myeyesaredim

@myeyesaredim@mstdn.ca

I'm getting older, still trying to see things clearly.

#PostCovid #BrainFog #SomeDaysAreBetterThanOthers

In my dreams humanity has eradicated #Hatred #Inequality #Injustice #Oppression #Trauma and action has been taken to address #ClimateChange

(Don't ask about my nightmares...)

#HousingIsAHumanRight

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myeyesaredim, to random

In case you were wondering what means when he says he'll take a approach...

Conspiracy-minded Esther McVey was appointed "minister of common sense" by the UK's Conservative PM (not her real title, but the one provided to the Sun newspaper in an advance briefing)

Edited to add: she'll be “leading the charge on the government’s anti-woke agenda” 😬

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/nov/14/what-views-will-esther-mcvey-bring-to-cabinet-as-the-common-sense-tsar

davidakin, to random
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New from colleague Colin D'Mello: "As government lawyers attempt to shield Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s personal cellphone records from being publicly released, new documents show several prominent ministers in his cabinet had large stretches of inactivity on their official devices when critical government decisions were being made."

https://globalnews.ca/news/10026091/senior-ford-government-cabinet-ministers-work-phones/

myeyesaredim,

Seems relevant to today's news about the payments to Clearpoint / Don Mills Surgical Unit

Sylvia Jones, who serves as both the Deputy Premier and Minister of Health, had the least activity on her phone, according to government records. During January 2023, Jones did not make a single call from her government cellphone.

At the time, Jones had announced sweeping changes to how health care is delivered in Ontario and tapped private, for-profit clinics to take on an expanded role.

@davidakin

AnnaAnthro, to Toronto
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    myeyesaredim,
    • 31% of food bank respondents went an entire day without eating
    • On average per day, after rent and utilities, food bank clients have $6.67
    • more than half (55%)of food bank clients missed a meal to pay for something else

    "Incomes are not keeping pace with the rising cost of living, pushing households deeper into poverty."

    http://www.dailybread.ca/whoshungry

    @AnnaAnthro

    myeyesaredim, to ontario

    "If I were running that centre, I would be a millionaire" - gives a for-profit clinic more funding to perform OHIP-covered surgeries than it gives 's public to perform the same operations.

    Ford and his health minister [] have pitched this expansion as a cost-efficient way to get more surgeries done and reduce wait times.
    🤣

    The rates paid to Don Mills Surgical Unit Ltd. have never before made public.

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-doug-ford-private-clinic-surgeries-fees-hospitals-1.7026926

    myeyesaredim,

    Increased use of private for-profit surgery clinics came to light earlier this year:

    as much as $23.4 million has been set aside for private and for-profit health care providers to assist with Ontario’s hospital recovery over the 2022-23 year.

    “We’ve got operating rooms in the public system that are not operating and instead they’re going to fund these private clinics, which will cost more and fragment the system,” said Ross Sutherland from https://www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca/

    https://globalnews.ca/news/9329915/ontario-private-hospital-health-facility-funding/

    myeyesaredim,

    And late last year, Global News reported that talking points offering a forceful denial of privatizing Ontario health care had been removed from the minister of health’s house binder.

    in August 2022, however, the document was amended and the key phrase, “No, we are not privatizing healthcare” was scratched out. The commitment was never uttered by Ontario’s minister of health.

    https://globalnews.ca/news/9273799/ontario-minister-of-health-privatization-talking-points/

    myeyesaredim, to random

    "At this moment, the Jewish community is under attack in Montreal" - Valérie Plante, Montreal Mayor

    Premier François Legault said his heart goes out to Quebec's Jewish community, adding "every effort will be made to find and punish the culprits."

    Pearl Eliadis, [from McGill University] said, "We need to stand against antisemitism. We need to stand against Islamophobia. We need to stand against all forms of racism wherever they occur."

