#Khaleel Seivwright

[carriecutforth]

Someone Lives Here at Hot Docs

Yesterday I had the honour of watching an incredible documentary Hot Docs: Someone Lives Here, the incredible story of the Tiny Shelters built for homeless people in Toronto by Khaleel Seivwright and his ensuing battle with the city 

I burst into tears the first three minutes of the movie and was like...hold on you got another 72 minutes to go. The film is profound, beautiful, full of warmth, humour and pathos

The screening was followed by a Q&A with the director Zack Russell, Khaleel Seivwright (who built the tiny shelters) and my very good friend Jennifer who had lived in one of the shelters for a time during the pandemic in freezing temperatures/blizzard conditions (seen in the picture below)

The Somone Lives Here is a crucial doc to watch particularly with the upcoming City of Toronto elections.  

If you missed the in-person screenings at Hot Docs, I HIGHLY recommend you buy a ticket to stream (AVAILABLE UNTIL MAY 9th)

https://hotdocs.ca/whats-on/hot-docs-festival/films/2023/someone-lives-here

[laresearchette]

Monday, March 04, 2024 Canadian TV Listings (Times Eastern)

WHERE CAN I FIND THOSE PREMIERES?: CATCH ME A KILLER (BritBox) MASTERCHEF (CTV2) 8:00pm ROCK THE BLOCK (HGTV Canada) 9:00pm SEEKING SISTER WIFE (TLC Canada) 9:00pm SPRING BAKING CHAMPIONSHIP (Food Network Canada) 9:00pm

WHAT IS NOT PREMIERING IN CANADA TONIGHT?: SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE (Fox Feed) QUEENS (TBD - Nat Geo Canada)

NEW TO AMAZON PRIME CANADA/CBC GEM/CRAVE TV/DISNEY + STAR/NETFLIX CANADA:

AMAZON PRIME CANADA FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S

CRAVE TV SOMEONE LIVES HERE

NETFLIX CANADA HOT WHEELS LET’S RACE

CURLING (TSN/TSN3) 10:00am: 2024 Montana's Brier: Pool Play (TSN/TSN3) 3:00pm: 2024 Montana's Brier: Pool Play (TSN/TSN3/TSN5) 8:00pm: 2024 Montana's Brier: Pool Play

MLB SPRING TRAINING (SN) 1:00pm: Phillies vs. Jays

NHL HOCKEY (SN) 7:00pm: Bruins vs. Leafs (SN1/SNWest) 9:30pm: Kraken vs. Flames

NBA BASKETBALL (TSN4/TSN5) 8:00pm: Clippers vs. Bucks (TSN4) 10:30pm: Thunder vs. Lakers

MURDOCH MYSTERIES (CBC) 8:00pm: When a mysterious illness appears at her newly opened women's hospital, Odgen is forced to enlist a quarantine.

THE TOY HOSPITAL (Makeful) 8:00pm (SERIES PREMIERE): A dedicated team of the nation's most passionate and gifted toy restorers come together, their hearts brimming with a shared mission to mend and revive our old, but cherished dolls, toys, and games.

HOW I GOT HERE (Super Channel Heart & Home) 8:00pm: After an eleven-year estrangement, Jordan and his father, Adonis, have recently reconnected; for the first time, they'll travel to Adonis' home country of Cuba for Jordan to discover their family's rich musical legacy.

BELGRAVIA: THE NEXT CHAPTER (CBC) 9:00pm: Reeling from James' visit, Frederick pushes forward in his work at the foundry; Clara finds comfort in a new group of friends made through Dr. Ellerby; a lonely James seeks solace elsewhere.

SOMEONE LIVES HERE (Crave) 9:00pm: Carpenter Khaleel Seivwright builds life-saving shelters for homeless people in Toronto.

SIGHT UNSEEN (CTV) 10:00pm: Jake and Tess are investigating the shooting of a trucker when the Vice Squad shows up, demanding they cut their main suspect loose before they compromise one of Vice's investigations.

