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Joined December 2011
"Asked about her reputation as a radical, Weaver interjected: 'Other people think I’m kind of a sellout.' Asked whether she’s moderated over the course of her career, she laughed." Great story by @janakichadha on @ceaweaver, housing adviser to @NYCMayor: politico.com/news/2026/10/11…
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Greg C retweeted
Replying to @c_shadowspaces
just walked down to check, looks like no. Apparently they were just repainting like ten feet of the road lines? There's a cop car blocking a lane at the Perth intersection and a cop under the bridge standing in the bike lane (unclear why) but the roadwork equipment is all gone
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Are they removing the bike lanes on Bloor already?
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Looks a lot like some survival shelters (encampments). I feel this thread erases the city’s growing infrastructure of displacement. The fact that as more people in our city are displaced from private space they are forced to live in public space, only to be displaced again.
🧵 I want to show you something Toronto has quietly built on Ookwemin Minising, because I think it says something about how we think of public space. This is the Waterfront Neighbourhood Space. And the entire premise is remarkably simple: Public space should have people in it.
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BREAKING: Human rights experts commissioned by the UN say they have found “reasonable grounds” to believe that the US was behind two strikes on a school and sports facility in Iran in February and those attacks constituted war ⁠crimes. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/naw3
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Greg C retweeted
Well yes, Canada is home to half the world's mining companies. On the world stage this country is, first and foremost, a resource extraction colony and launchpad for further resource extraction colonies. Beyond that we have minimal global relevance to anything. Worth remembering.
Canada handed 300 of the world's biggest investors a 66-page pitchbook this week ▪️167 projects worth about US$425 billion ▪️63 of them are MINES That's more than the clean energy, oil and gas, and data-centre chapters combined.
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You must watch her documentary. It is really mind blowing
The Video US Military Want To Ban: Abby Martin Exposes All @AbbyMartin
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So to recap: - Israel knew about Oct 7 - Israel lets it happen - Israel Apache helicopters maximize destruction & death - Israel lies about war crimes and mass rape to manufacture consent for a genocide - Israel buries all evidence - Israel launches an ethnic cleansing war - Israel cuts off water, food and supplies - Israel blocks all foreign media & international oversight - Israel targets media and medical staff and infrastructure - Israel launches worldwide silencing propaganda campaign - Israel expands land grab and illegal invasion into West Bank and Lebanon - Israel pulls U.S. into illegal invasion of Iran - Israel confirms plans for Gaza final solution
Bombshell story from @haaretzcom. Netanyahu was explicitly warned about a Sinwar and Hamas planning the October 7th attack, but he brushed it off and never relayed the message to his security chiefs.
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This part:
Banning trade on goods from illegal Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territory is long overdue. However Canada still has a free trade agreement with Israel, and continues to send weapons and arms parts to Israel while it commits genocide in Gaza. Canada must do better.
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A portrait of private equity trying to wring every last dime out of a housing complex, leading to misery, disaster and tragic death. Note the conspicuous absence of zoning or regulations in this story. It's just real estate capital being real estate capital.
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YIMBYs when tenants get demovicted: "It's fine. Good actually. Had to be done because we desperately need development. If you object you are a NIMBY." YIMBYs when movie theater might get demovicted: "Thank god the market downturn will delay this development from happening."
Replying to @NickWilcox12
agreed! we're lucky for now because the market downturn makes it unlikely the development goes through soon but it's still a waiting game
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it's not involuntary treatment, it's involuntary removal from public sight, they don't give a shit what happens afterwards
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A government-backed business model, no less! The feds are actively financing evictions and 50% rent hikes.
Eviction as landlord business model: "Lankin focuses on properties that are subject to rent controls but have a 30 to 50 per cent gap to market rents. With its buildings having an annual 15 to 20 per cent turnover, it can profitably capture that gap." renx.ca/lankins-apartment-po…
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Greg C retweeted
One thing that caught my attention comes midway through the first chapter of Old Gods, New Enigmas. Davis is working through the question of revolutionary agency when he briefly sets the theory aside and turns to the actual places where socialist politics happened: pubs, street++
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Also 22 evictions of existing tenants on the site. 19 permanently rent-controlled apartments demolished, to be replaced with new units that are only controlled for twenty years. 3 rent-controlled rooming house rooms demolished outright, no replacement.
toronto city council just approved this 11 story building in parkdale with an entire tibetan monastery on top of 80 apartment units
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Meanwhile, we're 👀 4 a "safe" space 4 a newly unhoused person in #willowdale 2 sleep outside. A health condition flare up requires short term rest. A tent's a target. Shelters are full. And taking a shelter spot can mean being bumped from a housing list. Can they sleep on BTS?
Replying to @GraphicMatt
Councillor Cheng's motion to temporarily name a street after K-Pop band BTS gets ADDED to the agenda. But Cheng holds it. Apparently she's got an amendment. They'll come back to it. secure.toronto.ca/council/ag…
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IDF soldier Jonathan Karten came to Toronto last year and manhandled TMU students and now he is suing our Toronto local @TheGrindTO for covering it. This is an important legal fight. They want to kill journalists in Gaza & kill journalism everywhere else. PLEASE SUPPORT 👇
The Grind is being sued for defamation. We intend to defending our reporting. We need your support to be able to fight this case and to continue publishing essential journalism in Toronto. See the full announcement for more info. thegrindmag.ca/the-grind-is-…
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CEO of Build Canada defends Lutke's rhetoric for stripping poor people of the vote, but says she would rather talk about taking the vote away from the elderly.
this is a ridiculous take the guy has created thousands of jobs in Toronto, sees the incredible potential of the city and country, and is frustrated that people with no stake in the future are the ones showing up and deciding for everyone else. I’m similarly frustrated to say tobi hates Toronto and Canada is wildly inaccurate he’s one of the best and brightest entrepreneurs canada has. we’d be lucky to have 1000 more. we need more people, not less, with the courage to say hard things and call a spade a spade when they see it. on the issues raised…personally, I’d love to see public consultations stacked with young people and contributing taxpayers who have real skin in the game. I don’t think wealthy people should get more votes, but in the spirit of thinking outside the box, maybe we should consider if it makes sense to have an age-out age for voting? a way to ensure we don’t create a society that caters to seniors but fails young people. a thought, to get the conversation started. a public square like X is great because it allows for open debate and disagreement. I’m sure I’ll hear a fair amount of that after I press “post”
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"His robotic callousness reflected what Shopify’s one-time head of communications, Darrell Etherington, referred to, in TechCrunch, as Lütke’s 'basic inability to empathize with the situation of many employees under his company’s charge.'"
Replying to @aliyapabani
Shopify's former head of comms basically called Tobi a sociopath thewalrus.ca/the-death-of-sh…
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