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-jewish-school-gunfire-1.7026640

    myeyesaredim, (edited ) to random

    "The Unbelievable Story Of The Plot Against George : How two Jewish American political consultants helped create the world’s largest theory" (2019)

    Finkelstein, "the merchant of venom" and a mentor to Roger Stone, worked for Richard Nixon, Jesse Helms, Ronald Reagan, & Stephen .

    With his protege George Birnbaum he helped in Israel and in Hungary to victory. (So they have more in common than the 🤔)

    Read more: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hnsgrassegger/george-soros-conspiracy-finkelstein-birnbaum-orban-netanyahu

    myeyesaredim,

    Some additional references:

    llebrun, to random
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    New: Richmond Hill’s deputy mayor is apologizing after standing on stage and cheering on a homophobic and transphobic speech Pierre Poilievre delivered last week.

    But 2SLGBTQ+ groups question why Poilievre’s “bigoted” and “discriminatory rhetoric” keeps getting a pass.

    https://pressprogress.ca/richmond-hill-deputy-mayor-apologizes-for-cheering-on-pierre-poilievres-homophobic-and-transphobic-speech/

    myeyesaredim, (edited )

    Why does ’s “bigoted” and “discriminatory rhetoric” keep getting a pass?

    As @llebrun points out it's because he uses dog-whistle phrases like “radical gender ideology” and "parents rights" to disguise what he's really saying.

    From 2018:

    [“Gender Ideology”] simultaneously means nothing and everything, but is consistently used to attack feminism, transgender equality, the existence of intersex bodies, ...same-sex marriage, access to abortion, contraception...

    https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/12/10/breaking-buzzword-fighting-gender-ideology-myth

    llebrun, to random
    @llebrun@mastodon.social avatar

    New: Maxime Bernier is attacking judges after his vaccine mandate lawsuit got shot down – again.

    Bernier accused the federal appeals court of “enabling totalitarianism” after judges found “no reviewable error” in a ruling tossing his lawsuit.

    https://www.convoywatch.ca/p/maxime-bernier-attacks-judges-after

    myeyesaredim,

    Maxime Bernier's "People's Party" is losing anti-vax supporters to Poilievre's Conservatives - stunts like this lawsuit (and subsequent outburst) are an attempt to try and win them back.

    https://davidcoletto.substack.com/p/why-is-pierre-poilievre-pushing-bill

    @llebrun

    myeyesaredim,

    Yes - and not just to lessen the prospect of a Pierre becoming the next federal PM @chris

    A fringe far-right party that makes no pretenses about what it stands for is preferable, in my opinion, to a mainstream right-of-centre party that dances around what it offers to the far-right supporters it attracts.

    Sadly transparency has never really been the Conservative party's strong suit...
    @llebrun

    AlisonCreekside, to random
    @AlisonCreekside@mstdn.ca avatar

    Poilievre's youtube buddy Ben Shapiro being introduced to Calgary on Nov 16 by JCCF judge-stalker CEO John Carpay:
    Sponsored by the Wilberforce Project: "Alberta's pro-life political organization committed to protecting girls, women and the pre-born from the harm of abortion"

    myeyesaredim,

    The links between far-right groups and individuals across the US-Canada border are concerning @AlisonCreekside - thanks for highlighting how they're growing (or perhaps more visible?)

    Camila, to ontario
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    I recently read on the news that Christine Elliot, the former Health Minister (and harbinger of Death) who oversaw the deaths of over 12,000 Ontarians, has registered as an official lobbyist for some of the Long-Term Care homes she so gleefully neglected in her former role.

    But it didn't hit me just how shitty, craven and opportunistic that move is until I read this article (https://www.normalcyfugitive.com/p/the-pandemic-isnt-over). This woman is literally and without any shame profiting from the long-term damage she imposed on Ontarians... disgusting.

    myeyesaredim,

    Oh and look here @gemelliz @Camila

    Don Mills Surgical Unit Ltd. is being paid more than hospitals to perform OHIP-covered surgeries.

