Why this Canadian mayor resigned from her city’s police board
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Why this Canadian mayor resigned from her city’s police board
#Canada #CanadianPolitics #cdnpoli #Ontario #OntarioPolitics #onpoli #Toronto #TorontoPolitics #topoli #Mississauga #PeelRegion #policing #PoliceReform
This frustration with Ford might be starting to take hold. The website listing on this banner, www.fordfraud.com, lists solutions like getting trucks onto the 407 instead of the 401. While I was shopping today I overheard people discussing this exact thing.
Never stop talking about Ford’s failures. #OnPoli
Better Question is why aren't men standing up and protesting?
"Why the Law Fails Victims of Violent Partners"
"Without systemic reform, more women and children will die"
"Intimate partner violence is clearly an epidemic. Women and children continue to die; thousands more flee their homes only to face poverty and a lack of affordable housing. Legal systems and the players in those systems that should protect survivors still don’t properly understand the prevalence and complexity of violence in families."
"In the months since the inquest ended, more women in Renfrew County and across Ontario have been killed by their partners or former partners. Between November 26, 2022, and November 25, 2023, according to the Ontario Association of Interval and Transition Houses, sixty-two women were killed in Ontario in acts of femicide: nineteen women were killed by a partner or former partner, seven by an adult son, one by her grandson, and three by other male family members. In thirteen cases, the relationship between the killer and victim was unknown. In that same period of time, in two separate incidents, four children were killed by their fathers in the context of intimate partner violence."
#News #Crime #Women #Violence Canpoli #Onpoli
https://thewalrus.ca/why-the-law-fails-victims-of-violent-partners/
*The #Saugeen #FirstPeoples won their lawsuit Appeals court dismissed #Ontario government's appeal. Justice was finally served.*
Ontario's top court has upheld a lower court's ruling that a strip of #SaubleBeach, a popular Ontario tourist spot, has always belonged to a local #FirstNation.
In a 121-page decision on Monday, the Ontario Court of Appeal dismissed appeals brought by the Municipality of South #BrucePeninsula, the Ontario government, and several local families to the April 2023 ruling by Superior Court Justice Susan Vella.
"Justice was done today," said Saugeen First Nation Chief Conrad Ritchie in a statement, calling it a "powerful moment" for the Saugeen community.
In her 2023 decision, Vella ruled that "Chi-Cmiinh," a roughly two-kilometre strip of beach at the northern end of Saugeen Reserve No. 29, had always belonged to Chippewas of Saugeen First Nation, and that the federal government breached its treaty rights.
The Crown, Vella wrote, failed to protect and preserve the #treaty it signed in 1854, Treaty 72, in which the First Nation and neighbouring #Chippewas of Nawash surrendered Saugeen Peninsula, excluding five #Indigenous reserve territories. One would become #ReserveNo29.
From @martinreis.bsky.social on Twitter: Breaking: Activists demand real solutions to real problems related to Toronto traffic woes with banner over Gardiner #BikeTO #TOpoli #ONpoli #VisionZero
Exactly how many apartments can you build with 50 million dollars when the homeless rate is over 230,000 *and NOT the 3,000 quoted by Ford!
And how are homeless people going to pay a $10,000 fine!
This is yet another useless attempt at appeasing public outrage.
#DougFord #NeverVoteConservative #Onpoli #Ontario #Politics
*according to Trillium
https://www.thetrillium.ca/news/housing/ontarios-unofficial-estimate-of-homeless-population-is-234000-documents-9341464
‘We're going to use every tool in our toolbox’ says biggest tool of all.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/doug-ford-tariff-threat-energy-exports-1.7408644
Anytime you're looking to criminalize homelessness, I think you should be required to put a pricetag on it #OnPoli
Source: https://homelesshub.ca/sites/default/files/attachments/costofhomelessness_paper21092012.pdf
I love when journalists pair a quote with some corresponding contradictory reality like this:
"We want to help people, we don't want to punish people," the premier said at a Queen's Park press conference where he announced an amendment to the Trespass to Property Act that would mean fines of up to $10,000 or up to six months in prison for repeat offenders.
@GottaLaff Ford trying to look tough in front of the camera: this is all about the early provincial election he wants to call in 2025, and he needs to deflect from the absolute shitshow his government has made of every single file in Ontario. #onpoli
"Operation Cycle Path (read it out loud)
Ontario passes bill allowing bike paths that lead to walls with tunnels painted on them
TORONTO – Premier Doug Ford’s government successfully passed a bill today allowing municipalities to create bike paths throughout the province so long as they lead to a wall with the image of a tunnel painted on it. The government has earmarked $250,000 for the project, primarily for paint supplies.
Premier Doug Ford said, “I was watching Looney Tunes, as I normally do when I’m looking for legislative inspiration, and I saw that coyote fellow try to run into a tunnel that he himself had painted on the wall. And it struck me; why can’t we do that here? Why can’t we send our cyclists straight into a brick wall?”
The program, dubbed “Project Cycle Path”, is scheduled to start in the spring of next year. It will be monitored to see if the program meets its goals, which remain shrouded in mystery.
“We know what the goals for this program are,” said Prabmeet Sarkaria, Minister of Transportation with a smirk, waggling his eyebrows, and pushing pins into a small plushy bicycle. “If you’ll excuse me, I have to refill the trail mix on a plate that I left in the middle of a road that leads to a cliff.”
The Ontario Cyclists organisation has vocally opposed the project since its proposal. Spokesperson Clark Kendall said, “We will continue to fight this measure even after its passing. As cyclists, we are constitutionally incapable of stopping for anything or anyone, regardless of the law.”
Ford claimed he is simply trying to nurture public art and murals while creating employment for many of the province’s lonely and sickly art students.
“I’m building new bike paths and extending the existing network. Really, I’m just giving the people what they want,” said Ford. “And I have been trying to contact the ACME company for weeks. We have plans for future expansion involving a rocket, a lasso, and a box propped up with a stick.”
Passively listening to the #ottawa budget deliberations, and I feel like this city is ever closer to being “forced” into making significant changes from the leadership of this city. Elected and unelected leadership are going to have to change their behaviors when it comes to living in this city without a car. Mark will bitch and divert attention to operational funding so as to delay behavior change but it feels inevitable #onpoli #cdnpoli #ontario
You can't make this up. @cycletoronto.bsky.social I hope Michael Longfield recovers quickly. #onpoli #topoli
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:r2s5ilfn4t74ylizftkaldbb/post/3lczwhcj2t22x
Ford's insider favours at Ontario Place are even worse than we feared. Ontarians should NOT directly subsidizing a foreign corporation. Add your name if you agree at www.kristynwongtam.ca/OntarioPlace #OnPoli #Ontario #Toronto #ToPoli #NDP #OntarioNDP #TorCen #TorontoCentre
Oh good, they’re going to fucking study the feasibility of winter maintenance? #ottawa is not a serious city. We can clear 6,000 kms of stupid roads but anything else is a giant go-to-hell for everyone else #ontario #onpoli #ottbike
https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/city-closes-pedestrian-bridge-over-rideau-river-for-winter-use-1.7139306