#onpoli

[girlactionfigure]

#Canada #End Jew Hate #canpoli #onpoli

[wuts-good-gatsby]

#police #Canada #barrie #onpoli

[neveragainfools]

Some top tier signs from the Art Gallery of Ontario strike:

Anyway help these lovely people get a fair deal by emailing the CEO Stephan Jost ([email protected]) and telling him that the gallery needs to negotiate with OPSEU and get the gallery to reopen!

#art #art gallery of ontario #onpoli #labour #unions #union action #solidarity #description in alt text #topoli #strike #picket signs #funny

[intothestacks]

For every dollar invested in London Public Library (Ontario), $6.68 is brought back into the community.

That’s a 452% return on investment.

#did you know #return on investment #library #public libraries #libraryland #librarylife #canada #cndpoli #onpoli #ontario

[onpoli]

"The Canadian government promotes itself as really aware of the environment," environmental biologist Guido Berguido told W5 at a protest. "We cannot believe that a Canadian company would do this to our national resources." Owned by a subsidiary of Canada's First Quantum Minerals, the sprawling 13,000-hectare, open-pit mine is bordered by jungle about 120 kilometres west of the capital, Panama City, on the country's Atlantic coast. Pointing to its alleged impact on the environment and water supplies, a broad coalition of Panamanians – including students, environmentalists, labour groups and indigenous communities – have protested for weeks, with police resorting to tear gas and rubber bullets as the country has ground to a halt. "People already are feeling betrayed by all that is institutional in Panama," a photographer, who lost an eye as police fired at protesters, told W5. "It's not just the mining, many things are linked to corruption. People are tired of that."

#canadian politics #canpoli #onpoli #ontario #panama #mining #police brutality #Youtube

[violsva]

Ontario Votes

Hey Ontario! It's June! You know what that means?

That means there's an election on Thursday June 2nd. That’s tomorrow. You need to vote.

If you received a voter information card in the mail:

Your voter card will have your voting location and poll number on it. You need to bring your voter card and one other piece of ID. There's a list of ID you can use HERE (français).

If you did not receive a voter information card, or you've lost it, or you forget to bring it to the polling place:

You can absolutely still vote. You can find your voting location HERE (français).

You will need to bring a piece of ID that has both your name and your address on it. Proof of address is important because the staff need to know you're voting in the right district. There's a list of ID you can use HERE (français).

The polls are open from 9AM to 9PM. Voting is quick and usually simple. What time they're busy depends on what your neighbourhood is like.

Information for voters with disabilities is HERE (français). If you have feedback on accessibility, there will be forms you can fill out at your polling station.

Elections Ontario does not call voters - if someone called or texted you to say the time or location has changed, that’s fraud. Check the website for accurate information.

If you got a mail-in ballot and you have not sent it yet, you can drop it off in person at your polling place or at your local returning office (français), anytime before the polls close at 9pm.

More information here. Plus d'informations ici. Other languages here.

EVERYONE GO VOTE.

#onpoli #cdnpoli #canpoli #ontario votes #ontario #canada #election #everyone go vote

[cooking-with-hailstones]

HERE WE GOOOOOOO

@allthecanadianpolitics

#ONpoli #CANpoli #Cupe #Strike #Union stuff

[paddysnuffles]

#canada #canadian news #cndpoli #news article #library news #homelessness #onpoli #ontario #sudbury

[myalgias]

Landlord in Hamilton, Ontario shot and killed two tenants after an argument about the condition of the property and landlords are reacting exactly how you’d expect.

#cdnpoli #onpoli

[theleftycanadianradical]

The Right uses a culture war over masks to attack our healthcare. They want it to collapse, they don't care if their base pays the price with their lives to get it done.

#healthcare #OHIP #Covid is airborne #covid is not over #bring back masks #cdnpoli #canada proud #ontrio proud #onpoli #medicare #universal healthcare

[factoidfactory]

Black History Month Fact #6

In 1985, Lincoln Alexander became the first black Member of Parliament in Canada and later served as Ontario's first black Lieutenant Governor.

#little known fact #random fact #random facts #did you know #random factoid #random factoids #yes really #history facts #country facts #canada #canadian politics #cndpoli #onpoli #black canadians #black excellence #member of parliament #canadian history

[neon-knight-riders]

An Open Letter to Doug Ford

Mr. Ford,

I woke up this morning to find you had been elected once more as premier. I hope that in the passing years, you take more time to listen to all of your constituents. I am deeply concerned about the plan to cut a billion dollars from education and spend a billion on a highway that few, if any, have expressed serious need for.

Mr. Ford, the fact is, what is left to cut? Despite your accusations years earlier of "pizza parties" on the public dime, the fact is, we are consistently underfunded and any such events are entirely out of our own pockets. One wonders how you could justify saying education wastes money when new EQAO positions that did not exist before your term suddenly appear with six-figure salaries. If you wish to save money, cutting back EQAO would be a good start. If you want to make changes in the system to eliminate waste, I suggest you talk to the staff of a school--so much waste happens at board level, at the executive level, rather than in the classroom.

