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Two studies: One, very local, counts the bikes and cars on Bloor Street in Toronto and finds there are more bikes than cars. The other, very international, finds that bike lanes improve health, reduce pollution and fight climate change. Why would anyone would rip them out?

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

'Prevention of COVID/Long COVID must not be a 'lost cause'. @juliadoubleday.bsky.social Reality: airborne viruses spread more easily in poorly ventilated classrooms, high-quality HEPA filtration could help bring down transmission!' 👇RECOVER study PASC in children www.thegauntlet.news/p/long-covid...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

"ON has the worst recycling rates in Canada for cans, plastic bottles & cartons of non-alcoholic beverages" & 8 other prov have a refund system for these containers." Ontario is bad at this & is about to get worse? Ford shows us once again his govt values private profit over environment. #OnPoli

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

1/ Ford caves to corporations and reduces recycling. Let me count the ways: 1. Beer Store locations for returns are shut down. Have been ongoing closures but 10 more announced today, effective Aug 24. With reduced access, more cans/bottles will end up in landfill. globalnews.ca/news/1125533...

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

This ~3,500-space waterfront parking garage is baffling for many reasons, but let’s focus on the accounting. Prov says it’ll generate $60m a year. That’s about $47 per space per day. For comparison, the garage under City Hall does $14 per space per day. St. Mike’s does $24. Sankofa Square does $30.

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

The most visited attractions in Ontario 1993 Blue Jays 4,057,947 2019 Canada's Wonderland 3,950,000 20+ Great Wolf Lodge locations across North America have 10M visitors annually. "On Thursday, the province revealed it expects 6M visitors annually at the site," www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Complete nonsense. Ford is proposing 1,600 Ontario Place parking spaces. Assuming a full lot every day of the year (a generous assumption) and even granting some turnover (let’s say 2,000 entrants a day), the province would still have to charge $82 per entrant to total $60M/yr

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

Feeling like we’re up the creek without a paddle in our current information systems? Get your messages directly in front of people with the time honored tradition of street art!! Tonight I’ll teach you everything I know, w/practical tips & things to avoid! It’s free & online! RSVP: lu.ma/052bqav5

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

This morning at 8 am, my child's teacher told me it was already 33 C inside the classroom. Members of the Ontario government have air conditioning in their offices, yet they're not doing basic repairs in Toronto schools, let alone protecting our kids from extreme heat. thelocal.to/ontario-educ...

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

We’ve mentioned this before: Ryan’s Law requires that schools take action to protect students with asthma by reducing the risk of exposure to asthma triggers. This is one way to get AC into classrooms during a heatwave to protect vulnerable students! #OntEd #Asthma

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

I’ll ask again: how many of your heroes will you sacrifice on the altar of “normalcy”?

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Up to 5.8 million US children now have Long COVID, making it the most common childhood chronic illness. Know what reduces the risk of Long COVID? Vaccination. Know what reduces it further? Booster shots. Know what eliminates it? Not getting infected. publications.aap.org/pediatrics/a...

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

MAYBE 3 IN 4 ONTARIANS SHOULDA FUCKIN VOTED DIFFERENTLY (OR AT ALL) THIS SPRING 🙃

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

“We didn’t know” is a flimsy excuse. Parent, you need to read this. If you don’t know, you can’t demand clean air in schools. And if you ignore all info that says Covid is wrecking your kids’ health, they will soon be chronically ill and wonder why you didn’t do anything to protect them. Organize! ✊

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

"Unfortunately, the government provided First Nations only seven days to respond to an outline of the bill and did not provide the full text (a consultative draft) in advance," the national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak, said in a statement."

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

"Government officials’ deletion of emails and use of code words, personal accounts and devices leading up to the 2022 Greenbelt removals ran contrary to “legal record-keeping obligations” and undermined trust in the plan, Ontario’s transparency watchdog has determined." #OnPoli

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

You and your children will breathe more air pollution because of this action. People will have more asthma attacks. People will have more heart attacks. All while climate impacts accelerate.

submitted 15 days ago • 12 comments

If you're wondering what you can do to fight fascism, wear the best mask/respirator you have access to whenever you're in public. Work on getting your community, your people, to start masking again. There can't be a revolution if we are all sick, disabled, or dead.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

and a quick C-R box is another option for larger spaces. TEACHERS and Child Care providers.. If you HAVE an air filter in your room.. it would have been nice if you kept using it but PLEASE turn it on TODAY!!