INTERVENTION CANADA (T&E) 10:00pm: Trace the path from privilege to deep addiction that Nick and his girlfriend, Emily, have taken. Discover whether a parental ultimatum and addiction counselling can get this couple off a potent opioid and out of an increasingly violent life of crime.

TIMBER TITANS (Discovery Canada) 10:00pm: Running Out of Time

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[allthecanadianpolitics]

The City of Toronto is asking a court to order a local man to stop building small wooden shelters for the homeless.

The city filed an injunction application on Feb. 12 against Khaleel Seivwright, a carpenter who has been building small structures for those living outside.

The city wants an order that permanently stops Seivwright from placing or relocating structures on city-owned land.

It cites bylaws that prohibit camping and living in city-owned parks.

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#Homeless #Poverty #Toronto #Khaleel Seivwright #cdnpoli #canada #canadian politics #canadian news #canadian #Ontario #Classism

[2plan22]

RT @JustWatchMe14: @CBCToronto This Toronto carpenter has a name, Khaleel Seivwright. What a wonderful, compassionate human being. Toronto and Canada would be a better place if all politicians enacted policies that are "people-centred" like this young man's work. 2PLAN22 http://twitter.com/2PLAN22/status/1321172532595200002

This Toronto carpenter has a name, Khaleel Seivwright. What a wonderful, compassionate human being. Toronto and Canada would be a better place if all politicians enacted policies that are "people-centred" like this young man's work.

— JustWatchMe (@JustWatchMe14) October 27, 2020

#OLASC16 RT @JustWatchMe14: @CBCToronto This Toronto carpenter has a name #Khaleel Seivwright. What

[survivingcapitalism]

“We are appalled at the actions of Mayor Tory and the City of Toronto in filing a lawsuit against Khaleel Seivwright and his Tiny Shelters Project. We urge the city to drop the lawsuit and stand in solidarity with ESN and those on the frontlines helping our city’s most vulnerable as they are ignored during the harsh winter months of the pandemic. Please contact your city councillor and demand the lawsuit be dropped. #HousingNotLawsuits #EvictTory #TOpoli #JohnTory“

#Cdnpoli

[atlanticcanada]

Halifax volunteers latest group to erect tiny shelters for homeless living in tents

A group of Halifax volunteers have become the latest Canadians to begin erecting tiny shelters for the homeless, with two wooden structures going up recently in a gentrifying section of the city's waterfront.

Halifax Mutual Aid built the pair of insulated structures amid a cluster of trees on city land in Dartmouth over the past two weekends.

One of the tiny shelter occupants, Paul, who declined to provide his last name, said in an interview Monday that without the structure he'd be suffering through cold weather in a nearby tent.

He says low welfare rates and the lack of available housing meant he couldn't find safe shelter for over three years before the small building went up.

In Toronto, a similar effort made headlines last year after a local carpenter, Khaleel Seivwright, began building tiny portable shelters for people living on the streets.

Halifax officials said in a statement Monday that residents of the "homeless encampment" in Dartmouth would not be evicted unless and until their need for adequate shelter is met.

The city noted the activity of erecting shelters on municipal land by "is not permitted without approval," but said it would work with @Halifax Mutual Aid to find other options for the homeless.

The non-profit group, which did not respond to emails or requests for an interview, says on its website that it is building the structures because it believes governments aren't adequately addressing housing shortages for the city's poor.

The Affordable Housing Association of Nova Scotia estimated in a recent study that during the pandemic the city's homeless population had reached 477 people.

Halifax Mutual Aid says it believes local governments have ample resources to solve this level of homelessness, "but they refuse to."

The group listed three vacant public buildings that it said could be converted into social housing, adding, "these three empty properties alone could provide more than enough housing to all those who are currently unhoused in our city."

However, until this occurs, the aid group says it will continue building watertight, insulated buildings, each of them about 1.8-by-2.4-by-2.4 metres in dimension, with small windows and safety features such as carbon monoxide and smoke detectors.

In an interview at the Dartmouth site, Paul said he had taken up the group's offer to build him a home but doesn't wish to become embroiled in controversies over housing policy. He has painted a pattern of birch trees on one side of his new residence to help it blend in with its wooded surroundings.