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-doug-ford-private-clinic-surgeries-fees-hospitals-1.7026926

    cargot_robbie, to random

    Exciting news on in Canada! Legislation to appoint a national citizen's assembly to arbitrate the issue of our electoral system will be introduced, read, and voted upon. Thanks to Nanaimo-Ladysmith MP Lisa Marie Barron, Kitchener Centre MP Mike Morrice, and https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/electoral-reform-is-back-on-the-menu-will-trudeau-bite-on-citizens-assembly/article_32030155-c599-526b-a2b3-00c4451d9676.html

    myeyesaredim,

    “Our current voting system is in shambles, it is a democratic disgrace; it just doesn’t do what it is supposed to do... We call ourselves a representative democracy, yet our system doesn’t really represent what people say with their votes very effectively.” - Dennis Pilon, York University

    The Liberals promised the 2015 election would be the last under the first-past-the-post structure.

    Yet that wasn't followed through 😞 Trudeau's biggest mistake? @cargot_robbie

    thenarwhal, to random
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    Documents obtained by The Narwhal suggest the Alberta government and Premier Danielle Smith made false statements about why the province introduced a sudden pause on new renewables projects. https://thenarwhal.ca/alberta-renewables-pause-documents/

    myeyesaredim,

    “It just seems to be quite disconnected from the reality on the ground in Alberta,” Williams said. “Since it isn’t connected to what’s actually happening in Alberta, one has to ask whether this is good policymaking or frankly, even good politics.”

    The pause on renewables has done considerable harm to Alberta’s reputation, she added, and there are still a lot of questions that need to be answered about why the government made its decision and for whose benefit.

    Indeed.... @thenarwhal

    justinling, to random
    @justinling@mastodon.online avatar

    The debate in the West about the Israel-Palestine conflict can feel vicious, unproductive, and horribly simplistic. But I argue that we can figure out a shared set of facts for this issue, and that we can have an effect on how this war proceeds. https://www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/israel-palestine-complicated

    myeyesaredim,

    Thanks for this perspective @justinling

    Many... confront this toxic fight and conclude that no good can come from appealing to nuance or complexity so they, unfortunately, just give up.

    This is the essence of polarization. A small number of actors are forcing a divide and dragging both camps further apart.

    [diplomacy] means coming up with solutions on how to bring the October 7 perpetrators to justice while giving the people of Gaza a hope that actual freedom and opportunity is coming.

    JayRook, to random

    “Hypermasculinity, Misogyny, Homophobia: The Toxic Triad of Authoritarian Gender Politics” — Ruth Ben-Ghiat

    https://open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/hypermasculinity-misogyny-homophobia?r=1ufo5x&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

    myeyesaredim,

    The strongman would be nothing without bodies to orchestrate and control.

    He needs crowds to acclaim his successes, propagandists and lawyers to cover up his corruption, military and security personnel to fight his domestic and international wars, and mothers to birth all of the above

    He needs men to internalize and perform his brand of brutal machismo, and women to serve as trophies and as assets who validate their submission by the system

    Powerful and relevant @JayRook @ruthbenghiat

    Greengordon, to random
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    This is actually not the real reason co-ops were killed:

    "People love living in co-ops — so why did Canada kill the program?

    "The short answer: they cut into private landlord profits”

    Co-ops were killed because our governments represent the landlords, not us.

    myeyesaredim,

    between 1964 and 1995 about 10% of all homes built were social housing.

    the Brian Mulroney Conservatives [axed the federal] co-operative housing program in 1992.

    Only Ontario, Quebec and BC continued to fund provincial co-op programs... Since 1990, roughly 17,000 units have been completed in these provinces.

