retweeted
Doug Ford’s government appealed our 2019 Court decision that gave tens of thousands of women access to pay equity. Ford lost that appeal in 2021, and then was denied a 2nd appeal, this time by the Supreme Court. Stop fighting against working women; allow access to #PayEquityNow
I just wrote a @theactionnet letter: I STAND WITH TORONTO TRANSIT WORKERS. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/i-… #TTC workers do so much for us every single day. Please take a minute to send a message. It will take a minute or less! They deserve a good deal ✊🏾 #TOpoli #onlab
Felicia Samuel retweeted
The power of the people! They hear our demands loud & clear. The CAD gov’t, who shamefully cut off UNRWA funding, the leading relief agency in Gaza, making it complicit in the deliberate starvation of 2.3M Palestinians, is now reinstating funding. Keep using your voices, keep showing up. Join the movement until every one of our demands is met.
Felicia Samuel retweeted
Very sad news that @OurTimesMag is closing.
"Our Times was founded in 1981 by Frank Lento and Katie Pellizzari and friends as an alternative media for first-generation Italian-Canadian social activists in Toronto."
ourtimes.ca/article/urgent-n…
Felicia Samuel retweeted
Celebrating our member Tunika (Grace) Udoh for #BlackHistoryMonth !
On the last week of Black History Month, we recognizing our Local 113-Toronto, ON, Sister Tunika (Grace) Udoh. #BlackHistoryMonth ATU Local 113
Felicia Samuel retweeted
The last time @UNRWA was able to deliver food aid to northern #Gaza was on 23 January.
Since then, together with other @UN agencies, we have:
🛑 Warned against looming famine.
🛑 Appealed for regular humanitarian access.
🛑 Stated that famine can be averted if more food convoys are allowed into northern Gaza on a regular basis.
Our calls to send food aid have been denied & have fallen on deaf ears.
This is a man made disaster. The world committed to never let famine happen again. Famine can still be avoided, through genuine political will to grant access & protection to meaningful assistance.
The days to come will once again test our common humanity and values.
Felicia Samuel retweeted
The youth of today were born awake- they are fuelled by a desire to see a liberated Palestine, from the river to the sea! #T4P
Felicia Samuel retweeted
BREAKING! @MayorOliviaChow keeps her promise to transit riders and funds the #Scarborough busway.🔥🥳
Thank you to the 100s of volunteers who made this happen, and to Mayor Olivia Chow for listening.
Image from the Mayor's just-published proposed budget: toronto.ca/legdocs/mayoralde…
ALT Delivering the Scarborough Busway My budget includes the funds to build the Scarborough Busway. There is no more salient an example of underinvestment in our city than the derailment and shutdown of the Scarborough RT. An entire rapid transit line - with a daily pre-pandemic ridership of around 40,000 people — closed with no replacement for 7 years. Transit riders deserve better. Scarborough deserves better. Working with our TTC Chair and TTC Staff, the funds for the busway have been prioritized in the TTC’s Capital Plan. My budget fully funds the construction of the proposed busway along the RT corridor, based on the preliminary cost estimates. Should additional funds be required once the design is fully complete, I will work with TTC to deliver incremental funding for this critical project.
Felicia Samuel retweeted
More and more nurses are leaving their jobs every year since @FordNation Conservative government took office. Ford is boasting he’s hired 60,000 nurses—but at least 35,000 have left since 2018. Ford’s band-aid solution to the nurse staffing crisis isn’t working. #onpoli #onhealth