"The insulation is better than vinyl tents. The fact I can lock the door is pretty cool. I'm secure. I'm safe," he said.

He said he was "perfectly fine" with the arrival of a neighbour, Andrew Goodsell, a few metres away in the second structure put up over the weekend.

Sam Austin, city councillor for the area, said he has been receiving many calls from local residents concerned about the appearance of the second shelter that Goodsell is occupying.

The councillor said he agrees with the city's stance of not forcibly evicting people after they've moved in, and he had been comfortable with the first shelter's purpose of protecting a homeless person's safety. However, he said he worries the second shelter could signal a growing encampment.

"Allowing a third party, an anonymous one at that, to build a shelter village wherever it strikes them, with no consultation with the Halifax municipality or with other local residents ... that doesn't make sense to me," Austin said in an interview Monday.

He said it would be preferable for the group to provide shelters at diverse locations where homeless people are sleeping outdoors rather than creating a concentrated encampment in one small area.

Hannah Wood, the chair of the Halifax chapter of the Atlantic Canada Organization of Research Networks, said in an interview the building of the shelters is a sign of growing frustration over governments' response to the housing shortage.

"It makes a powerful statement that people are compelled to give up their free time to do such a thing," she said in an interview.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 25, 2021.

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[leanpick]

The Toronto Carpenter Who Built Tiny Homes for the Homeless

The Toronto Carpenter Who Built Tiny Homes for the Homeless

TORONTO — On his way to work on a construction site, Khaleel Seivwright surveyed the growing number of tents lining an intercity highway and in parks with increasing discomfort. How would these people survive Toronto’s damp, frigid winters, let alone the coronavirus, which had pushed so many out of overcrowded shelters? He remembered the little shanty he had once built out of scrap wood while…

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[allthecanadianpolitics]

A Toronto carpenter who has built tiny wooden shelters for unhoused people is calling on the city to drop its application for an injunction that would stop his work.

"The money the City is spending to attack me could be put into safe housing for those that need it," Khaleel Seivwright said in a statement provided by his lawyers on Monday.

The city filed the application with the Ontario Superior Court on Feb. 12 to prevent what it considers illegal dumping of wooden shelters on city property. The city considers the wooden structures unsafe. Seivwright is named in the application.

Seivwright said he constructed the shelters as a "temporary solution" to provide unhoused people with warm spaces in winter during the COVID-19 pandemic until they can find alternative housing. Each shelter comes with a smoke and carbon monoxide detector and a fire extinguisher. He said the shelters were given to community members to distribute.

"Instead of working with me, the City sued to stop me from building and relocating the tiny shelters. This is a distraction. The problem is not the tiny shelters. The problem is that Toronto's most vulnerable people are falling through the cracks," Seivwright said in the statement.

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#Khaleel Seivwright #Toronto #Ontario #homeless #cdnpoli #canada #canadian politics #canadian news #canadian #Poverty #classism

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[cherubcharabia]

D sung happy songs today. Maybe not happy. Maybe just. Funny. We are talented and I am scared. When I close my eyes I hear the Apocalypse. When I look outside I see Wastelands. Empty empty empty. White man's hell is emptiness. I'm no exception. I could've been born anywhere else. Looked like anyone else. And seen the terror that was too much. Concrete streets bursting with unfettered destruction. Beating chests bursting open with bullet holes. Hearts bursting as parents, caregivers, loved ones are dragged to jail. Bursting full of too much. While I sit atop the empty Wastelands.

Some friends scored roles in another budget movie. So proud. So happy for them. I don't know if I want to raise the ranks of a system that seems so infected. So festered. I don't know if I want to be part of a society that is submerged in poison. My soul feels sick with the despair of the world. Puking up stomach acid, wreching at the prospects of no salvation for this species.

I love humans with all my heart. My unburst heart, never having felt the flinch that comes with the thought of bullet holes right before they hit. I am not fit for solitude either. Not a person who was meant to go away from this empty Wasteland and forget what I've seen and known. Forget what I hear when I close my eyes. That's not me.