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

If our culture wasn't so misinformed and resistant to masks as an air health protection, I would expect officials would issue air alerts and distribute masks in critical wildfire smoke zones. We see water warnings at contaminated beaches but seem to do little about contaminated air. 🤷‍♂️

submitted 21 days ago • 15 comments

I don’t like that I can smell wildfire smoke when I’m outside. I don’t want this to be our new normal. Children deserve to breathe clean air. Our world is literally on fire and the adults in charge want us to pretend it’s okay so we will continue to spend our money.

submitted 21 days ago • 4 comments

This is why your child is not getting Educational Assistant support. This is why there is no Special Education Teacher to help your child catch up on basic math or literacy skills. This is why the ventilation in your child’s classroom is not working. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

submitted 33 days ago • 13 comments

A great explainer on #K-12 #education funding in #Ontario, with a focus on data from the #TDSB. Really helps in understanding why our #schools are in such dire straits. thelocal.to/tdsb-2025-26...

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

If convincing people to get the measles vaccine is ‘slow going’ this calls for a vaccine-PLUS approach. Kids/Educators/Bus drivers have the right to NOT get infected, especially those at high risk. Vaccine-PLUS means: +masks +air filtration +ventilation +more! globalnews.ca/news/1117224...

submitted 46 days ago • 10 comments

Before the measles vaccine, countless kids died or become disabled from the virus The safe & effective MMR saves lives and all but eradicated measles in Canada We can’t allow it to become endemic again Get your boosters. Check with your doctor if you’re not sure. Vaccinate your kids. Wear a mask!

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

RSVP here: forms.gle/Tu8NoD6v1hCu... Let's send a clear message to the Ford government: reverse the cuts and fully fund public education.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

It turns out the Science Centre’s roof still has more integrity than the Ford government. Fixing it was important. But closing it was unnecessary. This was a manufactured crisis.

submitted 40 days ago • 3 comments

The #RallyForEducationFunding is happening next Saturday at Queen’s Park. Come out to let this government know that our kids deserve better. Also… free ice cream!!🍦

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

As we face an economic crisis, just wild that Doug Ford's 2025 budget has freezes and cuts — including investments below inflation, which are effectively cuts — across the board for human services. Protecting Ontario clearly doesn't mean protecting people, let alone investing in them.

submitted 42 days ago • 4 comments

Stop Doug Ford! How does someone so greedy and corrupt continue to be featured on the media as Captain Canada ffs!!! #CBC What about the RCMP investigation???

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

Tedious & deadly gov't. Tedious & deadly voter base this appeals to. It's going to get very bad, and very ugly.

submitted 43 days ago • 11 comments

There was an old tweet that stuck with me: "If you can easily walk to the coffee shop but your barista has a one hour commute, you don't live in a walkable 15 minute city; you live in a theme park"

submitted 45 days ago • 49 comments

Your hands aren’t tied because you lose one battle. Come on Moore step up & do the job! There are LAYERS of mitigations & vaccine rates are SO important but how bout step up air cleaning&ventilation & mention masking with respirator (or best you got).Viruses 💕LOVE💕 your fear of being unpopular.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Hot Tip: When your kid asks if people turn into anything after they’re dead check to see if they mean zombies before wondering if you need to explain Buddhism

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Think of every fun thing you did as a kid. Climbing trees, riding your bike, starring in a school play, being in a sport, swimming all summer, trick or treating, jumping off playground equipment, dancing with your friends, going to theme parks. If your kid gets long covid, all that can evaporate.

submitted 46 days ago • 7 comments

The subtitle says it all ... "TDSB’s deficit would be erased if funding had kept up with inflation" #onpoli #onted www.sudbury.com/beyond-local...

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Cis men truly need to understand the power of saying “that’s fucked up bro why would you say that” to another cis man

submitted 230 days ago • 96 comments

if you have trouble with being confrontational you can buy yourself some time to work up to a more specific reaction by saying “dude, what?” in an exasperated-yet-exhausted voice

submitted 47 days ago • 4 comments

Tell Ford and his pals to properly fund our school boards! Provincial contact info and a script you could use 👇

submitted 47 days ago • 2 comments