    The article then describes how private landlords lobbied for this outcome and profit from it:

    https://ricochet.media/en/4003/people-love-living-in-co-ops-so-why-did-canada-kill-the-program

    @Greengordon @kevinrns @msquebanh @retrohondajunki

    myeyesaredim, to random

    Internal emails shed new light on a flurry of developer requests and provincial approvals in : the continues...

    The Trillium has new reporting on:

    • developers paying $1,000-a-plate for a Sylvia Jones fundraiser
    • "should not proceed" recommendations being overturned for party donors
    • plans for being used to support rezoning orders, including one for 200 hectares of "prime agricultural" land

    https://www.thetrillium.ca/news/municipalities-transit-and-infrastructure/ford-government-rezoned-land-after-developer-donations-despite-ministry-pushback-7795100

    intelwire, to random
    @intelwire@mastodon.social avatar

    OUT TODAY: My new paper "Lawful Extremism: Extremist Ideology and the Dred Scott decision" is live today on the Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism (CTEC) website! Indulge me in a thread... https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/academics/centers-initiatives/ctec/publications/lawful-extremism-extremist-ideology-and-dred-scott

    myeyesaredim,

    Thank you @intelwire - I enjoyed reading this, especially the sections on Crisis:
    Campbell imagined “oppression” as something only White people could experience

    and Prevalence vs power:
    prevalent and powerful extremist ideologies create universalist narratives.

    Defining extremism as "the belief that an in-group can never be healthy or successful unless it is engaged in hostile action against an out-group" is a great lens for examining (hostile) actions, and the groups that pursue them.

    myeyesaredim, to ontario

    “In addition to saving truckers time and money and saving taxpayers billions of dollars, the 407 trucking option can be implemented almost immediately, resulting in instant relief rather than years of construction,” said Peter Miasek of .

    “In fact [] would be nothing but another favour to friends of Premier who stand to benefit from sprawl at the expense of the rest of Ontario,” said Tim Gray of .

    https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/11/07/news/traffic-study-shows-ontario-highway-413-not-needed

    myeyesaredim, to Alberta

    The has become a coalition of rural grievance merchants, COVID skeptics, & anti-LGBTQ activists - @maxfawcett

    None of this is good for the millions of Albertans who live in its cities and suburbs and want to see their government focus on things like the economy, education and health care. But as the UCP made abundantly clear over the weekend, they’re just not interested in what those people want anymore.

    https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/11/07/opinion/far-right-takeover-ucp-now-complete

    myeyesaredim, (edited )

    Some quotes from Take Back Alberta's David Parker, the evangelical college graduate and Stephen Harper associate who led the "coup" in the UCP:

    • "This is a war between the pro-humans and anti-humans" (speaking about abortion rights)
    • "You are the carbon they are trying to reduce." (claiming that the NDP and progressives want to depopulate society for the sake of the environment)
    • "You can vote your way into socialism. You almost always have to shoot your way out."

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/take-back-alberta-david-parker-control-party-board-ucp-1.6834387

    DaveWhittle, to random
    @DaveWhittle@mastodon.social avatar

    ‘Insanity’: petrostates planning huge expansion of fossil fuels, says UN report
    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/08/insanity-petrostates-planning-huge-expansion-of-fossil-fuels-says-un-report?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

    myeyesaredim,

    Canada — the fourth-largest oil producer in the world —is a petrostate too 😞 @DaveWhittle

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/climate/canada-climate-fossil-fuel-production-report-1.7020988

    peacemakers_ca, to Canada
    @peacemakers_ca@mastodon.social avatar

    Protecting Human Rights Defenders Globally: Does Canada Mean business? ‘Canada’s record of business abuses of human rights increasingly attracts international criticism.’ | Catherine Morris, for Slaw - Canada's online legal magazine
    https://www.slaw.ca/2023/11/02/protecting-human-rights-defenders-globally-does-canada-mean-business/

    myeyesaredim,

    "To be a credible human rights champion globally, Canada must implement its international human rights promises."

    Not a comforting read 😞 @peacemakers_ca @cmorris

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