I was meant to be here. Part of this society. Somehow fitting but not yet knowing at what part I connect. I was meant to be where these empty people are. I would like to feed them desperately. I would like to share and share and share until everyone in this dying world was nourished and we nurtured a young egg. I do not know if I will live to see it hatch, so then what must become of me in the space between now and Death?

Something. Something unseeable in this time. Perhaps part of me mourned the loss of a known future. I prayed for revolution and assumed I would never see tomorrow. But tomorrow has looked at me over and over again and I cannot deny its stare or its hand any longer. I will live until I don't. And what will become of me in the space between?

We have an opportunity here. Something rare. To untangle the knot of trauma that binds our species, to take apart and regrow. We have an opportunity here. To accept tomorrow's reality and choose our future. As individuals and as a whole. We are standing on the edge of time and I am so very frightened to step forward. I feel both at once too early and too late to do any good for myself or beyond. Too young to have power, too old to reach for it.

I have fell victim to the bind of the poisoinous knot. I am a capitalist shill and a reveler of the Wasteland. The digital current terrifies me and when I am large I love every person who has swallowed air. But this love is unruly for as I sooth the victim I too hold the rapist in embrace and cry for them both. To speak it is to shudder, and how many looks have I received when I nod at the forgiveness I gave to those who broke my body and my heart. My unburst heart. A heart that hears the Apocalypse and sees the Wasteland but does not feel the physical pressure that stomps upon the bursting homes across the seas and in the reserves and in the jails for the sake of our empty, empty streets.

In downtown Toronto, someone howls in the cold. Khaleel Seivwright is punished for offering them warmth. I felt amiss in a sea of new creatives. Endless saturation of art. I am now so lucky to be drowned in imaginative production. Standing at the edge of time, with nothing ahead fixed or static, it is the optimal moment to create tomorrow.

My thoughts do not stop though. What follows a conclusion is another massless doorframe. But I must sleep. I must sleep. I asked myself what should happen at the end of an abusive sex fantasy. Where does the perpetrator go. What do I do. Nothing felt right. Now the scene ends and we smile and congratulate and compliment each other. We shake hands and exchange appreciation. My head pulses and sleep does not come. We are talented and I am scared.

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[earthpages]

TORONTO — A Toronto carpenter who builds tiny wooden shelters for the homeless has asked the city to drop its court fight against him. The city is seeking a court order to stop Khaleel Seivwright from making, fixing and relocating his small shelters on city-owned land. Seivwright, who began making the structures last fall, said the city should spend the money its using on the legal fight to help vulnerable residents instead. "The City of Toronto...

[antoniodatsch]