I am a teacher, Mr. Ford. The textbooks I use in class are from 2002 and 2000, respectively. Accordingly, they lack newer, up-to-date information that would benefit student perspectives considerably. This is especially glaring in the case of the religion textbook, which has no mention of several important events in recent history. The novel we use for religion class has most of its copies in tattered, shabby states that have only just been replaced at considerable expense.

My students have also almost entirely rejected the online learning program for next year because of what a disaster the current hybrid model was. It is almost impossible to effectively teach two classes at once. As well, students with subpar internet service are completely unable to engage with it. Today is the due date for the form and students are handing in rejections for it in droves.

A less charitable person would accuse this drive for online learning as part of an effort to consistently undermine public education to make private schools seem better. I will not accuse you of such, you did attend a public school--but this idea that public education is an unprofitable parasite is insulting. Immediate gains will not sustain the future of Ontario, and if we want to have people who can effectively work here, the answer is not gutting education and leaving only private schools as effective options. We cannot afford to have more students slip through the cracks, as so many have already because of the pandemic.

I am also concerned by some of your comments in your previous term on disability. The comment about "too many hands in the public trough" is reductive and frankly insulting towards many of the disabled who are struggling to work and make a living in a country that has decided to expand MAiD to serve as a eugenicist way of eliminating the disabled and mentally ill. The Conservative party has historically stood against such things, in principle, if not necessarily in action. I genuinely question why healthcare, disability, and autism services are all underfunded and being gutted. 50 000 children waiting for autism supports would be an embarrassment for any leader, but it looks particularly bad for someone who has won again.

Ford, money may be the object of modern society, but the greatest investment you can make in a volatile market is not in get-rich-quick schemes of highways, crypto, and funding private schools. People remain the greatest investment you can back. But we cannot back people without meaningful action on housing, disability, education, and other services that have been consistently underfunded or ignored under your mandate.

You've been given another chance, Mr. Ford. Please give us a reason to believe that you are the man to, as you said, get it done. @allthecanadianpolitics

#open letter #onpoli #canadian politics

[neveragainfools]

The workers at my beloved Art Gallery of Ontario are on strike!

Despite rampant inflation in one of the most expensive cities in north america (Toronto), the management at the AGO hasn't adjusted pay for over 400 union members since before the pandemic. Most of them are part timers doing jobs that should be (and used to be) full time. Many are 'temporary' part timers despite being there for years.

These workers literally run the building. It's straight up closed because these people turn on the lights, hang the art, sell the tickets and clean the building.

The union negotiated with management for TEN MONTHS before management forced a piss poor final offer past the negotiating team to the membership.

The gallery is crying poor but yet they've taken on an expensive rebranding project and are working on a huge 10 storey addition to the building. Not to mention in 2020-2021 (during the peak pandemic struggle for most huge tourist attractions), the CEO Stephan Jost, took in almost $400,000 on TOP of his regular $400,000 salary in 'consulting fees' from the AGO foundation.

The Gallery workers' union, OPSEU, has asked the public to write Stephan Jost and let him know that we wanna see the Gallery actually negotiate with the union and get the gallery back open, and I just so happen to have found his email address on a convenient flyer: [email protected].

Idk about you, but I'm gonna go ahead and tell him to go sit his ass down at the negotiating table because I love art and I want the gallery to reopen. Considering this is the unions and communism website, I cordially invite you to get his ass too.

Tldr: Union workers at the AGO are striking so that they can literally afford rent. Email their greedy CEO and tell him that you want management to negotiate with the union and you want to see the gallery reopen. Email: [email protected]

#onpoli #art gallery of ontario #unions #labour #art #solidarity #do some praxis today yeah? #communism website #please please please reblog

[hans-echo]

Unregulated price gouging for greed. He's threatening the entire country?

#guillotine #canada 🍁 #onpoli #cdnpoli #Galen Weston

[onpoli]

Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie will lead the Ontario Liberal Party in its fight to regain official party status at Queen's Park — and challenge Premier Doug Ford in the 2026 election — after being elected the party's new leader on Saturday. The perceived front-runner throughout the campaign, Crombie finally reached the threshold of votes needed to become the next party leader late Saturday afternoon, after officials released the results of a third and final round of balloting. Crombie does not have a seat at Queen's Park. She said she would consider running for MPP in Lambton-Kent-Middlesex — the seat vacated by former labour minister Monte McNaughton in September — but wouldn't commit to putting her name on the ballot. Ideally, she said, she would run in Mississauga. Crombie said she would likely step down as Mississauga's mayor in the new year.

@allthecanadianpolitics

#canadian politics #canpoli #onpoli #ontario #olp

[gallopinggallifreyans]

From The Breach on the recent graffiti on an Indigo storefront in downtown Toronto. Indigo’s CEO, Heather Reisman, is a Zionist and co-founder of the Heseg Foundation, headquarters in Tel-Aviv.

It’s becoming unsafe to even suggest pro-Palestinian sentiments. That paint was washable. All cops are bastards. In Canada, vandals (this is vandalism) can be charged with like, $5k? Over or under depending. Graffiti does not warrant a fucking raid.

#toronto #onpoli #ontario politics #Toronto politics #Palestine #ana says stuff