Avid environmentalist, writer, story-teller and community builder. He/Him

Toronto
Joined March 2012
On 🌎@greenmajority🌎 ep989 the panel discuss the latest in Canadian climate news then @Steho_ interviews Emily Alfred of the Toronto Environmental Alliance about the new recycling regime being implemented in Ontario. greenmajority.ca/the-podcast… 🔶
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On a new ⬅️@PullbackPodcast⬅️ @greenmajority's @Steho_, @citedpodcast's @gordonkatic and migrant justice organizer & @CooperInstitute collaborator Ryan MacRae join @KylaHewson + Kristen Pue for the show's annual end of year quiz listennotes.com/podcasts/pul… harbingermedianetwork.com🔶
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On 🌎@greenmajority🌎 ep948 @thenarwhalca's @fatimabsyed joins @Steho_ to unpack how important green building standards in Ontario are being challenged by seedy real estate developers: greenmajority.ca/the-podcast… harbingermedianetwork.com🔶
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On a December best-of episode of @Steho_ + @LaurenLatour's 🌎@greenmajority🌎 ➡️@TheEnergyMix's @mitchellbeer on American LNG ➡️@MattLiePaehlke introduces new podcast Future Mending Radio ➡️ + more listennotes.com/podcasts/gre… harbingermedianetwork.com 🔶
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On 🌎@greenmajority🌎 ep946 @Steho_ + @LaurenLatour sit down w/ @TheEnergyMix's @mitchellbeer for a conversation on American LNG, Chrystia Freeland resigning, Canadian emissions targets, tariffs & clean electricity regulations: greenmajority.ca/the-podcast… harbingermedianetwork.com 🔶
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New from @infofao: Ontario is on track for the lowest level of annual housing starts on record back to 1955 (yes, you read that right). #onpoli #topoli
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In summary, Ford's bike lane removals will, according to a new City Hall report: - Cost $75 million in direct costs and sunk costs. - Make traffic much, much worse for at least nine months during construction to remove lanes - Have minimal long-term impact on car travel times.
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If you ever put a lil resist type hashtag on your posts or called yourself an ally or got vocal about voting blue you better check your stock portfolio and make sure you aren't accidentally benefiting from the coming incarceration boom
“GEO Group was built for this unique moment in our country’s history,” said the private prison giant’s chairman to investors this week. After maxing out on campaign donations, it’s now preparing for mass surveillance and deportations under the new admin. GEO stock is up 46%
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This story feels deeply and frustratingly family. A Black man, active in his community and father of three, died in the crosshairs of an intense police fire exchange in Hamilton.
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I hope Mayors across Ontario and Canada are consulting with their legal depts abt this. Every lawyer practicing in Canada took Constitutional law. And every lawyer knows the NW clause was not intended as a political tool in the toolbox, nor should it be used as such. It's a very serious and grave thing for Mayors to suggest that the right to life be denied to ppl based on their housing status. In other words to suggest that it only applies to people who have housing. Mayors have lots of tools to solve homelessness as does the Premier and the Prime Minister. Rather than dreaming up ways to criminalize and institutionalize the most vulnerable population - why not work together and PROMOTE Charter rights by using your resources and powers for some social good.
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Less than two weeks ago neo-cons were boasting that they had taken over the Democratic Party. This was the second time in this century this faction has wrecked a national coalition.
Hosts of the Bulwark podcast joking the quiet part out loud - "Did the neocons just take over the Democratic Party?" "Don't...don't say that." Featured in this clip: Sarah Longwell - co-founder of The Bulwark and executive director of the Republican Accountability Project. Associated with Defending Democracy Together, a conservative advocacy group co-founded with neoconservative thinker Bill Kristol. Tim Miller - political strategist and writer, communications director for Jeb Bush’s 2016 presidential bid. Previously, Miller worked with the Republican National Committee (RNC). Jonathan V. Last - editor of The Bulwark and a former senior writer for The Weekly Standard, co-founded by Bill Kristol and known for its neoconservative stance on foreign policy.
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“Its analysis found around 44% of verified victims were children and 26% women. The ages most represented among the dead were five to nine-year-olds”
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Six people have been killed riding their bikes in Toronto this year--more than the previous three years combined. Bill 212 won't solve traffic congestion. Bill 212 will put lives at risk. Why is the province reopening old wounds for families who have already suffered?
Poorly installed bike lanes have only worsened Toronto’s record-breaking gridlock, making us the worst city for traffic in North America. It’s time to take action - that’s why we are removing Bloor, University and Yonge Street bike lanes. #traffic #gridlock #bikelanes #toronto #ontario
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New from me!
Before Ryan Amato became a central figure in the Greenbelt scandal, he worked on Ontario’s Bradford Bypass and Highway 413. New documents show little record of that work, and critics are raising questions. Via @EmmaMci thenarwhal.ca/ryan-amato-gre…
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Sharing is caring. ⚡️ And interprovincial transmission is essential for realizing the most benefits of affordable, reliable clean electricity throughout Canada by 2035.
Want affordable, reliable clean electricity? Renewable sources like solar and wind can get us there. And provinces can help by working cooperatively to make sure all people in Canada get the benefits of clean electricity. @StephenJWT Sign the petition: ow.ly/PS5N50TXHk4
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One week left to book ad space!
Ad space is available in our next issue, out Nov 23, which will include several pages of holiday gift ideas. Reach tens of thousands of Toronto readers in the TTC and beyond. Contact: ads [at] thegrindmag [dot] ca
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UNRWA Chief: Israel allowing just 30 trucks into Gaza daily. This is: – The lowest level in a long time – Causing starvation for 2.2M Palestinians – 320 trucks short of the 350/day that Secs. Blinken and Austin demanded on 10/13 (with 30 days to comply with US law)
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Drake is supposed to be the global ambassador for the Toronto Raptors. Which part of that job includes selfish beefing with DeMar DeRozan on Vince Carter jersey retirement night, as the franchise tries to build more bridges to its former players? thestar.com/sports/raptors/d…
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