H George Tavakoli É difícil até mesmo explicar às pessoas o quanto a riqueza dos americanos mais ricos aumentou enquanto todos os outros sofreram durante esta pandemia. O cérebro humano não consegue processar os números. É como tentar explicar todo o enredo de “Twin Peaks” para um cachorro salsicha, uma mosca doméstica ou uma Kayleigh McEnany. Tentar chegar a um acordo com esse nível de desigualdade é difícil, mas necessário. Devemos continuar nos lembrando de como esses sociopatas ricos são maus. Eles não são normais ou mal médios. Eles não são o mal comum. Com a ajuda do Institute of Policy Studies, aqui estão os números que detalham como a desigualdade americana piorou durante esta pandemia. Em seu último relatório, eles escrevem: "A riqueza combinada de 647 bilionários dos EUA aumentou quase US $ 960 bilhões desde meados de março, o início do bloqueio pandêmico ..." Embora a maioria dos americanos sofra mais do que nunca, as pessoas no topo roubaram quase um trilhão de dólares. (Atualização rápida: se você ganhar $ 40.000 por ano, para ganhar um trilhão de dólares, levaria apenas 25 milhões de anos.) Enquanto isso, as filas fora dos bancos de alimentos se estendem por quilômetros em muitas cidades, com pessoas às vezes esperando cinco horas por uma caixa de ajuda alimentar. Como é que os cidadãos lutam para comer em um dos países mais ricos do mundo - que despeja bilhões por dia em nossas forças armadas? Um mundo pós-escassez onde jogamos fora 40% de todos os alimentos? Você pensou que era apenas a caçarola da sua tia, mas não, literalmente milhões de toneladas de alimentos intocados respingam em aterros sanitários - muitos deles nem chegam ao seu prato. É jogado fora pelos produtores e lojas porque não foi vendido ou porque a data de validade sem sentido já passou ou porque as frutas e vegetais são muito feios. Todos devemos achar enlouquecedor que os produtores joguem fora toneladas de frutas e vegetais horríveis enquanto seus concidadãos passam fome. Não há nada de errado com uma batata malformada e grotescamente distorcida. Basta perguntar a cara de Ted Cruz. (Além disso, em termos de quais alimentos as pessoas preferem, acredito que a aparência física deve ser classificada muito abaixo da personalidade, patrimônio líquido e ética de trabalho da fruta ou vegetal.) Então, como chegamos a este ponto na evolução humana? Como podemos fazer com que os seres humanos passem fome enquanto jogamos fora quase metade da comida comestível e alguns indivíduos selecionados acumulam dinheiro em piscinas olímpicas? É indiscutivelmente porque nosso sistema econômico (também conhecido como "capitalismo", também conhecido como "Pete escorregadio", também conhecido como "o olá dissimulado") é um incêndio no lixo. Assim como alguns poucos sociopatas selecionados supervisionam este sistema horrível, também são algumas corporações selecionadas que se beneficiam mais. O Instituto de Estudos de Políticas afirma: “Por trás dessa crescente desigualdade estão 12 empresas cujos lucros estão ocorrendo às custas dos trabalhadores e das comunidades. … Eles incluem varejistas como Walmart, Amazon, Target, Dollar Tree, Dollar Store, empresas gigantes como a Instacart e produtores de alimentos como a Tyson Foods. ” Lucros inacreditáveis ​​não surgem do nada. Eles não são enviados de uma espaçonave alienígena ou manifestados por meio de uma varinha mágica. Eles são o resultado da grande e impressionante exploração geracional dos trabalhadores americanos. Apenas três membros da família Walton acrescentaram US $ 48 bilhões �� sua riqueza desde março deste ano, ao mesmo tempo que davam a seus trabalhadores o pagamento de periculosidade zero. E “A riqueza de Jeff Bezos da Amazon aumentou 62% desde meados de março, totalizando US $ 188 bilhões em 17 de novembro. Bezos é agora a pessoa mais rica do planeta. Enquanto isso, cerca de 20.000 trabalhadores da Amazônia foram infectados com COVID-19. ” Vinte mil trabalhadores da Amazon foram infectados enquanto garantiam que todos os americanos recebessem seus brinquedos sexuais de alta velocidade e brinquedos para cães de baixa velocidade em menos de dois dias. E os funcionários que falam sobre as condições são demitidos. Então você acha que a caixa deles tem um rosto sorridente agora ?? (Quando eu escrevi essa linha pela primeira vez, não percebi as conotações sexuais. Agora eu percebi, e ainda, claramente, eu impingi isso a você mesmo assim. Sinto muito.) Enquanto