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Scuba diver, snowboarder & proud Latine 🇨🇱 WOC. Law partner @ Spero Law, practicing employment, defamation, & human rights. Promotor of harm reduction, intersectional feminism, social justice, & science. Currently in #ldnont
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Ironically, criminalizing poverty will actually be far more expensive than providing supportive housing. Making this new legislation (supported by so many mayors) incredibly fiscally irresponsible, on top of it being regressive and ridiculous.

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

If Ontario & its mayors, incl #ldnont Mayor Josh Morgan, truly wanted to solve this crisis, there are communities doing it right. Advocate for this evidence based & dignity based approach. Listen to the experts and evidence, not ignorance and the anti-poverty populist trend.

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

#LdnOnt if you are unimpressed with the stupidity of fining people with addictions and those staying in encampments $10,000 and criminalizing the very poverty this government has made worse by underfunding, then you should know our mayor provide a quote in support of Ford's proposed legislation.

submitted 82 days ago • 4 comments

NEW: CycleToronto and other citizens have launched a Charter challenge of the Ford government's law to remove bike lanes. CT's executive director is not present at the Queen's Park announcement because... he was doored on Monday in a painted bike lane and is hospitalized.

submitted 84 days ago • 22 comments

THIS.

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Criminalization of the very poverty he has helped make worse. Diabolical. I don’t know a single police officer who went into policing to punish the unhoused and mentally ill. And yet. This is where we are headed. How does this guy keep getting elected?

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

I wish people understood how horrifying it is for governments to feel they can freely toss around using the notwithstanding clause. Once upon a time, no politician would have considered limiting our rights so blatantly, and with such nonchalant disregard.

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

Ontario's auditor general has released her annual report, including highly critical reports on Ontario Place, the province's opioid strategy, the province's use of MZOs and government advertising. A thread of our stories follows.

submitted 92 days ago • 2 comments

One of the greatest privileges of my job is representing courageous clients willing to take on large institutions to make systemic change. Case in point: Captain (Ret.) Andrew Gough. 🧵1 toronto.citynews.ca/2024/12/02/r...

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

Whereas London city council ignores the increasingly angry voices and unprecedented (mis)use of a PR firm by the police board, Mississauga does the opposite: “On Thursday, Peel Region council…passed a motion directing Peel police to “review and reconsider” its budget, with an eye to reducing it.”

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

The unimaginable cruelty of cancelling benefits to punish workers for legally striking. I don’t care what your position is on the strike, this is gross. All it does is punish the most vulnerable. And give an insight into who CP leadership is and why a strike is happening/necessary.

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

Sudden DECREASE IN AIR POLLUTION improves HEALTH immediately & over 3 yrs Pittsburgh: a highly polluting coke plant is suddenly closed - Emergency visits for cardiovascular disease decreased 42% immediately, continued over 3 yrs - No change in control http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/2752-5309/ace4ea

submitted 575 days ago • 1 comment