isso, Bezos tem US $ 188 bilhões - uma quantia em dinheiro quase equivalente ao PIB da Nova Zelândia, uma quantia que ele nunca chegará nem perto de usar em toda a sua vida. Então, basicamente, os CEOs dessas empresas dizem aos seus funcionários: "Você vai trabalhar, fica doente, talvez morra - especialmente se você mora em uma das áreas do país onde as pessoas pensam que a ciência é uma besteira assustadora apresentada por bruxas e duendes autistas. E então, enquanto você arrisca sua vida, nós não pagaremos a você mais do que o normal - provavelmente menos de US $ 15 por hora. Boa sorte lá fora. Não se esqueça de limpar a calda que escorre pela lateral da máquina de Slurpee da cafeteria do Walmart enquanto uma criança desonesta e super espalhadora mastiga seu tornozelo. ” A essa altura da coluna, um respeitado jornalista corporativo da Ivy League evitaria citar os ricos mentores do crime que puxam as alavancas desse sistema abusivo. Para sua sorte, leitor justo, não sou nem corporativo nem respeitado. De acordo com a IPS, “dez proprietários bilionários de uma dúzia de empresas inadimplentes têm um valor combinado de $ 433 bilhões. Desde 18 de março, sua fortuna pessoal combinada cresceu US $ 127 bilhões, um aumento de 42%. Esses 10 bilionários são Jeff Bezos (Amazon), Alice, Rob e Jim Walton (Walmart), Apoorva Mehta (Instacart), John Tyson (Tyson Foods), Steve Schwarzman (Blackstone), Henry Kravis e George Roberts (KKR) e Steve Feinberg (Cerberus). ” E esses bilionários ganham (mas não "ganham") centenas de vezes o que seu trabalhador médio ganha. O CEO da Dollar Tree, Gary Philbin, é 690 vezes seu trabalhador médio enquanto está sentado em um escritório limpo e agradável, sem ter que enfrentar clientes que começam a jogar fraldas adultas com desconto nos caixas por pedirem que usem uma máscara. Vamos, Gary, por que você não vai até o Dollar Tree local e é espancado com um macarrão de piscina de $ 2 por 15 minutos e depois vê se você merece ganhar 700 vezes o que seus trabalhadores fazem? Quando bonecos de super-heróis com um dólar de desconto, chamados “Roedores Lady” e “Electricity Boy”, começarem a bater na sua testa, talvez você encontre um pouco de compaixão por seus semelhantes. Claro, nada disso se compara a Jeff Bezos. De acordo com o Business Insider, “Por hora, [Bezos] ganha incríveis $ 8.961.000 - isso é cerca de 315 vezes o salário médio anual de $ 28.466 da Amazon. Um trabalhador da Amazon que ganhe o salário mínimo de US $ 15 precisaria trabalhar 24 horas por dia por cerca de 68 anos, apenas para ganhar o que Bezos ganha em uma hora ”. Este nível de desigualdade é insustentável, insondável, injustificável, inacreditável e inacreditável! E embora sua mídia corporativa possa mencionar a desigualdade aqui ou ali, eles nunca fazem justiça e nunca fazem isso ALTO O SUFICIENTE. Ter um pequeno segmento sobre bancos de alimentos lotados entre 18 horas de cobertura da transição Biden não conta como informar as pessoas de fato. Se os americanos estivessem realmente informados, em vez de passar nossos dias sentados assistindo reality shows sobre bolos, todos estaríamos nos comportando como Khaleel Seivwright. (É verdade que ele é canadense, mas vou perdoá-lo por isso.) Ele é um carpinteiro de 28 anos que começou a construir minúsculos abrigos isolados para quem não tem casa. É uma solução rápida e barata para ajudar as pessoas destruídas pelo capitalismo voraz irrestrito, uma máquina de lavagem de dinheiro social que cospe milhões de humanos depois de roubar suas economias, sua energia e sua juventude. Então, assim como uma boa cidade capitalista, ao perceber o que Seivwright estava tramando, a cidade de Toronto emitiu uma carta de advertência ao carpinteiro para que parasse de construir abrigos para pessoas sem moradia. (Bem, se todas essas pobres pessoas conseguirem suas casas, então como o resto de nós saberá que somos melhores do que eles? Suponho que ainda teremos nossos relógios de pulso, mas você não pode dizer a marca de muito longe. ) Sendo assim, Khaleel Seivwright é um herói, assim como tantos ativistas desconhecidos em todo este país tentando ajudar aqueles que foram destruídos por nosso sistema. Bezos, os Waltons e os outros CEOs que aparentemente celebramos em nossa cultura popular - eles são os vilões. E enquanto continuamos a lutar por uma nova economia não mais baseada na morte e extinção, precisamos construir o mundo alternativo que queremos ver.